Introduction The purpose of the first annual Emil J Freireich symposium was to celebrate life, creativity, and stories of medical discovery. Many of the stories were about J Freireich’s own discoveries, and many were about the discoveries he inspired others to make. The importance of these narratives lies not only in the discoveries themselves, but also in what they reveal about the nonlinear m...

background: due to unpredictability of events in psychiatry environment and replacement of routine clinical experiences with some assignments such as therapeutic communication with patients, clinical training in such environments has been associated with many problems which require continuous review and evaluation.  the purpose of the present research was to determine the effect of applying por...

Background & Objective: Recently medical education has been significantly evolution. One of these evolution has been a progressive reduction in time that medical students to spend in hospitals as well as changes in the profiles of hospitalized patients. The aim of this study was to develop the model of outpatient clinical education environment measure in interns of Islamic Azad University, Tehr...

The September-October 1997 seismic sequence in the Umbria-Marche regions of Central Italy has been one of the stronger seismic events to occur in Italy over the last thirty years, with a maximum magnitude of Mw = 6.1. Over the last three years, a collection of evidence was carried out regarding non-seismic phenomena, by interviewing local residents using a questionnaire. One particular observat...

A method for detecting linear chirps in audio signals is presented. It uses a complex uniform spaced lter bank as a basis for the detection. The lter bank has an eecient implementation, good frequency local-ization, and delivers magnitude and phase of the sub-band signals. The complex lter bank uses two parallel real valued lter banks, each with critical sampling and perfect reconstruction capa...

This paper provides evidence that management in Japan uses share repurchases to change the ownership of their companies to protect them against unfriendly changes in control by outside shareholders. The paper documents the time series of stock repurchases made by Japanese companies over the period 2001-2014. We find that almost half of listed companies engage in share repurchases, and almost on...

Library educators face ever-increasing challenges in terms of delivering a curriculum that will adequately prepare students for the dynamic digital environment they will be working in. Graduates require a balance of discipline specific knowledge and personal attributes that will enable them to transition smoothly into employment and plan their future careers. At Queensland University of Technol...

Hedge funds have been the subject of media attention in the United States ("U.S.") and around the world given the pronounced growth of the hedge fund sector in recent years and the comparative dearth of regulations faced by hedge fund managers. The first part of this paper provides an overview of the potential agency problems associated with managing a hedge fund and the associated rationales f...

We derive the nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator (NPMLE) of the distribution of the test items using a random, right-censored sample combined with an additional right-censored, residual-lifetime sample in which only lifetimes past a known, fixed time are collected. This framework is suited for samples for which individual test data are combined with left-truncated and randomly censored ...