A Mentorship Model for Nursing Faculty in a Hospital-Based Associate Degree Nursing Program

There is a nursing faculty shortage that affects enrollment in nursing schools and direct patient care. Although adjunct, dual-role, and clinical nurses transitioning to the nursing faculty role are being utilized to help with the nursing faculty shortage, clinical nurses may not necessarily be skilled as classroom teachers. Mentoring can be an effective vehicle used to increase the competency of qualified nursing faculty. The purpose of this transcendental, phenomenological, qualitative study was twofold: to examine best mentoring practices and to create a structured model for hospital-based associate degree nursing programs. To investigate best practices surrounding mentoring, the researcher used purposive sampling to identify participants consisting of administrators and faculty as well as archival data in hospital-based associate degree nursing schools. Four research questions were examined using semi-structured interviews. As a result of the findings, a mentoring model was created. This mentoring model incorporates the human capital variables of knowledge, experience, skill, and leadership for the development of nursing faculty mentors as pivotal strategic points for novice faculty. Additionally, the model includes: individualized orientation, classroom management recommendations, assessment/evaluation template, and support patterns for novice faculty. This model could serve as an intervention in the development of an effective nurse educators’ program, thereby increasing student enrollment and as a result, increasing nurse-delivered patient care

Generalising Def and Pos to Type Analysis

This paper is concerned with the type analysis of logic programs where, by type, we mean a property closed under instantiation. We de ne a chain of abstractions from Herbrand constraints to logical formulas via the set of their solutions. Every step of the chain is an instance of abstract interpretation. The use of logical formulas for type analysis is a generalisation of the traditional Boolean domains Def and Pos for groundness analysis. In this context, implication is the logical counterpart of the use of linear re nement. While logical formulas can sometime be used for an actual implementation of our domains, in the general case they are in nite objects. Therefore, we apply a nal abstraction from possibly in nite logical formulas to ( nite) logic programs. Thus, logic programs are themselves used for the type analysis of logic programs

Logic Programs as Compact Denotations

This paper shows how logic programs can be used to implement the transition functions of denotational abstract interpretation. The logic variables express regularity in the abstract behaviour of commands. The technique has been applied to sign, class and escape analysis for object-oriented programs. We show that the time and space costs using logic programs for these analyses are smaller than those using a ground relational representation

Analysis of Downward Closed Properties of Logic Programs

We study the analysis of downward closed properties of logic programs, which are a very abstract presentation of types. We generalise to a very large class of downward closed properties the construction of the traditional domains for groundness analysis in such a way that the results enjoy the good properties of that domain. Namely, we obtain abstract domains with a clear representation made of logical formulas and with optimal and well-known abstract operations. Moreover, they can be built using the linear refinement technique, and, therefore, are provably optimal and enjoy the condensing property, which is very important for a goal-independent analysis. Keywords: Abstract interpretation, domain theory, linear refinement, type theory, type analysis, logic programming. 1 Introduction A downward (instantiation) closed set of terms represents a property which is maintained during the computation. Therefore, it is a very abstract definition of a type. The analysis of downward ..

Path-Length Analysis for Object-Oriented Programs. Extended version with proofs

This paper describes a new static analysis for finding approximations to the pathlength of variables in imperative, object-oriented programs. The path-length of a variable v is the cardinality of the longest chain of pointers that can be followed from v. It is shown how such information may be used for automatic termination inference of programs dealing with dynamically created data-structures

Path-length analysis of object-oriented programs

Abstract. This paper describes a new static analysis for finding approximations to the path-length of variables in imperative, object-oriented programs. The path-length of a variable v is the cardinality of the longest chain of pointers that can be followed from v. It is shown how such information may be used for automatic termination inference of programs dealing with dynamically created data-structures

Rumen degradability and gas production as influenced by different strains of Bacillus thuringiensis

The effect of six Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) strains on diet degradability was evaluated using an in vitro gas production technique. Spores (5.7 x 106 spores) of different Bt strains (907, 1192, 2036, 2493, 2496 and S1185) plus a Control (no spores) were used as treatments with four replicates (inocula) in duplicate. Fermentation processes were evaluated and ruminal microorganisms were quantified. Compared to the Control, the Bt907 strain decreased dry matter (DM) and organic matter (OM) degradability without affecting the F. succinogenes population, while the other strains reduced this population without altering DM and OM degradability.The accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author

Tannin supplementation modulates the composition and function of ruminal microbiome in lambs infected with gastrointestinal nematodes

International audienceThis study was carried out to evaluate the effects of tannin supplementation on ruminal microbiota of sixteen lambs infected and non-infected with Haemonchus contortus and Trichostrongylus colubriformis. Animals were fed with hay, concentrate and supplemented with Acacia mearnsii (A. mearnsii). The animals were divided into four treatments: two control groups without infection, either receiving A. mearnsii (C+) or not (C-), and two infected groups, one with A. mearnsii (I+) and another without A. mearnsii (I-). Ruminal short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) and metagenome sequencing of ruminal microbiota were used to evaluate the effect of tannin and infection on ruminal microbiome. For SCFA, differences were observed only with A. mearnsii. Total SCFA and acetate molar percentage were decreased in C+ and I+ (P<0.05). Butyrate, valerate and isovalerate were higher in lambs that received A. mearnsii in the diet (P<0.05). The infection changed the microbiome structure and decreased the abundance of butyrate-producing microorganisms. In addition, A. mearnsii supplementation also affected the structure the microbial community, increasing the diversity and abundance of the butyrate-producing and probiotics bacteria, amino acid metabolic pathways, purine, pyrimidine and sphingolipid metabolism. Together, our findings indicate that A. mearnsii supplementation modulates important groups related to nitrogen, amino acid, purine and pyrimidine metabolism, in rumen microbiome, affected by gastrointestinal nematodes infection in lambs