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Message from the 2017 Surgical Assistants Chair

1. Emina Vance (emina{at}hairtx.com) 1. Plano, Texas, USA </br>![][1]</img> As we are finalizing the program and confirming the faculty, I am proud to say that we are getting ready for another great meeting. A very important part of creating this year’s program is that I’m working

The Chattanooga Symposium on the History of Music Education, June 2–4, 2011

Organization At the Anaheim Music Educators National Conference (MENC) meeting in April 2010, several History Special Research Interest Group (HSRIG) members met informally and convivially to enjoy the professional camaraderie that has developed among HSRIG members over three decades. These members included Patrick Jones, William Lee, Jere Humphreys, Alan Spurgeon, Marie McCarthy, Sondra Howe, Carolyn Livingston, and others. Ideas were floated--half seriously-about planning another history symposium patterned on Keokuk II: The MENC Centennial History Symposium, which had been organized successfully by Jere Humphreys and Alan Spurgeon in 2007. Among the several proposed sites, Chattanooga, Tennesseee, came to be seen as ideal due to its well-developed Tourist acilities, reasonable cost, significant historical sites, and accessibility. William Lee: I knew that Chattanooga would be a good place to meet, but I felt it was not the moment for me or my university, so I demurred. A couple weeks after Anaheim, I thought differently about it. I contacted Jere andAlan and told them I would do it if they would help me based on their Keokuk II work. They agreed to help. If my memory serves me well, my comment was: Just don't let me blow this. Jere Humphreys: As a Tennessean I was well aware of some of the significant advantages of the Chattanooga site. Moreover, Alan Spurgeon and I also knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that Bill Lee would do a stupendous job as conference chair. Alan Spurgeon: I enjoyed the Keokuk conference and felt that it was time to plan another, so I was pleased when we started discussing the topic in Anaheim. When we toyed with the idea of Chattanooga and Bill Lee seemed interested in coordinating it, I knew that this could turn out to be something quite remarkable. Once the decision was made to proceed, Patrick Jones, national chair of the HSRIG, appointed William Lee as symposium chair. Lee, Humphreys, and Spurgeon then identified a date. Humphreys agreed to administer the review panel and program and to assist generally. Spurgeon would serve as assistant chair for the symposium and eventually wrestled with the scheduling, among other duties. Lee surveyed facilities at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) and in downtown Chattanooga, and decided the symposium would best be held at the historic Chattanooga ChooChoo, a hotel and former railroad station now on the National Register of Historic Places. In the end both Spurgeon and Humphreys assisted Lee in on-site management during the symposium as well. William Lee: I visited the facility one year in advance of the date we intended to use it. I was concerned about the weather, especially the heat, so I walked the facility in June, ate the food, and sat in the rooms to get some sense of things. I rode public transportation and checked out costs for a riverboat dinner we hoped to host. Everything seemed good. Jere Humphreys: Bill's advance work came to typify all the planning for the Chattanooga symposium. It included out-of-the-box thinking and detailoriented follow-through, and gave us opportunities to anticipate problems that might arise. Alan Spurgeon: Without Bill's advance work the conference would not have been nearly as successful. He knew what the community had to offer and gave us the best of it. Beginning in May 2010, a full year in advance, the trio began to organize a planning committee, advisory commitee, public relations committee, and the review panel. Suggestions from HSRIG members were considered, and the symposium announcement began to appear in various academic journals and web sources in early May. UTC department chair Lee Harris pledged staff help and financial support for the audiovisual equipment and printing and granted some summer load release time for Lee. In addition to the UTC, MENC, through its Society for Research in Music Education, also agreed to cosponsor the symposium. …

Message from Margaret Dieta, Surgical Assistants Chair of the 2011 Annual Meeting

1. Margaret Dieta 1. Surgical Assistants </br>![][1]</img> Hello Surgical Assistant Members: It is with sincere excitement and honor that I serve as your Surgical Assistants Program Chair for the 2011 ISHRS meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, USA at the Dena’ina Civic and Convention Center

Homer's War Experiences Resonate With Today's Troops

Homer's War Experiences Resonate With Today's Troops

Muscle Force and Joint Torque Prediction Model for Intelligent Human-Assisted Product Design

