At a dinner in the Great Hall of the Queen's University of Belfast on the 12th December 1989 the Northern Ireland Branch of the Medical Women's Federation celebrated the centenary of the first admission of women to the classes of the Faculty of Medicine of the Queen's College, Belfast, and to the clinical classes of the Belfast Royal Hospital. In September 1889 a meeting of medical professors a...

We consider all complex projective manifolds X that satisfy at least one of the following three conditions: (1) There exists a pair (C , φ), where C is a compact connected Riemann surface and φ : C −→ X a holomorphic map, such that the pull back φ∗TX is not semistable. (2) The variety X admits an étale covering by an abelian variety. (3) The dimension dimX ≤ 1. We prove that the following class...

Nurse anesthesia programs across the country are frequently in search of better selection criteria and more efficient evaluation systems. The goal is to select qualified applicants who will successfully complete the program and represent the profession of nurse anesthesia. The primary method of assessing the quality of candidates' noncognitive attributes at the Oakland University Beaumont Progr...

In this paper, we investigate the communication cost of reproducing Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) steering correlations arising from bipartite quantum systems. We characterize the set of bipartite quantum states which admits a local hidden state model augmented with c bits of classical communication from an untrusted party (Alice) to a trusted party (Bob). In case of one bit of information (c =...

This paper examines the effect of attending elite private high school on college placement using admissions data from the most selective high school in a large metropolitan area. To overcome omitted variable bias, we limit the sample to admitted applicants and control directly for the scores assigned by admissions based on in-depth analyses of the applicants

BACKGROUND Our study aimed to assess the nationwide trends in the incidence of severe gallstone disease in Taiwan among adults aged >or=20. METHODS A retrospective longitudinal study was conducted using Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database collected during 1997-2005. Patients with incident severe gallstone disease (acute cholecystitis, biliary pancreatitis, acute cholangitis) an...

BACKGROUND A seasonal variation in hospital admissions in patients with heart failure (HF) has been described and most admissions occur during the winter season. The effect of this seasonal variation on prognosis is less clear. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effect of the seasonal timing of hospital admission on clinical outcome in patients with HF. METHODS We prospectively enrolled 362 consecu...

conclusions the stroke hospital admission rate might be increasing in birjand. therefore, health care administrators and public health authorities must work harder to promote the knowledge and practice of society about the stroke related risk factors and prevention methods. results totally, 1219 stroke (85.4% ischemic type) with the mean age of 69.6 ± 12.9 years and female: male ratio of 1.09 w...

We construct a smoothly bounded pseudoconvex domain whose boundary contains no complex analytic variety such that some boundary point admits no holomorphic peak function.