PURPOSES The purposes of this study were to: (1) investigate the current clinical practice regarding the use of antibiotic prophylaxis by pediatric dentistry residency program directors and pediatric hematologists for children with sickle cell disease (SCD) requiring dental treatment; and (2) evaluate the perceived relative risk of bacteremia following specific dental procedures, as defined by ...

INTRODUCTION Schools are uniquely positioned to influence the dietary habits of children, and farm-to-school programs can increase fruit and vegetable consumption among school-aged children. We assessed the feasibility of, interest in, and barriers to implementing farm-to-school activities in 7 school districts in Douglas County, Nebraska. METHODS We used a preassessment and postassessment su...

This paper examines directors’ pay for a sample of 629 UK SMEs from 1991 to 1995. Approximately half of the sample were closely-held (i.e., owner-managed) firms, which allowed empirical testing of a number of hypotheses regarding the relationships between directors pay and the separation of ownership from control. As with previous research findings relating to large firms, non-closely-held SME ...

BACKGROUND Although international medical graduates (IMGs) are essential in health care service delivery, a gap exists in the literature about how IMGs are selected into psychiatry residency programs in Canada. The purpose of this study was to identify the relative weight or importance that Canadian program directors (PDs) of psychiatry place on certain selection criteria when matching IMGs int...

This study empirically examines the association between certain of director of director characteristics and the extent of voluntary audit committee disclosure in annual reports. This study focuses on board of director characteristics because as the audit committee is a major standing committee of the board, it is likely directors will be directly interested and affected by disclosures related t...

Manuscript Type: Conceptual Research Question/Issue: Post-acquisition director turnover is a complex and multi-faceted phenomenon that needs to be examined beyond the agency lens. In this article, we examine the likelihood of non-executive director turnover in target firms following an acquisition. Research Findings/Result: Acquisitions present an interesting case where conflict of interests ma...

OBJECTIVE This study sought to establish the current state of procedural skills training in Canadian Royal College emergency medicine (EM) residencies. METHODS A national Web-based survey was administered to residents and program directors of all 13 Canadian-accredited Royal College EM residency programs. Program directors rated the importance and experience required for competence of 45 EM p...

We examined whether people spontaneously represent the partner’s viewpoint in spatial memory when it is available in advance and whether they adapt their spontaneous descriptions accordingly. In 18 pairs, Directors studied arrays of objects while: (1) not knowing about having to describe the array to a Matcher, (2) knowing about the subsequent description, and (3) knowing the Matcher’s subseque...

PURPOSE This study was performed to assess opinions of program directors and practitioners about the importance and necessary numbers of experiences required by current accreditation standards for training of pediatric dentists. METHODS A 32-item questionnaire was sent to all program directors of ADA-accredited postdoctoral pediatric dentistry training programs and to a random sample of 10% o...

1 Summary Debugging and performance measurement tools are becoming more important in the development and maintenance of increasingly complex software. These tools belong to a class of programs, called directors, which are programs that monitor and control other programs. Through monitoring, directors analyze program execution at run time. Monitoring provides tracing primitives as well as access...