The consistency between student clinical performance in dental school and performance on initial licensure examinations is known to be weak. A review of the literature failed to identify any reports of the consistency between performance on initial licensure examinations and quality of technical work in practice. This research examines the consistency of performance among candidates who took tw...

This paper describes the design and development of a novel digital notice board which allows non experienced users to easily interact with digital information. In particular, the system allows the user to receive and handle media elements (pictures, text messages, videos). Instead of employing the file system to interact with information, the user interface promotes a kind of interaction which ...

The Editorial Board advises the editorial team on all important issues and are selected by the Board of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh; German Chemical Society) upon recommendation by the Editorial Board and the editorial team. After 19 years on the Editorial Board (and 10 years as its Chairman) FranÅois Diederich will now join the International Advisory Board (see below). Hartmut Mi...

The Arctic Switch Fabric technology is a scalable network technology based on the Arctic router chip. Switch Fabrics are fat tree networks that are capable of providing high performance even under a heavy load of large (96 byte) packets. They have a number of diagnostic features that make them well suited for experimental computer systems. Switch Fabrics will be used in the StarT-Jr, StarT-Voya...

We review recent progress in the Terabus program, a chip-to-chip interconnect over optical waveguides on a printed circuit board. While such interconnects need to overcome packaging challenges, they promise datarate-scalability and performance advantages over electrical interconnects.

To achieve balance, equality, and elimination of prejudices, as well as the full development of organizations, ‎women need to be able to participate in the decision making process at various levels of the organization.‎‏ ‏In recent years, in the employment rate of women in society has increased significantly. The reason is the ‎remarkable competencies in women’s management style. Therefore, a n...