Our National Parks: The Slide Towards Mediocrity

12 pages

Our National Parks: The Slide Towards Mediocrity

12 pages

Barriers to Effective Implementation of Programs for the Prevention of Workplace Violence in Hospitals

Effective workplace violence (WPV) prevention programs are essential, yet challenging to implement in healthcare. The aim of this study was to identify major barriers to implementation of effective violence prevention programs. After reviewing the related literature, the authors describe their research methods and analysis and report the following seven themes as major barriers to effective implementation of workplace violence programs: a lack of action despite reporting; varying perceptions of violence; bullying; profit-driven management models; lack of management accountability; a focus on customer service; and weak social service and law enforcement approaches to mentally ill patients. The authors discuss their findings in light of previous studies and experiences and offer suggestions for decreasing WPV in healthcare settings. They conclude that although many of these challenges to effective implementation of workplace violence programs are both within the program itself and relate to broader industry and societal issues, creative innovations can address these issues and improve WPV prevention programs

The Importance of the Concept of Conscience-Collective in Emile Durkheim\u27s Thought: A Theoretical and Historical Analysis

One of the most important contributions to the discipline of sociology was Emile Durkheim\u27s theoretical discussion of the collective conscience. For Durkheim, it was the collective conscience—the common ways of defining the world, as well as the common moral bond between people—that provided the initial foundation for social solidarity. It was the glue that kept society organized and functioning. While Durkheim\u27s discussion of the collective conscience is a landmark contribution to sociology, it is clear that the idea of collective definitions and representations predates Durkheim. One of the purposes of this theoretical study is to demonstrate how indebted Durkheim\u27s thinking was to the thinking of the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. Significant parallels are shown to exist between Schopenhauer\u27s notion of representation in The World as Will and Idea and Durkheim\u27s pivotal concept of common moral bond or conscience as discussed in The Division of Labor in Society. The thesis is concluded by tracing the importance of the collective conscience through the rest of Durkheim\u27s major works—Suicide, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, and The Rules of Sociological Method. In each case, the link between Durkheim\u27s and Schopenhauer\u27s thinking is highlighted

Workplace Violence and Hospital Security Programs: Regulatory Compliance, Program Benchmarks, Innovative Strategies

The authors describe the issue of workplace violence in hospitals, a New Jersey state law and regulations regarding workplace violence in healthcare, and some innovative strategies that are being utilized to help reduce the occurrence and risk of violence. The authors also discuss compliance with the New Jersey regulations

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Utilizing Noncovalent Interactions for the Assembly of f-Element Hybrid Materials

The study of f-elements, the lanthanides and actinides, is a broad field that encompasses a wide range of disciplines, from materials science, to medical and biochemistries, radiochemistry, and nuclear physics. This breadth of inquiry is a result of a vast and unique set of properties and technological applications necessary for our modern civilization utilizing the f-elements. Improvements to these properties, or the discovery of new applications, continue to be active fields of research, motivated by a cognizance of material scarcity, environmentalism, and legacy nuclear weapons and energy waste. Researchers have approached the synthesis of novel f-element materials through two routes; applied techniques, such as novel synthesis processes and nanomaterial design, and fundamental exploration – electronic excited state energies, covalency and bonding, and investigating the minute details of structure-property relationships. It is through the vein of improvements via fundamental discovery that this dissertation has been prepared. Herein we present a series of studies that analyze the synthesis, structure, and properties of a varied set of f-elements – the lanthanides, uranium, and americium – through the application of specific material assembly criteria and focus upon the effects of those criteria on material properties. The vast array of materials presented fall under the category of hybrid materials – those that contain both inorganic, in this case f-element metals, and organic moieties. Of the hybrid materials classifications, the one of most consequence to this dissertation utilizes noncovalent interactions, intermolecular forces that are not formal bonds, for assembly. Several established noncovalent motifs, e.g. halogen and hydrogen bonding, have been targeted by specific and judicious ligand choice to connect hybrid molecules together and coax them into the crystalline solid-state. Structures were determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction and density functional theory calculations, utilizing crystallographic models, generated electrostatic surface potentials to further explore noncovalent interaction pairings in hybrid molecular materials. The findings highlight noncovalent assembly, and the synthesis techniques thereof, as a means toward significant control over the formation of hybrid materials and thus influence over their chemical and solid-state structure. Beyond the structural determination, spectroscopic analyses were performed via luminescence, vibrational, and electronic (absorption) spectroscopies. The f-element properties discussed hereafter are all influenced by local (the ligand environment of the f-element metal center) and global (supramolecular or intermolecular interactions) structural environments. Discussions focus on both local and supramolecular structural influences on spectroscopic signatures to analyze excited state, electronic structure, and behavior. Thus, utilization of noncovalent interactions in hybrid material assembly allows for increased control over structure, and thus structure-property relationships, toward a more thorough understanding of the fundamental properties of f-element structural and spectroscopic theory. Organizationally, this dissertation is presented in approximately chronological order and in order of f-element and spectroscopic complexity in regards to analyzing structure-property relationships