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DESIGN |
Discussion paper. |
DATA SOURCES |
A national survey conducted in July 2016 involving Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation members. The literature supporting this paper focuses on the nursing and midwifery workforce and studies on attraction and retention issues. |
IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING AND MIDWIFERY |
Workplace policies and practices in place in health care organizations that are within the control of management are key factors in the negative issues associated with the profession from the survey. Proactive and targeted interventions particularly aimed at salient issues of work intensification, declining engagement,... |
CONCLUSION |
To alleviate workforce issues pushing nurses and midwives to the tipping point of exiting the professions, health care organizations need to take a proactive stance in addressing issues under the control of management.Situation Awareness Issues in Unmanned Aircraft Systems Accidents and Incidents |
This study examined environmental situation awareness issues associated with accidents and incidents involving civil and public use unmanned aircraft systems operating in the National Airspace System. The data were derived from an information synthesis of archival publically available reports from the FAA Preliminary R... |
Abstract Objective: To assess the effect of a standard decontamination and sterilization protocol employed during reuse of cardiac electrophysiology (EP) catheters on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Setting: Public health viral research laboratory. Methods: Studies were performed on distal, electrode-containing seg... |
Multidomain sensor data processing and fusion provide reliable ways for situational awareness in multidomain operations and receive great attention in both industry and academia. However, these data processing and fusion are complicated in implementation due to various modalities and high complexity of sensor data. In ... |
Pi of the Sky is a system of five wide field of view robotic telescopes, which search for short timescale astrophysical phenomena, especially for prompt optical GRB emissions. The system was designed for autonomous operation, monitoring a large fraction of the sky with 12m − 13m range and time resolution of the order o... |
In the Henan province, China, the segregation ratio of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, estimated through classical segregation analysis on 103 sibships, is p = 0.462, and the maximum likelihood proportion of sporadic cases is x = 0.264. These figures are in agreement with the results of segregation analysis on 1,800 famil... |
This article proposes a theory of mediated presence, defined as the sense of presence— despite physical absence—made possible by technology. Pushing the boundaries of media, the theory integrates various notions of presence at a distance: telepresence in telecommunications and computer-mediated communication, liveness... |
We describe two types of artificial gene-regulation systems responding to cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) or caspase-3. These molecular systems use newly synthesized cationic polymers, PAK and PAC. The PAK polymer includes substrate oligopeptide for PKA, ARRASLG, as receptor of PKA signal, while the PAC polym... |
The study of self-efficacy and its role in teacher performance has intrigued the interest of many researchers over the last two decades. This study aimed to examine the perceptions of teachers regarding the role of principal instructional feedback during the process of teacher performance evaluation in increasing self-... |
The cell cycle of budding yeast has become a hallmark problem of molecular systems biology for a number of reasons. (1) The cycle of DNA replication, mitosis and cell division is crucial to all aspects of biological growth, development and reproduction. (2) The genes and pathways for cell cycle control seem to be very ... |
Purpose: To identify clinical predictors for reduced long-term survival and describe the cause of death after surgical |
treatment for rectal cancer. Methods: A retrospective follow-up study of 442 |
consecutive, unselected patients treated for rectal cancer at a tertiary |
centre from 1990 until 2000 and followed for 17 years or until death. Predictors for death were assessed by Cox |
regression analysis. The cause of death was obtained from the Norwegian |
Cause of Death Registry. Results: 254 men and 188 women with a median |
age of 71 years (21 - 95 years) were resected for rectal cancer with low |
anterior resection (n = 266), abdominoperineal resection (n = 125), Hartmann’s |
procedure (n = 19) or diverting stoma only (n = 32). Median follow-up was 5 |
years (0 - 17 years). The relative five-year survival rates for stages I, II, |
III and IV was 83.9%, 65.2%, 41.1% and 9.3%, respectively. The proportion of |
deaths due to recurrence from colorectal cancer in stages I, II, III and IV was |
23.5%, 55.8%, 72.3% and 98.0%, respectively. Heart, lung and cerebrovascular |
disease and other malignancies were the cause of death in the other patients. |
Higher age, abdominoperineal resection |
compared to low anterior resection, lack of lymph node dissection |
compared to total mesorectal excision (TME), postoperative reoperations, TNM |
stages II and III compared to stage I and residual tumours after surgery were |
all significant independent predictors of reduced survival in the adjusted Cox |
regression model. Conclusions: Age, tumour |
stage, type of surgery, lymph node dissection, residual tumour after surgery and reoperations are predictors for survival after surgery for rectal |
cancer. In the patients who died, the cause of death was due to a condition |
other than colorectal cancer recurrence in 32.3% of the patients. The five-year |
relative survival rate was related to tumour stage.Attenuation of DNA damage and mRNA gene expression in hypoxic rats using natural antioxidants |
This study aimed to explore the efficiency of carnosine (Cs) and/or l‐arginine (Agn) in the downregulation of apoptotic and inflammatory molecule expression and DNA damage caused hepatic injury in response to sodium nitrite (Sd)‐induced hypoxia in rats. Rats were injected with Sd; Agn or/and Cs were administrated prior... |
