OVER THE PAST DECADE, HEALTHCARE facilities across the U.S. have been transitioning to safety-engineered needle devices—a process that rapidly accelerated after the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act was passed in November 2000. Two nurses who have spearheaded safety device implementation at their facilities shared their experience with us: Pam Gill, RN, BSN, the HIV/HBV Prevention Nurse at ...

In the following a brief commentary is given on a new European project that aims to provide the European countries with recommendations for the care of children and yound adults with rheumatic diseases. These recommendations will be based on surveys sent to PRINTO members and systematic literature reviews. Surveys on current local standard of care and best practice will be send to PRINTO member...

Geophysical and sedimentary records from five lakes in Massachusetts reveal regionally coherent hydrologic variability during the Holocene. All of the lakes have risen since ~9.0 ka, but multicentury droughts after 5.6 ka repeatedly lowered their water levels. Quantified water level histories from the three best-studied lakes share >70% of their reconstructed variance. Four prominent low-water ...

The sensitivity of expansive growth to water deficit has a large genetic variability, which is higher than that of photosynthesis. It is observed in several species, with some genotypes stopping growth in a relatively wet soil, whereas others continue growing until the lower limit of soil-available water. The responses of growth to soil water deficit and evaporative demand share an appreciable ...

Water deprivation-induced thirst is explained by the double-depletion hypothesis, which predicts that dehydration of the two major body fluid compartments, the extracellular and intracellular compartments, activates signals that combine centrally to induce water intake. However, sodium appetite is also elicited by water deprivation. In this brief review, we stress the importance of the water-de...

Of the membrane proteins of known structure, we found that a remarkable 67% of the water soluble domains are structurally similar to water soluble proteins of known structure. Moreover, 41% of known water soluble protein structures share a domain with an already known membrane protein structure. We also found that functional residues are frequently conserved between extramembrane domains of mem...

The knowledge required for decision making in a firm is distributed across various departments. In practice cross functional teams are used to integrate this distributed knowledge. Incentive schemes are of crucial importance to encourage departments to share knowledge. In this paper, we study different incentive schemes by means of a two stage model. In the first step departments have to choose...

OURMINE is an environment for developing and sharing data mining experiments. Adding new tools to OURMINE, in a variety of languages, is a rapid and simple process. This makes it a useful research tool. OURMINE also has pedagogical advantages. Complicated graphical interfaces have been eschewed for simple commandline prompts. This simplifies the learning curve for data mining novices. The simpl...

This paper presents a new extension of the Rubinstein-St̊ahl bargaining model to the case with n players, called sequential share bargaining. The bargaining protocol is natural and has as its main feature that the players’ shares in the cake are determined sequentially. The bargaining protocol requires unanimous agreement for proposals to be implemented. Unlike all existing bargaining protocols ...

Evaluation of Coastal Plain Conservation Buffers using the Riparian Ecosystem Management Model (In Press, Journal of the American Water Resources Association) Richard Lowrance*, Randall G. Williams, Shreeram P. Inamdar, David D. Bosch, and Joseph M. Sheridan. ABSTRACT Riparian buffers are increasingly important as watershed management tools and are cost-shared by programs such as Conservation R...