Further Clarification

The new American Board of Orthodontics certification process: further clarification.

The American Board of Orthodontics (ABO) has welcomed questions about the new process of achieving board certification and recertification since announcing these changes in March 2005. To increase transparency and facilitate an understanding of the board’s intent, we provide the following supplemental information. The ABO is responsible to 3 main interest groups: the public, the dental professi...

Full-text information retrieval: Further analysis and clarification

In 1985, an article by Blair and Maron described a detailed evaluation of the effectiveness of an operational full text retrieval system used to support the defense of a large corporate lawsuit. The following year Salton published an article which called into question the conclusions of the 1985 study. The following article briefly reviews the initial study, replies to the objections raised by ...

Some further clarification on Markov chain random fields and transiograms

The Markov chain random field (MCRF) theory and the transiogram spatial measure were proposed several years ago. Basic sequential simulation algorithms based on simple MCRF models such as the Markov chain sequential simulation algorithm and the Markov chain sequential co-simulation algorithm have been developed and used in a series of application studies. However, misunderstanding of these two ...

Clarification

HIV antibody tests and viral load--more unanswered questions and a further plea for clarification.