Objectives To evaluate the relationship between the pass rate of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) certifying exam and the characteristics of residency programs. Methods The study used a retrospective, cross-sectional design with publicly available data from the ABIM and the Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database. All categorical residency programs with reported p...

The compact directed acyclic word graph (CDAWG) of a string T of length n takes space proportional just to the number e of right extensions of the maximal repeats of T , and it is thus an appealing index for highly repetitive datasets, like collections of genomes from similar species, in which e grows significantly more slowly than n. We reduce from O(m log log n) to O(m) the time needed to cou...

Recent reports indicated that nutrition in early infancy might influence later child health outcomes such as obesity and metabolic syndrome. Therefore, we examined the effects of maternal high fat diet (HFD) during lactation on the onset of a metabolic syndrome in their offspring. All offspring were cross-fostered by dams on the same or opposite diet to yield 4 groups: offspring from HFD-fed da...

We present a radically new indexing approach for approximate string matching. The scheme uses the metric properties of the edit distance and can be applied to any other metric between strings. We build a metric space where the sites are the nodes of the suffix tree of the text, and the approximate query is seen as a proximity query on that metric space. This permits us finding the occ occurrenc...

Extension at slow to ultraslow midoceanic ridges is mostly accommodated by large detachment faults that expose mantle peridotite and/or lower-crustal rocks forming Oceanic Core Complexes (OCC). It commonly accepted OCC spreading form during the early stage of crystallization magmatic crust, when are still close their solidus temperature. This observation poses significant problems, as nucleatio...

the properties of alkaline sulfite anthraquinone (as/aq) pulp from old corrugated container (occ)was studied. in each trial 100 grams (based on dry weigth) of occ and 18% active alkali was used.three levels of anthraquinone (0.0.1 and 0.2% based on dry weigth of the occ) and two pulpingtimes (120 and 150 minutes at maximum pulping temperature) were applied. pulping temperature,na2so3/naoh ratio...

The increasing demand for high throughputs in transaction processing systems leads to high degrees of transaction concurrency and hence high data contention. The conventional dynamic two-phase locking (2PL) concurrency control (CC) technique causes system thrashing at high data contention levels, restricting transaction throughput. Optimistic concurrency control (OCC) is an alternative strategy...

This paper presents an integrated approach to the modeling and control of aircraft with flexible wings. The coupled aircraft rigid body dynamics with a high-order elastic wing model can be represented in a finite dimensional state-space form. Given a set of desired output covariance, a model reduction process is performed by using the weighted Modal Cost Analysis (MCA). A dynamic output feedbac...

In this paper, we present a solution to the extreme similarity sequencing problem. The extreme similarity sequencing problem consists of finding occurrences of a pattern p in a set S(0), S(1), …, S(k), of sequences of equal length, where S(i), for all 1≤i≤k, differs from S(0) by a constant number of errors - around 10 in practice. We present an asymptotically fast O(n + occ logocc) time algorit...

This paper proposes using a fuzzy appraisal approach to model the dynamics for the emotion generation process in an individual as a result of events that take place in the environment of the individual. The proposed computational model uses guidelines from OCC emotion theory to formulate a system of fuzzy inferential rules that is capable of tracking the emotional states of the agent. Events ar...