From the Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Address reprint requests to: W. John Judd, FIBMS, MIBiol, Professor of Immunohematology, Department of Pathology, UH-2G332, University of Michigan Medical Center, 1500 East Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0054; e-mail: [email protected]. Received for publication November 2, 2005; accepted No...

We address the value of information (VOI) sharing in the context of a two–echelon, serial supply chain with one retailer and one supplier that provides a single perishable product to consumers. We evaluate information sharing under two supply chain structures where the retailer shares it inventory level and replenishment policy with the supplier. In the first structure, referred to as Decentral...

To enable densely deployed base stations (BSs) or access points (APs) to serve an increasing number of users and provide diverse mobile services, we need to improve spectrum utilization in wireless communication networks. Although spectral efficiency (SE) can be enhanced via smart and dynamic resource allocation, interference has become a major impediment in improving SE. There have been numero...

One of the more diffuse problems with information technology (IT) is that both users and their IT-supporters and IT-administrators have the feeling that IT leads to more work to be done. Since the boom of the WWW this got even worse. On one hand we have an easy way of making information available, on the other hand we have all the maintainance work with it. The problem is that much of the infor...

In a recent special issue of RESPIRATORY CARE, Daniel Talmor presented a very nice review of airway management during a mass-casualty event.1 He rightly pointed out that only experienced clinicians should perform intubation in these circumstances, and that training clinicians for the sole purpose of providing intubation during a mass-casualty event is unwise. He also listed anesthesiologists, c...

In last month’s feature, Celia Davies, Professor of Health Care at the Open University’s School of Health and Social Welfare, looked at professional identities and how they derive meaning from pairing: doctor and patient, manager and staff member, usually a dominant role with an ‘other’. Here, she continues to explore how this affects relationships and how new professional identities can be for...

The patient-centered medical home model advocates that diagnostic testing be performed based on shared decision making between the patient and physician.1 This goal can be challenging when findings are uncertain or incidental to the original reason for ordering the test. For this reason, it would be useful for physicians to have guidelines to help address the ethical, practical, and legal impli...

The TFCC consists of triangular fibrocartilage (TFC), meniscus homologue, ulnolunate ligament, ulnotriquetral ligament, radioulnar ligament, and sheath floor of the extensor carpi ulnaris (ECU). The TFCC functions as a stabilizer of the ulnocarpal and DRU joints, load distributor between ulna and ulnar carpus and introduces smooth forearm rotation. The TFCC is a hammock-like shape supporting an...