This systems level advanced health assessment course offers comprehensive assessment and skill development opportunities for Advanced Practice Public Health Nurses and Nurse Executives. It includes intensive work on the principles and techniques of performing a comprehensive systems health assessment in the context of aggregate, population, community, and organizational parameters. Aggregate, population, community, and organizational models are analyzed for use with diverse/varied systems.

The brain uses electrical signals to process all information it receives and analyzes. Individual neurons encode complex information into simple electrical signals; the meaning behind these signals is derived from the specific interconnections of neurons. The purpose of neurophysiology is to describe how the neuron produces electrical and chemical signals and illustrate how these signals are involved in the functional organization of neural circuits.

This course enables student dentists to understand how microorganisms live and infect humans and how humans respond to these infections to preserve health. Part I of the course presents basic microbial structure, function, and genetics; and principles of chemotherapy and drug resistance. Part II covers mammalian host defenses and the molecular basis of immunity. Part III presents the biologic and clinical basis of infectious diseases of all major organ systems including the mouth.

This course will enable dental students to apply basic oral biology principles to the contemporary diagnosis and treatment of oral disease. Oral biology is the the old course. Change made by minor change. study of the biologic sciences and their clinical correlates that pertain to the mouth and contiguous tissues in health and disease. Major oral systems are studied at the complete, cellular, and molecular levels with emphasis on important clinical problems affecting both hard and soft tissues. Lecture, 34 hours.

Elective courses offered by the Department of Oral Diagnosis and Oral Medicine provide opportunities for further study of or experience in various aspects of oral diagnosis and medicine. Topics may include extraoral radiology, advanced X-ray technique, oral medicine, and clinical laboratory experience. Hours variable ranging from a minimum of 16 hours lecture/discussion to a maximum of 10 weeks clinical experience. May be repeated to a maximum of 10 credits.

With the advice and approval of his or her faculty adviser, the first-year student may choose approved electives offered by the Department of Ophthalmology. The intent is to provide the student an opportunity for exploration and study in an area which supplements and/or complements required course work in the first-year curriculum. PASS-FAIL ONLY.

linear programming, large scale structures, quadratic programming, complementary pivoting, introduction to nonlinear programming. Applications to engineering and economics. Additional topics selected in geometric programming, stochastic programming.

Discrete event simulation and its application to performance analysis of mine production systems. Topics include concepts for characterizing production systems, approaches to structuring simulation models, instruction in a simulation language, and techniques for comparing alternative system designs and control strategies. Applications are made in modeling mine face operations, conveyor networks, and discrete vehicle transport systems.

conditions for nonlinear programs (constrained optimization). Solutions procedures: methods of feasible directions, penality methods, approximation methods, the method of generalized Lagrangians. Discrete optimal control (dynamic formulation). Solutions methods for control problems: decomposition and structured problems.