Directory of members, Genetics Society of America.
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In Drosophila melanogaster, individuals heterozygous for translocations between chromosomes Y and 3 can generate, by means of mitotic recombination, somatic cells bearing duplications and deletions. Using translocations with different breakpoints, I have studied the behavior of clones of cells with increasing degrees of aneuploidy in the abdominal cuticle. Both hyper- and hypoploid cells can survive being duplicated or deficient even for large chromosome 3 fragments. While hyperploidy does not severely affect cell viability, the recovery of hypoploid clones decreases linearly as a function of the size of the deleted fragment. In this report, the quantitative and qualitative aspects of this effect are discussed. (+info)
NIH awards to individual members of FASEB societies: an initial examination.
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Data from the FASEB Directory of Members were merged with information on NIH extramural awards to determine the percentage of FASEB society members who are principal investigators on NIH grants. Analysis of FY 1994 data reveals that FASEB society members earned 30.3% of all NIH awards and 38.8% of the R01 awards. Nineteen percent of the total membership of the nine FASEE societies were NIH principal investigators in FY 1994. This fraction rises to 21.6% when student and emeritus members are excluded. When adjustments are made for the fraction of the membership in government and industrial organizations, more than one-fourth of the academically based members are NIH principal investigators in FY 1994. Although the examination of principal investigators cannot document the full extent of NIH awards to members of FASEB societies (it was not possible to identify all of the scientists, postdoctoral fellows, and students supported through these grants), the study clearly delineates the magnitude of one essential part of the larger system of research support. (+info)
Building a Database of Data Sets for Health Services Research.
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The Database of Data Sets (DB/DS) for Health Services Research will be an online searchable directory of data sets which are available, often with restrictions and confidentiality safeguards, for use by health care researchers. The DB/DS project is aimed at a wide audience, and intends to include a very broad range of health care data sets, ranging from state hospital discharge data bases, to national registries and health survey data sets, to institutional clinical databases. The intended users are the same community of researchers, policy-makers, administrators and practitioners who are served by the National Library of Medicine's current bibliographic databases. This paper describes a pilot phase of the DB/DS project in which the issues involved in creating such a database were explored with an initial set of 20 representative data sets. (+info)
Facilitating physician referrals on the World Wide Web: representation and appropriate utilization of clinical expertise.
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In highly integrated and increasingly complex health care systems, the identification and proper utilization of clinical staff expertise are key factors for efficiently delivering high quality patient care. To achieve these capabilities on an enterprise-wide scale, we have embarked on a multi-phased project to develop World Wide Web (WWW)-based physician referral capabilities for two large teaching hospitals. Currently, users may search for information concerning the education, training, board certifications, and self-designated clinical interests of staff members. Address, phone number, email address, and a photo are also presented. Our experience indicates that institutional changes are required to successfully deploy and maintain online physician referral services and that accurate and equitable representation of clinical expertise and the incorporation of referral guidelines require an incremental introduction of a carefully planned program that addresses the needs of clinicians, administrators, and health care policy-makers. (+info)
Surgery on the Internet. Part 1: The origins of the Internet.
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The last few years have seen a dramatic increase in the size and use of the Internet; indeed recent figures estimate that the number of people with Internet access is increasing by up to 20 per cent monthly with over 30 million people now connected world wide. Many organisations, including The Royal College of Surgeons of England, now offer their own world wide web (WWW) sites. There are a number of areas and facilities on the Internet which are of particular interest to the surgeon; these include access to journals and textbooks, information of surgical units world-wide, e-mail and newsgroups discussing various surgical topics. The aim of this article, together with the two others in the series is to explain the steps necessary to get connected to the Internet and to illustrate some of the main areas of interest to the surgeon. This, the first of the articles will describe the origins of the Internet and the equipment and process required to get connected. (+info)