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.

There is an increasing need for efficient phenotyping and histopathology of a variety of tissues. This phenotyping need is evident with the ambitious projects to disrupt every gene in the mouse genome. The research community needs rapid and inexpensive means to phenotype tissues via histology. Histological analyses of skeletal tissues are often time consuming and semi-quantitative at best, regu...

Bones fracture frequently and often result in significant impairments, functional limitations, and disabilities, especially when the hand is involved. When fractures occur, there is a disruption of the skeletal tissue organization and a loss of mechanical integrity. The goal of fracture healing is to regenerate mineralized tissue in the fracture area and restore mechanical strength to the bone....

1 Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium; [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] 2 Prometheus, Division of Skeletal Tissue Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium 3 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Division of ...

Most hard tissues have as their primary purpose to be stiff. Outside the arthropods, mineralisation of a soft organic matrix is the almost universal method of producing high stiffness. However, stiffening brings with it the undesirable mechanical result of brittleness (lack of toughness). The mineralisation of some tissues, such as bone and dentine, can be modified rather easily, in evolutionar...

The discipline of Tissue Engineering has developed over the past 15–20 years as a compilation of the emerging technologies in regenerative medicine and reconstructive surgery, holding the promise of surpassing the limitations imposed by the biomaterials currently available. By utilizing the regenerative capacity of tissues it is anticipated that functional tissue analogues having the desired di...

UNLABELLED The contribution to red marrow absorbed dose from beta-emitting radionuclides distributed uniformly in the total body can be overestimated using either MIRD 11 or MIRDOSE3. The S value assigned to the red marrow target region from activity distributed in the remainder of the body is of particular concern. The assumption that the specific absorbed fraction for total body irradiating r...

Tendon is a poorly vascularized and highly specialized connective tissue containing few scattered cells that play an important role in the musculoskeletal apparatus by resisting mechanical stress. Because of the slow rate of the metabolism of its molecular components, the tendon gradually loses its mechanical properties and may rupture upon an array of physical activities. In this report, we di...