scholarly journals Study of Factors Involved in Tongue Color Diagnosis by Kampo Medical Practitioners Using the Farnsworth-Munsell 100 Hue Test and Tongue Color Images

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takeshi Oji ◽  
Takao Namiki ◽  
Toshiya Nakaguchi ◽  
Keigo Ueda ◽  
Kanako Takeda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Color Discrimination ◽  
Color Images ◽  
The Other ◽  
Kampo Medicine ◽  
Years Of Experience ◽  
Medical Conditions ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Traditional Japanese Medicine ◽  
Tongue Color

In traditional Japanese medicine (Kampo medicine), tongue color is important in discerning a patient’s constitution and medical conditions. However, tongue color diagnosis is susceptible to the subjective factors of the observer. To investigate factors involved in tongue color diagnosis, both color discrimination and tongue color diagnosis were researched in 68 Kampo medical practitioners. Color discrimination was studied by the Farnsworth-Munsell 100 Hue test, and tongue color diagnosis was studied by 84 tongue images. We found that overall color discrimination worsened with aging. However, the color discrimination related to tongue color regions was maintained in subjects with 10 or more years of Kampo experience. On the other hand, tongue color diagnosis significantly differed between subjects with <10 years of experience and ≥10 years of experience. Practitioners with ≥10 years of experience could maintain a consistent diagnosis of tongue color regardless of their age.

Crimes against the body: causing harm

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alannah Tomkins
Keyword(s):  
Violent Crime ◽  
Expert Witness ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
The Public ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Lay Public

Medical practitioners who were accused of committing violent crime against the bodies of people other than patients presented both the profession and the public with a problem. Both professional bodies and the lay public desired doctors to be social heroes, inhabiting the role of expert witness and protecting the body rather than appearing as a defendant. This study of practitioners accused of either rape or murder finds the limits of medical competition, as men accused of rape were likely to be acquitted to courtroom applause. Medical murderers, on the other hand, offered the profession viable scapegoats to reinforce the impression that the medical fraternity was willing to admit to limited instances of wrong-doing.

Disability Insurance Adjudication Criteria and the Incidence of Hard-to-Diagnose Medical Conditions

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Campolieti
Keyword(s):  
Low Back Pain ◽  
Back Pain ◽  
Disability Insurance ◽  
Pension Plan ◽  
Significant Decline ◽  
The Other ◽  
Low Back ◽  
Medical Conditions ◽  
Medical Problems ◽  
Other Hand

AbstractI examine the effects of a change in Canada Pension Plan disability program adjudication criteria on individual reports of medical problems. The estimates from this paper suggest that more stringent screening requirements are associated with a statistically significant decline in the reports of hard-to-diagnose conditions, such as low back pain. On the other hand, my estimates also indicate that changes in adjudication requirements do not have a statistically significant effect on the reports of easier to diagnose conditions.

scholarly journals Teaching Competencies for Arabic Schools Kindergarten Teachers in China.

2018 ◽  
pp. 834-841
Author(s):  
Abdo Hasan AL-Qadri ◽  
Zhao Wei ◽  
Mohammad Hamad Al-khresheh ◽  
Xiaoduan Chen ◽  
Ali Usman Hali
Keyword(s):  
Kindergarten Teachers ◽  
The Other ◽  
Years Of Experience ◽  
Psychological Growth ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Teaching Competencies ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Academic Qualification ◽  
The One

Due to the importance and special nature of kindergarten stage on children’s cognitive, social, emotional and psychological growth, this study aimed at identifying the main teaching competencies required for kindergarten teachers in China. To achieve this objective, an observation card was applied on a group of 41 teachers from different kindergartens. The findings of the study suggested, firstly, that the levels of teaching competencies might be divided into five levels. This classification might be attributed to the variables of the study; namely, specialization, qualification and teaching years of experience. Secondly, the findings also revealed that, on the one hand, there were statistically significant differences according to the variable of specialization and the years of experience. On the other hand, no significant differences were found due to the variable of academic qualification. On the basis of these findings, a group of recommendations were put forward.

Medicine and the Inquisition in Portugal (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries): People and Books

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 92-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hervé Baudry
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Overwhelming Majority ◽  
The Other ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Significant Percentage ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

Abstract The Tribunal of the Inquisition was established in Portugal in 1536. This paper deals with three aspects concerning medicine in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Portugal: the institution and its members, the medical practitioners, and the books. On the one hand, doctors were necessary to carry out specific duties in the life of the Inquisition. On the other hand, a significant percentage of the victims of the Inquisition were medical professionals, the overwhelming majority being New Christians accused of Judaism. Finally, as did the Roman and Spanish Inquisitions, the Portuguese Holy Office looked after the censorship of books, many of which dealt with medical matters.

scholarly journals Teaching Competencies for Arabic Schools Kindergarten Teachers in China

2019 ◽  
pp. 1129-1136
Author(s):  
Abdo Hasan AL-Qadri ◽  
Zhao Wei ◽  
Mohammad Hamad Al-khresheh ◽  
Xiaoduan Chen ◽  
Ali Usman Hali
Keyword(s):  
Kindergarten Teachers ◽  
The Other ◽  
Years Of Experience ◽  
Psychological Growth ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Teaching Competencies ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Academic Qualification ◽  
The One

