Toward a Definition of Nurse-Managed Centers

The purpose of this study was to gain consensus on a definition of Nurse-Managed Centers. To accomplish this task, Delphi survey methods were used with the participants of the Second Biennial Conference on Nurse-Managed Centers. Delphi methods entail obtaining autonomous consensus from experts through rounds of questionnaires and feedback of results. A questionnaire was developed that included 22 items obtained from the literature, past conferences, and the expertise of the authors. An additional 6 items were suggested by the conferees. Of the 168 conferees, 148 participated in the first round, 147 in the second, and 133 in the third. Fifty-three percent of the respondents were educators, 22% administrators, and 11% clinicians. More than 75% of the respondents were masters prepared. After the third round, the highest-ranked items indicated that NMCs should provide direct access for clients to professional nursing, be part of a strong referral network, base services on client participation, and provide holistic treatment. A definition was formulated and associations between ranked items and selected demographic characteristics were analyzed

Groups of companies : the parent subsidiary relationship and creditors remedies.

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Predicting soil moisture conditions for arable free draining soils in Ireland under spring cereal crop production

peer-reviewedTemporal prediction of soil moisture and evapotranspiration has a crucial role in agricultural and environmental management. A lack of Irish models for predicting evapotranspiration and soil moisture conditions for arable soils still represents a knowledge gap in this particular area of Irish agro-climatic modelling. The soil moisture deficit (SMD) crop model presented in this paper is based on the SMD hybrid model for Irish grassland (Schulte et al., 2005). Crop and site specific components (free-draining soil) have been integrated in the new model, which was calibrated and tested using soil tension measurements from two experimental sites located on a well-drained soil under spring barley cultivation in south-eastern Ireland. Calibration of the model gave an R2 of 0.71 for the relationship between predicted SMD and measured soil tension, while model testing yielded R2 values of 0.67 and 0.65 (two sites). The crop model presented here is designed to predict soil moisture conditions and effective drainage (i.e., leaching events). The model provided reasonable predictions of soil moisture conditions and effective drainage within its boundaries, i.e., free-draining land used for spring cereal production under Irish conditions. In general, the model is simple and practical due to the small number of required input parameters, and due to model outputs that have good practical applicability, such as for computing the cumulative amount of watersoluble nutrients leached from arable land under spring cereals in free-draining soils

Requirement for the NF-kappa B family member Re1A in the development of secondary lymphoid organs

The transcription factor nuclear factor (NF)-kappaB has been suggested to be a key mediator of the development of lymph nodes and Peyer's patches. However, targeted deletion of NF-kappaB/ Rel family members has not yet corroborated such a function. Here we report that when mice lacking the RelA subunit of NF-kappaB are brought to term by breeding onto a tumor necrosis factor receptor (TNFR)1-deficient background, the trice that are born lack lymph nodes, foyer's patches, and an organized splenic microarchitecture, and have a profound defect in T cell-dependent antigen responses. Analyses of TNFR1/1RelA-deficient embryonic tissues and of radiation chimeras suggest that the dependence on RelA is manifest not in hematopoietic cells but rather in radioresistant stromal cells needed for the development of secondary lymphoid organs

Regular Incidence Complexes, Polytopes, and C-Groups

Regular incidence complexes are combinatorial incidence structures generalizing regular convex polytopes, regular complex polytopes, various types of incidence geometries, and many other highly symmetric objects. The special case of abstract regular polytopes has been well-studied. The paper describes the combinatorial structure of a regular incidence complex in terms of a system of distinguished generating subgroups of its automorphism group or a flag-transitive subgroup. Then the groups admitting a flag-transitive action on an incidence complex are characterized as generalized string C-groups. Further, extensions of regular incidence complexes are studied, and certain incidence complexes particularly close to abstract polytopes, called abstract polytope complexes, are investigated.Comment: 24 pages; to appear in "Discrete Geometry and Symmetry", M. Conder, A. Deza, and A. Ivic Weiss (eds), Springe

Purple Sulfur Bacteria in Anaerobic Treatment Lagoons

Purple or pink colored lagoons, indicating the presence of purple sulfur bacteria, are less likely to be considered an odor nuisance than a more typical non-purple lagoon. The design and management factors that encourage the growth of purple sulfur bacteria are poorly understood. A study of eight purple and non-purple lagoons was initiated during the spring and summer of 1996. The intent of this effort was to identify critical factors that would allow purple lagoons to become a more predictable odor control alternative. A preliminary comparison of design and management factors assumed to be critical suggests more similarities between these two groups of lagoons than differences

Translating Prevention Research into Practive and Policy Through Community-Engaged Research, Evaluation and Service

How does a small, rural community effectively implement the CDC’s Community Guide recommendations for promoting physical activity?https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/prc-posters-presentations/1005/thumbnail.jp

Bird species diversity in riparian buffers, row crop fields, and grazed pastures of two agriculturally

Paper presented at the 11th North American Agroforesty Conference, which was held May 31-June 3, 2009 in Columbia, Missouri.In Gold, M.A. and M.M. Hall, eds. Agroforestry Comes of Age: Putting Science into Practice. Proceedings, 11th North American Agroforestry Conference, Columbia, Mo., May 31-June 3, 2009.A design goal associated with most riparian buffer systems is the enhancement of wildlife habitat. To determine whether this goal was being met, we compared breeding bird composition at five sites, including riparian buffers, nearby row crop fields, and an intensively grazed pasture along Bear Creek and Long Dick Creek in north-central Iowa, USA. The riparian buffers consisted of native grasses, forbs, and woody vegetation and represented three different ages (14+, 9, and 2 years old). At each site, 10 min point counts for breeding birds were conducted using 50 m fixed radius plots, which were visited eight times between May 15 and July 10, 2008. A total of 54 bird species were observed over all of the study sites. The installed riparian buffers incorporated in this study had higher bird abundance, richness, and diversity than the crop and pasture sites. The fewest species were detected within row crop fields (15 species) while the most species were observed on the oldest riparian buffer (42 species); intermediate numbers were observed on the 9 year-old (27 species) and 2 year-old (28 species) buffers and the pasture (23 species). Our results suggest that re-establishing native riparian vegetation in areas of intensive agriculture will provide habitat to a broader suite of bird species. In comparison to row crop and grazing land, the buffers contain a greater diversity of vegetative structure in both horizontal and vertical dimensions. Many birds are known to respond positively to such habitat heterogeneity.Sara A. Berges (1), Lisa A. Schulte (1), Thomas M. Isenhart (1), and Richard C. Schultz (1) ; 1. Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Iowa State University, 339 Science II, Ames, IA 50011.Includes bibliographical references