BACKGROUND Crisis resource management (CRM) skills are a set of nonmedical skills required to manage medical emergencies. There is currently no gold standard for evaluation of CRM performance. A prior study examined the use of a global rating scale (GRS) to evaluate CRM performance. This current study compared the use of a GRS and a checklist as formal rating instruments to evaluate CRM perform...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Recent large-scale genome-wide association studies have identified multiple loci robustly associated with BMI, predominantly in European ancestry (EA) populations. However, associations of these loci with obesity and related traits have not been well described in Chinese Hans. This study aimed to investigate whether BMI-associated loci are, individually and collectively, a...

The jets of GRS 1915+105 carry a considerable energy away from the central source into the ISM. The similarity of the jets of this source and jets in radio galaxies or radio-loud quasars suggests that we should detect large-scale, synchrotron emitting radio structures surrounding GRS 1915+105. However, these large structures have not been found. We show that by adapting a model for the radio lo...

A calculus and a model for a rst-order functional language with sharing is presented. In most implementations of functional languages, argument subexpressions in a function application are shared to avoid their repeated evaluation. Recursive functions are typically implemented using graphs with cycles. Compilers for these languages sometimes employ non-left-linear and left-cyclic rules for opti...

Pentax Canada Inc P&G GI Health Schering-Plough Canada Inc UCB Pharma Inc The Canadian Association of Gastroenterology’s (CAG) Endoscopy Quality Initiative (EQI) was developed in 2007 to promote quality assurance and quality improvement, and to facilitate these activities in becoming standard of care for endoscopy services in Canada. To achieve these goals, the Steering Committee of the EQI has...

THE 2002 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society’s Awards were presented at two separate forums. The Transactions Prize Paper Award, Symposium Prize Paper Award, and the Interactive Session Prize Paper Award were presented on Sunday, June 23, at the IGARSS reception. The Awards Chairman, Professor Kamal Sarabandi, and the GRS-S Executive Vice President, Charles A. Luther, made the presentati...

Although adaptive systems of immunity against tumor initiation and destruction are well investigated, less understood is the role, if any, of endogenous factors that have conventional functions. Here we show that glycyl-tRNA synthetase (GRS), an essential component of the translation apparatus, circulates in serum and can be secreted from macrophages in response to Fas ligand that is released f...

OBJECTIVE The Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) trial investigated rates of progression to diabetes among adults with prediabetes randomized to treatment with placebo, metformin, or intensive lifestyle intervention. Among women in the DPP, diabetes risk reduction with metformin was greater in women with prior gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) compared with women without GDM but with one or mo...

We discuss the compatibility between the weaker energy condition and the stability of Gregory, Rubakov and Sibiryakov (GRS) model. Because the GRS spacetime violates the weak energy condition, it may cause the instability. In the GRS model, the four dimensional gravity can be described by the massive KK modes with the resonance. Hence, instead of considering the weaker energy condition, we requ...

Geosynthetic reinforced soil (GRS) walls and abutments are increasingly used to support transportation infrastructure. A pressing question in their response is the amount of horizontal deflection expected under service loads. This paper presents an evaluation of six methods for predicting the lateral deformation of GRS walls and abutments, namely the FHWA, Geoservice, CTI, Jewell-Milligan, Wu, ...