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Euro-American discussion document on entry and advanced level practice in nuclear medicine
The European Association of Nuclear Medicine Technologist Committee (EANMTC) and the Society of Nuclear Medicine Technologist Section (SNMTS) meet biannually to consider matters of mutual importance. These meetings are held during the SNM and EANM annual conferences. For several years, within these meetings, EANMTC and SNMTS have considered the value of having a Euro-American initiative in defining entry-level and advanced practice competencies for nuclear medicine radiographers (NMRs) and nuclear medicine technologists (NMTs). In June 2009, during the SNM annual conference in Toronto, it was agreed that a Euro-American working party would be established to consider advanced practice. It was recognized that any consideration of a definition for advanced practice would be predicated on an understanding or definition of entry-level practice. As a result, both types of practice would have to be considered. This discussion document outlines some of the background issues associated with advanced practice generally and specifically within nuclear medicine. The primary purpose of this document is to stimulate debate, on a Euro-American level, about the perceived value of advanced practice for NMRs and NMTs within nuclear medicine and to develop an internationally accepted list of entry-level competencies and scope of practice for NMRs and NMTs within nuclear medicine
Empirical comparisons of credit and monetary aggregates using vector autoregressive methods
An abstract for this article is not available.Monetary policy
WFPC2 Observations of Star Clusters in the Magellanic Clouds: I. The LMC Globular Cluster Hodge 11
We present our analysis of Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Planetary Camera
2 observations in F555W (broadband V) and F450W (broadband B) of the globular
cluster Hodge 11 in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy. The resulting V vs.
(B-V) color-magnitude diagram reaches 2.4 mag below the main-sequence turnoff
(which is at V_TO = 22.65 +- 0.10 mag or M_V^TO = 4.00 +- 0.16 mag). Comparing
the fiducial sequence of Hodge 11 with that of the Galactic globular cluster
M92, we conclude that, within the accuracy of our photometry, the age of Hodge
11 is identical to that of M92 with a relative age-difference uncertainty
ranging from 10% to 21%. Provided that Hodge 11 has always been a part of the
Large Magellanic Cloud and was not stripped from the halo of the Milky Way or
absorbed from a cannibalized dwarf spheroidal galaxy, then the oldest stars in
the Large Magellanic Clouds and the Milky Way appear to have the same age.Comment: 14 pages (LaTeX+aaspp4.sty), 3 tables and 4 figures (Postscript,
gzipped tar file). Postscript version of paper, tables, and full-resolution
figures available at http://www.astro.columbia.edu/~mighell/hodge11.html To
appear in the Astronomical Journa
A handbook for applying system dynamics techniques in value chains: An application to pig value chains
Using system dynamics methods for the impact assessment of animal diseases: Applications to Rift Valley fever and food safety interventions in pigs
Social Constructivist e-Learning: A Case Study
This paper considers the use of Knowledge Forum to complete a curriculum-based project with students enrolled in asynchronous, web-based Advanced Placement courses in Canada and the United States. Knowledge Forum is an online database that promotes written interaction in a social constructivist environment. The paper looks at how students utilized the system to enhance learning, more so than traditional environments, at both lower-order and higher-order levels
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