Underrepresented minority (URM) students are subjected to historically rooted inequities when pursuing an education, especially in STEM disciplines with little diversity. In order make education equitable and inclusive, evidence for how from different racial/ethnic demographics faring is necessary. We use 10 years of institutional data at a large public US-based university investigate trends th...

To respond to widespread disparities in access to oral health care, the Institute of Medicine, the Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA), and the U.S. surgeon general have stressed that prospective dentists should become culturally competent, socially responsible practitioners. The aim of this study was to examine linguistic differences in dental students' reflective writing assignments bef...

In 2014, women comprised nearly half of medical school graduates; 1 yet, the proportion of female medical students from underrepresented racial-ethnic groups remains low. The Association of American Medical Colleges, recognizing this disparity, introduced the term “underrepresented in medicine” (URM) to refer to those groups that are underrepresented in the medical profession relative to their ...

BACKGROUND The CONSORT Statement is a reporting guideline for authors when reporting randomized controlled trials (RCTs). It offers a standard way for authors to prepare RCT reports. It has been endorsed by many high-impact medical journals and by international editorial groups. This study was conducted to assess the endorsement of the CONSORT Statement by high-impact medical journals in China ...

The Urban and Regional Multiscale (URM) model has been used to study the ozone problem in the northeastern United States. The model was applied to a multi-day ozone episode extending from July 2, 1988 to July 8, 1988. The URM model is particularly suitable for application to the Northeast as there is a dense network of urban centers along with large rural areas, and the model allows the use of ...

Code design of Unreinforced Masonry (URM) buildings is based on elastic analysis, which requires as input parameter the effective stiffness of URM walls. Current approaches estimate the effective stiffness as fixed ratio of the gross sectional stiffness but comparisons with experimental results have shown that this does not yield satisfactory predictions. In this paper, a recently developed ana...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) and small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), bound to Argonaute proteins (RISC), destabilize mRNAs through base-pairing with the mRNA. However, the gene expression changes after perturbations of these small RNAs are only partially explained by predicted miRNA/siRNA targeting. Targeting may be modulated by other mRNA sequence elements such as binding sites for the hundreds of RNA bind...

9 1 TMS Member/Assistant Professor of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, University of MissouriRolla, Rolla, MO 65401 2 TMS Member/Professor of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, MO 65401 3 Former Graduate Research Assistant, University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, MO 65401 Blast Resistance of Frp Retrofitted Un-Reinforced Masonry...

O acesso a medicamentos é um direito humano fundamental. Porém não suficiente para garantir o sucesso terapêutico e evitar problemas relacionados seu uso. Por isso utilizá-lo de forma racional traz benefícios pessoa sistema saúde. Considera-se que há Uso Racional Medicamentos (URM) quando pacientes recebem apropriados suas condições clínicas, em doses adequadas às necessidades individuais, por ...