Abstract Background The objective of this study is to characterize participants in a laparoscopic cadaveric neuroanatomy course and assess knowledge pelvic before after course. Methods This survey-based cohort with setting university educational facility. are surgeons multiday Participants completed precourse survey, including demographics comfort surgery. They then an identical postcourse anat...

BACKGROUND Poverty is a key determinant of health that leads to poor health outcomes. Although most healthcare providers will work with patients experiencing poverty, surveys among healthcare students have reported a curriculum gap in this area. This study aims to introduce and evaluate a novel, student-run interprofessional inner city health educational program that combines both practical and...

Test procedures and signals used by different research groups are described. Results from a comparison of two procedures, three-alternative forced-choice and BMsy, are reported. The characteristics of the test sipal and the masker are discussed. INTRODUCTION Gap Detection is a method for measuring the time resolution of the ear. A noise segment with a gap of a certain length is presented to the...

The Proposed Monetary Policy Research Program By forecast targeting Michael Woodford means a policy framework in which monetary policy makers choose their policy instruments so that the expected future values of certain target variables are related to each other in every future period. For example, the forecast of an optimally-chosen linear combination of the inflation rate and the GDP gap, or ...

There is no perfect programming language. Programmers must write code conforming to the idiosyncrasies of a programming language. Thus, there is often a disconnect between the intent of the developer and the meaning of the program. This semantic gap has a negative effect on programmer productivity, software reliability, and execution efficiency. In this position paper, we argue that in order to...

We present a view on software systems and emphasize that a software system creates the user’s conceptual model. Regarding a software developer as a user, we point out the existence of a gap between the conceptual model of a software development system and the software developer’s conceptual model of a software system. To minimize this gap, extending software development systems to support archi...

We present a simple construction and analysis of an Ω(log log N) integrality gap for the wellknown Sparsest Cut semi-definite program (SDP). This holds for the uniform demands version (i.e. edge expansion). The same quantitative gap was proved earlier by Devanur, Khot, Saket, and Vishnoi [STOC 2006], following an integrality gap for non-uniform demands due to Khot and Vishnoi [FOCS 2005]. These...

The goal of this work is to overcome the learning barriers faced when first using parallelism. Currently, in order to parallelize a system such as GAP, one must embed a message passing library such as MPI, with many routines and many parameters. GAP/MPI provides a simple, task-oriented interface sitting above the MPI library. The system presents the end-user with a single SPMD (single program, ...

It is a common belief that the rise of standardized software certification schemes like the Common Criteria (CC) would give a boost to formal verification, and that software certification may be a killer application for program verification. However, while formal models are indeed used throughout high-assurance certification, verification of the actual implementation is not required by the CC a...