Comments: ACGME Response

Lessons learned from ACGME.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The year 1998 brought to a close our 6 years of service as representatives to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. These have been challenging times for graduate medical education (GME), and our time on the council has been an educational experience of the first order. This paper describes our experiences and summarizes the issues we believe lie ah...

Response to Reviewers ’ Comments

Response to Reviewer’s Comments

#2. It is unclear why the authors only consider dust: the same problem should exist for other sources of iron as well, or probably even worse, especially finer particles from combustion? Why not consider those? You could presumably do this rather easily, just assuming BC has Fe, and including the size distribution of BC? There are recent reviews of the size of combustion iron particles (e.g. Wa...

Response to Reviewer Comments

Given d > 2 and a set of n grid points Q in R, we design a randomized algorithm that finds a w-wide separator, which is determined by a hyper-plane, in O(n 2 d log n) sublinear time such that Q has at most ( d d+1 + o(1))n points one either side of the hyper-plane, and at most cdwn d−1 d points within w 2 distance to the hyper-plane, where cd is a constant for fixed d. In particular, c3 = 1.209...

Response to Reviewers ' Comments :

We now continued our search in the 609 bp 3'-UTR region of GATA4 to explore further molecular avenues leading to CHD. Background: To identify further genetic alterations associated with CHD, we continued our search in the 609 bp of 3'-untranslated region (3'-UTR) of GATA4. 2. The authors should modify Table 3, indicating with a different character (for example in bold) the new sequence variatio...