This article examines serious psychometric-based problems that caused the New York Math A graduation test introduced in 1999 to produce a 70% failure rate in 2003. In discussing this test, we highlight potential difficulties with all standards-based tests.

Physicians and their patients rely on disability insurance to provide economic protection against unforeseen illness or injury. This article discusses various types of disability coverage and issues that arise in disability claims both from the perspective of the physician as treater as well as consumer.

1Adjunct Professor, Instituto Biomédico, Universidade Federal Fluminense. Specialist in Sports Medicine from Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina do Exercício e do Esporte (SBMEE) and Cardiology from Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia (SBC). Former President of the Brazilian Society of Sports Medicine (2009/2011). Secretary General of the Panamerican Confederation of Sports Medicine (Copamede). Tr...

en years ago only hard-core systems programmers worried about the intricacies of writing correct code in the presence of more than one thread of execution. Most programmers stuck with sequential programs to avoid the problem altogether. Now, however, multiprocessor machines are becoming commonplace. Soon, programs that are not multithreaded will be at a disadvantage because they will not be usi...

CONTEXT One of the core tasks assigned to clinical teachers is to enable students to sort through a cluster of features presented by a patient and accurately assign a diagnostic label, with the development of an appropriate treatment strategy being the end goal. Over the last 30 years there has been considerable debate within the health sciences education literature regarding the model that bes...

THIS PAPER OFFERS ten common sense principles that will help project managers define goals, establish checkpoints, schedules, and resource requirements, motivate and empower team members, facilitate communication, and manage conflict.

From 11 November, with only a few exceptions, patients will have the right to see computer records that doctors or others may hold on them. The Data Protection Act, which has been introduced in stages, will become fully operational on that day, and the Data Protection Registrar will have powers to enforce compliance. "Data subjects" (patients) will have the right, after making a written request...

about 700000 m3 of waste water is produced from zirab coal washery plant every year. this black water not only carries about 4000 tons fine coals, it also contains waste water pollution. in this investigation by flocculation studies under optimized conditions (like concentration of flocculant, 0.0015 g/t, ph=8, concentration of silicate 0.01 g/t as depressant, and r.p.m. of 150) has been shown ...