CONTEXT During the first 2 years of osteopathic medical school, osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM) courses use an objective professionalism score to measure student timeliness and appropriate dress for learning activities. OBJECTIVE To assess for correlations between this score and the numeric course grades of all first- and second-year basic science and clinical courses at a single oste...

CONTEXT Osteopathic manual medicine (OMM) encompasses hands-on diagnosis and treatment as part of patient care. The area of osteopathic principles and practice (OPP) is considered a core competency for students and practitioners of this medical tradition. The Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Examination-USA (COMLEX-USA) is a useful tool for assessing candidates' competency. OBJECTI...

Cyclic AMP (cAMP)-dependent phosphorylation has been reported to exert biological effects in both the mitochondrial matrix and outer mitochondrial membrane (OMM). However, the kinetics, targets, and effectors of the cAMP cascade in these organellar domains remain largely undefined. Here we used sensitive FRET-based sensors to monitor cAMP and protein kinase A (PKA) activity in different mitocho...

The hallmark of osteopathic medical education is the inclusion of hands-on instruction in osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM), which includes palpatory diagnosis and osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT). This OMM training typically involves a primary instructor presenting theory and techniques with step-by-step demonstrations to a large group of first- and second-year osteopathic medica...

For dental implants, it is vital that an initial soft tissue seal is achieved as this helps to stabilize and preserve the peri-implant tissues during the restorative stages following placement. The study of the implant-soft tissue interface is usually undertaken in animal models. We have developed an in vitro three-dimensional tissue-engineered oral mucosal model (3D OMM), which lends itself to...

BACKGROUND Osteopathic medical school graduates, who are entering allopathic residencies in increasing numbers, want to maintain their osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM) skills, but such residency programs do not include osteopathic curricula. OBJECTIVES To describe the development and implementation of an osteopathic curriculum within an allopathic family medicine residency, and to eval...

The Ca2+ uptake pathway Ca2+ has to cross two membranes to enter into the mitochondrial matrix. The selective barrier offered by the inner mitochondrial membrane (IMM) has been recognized for many years, but the role of the outer membrane (OMM) as a regulated Ca2+ barrier has only recently been recognized. Overexpression of the voltage-dependent anion channel (VDAC) of the OMM, mainly known for...

The objective of this experiment was to measure the apparent total tract digestibility (ATTD) and the retention rate of Zn, Cu, Mn, and Fe in pigs fed either inorganic or organic sources of Zn, Cu, Mn, and Fe. The experimental design was a randomized complete block design with a 2 × 3 factorial arrangement of treatments. There were 2 types of diets (corn grits-based or corn-soybean meal [SBM]-b...

We consider a modification of the OMM energy functional which contains an ℓ 1 penalty term in order to find a sparse representation of the low-lying eigenspace of self-adjoint operators. We analyze the local minima of the modified functional as well as the convergence of the modified functional to the original functional. Algorithms combining soft thresholding with gradient descent are proposed...

Although tremendous efforts have been devoted to investigating planar single-conductor circuits, it remains challenging provide tight confinement of electromagnetic field and compatibility with active semi-conductor components such as amplifier, harmonic generator mixers. Single-conductor spoof surface plasmon polariton (SSPP) structure, which is one the most promising transmission media due ou...