I was the worst medical student in the world. I was reminded of this a few weeks ago, when, on a plane from Osaka to London, I was asked to look at a passenger who had collapsed and was lying unconscious in the rear cabin. Having issued the required warning that I was not a real doctor, that my knowledge of medicine was rusty and my knowledge of medical practice non-existent, I agreed to help b...

Citation: Reevy GM and Bursten SN (2015) Pedagogical psychology: beyond the 21st century. Front. Psychol. 6:280. The need of a society to educate its young in order to help them become valuable members of that society was likely recognized even before historical records began accumulating. The classic philosophers recognized this need even as they thought about other issues (Tweed and Lehman, 2...

Absolute triply differential (e, 2e) cross section measurements are presented for He at incident energies E0 = 32.6, 44.6, 64.6, and 104.6 eV with equal energy sharing and the θ12 = π configuration. Results of distorted partial-wave calculations agree with the measurements; those of convergent close-coupling calculations agree with the relative angular distributions, and with absolute values af...

" As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it? " –William Marcy " Boss " Tweed I write this in Menlo Park, California, on 5 October 2003, when it's still unclear whether the citizens of this state will choose to have the American governor with the best pectoral muscles , despite his seeming to have the same trouble with the multiple meanings of " respect for women " that Bil...

Regarding van den Bedem, Schutte, van der Helm, and Simonsz: Mechanical properties and functional importance of pulley bands or ÔFaisseaux TendineuxÕ q In their paper entitled ''Mechanical properties and functional importance of pulley bands or ÔFaisseaux Tendi-neuxÕ, van den Bedem et al. (Vision Research 45 (2005) 2710–2714) argue that mechanical properties of connective tissues they define as...

This edition of the IVC journal is devoted to some of the top-rated papers from BMVC2000, the 11th British Machine Vision Conference, hosted by the University of Bristol in September 2000. The conference coincided with a fuel shortage crisis, but there were no delegate cancellations and there were even some new registrations on the ®rst day. Altogether there were around 150 delegates from all o...

rest for the health policy of most developed countries. Literature on the use of services has covered various issues. One area is the investigation of unmet needs. Within the general population, research in the field has demonstrated that the majority of people with a diagnosis do not seek treatment (Pincus, Zaris & First, 1998) and that a substantial proportion of children’s needs are not adeq...

0049: LOCAL ANAESTHETIC TOXICITY: FOCUSED TEACHING IMPROVES SURGEONS’ KNOWLEDGE Usman Khalid , Aeliya Zaidi , Michael Lamyman , Marc Swan . 1 Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury, UK; Morriston Hospital, Swansea, UK. Aim: Local anaesthetic (LA) is routinely used by Plastic Surgeons. Toxicity can lead to potentially fatal complications. The aim of this audit was to determine the current awarenes...

This thesis presents a case-based reasoning system (KICS) which can assist domain experts in interpreting building regulations in relaxation cases. In traditional legal decision support systems, it has been regarded as natural to represent legal rules in statutes in terms of If-Then decision rules and to link these rules to a separate casebased reasoning system for handling cases. However, we t...

C ome on, baby. Come on, .little fat girl." "Come on, sweetie. Come here before I slap you down/' "Come on. Mind your manners, young lady. Don't get smart. Put that foot down before I knock the ears off you." It Is 6 in the morning at Barn 22C at Saratoga Raceway. The grooms are in the stalls talking to the horses, shaking out the straw. Spot, the old, subdued dog, sleeps on the dark, raked-ear...