Sir, A recent survey of general practitioners has shown that more than 50% felt that Asian patients consulted more frequently and had longer consultations than non-Asian patients.' They also commented that Asian patients were more likely to present with trivial ailments. It is difficult to measure objectively the degree of frustration felt by general practitioners when confronted with a non-Eng...

OBJECTIVES To develop a low-cost biomaterial-covered chest tube simulation model and assess its possible usefulness for developing the chest tube insertion skills among medical interns. Methods: This mannequin-based interventional study was performed in a University hospital setting. We included 63 physicians performing emergency medicine internship at the Faculty of Medicine, Karadeniz Technic...

Dynamic hardware generation reduces the number of FPGA resources needed and speeds up the application by optimizing the configuration for the exact problem at hand at run-time. If the problem changes, the system needs to be reconfigured. When this occurs too often, the total reconfiguration overhead is too high and the benefit of using dynamic hardware generation vanishes. Hence, it is importan...

BACKGROUND Ankle injuries are the most common high school basketball injury. Little is known regarding the utilization of ankle injury prevention strategies in high school settings. OBJECTIVE To determine high school basketball coaches' utilization of ankle injury prevention strategies, including prophylactic ankle bracing (PAB) or an ankle injury prevention exercise program (AIEPP). STUDY ...

Neurons in high-level visual areas respond to more complex visual features with broader receptive fields (RFs) compared to those in low-level visual areas. Thus, high-level visual areas are generally considered to carry less information regarding the position of seen objects in the visual field. However, larger RFs may not imply loss of position information at the population level. Here, we eva...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of outpatient geriatric consultation by referring academic physicians and to verify the results of a previous study. METHODS We conducted a retrospective review of charts of 37 patients referred for geriatric consultation during a 7-month period of a university- and community-hospital-affiliated family practice residency clinic...

Much has been written about the design and performance advantages of partial Run-Time Reconfiguration (RTR) over the last decade. While the results have been promising, commercial support for partial RTR has lagged. Until the introduction of the Xilinx Virtex family of devices, no mainstream, commercial FPGA has provided support for this capability. In this paper we describe JRTR, a software pa...

In this paper we present a solution where only one FPGA is needed in a host coupled system, in which the FPGA can be reconfigured by a user application during run-time without loosing the host link connection. A hardware infrastructure on the FPGA and the software framework ACCFS (ACCelerator File System) on the host system is provided to the user which allow easy handling of reconfiguration an...

AIM To develop a brief scale for measuring patient's perceptions of their physician's empathic engagement and to provide preliminary evidence in support of aspects of the scale's psychometrics. METHOD Study comprised 225 patients, out of 436 patients (52% response rate) seen by 166 residents in the internal medicine residency program at the Jefferson Hospital Ambulatory Clinic as part of thei...

Over the last decade, with the acceptance of the need for improvements in the outcome of patients affected with rectal cancer, there has been a significant increase in the literature regarding treatment options available to patients affected by this disease. That treatment related decisions should be made at a high volume multidisciplinary tumor board, after pre-operative rectal magnetic resona...