Purpose: Difficult patients comprise at least 15% of ambulatory visits and are associated
with clinician burnout. No structured procedure has been reported to assist health care …

Methods In this cross-sectional study, we piloted our questionnaire over 4 weeks in the
summer of 2012 in a Midwestern university-based family medicine residency clinic where 11 …

Non-metallic crystalline materials conduct heat by the transport of quantized atomic lattice
vibrations called phonons. Thermal conductivity depends on how far phonons travel between …

The thermal conductivity of a material or device is dependent on its characteristic dimension.
When the characteristic dimension is commensurate to the mean free paths of thermal …

This paper describes the instrumentation for broadband frequency domain thermoreflectance
(BB-FDTR), a novel, continuous wave laser technique for measuring the thermal …

There is ample evidence today in the stereotype threat literature that women and girls are
influenced by gender-stereotyped expectations on standardized math tests. Despite its high …

Waste heat from a heavy-duty truck diesel engine is analyzed employing the first and second
law of thermodynamics. A hybrid energy system is proposed, with the diesel cycle being …

While it is known that the arachidonic acid metabolite 20-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid (20-HETE)
contributes to ischemic injury in the heart and brain, its role in kidney injury is unclear. …

Like many Ciceronian dialogues, On the Republic presents a Greek legacy overlaid with
Roman ideas. At its most basic level this treatise, a pragmatic rendering of Plato's dialogue of …

Despite the introduction of new antiepileptic drugs, about 30 % of patients with epilepsy are
refractory to drug therapy. Thus, the search for non-pharmacological interventions such as …