Recall that in the active learning setting, learner is provided with unlabeled samples, and can query teacher for the label. The goal is to learn a concept close enough to the target concept while minimizing the number of labels queried. Ideally the number of labels needed is much smaller than Ω(1/ ), which is the number of labeled examples in the passive learning setting. To characterize the s...

Nichols and Buser • Special Communication O of the biggest challenges facing the osteopathic medical profession is how to increase the number of osteopathic residency positions to accommodate the growing number of osteopathic medical school graduates. Although particularly grave in the “small” osteopathic states—states with new colleges of osteopathic medicine (COMs) or a limited number of medi...

In Streptococcus mutans, an oral colonizer associated with dental caries, development of competence for natural genetic transformation is triggered by either of two types of peptide pheromones, competence-stimulating peptides (CSPs) (18 amino acids [aa]) or SigX-inducing peptides (XIPs) (7 aa). Competence induced by CSP is a late response to the pheromone that requires the response regulator Co...

This work addresses several important topics of the field of organic electronics. The focus lies on organic/metal interfaces, which exist in all organic electronic devices. Physical properties of such interfaces are crucial for device performance. Four main topics have been covered: (i) the impact of molecular orientation on the energy levels, (ii) energy level tuning with strong electron accep...

CONTEXT Limited research exists on the health issues faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) patients, as viewed in the context of osteopathic medical education. A full understanding of current medical students' acceptance of, attitudes toward, and knowledge of these issues could lead to the development and incorporation of curricula focusing on the care of LGBT patients into co...

The purpose of this study was to quantify the systematic uncertainties resulting from using free breathing computed tomography (FBCT) as a reference image for image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) for patients with pancreatic tumors, and to quantify the associated dosimetric impact that resulted from using FBCT as reference for IGRT. Fifteen patients with implanted fiducial markers were selecte...

48 • JAOA • Vol 106 • No 2 • February 2006 Shannon • Guest Editorial W to the annual osteopathic medical education issue of JAOA—The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association. Articles in this issue provide the most current information about osteopathic medical education, outlining several trends in the past year. Because these are significant times for osteopathic medical education, I wo...