PURPOSE The economic impact associated with the conversion from 10-mL vials of insulin to 3-mL vials and pens at a community hospital was assessed. METHODS Pharmacy purchasing and administrative data from Providence St. Vincent Hospital in Portland, Oregon, were used in this analysis. The hospital converted floor-stock 10-mL vials of insulin in October 2010 to individual patient supply (IPS) ...

The objective of this study was to determine feedlot- and pen-level fecal prevalence of seven enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) belonging to serogroups (O26, O45, O103, O111, O121, O145, and O157, or EHEC-7) in feces of feedlot cattle in two feeding areas in the United States. Cattle pens from four commercial feedlots in each of the two major U.S. beef cattle areas were sampled. Up to 1...

Protecting the remaining wild salmon stock in Norway is of utmost importance and requires that farmed cannot escape from aquaculture sites. As holes net-cages are responsible for a large fraction escaped industry has to perform frequent inspections fish cage integrity. In this paper we propose an image processing computer vision based attention mechanism towards more automated fish-cage inspect...

a study was conducted to compare the growth performance as well as blood and carcass variables of two broiler strains reared in a conventional broiler house and a modified greenhouse equipped with cooling pads and tunnel ventilation system. eight hundred day-old chickens of two commercial strains (ross  308 and lohmann) were selected and placed in  8 floor pens (4 pens of  50 broilers for each ...

Severe feather-pecking (SFP) persists as a highly prevalent and detrimental behavioural problem in laying hens (Gallus gallus domesticus) worldwide. The present experiment investigated the association between feather-eating and plumage damage, a consequence of SFP, in groups of free-range, ISA Brown laying hens. Single feathers were placed on the floor of the home pens. Feathers were sourced fr...

Three experiments were conducted to compare the feeding value of genetically enhanced corn (Roundup Ready corn events GA21 and nk603) with nontransgenic hybrids. The four treatments included two separate reference hybrids (REF), the near-isogenic control hybrid (CON), and the genetically enhanced corn (RR), resulting in two preplanned comparisons of CON vs. RR and RR vs. the average of REF. In ...

available method used for diagnosis of tuberculosis. Though direct smear microscopy has the advantage of being simple to perform, rapid, less cumbersome, and above all it is inexpensive it has a major disadvantage of having a discouragingly low sensitivity. Therefore, if only direct microscopic method was used for diagnosis, around 22.6% cases with lower AFB counts would have been missed in our...

THE PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY Nursing Society (PENS) is committed to advancing the art and science of pediatric endocrinology nursing. PENS members specialize in the nursing care of children with endocrine conditions, including those who identify as transgender or gender non-conforming. The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH, 2012, p. 5) defines transgender identity as “...