Medical Malpractice and Managed Care Organizations: The Implied Warranty of Quality

Managed care organizations (MCOs) have become prime targets in the new medical malpractice litigation, but getting a judgment against an MCO can be difficult. It is argued that courts should impose a tort-based implied warranty of quality on MCOs, under which they would be liable for selling physician services that are negligently rendered

Varietal variation and yield trials of Leucaena leucocephala (koa haole) in Hawaii

"November 1977."Cover title.Bibliography: p. 29.Mode of access: Internet

Poly-Bernoulli numbers and lonesum matrices

A lonesum matrix is a matrix that can be uniquely reconstructed from its row and column sums. Kaneko defined the poly-Bernoulli numbers $B_m^{(n)}$ by a generating function, and Brewbaker computed the number of binary lonesum $m\times n$-matrices and showed that this number coincides with the poly-Bernoulli number $B_m^{(-n)}$. We compute the number of $q$-ary lonesum $m\times n$-matrices, and then provide generalized Kaneko's formulas by using the generating function for the number of $q$-ary lonesum $m\times n$-matrices. In addition, we define two types of $q$-ary lonesum matrices that are composed of strong and weak lonesum matrices, and suggest further researches on lonesum matrices. \Comment: 27 page

Significance of autoclaving-induced toxicity from and hydrolysis of carbohydrates in in vitro studies of pollen germination and tube growth

Autoclaving of various carbohydrates resulted in decreased in vitro pollen germination and/or pollen tube growth in species belonging to different families. This toxicity was eliminated by treatment of autoclaved sucrose and glucose solutions with activated charcoal. Autoclaving-induced hydrolysis of sucrose at pH6 resulted in stimulated Agapanthus praecox pollen growth (in detoxified media) probably due to the formation of glucose which was found to be a superior carbohydrate source for in vitro pollen growth in this species. Considering these results as well as previous reports on anther culture studies, autoclaving-induced toxicity from and hydrolysis of carbohydrates should be taken into account in all pollen and anther culture studies as well as in vitro pollination of ovules

Hawaiian Plumerias

Reprint June 1972The plumeria is an important ornamental tree in Hawaii as well as in Florida, the West Indies, Central America, India, China, Indonesia, Australia, islands of the Pacific basin, and some other tropical regions. This booklet covers all aspects of plumeria cultivation in Hawaii

Martin Studies Bigotry, 1939-1995

Martin\u27s grandmother teaches Martin his superiority

Nurturing Professionalism: Here\u27s How.

Through specific practices in methods classes, prospective teachers can be taught the benefits of professional activism. One such strategy is to provide students with complimentary copies of Language Arts and ask them to read two or three articles that especially interest them. Another strategy asks students to read, select, and submit one or two articles from the English Journal that could be included in a class anthology of effective teaching practices. Still another assignment requires students to offer solutions/suggestions for problems raised in Classroom Practices, a series published by the National Councilof Teachers of English. A procedure that calls for considerable student involvement is the mini-conference in which students are asked to role-play published professionals, offering their ideas and strategies in conference-fashion to other members of the class. Writing assignments can call for the use of professional publications as models and stipulatls, a teacher audience for essays. Yet another strategy allows students to substitute conference attendance and participation for a major course assignment. By incorporating such practices in a methods course, students can learn to profit from professional studies and to practice a professional role