We report a planned search technique for Gamma-Ray Bursts too weak to trigger the on-board threshold. The technique is to search residuals from a physically based background model used for analysis of point sources by the Earth occultation method. Searching residuals (as opposed to raw data) minimizes false triggers from occultation edges and many other effects which lead to a rapid variation i...

OBJECTIVE To study the extent to which selection bias poses problems for estimating the attributable cost of deep chest surgical-site infection (SSI) following coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. DESIGN Reanalysis of a prospective case-control study. SETTING A large, Midwestern community medical center. PATIENTS Cases were all patients who had an SSI (N = 41) following CABG and C...

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE Non-myeloablative hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (NMA-HSCT) is performed in onco-hematological patients who cannot tolerate ablative conditioning because of older age or comorbidities. This approach does not completely eliminate host cells and initially results in mixed chimerism. Long-term persistence of mixed chimerism results in graft rejection and relapse. Inv...

BACKGROUND Plastic surgery is the most competitive specialty in medicine. We sought to identify factors associated with the successful match of generation Y applicants into integrated plastic surgery residency. METHODS We utilized the most recent data from the Charting Outcomes in the Match published by the National Resident Matching Program in 2011. We had data on US senior or independent ap...

Since 1962, physiological data of corticofugal effects on subcortical auditory neurons have been controversial: inhibitory, excitatory, or both. An inhibitory effect has been much more frequently observed than an excitatory effect. Recent studies performed with an improved experimental design indicate that corticofugal system mediates a highly focused positive feedback to physiologically "match...

BACKGROUND Students may have different learning styles. It is unclear, however, whether tailoring instructional methods for a student's preferred learning style improves educational outcomes when teaching procedures. The authors sought to examine whether teaching to a student's self-perceived learning style improved the acquisition of intravenous (IV) catheter placement skills. The authors hypo...

In this paper a new approach for quality measurement and improvement using map matching and map fusion is introduced. In the first part we describe a matching model based on “Buffer growing”. The matching, which is the basis for the quality inspection and the map fusion, is performed manually with a tool developed with VBA and ArcGIS. The quality inspection can be subdivided into a global and a...

We present an econometric technique for modeling endogenous selectivity in households’ quantity outcomes as observed in scanner panel data. Simultaneous models of incidence, brand choice and quantity, that treat quantity outcomes as count data, ignore such self-selectivity considerations in quantity outcomes. Previously proposed approaches to modeling selectivity in continuous quantity outcomes...