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Who's who in Canadian finance, 1988-89
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ISBN: 0920966381 Year: 1988 Publisher: Toronto Trans-Canada Press

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Treatment and patient characteristics affecting the health status of patients with peripheral arterial disease : The PORTRAIT study
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Year: 2019 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI),

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BACKGROUND: The impact of peripheral artery disease (PAD) on patients' health status and the processes of PAD care have not been prospectively documented in patients with new or worsening claudication. OBJECTIVES: The PORTRAIT (Patient-centered Outcomes Related to TReatment Practices in Peripheral Artery Disease: Investigating Trajectories) study prospectively defined health status outcomes and then related aspects of patient care to these outcomes in patients with new-onset or worsening claudication. In phase I, we developed and tested the study's design. We are now reporting on phase II, in which we expanded the study to 10 US PAD specialty clinics. The following are our research questions: (Aim 1) Do PAD treatments differ by patient characteristics? (Aim 2) Is earlier, rather than later, revascularization associated with more rapid improvements in patients' health status? (Aim 3) Does treatment of PAD vary by physician and health system? (Aim 4) Are variations in care associated with differences in patients' outcomes? (Aim 5) We created educational materials to inform future PAD treatments. METHODS: PORTRAIT enrolled 797 patients with new or worsening claudication symptoms from 10 US PAD specialty clinics. Before treatment, we interviewed patients and abstracted clinical services information from their medical records. We collected health status information at 3, 6, and 12 months follow-up. RESULTS: PAD specialist referred about 1 in 5 patients for an invasive treatment but only less than 2% patients for supervised exercise therapy. Adherence to individual PAD performance measures was relatively high for antiplatelet therapy (84%) and statin use (90%). When we defined perfect care as meeting 4 quality measures of PAD care (statin therapy, antiplatelet therapy, smoking cessation, supervised exercise therapy), only 4.6% of patients received perfect care (aim 1). The magnitude of change in patients' PAD-specific health status scores was greater at 3, 6, and 12 months follow-up in patients who underwent invasive treatment vs those who did not receive invasive treatment (aim 2). Adherence to individual PAD performance measures varied considerably across enrolling PAD clinics (aim 3). Patients who had been receiving evidence-based care (a statin and antiplatelet therapy) had better health status scores at baseline and at all time points except for 12 months (Peripheral Artery Questionnaire summary scores), as compared with those who were not receiving these measures. Associations between perfect care (4 quality measures) and health status outcomes were less clear (aim 4). Women and minority-race patients had consistently lower baseline and follow-up health status scores (aim 5). We created the framework for patient educational materials in collaboration with patient advisors. CONCLUSIONS: While prescription rates for the medical management of the cardiovascular risk in PAD were relatively high, supervised exercise therapy--a performance measure--was seldom prescribed. Women and minority-race patients were at risk of experiencing a lower health status level. Receiving better quality of care following PAD evaluation at baseline was associated with better health status levels at 3-month and 6-month follow-up. Educational materials will be used to share insights learned from PORTRAIT. LIMITATIONS: Findings can be generalized only to the specialist care setting; in an observational study, the potential for residual confounding and selection bias mandates cautious interpretation; further cross-validation of risk estimates derived from health status prediction models in PORTRAIT is needed.


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Treatment and patient characteristics affecting the health status of patients with peripheral arterial disease : The PORTRAIT study
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Year: 2019 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI),

