Andrew Lang’s Discursive Cosmopolitanism in Longman’s Magazine

Discusses the distinctive form and influence of Andrew Lang\u27s series At the Sign of the Ship, in Longman\u27s Magazine, and explores Lang\u27s range of Scottish and cosmopolitan references and perspectives

Creating Spaces for Non-Males in Electronic Music: An EP and Record Label by Luminosity

This project aims to enable a collaborative and empowering space for female and non- male identifying persons within the electronic music industry. Through the development of a multi-sub-genre electronic extended play album, female and non-male identifying producers, engineers, artists, and musicians were given the opportunity to collectively work in a judgement- free environment. In an industry that is predominantly male, female producers and artists struggle to have their voices heard. This extended play album consists of five songs. Two songs are based off of previous projects, ideas, and stories. Three songs are collaborative projects between musicians, writers, and producers. Once mastered, this project aims to further the collaboration between female and non-binary people within the music industry by working to promote and eventually release the extended play album. In addition to the extended play album, an album, this project also contains the development of an all-female and non-binary electronic record label. This label will help promote female and non-male electronic artist’s work and educate others on the effects and struggles caused by gender discrimination. The goal of this project is to inspire future female producers in the electronic music industry to continue to learn, create, network, and discover their voice and feel heard.https://remix.berklee.edu/graduate-studies-production-technology/1279/thumbnail.jp

A bioinformatic analysis of genes involved in stress responses in Arabidopsis thaliana

Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis is an obligate biotrophic oomycete shown to cause downy mildew in Arabidopsis thaliana. The main focus of this project is examining plant stress response and the strategies employed by H. arabidopsidis to infect Arabidopsis and evade plant stress responses. Two regions of the H. arabidopsidis genome containing genes expressed in planta during infection were bioinformatically annotated. The results indicated the genes were involved in regulatory processes associated with the pathogenicity of H. arabidopsidis but not a direct role in pathogenicity. H. arabidopsidis infects its host by secreting effector proteins into the cytoplasm and apoplastic space of the host. The secretome of H. arabidopsidis was analysed to identify classes of cysteine rich apoplastic effectors. This identified 15 candidate elicitin (ELI) and elicitin-like (ELL) sequences, three Kazal-like serine protease inhibitors and four candidates similar to the protein sequences of Ppats 14 and 24, expressed during infection. A second set of aims was to identify potential signalling networks up activated during plant defence responses to infection by H. arabidopsidis using a new model developed by Beal et al (Beal, Falciani et al. 2005) to eventually engineer transcriptional networks. Unfortunately this failed due to problems with the experiment. However, it was still possible to identify signalling networks from a second microarray time course experimental data set centred on signalling networks up regulated in response to the onset of senescence, as they share overlapping signalling pathways. The modelling methodology was used to model the anthocyanin biosynthesis pathway. The model predicted the presence of AtMYB15 as a positive regulator of anthocyanin biosynthesis along with AtMYB90. Research carried out by Nichola Warner (Warner 2008) suggested that AtMYB90 was not essential for anthocyanin biosynthesis during senescence based on by comparing the phenotype of the MYB90 knock out, IM28, with the wild type (WT) Col-0 using a time course microarray. Models of networks of transcriptional regulation of the anthocyanin biosynthesis pathway for IM28 and WT implicate AtMYB29 as a positive regulator of anthocyanin biosynthesis

New nursing graduates: A key factor in nursing supply

The Canadian nursing education system is the most significant contributor to the country's supply of registered nurses. This article provides current data on the numbers of nursing graduates produced in each province in 1994. The authors highlight some of the differences in the numbers produced and use the national average of new graduates as the percentage of the population of Canada as one method to arrive at the numbers of new graduates per year which each province could attempt to produce. This article provides a national perspective on current and future nursing human resources and will assist nursing administrators in their staffing plans related to registered nurses

C++ Coding Standards and Style Guide

This document is based on the "C Style Guide" (SEL-94-003). It contains recommendations for C++ implementations that build on, or in some cases replace, the style described in the C style guide. Style guidelines on any topics that are not covered in this document can be found in the "C Style Guide." An attempt has been made to indicate when these recommendations are just guidelines or suggestions versus when they are more strongly encouraged. Using coding standards makes code easier to read and maintain. General principles that maximize the readability and maintainability of C++ are: (1) Organize classes using encapsulation and information hiding techniques. (2) Enhance readability through the use of indentation and blank lines. (3) Add comments to header files to help users of classes. (4) Add comments to implementation files to help maintainers of classes. (5) Create names that are meaningful and readable

A Model for Hospital Discharge Preparation: From Case Management to Care Transition

There has been a proliferation of initiatives to improve discharge processes and outcomes for the transition from hospital to home and community-based care. Operationalization of these processes has varied widely as hospitals have customized discharge care into innovative roles and functions. This article presents a model for conceptualizing the components of hospital discharge preparation to ensure attention to the full range of processes needed for a comprehensive strategy for hospital discharge

Nursing Resources in Manitoba 1995 A Description of the Current Situation and Consequent Policy Implications

The purpose of this study is to describe the nursing resources available in Manitoba as of April, 1995 and to delineate possible policy initiatives based on the collected data. After years of inattention and neglect, the topic of nursing resources planning is now one of the priorities of most health departments across Canada including that of our province of Manitoba. This study represents one of the first attempts to gather and collate, in consistent format, data on the various categories of nursing personnel within the province. The baseline information is required in order to formulate Human Resources strategies within a health care system which is facing the need for massive change and major reform.Master of Public Administratio

Individual Nurse Productivity in Preparing Patients for Discharge Is Associated with Patient Likelihood of 30-Day Return to Hospital

