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Getting Started as a Medical Teacher in Times of Change
No full textMedical school teaching is a skill that is very often learned on the job. The faculty comprised of researchers and clinicians are expert in many biomedical disciplines, but familiarity with learning theories and pedagogy are usually not included in their knowledge and skill sets. The pressure to see patients and acquire extramural funding leaves little time for faculty to learn how to teach. When coupled with the natural attrition of senior faculty it is necessary to start junior faculty on the correct path to being effective medical educators who are capable of lecturing and facilitating. Institutions cannot afford to have medical educators learn through trial and error. The standards set by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) are also creating an urgency to produce competent teachers as quickly as possible. Novice teachers need to be able to use these standards to align their teaching with goals, objectives and the appropriate pedagogy. This article is designed to be a self-directed guide describing some essentials that a newly hired faculty member can quickly use to get started. An institutional faculty development program can then serve to build upon and enrich the experience for the new faculty member.This is the authors' accepted manuscript of the article. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1007/s40670-014-0098-y.Peer reviewe
Open doors regional scholars and writer series presents Richard Etulain, Richard Ellis and Ferenc Szasz
No full textThe Open Door series presents a conversation on writing history of the American Southwest with Richard Ellis, author of "" Cheyenne Dog Soldiers: a ledgerbook history of coups and combat,"" Richard Etulain, author of ""New Mexican Lives"" and ""Cesar Chavez: a brief biography,"" and Ferenc Szasz, author of ""Religion in the Modern American West,""""The Day the Sun Rose Twice,"" and others
Right Heart Pulmonary Circulation Unit Involvement in Left-Sided Heart Failure: Diagnostic, Prognostic, and Therapeutic Implications
No full text: Although long neglected, the right heart (RH) is now widely accepted as a pivotal player in heart failure (HF) either with reduced or preserved ejection fraction. The chronic overload of the pulmonary microcirculation results in an initial phase characterized by right ventricular (RV) hypertrophy, right atrial dilation, and diastolic dysfunction. This progresses to overt RH failure when RV dilation and systolic dysfunction lead to RV-pulmonary arterial (RV-PA) uncoupling with low RV output. In the context of its established relevance to progression of HF, clinicians should consider assessment of the RH with information from clinical assessment, biomarkers, and imaging. Notably, no single parameter can predict prognosis alone in HF. Assessments simultaneously should encompass RV systolic function, pulmonary pressures, an estimation of RV-PA coupling, and RH morphologic features. Despite a large volume of evidence indicating the relevance of RH function to the clinical syndrome of HF, evidence-based management strategies are lacking. Targeting RH dysfunction in HF should be an objective of future investigations, being an unmet need in the current management of HF
Fast implementation of iterative adaptive approach for wideband unambiguous radar detection
No full textAccepted author manuscriptMicrowave Sensing, Signals & System
Collective Improvisation: The Practice and Vision of Ingemar Lindh
No full textIngemar Lindh's research on the principles of collective improvisation and performance conceived as process announce an important development in the 20th-century tradition of the actor's work. After early studies with Étienne Decroux and working collaborations with Jerzy Grotowski, Eugenio Barba, and Yves Lebreton, Lindh founded the first laboratory theatre in Sweden in 1971, the Institutet för Scenkonst. His practice of collective improvisation is viewed in light of postdramatic concerns such as its resistance to fixed scores, directorial montage, and choreography as an organizing principle
Looking Inside the Black Box of "Attendance at Services": New Measures for Exploring an Old Dimension in Religion and Health Research
No full textResearch in religion and health has spurred new interest in measuring religiousness. Measurement efforts have focused on subjective facets of religiousness such as spirituality and beliefs, and less attention has been paid to congregate aspects, beyond the single item measuring attendance at services. We evaluate some new measures for religious experiences occurring during congregational worship services. Respondents (N=576) were religiously-diverse community dwelling adults interviewed prior to cardiac surgery. Exploratory factor analysis of the new items with a pool of standard items yielded a readily interpretable solution, involving seven correlated but distinct factors and one index variable, with high levels of internal consistency. We describe religious affiliation and demographic differences in these measures. Attendance at religious services provides multifaceted physical, emotional, social, and spiritual experiences that may promote physical health through multiple pathways.This research was supported by grants from the National Institute on Aging (AG15160 and AG16750, Richard Contrada, PI).Published 2009 in International Journal for the Psychology of Religion at http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a907482564~frm=titlelin
Postcard From Sir Richard Burton to Messrs Chatto and Windus Publishers etc.
