Creating shareable representations of practice

This paper reports work on the use of asynchronous multimedia conferencing (AMC) to support collaborative continuing professional development. In particular it explores how we may use multimedia communications technologies to enable key elements of real‐world working knowledge, that are tacit and embedded in working practices, to be rendered into shareable forms for professional learning. We believe multimedia communications technology can offer innovative ways of capturing rich examples of working practices and tacit knowledge, and for sharing and subjecting these artefacts to scrutiny, debate and refinement within a community of learners. More explicitly, we see participants in a geographically distributed community of practice being able to create, annotate, discuss and reflect upon videoclips of their working practices within the multimedia conferencing environment. This paper summarizes some studies that cast light on how representations of practice may be captured for use in an AMC environment

Far-field aftershocks of the 1906 earthquake

This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from "http://bssa.geoscienceworld.org".During the 24 hr following the great San Francisco, California, earthquake of 18 April 1906, separate seismic events were felt at Paisley, Oregon; Phoenix, Arizona; Los Angeles, California; and Brawley, California (MMIX). Using probability theory, we show that the occurrence of felt earthquakes in each of these widespread locations on the same day would constitute a rare event. Rates of felt-earthquake occurrences over a 9-yr period from 1897 to 1906 were determined for the four different regions that experienced earthquakes within 24 hr after the 1906 event. We modeled the likelihood of occurrence of these aftershocks in the spirit of the “ball-in-the-box” probability problem, and the results indicated a very high probability that the aftershock zone of the great earthquake extended at least 500 km beyond the extent of ground breakage, implying a disturbance of the stress field over an area at least two to three times longer than the fault break itself

Developing a Sexual Abuse Nursing Team for a Michigan Healthcare System

The purpose of this project is to initiate a Sexual Abuse Response Team (SART) for forensic evidence collection within a hospital system based in Michigan. More specifically, this SART development will focus on the training and education planning of sexual abuse nurses within a Michigan healthcare system in the metropolitan Detroit, Michigan area. Currently, there is a lack of the necessary protocols for professionals to properly care for victims of sexual assault. This project will focus on developing an educational format and system-wide protocols for healthcare systems to train their own staff nurses in the care of sexual assault patients and forensic evidence collection. Michigan State Police statistics indicated 11,188 offenses related to sexual assault were reported to law enforcement in 2016, and between 2017-2018, FBI reports saw a 28% increase in cases. The Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) is a Registered Nurse with extensive knowledge of forensic evidence collection to bridge the gap between healthcare and the legal system. SANEs are qualified to recognize and preserve the fragile and perishable biological, trace, and physical evidence from crime scenes, whether in the field or in the hospital. Given the exceptional care delivered by local hospitals and the nursing staff, residents in the Detroit areas are likely to receive care at exemplary facilities, such as the occurrence of sexual assault. Thus, it is imperative to have standards in place to provide specialized services for compromised patient populations, like SANE nurses who are properly trained to work with forensic populations. Implementing a sexual assault program staffed and trained in sexual emergencies, is especially important with the rising numbers of rape crimes in Michigan. Due to the nature of this education proposal format, Institutional Review Board approval was neither sought, approved, nor necessary. To begin, this SART program will be set at three of the most prominent facilities spread throughout different areas of the city. Educational training will occur in one central location for all sessions. The concept of these settings is to cover different areas of metro Detroit with already prominent, existing services. This is ideal for the spread among different areas, which allots for easier access of patients in different parts of the metropolitan Detroit area, where rape rates are highest in the state of Michigan. In order to track the success of this SANE training and education objective for SART team response, it is important to evaluate the progress and success. A Likert-scale evaluation will be used along with educational skills stations, written post-education examination to evaluate nurse preparedness and feedback for training. The evaluation will ask questions pertaining to the education experience, personal readiness to respond, and a free text area for suggestions to improve the process for future SANE trainees at the end of a 40-hour extensive training as recommended by standards of the International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN). Since 1992, The Joint Commission has required emergency and active care facilities to establish protocols for rape, sexual molestation, and domestic abuse. The legal theory of “respondeat superior” holds that employers are liable for the negligent acts of an employee who acts within the scope of employment.Two frameworks were used to formulate this education proposal. The Integrated Practice Model for Forensic Nursing Science synthesizes the multidisciplinary and multisectorial framework for the accountability in forensic nursing, forensic science, and criminal justice overall, combining philosophies of physical science and legal implications. The SART Coordinated Response to Sexual Assault Model generalizes the basic duties of hospitals, victim advocates, law enforcement and prosecutors

City-region governance, policy variation and economic performance

Advocates for devolution of responsibility for economic development have frequently made a link between the governance of city-regions and their economic performance. The evidence they adduce for this does not clearly bear this out, since there are problems in defining the scale of the cities under consideration, the scope of the powers involved and robust indicators of economic performance. However, it is likely that where the governance area of a city-region matches its economic area, its performance will be enhanced. Empirical work with developing UK city-regions leads to a conclusion that an argument based on policy variation and fiscal federalism provides a stronger argument for cityregions than one based on links between their governance and their economic performanc

