OF A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY COMPUTER SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL 2014 DISSERTATION SUPERVISOR BENYUAN LIU, PH.D. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE DISSERTATION MEMBER CINDY CHEN, PH.D. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SC...

HYPOTHESIS Surgical trainees in the United States have a growing interest in both clinical experiences and structured training opportunities in global health. Global health training and exposure can be integrated into a surgical residency program. DESIGN The global health activities of surgical residents and faculty in 1 department were evaluated from January 1, 1998, to June 1, 2008, using a...

To better understand the graduate student viewpoint on quality of preparation provided by graduate programs in terms of the internship application process, the current study surveyed students enrolled in member programs of the Council of University Directors of Clinical Psychology (CUDCP). Six hundred seventy-four students completed a questionnaire designed to assess perceptions regarding prepa...

This paper describes 2 studies that evaluated a new instrument, the Perceived Ethnic Discrimination Questionnaire–Community Version (PEDQ-CV). The PEDQ-CV can be used across ethnic groups to assess perceived racism or ethnic discrimination. The scales measure several subdimensions of racism, permitting the examination of different forms of this race-related stressor. The first study evaluated t...

Julia Hoffmann, Leigh M. Marsh, Mario Pieper, Elvira Stacher, Bahil Ghanim, Gabor Kovacs, Peter König, Heinrike Wilkens, Hans Michael Haitchi, Gerald Hoefler, Walter Klepetko, Horst Olschewski, Andrea Olschewski, and Grazyna Kwapiszewska Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Lung Vascular Research, Graz, Austria; Institute of Anatomy, University Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany and Airway Research Center North...

Ann Robertson is a Lecturer at San Francisco State University and a member of the California Faculty Association. She may be contacted via [email protected].

Context: Evaluating systems is one of the essential items affecting faculty member performance. Using an appropriate evaluating system for performing different proper roles members. Objective: This study aimed to systematically review models, tools, and challenges performance clinical Methods: systematic investigated eight international four national electronic databases in 2019. Descriptive th...

Let V be a vertex operator algebra satisfying certain reductivity and finiteness conditions such that CV , the category of V -modules, is a modular tensor category. We study open-closed field algebras over V equipped with nondegenerate invariant bilinear forms for both open and closed sectors. We show that they give algebras over certain C-extension of the so-called Swiss-cheese partial diopera...

• Objective: To assess nurses’ opinions of a hospitalistorthopedic team (HOT) model of perioperative care. • Design: Paper survey distributed quarterly as a portion of a larger randomized controlled trial. • Setting: Rochester Methodist Hospital (Mayo Clinic), an academic, primarily elective surgical hospital in

introduction: there are various factors that affect manpower efficiency. identification of the most important and influential factors on efficiency is quite essential. analysis of factors affecting manpower efficiency from the viewpoint of clinical and non-clinical faculty members at guilan university of medical sciences in 2011. methods: this descriptive, analytical, cross-sectional study was ...