The muscle force and joint torque prediction model for intelligent human-assisted product design based on surface electromyography (EMG) was described. Muscle force and joint torque are the most important motion information in the intelligent assistant product design, and they can help designers to consider functional capabilities and limitations of different users when designing products. At first, thinking of the characteristics of daily tasks, surface EMG was adopted as the signal source. Secondly, the architecture of the prediction model based on the muscle physiological model and the musculoskeletal geometry model was proposed. According to the relationships of the “force-length” and “force-velocity”, the muscle force and joint torque could be calculated while the muscle active level was taken as one parameter. Finally, the experimental results of an intelligent stand-up assistant chair confirmed the effectiveness of the prediction model.

Message from the Surgical Assistants Chair of the 2009 Annual Scientific Meeting

1. Tina Lardner <!-- --> 1. Greenwood Village, Colorado </br>![][1]</img> Hello everyone! By the time you receive this issue, we’ve already been to the ISHRS Annual Scientifi c Meeting in Amsterdam. Up to this point, it has been quite an adventure organizing the Surgical Assistants

Message from the Surgical Assistants Chair of the 2009 Annual Scientific Meeting

1. Tina Lardner, Chair, ISHRS Surgical Assistants Executive Committee 1. Greenwood Village, Colorado (tlardner{at}aol.com) Phone: 877-694-9381 </br>![][1]</img> It’s getting down to the wire! We are just a few months away from the ISHRS Annual Scientific Meeting in Amsterdam. As it gets

Message from the Surgical Assistants Chair of the 2009 Annual Scientific Meeting

Message from the Surgical Assistants Chair of the 2009 Annual Scientific Meeting

Message from the Surgical Assistants Chair of the 2009 Annual Scientific Meeting

Message from the Surgical Assistants Chair of the 2009 Annual Scientific Meeting

Message from the Surgical Assistants Chair of the 2009 Annual Scientific Meeting

Message from the Surgical Assistants Chair of the 2009 Annual Scientific Meeting

New look at the old management of unknown primary

Journal of Surgical OncologyVolume 98, Issue 2 p. 71-72 Guest Editorial New look at the old management of unknown primary Scot Dowden MD, Corresponding Author Scot Dowden MD [email protected] Tom Baker Cancer Centre, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada Medical Oncologist; Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine and Oncology; Assistant Chair, Gastrointestinal Tumour Group; Director, Medical Oncology Training Program.1331—29th Street NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4N2; Fax: 403-283-1651.===Search for more papers by this authorWalter Miller D.O., Walter Miller D.O. Department of Surgical Oncology, Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Alberta, Canada Surgery Oncology Fellow.Search for more papers by this author Scot Dowden MD, Corresponding Author Scot Dowden MD [email protected] Tom Baker Cancer Centre, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada Medical Oncologist; Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine and Oncology; Assistant Chair, Gastrointestinal Tumour Group; Director, Medical Oncology Training Program.1331—29th Street NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4N2; Fax: 403-283-1651.===Search for more papers by this authorWalter Miller D.O., Walter Miller D.O. Department of Surgical Oncology, Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Alberta, Canada Surgery Oncology Fellow.Search for more papers by this author First published: 11 July 2008 https://doi.org/10.1002/jso.20995Citations: 1 AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article.Citing Literature Volume98, Issue21 August 2008Pages 71-72 RelatedInformation

Research of Anxiety When Seat Rises in Standing Up Assistance Chair

To clarify the movement of the standing up assistance chair and correspondence with the sense side of the user in this research, it considered it based on the result of the senses examination experiment. As a result, in the superiority or inferiority judgment of the influence that the movement pattern on the seat with the difference exerted on the person, there was a common criterion to the person, and it was guessed that it was an anxiety. Next, to examine the relation between the movement orbit on the seat and the user's posture change, the operation measurement experiment was done. Based on those results, the relation with rise on the seat and user's psychological senses was considered. Result, to decrease the anxiety according to the movement on the seat, the suggestion that it was important to reduce the change of the angle of the knee, and to reduce the spine curve angle change, and to support the body by the area with a wide seat, and to support a lot of weight by the seat, and to slow down the movement of the seat load center was obtained.