Objective: Applied to value-based health care, the economic term “individual productivity” refers to the quality of an outcome attributable through a care process to an individual clinician. This study aimed to (1) estimate and describe the discharge preparation productivities of individual acute care nurses and (2) examine the association between the discharge preparation productivity of the discharging nurse and the patient’s likelihood of a 30-day return to hospital [readmission and emergency department (ED) visits]. Research Design: Secondary analysis of patient-nurse data from a cluster-randomized multisite study of patient discharge readiness and readmission. Patients reported discharge readiness scores; postdischarge outcomes and other variables were extracted from electronic health records. Using the structure-process-outcomes model, we viewed patient readiness for hospital discharge as a proximal outcome of the discharge preparation process and used it to measure nurse productivity in discharge preparation. We viewed hospital return as a distal outcome sensitive to discharge preparation care. Multilevel regression analyses used a split-sample approach and adjusted for patient characteristics. Subjects: A total 522 nurses and 29,986 adult (18+ y) patients discharged to home from 31 geographically diverse medical-surgical units between June 15, 2015 and November 30, 2016. Measures: Patient discharge readiness was measured using the 8-item short form of Readiness for Hospital Discharge Scale (RHDS). A 30-day hospital return was a categorical variable for an inpatient readmission or an ED visit, versus no hospital return. Results: Variability in individual nurse productivity explained 9.07% of variance in patient discharge readiness scores. Nurse productivity was negatively associated with the likelihood of a readmission (−0.48 absolute percentage points, P\u3c0.001) and an ED visit (−0.29 absolute percentage points, P=0.042). Conclusions: Variability in individual clinician productivity can have implications for acute care quality patient outcomes

A bioinformatic analysis of genes involved in stress responses in Arabidopsis thaliana

Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis is an obligate biotrophic oomycete shown to cause downy mildew in Arabidopsis thaliana. The main focus of this project is examining plant stress response and the strategies employed by H. arabidopsidis to infect Arabidopsis and evade plant stress responses. Two regions of the H. arabidopsidis genome containing genes expressed in planta during infection were bioinformatically annotated. The results indicated the genes were involved in regulatory processes associated with the pathogenicity of H. arabidopsidis but not a direct role in pathogenicity. H. arabidopsidis infects its host by secreting effector proteins into the cytoplasm and apoplastic space of the host. The secretome of H. arabidopsidis was analysed to identify classes of cysteine rich apoplastic effectors. This identified 15 candidate elicitin (ELI) and elicitin-like (ELL) sequences, three Kazal-like serine protease inhibitors and four candidates similar to the protein sequences of Ppats 14 and 24, expressed during infection. A second set of aims was to identify potential signalling networks up activated during plant defence responses to infection by H. arabidopsidis using a new model developed by Beal et al (Beal, Falciani et al. 2005) to eventually engineer transcriptional networks. Unfortunately this failed due to problems with the experiment. However, it was still possible to identify signalling networks from a second microarray time course experimental data set centred on signalling networks up regulated in response to the onset of senescence, as they share overlapping signalling pathways. The modelling methodology was used to model the anthocyanin biosynthesis pathway. The model predicted the presence of AtMYB15 as a positive regulator of anthocyanin biosynthesis along with AtMYB90. Research carried out by Nichola Warner (Warner 2008) suggested that AtMYB90 was not essential for anthocyanin biosynthesis during senescence based on by comparing the phenotype of the MYB90 knock out, IM28, with the wild type (WT) Col-0 using a time course microarray. Models of networks of transcriptional regulation of the anthocyanin biosynthesis pathway for IM28 and WT implicate AtMYB29 as a positive regulator of anthocyanin biosynthesis.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceBiotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (Great Britain) (BBSRC)GBUnited Kingdo

Source Credibility of Public Figures as Determined by Three Levels of Identification

Source credibility studies over the past three decades have dealt primarily with the effect of the speaker upon the message. However, with new sources in the form of persons and organizations appearing almost daily on broadcasts and in pri' nt, the use of identification for source credibility has become increasingly valuable. It would appear that virtually anyone in this democratic nation can project himself or herself in the public's eye as an expert, particularly in the area of political issues. But just which type of identification gives the greatest credence to the speaker or source? Is it possible that with such a constant barrage of faces and names the public has become more selective and more critical of the types of identification used to describe sources? Today's mass-media journalists generally use a person's name and organizational affiliation as a basic identification; however, a few decades ago, the more education a person had, the greater credibility he had with an audience, perhaps because he was considered to be more competent and more expert. What does this shift in identification emphasis mean in terms of audience perceptions? This study sought to learn more about this and other questions. It compared three variations of identification-- Biographical with name, education, professional achievements, and personal data; Socio-cultural with name, title or rank, and organization or group affiliation; and Occupational with name and occupation only--in order to determine which of the three held the greatest credibility for an audience, The effect upon the variables of respondent sex, age, and education was measured. Spokespersons from the women ��s rights issues were selected as the sources tested, because these particular political issues created consider.able public discussion in the recent past. The issues were, according to the spokespersons, going to have a d, irect effect upon every male and female in the country. Sources representing metropolitan and suburban areas, religious, feminist, and political activist groups as well as political, government and business officials all purported to be credible speakers on the issues involved in women's rights. The public's acceptance of that supposed credibility and the levels involved had not been studied. Therefore, this study will seek to enlighten those interested in the credibility of public figures, The study was intended to reflect those specific segments of the population which are most receptive to each type of identification--Biographical, Socio-cultural, or Occupational. Sex, age, and education levels were the independent variables used for the research. Even the general topic of women's rights, in certain instances was provocation enough to brin�g forth irate reactions directed at the researcher. The study was, if not significant in the research data presented, at least interesting as a study in human emotions.Mass Communicatio