Quick Stain Removal Guide

4 pp.Many stains can be removed from clothing if treated quickly. This publication discusses pre-treating and removing stains in washable fabrics

Laundry on Your Own

4 pp.This publication explains how to remove stains, read care labels, sort and load clothes into a washer, and choose detergents and water temperature. A chart shows how to match fabrics with correct water temperatures and dryer cycles

Care Labels and Your Clothes

2 pp.This publication explains the care symbols that must appear on all clothing. These labels indicate proper care methods--washing, drying, bleaching, ironing and dry cleaning. If clothes are damaged when specified care methods are used, consumers can request an exchange or refund

The Impact of Stress Levels on Ethicality for Employees

This research seeks to fill a gap in the occupational stress literature by making a tentative step toward examining the extent to which stress is related to ethicality. A sample of 370 business employees at companies of various sizes were surveyed. The survey included twenty-two questions, was both age and gender-balanced, and well represented the U.S. We have examined the role of perceived stress on employees in organizations to understand the extent to which they may be conducive or debilitating to ethical conduct. As hypothesized, we find that stress is negatively related to ethics. In addition, we find a non-linear relationship such that high levels of stress result in negative ethicality while lower levels result in comparatively less negative ethicality

Ethics and the Dampening Effects of Pressure: The Moderating Role of Employment Level, Tenure, and Company Size

This study examines the relationship between a spectrum of employment-related variables (i.e., employment level, tenure, and company size) and Ethicality. A sample of 370 business employees of varying tenure and employment levels at companies of various sizes were surveyed to fill an important gap in the behavioral ethics literature. The survey included twenty-two questions, was both age (18 to 100 years) and genderbalanced, and well represented the United States of America. We have examined the role of a pressurized environment on employees in organizations to understand the extent to which they may be conducive or debilitating to ethical conduct. As hypothesized, we find a non-linear relationship between employment factors and Ethicality and a dampening effect of pressure across these key relationships

Obtaining Disaster Assistance for Small Businesses and the Self-Employed

3 pp.This publication explains the federal and state assistance programs available to small business owners and persons who are self-employed. There is helpful information about rebuilding a business after a natural disaster

A robust, semi-automated approach for counting cementum increments imaged with synchrotron X-ray computed tomography

Cementum, the tissue attaching mammal tooth roots to the periodontal ligament, grows appositionally throughout life, displaying a series of circum-annual incremental features. These have been studied for decades as a direct record of chronological lifespan. The majority of previous studies on cementum have used traditional thin-section histological methods to image and analyse increments. However, several caveats have been raised in terms of studying cementum increments in thin-sections. Firstly, the limited number of thin-sections and the two-dimensional perspective they impart provide an incomplete interpretation of cementum structure, and studies often struggle or fail to overcome complications in increment patterns that complicate or inhibit increment counting. Increments have been repeatedly shown to both split and coalesce, creating accessory increments that can bias increment counts. Secondly, identification and counting of cementum increments using human vision is subjective, and it has led to inaccurate readings in several experiments studying individuals of known age. Here, we have attempted to optimise a recently introduced imaging modality for cementum imaging; X-ray propagation-based phase-contrast imaging (PPCI). X-ray PPCI was performed for a sample of rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) lower first molars (n = 10) from a laboratory population of known age. PPCI allowed the qualitative identification of primary/annual versus intermittent secondary increments formed by splitting/coalescence. A new method for semi-automatic increment counting was then integrated into a purpose-built software package for studying cementum increments, to count increments in regions with minimal complications. Qualitative comparison with data from conventional cementochronology, based on histological examination of tissue thin-sections, confirmed that X-ray PPCI reliably and non-destructively records cementum increments (given the appropriate preparation of specimens prior to X-ray imaging). Validation of the increment counting algorithm suggests that it is robust and provides accurate estimates of increment counts. In summary, we show that our new increment counting method has the potential to overcome caveats of conventional cementochronology approaches, when used to analyse three-dimensional images provided by X-ray PPCI.Peer reviewe

Education as an exit strategy for community mental health nurses: a thematic analysis of narratives

The published version of this article can be found at http://pierprofessional.metapress.com/content/w4308755811015h6/?p=5e718699e9ef47ebba5bf1224dd37d33&pi=2. The copyright of the published article belongs to Pier Professional.A study of the narratives of community mental health nurses, with an emphasis on education and training, identified education as offering a 'stepping stone' out of a profession that struggles for recognition and status. This paper describes those narratives and the challenges facing healthcare organisations seeking to assimilate and retain the talent of those who have achieved academic success. The authors suggest that encouraging an expertise that integrates academic and practice skills might be achieved through more widespread appointment of clinical professorships

Sacrificing the personal to the professional: community mental health nurses

The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.comThe study of stress in mental health nurses has almost always focused on factors intrinsic to their job roles and has neglected the interaction between work and home roles, which may also be a source of stress. Moreover, role theory has not provided an adequate account of either personal or occupational change, especially when this results from the experience of stress. Methods. Twenty community mental health nurses agreed to participate in semistructured interviews about the stresses they experienced at work and at home. A grounded theory analysis disclosed the centrality of conflicts between work and home roles in participants' accounts and this provided the focus for subsequent detailed readings of the interview transcripts. Findings. Participants described how difficult and often demanding family situations were integrated with professional careers in a climate of rapid organizational change in the health service. As well as being an ongoing source of strain, these competing role demands were often described as leading to sudden changes for individual workers, such as periods of illness or re-evaluation of their work role. To assist in making sense of this process, the term ˜punctuated equilibria" was adopted to illuminate the build-up of tension between work and domestic lives, which was described by some workers as leading to a sudden reformulation of their relationship to their work roles and employing organizations. Conclusions and limitations. The study was small-scale and relied on retrospective self-reports. Nevertheless, it emphasized the importance of considering all the roles that individuals play and highlights the possibility that, even when staff are apparently coping with their roles at work and home, difficulties may be building up which could lead to a sudden period of absenteeism or disillusionment