As the need for management skills for physicians becomes ever more evident, the number of MD/MBA programs has doubled in the past decade. About 65 dual-degree programs are offered in the United States, with more on the way. At the annual meeting of Association of MD/MBA Programs last year, 48 universities from three countries were represented. Maria Young Chandler, MD, MBA, the association’s fo...

The mixture of bensulfuron-methyl and acetochlor (MBA) has been widely applied as a rice herbicide in China, but the mixture toxicity of MBA to aquatic organisms is largely unknown. The current study aims to investigate the acute effects of MBA to juvenile red swamp crayfish, Procambarus clarkii. Firstly, a 96 h semi-static exposure was conducted to determine the Lethal Concentration 50 (LC50) ...

Geometric remodeling in de novo atherosclerosis and in restenosis after balloon angioplasty constitutes a change in total arterial circumference that, together with plaque growth or neointima formation, determines the lumen of the artery. The heterogeneous nature of arterial obstructions raises the question of whether early and late outcomes (restenosis) of angioplasty are affected by the degre...

A methylene blue azide medium (MBA), developed by Schaedler, Dubos, and Costello to isolate enterococci from the gastrointestinal tract of animals, was evaluated. This was done by comparing the isolation of enterococci from feces and saliva on the medium. Fifty-two catalase-negative, gram-positive cocci from human feces isolated from MBA were classified as enterococci. All strains grew in S F, ...

All task scheduling applications need to ensure that resources are optimally used, performance is enhanced, and costs minimized. The purpose of this paper discuss how Fitness Calculate Values (FCVs) provide application software with a reliable solution during the initial stages load balancing. cloud computing environment subject study. It consists both physical logical components (most notably ...

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Top MBA Careers [12] Provides job opportunities from a complete range of direct recruiters and search firms, plus networking and careers information. Vault.com [13] Fortune magazine calls vault "The best place on the web to prepare for your job search." A premier site. WetFeet [14] A website and magazine created to equip job seekers with advice, research and inspiration needed to plan and achie...

This research considers the role of values, family and non-family influences on career choice, and career goals among MBA students. Data were collected from 109 MBA students in the first semester of their MBA program. Males and females were almost equally represented. Most respondents aspired to careers, not jobs, or callings. There were few gender differences in this sample. Neither family nor...

This paper presents the solution of environmental/ economic dispatch (EED) problem by using a multiobjective bees algorithm (MBA) with clustering technique. EED problem is to minimize simultaneously the total fuel cost and environmental pollution of generation while satisfying various constrains. The MBA is modified from Bees Algorithm in order to solve EED problem through compromised fuzzy and...