This paper is based on a presentation by Professor Claudio de Moura Castro on Brazilian higher education at a CDE Roundtable: ‘Reflecting on Brazil’s Success’. Professor de Moura Castro was part of a Brazilian delegation of experts brought to CDE for a series of workshops. (See CDE, Reflecting on Brazil’s Success: How Durable? What Lessons for South Africa? CDE Roundtable, No. 20, September, 2012)

Research groups developing antibody therapies generate diverse data sets; the value of these sets would be compounded when shared or amalgamated. A complete amalgamation of diverse data sets requires data standards for information collection during experiments. We propose to define elements of the data standards in the form of common data elements (CDEs) in order to clarify each experiment's ta...

JOHN L. KITZMILLER, MD, MS JENNIFER M. BLOCK, BS RN, CDE FLORENCE M. BROWN, MD PATRICK M. CATALANO, MD DEBORAH L. CONWAY, MD DONALD R. COUSTAN, MD ERICA P. GUNDERSON, RD, PHD WILLIAM H. HERMAN, MD, MPH LISA D. HOFFMAN, MSW, LCSW MARIBETH INTURRISI, RN MS CNS, CDE LOIS B. JOVANOVIC, MD SIRI I. KJOS, MD ROBERT H. KNOPP, MD MARTIN N. MONTORO, MD EDWARD S. OGATA, MD PATHMAJA PARAMSOTHY, MD, MS DIAN...

The level and distribution of patient waiting times for elective treatment are a major concern in publicly funded health care systems. Strict targets, which have specified maximum waiting times, have been introduced in the NHS over the last decade and have been criticised for distorting existing clinical priorities in scheduling hospital treatment. We demonstrate the usefulness of conditional d...

AIM To evaluate awareness of dental surgeons in Pune and Mumbai, India regarding chemomechanical caries removal system (CMCR). STUDY DESIGN Sixty practicing dental surgeons from Mumbai (30) and Pune (30) were surveyed using questionnaire. MATERIALS AND METHODS Qualitative data was collected on the basis of structured schedule questionnaire method. STATISTICS Statistical analysis was done ...

we show that the variational inequality $vi(c,a)$ has aunique solution for a relaxed $(gamma , r)$-cocoercive,$mu$-lipschitzian mapping $a: cto h$ with $r>gamma mu^2$, where$c$ is a nonempty closed convex subset of a hilbert space $h$. fromthis result, it can be derived that, for example, the recentalgorithms given in the references of this paper, despite theirbecoming more complicated, are not...

The expression ' typing of blood' has been applied loosely to determination of blood groups. It should not be so applied. One groups blood in determining 0, A, B and AB; types blood in determining M, N and MN; Rhesus groups blood in determining the Rh -fand Rh states; and Rhesus types (or Rh types) blood in determining R-h0, Rh', Rh", Rh'Rh", Rh15 Rh2, RhjRh2, and rh (using C-D-E system for a p...