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BACKGROUND: The impact of peripheral artery disease (PAD) on patients' health status and the processes of PAD care have not been prospectively documented in patients with new or worsening claudication. OBJECTIVES: The PORTRAIT (Patient-centered Outcomes Related to TReatment Practices in Peripheral Artery Disease: Investigating Trajectories) study prospectively defined health status outcomes and then related aspects of patient care to these outcomes in patients with new-onset or worsening claudication. In phase I, we developed and tested the study's design. We are now reporting on phase II, in which we expanded the study to 10 US PAD specialty clinics. The following are our research questions: (Aim 1) Do PAD treatments differ by patient characteristics? (Aim 2) Is earlier, rather than later, revascularization associated with more rapid improvements in patients' health status? (Aim 3) Does treatment of PAD vary by physician and health system? (Aim 4) Are variations in care associated with differences in patients' outcomes? (Aim 5) We created educational materials to inform future PAD treatments. METHODS: PORTRAIT enrolled 797 patients with new or worsening claudication symptoms from 10 US PAD specialty clinics. Before treatment, we interviewed patients and abstracted clinical services information from their medical records. We collected health status information at 3, 6, and 12 months follow-up. RESULTS: PAD specialist referred about 1 in 5 patients for an invasive treatment but only less than 2% patients for supervised exercise therapy. Adherence to individual PAD performance measures was relatively high for antiplatelet therapy (84%) and statin use (90%). When we defined perfect care as meeting 4 quality measures of PAD care (statin therapy, antiplatelet therapy, smoking cessation, supervised exercise therapy), only 4.6% of patients received perfect care (aim 1). The magnitude of change in patients' PAD-specific health status scores was greater at 3, 6, and 12 months follow-up in patients who underwent invasive treatment vs those who did not receive invasive treatment (aim 2). Adherence to individual PAD performance measures varied considerably across enrolling PAD clinics (aim 3). Patients who had been receiving evidence-based care (a statin and antiplatelet therapy) had better health status scores at baseline and at all time points except for 12 months (Peripheral Artery Questionnaire summary scores), as compared with those who were not receiving these measures. Associations between perfect care (4 quality measures) and health status outcomes were less clear (aim 4). Women and minority-race patients had consistently lower baseline and follow-up health status scores (aim 5). We created the framework for patient educational materials in collaboration with patient advisors. CONCLUSIONS: While prescription rates for the medical management of the cardiovascular risk in PAD were relatively high, supervised exercise therapy--a performance measure--was seldom prescribed. Women and minority-race patients were at risk of experiencing a lower health status level. Receiving better quality of care following PAD evaluation at baseline was associated with better health status levels at 3-month and 6-month follow-up. Educational materials will be used to share insights learned from PORTRAIT. LIMITATIONS: Findings can be generalized only to the specialist care setting; in an observational study, the potential for residual confounding and selection bias mandates cautious interpretation; further cross-validation of risk estimates derived from health status prediction models in PORTRAIT is needed.

Computer aided verification
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ISBN: 3540551794 0387551794 3540467637 Year: 1992 Volume: 575 Publisher: Berlin Springer

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This volume contains the proceedings of the third International Workshop on Computer Aided Verification, CAV '91, held in Aalborg, Denmark, July 1-4, 1991. The objective of this series of workshops is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the development and use of methods, tools and theories for automatic verification of (finite) state systems. The workshop provides a unique opportunity for comparing the numerous verification methods and associated verification tools, and the extent to which they may be utilized in application design. The emphasis is not only on new research results but also on the application of existing results to real verification problems. The papers in the volume areorganized into sections on equivalence checking, model checking, applications, tools for process algebras, the state explosion problem, symbolic model checking, verification and transformation techniques, higher order logic, partial order approaches, hardware verification, timed specification and verification, and automata.

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Computer software --- Electronic digital computers --- Logiciels --- Ordinateurs --- Verification --- Congresses --- Evaluation --- Vérification --- Congrès --- -Electronic digital computers --- -681.3*C22 --- 681.3*C3 --- 681.3*F3 --- 681.3*F4 --- Automatic digital computers --- Computers, Electronic digital --- Digital computers, Electronic --- Computers --- Hybrid computers --- Sequential machine theory --- Software, Computer --- Computer systems --- -Congresses --- Network protocols: protocol architecture; protocol verification --- Special-purpose and application-based systems: microprocessor/microcomputer; process control-, real-time, signal processing systems (Computer systems organization)--See also {681.3*J7} --- Logics and meanings of programs (Theory of computation) --- Mathematical logic and formal languages (Theory of computation) --- 681.3*F4 Mathematical logic and formal languages (Theory of computation) --- 681.3*F3 Logics and meanings of programs (Theory of computation) --- 681.3*C3 Special-purpose and application-based systems: microprocessor/microcomputer; process control-, real-time, signal processing systems (Computer systems organization)--See also {681.3*J7} --- 681.3*C22 Network protocols: protocol architecture; protocol verification --- Vérification --- Congrès --- Computer software - Verification - Congresses. --- Electronic digital computers - Evaluation - Congresses. --- Information theory. --- Software engineering. --- Computer network architectures. --- Logic design. --- Computer science. --- Theory of Computation. --- Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems. --- Computer System Implementation. --- Logics and Meanings of Programs. --- Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages. --- Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems. --- Informatics --- Science --- Design, Logic --- Design of logic systems --- Digital electronics --- Electronic circuit design --- Logic circuits --- Machine theory --- Switching theory --- Architectures, Computer network --- Network architectures, Computer --- Computer architecture --- Computer software engineering --- Engineering --- Communication theory --- Communication --- Cybernetics --- Congresses. --- -Verification

