President's Page: Holding Hands, Sweaty Palms, and Silos

All alone with sweaty palms--physiological arousal and ostracism.

Social exclusion, or ostracism, is universally perceived as a negative emotional experience and often leads to poor social outcomes for individuals and society. Although the experience of distress associated with being ostracized is innate, there has been very little investigation of the effects on the autonomic nervous system. This study provides objective evidence for the effects of ostracism...

President's Page: Quality: it's in your hands.

Beyond holding hands: the modern role of the professional doula.

This article illustrates the five main aspects of the doula's role: providing specific labor support skills; offering guidance and encouragement; assisting mothers to cover gaps in their care; building a team relationship; and encouraging communication between patient, nursing staff, and medical caregivers. The roles of both nurses and doulas are discussed, including the complementary nature of...

Holding a Page: Enhanced Page Level Access Control for Database Systems

A new scheme for physically accessing tuples by multiple transactions is described for database systems using a shared memory buuer cache. Using this scheme, a transaction must rst obtain logical permission to access a tuple, for example, by taking a lock on the tuple. Once logical permission has been granted, a page level latch is taken for the initial physical access to the tuple. However, by...

Multi-society Presidents' page: The value of membership in your sub-specialty society.