Registrars' Prize Essays

Surgical Registrars Prize Day

Methods: A first-generation adenoviral vector (1 X 1012 total viral particles) containing the human B2AR transgene (Adeno-B2AR; n=6), or phosphate buffered saline (PBS; n=6) was delivered to neonatal piglets through the proximal aorta, following aortic cross-clamp and cold crystalloid cardioplegia. Animals were recovered and 2 days later had a left ventricular micromanometer inserted under seda...

Registrars' and senior registrars' perceptions of their audit activities.

OBJECTIVES To ascertain the level and quality of audit activity among junior doctors, their attitudes to audit, and their views on its educational value. DESIGN Postal questionnaire survey in April 1991. SETTING Yorkshire region. SUBJECTS All 610 registrars and senior registrars recorded as employed in the region. MAIN MEASURES Grade, current specialty, details of last audit participate...

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the Mediterranean have also fallen by 99.99 per cent compared with previous numbers. For the rest of the top 20 predators, records were not comprehensive enough to plot a trend, though declines were evident. That may be because their decline began even earlier, when records were even more sparse, the researchers believe. “This study will hopefully contribute to a greater threat status for hamme...

Second Prize

The aim of this work is to improve the digital images quality, in particular those relating to the Turin Shroud. ù The problem with Shroud images is that they are characterised by very low variations of the luminance of the various pixels. These almost unperceptible variations, cause great difficulty in analysing the images with the naked eye. Therefore some kind of elaboration becomes necessar...