In 1999 HRSA contracted with the UCLA School of Dentistry to evaluate the impact of federal funding on postgraduate general dentistry programs. Part of that evaluation analyzed curriculum emphasis and preparation of incoming residents in advanced general dentistry programs over a five-year period. Directors of 208 civilian AEGD and GPR programs were surveyed about the curriculum content of thei...

To motivate our result, consider Newton’s method N for solving the equationf(z) = 0, wheref is a complex polynomial, f(z) = X$0 aizi. We write N: 5$ X S + S, where Z& is the space of polynomials of degree %d and S is the Riemann sphere C U ~0. Then N(f, z) = Nf(z) = z f(z)/f’(z) is rational over C inf and z; that is, N can be formed from the complex rational operations (+ , , x , +) from the co...

Logics for ‘generally’ are intended to express some vague notions, such as ‘generally’, ‘several’, ‘many’, ‘most’, etc., by means of the new generalized quantifier ∇ and to reason about assertions with ‘generally’ (important issues in qualitative reasoning). We introduce the idea of functional interpretation for ‘generally’ and show that representative functions (akin to Skolem functions) enabl...