The public, payors, healthcare organizations, and governmental agencies all support periodic recertification of specialists. In 1998, the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) created the Task Force on Competence to ensure that all certified specialists maintain satisfactory, current knowledge and skills throughout their careers. In March 2000, all ABMS member boards, including the Ameri...

The global meridional overturning circulation (MOC) varies over a wide range of space and time scales in response to fluctuating 'weather' perturbations that may be modelled as stochastic forcing. This study reviews model studies of the effects of climate noise on decadal to centennial MOC variability, on transitions between the MOC regimes and on the dynamics of Dansgaard-Oeschger events chara...

Medial olivocochlear (MOC) neurons are efferent neurons that project axons from the brain to the cochlea. Their action on outer hair cells reduces the gain of the "cochlear amplifier," which shifts the dynamic range of hearing and reduces the effects of noise masking. The MOC effects in one ear can be elicited by sound in that ipsilateral ear or by sound in the contralateral ear. To study how M...

The processes that govern the predictability of decadal variations in the North Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC) are investigated in a long control simulation of the ECHO-G coupled atmosphere-ocean model. We elucidate the roles of local stochastic forcing by the atmosphere, and other potential ocean processes, and use our results to build a predictive regression model. The prim...

It is investigated how changes in the North Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (MOC) might be reliably detected within a few decades, using the observations provided by the RAPID-MOC 26°N array. Previously, detectability of MOC changes had been investigated with a univariate MOC time series exhibiting strong internal variability, which would prohibit the detection of MOC changes within...

Objectives: To determine physicians’ perceptions of current maintenance of certification (MOC) activities and to explore how perceptions vary across specialties, practice characteristics, and physician characteristics, including burnout. Patients and Methods: We conducted an Internet and paper survey among a national cross-specialty random sample of licensed US physicians from September 23, 201...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The maintenance of certification (MOC) process has begun in radiology, and many physicians will be affected by it. We sought to assess the compliance with and knowledge of the MOC steps by American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR) members. MATERIALS AND METHODS An on-line survey was distributed via e-mail to the members of the ASNR for whom e-mail addresses were availab...

Specific interventions included in the review Studies of RIMAs, i.e. MOC (18 to 600 mg) or BRO (93.1 to 150 mg/day) versus either placebo or another standard tricyclic antidepressant, selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor (SSRI) or other class of antidepressant, were included. The active comparison groups included: diazepam, tranylcypromine, mianserin, isocarboxide, imipramine, amitriptyline,...

Auditory processing disorder (APD) affects about 2-5% of children. However, the nature of this disorder is poorly understood. Children with APD typically have difficulties in complex listening situations. One mechanism thought to aid in listening-in-noise is the medial olivocochlear (MOC) inhibition. The purpose of this review was to critically analyze the published data on MOC inhibition in ch...