One of the critiques of continuous professional development (CPD) programs is that they do not lead to educational change in teachers' practice. This dissertation presents an approach in which CPD programs can effect teacher change. The context of the CPD was related to the 'Learning Skills for Science' (LSS) program, which advocates the incorporation of high-order learning skills and capabilit...

BACKGROUND Previous studies with adult smokers have shown an association between number of cigarettes smoked per day (CPD) and levels of biomarkers of exposure to the tobacco-specific lung carcinogen 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK). This study compared carcinogen and nicotine exposure in adolescent and adult smokers across categories of CPD. METHOD Baseline smoking histor...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular death and may cause protein-energy wasting in individuals with chronic kidney disease. A previous study demonstrated that blood cadmium levels (BCLs) were associated with malnutrition in maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients. However, the correlation between cadmium exposure and malnutrition remains unclear in chro...

Dual specificity phosphatases (DSP) play an important role in control of the cell cycle and signal transduction. We have synthesized a new class of DSP inhibitors. Cpd 5 or [2-(2-mercaptoethanol)-3-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone] is one of the most potent of these. It inhibits DSPs of cells in culture and induces tyrosine phosphorylation of various DSP substrates, including the Cdc25 target Cdks and...

BACKGROUND The Global Adult Tobacco Survey has 15 key indicators, cigarettes smoked per day (CPD) among daily smokers being one of them. The first wave of GATS in 14 countries indicated that mean CPD use is higher in women than men in India only, which is contrary to the current understanding of tobacco use globally. This study was undertaken to understand the unusual findings for mean CPD use ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the link between the quantity and quality of continuing professional development (CPD) activities completed by family physicians in Quebec and the quality of their practice. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of data collected during professional inspection visits (PIVs). SETTING Quebec. PARTICIPANTS Three groups were created from among Quebec family physicians who had be...

BACKGROUND To systematically evaluate the visual performance of aspheric AcrySof IQ and spherical AcrySof Natural intraocular lens (IOL) after cataract surgery. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Potential randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that involved implanting AcrySof IQ and AcrySof Natural were searched from PubMed, Web of science, EMBASE, Chinese Science and Technology Periodicals Databas...

Introduction As a part of the NHS modernisation agenda to ensure high quality clinical care, podiatrists are required to demonstrate evidence of continuing professional development to maintain registration. This study aimed to investigate the experiences of podiatrists in response to the CPD process. It explored the effectiveness of the portfolio in recording CPD, resource as a limiting factor ...

One of the tasks in the BioCreative V challenge, the CHEMDNERPatent task, includes three subtasks: CEMP, CPD, and GPRO. We participated in the CEMP and CPD subtasks, and developed a system on the basis of selected open-source NLP, machine learning toolkits. In our system, the CEMP subtask is regarded as a sequence labeling problem, and the CPD subtask is regarded as a text classification problem.

OBJECTIVES To report changes in perceived visual functioning after surgery for symptomatic cataract with preoperative corrected distance visual acuity [CDVA] of 0.4 logMAR or better (Snellen equivalent, 20/50) and to investigate the relationship between any observed changes and preoperative physical characteristics and psychophysical consequences of the lens opacity and any changes in psychophy...