Despite a likely high demand for GPs in the near future, a consistently low number of medical students choose family medicine as first choice for their career. In an academic world that strongly encourages medical specialisation, students perceive that family medicine has lower interest and less intellectual challenge than other medical specialties. This negative image may originate from critic...

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the gentleman from New York (Mr. LAZIO) is recognized for 5 minutes. Mr. LAZIO. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Indiana. Mr. BUYER. Moreover, it is my sincerest hope that the award ceremony will be conducted here in Washington as befits a celebration that honors a truly larger than life American. Lastly, I spoke with Tweed...

BACKGROUND Protraction facemask has been advocated for treatment of class III malocclusion with maxillary deficiency. Studies using tooth-borne rapid palatal expansion (RPE) appliance as anchorage have experienced side effects such as forward movement of the maxillary molars, excessive proclination of the maxillary incisors, and an increase in lower face height. A new Hybrid Hyrax bone-anchored...

The aim of this study was to analyze a possible correlation of different cephalometric measurements to define facial type and to evaluate the best measurement for diagnosis. The sample consisted of 95 lateral cephalograms of caucasian patients with normal occlusion, aged between 15 years and two months and 2.1 years and four months, ofwhich 54 were male and 41 female. The faciaL types were divi...

Chronic unit recording experiments conducted over the past two decades have identified many functional classes of neurons with saccade-related activity that reside in a host of brainstem nuclei. Older models of the saccadic system were based upon the properties of only a few of these functional types of neurons. They described the putative flow of signals through the brainstem circuitry and spe...

■ Evidence summary An evidence-based review found 5 highquality studies on the diagnosis of acute uncomplicated UTI among women. (“Uncomplicated” was defined as normal urinary tract and no contributing medical problems, such as diabetes, neurogenic bladder, renal stones.) UTIs were defined as the presence of significant bacteriuria (≥104 to 105 colony-forming units) on culture. A patient presen...

It's your first Gordon conference. You've milled around at Logan Airport with hundreds of other scientists and scrambled onto the big green buses. You've made the compulsory stop at the New Hampshire State Liquor store and watched scientists you've idolized buy two fifths of Jack Daniels that they plan to finish by Thursday. night. You've checked in at the school that looks like a minimum secur...

Title of Document: MAGNETOELASTIC COUPLING IN NiMnGa FERROMAGNETIC SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY Peng Zhao, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 Directed By: Professor, Manfred Wuttig, Department of Materials Science and Engineering NiMnGa alloys have attracted extensive attention because their ferromagnetic characteristic provides an additional degree of freedom to control both the shape memory effect and the mult...