In this issue, Johnson and Ouslander tackle one of the most costly, enduring, and vexing problems in long-term care: urinary incontinence (UI) management. Since 1988 when a consensus statement on the state of the science was drafted by an interdisciplinary expert panel (National Institutes of Health Consensus Conference on UI) and in 1996, when the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AH...

The interaction of polymers with small-scale velocity gradients can trigger a coil-stretch transition in the polymers. We analyze this transition within a direct numerical simulation of shear turbulence with an Oldroyd-B model for the polymer. In the coiled state the lengths of polymers are distributed algebraically with an exponent α = 2γ − 1/De, where γ is a characteristic stretching rate of ...

The motion of a rotating helical body in a viscoelastic fluid is considered. In the case of force-free swimming, the introduction of viscoelasticity can either enhance or retard the swimming speed and locomotive efficiency, depending on the body geometry, fluid properties, and the body rotation rate. Numerical solutions of the Oldroyd-B equations show how previous theoretical predictions break ...

This paper presents a linear stability analysis of natural convection in a horizontal layer of a viscoelastic nanofluid. The Oldroyd B model was utilized to describe the rheological behavior of a viscoelastic nanofluid. The model used for the nanofluid incorporated the effects of Brownian motion and thermophoresis. The onset criterion for stationary and oscillatory convection was derived analyt...

In the present article, we considered two-dimensional steady incompressible Oldroyd-B nanofluid flow past a stretching sheet. Using appropriate similarity variables, the partial differential equations are transformed to ordinary (similarity) equations, which are then solved numerically. The effects of various parameters, namely, Deborah numbers [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], Prand...

A theoretical investigation is performed for studying the flow of heat transfer characteristics of Sakiadis and Blasius flow of magnetohydrodynamic Maxwell fluid with thermal radiation. We also incorporated the Cattaneo-Chirstov heat flux model to control the heat transfer phenomena. Numerical solutions are carried out by using Shooting technique. The effects of various governing parameters on ...

Some of the increasing number of people leaving work before state pension age may benefit from more flexible jobs that bridge the gap between permanent full-time work and retirement. Stephen Lissenburgh and Deborah Smeaton of the Policy Studies Institute studied the role of such ‘bridge jobs’ in the lives of people leaving work between 50 and state retirement age. Using national survey data, th...

This study investigates the mixed convection flow of Jeffrey liquid by an impermeable inclined stretching cylinder. Thermal radiation and non-uniform heat source/sink are considered. The convective boundary conditions at surface are imposed. Nonlinear expressions of momentum, energy and concentration are transformed into dimensionless systems. Convergent homotopic solutions of the governing sys...

Deborah Robertson provides an overview of recently published articles that may be interest to non-medical prescribers. Should you wish look at any the papers in more detail, a full reference is provided

Deborah L. Flowers is an associate professor and program coordinator at the ECU @ Southeastern Department of Nursing, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, Okla. Native. This number included 2.5 million who reported they were solely American Indian or Alaska Native and 1.6 million who reported they were American Indian or Alaska Native as well as one or more other races. Within this l...