This retrospective observational study on faculty development analyzes the Duke University Pathology Department's 18-year experience with a structured mentoring program involving 51 junior faculty members. The majority had MD degrees only (55%). The percentage of young women faculty hires before 1998 was 25%, increasing to 72% after 2005. Diversity also broadened from 9% with varied heritages b...

n engl j med 366;3 nejm.org january 19, 2012 197 $635 billion per year, according to Relieving Pain in America,1 the recent report of an Institute of Medicine (IOM) committee that we cochaired. And these figures don’t include pain in children or people in long-term care facilities, the military, or prison. The annual U.S. expenditures related to pain (including direct medical costs and lost wag...

introduction: since hospitals give their services to a huge number of people most of whom are sick and disabled and also because they have many expensive and modern equipment and facilities, any negligence regarding the standards of safety management leads to severe damages including financial ones. this may even result in irrecoverable consequences such as their clients’ death. so, this invest...

Edith Violet Sykes (1872-1930) is an undiscovered character in the historiography of travel literature. She wife a British agent and diplomat Sir Mark Sykes, who was renowned for his deeds Middle East Sykes-Picot Agreement. actively engaged politics, establishing Chaldean Relief Committee Armenian Assyrian populations, criticizing violence Ireland. Her notes 1906 Ottoman shed light on her Orien...

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We present theoretical investigations via the replica theory of the storage capacities of committee machines with a large numberM of hidden units and spherical weights. Difficulties arise in the solution of this problem in the limit of large M . In the case of overlapping receptive fields, as the number of patterns increases, both permutation symmetry and replica symmetry are broken, which lead...