Last year, the Organization of Nurse Leaders (ONL), which represents nurse leaders in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Vermont, worked with England Regional Black Nurses Association (NERBNA) to create Nurse’s Pledge Champion Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity. This article details development pledge.

INSTANTIATION is a fairly common discourse relation and past work has suggested that it plays special roles in local coherence, in sentiment expression and in content selection in summarization. In this paper we provide the first systematic corpus analysis of the relation and show that relation-specific features can improve considerably the detection of the relation. We show that sentences invo...

INTRODUCTION The goal of lumbar spinal fusion is to limit pain by decompression and removal of soft tissues, followed by the formation of a rigid bony union between adjacent vertebrae. The general consensus for a rigid fusion construct requires careful preparation of the intervertebral space and the creation of a rigid fusion construct. Anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF) provides good acce...

We identify species–environment relationships to predict the occurrence of Chinese tallow (Triadica sebifera (L.) Small) on forestlands in the southern US, where it has emerged as the most pervading, stand-replacing, alien tree species. Tallow invasions are more likely to be observed on low and flat lands, areas adjacent to water and roadways, sites recently harvested or disturbed, younger stan...

Cop and robber is a two-player vertex-pursuit combinatorial game where the players stand on the vertices of a graph and alternate in moving to adjacent vertices. The cop wins when he captures the robber, robber’s goal is to avoid capture. The game has been studied in various modifications, many of which have an interesting relationship to certain well-known graph parameters, such as treewidth. ...