landscapes M. Motta, F. Colauto, W. A. Ortiz, J. Fritzsche, J. Cuppens, W. Gillijns, V. V. Moshchalkov, T. H. Johansen, A. Sanchez, and A. V. Silhanek Departamento de F ısica, Universidade Federal de S~ ao Carlos, 13565-905 S~ ao Carlos, SP, Brazil Department of Applied Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, S-412 96 G€ oteborg, Sweden INPAC – Institute for Nanoscale Physics and Chemistry,...

R. González-Férez* and P. Schmelcher Departamento de Física Moderna and Instituto “Carlos I” de Física Teórica y Computacional, Universidad de Granada, E-18071 Granada, Spain Theoretische Chemie, Physikalisch-Chemisches Institut, Im Neuenheimer Feld 229, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany Physikalisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Philosophenweg 12, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany sReceived 26 Novem...

Advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) represent a crucial resource to meeting growing health care needs. Such resources must be used to the full extent and in the most effective way possible. Through the development of the Consensus Model for APRN Regulation: Licensure, Accreditation, Certification and Education (LACE), nursing is assuming a leadership role within the health care system a...

The tax structure in Niger depends heavily on uranium mining and the rest of the formal sector. The slump in uranium prices has reduced tax revenues to 9% of GNP, which is not enough to finance an adequate level of public services. In this paper, tax reforms are considered which will raise more revenue while respecting criteria of equity, efficiency, and growth. The reforms mostly involve exten...

We evaluated acupuncture practitioner-patient communication using pairs of practitioners and patients. Our primary objective was to evaluate the concordance of practitioner and patient perceptions in terms of explanations regarding consultation, therapy, and patient satisfaction. The subjects were 250 practitioners and their 1250 patients in Fukuoka, Japan. Answers were obtained from 91 acupunc...

Background Research supports the efficacy of screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) in reducing unhealthy substance use, and demonstrates that nurses are effective SBIRT providers. The purpose of utilizing MI is to help clients to manage their health independently, while building their confidence and willingness to change behavior [1]. Identifying effective pedagogical...

As the only association representing Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNSs) across all specialties, the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists calls for careful implementation of the Consensus Model (the Model) in order to preserve patient and health care system access to CNS services, particularly given the significant influence this role has on cost and quality of health care outcomes....

In many scenarios, quickly solving a relatively small search problem with an arbitrary start and arbitrary goal state is important (e.g., GPS navigation). In order to speed this process, we introduce a new class of memorybased heuristics, called true distance heuristics, that store true distances between some pairs of states in the original state space can be used for a heuristic between any pa...

In the attempt to orient ourselves to the mass of existing endocrinological data bearing on the cancer problem, it is essential to consider the gen eral biological framework upon which endocrinol ogy rests. With the evolution of multicellular organisms, there have developed innumerable patterns of functional integration among their constituent cellular units. These patterns range all the way fr...

This paper investigates the relationship between permanent and transitory components of U.S. recessions in an empirical model allowing for business cycle asymmetry. Using a common stochastic trend representation for real GNP and consumption, we divide real GNP into permanent and transitory components, the dynamics of which are different in booms vs. recessions. We find evidence of substantial a...