An isometric folding is a non-expansive locally isometry that sends piecewise geodesic segments into piecewise geodesic segments of the same length. An isometric folding is a continuous map that need not to be differentiable. The points where it is not differentiable are called singular points. The foundations of isometric foldings of Riemannian manifolds are introduced by Robertson (1977). For...

BACKGROUND Outpatients undergoing hemodialysis are at high risk for adverse drug events. Limited resources make it challenging for pharmacists to routinely obtain a best possible medication history (BPMH). OBJECTIVES The primary objective was to determine whether, for patients undergoing hemodialysis, a pharmacy technician has the skills to obtain a BPMH that would allow a pharmacist to ident...

A full-mouth rehabilitation should be correctly planned from the start by using a diagnostic wax-up to reduce the potential for remakes, increased chair time, and laboratory costs. However, determining the clinical validity of an extensive wax-up can be complicated for clinicians who lack the experience of full-mouth rehabilitations. The three-step technique is a simplified approach that has be...

Veterinary technicians play valuable roles in most veterinary colleges and have particular strengths coaching new learners. We moved to a teaching technician ‘float team’ model provide support core pre-clinical laboratories our DVM (Doctor of Medicine) curriculum. The team has enabled us better utilize staff skill sets training, created efficiencies expanded provided laboratory courses, develop...

This paper describes the authors' development of software to use the WWW for controls education. A tu-torial concept was developed for teaching controls to students through the use of Matlab, a popular computation and visualization software package. The Controls Tutorials for Matlab illustrate control system design and analysis and enable students to quickly use the knowledge presented to them....

We use Klee’s Dehn-Sommerville relations and other results on face numbers of homology manifolds without boundary to (i) prove Kalai’s conjecture providing lower bounds on the f -vectors of an even-dimensional manifold with all but the middle Betti number vanishing, (ii) verify Kühnel’s conjecture that gives an upper bound on the middle Betti number of a 2k-dimensional manifold in terms of k an...

PURPOSE To compare the medication history error rate of the emergency department (ED) pharmacy technician with that of nursing staff and to describe the workflow environment. METHODS Fifty medication histories performed by an ED nurse followed by the pharmacy technician were evaluated for discrepancies (RN-PT group). A separate 50 medication histories performed by the pharmacy technician and ...