OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to identify the sources of stress among dental students enrolled at Pharos University in Alexandria (PUA) - Egypt, and to explore the role of gender, level of undergraduate study and residence with parents on perceived stressors. MATERIALS AND METHODS A thirty-item self-reported modified version of the Dental Environment Stress (DES) questionnaire was ...

Verifying software systems automatically from their source code rather than modelling them in a dedicated language gives more confidence in establishing their properties. Here we propose a formal specification and verification approach for concurrent C programs directly based on the semantics of C. We define a set of translation rules and implement it in a tool (C2TLA+) that automatically trans...

At the 7th Leonard Berg Symposium, scientists and patient advocates came together to exchange the latest news on detecting disease presymptomatically and to compare what’s known in rare genetic and in common forms of the disease. There was a palpable sense of excitement in the auditorium that, overall, enough lines of evidence are coming together to make preclinical detection possible in practi...