Value-based Nursing Education

Curriculum guidelines from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing ( [ AACN], 1998) espouse that baccalaureate programs facilitate the development of professional values. The five core nursing values include human dignity, integrity, autonomy, altruism, and social justice. Behaviors that reflect these values characterize the caring, professional nurse (AACN, 1998). Teaching attitudes and actions that facilitate caring is a curriculum challenge. Caring is a multi-dimensional nursing concept that can be actualized through purposeful teaching and student-centered learning of core nursing values. This scholarly paper presents an innovative and integrative approach to value-based education in the baccalaureate nursing program at South Dakota State University (SDSU)

Galaxy sizes as a function of environment at intermediate redshift from the ESO Distant Cluster Survey

In order to assess whether the environment has a significant effect on galaxy sizes, we compare the mass–size relations of cluster and field galaxies in the 0.41), with early-type/passive galaxies in higher density environments growing earlier. Such dependence disappears at lower redshifts. Therefore, if the reported difference at higher-z is real, the growth of field galaxies has caught up with that of cluster galaxies by z∼1. Any putative mechanism responsible for galaxy growth has to account for the existence of environmental differences at high redshift and their absence (or weakening) at lower redshifts

Genetic diversity fuels gene discovery for tobacco and alcohol use

Tobacco and alcohol use are heritable behaviours associated with 15% and 5.3% of worldwide deaths, respectively, due largely to broad increased risk for disease and injury(1-4). These substances are used across the globe, yet genome-wide association studies have focused largely on individuals of European ancestries(5). Here we leveraged global genetic diversity across 3.4 million individuals from four major clines of global ancestry (approximately 21% non-European) to power the discovery and fine-mapping of genomic loci associated with tobacco and alcohol use, to inform function of these loci via ancestry-aware transcriptome-wide association studies, and to evaluate the genetic architecture and predictive power of polygenic risk within and across populations. We found that increases in sample size and genetic diversity improved locus identification and fine-mapping resolution, and that a large majority of the 3,823 associated variants (from 2,143 loci) showed consistent effect sizes across ancestry dimensions. However, polygenic risk scores developed in one ancestry performed poorly in others, highlighting the continued need to increase sample sizes of diverse ancestries to realize any potential benefit of polygenic prediction.Peer reviewe

An enthalpy-preserving shock-capturing term for residual distribution schemes

In this contribution, we investigate strategies to perform shock-capturing computation of steady hypersonic flow fields by means of residual distribution schemes. The ultimate objective is the computation of flow solutions for which the correct upstream enthalpy value is recovered in the postshock region. To this end, the parallelism existing between the classical Bx scheme and the stabilized finite element techniques is exploited. The simple Lax-Friedrichs dissipation term is leveraged to build two new residual distribution schemes. Upon testing on both inviscid and viscous steady problems, solutions obtained with one of the two schemes are shown to recover the correct upstream total enthalpy level in the postshock region. This last scheme provides also improved wall pressure and skin friction predictions; heat transfer predictions are, unfortunately, similar to those offered by the Bx scheme. A conjecture for explaining this behavior is exposed.SCOPUS: ar.jinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe

London Life : Young Contemporaries = London Life : Jeunes contemporains

The "Young Contemporaries" exhibition, part of a sporadic series organized by London Regional Art Gallery, offers a selection among the recent work of Canadian artists 30 years of age and under. Despite the diversity of sensibilities revealed by the works, Fleming identifies some common tendencies, all of them symptomatic of the breakdown of modernist discourse. Short texts prepared by the artists are included. Biographical notes

Produção de mini-tubérculos de batata-semente em função de doses de nitrogênio aplicadas ao substrato Minituber potato seed yield as a result of nitrogen rates applied in the substrate

O objetivo do trabalho foi avaliar o efeito de doses de nitrogênio aplicadas em substrato sobre a produção de mini-tubérculos de batata-semente (Solanum tuberosum L.), cultivar Monalisa, a partir de plântulas advindas de cultura de tecido. O experimento foi realizado em ambiente protegido, no Depo. de Fitotecnia da UFV. Duas plântulas micropropagadas por cultura de tecido foram plantadas em vaso de 3 L contendo substrato. Foram avaliadas cinco doses de nitrogênio: 0; 50; 100; 200 e 400 mg kg-1 de N, na forma de NH4NO3, dispostas em blocos ao acaso e cinco repetições. O índice SPAD, medido na quarta folha (LQ), aumentou com o aumento da dose de N e diminuiu com a idade da planta. O teor de N-NO-3 na matéria seca da LQ, associado à máxima produção de mini-tubérculos, foi 0,015 dag kg-1. A massa seca dos mini-tubérculos, massa seca total da planta e produção de mini-tubérculos foram de, no máximo, 25,74; 31,93 e 138,8 g vaso-1, respectivamente, com a dose de 0 mg kg-1 de N.<br>The effects of nitrogen rates on minituber seed potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) was evaluated on cv. Monalisa, propagated in vitro. The experiment was conducted in a greenhouse. Two tissue culture propagated potato plantlets were planted in 3 L pots with substrate. Five N rates, 0; 50; 100; 200 and 400 mg kg-1 of N, as NH4NO3, were evaluated in randomized complete block design and five replications. The SPAD index in the fourth leaf (LQ) increased with the increase of N rates and decreased with the plant age. N-NO-3 content in the LQ dry matter, associated with the maximum minitubers yield was 0.015 dag kg-1. The maximum minituber dry matter, the maximum plant dry matter and maximum minituber yield were 25.74; 31.93 and 138.8 g pot-1, respectively, with 0 mg kg-1of N