Solar Astronomy Data Base: Packaged Information on Diskette

In its role as a library, the National Geophysical Data Center has transferred to diskette a collection of small, digital files of routinely measured solar indices for use on an IBM-compatible desktop computer. Recording these observations on diskette allows the distribution of specialized information to researchers with a wide range of expertise in computer science and solar astronomy. Every data set was made self-contained by including formats, extraction utilities, and plain-language descriptive text. Moreover, for several archives, two versions of the observations are provided - one suitable for display, the other for analysis with popular software packages. Since the files contain no control characters, each one can be modified with any text editor

The toxic vortex: the lived experience of frustration in nursing practice

Background Frustration refers to the emotion experienced in the face of stemmed progress in spite of the best efforts being made and has been defined by Berkowitz (1981:83) as “an unexpected barrier to goal attainment”. The emotion has been identified as destructive to health and productivity in the work place (Maslach, Schaufeli and Leiter, 2001: Lewandowski, 2003; Vansteenkiste and Ryan, 2013), a source of moral distress (Burston and Tuckett ,2012) and a predictor of the intention to leave nursing (Li, Galatsch, Siegrist, Muller and Hasselhorn, 2011) Aim The paper aims to examine the sources and dynamics of frustration in nursing practice. Method Thirty- three nurses across community, public health, paediatrics, mental health and acute adult surgery talked exhaustively in interview about their experiences of frustration in their professional lives. The data was collected in a London teaching hospital trust and in three community NHS trusts in the East Midlands of England between November 2011 and August 2012. The interviews were audio- taped and transcribed verbatim. The transcripts were analysed using Grounded Theory Method. Results Frustration was experienced as a toxic force; a ‘time thief’ which defied proactive planning and undermined good practice. Suggestions in the extant literature on the pragmatic management of frustration were seen as unviable in nursing. Sources of frustration included non listening management, colleagues behaving badly and system- reality incompatibility. Frustration exerted a vortex effect on wellbeing featuring workload drift, non reflective behaviour, accelerated exhaustion, working relationship downturn, loss of autonomy, burnout and giving up. Conclusion Frustration in is the single most destructive entity in nursing. As a reflection point within a framework for clinical judgment it has potential for identifying hindrances to good practice and development of strategies to address them

Inter-professional Working and the Service User Perspective in Prescribing Practice.

The context of practice has changed. Attention has shifted away from the approaches and expertise of practitioners to the problematic nature of practice with its unpredictable fluid particularity; unique to the setting community or social relationship within which it takes place. Rightly so then that the focus of learning should be on the needs, character and “nature of the work itself” (Boud, 2010:31). Practice has traditionally been seen as something which is individual and autonomous but in reality groups of people act interdependently and practice participants are from different occupational and professional backgrounds; not just one. The notion of autonomous practice ignores the need to consider the perspectives of others. Practice groups are not only multidisciplinary but trans-disciplinary in that the individuals may have moved on from their original study cultures (Boud, 2010). Service users are increasingly seen as partners in practice with expertise of their own which they bring to the practice forum (Reed, 2011). This paper draws on learning theory, the sociology of empowerment and research in prescribing practice to argue that these notions are all the more the case in the world of prescribing. Progressive ways of working with service users and their families and professional colleagues across disciplines are proposed

Duty Versus Proximate Cause in the Law of Negligence - A Comparative Study

Duty Versus Proximate Cause in the Law of Negligence - A Comparative Stud

Use of support vector machines and fabry-perot interferometry to classify states of a laser

This thesis develops an algorithm that can determine if a laser is functioning correctly over a long period of time. A Fourier fit is created to model fringe profiles from a Fabry-Perot interferometer, and singular value decomposition is used to reduce noise in each signal. Levenberg-Marquardt gradient descent is performed to correctly locate the center of each image and to optimize each fit with respect to the spatial frequency. The Fourier fit is used to extract important information from each image to be used for separating the image types from one another. Principal component analysis is used to reduce the dimensionality of the data set and to plot a projection of the data using its first two principal components. It is determined that the image data are not linearly separable and require a non-linear support vector network to complete the classification of each image type

Alien Registration- Mckinnon, John W. (Pittston, Kennebec County)

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Dual-Targeting of NADP+-Isocitrate Dehydrogenase

Many mitochondrial and chloroplast proteins are encoded in the nucleus and subsequently imported into the organelles via active protein transport systems. While usually highly specific, some proteins are dual-targeted to both organelles. In tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.), the cDNA encoding the mitochondrial isoform of NADP+-dependent isocitrate dehydrogenase (NADP+-ICDH) contains two translational ATG start sites, indicating the possibility of two tandem targeting signals. In this work the putative mitochondrial and chloroplastic targeting signals from NADP+-ICDH were fused to a yellow fluorescent protein (YFP) to generate a series of constructs and introduced into tobacco leaves by Agrobacterium-mediated transient transfection. The subsequent sub-cellular locations of the ICDH:YFP fusion proteins were then examined under the confocal microscope. Constructs predicted to be targeted to the chlroplast all localized to the chloroplast. However, this was not the case for constructs that were predicted to be mitochondrial targeted. While some constructs localized to mitochondria, others appeared to be chloroplast localized. This was attributed to an additional 50 amino acid residues of the mature NADP+-ICDH protein which was present in those constructs. In addition, during the process of generating these constructs our sequence analysis indicated a stop codon present at amino acid position 161 of the mature NADP+-ICDH protein from both Xanthi and Petit Havana cultivars of tobacco. This was confirmed by multiple sequencing reactions and created discrepancies with the reported sequence present in the database. The results of this study raise interesting questions with regard to the targeting and processing of NADP+-ICDH

Methods used in the Lives Saved Tool (LiST)

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Choosing an optimum set of child health interventions for maximum mortality impact is important within resource poor policy environments. The Lives Saved Tool (LiST) is a computer model that estimates the mortality and stillbirth impact of scaling up proven maternal and child health interventions. This paper will describe the methods used to estimate the impact of scaling up interventions on neonatal and child mortality.</p> <p>Model structure and assumptions</p> <p>LiST estimates mortality impact via five age bands 0 months, 1-5 months, 6-11 months, 12-23 months and 24 to 59 months. For each of these age bands reductions in cause specific mortality are estimated. Nutrition interventions can impact either nutritional statuses or directly impact mortality. In the former case, LiST acts as a cohort model where current nutritional statuses such as stunting impact the probability of stunting as the cohort ages. LiST links with a demographic projections model (DemProj) to estimate the deaths and deaths averted due to the reductions in mortality rates.</p> <p>Using LiST</p> <p>LiST can be downloaded at <url>http://www.jhsph.edu/dept/ih/IIP/list/</url> where simple instructions are available for installation. LiST includes default values for coverage and effectiveness for many less developed countries obtained from credible sources.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>The development of LiST is a continuing process. Via technical inputs from the Child Health Epidemiological Group, effectiveness values are updated, interventions are adopted and new features added.</p