Automata, Languages and Programming : 25th International Colloquium, ICALP'98, Aalborg, Denmark July 13-17, 1998, Proceedings
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ISSN: 03029743 ISBN: 3540647813 9783540647812 3540686819 Year: 1998 Volume: 1443 Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, ICALP'98, held in Aalborg, Denmark, in July 1998. The 70 revised full papers presented together with eight invited contributions were carefully selected from a total of 182 submissions. The book is divided in topical sections on complexitiy, verification, data structures, concurrency, computational geometry, automata and temporal logic, algorithms, infinite state systems, semantics, approximation, thorem proving, formal languages, pi-calculus, automata and BSP, rewriting, networking and routing, zero-knowledge, quantum computing, etc.

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Machine theory --- Formal languages --- Computer programming --- Automates mathématiques, Théorie des --- Langages formels --- Programmation (Informatique) --- Congresses. --- Congresses --- Congrès --- Computer science. --- Computer communication systems. --- Software engineering. --- Data structures (Computer science). --- Computers. --- Artificial intelligence. --- Computer graphics. --- Computer Science. --- Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems. --- Theory of Computation. --- Data Structures. --- Computer Graphics. --- Computer Communication Networks. --- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). --- Automates mathématiques, Théorie des --- Congrès --- Programming (Electronic computers) --- Information theory. --- Data structures (Computer scienc. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Automatic drafting --- Graphic data processing --- Graphics, Computer --- Computer art --- Graphic arts --- Electronic data processing --- Engineering graphics --- Image processing --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Logic machines --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Computer software engineering --- Engineering --- Communication theory --- Communication --- Cybernetics --- Digital techniques --- Communication systems, Computer --- Computer communication systems --- Data networks, Computer --- ECNs (Electronic communication networks) --- Electronic communication networks --- Networks, Computer --- Teleprocessing networks --- Data transmission systems --- Digital communications --- Electronic systems --- Information networks --- Telecommunication --- Cyberinfrastructure --- Network computers --- Information structures (Computer science) --- Structures, Data (Computer science) --- Structures, Information (Computer science) --- File organization (Computer science) --- Abstract data types (Computer science) --- Automatic computers --- Automatic data processors --- Computer hardware --- Computing machines (Computers) --- Electronic calculating-machines --- Electronic computers --- Hardware, Computer --- Computer systems --- Calculators --- Cyberspace --- Distributed processing --- Machine theory - Congresses --- Formal languages - Congresses --- Computer programming - Congresses

Computer Aided Verification : 14th International Conference, CAV 2002 Copenhagen, Denmark, July 27-31, 2002 Proceedings
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ISBN: 3540439978 9783540439974 3540456570 Year: 2002 Volume: 2404 Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,

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This volume contains the proceedings of the conference on Computer Aided V- i?cation (CAV 2002), held in Copenhagen, Denmark on July 27-31, 2002. CAV 2002 was the 14th in a series of conferences dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of computer-assisted formal analysis methods for software and hardware systems. The conference covers the spectrum from theoretical - sults to concrete applications, with an emphasis on practical veri?cation tools, including algorithms and techniques needed for their implementation. The c- ference has traditionally drawn contributions from researchers as well as prac- tioners in both academia and industry. This year we received 94 regular paper submissions out of which 35 were selected. Each submission received an average of 4 referee reviews. In addition, the CAV program contained 11 tool presentations selected from 16 submissions. For each tool presentation, a demo was given at the conference. The large number of tool submissions and presentations testi?es to the liveliness of the ?eld and its applied ?avor.

