Patchwork Green: Visualizing Landscape Evolutions at Vassar College

A visual exploration of Vassar\u27s palimpsestic landscape history, focusing on the evolution of Noyes Circle, the Class Tree Ceremony, and circulation around Main Building

How Nurses Balance Risk with Patient Autonomy When Making Decisions about Physical Restraint Use with Older Patients in Acute Care

The use of physical restraints to reduce falls within the older adult population in acute care hospital settings, are regarded as an integral part of risk management and prevention of patient harm (Bigwood & Crowe, 2008). Although literature indicates that nurses apply physical restraints to prevent injuries from a fall, there appears to be no robust evidence that links this intervention to injury prevention (Oliver, Healey, & Haines, 2010). Adding to this, decision-making around physical restraint use is a complex process and is influenced by different contextual factors (Dierckx de Casterle, Goethals, & Gastmans, 2015). The purpose of this interpretive descriptive study was to further understand how nurses balance risk with patient autonomy when making decisions about physical restraint use for falls prevention, and to provide a deeper understanding of risk and patient autonomy that are applicable and meaningful to everyday nursing practice. Perceptions related to nurses’ experience with balancing risk with patient autonomy were elicited through individual interviews with seven participants and one focus group session made up of five additional participants. The results of this research study provides insight into factors that influence the nurses’ decision-making process about whether or not to apply physical restraints

UNBOUND

Featured here, are the extraordinary works of our graduating Fashion Design class. This accomplishment is truly a celebration of the tree years of passion, hard work, and dedication of our students. It\u27s our hope that the fashion industry will partake in the creative endeavors of the emerging designers from the Fashion Design program at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario.https://first.fanshawec.ca/famd_design_fashiondesign_unbound/1002/thumbnail.jp

Finishing the euchromatic sequence of the human genome

The sequence of the human genome encodes the genetic instructions for human physiology, as well as rich information about human evolution. In 2001, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium reported a draft sequence of the euchromatic portion of the human genome. Since then, the international collaboration has worked to convert this draft into a genome sequence with high accuracy and nearly complete coverage. Here, we report the result of this finishing process. The current genome sequence (Build 35) contains 2.85 billion nucleotides interrupted by only 341 gaps. It covers ∼99% of the euchromatic genome and is accurate to an error rate of ∼1 event per 100,000 bases. Many of the remaining euchromatic gaps are associated with segmental duplications and will require focused work with new methods. The near-complete sequence, the first for a vertebrate, greatly improves the precision of biological analyses of the human genome including studies of gene number, birth and death. Notably, the human enome seems to encode only 20,000-25,000 protein-coding genes. The genome sequence reported here should serve as a firm foundation for biomedical research in the decades ahead

A Cutinase from Trichoderma reesei with a lid-covered active site and kinetic properties of true lipases

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