BACKGROUND There is a severe shortage of nurses in Australia. Policy makers and researchers are especially concerned that retention levels of nurses in the health workforce have worsened over the last decade. There are also concerns that rapidly growing private sector hospitals are attracting qualified nurses away from the public sector. To date no systematic analysis of trends in nursing reten...

Ecosystems have been shaped by fire for millions of years. Many oligotrophic ecosystems rely on biogeochemical cycling and maintenance key processes. However, it is uncertain how intensity interacts with nutrient limitation to drive differential responses in postfire ecosystem recovery. In this study, we compare pre- carbon pools two adjacent wetlands characterized either lower or higher phosph...

In a 4-year longitudinal study, the authors investigated effects of retention in first grade on children's externalizing and internalizing behaviors; social acceptance; and behavioral, cognitive, and affective engagement. From a large multiethnic sample (n = 784) of children below the median on literacy at school entrance, 124 retained children were matched with 251 promoted children on the bas...

Recent lines of research have focused on dissociating function between the dorsal and ventral hippocampus along space and anxiety dimensions. In the dorsal hippocampus, the CA1 subregion has been implicated in the acquisition of contextual fear as well as in the trace interval in trace fear conditioning. The present study was designed to test the relative contributions of dorsal (dCA1) and vent...

OBJECTIVES To ascertain which factors are most significant in a general practitioner's decision to stay in rural practice and whether these retention factors vary in importance according to the geographical location of the practice and GP characteristics. DESIGN National questionnaire survey. The method of paired comparisons was used to describe the relative importance of the retention items....

Expanding retrieval practice (T. K. Landauer & R. A. Bjork, 1978) is regarded as a superior technique for promoting long-term retention relative to equally spaced retrieval practice. In Experiments 1 and 2, the authors found that expanding retrieval practice of vocabulary word pairs produced short-term benefits 10 min after learning, conceptually replicating Landauer and Bjork's results. Howeve...

Effect of temperature on the retention of amino acids and carbohydrates in high-performance anion-exchange chromatography (HPAEC) was investigated. Amino acids retention exhibited both exothermic and endothermic behavior. Significant selectivity variations of some weakly retained amino acids were achieved through changing temperature. However, temperature was almost ineffective at changing the ...