The Permanente Journal / Summer 1999/Volume 3. No. 2 Reprinted from the Permanente Foundation Medical Bulletin 1944;2(3):114-120 In a 21 month period (September, 1942 to May, 1944) 623 hernioplastic procedures (532 patients; 92% inguinal) were performed at the Oakland, CA, Permanente Foundation Hospital, making this the most common major surgical procedure at that facility. Most were considered...

I would like to tell you about an easily stated problem which lies at the border of geometry, probability and classical analysis. In the summer of 2005 two undergraduates at McGill University worked in this general area, and were able to make some progress. When posing the project to them I made a certain conjecture, and (as expected) they did not get far enough in their eight week project to b...

(9:00 a.m.-2:15 p.m.) Monday, June 26, 1972 .ORMALLY OPENING THE SUMMER aKSSICN (5:1$ p.m.) Monday, June 26, 1972 rt ,SES BEGIN Tuesday, June 27, 1972 IATKST DATE FOR ALL CLASS CHANGES WITHOUT PENALTY Thursday, June 29, 1972 PRKAPPLIC AT 10M FOR SUMMER 1973 Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, July 31> August 1 and 2, 1972 FINAL EXAMINATIONS Thursday, August 10, 1972 AUGUST COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES Fri...

We empirically investigate the degree of integration that existed prior to the cost increases that caused emergency conditions in the Western Systems Coordinating Council (WSCC), particularly California, during the summer of 2000. Evidence from Granger causality tests and common features analysis over the period from December 1994 to September 1999 indicates a moderate degree of integration amo...

This paper reviews the reliability impacts occurring from the implementation of the demand response initiatives offered in New York’s Emergency Demand Response Program (EDRP) and New England’s Load Response Program (LRP) for the summer of 2001. The New York Independent System Operator, Inc. (NYISO), the New England Power Pool (NEPOOL) and the Independent System Operator of New England Inc. (ISO...

The primary aim of this study is twofold. First, the authors seek to identify the factors that influence members of the general public to conduct Internet searches for health information. Their second intent is to explore the influence such Internet use has on three types of personal empowerment. In the summer of 2007 the authors conducted a household sample survey of a population of Canadian a...

We give an overview of the K framework, following the lecture notes presented by the author at the Marktoberdorf Summer School in year 2016.

Summer bridge programs are designed to improve retention and academic success among at-risk populations in postsecondary education by focusing on successful skills, behaviors, and high impact practices that promote academic performance. Recent research on these programs has focused primarily on how students’ incoming demographics and prior academic performance predict academic performance at th...

One of the hardest but also most exciting experiences ever for a capacity planner and performance specialist is having the possibility of working in the middle of a financial crisis. In the summer of 2002 I was in charge of the capacity planning and performance office of a major American bank in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and I was in the eye of the storm during the entire crisis. This session is...