On September 15, 2006, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released the revised State Operations Manual (SOM) that summarizes guidance for surveyors of long-term care facilities and took effect December 18,...
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On September 15, 2006, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released the revised State Operations Manual (SOM) that summarizes guidance for surveyors of long-term care facilities and took effect December 18, 2006. There were major changes to the sections pertaining to the use of medications and pharmacy services in Appendix PP: F329 (Unnecessary Drugs), F425 Pharmacy Services, F428 (Drug [Medication] Regimen Review), and F431 (Labeling and Storage of Medications).1 The American Society of. Consultant Pharmacists prepared a short summary of the Ftag changes that can be digested quickly.
The 3D structures of macromolecules are difficult to grasp and also to communicate. By their nature, movies or animations are particularly useful for highlighting key features by offering a 'guided tour' of st...
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The 3D structures of macromolecules are difficult to grasp and also to communicate. By their nature, movies or animations are particularly useful for highlighting key features by offering a 'guided tour' of structures and conformation changes. However, high-quality movies are rarely seen because they are currently difficult and time consuming to make. By adopting the traditional movie 'storyboard' concept, which gives guidance and direction to filming, eMovie makes the creation of lengthy molecular animations much easier. This tool is a plug-in for the open-source molecular graphics program PyMOL, and enables experts and novices alike to produce informative and high-quality molecular animations.
The article presents occupational and travel advice for people with kidney stones in Great Britain. Healthcare professionals are often called upon to judge whether someone with a known calculus is fit to go back to wo...
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The article presents occupational and travel advice for people with kidney stones in Great Britain. Healthcare professionals are often called upon to judge whether someone with a known calculus is fit to go back to work or to travel. The Civil Aviation Authority in the country is the only civilian body that had formalized guidelines for the management of urinary stone disease. Urinary stone disease is a condition that might have a major impact on staff performing their duties at work.
Glycosaminoglycans are sulfated in complex and changing patterns that affect neural development. These sugars mediate interactions between macromolecules, and their biological contributions are of high interest. In th...
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Glycosaminoglycans are sulfated in complex and changing patterns that affect neural development. These sugars mediate interactions between macromolecules, and their biological contributions are of high interest. In this issue of Chemistry & Biology, Shipp and Hsieh-Wilson [1] describe microarrays to probe these complex modifications.
Evidence of a gap in student understanding has been well documented in chemistry: the typical student holds an abundance of misconceptions. The current expectation is that educational reform will foster greater studen...
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Evidence of a gap in student understanding has been well documented in chemistry: the typical student holds an abundance of misconceptions. The current expectation is that educational reform will foster greater student achievement via inquiry teaching within classrooms. Using assessments involving both conceptual and algorithmic knowledge of gas behaviour, gas laws, and phase changes in chemistry, this study aims to determine the relationship between inquiry teaching and student achievement. The topics were tested in the context of a unit from a reform-based curriculum that features inquiry, hands-on activities, and cooperative learning. This curriculum provides step-by-step guidance for each lesson in the teacher materials, in order to promote quality inquiry teaching. Two schools were involved in this study, with two high school chemistry teachers from each school. Each teacher participated in professional development and implemented this curriculum with sufficient training and guidance to develop reform methods. Student achievement was found to positively correlate with the use of inquiry teaching about the assessed concepts, regardless of teacher experience or school context.
Suicide bombing can be understood as a technology that successfully integrates people, cultures, and hardware into precise, intelligent, lethal weapons systems. Locking access to the sophisticated electronic guidance ...
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Suicide bombing can be understood as a technology that successfully integrates people, cultures, and hardware into precise, intelligent, lethal weapons systems. Locking access to the sophisticated electronic guidance systems of their enemies, terrorists have developed a cost-effective alternative technology by using social and cultural pressure to convert human beings into guidance systems for terrorist ordnance. This demonstrates that while terrorists tend to be imitative in their technologies, effective and difficult to predict. A significant implication that arises from this discussion is that the American tendency to assume that "high-tech" devices will automatically confer an advantage on the United States in the struggle against terrorism should be reconsidered.
