The American Osteopathic Association Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation (AOA COCA) is recognized by the US Secretary of Education as the only accrediting agency for predoctoral osteopathic medical education. To maintain its recognition with the US Secretary of Education, AOA COCA is required to adhere to all federal laws and regulations associated with recognition of accrediting ag...

OSU-NAG eye plaques use fewer sources than COMS-plaques of comparable size, and do not employ a Silastic seed carrier insert. Monte Carlo modeling was used to calculate 3D dose distributions for a 16 mm OSU-NAG eye plaque and a 16 mm COMS eye plaque loaded with either Iodine-125 or Cesium-131 brachytherapy sources. The OSU-NAG eye plaque was loaded with eight sources forming two squares, wherea...

Our study of the pricing strategies of the dot-bams (brick-and-mortars) and dot-coms of the grocery trade in Singapore differs from other empirical studies. Dot-coms were found to exhibit higher price dispersion than the dot-bams which can be explained by the different marketing strategies of the two types of retailers. We also found that dot-bams change their prices more frequently than the do...

Development of genetic competence in Bacillus subtilis is controlled by the competence-specific transcription factor ComK. ComK activates transcription of itself and several other genes required for competence. The activity of ComK is controlled by other genes including mecA, clpC, and comS. We have used purified ComK, MecA, ClpC, and synthetic ComS to study their interactions and have demonstr...

INTRODUCTION The Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study (COMS) was the largest study ever to be funded and performed in ocular oncology. With 43 participating centers and hundreds of investigators, more than 2000 patients enrolled, 28 numbered studies published over a period of 16 years and almost innumerable editorials, letters, comments, and review articles generated by its findings, the breadth...

The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) of the knee and the function of its anteromedial (AM) and posterolateral (PL) bundles are a focus of orthopedic research. Because of the probability that third-year and fourth-year osteopathic medical students will encounter ACL injuries during clinical rotations, it is of paramount importance that students fully understand the functions of the AM and PL bun...

The birth environment of the Sun will have influenced the physical and chemical structure of the pre-solar nebula, including the attainable chemical complexity reached in the disk, important for prebiotic chemistry. The formation and distribution of complex organic molecules (COMs) in a disk around a T Tauri star is investigated for two scenarios: (i) an isolated disk, and (ii) a disk irradiate...

Software maintenance is an important and challenging phase of the software development life cycle because changes during this phase without proper awareness of dependencies among program modules can introduce faults in the software system. There is also a common intuition that cloned code introduces additional software maintenance challenges and difficulties. To support successful accomplishmen...

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Abstract To date, about two dozen low-mass embedded protostars exhibit rich spectra with lines of complex organic molecules (COMs). These seem to possess a different enrichment in COMs. However, the statistics COM abundance are limited by scarcity observations. This study introduces Perseus ALMA Chemistry Survey (PEACHES), which aims at unbiasedly characterizing chemistry COMs toward (Class 0/I...