The American Medical Association (AMA) appreciates the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health’s (Subcommittee) efforts to build on and accelerate wide-spread clinical applications of innovative tests. We welcome the opportunity to respond to the questions posed by the Subcommittee. Our responses are below along with examples that demonstrate the di...

This paper considers a combinatorial problem by M. B. Nathanson [ 1 ], concerning simultaneous systems of representatives for two families of finite sets.

After defining reduced minimum braid word and criteria for a braid family representative , different braid family representatives are derived, and a correspondence between them and families of knots and links given in Conway notation is established .

In this paper, we present the design and implementation of an intelligent Web representative based on prevalent Internet and Web technologies. The design includes three parts: natural language parser, knowledge representation, and communication between the user and the computer. With an e cient pseudonatural language processing, a database of knowledge stored in XML, and the user communication ...

We propose and investigate from the algorithmic standpoint a novel form of fuzzy query called approximately dominating representatives or ADRs. The ADRs of a multidimensional point set consist of a few points guaranteed to contain an approximate optimum of any monotone Lipschitz continuous combining function of the dimensions. ADRs can be computed by appropriately post-processing Pareto, or “sk...

Finally, in addition to medical training and drug sales promotion, there are many other factors which influence the general practitioner in his attitudes towards drug therapy. Amongst these are the processes of socialization and professionalization which the young general practitioner undergoes as he moves through his medical training and out into general practice. These are the various agencie...

GrassrootsHealth, Encinitas, California (C.A.B., C.B.F., S.L.M.); Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California (R.E.C., C.F.G., E.D.G.); Sunlight, Nutrition, and Health Research Center, San Francisco, California (W.B.G.); Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska (R.P.H.); Department of Medicine, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Mas...

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...

GrassrootsHealth, Encinitas, California (C.A.B., C.B.F., S.L.M.); Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California (R.E.C., C.F.G., E.D.G.); Sunlight, Nutrition, and Health Research Center, San Francisco, California (W.B.G.); Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska (R.P.H.); Department of Medicine, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Mas...

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of performance on the Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Examination (COMLEX-USA) Level 1 with academic performance at colleges accredited by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA). Eighteen (95%) of 19 AOA-accredited colleges and 2146 students (91% of those taking the June 1999 examination) met criteria and participated. St...