... consider in the care of older adults In Unit I, ? ?The Healthy Older Adult,” the first chapter, “Changes with Aging,” addresses the normal changes of aging, expected laboratory values in older adults, ... in the Care of Older Adults SECOND EDITION ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING in the Care of Older Adults SECOND EDITION Laurie Kennedy-Malone, PhD, GNP-BC, FAANP, FGSA Professor of Nursing, School of ... to complete on their own or for educators to incorporate into their course requirements To enhance the delivery of competency-based education, the case studies were mapped to the Adult-Gerontology...
Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2020, 18:07
... link to research utilization. Therefore, the purpose of this study was twofold: to describe RNs' perceptions of barriers to and facilitators of research utilization and to examine the validity ... questioned [10]. The registered nurses' role in the care of older people in Sweden In Sweden, the care of older people has shifted from hos- pitals to nursing homes and home care. The municipali- ... working in the care of older people expressed discontent with their work situation because of lack of time, lack of stimulation, and lack of support from managers. Overall, they emphasized the importance...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21
báo cáo khoa học: " Barriers to research utilization and research use among registered nurses working in the care of older people: Does the BARRIERS Scale discriminate between research users and non-research users on perceptions of barriers?" pptx
... link to research utilization. Therefore, the purpose of this study was twofold: to describe RNs' perceptions of barriers to and facilitators of research utilization and to examine the validity ... questioned [10]. The registered nurses' role in the care of older people in Sweden In Sweden, the care of older people has shifted from hos- pitals to nursing homes and home care. The municipali- ... working in the care of older people expressed discontent with their work situation because of lack of time, lack of stimulation, and lack of support from managers. Overall, they emphasized the importance...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21
An integrated approach to the assessment of post tsunami status of the fisheries with further reference to climate change
... INTEGRATED APPROACH TO THE ASSESSMENT OF POST TSUNAMI STATUS OF THE FISHERIES WITH FURTHER REFERENCE TO CLIMATE CHANGE: THE CASE OF THE SMALL- SCALE FISHERIES SECTOR OF SOUTHERN SRI LANKA MASTER THESIS ... Faculty of Graduate Studies: Hoang Ha Giang KHANH HOA 2019 ii UNDERTAKING I undertake that the thesis entitled: “An integrated approach to the assessment of post tsunami status of the fisheries with ... with further reference to climate change: the case of the small- scale fisheries sector of southern Sri Lanka” is my own work The work has not been presented elsewhere for assessment until the time...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2021, 12:19
A regressive approach to the design of continuous capture process with multi-column chromatography for monoclonal antibodies
... [2,6–8] Generally, the design of the model-based PCCC approaches includes the adsorption isotherm of mAb for protein A chromatography columns related to the binding capacity, and the mass transfer ... on the loading results derived from R, and the process parameters were listed in Supplementary Material Table S3 To further evaluate the benefit of PCCC compared with the batch chromatography, the ... protocols, the application of Eq (23) to PCCC is not straightforward The important parameter for PCCC, BT%, changes with the loading flow rate Although automatic iterations can be used to find the...
