A North American rheumatology consensus on tiered-mastery designation for anatomic views was developed in 2011 course and fellowship teaching. This study updates the lower extremity joint scanning protocols aiming to inform musculoskeletal ultrasound curriculum development College of Rheumatology affiliated Fellowship Programs. Three Delphi rounds were conducted reach tiered-level mastery hip, ...

This paper proposes a novel user interface for semi-automatic parking assistance system, which automates steering handling during parking operation. In spite of recent progresses of automatic target position designation method, manual designation is supposed to have two important roles. First, manual designation can be used to refine the target position established by automatic designation meth...

The authors attempt identifying features in formation and development of scientific educational knowledge as a gnoseologic category from the point view ontological approach both synchrony diachrony, thus opening possibility to determine attributes, properties, structure cognition, foundation thought subject. distinguish between cognition cognition. Applying methodological optics, reflecting het...

in the islamic legal system, sale contract is regarded as among appropriative (tamlīkī) contracts, without any difference existing between the designation of the object of sale and its being wholesale (kullī). thus, there has been a considerable controversy among the jurists on the time for designation of mabī‘ (object of sale) with the presumption that mabī‘ is wholesale, which would bring abo...

BACKGROUND The Orphan Drug Act is an important piece of legislation that uses financial incentives to encourage the development of drugs that treat rare diseases. This analysis studies the effects of a portion of the Orphan Drug Act, the orphan drug designation. Specifically, it studies the value that investors place on the orphan drug designation, by investigating how investors react to compan...

Song and colleagues deliver a thorough and fair review of the initial clinical investigations of a new paradigm in radiotherapy most recently called stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT).[1] Oncology observers may take exception with the use of the designation “new paradigm.” After all, from a tumor control point of view, skeptics might say, “radiotherapy is radiotherapy.” Recent advances ...

Employee or independent contractor designation has significant tax implications for the Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA). On superficial view, it appears that a CRNA who is medically directed would be under a number of controls that would force the CRNA to be in an employee status. However, on analysis, it seems that for tax purposes a CRNA can be medically directed while also bein...

Three hearts are described in which a fibrous membrane was interposed between the right atrium and a formed but hypoplastic right ventricle, which possessed recognisable inlet, trabecular, and infundibular components. In these hearts the distribution of the conducting tissue was as expected for concordant atrioventricular connections, and contrasts with that seen in the classical type of 'tricu...