Background: A rapidly changing health and long-term care environment characterized by efficiency and cost-containment is resulting in changing roles and responsibilities among all levels of staff who work with seniors in long-term care facilities. More is being asked of all, and there are reports of health-care providers who are overworked, stressed-out and suffering from burnout. Little is kno...

UTICA, March 25—Two, city of Utica employees won a $3,500 settlement from the City recently as the result of a suit brought by the pair charging their jobs had been Illegally abolished. The petitioners were Charles Hudson, former superintendent of ,, buildings, and Chester Mllostan, a former building Inspector for the city. John Kel y, Jr., counsel for the Civil Service Employees A'isoclatlon a...

This paper presents an analysis of Cramer-Rao lower bounds (CRLB) in the phase retrieval problem. Previous papers derived Fisher Information Matrices for the phaseless reconstruction setup. Two estimation setups are presented. In the first setup the global phase of the unknown signal is determined by a correlation condition with a fixed reference signal. In the second setup an oracle provides t...

Although the development of collaborative relationships is considered a requirement for medical education, the functioning of these relationships may be impaired by a well-documented social-psychological phenomenon known as group conformity. The authors hypothesized that students would insert a needle into an incorrect location relative to the patella when performing a knee arthrocentesis if th...

It is now well established that the anal papillae of culicine larvae secrete salts from the dilute external medium into the body (Koch, 1938; Ramsay, 1953; Stobbart, i960). In the case of the larvae of Aides aegypti the exchange and net transport of sodium through the papillae have been studied in some detail (Treherne, 1954; Stobbart, 1959, i960) and it appears that the sodium pump in the papi...

SlIm mary.-This study assessed the effi cacy of the Self-consciousness Scale in different iating shortand long-term schizophrenics from sociopaths and psych iatric aides. Three gro ups of 10 state hospital residen ts were selected on the basis of evidence of schizophren ia or antisocial pe rsonality using bot h interview and psychometric measures. A comparison group of 10 randomly chosen psychi...