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Kinds of Academy Selected AbstractsAMERICAN ACADEMY OF NURSE PRACTITIONERS 19th NATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR NURSE PRACTITIONERSJOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NURSE PRACTITIONERS, Issue 8 2003Louisiana June 1, Morial Convention Center New Orleans [source] FELLOWS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NURSE PRACTITIONERSJOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NURSE PRACTITIONERS, Issue 10 2000Article first published online: 24 MAY 200 First page of article [source] THE EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF ANAESTHESIOLOGY THE EUROPEAN DIPLOMA IN ANAESTHESIOLOGY AND INTENSIVE CAREACTA ANAESTHESIOLOGICA SCANDINAVICA, Issue 2 2001Article first published online: 18 JUL 200 No abstract is available for this article. [source] AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PAIN MEDICINE ANNUAL MEETING ABSTRACTS,2009PAIN MEDICINE, Issue 1 2009Article first published online: 31 JAN 200 First page of article [source] Mother,child health research (IRN-MCH): Achievements and prospects of an international networkACTA PAEDIATRICA, Issue 7 2005Guy de Thé Abstract The Inter-Academy Panel (IAP) is critical about the scarce support to mother,child health (MCH) research in developing countries. At the request of the IAP, a group of members of the French and Swedish Academies of Science have arrived at the conclusion that an efficient network between scientists in resource-poor and industrialized countries will facilitate MCH research in developing countries. The priorities for such a network have been listed as follows: The present organization for the MCH website at the Pasteur Institute in Paris should be adapted to better promote collaboration between scientists from industrialized and developing countries. To provide short-term courses for young scientists from developing countries in the design of research protocols, and in the writing of scientific reports and manuscripts. To organize workshops on various topics of relevance for MCH in developing countries in order to create new research networks for scientific collaboration between industrialized and resource-poor countries. To establish collaboration between non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that support MCH research in developing countries. Topics for such collaborative studies and the way in which they may be performed are summarized. [source] All EU hands to the EU pumps: the Science Academies of Europe (EASAC) recommend strong support of research to tackle antibacterial resistanceCLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION, Issue 10 20082Article first published online: 15 SEP 200, I. C. Gyssens Abstract Despite many European Union (EU) conferences on fighting microbial resistance, rates of resistance in Europe continue to increase. Although research is catching up with discovery, the development of new antimicrobials is threatened by economic factors, in particular the need for a return of investment via high-volume sales. The EU should invest in independent research into the economic and business aspects of antibiotic development. Multidisciplinary input from the fields of finance, law, marketing, sociology and psychology will inform a broad agenda for change at the regulatory, academic and commercial levels and identify new options for novel anti-infective research and development, as recently recommended by the Science Academies of Europe (EASAC). [source] Planetary gear set and automatic transmission simulation for machine design courses,COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION, Issue 3 2003Scott T. Dennis Abstract Due to their unique ability to provide a variety of gear ratios in a very compact space, planetary gear systems are seen in many applications from small powered screw drivers to automobile automatic transmissions. The versatile planetary gear device is often studied as part of an undergraduate mechanical engineering program. Textbook presentations typically illustrate how the different planetary gear components are connected. Understanding of the operation of the planetary gear set can be enhanced using actual hardware or simulations that show how the components move relative to each other. The Department of Engineering Mechanics at the United States Air Force Academy has developed a computer simulation of the planetary gear set and the Chrysler 42LE automatic transmission. Called "PG-Sim," the dynamic simulations complement a static textbook presentation. PG-Sim is used in several of our courses and assessment data clearly indicates students' appreciation of its visual and interactive features. In this paper, we present an overview of PG-Sim and then describe how the simulation courseware facilitates understanding of the planetary gear system. