Medicine stands at a crossroad. Disruptive physician behavior has increased, and patient satisfaction has decreased. A growing body of knowledge demonstrates that the medical humanities assist in the creation of compassionate, resilient physicians. Incorporating medical humanities into the medical school curriculum promotes the development of compassionate, culturally sensitive physicians, and ...

Background and Motivation Investigating the dynamic behavior of the Earth system remains a “grand challenge” for the scientific community. It is motivated by our limited knowledge about the consequences of large-scale perturbations of the Earth system by human activities, such as fossil-fuel combustion or the fragmentation of terrestrial vegetation cover. Will the system behave resilient with r...

In this paper, we present adaptive architectures for networked multiagent systems operating over directed networks to achieve resilient coordination in the presence of disturbances. Specifically, we consider a class of unforeseen adverse conditions consisting of persistent exogenous disturbances and present a state emulator-based distributed adaptive control architecture to retrieve the nominal...

People’s tendency towards living in apartment houses is increasing in a densely populated country. However, some residents living in apartment houses are bothered by noise coming from the houses above. In order to reduce noise pollution, the communities are increasingly imposing a bylaw, including the limitation of floor impact sound, minimum thickness of floors, and floor soundproofing solutio...

Graphical password schemes are believed to be more secure and more resilient to dictionary attacks than textual passwords, but more vulnerable to shoulder surfing attacks. In this work, we design a new graphical password which is larger in the possible passwords’ space than in similar schemes and it is more resilient to shouldersurfing attacks. Personal entropies are integrated into the system ...

IEEE is currently conducting an effort to standardize a full duplex, spatial reuse, ring network architecture, called the Resilient Packet Ring (IEEE P802.17). We discuss use of backpressure flow-control for congested stations to communicate their congestion state to their upstream stations and the use of fairness algorithms to ensure fair allocation of network resources between stations on suc...

BACKGROUND Adolescence is a key time period for the emergence of psychosocial and mental health difficulties. To promote adolescent adaptive ('resilient') psychosocial functioning (PSF), appropriate conceptualisation and quantification of such functioning and its predictors is a crucial first step. Here, we quantify resilient functioning as the degree to which an individual functions better or ...

Agent-mediated reputation systems provide the necessary decision making support to facilitate the automation of processes, and to improve the quality of services in an information asymmetric e-market. Reputation systems encourage honest behavior and discourage malicious behavior of buyer and seller agents by safeguarding honest participants and by laying a foundation for security through social...

this study was conducted in order to evaluate the effects of long term ageing on toughness andresilient modulus of asphalt concrete mixtures containing electric arc and basic oxygen furnacesteel slags. after initial evaluation of the properties of steel slags using x-ray diffraction andscanning electric microscope, eleven sets of laboratory mixtures were prepared. each set wastreated replacing ...