This feature provides a platform for oncology nurses to illustrate the many ways that leadership may be realized and professional practice may transform cancer care. Possible submissions include, but are not limited to, overviews of projects, accounts of the application of leadership principles or theories to practice, and interviews with nurse leaders. Descriptions of activities, projects, or ...

(Fam Med 2005;37(7):461-3.) Editor’s Note: In this month’s column, Sweety Jain, MD, of the Sacred Heart Hospital Family Practice Residency in Allentown, Pa, discusses important items that should be discussed with residents and students when orienting them to office practice. I welcome your comments about this feature, which is also published on the STFM Web site at www.stfm.org. I also encourag...

A process model of human memory dynamics is proposed as an implementation of Kittur, Green, & Bjork’s (2004) mathematical model. Both models are based on an ideal information processing approach, in which an item’s accessibility is based on the predicted future need of that item. The proposed model is an adaptation of the multiple-trace architecture of Hintzman’s MINERVA2 model (Hintzman 1984; ...

Cognitive psychologists have made significant advances in applying cognitive processes to education in the past few decade (Dunlosky, Rawson, Marsh, Nathan, & Willingham, 2013; Weinstein, Madan, & Smith, in press; Smith, Madan, & Weinstein, in press). From this work, specific recommendations can be made for students to maximize their learning efficiency. Specifically, six key learning strategie...

Asphyxial games, as played by young adolescents, and going by various names, are not new phenomena. What seems to be different at present is an increase in lethality introduced by the increasing use of ligatures and "playing" the game alone. The authors present a properly certified but insufficiently appreciated case followed 2 years later by 2 closely spaced but unrelated deaths in young adole...

Uniformly-spaced apertures or subapertures of large, densely-sampled, discrete linear receiver arrays are often used in remote sensing to increase the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) by coherent beamforming that reduces noise coming from directions outside the signal beam. To avoid spatial aliasing or the presence of grating lobes in real spatial directions, the uniformly-spaced array inter-element...

Wavelet shrinkage (WaveShrink) is a relatively new technique for nonparametric function estimation that has been shown to have asymptotic near-optimality properties over a wide class of functions. As originally formulated by Donoho and Johnstone, WaveShrink assumes equally spaced data. Because so many statistical applications (e.g., scatterplot smoothing) naturally involve unequally spaced data...

w « superintendents in southern Florida have been slow to realize the importance of irrigation in our area because we have what appears to be abundant rainfall. Although southern Florida receives approximately 60 inches of rainfall a year, they are unevenly spaced. We have, in reality, two arid periods: one during July and August, and the other running from November to May, when our courses rec...

Hierarchical Modeling: Into Statistical Practice Alan M. Zaslavsky Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Pardoe, Weidner, and Friese (henceforth PWF) present a nice application of hierarchical modeling, representative of current practice of this methodology. Hierarchical regression modeling now occupies a methodological middle ground. The main principles have been established, as h...

BACKGROUND Although the sale of non-prescription health products is ubiquitous, the views of health professionals, such as chiropractors, regarding the sale of such products are not well known. Practitioner opinion is important to understand and inform professional practice. The purpose of this study was to describe chiropractors' perspectives and practices on the sale of health care products f...