This paper explores the link between student achievement and student learning styles in a college microeconomics course, based on the Dunn and Dunn model of learning styles. The Productivity Environmental Survey (PEPS) is utilized to measure learning style preferences for twenty elements. Factor analysis is applied to reduce the multidimensional preferences to a smaller set of common factors th...

DaviD W. NeWtoN, B.S.Pharm., Ph.D., FaPha, is Professor and Chairman, Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Bernard J. Dunn School of Pharmacy, Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA. DaviD F. DriScoll, B.S.Pharm., Ph.D., is Senior Researcher, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Address corresp...

BACKGROUND Acromioclavicular injuries are common in sports medicine. Surgical intervention is generally advocated for chronic instability of Rockwood grade III and more severe injuries. Various methods of coracoclavicular ligament reconstruction and augmentation have been described. The objective of this study is to compare the biomechanical properties of a novel palmaris-longus tendon reconstr...

The concentrations of caffeine and theobromine were determined using the method of external standards and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). House brews from Atomic Coffee, Babs, Coffee Stop (Caribou Coffee), Dunn Bros., Concordia’s Maize (Minnesota Mudd and Nicaraguan), Moxie Java, and Starbucks were collected and analyzed. Dunn Bros. reported the highest amount of caffeine per oun...

Although acromioclavicular joint separations are fairly common, the occurrence of high-grade acromioclavicular separations that require surgery is low. Various modifications of the Weaver-Dunn procedure have been popular and fairly successful methods to treat severe acromioclavicular separations, despite the fact that reconstructions have been done a number of ways. We report on the results of ...