All together now: A symphony orchestra audience as a consuming community

All Together Now

THE mechanism by which anesthetics impair consciousness remains one of the most important unsolved mysteries of our specialty—if not of all science. Establishing causal links connecting molecular sites of action with cellular, network, and ultimately behavioral changes will be a formidable challenge. One important approach that can contribute to this effort is the use of mathematical models tha...

All together now.

In 2010, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, and its recommendations have been backed by an aggressive implementation campaign. The Campaign for Action, launched by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and AARP, has formed coalitions in every state to move this work forward. Along with Nursing Outlook, the official j...

Musician Participation in Symphony Orchestra Management : The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Experience

Statistics: all together now, one step at a time.

THE PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PHARMACOLOGICAL SOCIETIES in the UK have been aware for some time that statistical testing and data presentation in our journals can fall short of the high standards that we wish to maintain. Over recent years other medical and life science journals have made substantial efforts to address similar problems. For example, the BMJ set out to improve reporting in medical journ...

Sound exposure of symphony orchestra musicians.

BACKGROUND Assessment of sound exposure by noise dosimetry can be challenging especially when measuring the exposure of classical orchestra musicians where sound originate from many different instruments. A new measurement method of bilateral sound exposure of classical musicians was developed and used to characterize sound exposure of the left and right ear simultaneously in two different symp...