The development and execution of a nurse peer review program to evaluate nursing practice associated with significant adverse events has resulted in systemic changes. Descriptive analyses were conducted for 23 peer-reviewed cases involving 41 RNs and 2 advanced practice nurses from 14 specialties over a 4-year period. Thematic analysis revealed four common event categories: assessment and monit...

FIRA robot soccer is strongly affected by the central vision system because of the head mounted camera. A single camera implies a central image processing system, which conflicts with the demands on autonomous acting of the individual robots. Even so this approach will continue to be used in the near future due to the limitations of the robot hardware. This paper presents a flexible and robust ...

Arguments about the causes of Indian farmer suicides have been widely aired in recent years, both in the media and in academic papers. It is plausible to suppose, as Carleton (1) does, that climate change has an indirect causal effect on the farmer suicide rate via reduced crop yields and increasing debt. It is, however, much less plausible to suppose that there will be a causal link for nonfar...

The global agricultural economy is changing. Commodity prices are declining, and producers increasingly supply complex value chains. There is growing interest in how farmers can benefit from emerging market opportunities. Farmers are encouraged to produce high value crops and engage in value-adding activities such as agro-processing. Farmer organization and collective action are often seen as k...

This paper describes an implementation of a large heterogeneous distributed parallel computation that counts the distribution of twin primes and calculates Brun’s constant and maximal distances between pairs of twin primes. Two primes are twins if they differ by two. It is not known if there are infinitely many twin primes but it was proven that the sum of their inverses converges to the value ...