Subcritical Superstrings

We introduce the Liouville mode into the Green-Schwarz superstring. Like massive supersymmetry without central charges, there is no kappa symmetry. However, the second-class constraints (and corresponding Wess-Zumino term) remain, and can be solved by (twisted) chiral superspace in dimensions D=4 and 6. The matter conformal anomaly is c = 4-D < 1. It thus can be canceled for physical dimensions by the usual Liouville methods, unlike the bosonic string (for which the consistency condition is c = D <= 1).Comment: 9 pg., compressed postscript file (.ps.Z), other formats (.dvi, .ps, .ps.Z, 8-bit .tex) available at http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/~siegel/preprints/ or at ftp://max.physics.sunysb.edu/preprints/siege

The challenge of evaluating rural undergraduate multi-professional education

This paper describes teaching methods used for delivery of the MLMs, as well as evaluation methods and results. However, it also raises the critical question of whether multi-professional education (MPE) will be effective in promoting long-term changes in the graduates' approaches to their professional practice and whether the health outcomes of patients will be improved. This same question occurs repeatedly in the literature and there appears to be wide acknowledgement that there is a need for more substantial evidence of the benefits in terms of better practice outcomes