No full textabstract: Concerning a postcard from Burton explaining his summer plans to his publishers.Postage Details: Postmarked 16 March [18]80 from Cairo, Egypt to London. Postmarked 6 March [18]80 from Cairo.
Address: A Messrs Chatto and Windus Publishers etc. Picadilly London. Typed French text reads: "U[io]n Postale Universelle Egypte Carte Postale."Sender's Signature: Signed R.[F].B.Arabic signature underneath R.F.B.Transcription Details: In difficult handwriting.Postcard verso reads: {Shipheach} {word} No 74
March 5. '80
Yours of Feb. 19 just recd. All right in {?Athuncium}: I shall {wish} through the summer at the {sand} R.F.B.Notes on Original Folder: Handwriting on folder identifies the correspondent as Richard Burton
Manuscripts belonging to Richard de Fournival
No full textThis article describes briefly each of the thirty-eight manuscripts known to have belonged to Richard de Fournival, medical doctor, astrologer, author of the Bestiaire d'Amour and chancellor of Amiens until his death in 1260. In 1922, Aleksander Birkenmajer discovered that Fournival' library, consisting of some three hundred manuscripts, had passed to the Collège de Sorbonne via Gerard of Abbeville. By a comparison of Fournival's catalog, the Biblionomia, with the 1338 catalog of the Sorbonne, b,e managed to identify in the Fonds de la Sorbonne at the Bibliothèque nationale seventeen manuscripts which once belonged to Fournival. Since then, other Fournival manuscripts have been discovered by Ullman, É. Pellegrin and Ker. Together, they provide a basis on which to recognize the characteristic features of manuscripts written for Fournival. On this basis, the author has identified another fifteen manuscripts from Fournival's library, primarily of classical authors in the old royal collection of the Bibliothèque nationale. From these it can be seen that Fournival not only employed scribes to write for him, but also acquired older manuscripts, dating from as far back as the ninth century, and Latin translations of Arabic astronomy coming from Italy.Manuscrits appartenant à Richard de Fournival.
Cet article fait une brève description des trente-huit manuscrits connus pour avoir appartenu à Richard de Fournival, docteur en médecine, astrologue, auteur du Bestiaire d'Amour, et chancelier d'Amiens jusqu'à sa mort en 1260. En 1922, Aleksander Birkenmajer découvrit que cette bibliothèque de Fournival, composée de quelque 300 manuscrits, était passée au Collège de Sorbonne via Gérard d'Abbeville. En comparant le catalogue de Fournival, la Biblionomia avec le catalogue 1338 de la Sorbonne, il réussit à identifier dans le Fonds de la Sorbonne à la Bibliothèque nationale dix-sept manuscrits ayant appartenu à Fournival. Depuis, d'autres manuscrits ont été découverts par Ullman, É. Pellegrin et Ker. L'ensemble fournit une base qui permet de reconnaître les traits caractéristiques des manuscrits écrits pour Fournival. Sur cette base, l'auteur a identifié quinze autres manuscrits provenant de la bibliothèque de Fournival, surtout d'auteurs classiques dans l'ancien Fonds royal de la Bibliothèque nationale. Il en ressort que Fournival non seulement faisait travailler des scribes pour son compte, mais aussi faisait l'acquisition de manuscrits plus anciens, remontant jusqu'au IXe siècle, et des traductions latines de textes astronomiques arabes venant d'Italie.Rouse Richard H. Manuscripts belonging to Richard de Fournival. In: Revue d'histoire des textes, bulletin n°3 (1973), 1974. pp. 253-269
A New Framework for the Citation Indexing Paradigm
No full textA new citation indexing paradigm is proposed: the cascading citation indexing framework (c2IF, for short). It improves the way research publications are assessed for their impact in promoting science and technology. Given a collection of articles and their citation graph, citations are considered at the (article, author) level. Each one article is uniquely identified by means of the Digital Object Identifier (DOI, http://www.doi.org). To identify each one author uniquely, a Universal Author Identifier (UAI) scheme is established. In addition to the citations directly made to a given (article, author) pair, citation paths that target each one citing article are also considered. The granularity of the paradigm is further increased by introducing the concept of the chord, whereby a citation path of length one co-exists with paths of length two or higher, involving the same source- and target- articles. The c2IF output emerges in the form
of a medal standings table, analogous to the one that ranks teams at athletic events: when two (article, author) pairs receive the same number of (direct) citations, the one that is cited by more popular articles (i.e. articles that comprise targets to a larger number of paths in the citation graph), is assigned a higher rank value
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