Personality disorders (PDs) arise from core psychopathology of interpersonal relationships and understanding of self and others. The distorted representations of self and others, as well as unhealthy relationships tha...
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Personality disorders (PDs) arise from core psychopathology of interpersonal relationships and understanding of self and others. The distorted representations of self and others, as well as unhealthy relationships that characterize persons with various PDs, indicate the possibility that persons with PDs have insecure attachment. Insecure attachments in infancy and childhood may serve as markers of risk for development of PD. This group of children and adolescents may require special attention and intervention. There is obviously a need for prospective studies regarding the role of attachment style in personality evolution, especially in disorders other than borderline personality disorder. Evidence of differential response to treatment by patients with various attachment styles, emphasizes the need for research to provide guidance on engaging patients in the therapeutic process.
Introduction: Recent improvements in cancer treatment have not only increased cancer survivorship but also peoples' ability to work during and following treatment. However, the impact that both diagnosis and treat...
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Introduction: Recent improvements in cancer treatment have not only increased cancer survivorship but also peoples' ability to work during and following treatment. However, the impact that both diagnosis and treatment has on cancer survivors' ability to fully engage in paid work is not yet entirely understood. This study aims to explore the role of symptoms, work adjustments and cancer disclosure to supervisors and co-workers on working during primary cancer treatment and return to work following treatment. Method: 328 cancer survivors responded to a 33 item questionnaire that assessed cancer-specific variables e.g. type and treatment, symptoms experienced during and following treatment, disclosure of cancer and adjustments and supports available at work. Multivariate logistic regressions were run to determine the association of symptoms, disclosure and work adjustments and working during treatment and returning to work following treatment. Results: The findings indicate that opportunities to work flexibly (OR=2.43, CI 1.21-4.02), disclosure to colleagues (OR=3.03, CI 1.28-8.19), difficulties managing fatigue (OR=2.08, CI 1.22-3.85), and paid time off to attend all medical appointments (OR=.4, CI .30-.87) were associated with continuing to work during treatment. Correlates of return to work included difficulties managing fatigue (OR=1.49, CI 1.42-6.18), managing the stress of cancer (OR=2.80, 1.05-5.34), managing physical changes associated with cancer (OR=.46, CI .13-.95), received advice from their doctor about work (OR=1.47, CI 1.09-2.84) and return to work meeting with employer (OR 1.99, 1.2-5.09). Conclusions: This study highlights the importance of symptom management in cancer survivors who work and the potential impact of workplace adjustments on the ability of cancer survivors to navigate in the world of work.
Given that student retention is now one of the leading challenges faced by colleges and universities, research seeking to understand students' reasons for attrition is of critical importance. Two factors influence...
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Given that student retention is now one of the leading challenges faced by colleges and universities, research seeking to understand students' reasons for attrition is of critical importance. Two factors influence students' underachievement and subsequent dropping-out of college: selfefficacy and goal orientation. Self-efficacy refers to peoples' judgments about their abilities to complete a task. Goal orientations refer to the motives that students have for completing tasks, which may include developing and improving ability (mastery goals), demonstrating ability (performance-approach goals), and hiding lack of ability (performance-avoidance goals). This study examined differences among goal orientations and self-efficacy using two distinct student groups: college students in good academic standing (GPA of 2.0 or higher) and college students on academic probation (GPA of less than 2.0). Results indicated that self-efficacy and mastery goals were positively related to academic standing whereas performance-avoidance goals were negatively related to academic standing. Students in good academic standing reported having higher self-efficacy and adopted significantly more mastery goals toward learning than students on academic probation. Among students who reported having high self-efficacy, those on academic probation reported adopting significantly more performanceavoidance goals than those in good academic standing. These findings suggest that teachers should identify those students with not only low self-efficacy, but those also adopting performance-avoidance goals. Teachers and administrators may be able to provide guidance to students who have beliefs and goals that contain maladaptive patterns of learning that sabotage their ability to succeed in school.
Purpose. The aim of this article is to describe a preliminary clinical experience with a new multidetector CT (MDCT) system (GuideShot system) for CT-guided intervention. Materials and methods. This system enabled sim...
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