the PRofession. As A kickoff for this ITE Journal issue featuring a transportation planning theme, itE’s transportation Planning council (tPc) Executive committee felt it would be valuable to identify a selected number of topics that are currently of special interest to many members due to their particular relevancy to national, state and local interest. other articles in this edition of ITE Jo...

Environmental control of ECS-produced retrograde amnesia in goldfish. PHYSIOL. BEHAV. The retrograde amnestic effect of ECS can be enhanced by exposing the goldfish to the intertrial environment for 25 mm just prior to administration of the ECS. As the interval between training and the ECS is increased, the amnesm produced by the environment-ECS interaction takes longer to develop. The environm...

U ntil last year, the nephrology community had but a single uniform measure of competency achieved as the result of nephrology fellowship training: The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) subspecialty examination, which can be taken only after completion of nephrology subspecialty training. There had also been little published recently regarding current national nephrology fellowship tra...

Aim The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) exam's pass rate is considered a quality measure of a residency program, yet few interventions have shown benefit in reducing the failure rate. We developed a web-based Directed Reading (DR) program with an aim to increase medical knowledge and reduce ABIM exam failure rate. Methods Internal medicine residents at our academic medical center wit...

Class council voting Monday at Saint Mary’s yielded a winner in the Class of 2005 race and set up run-off contests in the 2003 and 2004 elections. In the close 2005 election, the Sarah Brown ticket drew 51 per­ cent of the votes to defeat current class president Maureen GarvanOskielunas’ ticket. Brown’s run­ n ing m a te s in c lu d ed M ary H olland , vice p re s id e n t, Jill R oberts , se c...

Presented is a comparative study of two machine learning models (MLP Neural Network and Bayesian Network) as part of a decision support system for prescribing ITE (in the ear) and BTE (behind the ear) aids for people with hearing difficulties. The models are developed/trained and evaluated on a large set of patient records from major NHS audiology centre in England. The two main questions which...