Society News Message from the Editor ................................................................................ 3 Message from the President ........................................................................... 4 IEEE ITSS Executive Committee February’13 Meeting Report .................. 5 IEEE ITSS Board of Governors April’13 Meeting Report ........................... 6 Launching o...

Society News Message from the Editor ................................................................................ 2 Message from the President ........................................................................... 3 IEEE ITSS Executive Committee February’12 Meeting Report ................... 4 IEEE ITSS Board of Governors April’12 Meeting Report ........................... 6 IEEE ITSS ...

The following statement was prepared by the Special Committee to Revise the Joint American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology/American Association of Endodontists Position on Cone Beam-Computed Tomography, and approved by the AAOMR Executive Council and AAE Board of Directors in May 2015. AAOMR members may photocopy this position statement for distribution to patients or referring dent...

Executive Summary One thousand telephone interviews were conducted in the six western Washington counties of Clallam, King, Kitsap, Pierce, Snohomish, and Thurston. Two research questions addressed in the telephone survey included: 1) the amount of spatial and temporal displacement due to crowding at Mount Rainier and Olympic national parks; and 2) the differences between displaced and non-disp...

On July 31, 2011, Korean Circulation Journal (KCJ) published a review article by Park et al. regarding the J-curve in hypertension and coronary artery diseases. However, a possibility of plagiarism has been raised in this article. The Editorial Board of KCJ has examined the review article and has requested the Committee for Publication Ethics of Korean Association of Medical Journal Editors (KA...

This paper examines whether firms run by a founder chief executive officer (CEO) have higher pay and their power sources from chairing the board, remuneration committee, tenureship, or share ownership affect pay-performance nexus. Data for study was hand-collected amongst 362 family-owned listed in Bursa Malaysia 2009 to 2015 analysed via generalized method of moments (GMM) system address endog...

During the past decade, infection prevention programs have been presented with an unending series of challenges and expectations. The challenges, more often than not, have resulted in additional responsibilities, functions, and workload for infection control professionals (ICPs) and healthcare epidemiologists. These additional responsibilities have not been accompanied by proportional increases...

BACKGROUND Injury and illness surveillance during high-level youth sports events is an important first step in health prevention and caretaking of the young elite athletes. AIM To analyse injuries and illnesses that occurred during the 10 days 2nd Youth Olympic Winter Games (YOG), held in Lillehammer 2016. METHODS We recorded the daily occurrence (or non-occurrence) of injuries and illnesse...