As a logic TLA has a precise syntax and semantics We de ne these in the next section Our intent is not to develop a new TLA but rather to explain and to re ne Lamport s de nition of TLA Like HOL and other logics TLA can serve for representing reac tive systems in several styles In particular a speci cation may describe concurrent steps as interleaved or simultaneous communication between compon...

Konzervacijska poljoprivreda sa svojim temeljnim principima (trajna pokrovnost tla, minimalna obrada i plodored) jedan je od najučinkovitijih sustava za prilagodbu poljoprivredne proizvodnje nepovoljnim uvjetima klimatskih promjena. Brojne prednosti konzervacijske poljoprivrede dodatno su izražene integracijom pokrovnih usjeva u plodored. Pokrovni usjevi uvode se inovativne sustave biljne svrhu...

We present here our experience with teaching two courses using TLA. The first course concerns state transition systems, and the second one is about formal specifications. In the first course, TLA is used to describe, reason about, and analyze transition systems. The second course deals with refinement, simulation and bisimulation, and TLA is used to check refinements.

TLA (the Temporal Logic of Actions) is a linear temporal logic for specifying and reasoning about reactive systems. The purpose of this paper is to develop an animator and a model checker, both based on a subset of TLA, and illustrates how we can combine these tools to validate TLA specifications.

INTRODUCTION Infection with the ubiquitous parasite Toxoplasma gondii is a threat for immunocompromised patients and pregnant women and effective immune-prophylaxis is still lacking. METHODS Here we tested a mixture of recombinant T. gondii antigens expressed in different developmental stages, i.e., SAG1, MAG1 and GRA7 (SMG), and a lysate derived from T. gondii tachyzoites (TLA) for prophylac...

BACKGROUND Growing financial and workload pressures on laboratories coupled with user demands for faster turnaround time (TAT) has steered the implementation of total laboratory automation (TLA). The current study evaluates the impact of a complex TLA on core laboratory efficiency through the analysis of the In-lab to Report TAT (IR-TAT) for five representative tests based on the different requ...

BACKGROUND Sentinel lymph node excision (SLNE) for the detection of regional nodal metastases and staging of malignant melanoma has resulted in some controversies in international discussions, as it is a cost-intensive surgical intervention with potentially significant morbidity. OBJECTIVE The present retrospective study seeks to clarify the effectiveness and reliability of SLNE performed und...

The improper disposal of used frying oil (UFO) presents numerous ecological, environmental and municipal problems. Of great concern is the resultant blockage of municipal drainage systems and water treatment facilities, harm to wildlife when they become coated in it and detriment to aquatic life and ecosystems due to the depletion of the oxygen content in water bodies such as rivers and lakes t...

UNLABELLED This study investigated the prognostic significance of metabolically active tumor volume (MATV) measurements applied to (18)F-fluorocholine PET/CT in castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). METHODS (18)F-fluorocholine PET/CT imaging was performed on 30 patients with CRPC. Metastatic disease was quantified on the basis of maximum standardized uptake value (SUV(max)), MATV, and ...

Naturalistic theories of language acquisition assume learners to be endowed with some innate language knowledge. The purpose of this innate knowledge is to facilitate language acquisition by constraining a learner’s hypothesis space. This paper discusses a naturalistic learning system (a Categorial Grammar Learner (CGL)) that differs from previous learners (such as the Triggering Learning Algor...