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput Appl Eng Educ 11: 144,155, 2003; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com); DOI 10.1002/cae.10045 [source] Intelligent computer aided design, analysis, optimization, and improvement of thermodynamic systemsCOMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION, Issue 4 2001Chih Wu Abstract An intelligent computer aided instruction (ICAI) software to aid teaching, design, and optimization of thermodynamic systems is presented. The concept of articulate virtual laboratory (AVL), the role of design, the ICAI software, and the use of AVL at the US Naval Academy are described. An example is used to demonstrate that using the ICAI software is indeed an effective method to analyze and improve thermodynamic systems design. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput Appl Eng Educ 9: 220,227, 2001; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com.); DOI 10.1002/cae.10005 [source] News from the Section on Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery of the American Academy of PediatricsCONGENITAL HEART DISEASE, Issue 5 2009Cardiac SurgeryAmerican Academy of Pediatrics, Executive CommitteeSection on Cardiology, MD Chair, Robert Beekman III No abstract is available for this article. [source] Abstracts from the Cardiology Section of the Academy of PediatricsCONGENITAL HEART DISEASE, Issue 5 2006Douglas S. Moodie MD, MS Editor-in-Chief [source] In Memoriam: Professor Dr. Rostislav A. Kaischew (1908,2002), member of the Bulgarian Academy of SciencesCRYSTAL RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY, Issue 1 2003Christo N. Nanev Prof. Dr.-habil No abstract is available for this article. [source] A Letter from the Executive Director of the California Academy of SciencesCURATOR THE MUSEUM JOURNAL, Issue 4 2008Gregory C. Farrington No abstract is available for this article. [source] Notes of a Progressive Educator from the Academy and the ClassroomCURRICULUM INQUIRY, Issue 1 2009SUSAN F. SEMEL First page of article [source] Recent Changes in the Workforce and Practice of Dermatologic SurgeryDERMATOLOGIC SURGERY, Issue 3 2009EMILY P. TIERNEY MD BACKGROUND The increasing number of American College of Mohs Surgery (ACMS) fellowship positions over the last decade has resulted in a greater number of fellowship-trained surgeons in dermatologic surgery. METHODS Mohs micrographic fellowship-trained surgeons (MMFTSs) and non-Mohs fellowship-trained surgeons performing Mohs micrographic surgery (NMMFTSs) were compared using the American Academy of Dermatology Practice Profile Survey (2002/05). An analysis of recent Mohs fellowship classes was also performed. RESULTS In 2005, there was an equivalent proportion of MMFTSs and NMMFTSs in the workforce (ratio MMFTS:NMMFTS=0.9) but, in 2005, there was a shift in the youngest age cohort (29,39) to a greater proportion of MMFTSs (MMFTS:NMMFTS=1.55). In 2005, the youngest MMFTSs (29,39) were more likely to be female (47.1%) than of MMFTSs overall (24%). MMFTSs were 5 times as likely to be in full-time academic positions and performed 2 to 3 times as many Mohs cases per week as NMMFTSs. CONCLUSIONS Consistent with demographic shifts in dermatology, differences have emerged in the demographics, surgical volumes, and settings of MMFTSs and NMMFTSs. Recent increases in the ACMS fellowship positions have resulted in a greater proportion of MMFTSs among younger dermatologic surgeons. It will be important to follow how this increase in fellowship trainees affects the dermatologic surgery workforce. [source] European Academy of Childhood Disability Annual Meeting 2002, 24-26th OctoberDEVELOPMENTAL MEDICINE & CHILD NEUROLOGY, Issue 10 2002Article first published online: 13 FEB 200 First page of article [source] American Academy for Cerebral Palsy & Developmental Medicine 2002DEVELOPMENTAL MEDICINE & CHILD NEUROLOGY, Issue 8 2002Article first published online: 13 FEB 200 First page of article [source] European Academy of Childhood Disability Annual Meeting 2001DEVELOPMENTAL MEDICINE & CHILD NEUROLOGY, Issue 10 2001Article first published online: 13 FEB 200 First page of article [source] European Academy of Childhood Disability at GöteborgDEVELOPMENTAL MEDICINE & CHILD NEUROLOGY, Issue 9 2001Article first published online: 13 FEB 200 No abstract is available for this article. [source] Great northern researchers: discoverers of the earliest Palaeozoic vertebratesACTA ZOOLOGICA, Issue 2009Hans-Peter Schultze Abstract The lives and works of Dr Elga Mark-Kurik and Dr Valentina Karatajute-Talimaa, Estonian and Lithuanian palaeontologists, respectively, are presented as part of their celebration at the 11th Symposium on Early/Lower Vertebrates at Uppsala. Both graduated from the university of their home town, Tartu and Vilnius, respectively. Elga became a Researcher at the Institute of Geology of the Estonian S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, in Tallinn, whereas Valentina worked for the Institute of Geology, Vilnius. Both were mentored by D. V. Obruchev of Moscow. Elga chose placoderms and psammosteid heterostracans as main research objects. Valentina also began with whole fish, antiarch placoderms, but then chose fish