ACOG Iowa Section Report, November 2013

The November Meeting in Iowa City

s of the papers presented follow. Those having the letter t" after their numbers were read by title. ALGEBRA AND THEORY OF NUMBERS 130. H. W. Becker: A case history of the impotence of abstract algebra in Diophantine analysis. A Pythagorean tetrahedron has t, u, v, y, x,z = (a-\-p)(y-\-ô) ±4apyô, 2(Py-\-aô) (ay±Pt), (a--0)(7-5), 4[a/37Ô(a+j3)(T+5)]. In Dickson's History II, pp. 644-647, z is sa...

Exam Corner November 2013 - Answers

The FRCS (Tr & Orth) examination has three components: MCQs, Vivas and Clinical Examination. The Vivas are further divided into five sections comprising Basic Science, Adult Pathology, Hands, Children’s Orthopaedics and Trauma. The Clinical Examination section is divided into upperand lower-limb cases. The aim of this section in the Journal is to focus specifically on the trainees preparing for...

National Epilepsy Month — November 2013

IJSRP November 2013 Print Edition

Tanzania telecommunication sector has witnessed fast growth in the number of mobile telephone users now served by seven cellular operators. Until February 2012, there were about 26 million mobile phone subscribers served by more than 4,000 base stations spread all over the country. Despite the many advantages brought by these systems, there is increased public concern over possible adverse heal...

Lecture 22 — November 5 , 2013

This is sometimes called the Netflix problem. A motivation for the matrix completion problem comes from user ratings of some products which are put into a matrix M . The entries Mij of the matrix correspond to the j’th user’s rating of product i. We assume that there exists an ideal matrix that encodes the ratings of all the products by all the users. However, it is not possible to ask every us...