Participants of the third colloquium of the Residency Review and Redesign in Pediatrics (R(3)P) Project concluded that pediatricians who practice ambulatory, hospital-based, a combination of ambulatory and hospital-based, and subspecialty pediatrics are sufficiently different to justify differences in general pediatric residency training. This conclusion along with others of previous colloquia ...

This talk is based primarily on the paper Interlacing Families I: Bipartite Ramanujan Graphs of All Degrees by Marcus, Spielman, and Srivastava [6]. By proving a variant of a conjecture of Bilu and Linial [1], they show that there exist infinite families of d-regular bipartite Ramanujan graphs for d ≥ 3. Of particular interest in the paper by Marcus, Spielman, and Srivastava is their “method of...

quality of clinical education for medical students has always been a concern in academic medicine. this concern has increased in today’s time-squeeze while faculty members have to fulfill their complementary roles as a teacher, researcher, and practitioner. one of the strategies for program evaluation is obtaining trainees’ feedbacks since they are the main customers of educational programs; ho...

Thirty selected sides (from 30 whole carcasses) received high voltage (500 V, 60 Hz, 90s: HV) electrical stimulation (ES) within 45 min postmortem and the opposite sides served as controls (NES). Twelve unsplit whole carcasses received low voltage (50 V, 60 Hz, 15s: LV) ES within 3 min after stunning. Following stimulation, each side received one of three temperature conditioning treatments: (A...

OBJECTIVES To report the level of participation of medical schools in the Australian Medical Schools Assessment Collaboration (AMSAC); and to measure differences in student performance related to medical school characteristics and implementation methods. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of data using the Rasch statistical model to correct for missing data and variability in item difficulty. Line...

Contact the Authors for a copy of the full papers. Department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering Military Integration of VGI Technology POJMAN, Vlastimil Email: [email protected]

The goal of the present study was to fabricate perforated membrane structures in polymers with the pore diameter ranging from 10 μm down to the sub μm scale. The perforated membrane structure plays an important role in many biological systems. Thus the ability to reproduce such architecture would help with the study of biological systems by mimicking biological cell membrane-like structures and...

ABSTRACT When a liquid film thickness is less than 100nm, thinfilm forces become prominent. These forces are collectively called disjoining pressure ∏ at the continuum level. Since ∏ becomes dominant at small film thickness, it governs the stability and wettability of thin films. Because of the important role of thin films in many biological and industrial processes, it is crucial to model ∏ ac...