The Use of Standardized Patients in the Training and Evaluation of Physician Assistant Students

INTRODUCTION The education of health care professionals poses unique challenges in teaching and student evaluation. Didactic sessions can convey disease presentations, complications, diagnostic approaches, and treatments, as well as present detailed mechanics of medical procedures. Such sessions, however, may not transmit the practical ability to apply this knowledge in patient encounters. Furthermore, traditional testing may fail to identify students who are struggling to apply didactic knowledge to clinical settings. Unfortunately, deficits in clinical decision making and/or procedural skills may not be identified until after students have left clinical training. Thus, there may be few opportunities for additional instruction or other remediation. One approach to address these issues in health care professional education has been to incorporate standardized or simulated patients into training. Standardized patients (SPs) have a variety of backgrounds. Some are professional actors; others are paid participants who receive little or no training. Still others are volunteers who are asked to provide their own medical history for student practice. SPs have been used extensively in physician and nursing education, where they have proven to be valuable educational tools.1-4 SPs can provide specific advantages, including the portrayal of a standardized case, thus controlling for variability in comorbid medical conditions and nonmedical aspects of patient encounters. Practice with SPs may provide durable improvement in students’ communication skills. In a study of performance in family medicine and internal medicine residents, Yudkowsky and colleagues reported Bridget Calhoun, MPH, PA-C, is assistant professor and chair of the Department of Physician Assistant, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Colleen Vrbin, BS, is a health care data analyst at the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dana Grzybicki, MD, PhD, is a pathologist at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Denver, Colorado.

Design of air-operated spring-based stand assist chair tracking knee joint torque for the elderly

Owing to the reduction of the central pivot function caused by vein motion of the elderly, accidents such as dizziness, and tumble resulting from postural hypotension can occur when the elderly stands quickly from a seated position. In the present paper, an air-operated spring-based stand assist chair is presented, aiming at abating this burden. Through experiments of human pace analysis, the knee joint stress and torque in the standing process are acquired using statistical data from experiments using a simplified model of the human body and expressions of human engineering and theoretical mechanics. Thus the design and parameters of the assistant chair are determined. Two air-operated springs and four roller wheels compose the main part of the actuating mechanism of the proposed chair. The motion analysis of the actuating mechanism, considering the motion restriction and the slight velocity variation of the air-operated spring in the standing process, indicates that the actuating mechanism offers the elderly assistant torque that tracks the knee joint torque in the standing process, and facilitates them to stand up effectively.

Message from the 2007 Surgical Assistants Program Chair

1. Ailene Russell, NCMA, Surgical Assistants Chair 1. Charlotte, North Carolina </br>![][1]</img> As the time grows nearer for our annual meeting, I am getting more and more excited about this years program. Last year we made great strides in our program with the addition of the cadaver

Message from the 2007 Surgical Assistants Program Chair

1. Ailene Russell, NCMA, Surgical Assistants Chair 1. Charlotte, North Carolina </br>![][1]</img> I am honored to have been selected as the Surgical Assistants Chair for the 2007 ISHRS Annual Scientific Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada. Victoria Ceh is already instructing me to “get ready

Michael Chekhov and the Search for the ‘Ideal’ Theatre

In a keynote address delivered at the Michael Chekhov symposium ‘Theatre of the Future?’, held at Dartington Hall in November 2005, Andrei Kirillov argued that Chekhov’s ideas have not yet been fully assimilated, pointing out that merely to follow his exercises without understanding their connection to the actor’s imagination and meditative as well as spiritual dimensions is to fail fully to understand him. Andrei Kirillov is a researcher and Assistant Chair at the Theatre Department of the Russian Institute of the History of the Arts. His numerous publications on the history and theory of Russian theatre include Michael Chekhov: the Path of the Actor, co-edited with Bella Merlin (2005), and Teatr Mikhaila Chekhova: Russkoye Akterskoye Iskusstvo XX veca (The Theatre of Michael Chekhov: the Art of Russian Acting in the Twentieth Century, 1993). Bella Merlin originally enhanced the English-language version of this lecture, and with the author’s approval it has been further edited by NTQ for publication.

