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Enhancing cultural competence: Trans-Atlantic experiences of European and Canadian nursing students
This paper describes the enhancement of cultural competence through trans-Atlantic rural community experiences of European and Canadian nursing students using critical incident technique (CIT) as the students' reflective writing method. The data generated from 48 students' recordings about 134 critical incidents over a 2-year project were analysed by qualitative content analysis. Five main learning categories were identified as: cross-cultural ethical issues; cultural and social differences; health-care inequalities; population health concerns; and personal and professional awareness. Four emergent cultural perspectives for the health sector that became apparent from the reflections were: health promotion realm; sensitivity to social and cultural aspects of people's lives; channels between the health sector and society; cultural language and stories of local people. CIT was successfully used to foster European and Canadian undergraduate students' cultural reflections resulting in considerations and suggestions for future endeavours to enhance cultural competence in nursing education
Differential Impact of Directors’ Social and Financial Capital on Corporate Interlock Formation
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Narrating Reunions with Birth Families in Interviews of Adult International Adoptees
Narrating Reunions with Birth Families in Interviews of Adult International AdopteesMaarit Koskinen (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Fractional Periodicity of Persistent Currents: A Signature of Broken Internal Symmetry
We show from the symmetries of the many body Hamiltonian, cast into the form
of the Heisenberg (spin) Hamiltonian, that the fractional periodicities of
persistent currents are due to the breakdown of internal symmetry and the spin
Hamiltonian holds the explanation to this transition. Numerical
diagonalizations are performed to show this explicitely. Persistent currents
therefore, provide an easy way to experimentally verify broken internal
symmetry in electronic systems.Comment: minor correction
Low-lying excitations of a trapped rotating Bose-Einstein condensate
We investigate the low-lying excitations of a weakly-interacting,
harmonically-trapped Bose-Einstein condensed gas under rotation, in the limit
where the angular mometum of the system is much less than the number of the
atoms in the trap. We show that in the asymptotic limit the
excitation energy, measured from the energy of the lowest state, is given by
, where is the number of octupole
excitations and is the unit of the interaction energy.Comment: 3 pages, RevTex, 2 ps figures, submitted to PR
Plastic anisotropy of soft reconstituted clays
The aim of the paper is to extend the experimental validation of the S-CLAY1 model, which is a recently proposed elastoplastic constitutive model that accounts for initial and plastic strain-induced anisotropy. Drained stress path controlled tests were performed on reconstituted samples of four Finnish clays to study the effects of anisotropy in the absence of the complexities of structure present in natural undisturbed clays. Each test involved several loading, unloading, and reloading stages with different values of stress ratio and, hence, induced noticeable changes in the fabric anisotropy. Comparisons between test results and model predictions with the S-CLAY1 model and the modified Cam clay model demonstrate that despite its simplicity, the S-CLAY1 model can provide excellent predictions of the behaviour of unstructured soil
On the structure and spectrum of classical two-dimensional clusters with a logarithmic interaction potential
We present a numerical study of the effect of the repulsive logarithmic
inter-particle interaction on the ground state configuration and the frequency
spectrum of a confined classical two-dimensional cluster containing a finite
number of particles. In the case of a hard wall confinement all particles form
one ring situated at the boundary of the potential. For a general r^n
confinement potential, also inner rings can form and we find that all
frequencies lie below the frequency of a particular mode, namely the
breathing-like mode. An interesting situation arises for the parabolic confined
system(i.e. n=2). In this case the frequency of the breathing mode is
independent of the number of particles leading to an upper bound for all
frequencies. All results can be understood from Earnshaw's theorem in two
dimensions. In order to check the sensitivity of these results, the spectrum of
vortices in a type II superconductor which, in the limit of large penetration
depths, interact through a logarithmic potential, is investigated.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figure
Effects of Diet-Induced Obesity on Extracellular Matrix Remodeling During Skeletal Muscle Regeneration
THE EFFECT OF DIET-INDUCED OBESITY ON EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX REMODELING DURING SKELETAL MUSCLE REGENERATION
Michelle A. Tedrowe, Lemuel A. Brown, Richard A. Perry Jr., Megan E. Rosa, Jacob L. Brown, David E. Lee, Nicholas P. Greene, Tyrone A. Washington. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas
Skeletal muscle has the ability to regenerate from damage; however, recent studies have reported a negative effect of obesity on skeletal muscle regenerative capacity. The extracellular matrix (ECM) contributes to skeletal muscle structure acting as a scaffold for skeletal muscle. Additionally, skeletal muscle serves as a reservoir for proteins and growth factors that promote regeneration. Optimal skeletal muscle regeneration includes inflammation, ECM remodeling, and myofiber growth. Disruption to any of these processes can negatively affect skeletal muscle regeneration. PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to determine how diet-induced obesity (DIO) affects ECM remodeling during skeletal muscle regeneration. METHODS: Fifty-six male C57BL/6J mice were randomly assigned to two groups; lean diet (10% fat) and high fat diet (HFD) (60% fat). Within those two groups, mice were randomly assigned to either a PBS (uninjured) group or a bupivacaine (injured) group. Bupivacaine is a myotoxin which induces injury to skeletal muscle. Both groups received injections into the tibialis anterior (TA). Three or 28 days post-bupivacaine injection, the TAs were extracted and PCR reaction was done to quantify ECM-related gene expression (i.e. Collagen-I, Collagen-III, Fibronectin, TGF-β, MMP-2, MMP-9, and TIMP-I). RESULTS: There was no difference in Collagen III:I gene expression 3 days post-injection in the lean group (p\u3e0.05). However, there was a 3 fold increase (p0.05). Three and 28 days post injection there was a main effect of injury to increase MMP-2 gene expression (pCONCLUSION: Obesity altered ECM composition during skeletal muscle regeneration. This could negatively impact the ability of obese muscle to recovery form injury. These findings suggest that an altered composition could lead to a change in exercise prescription for this specific population.
This work was supported by a grant from the American Biosciences Institute and a Student Undergraduate Research Fellowship Grant
Geoeffectiveness and efficiency of CIR, Sheath and ICME in generation of magnetic storms
We investigate relative role of various types of solar wind streams in
generation of magnetic storms. On the basis of the OMNI data of interplanetary
measurements for the period of 1976-2000 we analyze 798 geomagnetic storms with
Dst < -50 nT and their interplanetary sources: corotating interaction regions
(CIR), interplanetary CME (ICME) including magnetic clouds (MC) and Ejecta and
compression regions Sheath before both types of ICME. For various types of
solar wind we study following relative characteristics: occurrence rate; mass,
momentum, energy and magnetic fluxes; probability of generation of magnetic
storm (geoeffectiveness) and efficiency of process of this generation. Obtained
results show that despite magnetic clouds have lower occurrence rate and lower
efficiency than CIR and Sheath they play an essential role in generation of
magnetic storms due to higher geoeffectiveness of storm generation (i.e higher
probability to contain large and long-term southward IMF Bz component).Comment: 23 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables, submitted to JGR special issue
"Response of Geospace to High-Speed Streams
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