This chapter presents the experiences of adjunct faculty in SAGE 2YC: Faculty as Change Agents project through stories five participants who share influence on them and their work. We describe professional development that occurred project, which included learning with colleagues from across country, implementing changes classroom teaching beyond, leading follow-on workshops teams campus and/or...

Adjunct Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, University Pennsylvania, Chair Emeritus, Drexel University, Former Director Scheie Eye Institute, Philadelphia, USA

PURPOSE To compare the cost of standard intravenous conscious sedation with that of sedation with adjunct self-hypnotic relaxation during outpatient interventional radiologic procedures. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data were reviewed from a prospective randomized study in which patients undergoing vascular and renal interventional procedures underwent either standard sedation (n = 79) or sedation w...

OBJECTIVE To undertake a cost-effectiveness analysis that compares pulse oximetry as an adjunct to clinical examination with clinical examination alone in newborn screening for congenital heart defects (CHDs). DESIGN Model-based economic evaluation using accuracy and cost data from a primary study supplemented from published sources taking an NHS perspective. SETTING Six large maternity uni...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess the bactericidal efficacy of antimicrobial photodynamic dynamic therapy (aPDT) as an adjunct to scaling and root planing (SRP) against periodontal pathogens. BACKGROUND DATA SRP followed by laser therapy has better clinical outcomes than conventional SRP alone. MATERIALS AND METHODS The question addressed was "Does aPDT as an adjunct to SRP exhi...

background : magnetic resonance imaging of the breast is becoming a useful adjunct to mammography and sonography for the detection of breast lesions. however, it is not yet accepted as a routine examination for all breast cancer patients due to the lack of data regarding whether breast magnetic resonance imaging impacts recurrence or survival. this trial examines the use of magnetic resonance i...

In article “Significant treatment effect of adjunct music therapy to standard treatment on the positive, negative, and mood symptoms of schizophrenic patients: a metaanalysis [1]”, some values of Hedges’ g in main results of the meta-analysis might mislead the readers’ interpretation of our results. Different values of Hedges’ g may derive from different methods of standardization when using Co...

Negative Polarity Items (NPIs) are known to be licensed in wh-questions. But not all wh-questions behave alike with respect to NPI licensing. As pointed out in Han and Siegel (1996), while all argument wh-questions with NPIs can have a RHETORICAL QUESTION reading, only a subset of them can have a true wh-question reading. In this paper, we point out that adjunct wh-questions with NPIs cannot ha...

Herbal medicine (HM) as an adjunct therapy has been shown to be promising for the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, the role of herbs in COPD remains largely unexplored. In this present study, we conducted the systematic review to evaluate the efficacy of herbs in COPD. 176 clinical studies with reporting pulmonary function were retrieved from English and Chinese database. ...

1 Resident in Ophthalmology, Recife Eye Institute, Recife/PE, Brazil; 2 Trainee at the Cornea and Refractive Surgery Unit, Santa Casa de Misericórdia, Belo Horizonte/MG, Brazil; 3 Adjunct Professor of Pathology, University of Pernambuco (UPE), Recife/PE, Brazil; 4 Adjunct Professor of Ophthalmology, Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), João Pessoa/PB, Brazil; Federal University of Campina Gran...