As data of COVID-19 patients is increasing, the new framework is required to secure the data collected from various Internet of Things (IoT) devices and predict the trend of disease to reduce its spreading. This article proposes security- and privacy-based lightweight framework called iFaaSBus, which uses the concept o... |
Abstract The Borrelia genus consists of spirochete bacteria known to cause Lyme disease (LD) and relapsing fever in humans. Borrelia pathogens are commonly transmitted via arthropod vectors such as ticks, mites, or lice. Here, we report the molecular screening of LD group Borrelia sp. from ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) colle... |
• Curriculum, the content of instruction, is built on the goals of education set forth by state and local education agencies. While these goals-literacy and social and economic survival-are the same for all students, the degree to which each individual achieves these goals differs. It is perhaps for this reason that Ka... |
Objective: We investigated the effects of exogenous oxytocin on trust, compliance, and team decision making with agents varying in anthropomorphism (computer, avatar, human) and reliability (100%, 50%). Background: Authors of recent work have explored psychological similarities in how people trust humanlike automation ... |
In genetically susceptible C57BL/6 mice the LP-BM5 isolate of murine retroviruses causes profound splenomegaly, lymphadenopathy, hypergammaglobulinemia, and an immunodeficiency syndrome bearing many similarities to the pathologies seen in AIDS. Because of these similarities, which also include terminal B cell lymphoma ... |
Summary. Imatinib mesylate (STI571) is a highly effective and well‐tolerated treatment for patients with chronic‐phase chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML), but information on its efficacy and tolerance in intensively pretreated patients is scarce. Thirty‐three chronic‐phase CML patients who were resistant or intolerant to ... |
Cyclophosphamide-pretreated homozygous C57BL/6 beige mice (B6 bg) were used as recipients for the transfer of lymphoid cells either of short-living autoimmune homozygous B6 'viable motheaten' mice (B6 mev) or of normal B6 mice (B6+) or B6 bg mice as controls. The grafts had no incidence on the survival of the recipient... |
[1] The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement program's Mobile Facility was deployed at Shouxian, China (32.56°N, 116.78°E, elevation 22.7 m), from May to December 2008. Aerosol optical properties derived from the Aerosol Observation System (AOS) measurements are analyzed. The median value of the light scattering coefficie... |
Various simplified models have been investigated as a way to understand the complex dynamical environment near irregular asteroids. A dipole segment model is explored in this paper, one that is composed of a massive straight segment and two point masses at the extremities of the segment. Given an explicitly simple form... |
Refi ned prognostication in hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) has generated considerable attention because it might enable better patient selection, allow comparisons across studies, and perhaps even permit optimization of transplant strategies. Serum ferritin has emerged as a leading candidate to advance prognostica... |
The most fundamental questions such as whether a cell is alive, in the sense of being able to divide or to form a colony, may sometimes be very hard to answer, since even axenic microbial cultures are extremely heterogeneous. Analyses that seek to correlate such things as viability, which is a property of an individual... |
Imagine attempting to explain to a visitor, from another era or another planet, the economic rationale behind various institutions in the American economy at the start of the 21st century. Few practices seem more difficult to justify to the outsider than the current procedure for the issuance of equity securities. The ... |
Maintainability is an important factor need to be considered in the strategy making process of armored vehicle engine. Combined with the factors analysis of the maintainability, fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) is used to realize the reasonable evaluation of the engine maintainability based on failure model effe... |
1. We shall consider a connected, metric and separable space which we denote by M. A subset X of M is called a cutting of M provided that the complement M—X of X is not connected and hence is the sum of two mutually separated sets Mi(X) and M2(X); X is said to separate two points or point sets A and B in M when the set... |
The oxidation of Co(II)/2-amino-2-hydroxymethyl-1,3-propanediol (TRIS) by dissolved oxygen is accelerated by S(IV) oxides (SO3 and HSO3-). The effectiveness of this autocatalytic process is controlled by S(IV), manganese(II) and oxygen concentrations. The synergistic effect of Mn(II) is clearly evaluated and depends on... |
After a quiescence of 12 years, the Izu-Ooshima volcano, located about 30 km east of the Izu-Peninsula in central Japan, erupted on November 15, 1986. On August 27, 1985, about 1 year before the eruption, a peculiar earthquake of magnitude 2.7 took place near the Moho boundary just beneath the Izu-Ooshima volcano, wher... |
Increasing complexity of Industrial automated systems requires high level discrete event control implementation in programmable logic controllers (PLCs). To date most PLC applications for industrial discrete event control systems (DECS) are basically heuristic, mostly supported by partial system analysis and limited pe... |
Biochar (BC) has been reported to improve growth and drought resistance in many plants. However, adequate information on the drought resistance mechanism mediated by BC on Phragmites karka, a bioenergy plant, is not available. The impact of BC additions (0%, 0.75% and 2.5%) on plant growth and physiology of Phragmites ... |
The randomised controlled (or clinical) trial (RCT) is recognized as the most valid among the study designs. The use of RCT in research is widespread and well formalised. In contrast, implementations of new methods and policies in routine health care are commonly lacking a formalised design, impairing the ability to ev... |
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