Validating a network hub in leukaemia stem cells

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Investment intermediaries in economic development: Linking public pension funds to urban revitalization

It is difficult for large investors, such as pension funds, to make investments in EDMs because they must make very large investments. The investments in communities of need, however, are usually small. The most successful strategy to overcome these two problems is for investors to work in concert with intermediaries that can aggregate the investments and community partners that understand both the need of communities and know how to tell “the story” to investors.

Ideals of Benevolence, Acts of Dysconsciousness: White Women\u27s Pursuit of Diversity in Nonprofits

Recent political movements such as the Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements have brought renewed attention to the social roles of White women and their unique position of intersectional privilege and oppression. White women experience the benefits of whiteness while simultaneously experiencing the gendered oppression of womanhood. However, there is a lack of research exploring how White women conceptualize and respond to their own positionality as both White individuals and as women. This study utilizes constructivist grounded theory to examine how White women navigate their social location within the context of working in the nonprofit sector, a space wherein White women are overrepresented and often in close contact with various elements of systemic oppression. The analysis revealed that White women view nonprofit organizations as protected spaces that allow them to foster careers without encountering overt sexism. However, White women also believe that nonprofits are fragile and easily threatened by external pressures. They seek to protect these spaces by maintaining a homogenous culture that aligns with White womanhood. They view increasing diversity as simultaneously aligned with their personal and organizational values and threatening to the organization’s culture and internal stability. As a result, White women engage in a variety of maneuvers that serve to symbolically pursue diversity without altering the fundamental culture of the organization. These maneuvers allow White women to see themselves as benevolent and values driven, while also maintaining their systemic power over People of Color. The findings offer insight into the role White women play in maintaining systems of racial oppression in response to their own fears of gender-based oppression, and guide recommendations for further intersectional deconstruction of oppressive systems. This dissertation is available in open access at AURA (https://aura.antioch.edu) and OhioLINK ETD Center (https://etd.ohiolink.edu)

Use of Public Health Detailing to Improve Provider Practice in the Clinical Management of Syphilis

Background: Throughout history, syphilis has been a challenge to manage and control until the invention of penicillin in 1943 was available. Even with effective treatment, the diagnosis and clinical management of syphilis remains a challenge for providers. Purpose: The purpose of this project was to increase provider knowledge of evidence-based practice in the clinical management of syphilis, using public health detailing, to decrease inadequate and delayed identification and treatment of syphilis. Methods: Providers from a federally qualified health center (FQHC) participated in one public health detailing visit during March of 2021. Each provider completed a Provider Practice Assessment, which looked at their knowledge, practice, and attitudes in the clinical management of syphilis. Creation of an evidence-based Syphilis Pocket Guide was utilized to promote knowledge translation. Quantitative data was entered into Microsoft Excel and analyzed using descriptive statistics, such as frequency and percentages. Results: A total of five providers participated in the public health detailing visit and completed the Provider Practice Assessment. The results are consistent with the claim that providers encounter challenges when managing patients with syphilis, with over 40% of providers self-rating their knowledge of syphilis staging as either fair or poor. Conclusion: Positive reception and feedback of the public health detailing visits suggests they are successful strategies to providing useful evidence-based practice education. Future recommendations include a more robust, edited Provider Practice Assessment, a larger provider participant population, and ongoing evaluation. Keywords: syphilis, clinical management, provider practice, public health detailin

How predictable are evolutionary responses to environment? Comparing trait-environment relationships among three species of Asteraceae forbs in the Great Basin

