In the summer of 2020, during height civil unrest across our nation, American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) launched Diversity and Belonging Committee. The committee’s vision is to unleash potential a diverse united nurse leader community. Through research, education, advocacy, team aims create nursing community culture where all nurses health care workers can thrive.

This Essay provides a brief summary and evaluation of findings on the mental health and substance abuse consequences of the events of 9/11 throughout the nation and in United States’ cities. It also presents new data obtained from clients who entered substance abuse treatment in New York and other cities either before 9/11 or during a six-month period following the events. This Essay discusses ...

THE OBESITY EPIDEMIC IS NOT THE FIRST MAJOR health crisis that the United States has faced. In recent decades, progress has been made against such daunting challenges as tobacco use, infant mortality, and HIV/AIDS. However, obesity may pose the most significant challenge yet because it involves changing approaches to 2 fundamental aspects of daily life: food consumption and physical activity. T...

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) (in the United States) has published on October 19, 2015, a white paper on “privacy-enhanced identity brokers.” We present here a reply to their request for public comments. We enumerate concerns whose consideration we find paramount for the design of a privacy-enhancing identity brokering solution, for identification and authentication of...

This report presents results of a study of the potential for efficient and clean energy technologies to address a number of energy-related challenges facing the United States. These challenges include global climate change, air pollution, oil supply vulnerability, energy price volatility, and inefficiencies in energy production and end-use systems. Some of these concerns are visible today and a...

Clinical microbiologists are highly skilled scientists within national hospitals and reference laboratories who diagnose patients with infections by emerging pathogens. Most advanced training for clinical microbiologists occurs at universities, where an individual can receive certification as a "Medical Laboratory Scientist" (MLS). Unfortunately, many MLS programs have closed in the United Stat...

The manufactured gas industry provided cities in the United States with energy for light and power during much of the period from approximately 1850 to 1950. This article explores the history of the effects of this industry on air, land, and water environments; it also examines attempts by the courts and municipal and state governments to regulate gas-waste pollution and the industry's response...

Prior to the mid-1780s, the religious community called the Episcopal Church in the United States or the Protestant Episcopal Church was known as the Church of England. Following the war for independence, however, Anglican leaders in the new nation reorganized this religious body, and the Protestant Episcopal Church became the selfgoverning American branch of the Anglican communion. The preface ...

Beginning with A Nation at Risk in 1983, numerous reports were issued throughout the 1980s calling for educational reform in the United States. These reports resulted in sweeping educational reforms enacted by state legislatures nationwide. In Texas, significant educational changes were initiated in 1984 by House Bill 72. One of the outcomes of this bill was major reform in secondary agricultur...

Tritium is an isotope of hydrogen which emit beta particles in energy range of 5 – 18,6 keV, and has relatively long half life of 12.3 years. In the environment, tiritum is originated both from the nature and human activities. Naturally, tritium is produced in the atmosphere by interaction of cosmic rays with the nuclei of atoms present in the air, and estimated to contribute the annual effecti...