Dr. Parker is Director of Research and Academic Affairs at the National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare (MedStar Health) in Washington, DC. Her research focuses on human factors and applied psychology, with an emphasis on understanding team performance in high-risk healthcare settings. Dr. Parker is currently an AHRQ postdoctoral fellow, researching team coordination during trauma resusc...

  ABSTRACT Background: Invasion  by  different  kinds  of  ballast  water  microorganisms  is  one  of  the  most important  marine  environment  problems  around  the  world therefore  preventing the  invasion  of  these  unwanted  and  harmful  stowaways  is  one  of  the  main strategies  of  responsible  agencies.  Some  of  these  methods  such  as  ocean excha...

We take the first step towards establishing a theory of Parker vectors for infinite permutation groups, with an emphasis towards oligomorphic groups. We show that, on the one hand, many results for finite groups extend naturally to the infinite case (Parker’s Lemma, multiplicative properties, etc.), while on the other, in the infinite case some genuinely new phenomena arise. We also note that c...

Parker problem in Hall magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is considered. Poloidal shear into the toroidal flow generated by the Hall effect is incorporated. This is found to lead to a triple deck structure for the Parker problem in Hall MHD, with the magnetic field falling off in the intermediate Hall-resistive region more steeply (like 1/x) than that (like 1/x) in the outer ideal MHD region. ∗Permanen...