Restoring native forbs in the Great Basin Desert is an important part of regenerating a healthy landscape that benefits wildlife, plant communities, and humans. Despite their importance and contribution to plant diversity, forbs have been understudied relative to grasses and shrubs. To begin bridging this knowledge gap, we examined three Asteraceae species (Chaenactis douglasii, Dieteria canescens, Erigeron pumilus) collected from a wide geographic area and grown in common garden experiments, asking how variable these species and populations are, how their traits were associated with environment of origin, and how two of the three species responded to water addition in direct-seeding environments. We also asked if trait-environment relationships were similar among these three species. As expected, we found that populations were extremely variable, and that much of this variation was significantly different among populations, with some variation explained by the ecoregion where populations were gathered. All three species had at least one trait strongly correlated with an environmental variable, sometimes in similar ways. For example, we found a consistent relationship where plants from higher elevation locations flowered earlier across all species, as well as a relationship with plant height and mean annual temperature, with taller plants sourced from warmer areas. Across species, the strongest trait-environment relationships we found were found for plant height, flowering phenology, and flower production, though there was variation in which environmental variables were most correlated with these responses. Our results suggest that approaches that generalize across species, even closely related ones, may not be adequate when determining whether a potential seed-source is well-matched to a target restoration site. Instead, our results support the idea that species-specific seed zones (areas where seeds can be moved without loss of performance) should be developed to help make this decision. Additionally, we found that environmental variables such as mean annual temperature and elevation were highly associated with traits that are typically considered important in restoration, i.e. phenology, number of inflorescences, and plant size. Therefore, before species-specific seed zones are available, we may be able to use these environmental factors as proxies to help us better match seed sources to target restoration sites. Finally, we also found that at least one species (C. douglasii) emerged from seed more readily when it was sourced from a drier origin, in both ambient and water addition conditions. Although more research needs to be done in this area, this suggests that seeds sourced from drier locations may be better suited for restoration projects that are being direct-seeded

CONTRIBUTION DE LA NANOTECHNOLOGIE ET LA NANOSCIENCE A L’EMERGENCE D’UN NOUVEAU TYPE DE CENTRALITE APPELE : LA NANOCENTRALITE NUMERIQUE ET INTELLIGENTE

ABSTRACTOver the last two decades, urban-urban architects have noticed nanotechnology and nanoscience-induced changes in the functioning and layout of human settlements and their contemporary urban centralities. The aim of this article is to explain the changes brought about by the two recent specialties on contemporary urban centrality. It is the era of a new form of centrality called: Digital and intelligent nanocentrality composed of digitized and high intelligence equipment, meets the requirements of the new digital revolution, that took on a new impetus at the beginning of this twenty-first century in the majority disciplines. These nanocentralities are connected by virtual networks in the form of a "spider web" via last generation satellites. These nanocentralities will manage various problems, including, the supremacy of the urban on the territories and what it has generated as spreading and fragmentation, become unavoidable in most urban situations.Au cours des deux dernières décennies, les architectes –urbanistes ont noté des changements induits par la nano technologie et la nanoscience sur le fonctionnement et l’aménagement des établissements humains et leurs centralités urbaines contemporaines. Delà, l’objectif de cet article, est de participer à l’explicitation des mutations apportées par les deux récentes spécialités sur la centralité urbaine contemporaine. C’est l’ère d’une nouvelle forme de centralité que nous avons appelé : Nanocentralité numérique et intelligente composée d’équipements numérisés et de haute intelligence et qui répond aux exigences de la nouvelle révolution numérique et digitale qui a pris un nouvel élan au début de ce vingt et un nième siècle dans la majorité des disciplines. Ces nanocentralités sont reliées par des réseaux virtuels sous forme d’une « toile d’araignée » via des satellites dernière génération et elles vont gérer des problématiques diverses dont, la suprématie de l’urbain sur les territoires et ce qu’il a engendré comme étalement et fragmentation, devenus incontournable dans la plus part des situations urbaines.MOTS CLES: Centralité urbaine contemporaine, nanotechnologie et nanoscience, nano centralité numérique et intelligente, polynanocentralité numérique et intelligente, révolution numérique et digitale, équipement numérisé et de haute intelligence

Reducing CLABSI in the NICU with IV Tubing Competency

Central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) is a significant problem in a Level IV neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) on the West Coast of California. A clinical nurse leader (CNL) student joined a team consisting of the unit’s nursing manager, nursing educator, clinical nurse specialist (CNS), and CNS student. Literature review highlighted the association between the development of CLABSI and the practice of changing central line intravenous (IV) tubing. Five interviews of nurses and 15 observations of nurses performing IV tubing change revealed practice variations within six major steps of the procedure. The team revised the IV tubing change policy to improve comprehension and feasibility and then educated nurses on the changes. The team sought to eliminate variations and standardize practice by designing a competency for IV tubing change that requires all nurses to perform the procedure as an instructor observes for accuracy with every step of the new policy. Evaluation of the competency is ongoing, but follow up questions include: (1) Have all nurses successfully passed the competency? (2) Are nurses maintaining compliance with the new policy after completion of the competency? (3) Has the CLABSI rate decreased in response to the competency