Introduction The aim of this article is to discuss Continuous Professional Development (CPD) in the context of the NHS in the UK. CPD as a process is seen as a major mechanism on the agenda of reform in the NHS and therefore exploring the question of how CPD is perceived by staff can provide insights into the changing dynamics of the employment relationship in particular staffing and profession...

DNA photolyases and cryptochromes (cry) form a family of flavoproteins that use light energy in the blue/UV-A region for the repair of UV-induced DNA lesions or for signaling, respectively. Very recently, it was shown that members of the DASH cryptochrome subclade repair specifically cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs) in UV-damaged single-stranded DNA. Here, we report the crystal structure of...

Benzimidazole is one of the most important heterocyclic groups manifesting various biological properties, such as antibacterial, antifungal, antimicrobial, antiprotozoal and antihelmintic activities. Several benzimidazole derivatives are also active as inhibitors of type I DNA topoisomerases. In this study, three 1H-benzimidazole derivatives with different electronic characteristics at position...

UNLABELLED For complex biological networks, graphical representations are highly desired for understanding some design principles, but few drawing methods are available that capture topological features of a large and highly heterogeneous network, such as a protein interaction network. Here we propose the circular perspective drawing (CPD) method to visualize global structures of large complex ...

Numerous professional bodies have questioned whether traditional input-based continuing professional development (CPD) schemes are effective at measuring genuine learning and improving practice performance and patient health. The most commonly used type of long-established CPD activities, such as conferences, lectures and symposia, have been found to have a limited effect on improving practitio...

The introduction of mandatory Continuing Professional Development (CPD) as a condition of podiatry registration has caused quite a deal of manic amongst the Podiatry population. What practitioners may underestimate is the amount of CPD that is undertaken as part of their everyday work practices. The podiatrists at Eastern Health are fortunate to have a supportive work environment that aims to f...

Canonical Polyadic Decomposition (CPD) of a higher-order tensor is an important tool in mathematical engineering. In many applications at least one of the matrix factors is constrained to be column-wise orthonormal. We first derive a relaxed condition that guarantees uniqueness of the CPD under this constraint and generalize the result to the case where one of the factor matrices has full colum...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether a structured educational intervention would support pharmacists' utilization of a continuing professional development (CPD) model compared to pharmacist control subjects. METHODS A prospective, randomized, observational case-control study of CPD was conducted in which pharmacists participated in several educational interventions, and study and control groups com...

Modeling non-stationary time-series data for making predictions is a challenging but important task. One of the key issues is to identify long-term changes accurately in time-varying data. Bayesian Online Change Point Detection (BO-CPD) algorithms efficiently detect long-term changes without assuming the Markov property which is vulnerable to local signal noise. We propose a Document based BO-C...

The theme of this series is the management of "every day" clinical problems that present to accident and emergency departments. Part of the aim of the series is to engage the readership in continuing medical education (CME)lcontinuing professional development (CPD) and authors have been asked to provide three questions and key references. If you would like to participate please send your answer...