Introduction. In the current screening system, new admissions are based on general intelligence as measured by universities entrance examination. Considering the fact that an important function of medical graduates is to educate the patients how to restore and take care of their health, communicative competence and skills would be, at least, as important as general intelligence. To show that la...

PURPOSE To determine the imaging appearance and frequency with which arachnoid granulations are seen on contrast-enhanced CT and MR studies of the brain. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed 573 contrast-enhanced CT scans and 100 contrast-enhanced MR studies of the brain for the presence of discrete filling defects within the venous sinuses. An anatomic study of the dural sinuses of 29 cadaver...

The WebTeach [1] project started in 1999 as a simple web interface to a database for the management of students scheduling for examinations. At present it has grown to include three different tools: WebCheck, which corresponds to the original database interface, WebWrite, a powerful version of the WikiWikiWeb [2] concept, and WebTest, a set of tools for the generation and automatic evaluation o...

for comments on an earlier draft of the paper, and to the participants of the Economics Seminar at the Stockholm School of Economics for their critical feedback. I also thank the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago and the American Compensation Association for their generous financial support. ABSTRACT The obsession over college prestige and the highly competitive environ...

The World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Index shows the serious nature of Japan’s gender gap. gap with respect to political and economic participation is obvious. percentage women in Diet (the national parliament) significantly low, few hold management positions. Although not shown Index, there are hidden inequalities education health care Japan. These largely due remnants traditional family cult...

Introduction Given the fact that children are more sensitive to radiation, compared to adults, special attention needs to be paid to radiation protection in pediatric radiology. Diagnostic reference level (DRL) has been defined to be employed as a practical tool for examining the overall performance of a radiological center in terms of patient dose among a series of similar equipments in an are...

Objective assessment of the quality of radiographic images is practically a difficult task and protocols that address this problem are few. In 1996, the European union published nearly objective image quality criteria to unify the practices in Europe. However, experience with these criteria in countries of lower health care levels is little documented. As a case study in Tanzania, we present th...

PURPOSE We aimed to determine the radiation doses delivered to patients undergoing general examinations using computed or digital radiography systems in Turkey. MATERIALS AND METHODS Radiographs of 20 patients undergoing posteroanterior chest X-ray and of 20 patients undergoing anteroposterior kidney-ureter-bladder radiography were evaluated in five X-ray rooms at four local hospitals in the ...