., life long learning is increasingly acknowledged to be a characteristic of professionalism. New information is being generated with increasing rapidity and educators must be able to cope with it. To study the effects of educational workshops hold by EDC of TUMS on the participant faculty. Methods. The subjects of this cross-sectional descriptive study were 375 faculty members of TUMS and ...

F or several decades, archaeologists who have excavated sites in complex societies have confronted the same problem: How are status differences reflected in the archaeological remains? Traditionally archaeologists have routinely inferred the status of site inhabitants from the qUality and quantity of archaeological evidence, even though the true status of the inhabitants was unknown (e.g., Trig...

People sometimes find it hard to regulate thet aclions. The difficulty is frequently caused by the co.flict belween templations of easily and quickly available rewards and long-term commitments assumed to iead to larger rewards that are more difficult 1(J obtain and slower in comif,8People olten make decisions to try 10 achieve such longterm 8oals, but they fail especially when they are under e...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to compare single and three-unit metal frameworks that are produced by micro-stereolithography. MATERIALS AND METHODS Silicone impressions of a selected molar and a premolar were used to make master abutments that were scanned into a stereolithography file. The file was processed with computer aided design software to create single and three-unit designs f...

ABSTUACT The Bailey and Simon (1960) and Bailey (1963) papers on class and merit rating discuss models and estimation criteria in a non-probabilistic framework. lt has been shown, for example, Van Eeghen et al (1983), that the Bailey and Simon criterion of class balance is equivalent to maximum likelihood estimation of a claim frequency modal with Poisson distributed ctajm numbers. It tums out ...

Two trials were conducted with 24 primiparous suckled beef heifers to determine independent and combined effects of a prolactin-suppressing agent and exogenous steroids on serum hormones and reproductive activity. Heifers were assigned in groups of six to one of four treatments: 1. (C)subcutaneous control injections administered once a day for 2 days, followed by 2 days of no injections; sequen...

CONDYLOMA ACUMINATUM is a common lesion of the anorectal and urogenital regions. Various methods have been utilized for treatment of anal condylolna acumina, tum, bu,t none has been uniformly and consistently curative; therefore, the recurrence ra,te is extremely high. This report describes the use of immunotherapy in the treatment of anal condyloma acuminatum with excellent results and a low r...

The ancient Sanskrit word ahimsa, meaning noninjury, is the doctrine ofrefraining from the harming ofothers. It is the central teaching ofJainism, Hinduism and Buddhism. As an ethical principle, we find it in the Judea-Christian concept of the Golden Rule that holds that we should not do to others what we would not have them do to us. And it is implicit in the medical maxim "physician do no har...