Due to the importance and special nature of kindergarten stage on children’s cognitive, social, emotional and psychological growth, this study aimed at identifying the main teaching competencies required for kindergarten teachers in China. To achieve this objective, an observation card was applied on a group of 41 teachers from different kindergartens. The findings of the study suggested, firstly, that the levels of teaching competencies might be divided into five levels. This classification might be attributed to the variables of the study; namely, specialization, qualification and teaching years of experience. Secondly, the findings also revealed that, on the one hand, there were statistically significant differences according to the variable of specialization and the years of experience. On the other hand, no significant differences were found due to the variable of academic qualification. On the basis of these findings, a group of recommendations were put forward.

scholarly journals Analogies between processes in physiology and engineering

2002 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-74
Author(s):  
I. S. Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
The Other ◽  
Electronic Control ◽  
Years Of Experience ◽  
University Departments ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

Physiology and engineering as fields of study are nowadays lectured at different university departments and even different faculties. Despite the great differences between the corresponding terminologies and methodologies, there exist very interesting and insight- provoking analogies between seemingly unrelated subjects encountered in these fields. There is also an emerging effort to develop experts that are familiar with both physiological and engineering terminologies and that are also able to apply them in a creative manner. Even people with many years of experience on the one hand in physiology, medicine, zoology and on the other hand, in electronic, control and mechanical engineering often have the need for additional knowledge in their mutual fields of endeavour . The purpose of this work is to engender an interest in this respect by pointing out especially pertinent cases of analogies.

scholarly journals Experiments with a Multiprocessor

1984 ◽  
Vol 13 (185) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Møller-Nielsen ◽  
Jørgen Staunstrup
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Limiting Factors ◽  
Years Of Experience ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Processing Power ◽  
Order Of Magnitude

<p>In this report we summarize four years of experience with the Multi-Maren multiprocessor laboratory.</p><p>We have preferred to work with problems concerning software, in particular whether there are algorithms that can utilize the potentially very large processing power of a multiprocessor.</p><p>We have found that this is certainly the case and in the report we present a few of these fast multiprocessor algorithms.</p><p>On the other hand we have also found a number of examples where the gain in using a multiprocessor is very small. In all these examples the limiting factors are inherent in the algorithm, they are not hardware bottlenecks. We justify this somewhat surprising claim by showing that even in multiprocessors with an order of magnitude more processors than ours it is unlikely that hardware bottlenecks will limit the performance.</p>

Clinical Education for Engineers: ESTEEM Project

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Matsuki ◽  
M. Takeda ◽  
M. Yamano ◽  
Y. Imai ◽  
T. Ishikawa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Education ◽  
Difficult Problem ◽  
The Other ◽  
Engineering Applications ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Current Engineering

Current engineering applications in the medical arena are extremely progressive. On this occasion, the most frequently encountered and difficult problem must be an insufficient communication between engineers and medical practitioners. The reason is mainly due to the difference of their own cultures. Medical practitioners tend to think about everything based on their experiences episodically. They take it granted that medicine cannot be usually expressed in a strict manner. Another common obstacle is the safety of patients. On the other hand, engineers are usually trained to think about everything based on physical law expressed mathematically. In addition, engineers and medical practitioners cannot always understand one another’s jargon. It is therefore very hard though even not impossible to understand each other without special effort.

A study of cometary eruptions through OH radio-lines

1999 ◽  
Vol 173 ◽  
pp. 249-254
Author(s):  
A.M. Silva ◽  
R.D. Miró
Keyword(s):  
Short Duration ◽  
Growth Curves ◽  
The Other ◽  
Initial Mass ◽  
Radio Lines ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Sudden Rise

AbstractWe have developed a model for theH2OandOHevolution in a comet outburst, assuming that together with the gas, a distribution of icy grains is ejected. With an initial mass of icy grains of 108kg released, theH2OandOHproductions are increased up to a factor two, and the growth curves change drastically in the first two days. The model is applied to eruptions detected in theOHradio monitorings and fits well with the slow variations in the flux. On the other hand, several events of short duration appear, consisting of a sudden rise ofOHflux, followed by a sudden decay on the second day. These apparent short bursts are frequently found as precursors of a more durable eruption. We suggest that both of them are part of a unique eruption, and that the sudden decay is due to collisions that de-excite theOHmaser, when it reaches the Cometopause region located at 1.35 × 105kmfrom the nucleus.

Closing the GAP—A 5Å Scanning Microscope

1969 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 6-7
Author(s):  
A. V. Crewe
Keyword(s):  
Normal Form ◽  
The Other ◽  
Resolving Power ◽  
Scanning Microscope ◽  
Conventional Microscope ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Closing The Gap ◽  
Thermal Sources ◽  
Better Than ◽  
Transmission Microscope

We have become accustomed to differentiating between the scanning microscope and the conventional transmission microscope according to the resolving power which the two instruments offer. The conventional microscope is capable of a point resolution of a few angstroms and line resolutions of periodic objects of about 1Å. On the other hand, the scanning microscope, in its normal form, is not ordinarily capable of a point resolution better than 100Å. Upon examining reasons for the 100Å limitation, it becomes clear that this is based more on tradition than reason, and in particular, it is a condition imposed upon the microscope by adherence to thermal sources of electrons.

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