Amolins MW, Ezrailson CM, Pearce DA, Elliott AJ, Vitiello PF. Evaluating the effectiveness of a laboratory-based professional development program for science educators. Adv Physiol Educ 39: 341–351, 2015; doi:10.1152/advan.00088.2015.—The process of developing effective science educators has been a long-standing objective of the broader education community. Numerous studies have recommended not...

Bond-dilution effects on spin-1/2 spin-gapped Heisenberg antiferromagnets of coupled alternating chains on a square lattice are investigated by means of the quantum Monte Carlo method. It is found that, in contrast with the site-diluted system having an infinitesimal critical concentration, the bond-diluted system has a finite critical concentration of diluted bonds, xc, above which the system ...

Christian writers have always described the Eucharist as a ‘sacrifice’, but this was ill-defined before 1500. The Tridentine Fathers offered an account of priest somehow offering one sacrifice Calvary anew at altar, which depended on transubstantiation, later theologians found it difficult to narrate this. I propose eucharistic theology that draws Calvin’s pneumatological ascent communicant, an...

This paper proposes a Template-based Spectral Estimation (TSE) method for noise reduction of microphone array processing aiming at speech recognition enhancement. In the proposed method, a noise template in a complex plane is calculated for each frequency bin using non-speech audio signals observed at microphones. Then for every noise-overlapped speech signals, a speech signal can be reformed b...

In 1992, Medicare reformed its physician payment method by implementing the Medicare fee schedule (MFS), of which the resource-based relative value scale (RBRVS) is a major component. Using a recent survey and case studies, we examine the diffusion of Medicare's RBRVS to non-Medicare payers and how those payers use and perceive the RBRVS and MFS policies. We find that approximately one-third of...