OBJECTIVES To compare pharmacologic treatment strategies for neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) with respect to total duration of opioid treatment and length of inpatient hospital stay. METHODS We conducted a cohort analysis of late preterm and term neonates who received inpatient pharmacologic treatment of NAS at one of 20 hospitals throughout 6 Ohio regions from January 2012 through July 20...

PURPOSE We examined predictors of intrinsic job satisfaction, overall satisfaction, and intention to leave the job among nursing assistants (NAs). DESIGN AND METHODS The study focused on NAs who worked 30 or more hours per week in a nursing home. Data on 2,146 NAs meeting this criterion came from the 2004 National Nursing Assistant Survey, the first telephone interview survey of NAs nationwid...

OBJECTIVES High turnover rates among nursing assistants (NAs) in nursing homes have costly implications for facility operation and quality, and low rates of NA profession retention can deplete the stock of experienced staff. This study assessed the extent to which the same factors are associated with NAs' intent to leave a particular job versus the NA profession. METHODS We used data for 2,32...

Oil sands surface mining for bitumen results in the formation of oil sands process water (OSPW), containing acutely toxic naphthenic acids (NAs). Potential exists for OSPW toxicity to be mitigated by aerobic degradation of the NAs by microorganisms indigenous to the oil sands tailings ponds, the success of which is dependent on the methods used to exploit the metabolisms of the environmental mi...

We have analyzed female-sterile mutations at the X-linked loci fs(1)Nas and fs(1)ph which show allele-specific effects on egg shell structure and embryonic pattern formation. The majority of mutant alleles at both loci lead to a collapsed egg phenotype. The maternal effect lethal phenotype is characterized by cuticle defects resembling those found in three autosomal mutants of the terminal clas...

NAS-wide simulations are used to evaluate concepts of operations, technologies, and their cost/benefits. When modeling stakeholder behavior, users of state-of-the-art NAS-wide simulators must encode decision-making in fixed sets of rules before executing the simulations. Adaptability and evolution in stakeholder decision-making is a next step to accommodate progressively realistic modeling of t...

Status of this Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract This document defines requirements for protocols used by Network Access Servers (NAS). 1. Requirements language In this document, the key words "MAY", "MUST, "MUST NOT", "optional", "recommended", "SHOULD", and "SHO...

Retrospective study indicates that hepatitis B virus (HBV)-active nucleoside (nucleotide) analogues (NAs) used for antiretroviral therapy reduce the incidence of acute HBV infections in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients. Learning from HIV postexposure prophylaxis (PEP), we explored the possibility of using NAs in PEP following HBV exposure, if preexposure prophylaxis is feasi...

In this paper we demonstrate that finite horizon optimization of ground-delays and rerouting can provide robustness to the performance of the United States National Airspace System (NAS), in the event a center goes down. Our analysis is based on a linear system approximation of the NAS. We use the linear model to analyze the degrading effect of a loss of center on the performance of the ATC. We...

The involvement of dopaminergic (DA) and serotonergic (5-HT) systems in circling was assessed by determining the neurochemical correlates of circling induced and maintained by two different schedules of water reinforcement. The conditioned circling paradigm was employed in an attempt to replicate reports that levels of DA and 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC) were increased in the striatum...