A preliminary evaluation of natural and artificial hardwood regeneration on Ames Plantation in West Tennessee

In coordination with a timber harvest in 1967 natural and arti-ficial hardwood regeneration studies were established at Ames Plantation in West Tennessee. The artificial regeneration study entailed the establishment of cherrybark oak, yellow-poplar, and black walnut plantations. Loblolly pine was also planted to provide on site comparison of pine and hard-wood seedling performance. The natural regeneration study evaluated reproduction plots following three types of cutting. A clearcut was utilized throughout the stand; additionally a clearcut with cleaning in advance regeneration was applied to some study plots. Other reproduction cuttings included clearcutting plots containing no advance regeneration and coppice methods. Measurements of initial total height and mortality after two growing seasons were conducted in the artificial regeneration plots, Stand description tables of the natural reproduction treatments were compiled after three growing seasons. Additionaly, records of labor and materials used in connection with hardwood regeneration establishment were maintained for the study plots. Preliminary evaluation emphasized the biological aspects of results, in particular the influence of site components on natural and artificial hardwood regeneration. Successful plantations of yellow-poplar and cherrybark oak may be attained on suitable sites in West Tennessee, however, establishment will be costly. Control of competing vegetation, particularly honey-suckle, is necessary. Yellow-poplar should be emphasized on the best sites and cherrybark oak planted on intermediate quality sites. Direct seedling of black walnut cannot be recommended until effective and safe rodent repellents are devised. Successful growth and survival of black walnut requires superior growing sites and intensive cultural inputs. Planting technique (bar versus post hole digger) did not influence hardwood seedling survival or growth. Treatments which clearcut plots containing advance regeneration have not yielded changes in stand composition or structure. Natural hardwood regeneration in plots containing no advance regeneration indicated root sprouts to be an important source of reproduction following logging disturbance. The coppice regeneration treatment appeared to be an effective method of establishing desirable hardwood reproduction. Red oak, white oak, and hickory increased in stems per acre, whereas miscellaneous species were reduced following the treatment

Professional Shame as Experienced by Pre-Professional Accountants

While the role of shame in professions is an emerging area of research, it has not been thoroughly studied in accounting’s professional or educational settings. Shame has been explored in engineering and nursing education with powerful implications regarding well-being and learning. This study is primarily driven by the research question, “How do pre-professional accountants experience professional shame?” Using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA), I interviewed three pre-professional accountants to further understand the lived experiences of shame as accounting interns. I demonstrate the insights from the analysis of these transcripts, which characterize the experience of locating identity as pre-professionals, navigating expectations, experiencing failure as a threat to belonging, and seeking to preserve belonging as a response to the threatened belonging. These findings can be used to develop an educational structure to prepare pre-professionals for the workplace as well as address the social norms that invite imbalanced identity representations in the field

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Exploring Attitudes about Weight and Weight Stigma Among Undergraduate Health Science Students

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Board 270: Engineering Faculty Members’ Experience of Professional Shame: Summary of Insights from Year Two

In this paper, we present an overview of an NSF CAREER project, in which we seek to advance academic well-being by understanding how engineering faculty experience and reproduce experiences of professional shame. We present an overview of our data collection of non-standardized interviews with engineering faculty (n = 21) and how we are using interpretative phenomenological analysis to examine select individual cases (n = 12). We report our preliminary insights that 1) participants experienced complex and manifold socially constructed expectations that form the basis of their professional shame experiences and 2) participants’ experiences of professional shame varied according to how central their roles as faculty were to their identities. We describe our immediate next steps to integrate the processes of two qualitative studies so that we can generate insight into how engineering faculty link their experiences to their departmental cultures and ultimately train departments to build cultures where faculty and students are able to live well with the experience of professional shame

