A collection of Curbside Consultation published in AFP is available at http://www.aafp.org/afp/ curbside. Case Scenario At 7.5 months pregnant, my patient found herself increasingly uncomfortable at work. Her varicose veins ached from standing on the job, where she was required to work a cash register and walk prescriptions from the pharmacy to the checkout area. I wrote a note to her boss expl...

hen John Heuser finished medical school at the height of the Vietnam War he was immediately eligible for the draft. Luckily for him, and for cell biology, he fulfilled his military service at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States Public Health Service. It was there that he brought the concept of " membrane recycling " to light. He brought to Thomas Reese's lab at the NIH ...

A collection of Curbside Consultation published in AFP is available at http://www.aafp.org/afp/ curbside. Case Scenario A mother brought her 12-year-old daughter to my clinic for gynecologic concerns. The daughter has a congenitally acquired intellectual disability. Recently, the girl began to menstruate, which appeared to cause her distress. While at school, she repeatedly removed her sanitary...

We describe the use of discrete event simulation in modeling the curbside vehicular traffic at airports. The dynamic nature of vehicular traffic poses a challenge in developing a discrete event simulation model to represent roadway operations. We present our simulation methodology in modeling the new Austin-Bergstrom International Airport and address the use of simulation in the design as well ...

This paper provides a framework for understanding competition and industry structure in the context of Fiber to the Home (FTTH). We present engineering cost models, which indicate that FTTH is a decreasing cost industry, thereby making facilities based competition an unlikely outcome. Non-facilities based competition (or service level competition) in FTTH can happen in data-link layer (or trans...