This study describes how the U.S. government measures real consumption growth and how it tries to take account of a complicating factor: that the goods and services offered to consumers change over time; new products are introduced and old products are improved. The 1996 Boskin Commission critique of this government methodology is described, along with the changes made in response to that criti...

Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the level of knowledge, skills and learning outcomes of dental fourth-class students after basic life support (BLS) course and to analyse the effectiveness and retention of BLS training after 8 months. Methods: 52 dental school fifth class students who had received BLS training 1 hour per week and 1 hour practical course over a period of 4 weeks during...

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a major obstacle that prevents therapeutic drugs or genes from being delivered to the central nervous system. Therefore, it is important to develop methods to enhance the permeability of the BBB. We have developed echo-contrast gas (C₃F₈) entrapping liposomes (Bubble liposomes, BLs) that can work as a gene delivery tool in combination with ultrasound (US) exposu...

Disruption of fear conditioning, its extinction and its retrieval are at the core of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Such deficits, especially fear extinction delay, disappear after alternating bilateral stimulations (BLS) during eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy. An animal model of fear recovery, based on auditory cued fear conditioning and extinction learning,...

Mortality following Cardiac Arrest (CA) is highly correlated to he quality of first responders’ Basic Life Support (BLS).1 Many studes highlight the lack of knowledge and poor quality of BLS provided y both the general population and by medical students.2,3 We ecently introduced a simulation based course on BLS for our medcal students.4 In a project entitled « See one, Do one, Teach ten », e ai...

This paper presents the results of a UK national survey of Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) training for undergraduate medical students. In all responding medical schools, undergraduates are taught BLS at least once during their course but the assessment and refresher aspects of BLS training are not uniformly covered. There are inconsistencies in ACLS teaching, ...

Brillouin light scattering (BLS) and picosecond laser ultrasonics (PLU) are two noncontact optical techniques that have garnered significant interest for thin film elastic constant measurements. PLU and BLS measurements were utilized to determine the elastic constants of 100 to 500 nm thick nanoporous low-k dielectric materials of significant interest for reducing capacitive delays in nanoelect...

In Tingley (2003), all available transit detection algorithms were compared in a simple, rigorous test. However, the implementation of the Box-fitting Least Squares (BLS) approach of Kovács et al. (2002) used in that paper was not ideal for those purposes. This letter revisits the comparison, using a version of the BLS better suited to the task at hand and made more efficient via the knowledge ...

However, numerous studies have shown that there is a lack of knowledge and skills among undergraduates and junior doctors [1,2]. Before implementing new simulation-based workshops on BLS in our faculty, we conducted a previously published survey of undergraduate students to evaluate their knowledge and confidence in terms of BLS [3]. It was found that less than a third (30%) of medical students...

At present, establishing a multidimensional characteristic model of boiler combustion system plays an important role in realizing its dynamic optimization and real-time control, so as to achieve the purpose reducing environmental pollution saving coal resources. However, complexity process makes it difficult using traditional mathematical methods. In this paper, kind hyper-parameter self-optimi...