OBJECTIVE Medical specialty boards have a Maintenance of Certification (MOC) paradigm whose intention is to ensure high-quality patient care. How the patient experience is affected by physician MOC enrollment/participation is unknown. Our goal was to determine if patient experience is associated with physician board certification and MOC status. METHODS We analyzed physician experience and MO...

The past feds months ha:;e s4e1.I :~apiij.b i5XWiXC3 ciCCe;2tar.Ce Of the concept of recertification 3s a c:esira.i3le approaah to demonstration --T---of physicians accoczbxity. ?Gost of tr;e twenty-two specialty boards have expressed formal approval of voluntary, periodic reexamination for the purpose of assurirlg clinical competence. One board requires periodic rece.rtificatior:. Four boards ...

Using mostly elementary considerations, we find out who wins the game of Domineering on all rectangular boards of width 2, 3, 5, and 7. We obtain bounds on other boards as well, and prove the existence of polynomial-time strategies for playing on all boards of width 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, and 11. We also comment briefly on toroidal and cylindrical boards.

Infants learning words in a bilingual language environment face a number of difficulties that may alter the number and kinds of words learned early in life. The research described here investigates several aspects of word learning that may differ between bilinguals and monolinguals. Using a dataset of 353 infants between the ages of 6 months and 7 years old, approximately half of which are bili...

Introduction Universities and colleges in the United States are overseen by boards of trustees, regents, overseers, or similarly titled entities. With respect to their place in the hierarchical structure, such boards are similar to boards of directors in corporations. Indeed, for nonstate institutions of higher education, their legal status is effectively the same. Although similar in structure...

The Microsoft version of the game Minesweeper has a known bug that makes sequences of boards appear again after generating thousands of boards, in a cycle, disturbing the random nature of the game. This article exposes the results of a research made in 2004, as well as the subsequent secondary discoveries, like the existence of boards made of combinations of mines from two consecutive boards of...

In India, there are various boards at the 10+2 level, including the CBSE, the ICSE and the state boards, each conducting a separate examination. The syllabus, marking scheme and difficulty level of these examinations may vary across the boards, and also within each board across years. Suppose we wish to compare the scores of students from different boards. In order to make this possible, we nee...

Australia does not have varroa mite. However, we investigated whether modified hive bottom boards used for varroa mite management in honey bee colonies had other benefits, for honey production. We compared a number of colony parameters between hives fitted with tube, mesh and conventional (solid) bottom boards in two locations in eastern Australian, Richmond NSW and Castlemaine Victoria. Coloni...