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Computer software --- Integrated circuits --- Logiciels --- Circuits intégrés --- Verification --- Congresses. --- Vérification --- Congrès --- Computer science. --- Special purpose computers. --- Software engineering. --- Computers. --- Computer logic. --- Mathematical logic. --- Artificial intelligence. --- Computer Science. --- Theory of Computation. --- Logics and Meanings of Programs. --- Software Engineering. --- Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages. --- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). --- Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems. --- Software engineering --- Circuits intégrés --- Vérification --- Congrès --- Information theory. --- Logic design. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Informatics --- Science --- Computer software engineering --- Engineering --- Design, Logic --- Design of logic systems --- Digital electronics --- Electronic circuit design --- Logic circuits --- Switching theory --- Communication theory --- Communication --- Cybernetics --- Special purpose computers --- Computers --- Algebra of logic --- Logic, Universal --- Mathematical logic --- Symbolic and mathematical logic --- Symbolic logic --- Mathematics --- Algebra, Abstract --- Metamathematics --- Set theory --- Syllogism --- Computer science logic --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Automatic computers --- Automatic data processors --- Computer hardware --- Computing machines (Computers) --- Electronic calculating-machines --- Electronic computers --- Hardware, Computer --- Computer systems --- Calculators --- Cyberspace --- Computer software - Verification - Congresses --- Integrated circuits - Verification - Congresses

Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems : First International Workshop, FORMATS 2003, Marseille, France, September 6-7, 2003, Revised Papers
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ISBN: 3540409033 3540216715 Year: 2004 Volume: 2791 Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First International Workshop on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems, FORMATS 2003, held in Marseille, France in September 2003. The 19 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper and the abstracts of two invited talks were carefully selected from 36 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. All current aspects of formal method for modeling and analyzing timed systems are addressed; among the timed systems dealt with are timed automata, timed Petri nets, max-plus algebras, real-time systems, discrete time systems, timed languages, and real-time operating systems.


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Models, Mindsets, Meta: The What, the How, and the Why Not? : Essays Dedicated to Bernhard Steffen on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday
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ISBN: 3030223485 3030223477 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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This Festschrift volume is published in honor of Bernhard Steffen, Professor at the Technical University of Dortmund, on the occasion of his 60th birthday. His vision as well as his theoretical and practical work span the development and implementation of novel, specific algorithms, and the establishment of cross-community relationships with the effect to obtain simpler, yet more powerful solutions. He initiated many new lines of research through seminal papers that pioneered various fields, starting with the Concurrency Workbench, a model checking toolbox that significantly influenced the research and development of mode based high assurance systems worldwide. The contributions in this volume reflect the breadth and impact of his work. The introductory paper by the volume editors, the 23 full papers and two personal statements relate to Bernhard’s research and life. This volume, the talks and the entire B-Day at ISoLA 2018 are a tribute to the first 30 years of Bernhard’s passion, impact and vision for many facets of computer science in general and for formal methods in particular. Impact and vision include the many roles that formal methods-supported software development should play in education, in industry and in society. 
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Computer science. --- Software engineering. --- Logic design. --- Computer software. --- Models and Principles. --- Software Engineering. --- Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters. --- Logics and Meanings of Programs. --- Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages. --- Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity. --- Software, Computer --- Computer systems --- Design, Logic --- Design of logic systems --- Digital electronics --- Electronic circuit design --- Logic circuits --- Machine theory --- Switching theory --- Computer software engineering --- Engineering --- Informatics --- Science --- Computer science --- Philosophy. --- Computers. --- Programming languages (Electronic computers). --- Computer logic. --- Mathematical logic. --- Algorithms. --- Algorism --- Algebra --- Arithmetic --- Algebra of logic --- Logic, Universal --- Mathematical logic --- Symbolic and mathematical logic --- Symbolic logic --- Mathematics --- Algebra, Abstract --- Metamathematics --- Set theory --- Syllogism --- Computer science logic --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Computer languages --- Computer program languages --- Computer programming languages --- Machine language --- Electronic data processing --- Languages, Artificial --- Automatic computers --- Automatic data processors --- Computer hardware --- Computing machines (Computers) --- Electronic brains --- Electronic calculating-machines --- Electronic computers --- Hardware, Computer --- Cybernetics --- Calculators --- Cyberspace --- Foundations --- Compilers (Computer programs). --- Machine theory. --- Models of Computation. --- Compilers and Interpreters. --- Computer Science Logic and Foundations of Programming. --- Formal Languages and Automata Theory. --- Abstract automata --- Abstract machines --- Automata --- Mathematical machine theory --- Algorithms --- Recursive functions --- Robotics --- Compiling programs (Computer programs) --- Computer programs --- Programming software --- Systems software


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1975-2011 : Mot en ny samfunnskontrakt?
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ISBN: 9788274775442 Year: 2011 Publisher: Oslo Unipub forlag

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