One-year transitional programme increases knowledge to level sufficient for entry into the fourth year of the medical curriculum

BACKGROUND: To cope with a lack of doctors and in anticipation of the Bachelor-Master structure for Medicine, several Dutch universities offer graduate entry programmes for students with degrees in areas related to Medicine. The graduate entry programme is a four-year programme: after a transition period of one year students enroll in the fourth year of the regular six-year training programme. AIM: The research questions in this study were (1) whether and when graduate entry students' knowledge reached a level comparable to that of regular medical students and (2) whether there were differences in knowledge levels between graduate entry students with a university or HBO (college) degree. METHODS: The progress test results of ninety graduate entry students who were enrolled in the transitional programme between 2002 and 2004 were compared to those of regular third-year students. RESULTS: Initially, graduate entry students scored significantly lower on the progress tests, but differences disappeared within a year. No differences were found between graduate entry students with a university or HBO degree. CONCLUSIONS: The results of this study indicate that the increase in knowledge after a one-year transitional period is sufficient to enroll students with related degrees in the fourth year of the regular medical training programme

Drying air-induced disturbances in multi-layer coating systems

A range of new experimental techniques is developed to quantify drying-air induced disturbances on low viscosity single and multi-layer coating systems. Experiments on prototype slide-bead coating systems show that the surface disturbances take the form of a wavelike pattern and quantify precisely how its amplitude increases rapidly with wet thickness and decreases with viscosity. Heat transfer measurements show that the redistribution of water to form an additional lower viscosity carrier layer while increasing the solids concentration of the upper layer or layers enables the maximum drying rate, for which drying-air induced surface disturbances are acceptably small, to be increased with significant commercial benefits

Brief for the Respondents, \u3cem\u3eTVA v. Hill\u3c/em\u3e, No. 76-1701

Brief for the respondents in the case of Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hiram G. Hill Jr., et al., heard by the United States Supreme Court in the October Term of 1977

Bond for Costs on Appeal, \u3cem\u3eTVA v. Hill et al\u3c/em\u3e, Civil Action No. 3-76-48

Bond for costs on appeal, in the case of TVA v. Hill et al, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Northern Divisio

Shock tube study of the reactions of the hydroxyl radical with combustion species and pollutants. Final report

Shock heating t-butyl hydroperoxide behind a reflected shock wave has proved to be as a convenient source of hydroxyl radicals at temperatures near 1000 K. We applied this technique to the measurement of reaction rate coefficients of OH with several species of interest in combustion chemistry, and developed a thermochemical kinetics/transition state theory (TK-TST) model for predicting the temperature dependence of OH rate coefficients

The Four-Fermi Model in Three Dimensions at Non-Zero Density and Temperature

The Four Fermi model with discrete chiral symmetry is studied in three dimensions at non-zero chemical potential and temperature using the Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm. The number of fermion flavors is chosen large $(N_f=12)$ to compare with analytic results. A first order chiral symmetry restoring transition is found at zero temperature with a critical chemical potential $\mu_c$ in good agreement with the large $N_f$ calculations. The critical index $\nu$ of the correlation length is measured in good agreement with analytic calculations. The two dimensional phase diagram (chemical potential vs. temperature) is mapped out quantitatively. Finite size effects on relatively small lattices and non-zero fermion mass effects are seen to smooth out the chiral transition dramatically.Comment: 21 pages, sorry, no figure

Phase structures of strong coupling lattice QCD with finite baryon and isospin density

Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) at finite temperature (T), baryon chemical potential (\muB) and isospin chemical potential (\muI) is studied in the strong coupling limit on a lattice with staggered fermions. With the use of large dimensional expansion and the mean field approximation, we derive an effective action written in terms of the chiral condensate and pion condensate as a function of T, \muB and \muI. The phase structure in the space of T and \muB is elucidated, and simple analytical formulas for the critical line of the chiral phase transition and the tricritical point are derived. The effects of a finite quark mass (m) and finite \muI on the phase diagram are discussed. We also investigate the phase structure in the space of T, \muI and m, and clarify the correspondence between color SU(3) QCD with finite isospin density and color SU(2) QCD with finite baryon density. Comparisons of our results with those from recent Monte Carlo lattice simulations on finite density QCD are given.Comment: 18 pages, 6 figures, revtex4; some discussions are clarified, version to appear in Phys. Rev.