regory J. Dehmer, MD, FACC, FSCAI, John W. Hirshfeld, MD, FACC, FSCAI, illiam J. Oetgen, MD, MBA, FACC, Kristi Mitchell, MPH, April Wells Simon, RN, MSN, aryAnne Elma, BA, Mirle A. Kellett, JR, MD, FACC, FSCAI, Ralph G. Brindis, MD, MPH, FACC, on ehalf of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions ask Force to Develop the Cardiac Cathe...

T multi-objective multi-stakeholder decision modeling methodology is an effective way to describe and aid context-rich idiosyncratic organizational decision making situations that traditional single attribute decision methodologies can not tackle. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how to teach students this methodology as a decision making tool to analyze real-life decision problems u...

Course development is a task that requires a methodology if it is to result in a cohesive, well organized unit. This paper details the procedures to develop a distant education foundation course for the MBA program. All MBA courses using this methodology are delivered to students enrolled in several universities within the Wisconsin System. INTRODUCTION In the University of Wisconsin system, se...

The mouse bioassay (MBA) for paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) toxins has been used in the AOAC Official Method and the official Japanese method. In the AOAC Official Method, the saxitoxin (STX) standard provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is used, but no standard is used in the official Japanese method. The objective of this study was to compare the toxicity of decarbamoy...

Rebecca T. Hahn, MD, FASE, Chair, Theodore Abraham, MD, FASE, Mark S. Adams, RDCS, FASE, Charles J. Bruce, MD, FASE, Kathryn E. Glas, MD, MBA, FASE, Roberto M. Lang, MD, FASE, Scott T. Reeves, MD, MBA, FASE, Jack S. Shanewise, MD, FASE, Samuel C. Siu, MD, FASE, William Stewart, MD, FASE, and Michael H. Picard, MD, FASE, New York, New York; Baltimore, Maryland; Boston,Massachusetts; Rochester, M...

in this work, hydrogel nanocomposites were synthesized by solution polymerization of acrylic acid (aa) and itaconic acid (ia) in the presence of cotton fabric. ammonium persulfate (aps) was used as the polymerization initiator in the presence of a crosslinker, methylene bisacrylamide (mba). insertion of ag followed by reduction of ag+ cations results in a hydrogel nanocomposite. the structure a...

The NHANES has monitored folate status of the U.S. population from prefortification (1988-1994) to postfortification (1999-2010) by measuring serum and RBC folate concentrations. The Bio-Rad radioassay (BR) was used from 1988 to 2006, and the microbiologic assay (MBA) was used from 2007 to 2010. The MBA produces higher concentrations than the BR and is considered to be more accurate. Thus, to b...