This article is the second in a 3-part series describing the RWJ Executive Nurse Fellows Program, an advanced leadership program for nurses in senior executive roles who aspire to help lead and shape the US healthcare system of the future. Part 1 (October 2005) described the program, its core leadership competencies, and the primary components. This article discusses the mentor experience that ...

This work studies the frequency behavior of t h e Lomb method to estimate the power spectral density (PSD) of heart rate (HR) unevenly sampled (UNS) signals. When the UNS can be modeled as uniform plus a random deviation (approximation well satisfied in HR signals), this spectra results in a periodic repa ti t ion of the original continuous t ime spectrum at the mean Nyquist frequency, with a l...

Stimulation of the carotid body chemoreceptors with cyanide in anaesthetized rabbits usually causes a deep breath or gasp, but only if the vagus nerves are intact. This gasp has several similarities with spontaneous deep breaths in eupnoea. In paralysed rabbits, artificially ventilated, chemoreceptor stimulation induces an augmented discharge in the phrenic nerve equivalent to a gasp. In sponta...

In this work, the study of the influence of cutting parameters (cutting speed, feed, and depth of cut) on the tool wear used in in the dry turning of cylindrical bars of the UNS A97075 (Al-Zn) alloy, has been analyzed. In addition, a study of the physicochemical mechanisms of the secondary adhesion wear has been carried out. The behavior of this alloy, from the point of view of tool wear, has b...

The murine paired box-containing gene Pax1 is required for normal development of the vertebral column, the sternum, and the scapula. Previous studies have shown that three natural Pax1 mouse mutants, the undulated alleles, exhibit phenotypes of different severity in these skeletal elements. Nevertheless, these analyses have not clarified whether the semidominant Undulated short-tail (Uns) mutat...

Football medicine has developed in the world in recent years. AFC Medical Committee, established the idea of football medicine travelling fellowship two years ago and provided high-level healthcare services to football players in Asian countries. This is a report on my one month experience in a travelling fellowship program for football medicine which is attempting to tell the reader about the ...

Cite this article: Caroline W Kabiru, Chimaraoke O Izugbara, Joyce Wairimu, Djesika Amendah, Alex C Ezeh. Strengthening local health research capacity in Africa: The African Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship Program. Pan Afr Med J. 2014;17(Supp 1):1