The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article Book ReviewsFull AccessThe Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup ArtistsAlan D. Schmetzer M.D.Alan D. Schmetzer M.D.Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:1 May 2006https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2006.57.5.736AboutSectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail The book The Game is another of Neil Strauss's biographies, but this book is partly autobiographical and a brief history of a group of self-styled "pickup artists"—people who essentially make a full-time career of trying to achieve multiple sexual conquests. The book has a thin, leather-like cover, gold lettering, and a bound-in ribbon bookmark, much like a Bible. The symbolism is intentional, as the book chapters are based on specific techniques and "moves" that form a "bible" of the art of seduction—how to "select a target," "approach and open," remove "the obstacles," "create an emotional connection," and so forth. Although "men will deny it" and "women will doubt it," Strauss declares this to be a true story and asks that the reader blame not the players but The Game. The book features a number of theories or "schools" of seduction. The running thread throughout is the author's search for his own perfect pickup technique and for a sense of satisfaction in life. The Game's goal is to be able to pick out a random "target" person in any setting, no matter how many competing companions are already present, and by virtue of the right combination of behaviors, body language, and words develop an attraction that ends with a phone number, a kiss, or the ultimate prize—a sexual encounter. Strauss arranges to meet various instructor-mentors, the "gurus," from whom to learn along the way. Each guru has had to study the art of the pickup as a set of behaviors to be analyzed and reduced to a given formula that he can both use and teach to other "nerdy" types, as they are called, during weekend workshops.The author goes from one guru to the next, perfecting his own style, and, in fact, he renames himself "Style." But by the end of the book, Strauss tires of The Game and does not like the way his new perspective has objectified women. Because of his new-found techniques, though, he finally finds one woman who is more than a conquest to him.The journey is liberally sprinkled with cameo appearances by celebrities, like Heidi Fleiss, Tom Cruise, and Paris Hilton, to name a few, and both domestic and foreign exotic locales. Strauss is able to laugh at his own foibles as well as describe the despair that can come with a narrow or shallow approach to life.This book has sufficient psychological and social subtext to be of interest to psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health professionals, both as a diversion and perhaps as a warning of how boundary violations could begin. Many of the described techniques sound plausible, and, for people so inclined, they might even work!Dr. Schmetzer is professor and assistant chair for medicine in the department of psychiatry at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. FiguresReferencesCited byDetailsCited ByNone Volume 57Issue 5 May, 2006Pages 736-736PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES May 2006 Volume 57 Number 5 Metrics PDF download History Published online 1 May 2006 Published in print 1 May 2006

ガススプリング式起立・着席動作支援システムの試作と性能評価

We developed a gas-spring-powered device for assisting activities of sit-to-stand and stand-to-sit for the elderly andpersons with disability. The assistive device is fitted to both normal chair and wheelchairs, and is comprised of three mainparts; a seat, two support frames and two gas-springs. The assistive device was evaluated in comparison experimentswith or without this assistive device and commercially available assistive chair. Ten young healthy subjects aged from 21 to 24 yr-old had measurements of joint torque of knee and elbow using a force plate, load-cell attached on an armrest andposition of joint marker in video. In addition electromyography of upper arm and thigh were also measured. From theresults, maximum values of joint torque decreased by 29%-78%in both activities of sit-to-stand and stand-to-sit by usingthe assistive device. In addition, maximum and integrated values of electromyography output of upper arm and thighdecreased by50%-74%in both activities of sit-to-stand and stand-to-sit. In contrast, percentage decrease of commerciallyavailable device(joint torque: -7%-40%, EMG: -24-43%)was lower than the present device. We suggest that thenewly developed device could be a useful means for assisting sit-to-stand and stand-to-sit activities.

Message from the 2004 Surgical Assistants Chair

1. Betsy Shea, LPN 1. Surgical Assistants Executive Committee 2004 </br>![][1]</img> I want to personally thank everyone who participated in this year’s Surgical Assistants meeting. All of the topics presented were very interesting. The open exchange of ideas flying around the room was