Electroweak-flavour and quark-lepton unification: a family non-universal path

We present a family-non-universal extension of the Standard Model where the first two families feature both quark-lepton and electroweak-flavour unification, via the SU(4) Sp(4)$_{L}$ Sp(4)$_{R}$ gauge group, whereas quark-lepton unification for the third family is realised à la Pati-Salam. Via staggered symmetry breaking steps, this construction offers a natural explanation for the observed hierarchical pattern of fermion masses and mixings, while providing a natural suppression for flavour-changing processes involving the first two generations. The last-but-one step in the symmetry-breaking chain is a non-universal 4321 model, characterised by a vector leptoquark naturally coupled mainly to the third generation. The stability of the Higgs sector points to a 4321 → SM symmetry-breaking scale around the TeV, with interesting phenomenological consequences in B physics and collider processes that differ from those of other known 4321 completions

Nursing and euthanasia : a narrative review of the nursing ethics literature

Background: Medical Assistance in Dying, also known as euthanasia or assisted suicide, is expanding internationally. Canada is the first country to permit Nurse Practitioners to provide euthanasia. These developments highlight the need for nurses to reflect upon the moral and ethical issues that euthanasia presents for nursing practice. Purpose: The purpose of this article is to provide a narrative review of the ethical arguments surrounding euthanasia in relationship to nursing practice. Methods: Systematic search and narrative review. Nine electronic databases were searched using vocabulary developed from a stage 1 search of Medline and CINAHL. Articles that analysed a focused ethical question related to euthanasia in the context of nursing practice were included. Articles were synthesized to provide an overview of the literature of nursing ethics and euthanasia. Ethical Considerations: This review was conducted as per established scientific guidelines. We have tried to be fair and respectful to the authors discussed. Findings: Forty-three articles were identified and arranged inductively into four themes: arguments from the nature of nursing; arguments from ethical principles, concepts and theories; arguments for moral consistency; and arguments from the nature of the social good. Key considerations included nursing's moral ontology, the nurse-patient relationship, potential impact on the profession, ethical principles and theories, moral culpability for acts versus omissions, the role of intention and the nature of the society in which euthanasia would be enacted. In many cases, the same assumptions, values, principles and theories were used to argue both for and against euthanasia. Discussion: The review identified a relative paucity of literature in light of the expansion of euthanasia internationally. However, the literature provided a fulsome range of positions for nurses to consider as they reflect on their own participation in euthanasia. Many of the arguments reviewed were not nursing-specific, but rather are relevant across healthcare disciplines. Arguments explicitly grounded within the nature of nursing and nurse-patient relationships warrant further exploration

The Future of Learning With Design Thinking in Mind

Build a leadership legacy advance the future of learning with design thinking in mind. Explore some of the references and resources provided in this hand out. Discern your personal orientation toward time. Familiarize yourself with design thinking principles and practices. Apply design thinking in the development of your teaching and learning products and services. Attend to the development of futures literacy in yourself, others and the organizations where you work. Shift conversations in your work place from uncertainty to choice. Create the future through agency and action.Resource and key points handout associated with invitational key note address to the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation Learning (INACSL) held in Washington DC June 22, 2017.International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation Learnin

Dipole operators in Fierz identities

We study the contribution from dipole operators to one-loop Fierz identities and provide the resulting QCD and QED shifts to the tree-level relations for all four-fermion operators. The results simplify one-loop basis changes as well as matching computations and allow one to consistently eliminate operators from an operator basis which give rise to complications, e.g. traces involving $\gamma_5$.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, 5 table

Renormalization scheme factorization of one-loop Fierz identities

We present a proof of the factorization of renormalization scheme in one-loop-corrected Fierz identities. This scheme factorization facilitates the simultaneous transformation of operator basis and renormalization scheme using only relations between physical operators; the evanescent operators in the respective bases may be chosen entirely independently of each other. The relations between evanescent operators in the two bases is automatically accounted for by the corrected Fierz identities. We illustrate the utility of this result with a two-loop anomalous dimension matrix computation using the Naive-Dimensional Regularization scheme, which is then transformed via one-loop Fierz identities to the known result in the literature given in a different basis and calculated in the Larin scheme.Comment: 26 pages, 2 figure

Developing Foresight Leadership Through Horizon Scanning

Horizon scanning models and methods: A half day workshop presented by University of Minnesota Librarians Jonathan Koffel, Caroline Lilyard, Daniel Pesut ,Liz Weinfurter and Melissa Bond to support the University of Minnesota School of Nursing Foresight Leadership: The Future of Nursing and Health initiative

Barriers and Benefits Associated with Nurses Information Seeking Related to Patient Education Needs on Clinical Nursing Units

The purpose of this study was to answer the following two questions: What are clinical nurses’ rationales for their approaches to finding patient educational materials on the web? What are perceived barriers and benefits associated with the use of web-based information resources for patient education in the context of nursing clinical practice

Media Review: <i>The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures</i>

Daniel Pesut reviews The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures, by Henri Lipmanowicz and Keith McCandless

Looking at the World in a Different Way

A review of Richard Slaughter’s (2013) book, To See with Fresh Eyes: Integral Futures and the Global EmergencyAssociation of Professional Futurist

Media Review: The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures

Daniel Pesut reviews The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures, by Henri Lipmanowicz and Keith McCandless