The volume of prescription drug promotion over time is often measured by assessing changes in ad spending. However, this method obscures the fact that some types of advertising are more expensive than others. Another way to measure the changes in prescription drug promotion over time is to assess the number of promotional pieces submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Form FDA...

INTRODUCTION There is a need to provide practicing physicians with training on the recognition and management of intimate partner violence (IPV). Online continuing medical education (CME) could help meet this need, but there is little information on the costs and effectiveness of promoting online CME to physicians. This lack of information may discourage IPV training efforts and the use of onli...

When presented with the option to use a new instructional technology, students often face an approach–avoidance conflict. This study explored promotion and prevention orientations, concepts linked to approach and avoidance in Higgins’s regulatory focus theory, in the choice to attend lectures or watch them online. Openness, a core disposition in the Big Five Model of personality, and positive a...

The amount of data that a typical translation lookaside bu er (TLB) can map has not kept pace with the growth in cache sizes and application footprints. As a result, the cost of handling TLB misses limits the performance of an increasing number of applications. The use of superpages, multiple adjacent virtual memory pages that can be mapped with a single TLB entry, extends a TLB's reach without...

Typical translation lookaside buffers (TLBs) can map a far smaller region of memory than application footprints demand, and the cost of handling TLB misses therefore limits the performance of an increasing number of applications. This bottleneck can be mitigated by the use of superpages, multiple adjacent virtual memory pages that can be mapped with a single TLB entry, that extend TLB reach wit...

Millones de personas buscan a diario información sobre salud n los miles de sitios web dedicados específicamente a este tema. or ello, no es de extrañar que Internet se haya convertido en a principal fuente de información en salud1,2, y que incluso esté eemplazando a los médicos en esta función3. De entre todos los itios web, servicios y plataformas online disponibles, las redes ociales están s...