We tested whether dreams can anticipate a stressful exam and how failure/success in dreams affect next-day performance. We collected information on students' dreams during the night preceding the medical school entrance exam. Demographic, academic, sleep and dream characteristics were compared to the students' grades on the exam. Of the 719 respondents to the questionnaire (of 2324 total studen...

Veterinary diagnostic imaging has grown tremendously in the past 10 years. Digital radiology and cross sectional imaging modalities like ultrasound, computed tomography (CT), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have profoundly improved our ability to diagnose many small animal diseases. Digital radiography improves image quality while at the same time making radiographs easy to make and share ...

As the silver tsunami continues, assessing and intervening with older adult drivers are becoming an essential aspect of the comprehensive geriatric exam. The current lack of time efficient clinical guidelines is a concern and barrier for NPs. The purpose of this study was to identify strategies currently used by NPs. The critical incident technique was used to obtain data from a convenience sam...

Introduction Patients with atrial fibrillation (Afib) routinely undergo a transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE) for evaluation of the left atrial appendage (LAA) to rule out thrombus prior to undergoing cardioversion or pulmonary vein isolation (PVI). Cardiac MRI (CMR) is now increasingly used for evaluation of these patients for defining pulmonary vein anatomy prior to PVI. We hypothesized that...

PURPOSE To report on subclinical retinal abnormalities shown through handheld spectral domain optical coherence tomography on a premature infant. METHODS Case report. RESULTS The initial and follow-up exams on a premature infant revealed severely attenuated ganglion cell and nerve fiber layers. There was cystoid macular edema in both eyes at the initial visits, which resolved by the 1-year ...

These notes extensively use material from Lars Arge, David Mount, CLRS book, Knuth’s Art of Computer Programming vol. 1, Kleinberg and Tardos book and the Algorithms from Massive Data Sets book. They are updated occasionally. I have used part of this material for graduate course COMP 5703 on Algorithms at Carleton. The aim of these notes is to summarize the discussion in course lectures, and ar...

Ann Neale Sister A n n Neale, G .N .S .H ., has been at the Center fo r B ioethics since 1973 d o ing research for her last comprehensive exam in p h ilo so p h y and w ritin g her doctoral dissertation. T h e fo l lo w in g is based on that dissertation w hich explores the concept o f health, ana lyzing in particular the recently expanded d e fin itions o f health. In Septem ber Sr. N eale w i...

As part of the “Road to Recertification” article series in New Retina MD, Don O. Kikkawa, MD, provides an overview of some of the topics that retina specialists may want to review in more detail for Maintenance of Certification. As with every article in this series, Dr. Kikkawa’s overview is not meant to take the place of a comprehensive review course; rather, its purpose is to highlight some k...

for α ∈ Ak−e+iX. Thus there are canonical isomorphisms θE : ⊕ e i=0Ak−e+iX ∼ → AkPE. θE : ⊕αi 7→ ∑e i=0c1(OPE(1)) pαi. Proof. Our plan was to prove this in the following order: π surjective, θE surjective, θE injective, π injective. The proof is a delicate interplay between E and PE. We had done all but the last step, and we had reduced the last step to the case where E is a trivial bundle, i.e...