Ngày tải lên: 25/12/2022, 02:48
Báo cáo khoa học: A novel 2D-based approach to the discovery of candidate substrates for the metalloendopeptidase meprin pot
... heterodimers of hmeprina ⁄ b allowed for localization of the a-subunit to the plasma membrane [6] Inactive zymogens of hmeprina and b are processed by limited proteolysis with trypsin into their active ... the major role of the MMP family is the control of cellular responses critical to homeostatic regulation of the extracellular environment and the immune response [19,20] We decided to apply protease ... meprin) and then into supersets of level match-sets (higher-level match-sets) (Fig 1) The four level match-sets are the reference gels of the respective quadrants from the 2D gel sections of each...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 06:20
Báo cáo khoa học: A kinetic approach to the dependence of dissimilatory metal reduction by Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 on the outer membrane cytochromes c OmcA and OmcB potx
... anaerobic growth on either of the electron acceptors U(VI) and Se(VI) is due to the decaheme cytochromes c not recognizing either of these electron acceptors, we probed the relative affinities ... both of these cytochromes have been proposed to be terminal Fe(III) and Mn(IV) reductases, although their role in the reduction of other metals is less well understood To obtain more insight into ... acceptor These results therefore provide evidence that there are differences between the electron transfer pathways towards chelated Fe(III) on the one hand and either U(VI) or Se(VI) on the other...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 09:20
Báo cáo hóa học: "Research Article A Novel Approach to the Design of Oversampling Low-Delay Complex-Modulated Filter Bank Pairs" doc
... However the coefficients of the AFB prototype filter are regarded as constants in this design step, due to the fact they are fixed to the design result obtained in the first algorithm Therefore the distortion ... function, instead of minimizing the group delay of the distortion function, similar to minimizing the group delay of an FIR prototype filter in Section The real-valued SFB prototype filter has to meet given ... for the stopband Due to the fact the constraints agree with those ones of the previous algorithm, the convex formulation in (51) can be used Therefore only the objective function in (55) has to...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 19:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article A Variational Approach to the Modeling of MIMO Systems" docx
... without going into involved mathematical anal- ysis. The idea is to optimize the above scattering equation using a variation approach (11) together with special prop- erties of the space of the ... Recall that the main objective of the optimization pro- cess of the MIMO network is to improve the qualit y of ser- vices for network and to be sure of optimal exploitation of the resources of network ... issue to borrow methods used to describe spin par- ticles to approach the channel. Note that the state ψ s,m is often denoted as |m =±1. This vector may be also used to describe the bits vector of...
Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Application of Evolution Strategies to the Design of Tracking Filters with a Large Number of Specifications" potx
... this type of approaches with weighted sums converge to particular solutions of Pareto front, corresponding to the tangential point in the direction defined by the vector of weights. The general ... es- timation of the probability that the target is in each of them, µj[k]. One of the basic elements in this methodology is the interacting process, which keeps all of them engaged to the most probable ... function together with the consid- erable number of specifications, preclude the application of techniques to derive the whole Pareto set. We have consid- ered a weighting sum on partial goals to build...
Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 00:20
Báo cáo toán học: "A probabilistic approach to the asymptotics of the length of the longest alternating subsequence" pdf
... the lines of the previous section, re- lating the counting of maxima to the length of the longest alternating subsequence and then, through mixing and ergodicity, obtain results on the asymptotic ... 1] n in terms of the o r der relation of its components. Explicitly, if we consider the language L of the formulas with no quantifiers, one va r ia ble, say x, and with atoms of the form x i < ... Instead, we can use the stationarity of the property ‘being a local maximum’ with respect to some extended sequence to study the asymptotic behaviour of LA n (a). As a matter of notation, we will...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 12:23
báo cáo hóa học:" The ability of cancer-specific and generic preference-based instruments to discriminate across clinical and self-reported measures of cancer severities" doc
... 0.55) of QLQ-C30 The functional well-being of the FACT-G was highly correlated with the role functioning (r = 0.61) and the physical functioning (r = 0.58) of the QLQ-C30 The social domains of QLQ-C30 ... especially considering the fact that members of the general public not often include aspects of adaptation into their valuations The responsiveness of the instruments needs to be evaluated longitudinally; ... ECOG-PS score of 3, these individuals were combined with the adjacent group to form the ECOG-PS 2-3 group Quality of Life Scores Table displays a summary of the QOL scores obtained from the instruments...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20
báo cáo khoa học:" The ability of cancer-specific and generic preference-based instruments to discriminate across clinical and self-reported measures of cancer severities" pot
... 0.55) of QLQ-C30 The functional well-being of the FACT-G was highly correlated with the role functioning (r = 0.61) and the physical functioning (r = 0.58) of the QLQ-C30 The social domains of QLQ-C30 ... especially considering the fact that members of the general public not often include aspects of adaptation into their valuations The responsiveness of the instruments needs to be evaluated longitudinally; ... ECOG-PS score of 3, these individuals were combined with the adjacent group to form the ECOG-PS 2-3 group Quality of Life Scores Table displays a summary of the QOL scores obtained from the instruments...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:22
Tài liệu Misconceptions about the Causes of Cancer pptx
... People and the Press, each of the top 10 stories of public interest in the United States during 1999 were about bad news With the exception of the outcome of the American election, the birth of septuplets ... and capture the public’s imagination The goal of these campaigns is not to educate people so they can make informed choices for themselves the goal is to regulate or, preferably, to The Fraser ... or as easy to read as a news story, they are full of valuable information and will provide the interested citizen with a basic understanding of the state of the science, including the many questions...
Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 22:20
Tài liệu The Burden of Cancer in American Adults ppt
... American Adults Prevalence Prevalence, the percentage of the population with a history of cancer, is a function of both new cases of cancer and the survivability of cancer Over 5% of American adults 10.6 ... compared with 3%, 2%, 1%, and 2%, respectively, of older men The Burden of Cancer in American Adults Two percent of middle-aged and 7% of older women have a history of breast cancer, the most ... history of smoking, compared with 44% of cancer-free adults The higher prevalence of smoking history among those with a history of cancer is consistent by gender and across all age groups 35 The...
Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 22:20
Tài liệu The role of cancer registries docx
... for the conduct of these studies because of delays in registration The main value of the registry is rather to evaluate the completeness and representativeness of the case series 394 The role of ... disease) together with the adoption of western lifestyles suggest that the burden of cancer in these countries is likely to increase in the near future Most often cancer registries provide the only ... established, by the method of data collection used and by the resources available to the registry However, the emphasis should be on the quality of the data collected rather than on the quantity...
Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 04:20
Tài liệu Misconceptions About Environmental Pollution, Pesticides and the Causes of Cancer doc
... number of states Many credit NCPA studies of the Medicare surtax as the main factor leading to the 1989 repeal of the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act NCPA forecasts show that repeal of the Social ... far too slowly for humans to have evolved specific resistance to the toxins in many common foods.” c) Humans have not had time to evolve a “toxic harmony” with all of their dietary plants The ... scare The whole aim of practical politics” said H.L Mencken, “is to keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with a series of hobgoblins, all of them...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 04:20
The Burden of Cancer in Asia doc
... cancer cases, and 42% of newly diagnosed stomach cancer cases By comparison, fewer than 4% of the world’s new cases of each of these cancers occur in the United States In of these Asian countries, ... 48% of the world’s population (6.7 billion) • China and India together account for 37% of world population • The median age of the population varies widely among the countries, from a low of 19 ... presented for the United States These fifteen Asian countries comprise 48% of the world’s population China and India together account for 37% of the worldwide population Distribution of the worldwide...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 01:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Mycobacterium tuberculosis possesses a functional enzyme for the synthesis of vitamin C, L-gulono-1,4-lactone dehydrogenase doc
... parameters of the mycobacterial dehydrogenase determined for: (A) the L-gulono-1,4-lactone substrate in the presence of 121 lM cytochrome c; and (B) the cytochrome c substrate in the presence of 50 ... membrane-associated, in agreement with the enzyme behavior in the presence of a detergent In contrast to the related aldonolactone oxidases [13,16,19], but similar to the plant l-galactono-1,4-lactone dehydrogenases ... characterized up to now, and the first example of a specific, vitamin C biosynthetic enzyme of bacterial origin Further studies will be necessary to elucidate the role of the Rv1771 l-gulono-1,4-lactone dehydrogenase...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 12:20
THE FACTORS AFFECTING THE USE OF ELDERLY CARE AND THE NEED FOR RESOURCES BY 2030 IN FINLAND pot
... population To give an idea of what could be done to ease the adjustment of the elderly care sector we study consequences of a hypothetical improvement in the ability of the elderly to run their daily ... used to analyse by means of ordered logit models the impacts of age, dependency and other factors on probabilities to use home and community care for the elderly With these models and the age profile ... variable to the form of care is easiest seen by comparing their contributions at the sample means (the last column of the parameter table) The size of FSMAGRANT tells that the average grants from the...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 17:20