66 research outputs found
Intricate Conversations: Caring for Clients with Severe Mental Illness
This presentation describes the characteristics of persons living with severe mental illness who intersect with hospice, and palliative care, and their communication challenges
Extraordinary two-dimensionality in the S=1/2 spatially anisotropic triangular quantum magnet Cu(1,3-diaminopropane)Cl2 with modulated structure
A map for successful CCNE accreditation
The purpose of this article is to provide nurse educators with recommendations on how to develop the needed structures and processes that lead to accreditation success. We provide a comprehensive list of 28 recommendations, a timeline for completion of tasks, and specific information on how to document the achievement of the four CCNE Standards. The first two recommendations deal with two vital structures that comprise a well-functioning program: an effective committee structure and a robust evaluation plan. Recommendations 3 to 12 concern the process steps for preparing for an accreditation visit and are aligned with a timeline for completion. The remaining recommendations address how to document compliance with each CCNE standard
Magnetic structures and reorientation transitions in noncentrosymmetric uniaxial antiferromagnets
A phenomenological theory of magnetic states in noncentrosymmetric tetragonal
antiferromagnets is developed, which has to include homogeneous and
inhomogeneous terms (Lifshitz-invariants) derived from Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya
couplings. Magnetic properties of this class of antiferromagnets with low
crystal symmetry are discussed in relation to its first known members, the
recently detected compounds Ba2CuGe2O7 and K2V3O8. Crystallographic symmetry
and magnetic ordering in these systems allow the simultaneous occurrence of
chiral inhomogeneous magnetic structures and weak ferromagnetism. New types of
incommensurate magnetic structures are possible, namely, chiral helices with
rotation of staggered magnetization and oscillations of the total
magnetization. Field-induced reorientation transitions into modulated states
have been studied and corresponding phase diagrams are constructed. Structures
of magnetic defects (domain-walls and vortices) are discussed. In particular,
vortices, i.e. localized non-singular line defects, are stabilized by the
inhomogeneous Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions in uniaxial noncentrosymmetric
antiferromagnets.Comment: 18 pages RevTeX4, 13 figure
Piezoresponse force microscopy and electron backscattering diffraction of 90° ferroelectric twins in BaTiO3 positive temperature coefficient (PTC) thermistors
The authors acknowledge funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, OYSTER (Open characterisation and modelling environment to drive innovation in advanced nanoarchitectured and bio-inspired hard/soft interfaces) under grant agreement No 760827, Enterprise Ireland, Innovation Partnership Programme (Project No: IP/2013/0281), Irish Research Council postgraduate scholarship and Higher Education Authority (HEA)
Synergism between particle-based multiplexing and microfluidics technologies may bring diagnostics closer to the patient
In the field of medical diagnostics there is a growing need for inexpensive, accurate, and quick high-throughput assays. On the one hand, recent progress in microfluidics technologies is expected to strongly support the development of miniaturized analytical devices, which will speed up (bio)analytical assays. On the other hand, a higher throughput can be obtained by the simultaneous screening of one sample for multiple targets (multiplexing) by means of encoded particle-based assays. Multiplexing at the macro level is now common in research labs and is expected to become part of clinical diagnostics. This review aims to debate on the “added value” we can expect from (bio)analysis with particles in microfluidic devices. Technologies to (a) decode, (b) analyze, and (c) manipulate the particles are described. Special emphasis is placed on the challenges of integrating currently existing detection platforms for encoded microparticles into microdevices and on promising microtechnologies that could be used to down-scale the detection units in order to obtain compact miniaturized particle-based multiplexing platforms
Pharmacokinetics and Excretion of 14C-Bendamustine in Patients with Relapsed or Refractory Malignancy
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