Lack of student interest is responsible for suspended operation of the 1987 Spring semester of Notre Dame’s foreign study program in Jerusalem, according to Isabel Charles, director of foreign study programs. “ Only three students signed up. We need at least ten or more students to par­ ticipate in order to run the program,” she said. Charles said the program will be reopened next Fall if the m...

We consider the problems of deciding whether the joint distribution sampled by a given circuit satisfies certain statistical properties such as being i.i.d., being exchangeable, being pairwise independent, having two coordinates with identical marginals, having two uncorrelated coordinates, and many other variants. We give a proof that simultaneously shows all these problems are C = P-complete,...

This study addressed self-blame and adaptation by using data collected from 49 patients hospitalized for the treatment of acute burn wounds. Nurses and physical therapists rated patients' compliance with the therapeutic activities essential for proper healing, and they rated pain behavior. After controlling for burn severity and time since admission, regression analyses showed that behavioral s...

Simplifying to the point of blaming limits learning and the ability to prevent similar occurrences in the future. Often, the characteristics of the blame culture are very subtle and what appears to be valuable work is actually a subtle sign of the blame game. Leaders must change the language to a proactive, future preventative state rather than focusing on the past and looking for single causes...