The vascular flora of the Kersey-Crump creek watershed, Hanover County, Virginia

A floristic survey was conducted in the Kersey-Crump Creek watershed, Hanover County, Virginia from spring 1978 through summer 1980. This upper Coastal Plain area (42 km2) near the fall line yielded 514 species of vascular plants, representing 334 genera and 113 families. Four hundred and seventy-nine county records were established. Panax trifolium, colonizing a rich wooded creek bottom, was the only plant rare to Virginia. Voucher specimens are deposited in the herbaria of the University of Richmond, Virginia, and the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia

The Implementation of Common Core Standards and Teacher Intent to Persist

The purpose of this study was to determine if the implementation of the Common Core Standards (CCS) into schools had an impact on teacher intent to persist in the classroom. Specifically, this study sought to determine if the implementation of the CCS was a factor of novice and veteran teachers’ intent to persist in schools located in south Mississippi. A review of the literature indicated that teacher shortages were not primarily due to recruitment and training, but rather, to a significant extent, were the result of teachers leaving the profession long before retirement (Ingersoll & Smith, 2004). Data were collected and analyzed from 208 participants located in three school districts in south Mississippi regarding their perspectives on the implementation of the Common Core Standards and their intent to persist in the classroom. Results indicated that there were no significant differences in teachers’ perspectives by grade levels taught or between novice and veteran teachers regarding the implementation of the CCS. However, there was a small significant correlation between the implementation of the CCS and teachers’ intent to persist in the classroom. Reponses to the survey questions suggest that teachers were happy in their current teaching positions and believe the CCS will fade away like many other government mandates have done in the past. The implications of this study suggest that the implementation of the Common Core Standards does have an impact on teachers’ intent to persist in the classroom

Wheat bran cereal, human gut bacteria and subjective wellbeing

Research has shown that consumption of high fiber breakfast cereal is associated with improved subjective well-being, especially increased energy. One possible explanation of these results is through metabolism by gut bacteria and concomitant production of metabolites that influence psychological and gastrointestinal (GI) welfare. This was examined in the present study to determine whether consumption of wheat bran could modulate the composition of the GI microbiota. This human volunteer study (20 volunteers) involved the comparison of three breakfast cereals, All-Bran, Bran Flakes and Cornflakes (60 g/d). The study involved a 14-day baseline phase (no breakfast cereals) and an eight-week experimental phase. Each cereal was consumed for 14 days. A seven-day washout period (no cereals) was carried out between each successive cereal condition. Faecal samples were collected every seven days. Enumeration of predominant faecal bacterial populations (bacteroides, bifidobacteria, clostridia, lactobacilli and eubacteria) was carried out using the culture independent fluorescent in situ hybridisation (FISH) technique. Faecal short chain fatty acid content was also determined. The volunteers completed a battery of questionnaires to assess fatigue/energy, subjective mood, physical and mental health, bowel function and fiber intake. The results showed that in general there was no overall significant effect of breakfast cereal type on the faecal bacterial populations studied. There was also no major effect of breakfast type on short chain fatty acid content. The high-fiber conditions (All-Bran and Bran Flakes) were associated with less fatigue, a significant reduction in cognitive difficulties, looser stools, more motions and feeling more energised

The Sheik : of Araby

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Educating Accounting Students On Computer Crime And Ethics

Accounting fraud has been prevalent in the popular press for the past several years.  The accounting profession has begun to stress the importance of ethics because of this negative press.  Some state boards of accountancy have begun requiring ethics courses as part of continuing education to maintain certification and licensing.  Many accounting frauds are in the form of computer crime.  Accounting students must be made aware of various types of frauds, including computer crimes, how frauds are prevented and detected, and why ethics are important in the accounting profession.  This paper describes several categories of computer crimes and technological means of preventing and detecting these crimes.  Computer crimes and prevention and detection means are as varied as the perpetrators who commit these crimes.  Finally, this paper suggests using a combination of three courses to educate accounting students on computer crime and ethics for preparation for their accounting careers.  These three courses are a traditional Accounting Information Systems (AIS) course, a fraud prevention and detection or forensic accounting course, and an accounting or business ethics course.  These three courses, used in concert, will provide accounting students with the tools they need when they are faced with incidents of fraud or ethics decisions during their accounting careers

