OBJECTIVE To present the legal and professional issues related to nurse administration of drugs according to protocols, and describe the implementation and initial audit findings of such a scheme. SETTING Accident and emergency (A&E) department of a district general hospital. METHODS Analysis of legal and professional opinion. Protocols acceptable to the medical, nursing, and pharmacy profe...

The differential cross-sections for elastic and inelastic neutrino–deuteron scattering are calculated analytically using nucleon-nucleon effective field theory. For elastic scattering, the deuteron axial form factor and the deuteron strange magnetic moment form factor are computed to next-to-leading order, including two-body currents. For inelastic scattering, two neutral current processes νd →...

Two new species of Dorsiceratus Drzycimski, 1967 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Ancorabolidae), Dorsiceratus wilhelminae sp. nov. and D. dinah sp. nov. are described from Sedlo and Seine Seamounts, respectively (both northeast Atlantic). These are the first records of Dorsiceratus species from seamount summits. Both new species resemble the described species D. octocornis Drzycimski, 1967, D. triart...

Considering the needs for the Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA) of Engineered Nanoparticles (ENPs), the main aim of this PhD study is to propose an ERA approach for ENPs that enables evaluating all representative factors for the risk, provides tools for reducing uncertainties and points out further research needs and risk management strategies with quantitative risk communication. Silver nano...

With urban, agricultural, and industrial needs growing throughout the past decades, wetland ecosystems have experienced profound changes. Most critically, the biodiversity of wetlands is intimately linked to its hydrologic dynamics, which in turn are being drastically altered by ongoing climate changes. Hydroperiod regimes, e.g., percentage of time a site is inundated, exert critical control in...

Daily acoustic calling rates of Eastern North Pacific (ENP) gray whales were measured on 6 days during 1 mo of their 2008 breeding season in the sheltered coastal lagoon of Laguna San Ignacio in Baja California, Mexico. Visual counts of whales determined that the numbers of single animals in the lower lagoon more than tripled over the observation period. All call types showed production peaks i...

PIN-FORMED (PIN)-dependent auxin transport is essential for plant development and its modulation in response to the environment or endogenous signals. A NON-PHOTOTROPIC HYPOCOTYL 3 (NPH3)-like protein, MACCHI-BOU 4 (MAB4), has been shown to control PIN1 localization during organ formation, but its contribution is limited. The Arabidopsis genome contains four genes, MAB4/ENP/NPY1-LIKE1 (MEL1), M...

The increased use of engineered nanoparticles (ENPs) in consumer products raises the concern of environmental release and subsequent impacts in natural communities. We tested for physiological and demographic impacts of ZnO, a prevalent metal oxide ENP, on the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis. We exposed mussels of two size classes, <4.5 and ≥ 4.5 cm shell length, to 0.1-2 mg l(-1) ZnO ENPs in ...

OBJECTIVES Rapid increase in engineered nanoparticles (ENPs) in many goods has raised significant concern about their environmental safety. Proper methodologies are therefore needed to conduct toxicity and exposure assessment of nanoparticles in the environment. This study reviews several analytical techniques for nanoparticles and summarizes their principles, advantages and disadvantages, revi...

Being one of the weakest economies in world, livelihoods Afghanistan remain highly dependent on local ecosystem services. However, risk services degradation over past two decades has significantly increased, mainly due to rapid changes land-use and land-cover (LULC). As such, policy makers must be able estimate impact LULC various By utilizing GlobeLand30 land cover products for 2000, 2010 2020...