QUALITY HEALTHCARE IN NHS HOSPITALS: THE IMPACT OF PRESCRIBING SYSTEMS

The National Health Service (NHS) focuses on quality of care as a priority. With the NHS planning to go paperless by 2018, more hospitals in England are making the transition from paper to electronic prescribing (ePrescribing) systems. The aim of this programme of work was to understand and explore the influence different in-patient prescribing systems can have on key NHS healthcare professionals (doctors, nurses and pharmacists) working practices in England and quality healthcare.The programme of work, a three phase sequential design, used both qualitative and quantitative approaches. The first phase involved structured telephone interviews with chief pharmacists. Chief pharmacist interviews (n=65) focused upon the type of in-patient prescribing systems in use within each Trust and gained a management perspective of the different prescribing systems. Phases two and three were carried out at three acute NHS hospitals in England, at various stages of developing and implementing their prescribing systems. Phase two data were collected through multidisciplinary team (MDT) focus group discussions. The MDT discussions explored a number of areas associated with the prescribing systems in use: these included clinical workflow, communication, collaboration, patient safety and the use of a clinical indication on the prescription chart. Phase three data were collected using documentation analysis of the prescribing system and medical records, taken from patients cared for by the MDTs involved in phase two. Information extracted included any documentation made of a newly initiated medication, as well as the design of the prescribing system. The clarity and accuracy of documentation in the prescribing system and medical notes were compared to the GMC standards Good Practice in Prescribing Guidelines.Triangulation of data indicated how a change in prescribing system can impact upon individuals working practices by changing the design and clarity of the prescription chart, enforcing of regulations, accessibility and reliability, communication between key HCPs and the patient. These influences can be considered latent conditions in the systems that need addressing to prevent quality of patient care being compromised. The use of Socio-technical systems (STS) theory considered the interaction between humans and technology when using the prescribing systems. Understanding the issues where social and technical aspects interact in the prescribing system, emphasised where healthcare quality is impacted and therefore facilitated recommendations to improve working practices.The findings will help healthcare organisations to consider the impact a change in prescribing system can have on working practices and the latent failures that need consideration within the prescribing systems. The Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) system design must take into account the visual and physical needs of the user and consider how they can be improved to facilitate clinical workflow

Measurement of atmospheric elemental carbon: Real-time data for Los Angeles during summer 1987

Two fundamentally different techniques for measuring atmospheric elemental carbon (EC) aerosol were compared to validate the methods. One technique, photoacoustic spectroscopy, was used to measure the optical absorption ([lambda] = 514.5 nm) of in situ atmospheric aerosol in real time. This optical absorption can be converted to EC concentration using the appropriate value of the absorption cross-section for C, so that a comparison could be made with the second technique, thermal-optical analysis of filter-collected samples, which measures the collected EC by combustion. Solvent extraction of the filter samples prior to the thermal analysis procedure was required to minimize errors due to pyrolysis of organic carbon. Excellent 1:1 correlation of atmospheric EC concentrations resulted for measurements by the photoacoustic method vs the thermal method over coincident sampling times. The linear regression gave y = 1.006 (+/-0.056) x+0.27 (+/-0.56) with R = 0.945 (n = 41), where y is the photoacoustic EC concentration and x is the thermal elemental carbon concentration, both in [mu]g m-3. This data set was collected in Los Angeles as part of the Southern California Air Quality Study (SCAQS) during the summer 1987, and supplements the results of an earlier, more limited data set taken in Dearborn, MI. The diurnal variability of EC aerosol in Los Angeles during SCAQS, as determined by photoacoustic spectroscopy, is discussed.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/28903/1/0000740.pd

Trial by Fire: On the Terminology and Methods Used in Pyrogenic Organic Carbon Research

Our understanding of the cycling of fire-derived, i.e., pyrogenic organic matter (pyOM), as well as the goals of the community of researchers who study it, may be inhibited by the many terms and methods currently used in its quantification and characterization. Terms currently used for pyOM have evolved by convention, but are often poorly defined. Further, each of the different methods now used to quantify solid and dissolved pyrogenic carbon (pyC) comes with its own biases and artifacts. That is, each detects only a fraction of the total pyrogenic products produced by fire, while, at the same time, include some fraction of non-pyrogenic OM. This may be evident in the commonly observed correlations between pyC and total organic C reported for both soils and dissolved OM in many different systems. We suggest that our research area can be placed on a stronger footing by: (1) agreement upon a common set of terms tied to the method used for detection (e.g., of the form pyCmethod), (2) implementation of another “ring trial� study with a wider set of natural soil and water samples that cross-compare more recently developed methods, and (3) further investigation of the processes which preserve/degrade/transport pyOM in the environment