background: fenestration in the modified fontan operation allows right-to-left shunting, which reduces the fontan pathway pressure and improves cardiac output. however, on account of the fact that persistent right-to-left shunting results in cyanosis and paradoxical emboli, fenestration closure is recommended after recovery from the fontan operation. methods: this study recruited 3 patients who...

During the last few years both books and a journal’s special issue have been devoted to computerized adaptive testing (CAT): Drasgow and OlsonBuchanan (1999), Sands, Waters and McBride (1997) and the special issue of Applied Psychological Measurement, published in September 1999. The second edition of the book by Wainer, Dorans, Flaugher, Green, Mislevy, Steinberg and Thissen (2000) has just be...

Before 1961, there was very little evidence for drug-induced malformations in humans. But in that year, Lenz and McBride independently accumulated evidence that a mild sedative, thalidomide, caused an enormous increase in a previously rare syndrome of congenital anomalies. The most noticeable of these anomalies was phocomelia, a condition in which the long bones of the limbs are absent (amelia)...

Sean M. J. McBride,1,2* Catherine H. Choi,1,2,3* Brian P. Schoenfeld,1,2* Aaron J. Bell,1,2 David A. Liebelt,1,2 David Ferreiro,1,2 Richard J. Choi,1,2 Paul Hinchey,1,2 Maria Kollaros,1,2 Allison M. Terlizzi,1,2 Neal J. Ferrick,1,2 Eric Koenigsberg,1,2 Rebecca L. Rudominer,1,2 Ai Sumida,4 Stephanie Chiorean,4 Kathleen K. Siwicki,5 Hanh T. Nguyen,1,2 Mark E. Fortini,6 Thomas V. McDonald,1,2 and ...

Lower Extremities Committee of Korean Academy of Medical Sciences Guideline for Impairment Rating develops new guidelines which are based on McBride method, American Medical Association Guides, Disability evaluation by The Korean Orthopaedic Association, The Korean Neurosurgery Society, and Korean Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine. The committee analyzed and discussed to create an ideal method...

research in the context of a multifunctional knowledge base: The Botany Knowledge Base project. [30] Suzanne McBride. A graphic access and presentation tool for related knowledge base concepts. Master's thesis, [26] James C. Lester and Bruce W. Porter. A revision-based model of instructional multi-paragraph discourse production. 37 The View Retriever will be evaluated more extensively when it s...

Environmental causes of birth defects have increasingly been recognized since the mid-20th century. The teratogenic effects of maternal infections such as rubella and therapeutic drugs such as thalidomide were first reported by alert clinicians. Among clinicians and researchers who have contributed significantly to our knowledge of these environmental causes, Norman Gregg was a Sydney ophthalmo...

the implosion of initially solid metal liners D. B. Sinars, S. A. Slutz, M. C. Herrmann, R. D. McBride, M. E. Cuneo, C. A. Jennings, J. P. Chittenden, A. L. Velikovich, K. J. Peterson, R. A. Vesey, C. Nakhleh, E. M. Waisman, B. E. Blue, K. Killebrew, D. Schroen, K. Tomlinson, A. D. Edens, M. R. Lopez, I. C. Smith, J. Shores, V. Bigman, G. R. Bennett, B. W. Atherton, M. Savage, W. A. Stygar, G. ...

In this brief, we develop an least mean square (LMS) algorithm that converge in a statistical sense to the global minimum of the mean square error (MSE) objective function. This is accomplished by estimating the gradient as a smoothed version of the MSE. The smoothed MSE objective begins as a convex functional in the mean. The amount of dispersion or smoothing is reduced, such that over time it...