The aim of this paper is to project extreme precipitation events in an arid and a semiarid station. In order to project climate change based on general circulation models (GCMs), we have applied LARS-WG[1] downscaling tool. This stochastic weather generator down-scaled the climate of two synoptic stations using HADCM3 model and A2 emission scenario for 2040. We extracted extreme precipitation e...

The transition to ICD-10-CM/PCS has expanded educational opportunities for educators and trainers who are taking on the responsibility of training coders on the new system. Coding education currently faces multiple challenges in the areas of how to train the new workforce, what might be the most efficient method of providing that training, how much retraining of the current workforce with ICD-9...

Laura Bennett, Wichita State University Determining Burn Patterns Various studies and experiments were carried out to examine to what extent the skeletal remains of a burned body can provide information regarding the origin of a fire and the travel pattern of a fire. A secondary objective of this research project addressed a common conclusion that the human cranium will explode, once subjected ...

Pneumocystis Workshop: 10th Anniversary Summary James M. Beck and Melanie T. Cushion* Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109; Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105; Department of Internal Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio 45267-0560; and Veterans Affairs Medical Ce...

Received February 5, 2013; Revised April 4, 2013; Accept From the Departments of Surgery (Utter) and In (Romano), and the Center for Healthcare Policy and Cox, Romano), University of California, Davis Medic mento, CA and US Department of Health and Human for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD (Ow Correspondence address: Garth H Utter, MD MSc, Surgery, University of California, Davis...

The system consists of more than 68,000 codes, compared to approximately 13,000 ICD-9-CM codes. ICD-10-CM codes have the potential to reveal more about quality of care, so that data can be used in a more meaningful way to better understand complications, better design clinically robust algorithms, and better track the outcomes of care. ICD-10-CM incorporates greater specificity and clinical det...