T he results of the 2001 National Internship and Residency Matching Program for general surgery raised alarms for every surgeon and surgical organization involved in resident education, but it was especially concerning to surgical program directors. In the 2001 match, there were 68 unfilled postgraduate year 1 (PGY-1) categorical surgical positions and 425 unfilled PGY-1 preliminary positions. ...

A man who fought in the Great War is remembered with a mixture of awe and fear by the older men in the village. He lived alone on the side of the valley, and was said to have had a ‘good war’. A bit of probing reveals that this means he was surly and ill-disciplined, but good at killing. One story in particular is used to illustrate this. A young officer asked him to find a German helmet as a t...

Despite considerable interest in intergenerational approaches in programs targeted to adolescents, documentation on what the approach incorporates is scarce. There is even less information on the number, type and success of programs undertaking this approach. Implementing projects that involve youth-adult collaboration has been difficult, largely due to limited understanding of the conditions i...

It is well researched and reported that the culture of a nation has a major impact on employees’ work related values, attitudes and expectations. The objective of this study was to investigate if western research on the generation gap applies equally to generational groups in Taiwan’s workplaces, specifically in the higher education sector and manufacturing industry. The research found that gro...

We analyze numerically the process of dynamical generation of spatially localized vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates BEC’s with repulsive atomic interactions confined by two-dimensional optical lattices. Akin to bright solitons in a repulsive condensate, these nonlinear localized states exist only within the gaps of the matter-wave band-gap spectrum imposed by the periodicity of the lattice ...

Despite the growing rates of vehicles on the roads and transported goods, transportation and traffic should become safer, cleaner and more efficient. Thus to ensure reliable and safe communication architecture within VANET, we propose in this context a cooperative and fully distributed congestion control approach, dedicated to operate within vehicular networks, integrated within the 802.11p und...

The introduction of a temporal gap between the disappearance of an initially fixated target and the appearance of an eccentric saccadic target results in a general reduction of saccadic reaction times (SRTs)-the gap effect-and often in the production of express saccades, the latencies of which approach the conduction time of the shortest neural pathways from the retina to the eye muscles. We in...