microfossils with W. Gross as mentor and discovered the oldest chondrichthyans. Both work as palaeobiologists understanding the implications of their fossils for functional interpretation and palaeogeography; their main contribution is in biostratigraphy (over 50% of their publications). In 1976 Elga organized the 1st Middle Palaeozoic Fossil Fish Symposium in Tallinn. The co-operation of young eastern and western palaeoichthyologists begun there culminating in the 1990s with the international research effort of the UNESCO-IUGS International Geological Correlation Programmes (328, 406 and 491). [source] Measuring the Impact of State Accountability ProgramsEDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT: ISSUES AND PRACTICE, Issue 4 2005Mitchell D. Chester "No Child Left Behind is a law that makes good people bad and bad people worse." Declaration of the keynote speaker at the public forum on the No Child Left Behind Act in Columbus, Ohio, on November 17, 2004, sponsored by the Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society in Education, the National Academy of Education, and the National Society for the Study of Education. [source] Management issues for women with epilepsy,Focus on pregnancy (an evidence-based review): II.EPILEPSIA, Issue 5 2009Teratogenesis, perinatal outcomes Summary A committee assembled by the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) reassessed the evidence related to the care of women with epilepsy (WWE) during pregnancy, including antiepileptic drug (AED) teratogenicity and adverse perinatal outcomes. It is highly probable that intrauterine first-trimester valproate (VPA) exposure has higher risk of major congenital malformations (MCMs) compared to carbamazepine (CBZ), and possibly compared to phenytoin (PHT) or lamotrigine (LTG). It is probable that VPA as part of polytherapy and possible that VPA as monotherapy contribute to the development of MCMs. AED polytherapy probably contributes to the development of MCMs and reduced cognitive outcomes compared to monotherapy. Intrauterine exposure to VPA monotherapy probably reduces cognitive outcomes and monotherapy exposure to PHT or phenobarbital (PB) possibly reduces cognitive outcomes. Neonates of WWE taking AEDs probably have an increased risk of being small for gestational age and possibly have an increased risk of a 1-minute Apgar score of <7. If possible, avoidance of VPA and AED polytherapy during the first trimester of pregnancy should be considered to decrease the risk of MCMs. If possible, avoidance of VPA and AED polytherapy throughout pregnancy should be considered and avoidance of PHT and PB throughout pregnancy may be considered to prevent reduced cognitive outcomes. [source] Smallpox Vaccination for Emergency Physicians,ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, Issue 6 2003AAEM/SAEM Smallpox Vaccination Working Group Abstract On December 13, 2002, President Bush formally announced the national smallpox vaccination program. The plan involves vaccinating health care workers who would respond to possible smallpox cases, including emergency physicians. Although not all aspects of the program are clearly established, it appears that vaccination of health care workers will occur in the near future. This joint statement has been used by the American Academy of Emergency Medicine and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine regarding smallpox vaccination for emergency physicians. [source] Efficacy and Tolerability of the New Antiepileptic Drugs, I: Treatment of New-Onset Epilepsy: Report of the TTA and QSS Subcommittees of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Epilepsy SocietyEPILEPSIA, Issue 5 2004Jacqueline A. French Summary: Purpose: To assess the evidence demonstrating efficacy, tolerability, and safety of seven new antiepileptic drugs [AEDs; gabapentin (GBP), lamotrigine (LTG), topiramate (TPM), tiagabine (TGB), oxcarbazepine (OXC), levetiracetam (LEV), and zonisamide (ZNS), reviewed in the order in which these agents received approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration] in the treatment of children and adults with newly diagnosed partial and generalized epilepsies. Methods: A 23-member committee, including general neurologists, pediatric neurologists, epileptologists, and doctors in pharmacy, evaluated the available evidence based on a structured literature review including MEDLINE, Current Contents, and Cochrane Library for relevant articles from 1987 until September 2002, with selected manual searches up to 2003. Results: Evidence exists, either from comparative or dose-controlled trials, that GBP, LTG, TPM, and OXC have efficacy as monotherapy in newly diagnosed adolescents and adults with either partial or mixed seizure disorders. Evidence also shows that LTG is effective for newly diagnosed absence seizures in children. Evidence for effectiveness of the new AEDs in newly diagnosed patients with other generalized epilepsy syndromes is lacking. Conclusions: The results of this evidence-based assessment provide