T he mission of the American Board of Nuclear Medicine (ABNM) is to assure the public of high-quality patient care by establishing standards for training, initial certification, and continuing competence of physicians providing nuclear medicine diagnostic and therapeutic services. Under the existing system, the first contact physicians have with the ABNM is the certification exam. Graduates of ...

Heart failure is a complex syndrome physiologically characterized as low cardiac output leading to inadequate blood supply of tissues and vital organs. No matter the etiology, damage to the cardiocytes starts a complicated neurohormonal cascade that causes poor renal perfusion, leading to stimulation of the renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system and elevated levels of circulating catecholamines. ...

The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI), developed in 1991 by theWorld Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund to improve maternity care practices andbreastfeeding rates, has been implemented globally in more than 152 countries. The core tenetsof theBFHIare theTenStepstoSuccessfulBreastfeeding, which have been endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics. A recentmeta-...

Background/Aims: Gastrointestinal (GI) disorders are common adverse reactions of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). Loxoprofen is a representative NSAID widely used in East Asia. A selective cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitor, celecoxib, was introduced in Japan in 2007. In this study, we aimed to compare the efficacy and safety of celecoxib with those of loxoprofen in Japanese patients. Met...

This paper describes an approach to student modeling for intelligent tutoring systems based on an explicit representation of the tutor's beliefs about the student and the arguments for and against those beliefs (called endorsements). A lexicographic comparison of arguments, sorted according to evidence reliability, provides a principled means of determining those beliefs that are considered tru...

A review of the literature indicates that (a) very little attention has been devoted to measurement problems plaguing the study of self-esteem and (b) few studies employ more than one type of self-esteem instrument. This study addresses these issues by using eight measures of self-esteem involving self-reports, ratings by others, and a projective instrument. Their intercorrelations are examined...

A sample of 209 adults ranging from 20 to 79 years of age were studied to measure speech communication profiles as a function of age in persons who did not identify themselves as hearing impaired. The study was conducted in order to evaluate age-related speech percepton abilities and ccammmication profiles in a population who do not present for hearing assessment and who are not included in cen...

Research on mindset theory (GollwitTer & Baye4 1999) observed that people in an implemental mindset show an orientation towards positive illusionary self-evaluations, whereas people in a deliberative mindset opt for accura.te self-evaluations. In the present study, we tested whether these self-evaluative orientations and the associated search for certain types of self-relevant information (feed...

The purposes of this study were to describe and compare the emotional-social intelligence (ESI) of students in nursing, physical therapy and health science programs, and to determine the relationship between ESI and each of leadership, caring and moral judgment. Subjects were 154 students from nursing, physical therapy and bachelor of health science (BHSc) programs in a Canadian university and ...

Until now, information retrieval (IR) managers have been absorbed by efforts to increase the amount and quality of scholarly deposits. Other pressing concerns have been to develop the software, standards, and other tools to insure access, exchange, and discovery of the works in the IRs. But building an IR without making plans for technological, organizational, and resourcing sustainability is l...