Submitted December 23, 2014; accepted January 5, 2015. Osteopathic medical education is currently navigating stormy waters because of unprecedented changes from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Institute of Medicine report Graduate Medical Education That Meets the Nation’s Health Needs,1 and a new single graduate medical education (GME) accreditation system. In response to he...

BACKGROUND Treatment of choroidal melanoma with radiation often involves placement of customized brachytherapy eye-plaques. However, the dosimetric properties inherent in source-based radiotherapy preclude facile dose optimization to critical ocular structures. Consequently, we have constructed a novel system for utilizing small beam low-energy radiation delivery, the Beamlet Low-kVp X-ray, or ...

با رشد سریع فناوری اطلاعات، تولیدکنندگان که در گذشته فقط به‌صورت سنتی و از طریق خرده‌فروشان محصولات خود را عرضه می‌کردند، می‌توانند مستقیم آنلاین نیز کنند. این پژوهش، یک زنجیره تأمین دو­کاناله شامل تولیدکننده خرده‌فروش نظر گرفته است آن می‌تواند دو کانال به فروش برساند. فرض می‌­شود محصول روش حمل درنتیجه زمان تحویل متفاوت ‌می‌کند قاعدتاً روی تقاضای یکدیگر تأثیر می‌گذارد. موردنظر ابتدا حالت غیرمتمر...

CONTEXT The growth of osteopathic medicine in the United States has led to a vibrant expansion of the profession internationally. Canadian students represent the majority of international applicants and matriculants to US colleges of osteopathic medicine (COMs); however, to our knowledge, no studies have explored this population. OBJECTIVE To gain a better understanding of Canadian students a...

Continuous rainfall measurements from groundbased radars are crucial for monitoring and forecasting heavy rainfall-related events such as floods and landslides. However, complete coverage by ground-based radars is often hampered by terrain blockage and beam-related errors. In this study, we presented a method to fill the radar gap using surrounding radar-estimated precipitation and observations...

Purpose The Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study (COMS) established modern treatment recommendations for uveal melanoma. We aim to evaluate patterns of care and survival outcomes in the time after COMS. Material and methods The retrospective study population includes 2,611 patients in the SEER database treated for uveal melanoma between 2004-2013. Patients stage were T1-4N0M0. Data analyzed in...

PURPOSE To improve tumor dose conformity and homogeneity for COMS plaque brachytherapy by investigating the dosimetric effects of varying component source ring radionuclides and source strengths. MATERIAL AND METHODS The MCNP5 Monte Carlo (MC) radiation transport code was used to simulate plaque heterogeneity-corrected dose distributions for individually-activated source rings of 14, 16 and 1...

As convective clouds in Northeast Asia are accompanied by various hazards related with heavy rainfall and thunderstorms, it is very important to detect convective initiation (CI) in the region in order to mitigate damage by such hazards. In this study, a novel approach for CI detection using images from Meteorological Imager (MI), a payload of the Communication, Ocean, and Meteorological Satell...