The effect of preoperative stoma site marking on quality of life in patients undergoing ostomy surgery

The purpose of this study was to determine if preoperative stoma site marking by a Wound, Ostomy, Continence (WOC) nurse affects patient quality of life. This study used a descriptive design with a convenience sample of 25 ostomy patients. Sixty-three surveys were mailed to study participants and the response rate was 40%. Ten subjects (40%) had their stoma site marked by a WOC nurse preoperatively and fifteen subjects did not. Eleven participants reported that their ostomy was permanent (44%), while fourteen of the participants (56%) state they had a temporary stoma. Thirteen of the subjects had elective ostomy surgery (52%) and twelve (48%) had an ostomy created under emergent conditions. Overall quality of life scores did not differ between the marked and unmarked subjects. However, subjects who did not have their stoma site marked preoperatively had greater problems with pouch leakage (p=.0055) than those who were marked preoperatively

Analysis of programmed cell death in Tobacco Bright Yellow-2 cells.

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ST. MARY OF EGYPT IN BL MS COTTON OTHO B. X: NEW TEXTUAL EVIDENCE FOR AN OLD ENGLISH SAINT\u27S LIFE

Scholarship of the anonymous Old English prose Life of St. Mary of Egypt ranges from source studies and linguistic analyses to explorations of Anglo-Saxon female sexuality and comparisons to saints\u27 lives translated by the monk Ælfric, but all of these studies have been based on either the text extant in BL MS Cotton Julius E. vii or on W. W. Skeat\u27s edition of the Julius manuscript, Ælfric\u27s Lives of Saints (1881-1900). There is, however, an as yet unedited fragmentary copy of the Old English Mary of Egypt in BL MS Cotton Otho B. x, a manuscript severely damaged by fire in 1731. Digital imaging of damaged manuscripts in concert with ultraviolet fluorescence and other special lighting techniques has been shown to be effective for restoring the legibility of previously inaccessible texts. By means of such digital facsimiles I have transcribed the text of Mary of Egypt in Otho B. x, have collated this text with Skeat\u27s edition, and have discovered that Otho B. x contains textual evidence not found in Julius E. vii. In this thesis, I present my findings and discuss the significance of this new textual evidence for the Old English Life of St. Mary of Egypt

Tribute to David Gregory, Esq.

The Board and Staff of the Maine Law Review dedicate this issue to the memory of Professor David Doliver Gregory, who passed away on December 9, 2000. The Maine legal community and the University of Maine School of Law mourn the loss of our beloved teacher, advocate, and friend. In the collective memory of his students, Professor Gregory will always be remembered for the Socratic genius that he employed so effectively in class; his keen wit, often accompanied by a knowing smile and a twinkle in his eyes; his passion for ferreting out seemingly elusive legal principles; and his compassion and warmth for those he instructed. Perhaps above all, Professor Gregory will be recalled as the archetypal Law Professor that he was. He was the rarest of educators, someone who taught us how to challenge ourselves intellectually, and who demonstrated both in his life and in his teaching that the law not only reaches all facets of society but also touches upon the most fundamental and important aspects of human existence itself. On January 17, 2001 hundreds of his colleagues and students gathered at the First Parish Church in Portland, Maine to celebrate Professor Gregory\u27s life. What follows are the remembrances delivered at the memorial service and two tributes from professional colleagues that give a picture of his life in the courtroom and the classroom

Donnez au suivant ou le transfert d'expertise en soutien à l'insertion professionnelle

Comprend des références bibliographiques.La directrice du regroupement PERFORMA et l’une des répondantes locales de ce dernier au Cégep de Saint-Jérôme nous présentent le Microprogramme de 2e cycle en insertion professionnelle en enseignement au collégial (MIPEC), une formation qui permet le développement des compétences essentielles à l’enseignement collégial. Structuré comme un programme d’études, le MIPEC est un exemple de communautés d’apprentissage génératrices de communautés de pratique, en ce sens que les professeurs débutants sont formés et encadrés par des tuteurs qui sont généralement eux-mêmes des professeurs d’expérience, voire à l’aube d’une retraite, profitant du programme pour transmettre la richesse de leur savoir-faire et de leur expertise, favorisant ainsi l’insertion professionnelle au sein des collèges

GENETIC OF THYROID CANCER MOLECULAR ANALYSIS OF FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION SAMPLES TO REFINE THE DIAGNOSIS OF THYROID CANCER

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Telomeres and Thyroid Cancer

Telomeres are specialized structures at the ends of chromosomes, consisting of hundreds of repeated hexanucleotides (TTAGGG)n. Genetic integrity is partly maintained by the architecture of telomeres and it is gradually lost as telomeres progressively shorten with each cell replication, due to incomplete lagging DNA strand synthesis and oxidative damage. Telomerase is a reverse transcriptase enzyme that counteracts telomere shortening by adding telomeric repeats to the G-rich strand. It is composed of a telomerase RNA component and a protein component, telomerase reverse transcriptase. In the absence of telomerase or when the activity of the enzyme is low compared to the replicative erosion, apoptosis is triggered. Patients who have inherited genetic defects in telomere maintenance seem to have an increased risk of developing familial benign diseases or malignant diseases. At the somatic level, telomerase is reactivated in the majority of human carcinomas, suggesting that telomerase reactivation is a critical step for cancerogenesis

GENETIC OF THYROID CANCER FAMILIAL NON MEDULLARY THYROID CANCER

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