guidelines for the prescription of AEDs for patients with newly diagnosed epilepsy and identify those seizure types and syndromes for which more evidence is necessary. [source] Electrophysiological sensory demyelination in typical chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathyEUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY, Issue 7 2010Y. A. Rajabally Background:, The presence of electrophysiological demyelination of sensory nerves is not routinely assessed in the evaluation of suspected chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP). Whether this can be useful is unknown. Methods:, We compared, using surface recording techniques, in 19 patients with typical CIDP and 26 controls with distal large fibre sensory axonal neuropathy, the forearm median sensory conductions, sensory nerve action potential (SNAP) amplitudes and durations and sensory nerve conduction velocities (SNCVs) of median, radial and sural nerves. Results:, Median nerve sensory conduction block (SCB) across the forearm was greater in CIDP patients than in controls (P = 0.005). SNAP durations were longer in CIDP patients for median (P = 0.001) and sural nerves (P = 0.004). Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves provided sensitive (>40%) and specific (>95%) cut-offs for median nerve SCB as well as median and sural SNAP durations. SNCVs were significantly slower for median and sural nerves in CIDP patients, but ROC curves did not demonstrate cut-offs with useful sensitivities/specificities. Median SCB or prolonged median SNAP duration or prolonged sural SNAP duration offered a sensitivity of 73.7% for CIDP and specificity of 96.2%. Used as additional parameters, they improved diagnostic sensitivity of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) criteria for CIDP of 1991, from 42.1% to 78.9% in this population, with preserved specificity of 100%. Discussion:, Sensory electrophysiological demyelination is present and may be diagnostically useful in typical CIDP. SCB detection and SNAP duration prolongation appear to represent more useful markers of demyelination than SNCV reduction. [source] IVth World Congress of the International Academy of Cosmetic Dermatology (IACD),3,5 July 2005EXPERIMENTAL DERMATOLOGY, Issue 2 2005Article first published online: 27 JAN 200 No abstract is available for this article. [source] FINDING THE BALANCE: ETHICAL CHALLENGES AND BEST PRACTICES FOR LAWYERS REPRESENTING PARENTS WHEN THE INTERESTS OF CHILDREN ARE AT STAKEFAMILY COURT REVIEW, Issue 1 2008William J. Howe This article explores ethical and practical issues facing attorneys in representing parents in a contested custody matter. The article traces the history of the way this matter has been handled historically and presents the latest thinking reflected by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers in their most recent publication of ethical guidelines for attorneys. The article also presents perspectives from several jurisdictions including Australia and Oregon. [source] Chenopodium probstii and Chenopodium missouriense: two North American plant species in the Czech Republic, Slovak Republic and neighbouring countriesFEDDES REPERTORIUM, Issue 5-6 2004J. Dostálek Ing. This paper presents the results of a floristic-taxonomic survey of two North American invasive species, Chenopodium probstiiAellen and Ch. missourienseAellen, in the Czech Republic, Slovak Republic and neighbouring countries. It is based mainly on the results of a re-analysis of the authors' herbarium material collected from 1957 to 2003, deposited mainly in the PRA Herbarium (herbarium of the Institute of Botany of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Pr,honice near Prague). Also, the chorology and ecology of both species in Czechian and Slovakian are discussed. In addition, a summary of data on the occurrence of both species throughout their distribution is presented, with emphasis on European records. On the basis of this analysis, the hypothetical origin of Ch. probstii in North America is confirmed. First-time records of this species are presented for Egypt, North Korea, Poland, Slovenia, Croatia and Romania. The second species, Ch. missouriense, is reported for the first time from Slovakia and Austria. Sources of further dissemination of both species in their secondary European area of distribution are described. In Europe, both these invasive species are in the pro- cess of naturalisation (ephemerophyte , epoecophyte), approximately in the resting-phase lag; significant range expansion can be expected in the near future, especially for Ch. probstii. Chenopodium probstii und Chenopodium missouriense, zwei nordamerikanische Arten in der Tschechischen Republik, der Slowakischen Republik und benachbarten Ländern Diese Arbeit präsentiert Ergebnisse einer floristisch-taxonomischen Untersuchung von zwei nordamerikanischen Invasionsarten, und zwar Chenopodium probstiiAellen und Ch. missourienseAellen in der Tschechischen Republik, in der Slowakischen Republik und in benachbarten Ländern. Sie