283 Volume 14, Number 2 online resources are available for the students including animations, interactive case studies and quiz banks. In addition, instructor resources are also accessible with PowerPoint slides, worksheets, and lesson plans. Reading this textbook and performing the learning activities was very comfortable and intuitive. The larger type and word spacing, the formatting and subh...

Abstract Background: Gastric electrical stimulation (GES) is an efficacious surgical intervention for medically refractory nausea and gastroparesis, though contraindicated poor candidates with magnetic resonance imaging. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) on individuals GES implant not well studied. Given that strongly associated anxiety depression, ECT should be avoided as absolute contraindicati...

interested in the first chapter, which gives a brief overview of Soviet psychiatry up to recent times. After fighting through the endless verbiage, one might draw the conclusion that the only scientific work of any consequence done in psychiatry was before 1917. The single major exception would be A. R. Luria, who is completely ignored in the book, except for one appearance of his name in a lis...

physical and chemical attributes and, moreover, possessed of a variability which, in turn, is referable to more than mere whim. As yet, the bridge is a rather shaky structure, as is recognized by the frequency with which the author is forced to indicate that insufficient data force but tentative conclusions. Nevertheless, the text clears away much rubbish and underbrush, and in some few places ...

The impacts of outdoor education programs on participants remains a topic of much interest to practitioners and researchers. Hundreds of empirical pre-post studies have been conducted in an attempt to better understand the impacts. Typically, psychosocial constructs such as self-concept are measured before and after outdoor education programs. In order to summarize the results of such studies, ...

Stephen Jay Gould, remarkable paleontologist and revered popularizer of science, died of cancer on May 20, 2002. With his death, he passed into the history that he loved; a history, as he well knew, whose mills grind exceedingly fine. Those mills have started work on his writings, just as he ruminated memorably over books by Lamarck, Cuvier, Goethe, Geoffrey St. Hilaire, Darwin, Weismann, de Vr...

Research is, in essence, the search for the truth. We ask ourselves clinical questions and we seek to find truthful answers: is strepto-mycin effective in the management of pulmonary tuberculosis? Is the combination of conservative surgery and radiation as effective as the radical mastectomy in local control of breast cancer? These questions have been definitively answered and have had an impac...

S. Leonard Syme's essay [letter to the editor]. Preventing Chronic Disease [serial online] 2004 Apr [date cited]. The recent essay by Dr Leonard Syme contributes constructively to the dialogue on disparities (1). It validates the idea that the traditional focus on the individual and risk factors is limited and underscores the importance of environment and community. The complexity of community ...

As we atomize and expand the digital representation of specimen information through data standards, it is critical to evaluate implementation these developments, including how well they serve discipline-specific needs. In particular, fossil specimens often present challenges because require be captured that seemingly parallel to, but not entirely aligned with, their extant counterparts. Previou...

ed from the full reports. DEFINITION AND CLASSIFICATION OF CLD While clinicians practicing in the area of contact lenses all are familiar with CLD, a variety of terms and verbiage have been used to describe this problem. Typically these patients present with symptoms of ocular discomfort of some sort (e.g., dryness, irritation, discomfort, fatigue, and so forth), and it is common Copyright 2013...