Dynamic clusters (Dynamic Location of Phone Call Clusters)

When mobile handsets are making a call, a measurement report is sent to the serving base station periodically which includes the signal strengths to the base station and the next six strongest signals of the surrounding base stations. Motorola asked the Study Group if it was possible to say whether we could use this information to infer if phone calls occur in clusters and if it was possible to determine the locations, size and other features of these clusters. The Study Group found clusters in 'signal space,' that is, handsets reporting similar signal strengths with the same base stations and explored methods of locating these clusters geographically

Granulocitna rezerva u kronignom eksperimentalnom otrovanju benzenom u štakora

The normal two-fold increase in granulocytes in the peripheral circulation induced by corticosteroids was almost abolished in chronic benzene poisoning in rats.Normalno očekivani dvostruki porast granulocita u perifernoj cirkulaciji nakon primjene kortikosteroida izostao je u štakora kronično otrovanih benzenom

Psychiatric nurses’ views on criteria for psychiatric intensive care: acute and intensive care staff compared

Aim: To explore and investigate differences between the views of qualified nurses working in psychiatric intensive care units (PICUs) and acute care wards on which patients are appropriate for PICU care. Background: Previous research on the area of psychiatric intensive care highlights the great differences that exist in all aspects of service provision, from unit size and staffing levels to treatment approaches and physical environment. One of the most common areas of controversy is the type of client behaviour that warrants admission to the PICU. Method: Structured interviews of 100 qualified nursing staff (in the London area, England) working on either acute or PICU wards were used to gather data on appropriate and inappropriate referral to PICUs. Comments made during the course of the interviews were also collected and subjected to content analysis. Findings: There was evidence to support the hypothesis that acute ward staff considered patients suitable for PICU care at a lower level of risk than PICU staff thought appropriate. In comparison to acute ward nurses, those working in PICUs attended to a broader range of factors when considering suitability for admission to PICU. Appropriate reasons for transfer fell into five groups: risk to others; risk of intentional harm to self; risk of unintentional harm to self; therapeutic benefit from the PICU environment; and legitimate acute ward care problem. Inappropriate reasons for transfer fell into four groups: low risk to others and/or self; illegitimate acute admission care problems; patient belongs elsewhere; policy issues. Conclusion: The study opens up a range of issues not previously studied in relation to the use of PICUs and the intricate relationship of this use with the available acute care wards and other services. These findings and their implications for the care of acute and disturbed psychiatric patients are discussed

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A text and sound piece made in response to request for a work to be directly transmitted to Russian troops in Ukraine, as part of a participatory group project organised by SoFA colleague, Michael Mersinis, Spring 2022. As per the title, the text comprises of 167 x 'NO's - equal to 500 characters including spaces - the stipulated requirement for the broadcast to the Russian military. A simple and direct text, the word ‘NO’, is insistent in its repetition. The audio of this repeated word/composition, transposed into morse code, becomes intentionally persistent and disruptive. Potentially having the capacity to enter someone’s consciousness and get inside their head; perhaps causing them to actually think about saying ‘no’ and to act on it. Even though this might seem to be a reductive text - from which the morse code further strips back any intonation - the word NO is loaded in inferences and meaning: It could be interpreted as a command, instruction, scream, despair, sorrow, or a plea to stop. (In responding to our submission, Michael Mersinis replied, "the elliptical nature of it is what I am fascinated by from plea to command and whisper to scream this is what this is about - an active interruption...") Each transmission will have a multiple made - a small double-sided print approx. A5 size - that will commemorate the transmission. (As well as a potential publication to publish the submissions / include CD of sound pieces, to help the situation in Ukraine by raising funds to support those affected). The use of the word NO and the utilisation of the vehicle of transmission, refer to an earlier sound/light piece, 'NO YES' (2014, CCA Theatre, Glasgow): where two lights, in a darkened theatre space, were controlled by broadcast signals, in order to turn them on and off, in a call and response type relay. 'NO YES' is one work from a series of sound light pieces, including 'Release' (1999, Portikus, Frakfurt) and 'Barbarism' (2005, Klemens Gasser & Tanya Grunert Inc., New York) It is also related to a piece which was broadcast as part of 'Calling All Agents' event, International Necronautical Society (INS) Broadcasting Unit, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, April 2004