â  background training in internal medicine has significantly evolved alongside the development of science, technology and new facilities during the past fifty years. after the specialty of internal medicine, there are multiple subspecialty training programs which have started since 1985 in the islamic republic of iran. in this manuscript we want to define the characteristics of the gastroenter...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Nutrient Data Laboratory (NDL), a division of the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), develops reliable databases and state of the art methodology to evaluate and disseminate composition data on foods available in the United States. In 1997, NDL in cooperation with the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (part of the National Institutes of Health) inaug...

A cooperative effort between Virginia Tech, the USDA Forest Service, and the industry has led to the development of a new scanning technology to automatically detect lumber grading features that affect the value of the end product. This effort has resulted in several commercial scanning systems now available through Group Seven Systems and Nova Technologies. These systems include a color sortin...

OBJECTIVE To identify and describe critical helpful and hindering clinical teaching behaviors of supervising athletic trainers, as perceived by student athletic trainers, and to provide a better understanding of the student athletic training experience. DESIGN AND SETTING The critical incident technique was used to identify critical behaviors of supervising athletic trainers as perceived by s...

BACKGROUND and objective: Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is a technically demanding endoscopic procedure that varies from a simple diagnostic to a highly complex therapeutic procedure. Simple outcome measures such as success and complication rates do not reflect the competence of the operator or endoscopy unit, as case mix is not taken into account. A grading scale to ass...