DR. MARK M. RAVITCH (I.), surgeon-in-chief, Baltimore City Hospitals and associate professor in surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital was the guest of Jewish Hospital March 8-10 as the first visiting professor under the J. G. Probstein Visiting Professorship of Surgery, endowed in 1964 by the Leonson Foundation as a tribute to Dr. Probstein, hospital senior surgeon. Dr. Ravitch delivered two major ad...

The Bureau of Osteopathic Specialists continually assesses the skills of osteopathic physician specialists in response to the growth of specialization in the osteopathic medical profession. Most recently, the Bureau has mandated that all osteopathic specialty certifying boards fully implement Osteopathic Continuous Certification no later than January 1, 2013. The authors discuss communication e...

Background: Existing evidence with regard to the indicators of board performance evaluation of the University demonstrated that a comprehensive review of literature is required. The aim of this article is to add to the literature on performance evaluation of the universities’ governing boards by providing a summary of literaturebased perspectives. Methodology: Systematic literature searches wer...

Although some specialty certifying boards began recommending or requiring recertification of their "boarded" specialists as early as 1986, recertification is a relatively new concept for the specialty of orthodontics. In the mid 1990s, the American Board of Orthodontics (ABO) recognized that many other medical and dental specialty boards had already established voluntary or mandatory recertific...

This interactive event presents a pressure sensitive chair constructed out of Wii Fit game controller boards. During this event, we will demonstrate how to arrange the boards to detect seat and back pressure, configure a PC to receive a bluetooth datastream from the boards, and modify the power supply of the boards to increase uptime and reliability. We claim that the pressure sensitive chair s...

Abstract The paper presents research into the changes of properties in cement-bonded particleboards caused by moisture saturation over course 504 h. Three particleboard variants were tested, all at age 18 months. first is a standard production-line board manufactured CIDEM Hranice, a.s. (identified as CP-R). other two modified by-products manufacturing process—dust (CP-D) and particulate mixtur...