The European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) Core Syllabus for Nuclear Cardiology is now available online. The syllabus lists key elements of knowledge in nuclear cardiology. It represents a framework for the development of training curricula and provides expected knowledge-based learning outcomes to the nuclear cardiology trainees.

Self-mutilation in horses includes biting, stomping and kicking, rubbing, and lunging into objects. Based on the author's clinical experience, three distinct types of self-mutilation are proposed and described. Type I represents normal behavioral response to continuous or intermittent physical discomfort. Type II, seen in stallions and geldings, can be recognized as self-directed intermale aggr...

The General Certificateof Secondary Education (GCSE) in mathematics is designed to measure not only the mathematical knowledge of candidates, but also their ability to use mathematicsas a mode of inquiry. A number of British Awarding Bodies with large candidatures now offer GCSE Mathematics Syllabus B as an alternative to Syllabus A. The two assessment frameworks are identical except in their a...

background : education is based upon the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that are required for an occupation, and the changes occurring in the occupations and duties as well as in the ideals and values necessitate constant needs analysis. furthermore, owing to the transformations in sciences, especially medical sciences, the current syllabus for the operation room courses at associate level wi...

Subjects with the Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase deficiency with self-mutilation) exhibit an apparently unique pattern of adrenergic dysfunction characterized by elevated plasma dopamine beta-hydroxylase activity and an absence of pressor response to acute sympathetic stimulation. Patients with a partial deficiency of hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltran...

Delirium: A disorder of attention fluctuating in intensity throughout the day causing changing levels of consciousness, perceptual disturbance, altered psychomotor activity, disorientation and memory impairment. To aid your study, the syllabus cross-references other Neuroscience Core IV lectures that provide supportive and complementary background information not repeated here. The lecture slid...

This week in class we treat quantum traces and dimensions in general ribbon categories (from the syllabus of week 46, see also [2, Chapter 6]) and we define the general notion of ribbon algebras and discuss how these give rise relation to ribbon categories. This material will be used in later to give some important explicit constructions of ribbon categories. The syllabus of this week 47 contai...