Shallow seismic reflection section—Introduction

This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://library.seg.org/doi/abs/10.1190/1.1444421. Reuse of this article is subject to SEG terms of use and conditions.For those interested in shallow seismic reflection (SSR) techniques, this special issue of Geophysics is likely to serve as a useful reference for years to come. The idea for this issue grew out of discussions that took place at the Shallow Seismic Reflection Workshop at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, California, in September 1996. The content of those discussions is the subject of a published report elsewhere (Steeples et al., 1997). Several workshop participants and their colleagues contributed to the papers in this issue as authors and as reviewers. The articles include case histories, novel uses of the SSR technique, state‐of‐the‐art planning considerations for 3-D SSR surveys, and some examples of problems unique to SSR surveying

Engineering and environmental geophysics at the millennium

This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from "http://library.seg.org".Near‐surface geophysics is being applied to a broader spectrum of problems than ever before, and new application areas are arising continually. Currently, the tools used to examine the near‐surface environment include a variety of noninvasive methods employing electrical, electromagnetic, or mechanical energy sources, along with passive techniques that measure the physical parameters of the earth. Some of the advances of recent years have emerged from breakthroughs in instrumentation and computer‐processing techniques, and some have been driven by societal needs, such as the increasing demand for the accurate geophysical characterization of polluted sites. Other compelling factors, such as the ever‐expanding need for groundwater, the enactment of laws that have spurred geophysical surveying for archaeological purposes, and the necessity for better soil‐physics information in geotechnical engineering and agriculture, are present worldwide. For historical context, the reader is referred to an excellent review concerning the status of shallow exploration techniques in the mid-1980s (Dobecki and Romig, 1985)

Subcutaneous infusions for comfort care patients

Over 75% of hospice cases fail to eliminate pain despite high quality hospice care (Herr et al., 2010). The purpose of this quality project was to improve pain management in end-of-life patients via subcutaneous medication administration. An orderset was created to include subcutaneous infusion medications using the collaborative efforts of pharmacy leadership and palliative medicine leadership. Patients requiring pain management who were under hospice or palliative care and, lost intravenous (IV) access, were considered for this quality improvement project. A total of eleven patients met project qualifications, but unfortunately, two patients passed away before receiving pain medications subcutaneously. Project findings demonstrated similar pain scores when comparing the subcutaneous to intravenous route in nine of eleven patients

Structure of the Salina-Forest City Interbasin Boundary From Seismic Studies

As petroleum exploration efforts in the Midcontinent become directed toward smaller fields and the search for minerals is extended into new areas, the edges of the Salina and Forest City basins will become of increased interest to industry. The principal boundary feature between the two basins is the Nemaha ridge, a linear feature that extends from near Omaha, Nebraska, to near Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Recent seismic studies at the Kansas Geological Survey have revealed a complex array of faulted and folded structures in the vicinity of the Humboldt fault zone (the eastern flank of the Nemaha ridge). Faulting of both normal and reverse types is present, including horsts and grabens. Although some Permian age faulting is present, most of the Permian deformation occurred as monoclinal draping at the flanks of the Nemaha ridge. Recent microearthquake activity suggests that some of the faults are slightly active along a zone 400 kilometers long (north-south) and 50 kilometers wide (east-west) coincident with the Nemaha ridge from southeastern Nebraska to north-central Oklahoma. Seismic reflection evidence suggests that either uplift along the Nemaha occurred contemporaneously with Pennsylvanian deposition or uplift and peneplantation occurred during a period of exposure between the deposition of Mississippian sediments and Pennsylvanian sediments. Analyses of boundary structures and intrabasin structures are not complete without knowledge of basement rock history and of basement structure. Microearthquake arrivals and deep reflection data recently obtained from the Consortium for Continental Reflection Profiling (COCORP) in Kansas reveal intrabasement structures in the 10 to 35 kilometer depth range. Data from aeromagnetic studies and basement drilling reveal block faulting patterns and several episodes of Precambrian intrusive and/or extrusive vulcanism. Much of the data presented in this paper is not yet fully analyzed, but preliminary results suggest that the integrated geological and geophysical techniques will be of increased value to petroleum and minerals exploration and will be of assistance in expanding the scientific knowledge of the Earth’s crust and upper mantle in the Midcontinent. Specifically, it is hypothesized that petroleum deposits are related to localized heating in the upper crust and are associated with igneous intrusions and ascension of mantle fluids into the crust probably during Cretaceous time. This hypothesis is consistent with the existence of known deposits of petroleum

An Analysis of The Results of The State Reading Achievement Test In Selected Counties, 1947

In general the problem of this thesis is an analysis of achievement performance made by children in Kansas elementary schools through the use of standardized tests prescribed by the State Department of Education. More specifically stated, the thesis is a critical examination of these test results in certain selected counties of the state. An effort is made to discover areas of weakness and, if possible, their causes and to suggest possible remedial measures

Near-surface seismic reflection applications

Nonintrusive methods of gaining knowledge about the Earth’s subsurface comprise several of the procedures used routinely in near-surface seismology, including reflection, refraction, and surface-wave analysis. During the early 1980s the advent of digital engineering seismographs designed for shallow, high-resolution surveys spurred significant improvements in engineering, mining, and environmental reflection seismology. Commonly, the reflection method is used in conjunction with other geophysical and geological tools and a well-planned drilling verification effort. To the extent that near-surface seismic methods can constrain shallow stratigraphy, geologic structure, engineering properties, and relative permeability, they are useful in groundwater, mining, environmental site characterization, and other civil engineering applications. Much of the improvement in shallow seismic surveys is related to advancements in instrumentation. Challenges remain, however, in developing ways to process near-surface seismic data sets that may contain attributes not seen in deeper petroleum surveys