BACKGROUND Objective criteria for predicting residents' performance do not exist. The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that global assessment by an intern selection committee (ISC) would correlate with the future performance of residents. METHODS A prospective study of 277 residents between 1992 and 1999. Global assessment at the time of interview was compared to subsequent cl...

We report, for the first time, a direct, atomic-scale characterization of Pb in zircon (4.4–3.1 Ga) from the early Archean Yilgarn craton in Australia using high-resolution HAADF-STEM. Two forms of Pb have been identified: Pb concentrated at 3 atom% as a nanoscale patch in zircon structure, and Pb concentrated within the amorphous domain created by fission fragment damage. The first result sugg...

Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) after bone marrow transplantation (BMT) differs from classic TTP in its clinical course and therapy. A characteristic of classic TTP is the inhibition of a plasma protease that specifically cleaves von Willebrand factor (vWF), thus reducing its multimeric size. We investigated whether this protease was also inhibited in BMT-associated TTP. Plasma from p...

In a context increasingly defined by post-normal science (Funtowicz and Ravetz 1993 Funtowicz, Silvio O. Jerome R. Ravetz. 1993. “Science for the Post-Normal Age.” Futures 25: 735–755. doi:10.1016/0016-3287(93)90022-L.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]), it is acknowledged that complex world problems cannot be addressed one discipline in isolation. To face uncertain futures, ther...

The next-generation, broadband geodetic very long baseline interferometry system, named VGOS, is being developed globally with an aim to achieve 1 mm accuracy for station positions. Currently, the systematic errors in VGOS delays are still about 20 ps. In this study, we demonstrate that it feasible make images directly from observations without need of complicated calibrations and determine sou...

We present high resolution (≤ 20 mas) observations of the radio continuum emission at 1.4 GHz from three high-redshift quasars: J1053−0016 (z = 4.29), 1235−0003 (z = 4.69), and J0913+5919 (z = 5.11), thereby doubling the number of z > 4 radio-loud quasars that have been imaged at mas resolution. The observations were carried out with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) of the NRAO. All three so...

Non-celiac gluten sensitivity (NCGS) is a syndrome characterized by intestinal and extraintestinal symptoms related to the ingestion of gluten-containing food in subjects who are not affected by either celiac disease (CD) or wheat allergy Published online: November 26, 2015 Prof. Carlo Catassi Via F Corridoni 11 IT–60123 Ancona (Italy) E-Mail c.catassi @ univpm.it © 2015 S. Karger AG, Basel 025...

Many locomotion tasks on real, complex terrain are poorly modeled as deviations from limit cycles of steady state running. As obstacles become larger and larger relative to leg length, every step is novel and challenging: the leap onto a ledge in Fig. 1 is quite unlike any running step. We seek to organize and systematically reduce this space to a finite set of dynamic transition “words” in ord...