Panel III: Politics and the Public in IP & Info Law Policy Making

We have been moving gradually from the theoretical to the practical. Having examined the impact of critical legal studies ( CLS ) in the academy and having discussed the intersection between scholarship and activism, we now turn to the nitty-gritty questions of how to actually enact change in intellectual property and information law and policy

Panel III: Politics and the Public in IP & Info Law Policy Making

We have been moving gradually from the theoretical to the practical. Having examined the impact of critical legal studies ( CLS ) in the academy and having discussed the intersection between scholarship and activism, we now turn to the nitty-gritty questions of how to actually enact change in intellectual property and information law and policy

The 2MASS Redshift Survey - Description and Data Release

We present the results of the 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS), a ten-year project to map the full three-dimensional distribution of galaxies in the nearby Universe. The 2 Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) was completed in 2003 and its final data products, including an extended source catalog (XSC), are available on-line. The 2MASS XSC contains nearly a million galaxies with Ks <= 13.5 mag and is essentially complete and mostly unaffected by interstellar extinction and stellar confusion down to a galactic latitude of |b|=5 deg for bright galaxies. Near-infrared wavelengths are sensitive to the old stellar populations that dominate galaxy masses, making 2MASS an excellent starting point to study the distribution of matter in the nearby Universe. We selected a sample of 44,599 2MASS galaxies with Ks =5 deg (>= 8 deg towards the Galactic bulge) as the input catalog for our survey. We obtained spectroscopic observations for 11,000 galaxies and used previously-obtained velocities for the remainder of the sample to generate a redshift catalog that is 97.6% complete to well-defined limits and covers 91% of the sky. This provides an unprecedented census of galaxy (baryonic mass) concentrations within 300 Mpc. Earlier versions of our survey have been used in a number of publications that have studied the bulk motion of the Local Group, mapped the density and peculiar velocity fields out to 50 Mpc, detected galaxy groups, and estimated the values of several cosmological parameters. Additionally, we present morphological types for a nearly-complete sub-sample of 20,860 galaxies with Ks = 10 deg.Comment: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. The 2MRS catalogs and a version of the paper with higher-resolution figures can be found at http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/2mrs

Improving plan of care communication between primary resident teams and nursing staff

BACKGROUND Ineffective communication between physicians and nurses can compromise patient care. The aim of this project was to encourage resident physicians to provide daily, verbal updates to nursing staff regarding their patients\u27 daily plan of care. METHODS The study took place at the George Washington University Hospital. It involved five internal medicine resident teams and the nursing staff on 4-South. Baseline data was collected with a questionnaire that assessed the number of patients that the nurses received a verbal plan of care. PDSA cycle 1 was distributing the nursing radio frequency phone numbers to the residents before morning rounds, and PDSA cycle 2 was posting a written reminder in the team rooms to call with the following details: diagnosis, goals for the day, labs or procedures, and discharge status. Post-intervention data was obtained with the same questionnaire used at baseline. RESULTS Our data did not show a significant increase in the amount of plan of care updates given by the resident teams to the nursing staff. Baseline and intervention data were each collected over a course of 4 days. At baseline, there were a total of 5 reports called to the 31 nurses that completed the survey. During PDSA cycle 1 and 2, a total of 7 reports and 5 reports were called to the 33 and 36 nurses who filled out the survey, respectively. Of note, a separate survey was performed amongst the nursing staff identify the specifics to include in the plan of care update. CONCLUSION The benefits of constructive communication between physicians and nurses is well established in both medical and nursing literature. Literature reviews have found that physicians and nurses hold different attitudes regarding the importance and quality of such collaboration (1). Our experiences underscore this effect when considering the differences in what physicians felt was most important (providing a daily care plan update) and what nurses felt was most important (and expanded list, covering diagnosis, lab and procedure updates, and discharge planning). High workloads and burnout (2) are commonplace in residency, and may have had an adverse effect as resident physicians may have felt too overburdened to take on any additional responsibilities or allocate any more time from their already long work days to engage in collaborative efforts with the nursing staff. Future research should focus on the barriers to physician-nurse communication and collaboration, and identify ways to address them

The Management of Cleft Lip and Palate: Pathways for Treatment and Longitudinal Assessment

The care of children with cleft deformities is best managed by a dedicated team of specialists committed to their care from the time of diagnosis until adulthood. This craniofacial team works together to orchestrate the complicated treatment plan. Certain patterns of management and clinical intervention emerge as a child with a cleft grows up and develops. What follows is a brief overview of the time line of care and interventions that children with clefts experience in our craniofacial center

In vivo MRI of embryonic stem cells in a mouse model of myocardial infarction.

The therapeutic potential of administering stem cells to promote angiogenesis and myocardial tissue regeneration after infarction has recently been demonstrated. Given the advantages of using embryonic stem cells and mouse models of myocardial infarction for furthering the development of this therapeutic approach, the purpose of this study was to determine if embryonic stem cells could be loaded with superparamagnetic iron oxide (SPIO) particles and imaged in a mouse model of myocardial infarction over time using MRI. Mouse embryonic stem cells were labeled with SPIO particles. When incubated with 11.2, 22.4, and 44.8 microg Fe/ml of SPIO particles, cells took up increasing amounts of iron oxide. Embryonic stem cells loaded with SPIO compared to unlabeled cells had similar viability and proliferation profiles for up to 14 days. Free SPIO injected into infarcted myocardium was not observable within 12 hr after injection. After injection of three 10-microl aliquots of 10(7) SPIO-loaded cells/ml into infarcted myocardium, MRI demonstrated that the mouse embryonic stem cells were observable and could be seen for at least 5 weeks after injection. These findings support the ability of MRI to test the long-term therapeutic potential of embryonic stem cells in small animals in the setting of myocardial infarction