Background: Physical self-concept and physical self-esteem are important sources of general selfesteem and overall health. Evidence indicates that exercise leads to an enhancement in physical self-concept and physical self-esteem. Until now however, it remained unclear whether the beneficial effects of exercise were impacted by different types of exercise environments. Thus, the purpose of this...

Corresponding Author: Steven Gabardi, PharmD, BCPS, FAST, FCCP, Abdominal Organ Transplant Clinical Specialist Departments of Transplant Surgery and Pharmacy Services, and the Renal Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115; Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA 02115; phone (617) 732-7658; fax (617) 732-7507; email sgab...

be selected based on sex,' this formula may also be applicable to these adult sizes. This formula is easy to remember and, we hope, helpful in clinical situations. Tetsuro Kagawa, M.D. Instructor in Anesthesiology kagawa@med. kobe-u.ac. jp Hidefumi Obara, M.D. Professor and Chairman of Anesthesiology Department of Anesthesiology Kobe University School of Medicine Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku Kobe 650-...

Today we will talk about some applications of decoupling. The first application is Strichartz inequality on tori. Let T d = R/Z. For a lattice Λ ⊂ R, let TΛ = R/Λ. For instance, we may take the rectangle [0, λ1]× ...× [0, λd] and identify opposite edges. Our goal is to study the initial value problem for Schrodinger’s equation. That is, let u(x, t) : R×R→ C (or T ×R→ C or TΛ×R→ C), where x ∈ R,...

Introduction Many commentators have argued that distance education requires a qualitatively new pedagogy built on a unique relationship between the instructor and the learners. Traditional education or one-way televised learning at a distance often produces boredom. Students learn passively because the instructor is the sage and the source of knowledge (Markel. 1999). Besides, adult learners al...

At its simplest a course management system is a tool that allows an instructor to post information on the web without that instructor having to know or understand HTML or other computer languages. A more complete definition of a CMS is that it provides an instructor with a set of tools and a framework that allows the relatively easy creation of online course content and the subsequently teachin...

In general, minimally invasive surgery is seen as the most difficult surgery because there is limited field of view with an endoscope and force sensation from surgical instruments such as forceps is poor. Especially in early clinical education for medical students, a virtual reality surgical simulator would be an effective tool. In this paper, we propose a visuohaptic surgery training system fo...