stützt sich vorwiegend auf Resultate des eigenen Herbarmaterials der Jahre 1957,2003, das vorwiegend im Herbarium PRA (= Herbarsammlung des Botanischen Instituts der Akademie der Wissenschaften der Tschechischen Republik in Pr,honice bei Praha) deponiert ist. Auch wurden Chorologie und Ökologie beider Arten in Tschechien und in der Slowakei analysiert. Gleichzeitig wurden die Angaben über das Vorkommen beider Arten im gesamten Areal unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Geschichte ihrer Ausbreitung im sekundären Teil ihrer Areale, vor allem in Europa zusammengefasst. Durch diese Analyse wurde der Ursprung von Ch. probstii in Nordamerika bestätigt. Chenopodium probstii wurde als neue adventive Art auch in Ägypten und Nordkorea, in Europa zum ersten Mal in Polen, Slowenien, Kroatien und Rumänien beobachtet. Eine weitere Art, Ch. missouriense, wurde zum ersten Mal in der Slowakei und in Österreich erwähnt. Diasporenquellen beider Arten im sekundären europäischen Areal werden ebenfalls angeführt. In Europa sind beide invasive Arten im Prozess der Einbürgerung (Ephemerophyt , Epoökophyt), die vermutlich in der Ruhephase abläuft. Eine expansive Ausbreitung können wir in der nächsten Zeit vor allem von Ch. probstii erwarten. Bisher gehören beide Arten zu den potentiellen Unkräutern. [source] 40 abstracts relating to the Meeting of European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Drug Therapy & 3rd World Conference of International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences June 18,19, 2009,Copenhagen, DenmarkFUNDAMENTAL & CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY, Issue 1 2010Article first published online: 4 JAN 2010 First page of article [source] The Invisible (Inaudible) Woman: Nursing in the English AcademyGENDER, WORK & ORGANISATION, Issue 2 2005Liz Meerabeau Nursing is numerically a far larger academic discipline than medicine, and is situated in many more higher education institutions in England (over 50), whereas there are 21 medical schools. Like the rest of ,non medical education and training' it is purchased through a quasi-market. Despite the size of this market, however, nursing education has until recently been largely invisible in policy documents and the ambitions of nursing academics to develop their subject are seen as inappropriate. This article explores this invisibility and inaudibility, with particular reference to the 1997 Richards Report, Clinical Academic Careers and the 2001 Nuffield Trust report, A New Framework for NHS/University Relations. It draws on the work of Davies on the ,professional predicament' of nursing, to argue that, although the move of nursing education into higher education had the aim of improving its status, nursing has difficulty finding its voice within academia. As a result, issues which are salient for nursing (as for many of the health professions), such as a poor (or relatively poor) showing in the Research Assessment Exercise and the complexities of balancing research, teaching and maintaining clinical competence, are raised as high-profile issues only in medicine. [source] Teaching the future teachers in geriatrics: The 10-year success story of the European Academy for Medicine of AgingGERIATRICS & GERONTOLOGY INTERNATIONAL, Issue 2 2005S Bonin-Guillaume While celebrating the 10th anniversary of the European Academy for Medicine of Aging (EAMA), former students and EAMA members identify 10 major factors that led to the success of the EAMA: (i) extremely motivated academic geriatricians anticipating the future care needs of the oldest old Europeans; (ii) EAMA's exclusive goal ,to teach the future teachers in geriatrics'; (iii) an excellent location in Switzerland with outstanding teaching facilities; (iv) a residential course of four 1-week sessions over 2 years consisting of innovative and contemporary content with the strong involvement of the EAMA's scientific board members; (v) a multicultural melting pot of young, promising geriatricians (from 24 different countries) who constitute the academic geriatric relief of tomorrow; (vi) numerous teachers and experts from all over the world; (vii) permanent and informal interaction between students and teachers; (viii) students' evaluations show marked progress in regard to scientific content, formulation of take-home messages and techniques of oral presentation before and after each course (over 90% of the participants of the first four courses were promoted and 20% obtained a full professorship in geriatrics); (ix) the well-designed EAMA concept is confirmed and validated with the recent accreditation by the European Community and the European Union Geriatric Medicine Society; and former students constituting a strong international network have been able to launch similar courses in elsewhere (Middle East Academy for Medicine of Aging; Latin America Academy for Medicine of Aging; Saint Louis University Geriatric Academy; and the European Nursing Academy for the care of the olders). 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