Evaluation of World Wide Web-based Lessons for a First Year Dental Biochemistry Course

First year dental students at The University of Texas Dental Branch at Houston (Dental Branch) are required to take a basic biochemistry course. To facilitate learning and allow student self-assessment of their progress, WWW-based lessons covering intermediary metabolism were developed as a supplement to traditional lectures. Lesson design combined text, graphics, and animations and included learner control, links to other learning resources, and practice exercises and exams with immediate feedback. Results from an on-line questionnaire completed by students in two different classes showed that they completed 50% of the lessons and spent an average of 4 hrs. on-line. A majority of the students either agreed or strongly agreed that practice exercises were helpful, that the ability to control the pace of the lessons was important, that the lesson structure and presentation was easy to follow, that the illustrations, animations, and hyperlinks were helpful, and that the lessons were effective as a review. The very positive response to the WWW-based lessons indicates the usefulness of this approach as a study aid for dental students

Looks Can Be Deceiving—A Comparison of Initial Public Offering Procedures Under Japanese and U.S. Securities Laws

In order to examine the divergent administration of statutes that are by their terms similar, the initial public offering procedures that a non-sovereign domestic issuer follows in the US and Japan are described

X-ray Transients Monitored by the All-Sky Monitor on RXTE: A Tabulation

We present a tabulation of 46 transient x-ray sources monitored with the All-Sky Monitor (ASM) on the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). They fall into four broad categories: short (~d), intermediate, and long (>500 d) duration of outbursts, and long period binary systems that flare up at periastron (e.g., Be systems). The mixture of outburst/quiescent cycles and low-level persistent emission in a few systems could indicate conditions are near the limit for stable mass flow in the accretion disk. The two short-time-scale systems, CI Cam and V4641 Sgr, are within 1 kpc of the sun, and hence many more such systems may await discovery.Comment: 18 pages, 2 figures, Submitted for publication in "X-ray Astronomy '99; Stellar Endpoints, AGN and the Diffuse Background", Ed: G.Malaguti, G.Palumbo, and N.White, pub. Gordon and Breach (v.2: Additional references added, erroneous figure replaced

Administrative Law—Mandamus

O\u27Reilly v. Grumet, 308 N. Y. 351, 126 N. E. 2d 275 (1955)

Divorce Jurisdiction—Marriage Performed within State Held Sufficient to Confer Jurisdiction on New York Courts

David-Ziesners v. Ziesners, 205 Misc. 836, 129 N. Y. S. 2d. 649 (Sup. Ct. 1954)