Hydrographic surveying and nautical charting play a vital role in the safety of navigation in coastal areas, and are thus essential to world maritime commerce. However, the status of hydrographic surveys and nautical charting world-wide is usually quite poor. As a result of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), coastal states will be responsible for surveying and chartin...

OBJECTIVES Our goal was to determine the effectiveness of an intervention aimed at improving the emergency department (ED) documentation of pediatric injuries. METHODS All physicians and nursing staff in the ED of an urban teaching hospital and trauma centre underwent focused injury surveillance training and were instructed how to document 14 injury-specific data elements. Pocket reminder car...

This paper describes an integrated sensor system for precision maritime surface navigation in tightly confined harbor environments. The system tightly integrates GPS, inertial, image and laser measurements with an onboard electronic charting system to provide accurate bearing and/or range measurements to known navigational aids, allowing robust and accurate piloting relative to navigation aids ...

As the son of a chemistry professor and a mom who sent him to bird-watching camp to " get me out of the house, " Jeremy Nance naturally gravitated toward biology. But it wasn't until graduate school at the University of Arizona that Nance discovered his penchant for developmental biology and an admiration for the C. elegans nematode, which develops from one cell to 550 in the space of 12 hours....

Scientists expect that mapping the human genome will lead to a host of innovations in biology and research. For example, it may become possible to use DNA microarrays to accurately diagnose cancer and infectious disease subtypes and to predict clinical outcomes. Scientists might also use the genome to look at the interactions of the environment, genetic makeup, and toxic exposures, including th...

O ver a wide range of environments, up to five ant species forage every square meter of ground (1). In Amazonian rainforests, the biomass of ants dwarfs that of vertebrates (2), and in many rainforest trees, ants make up a large fraction of individual insects (3). This ecological dominance and the complexity of their societies makes their phylogeny of great interest as a glimpse into the develo...

Do read the nurses’ notes on the patient before caring for him and before charting your care. Do have the patient’s name and hospital number on every sheet. Do use correct spelling, correct grammar, and concise phrases. Do make entries in consecutive order. Do write the complete date and time of each entry, using am/pm or military time. Do sign each entry using your professional signature. Do i...

Hospital-wide computerized information systems evolved from the need to capture patient information and perform billing and other financial functions. These systems, however, have fallen short of meeting the needs of respiratory care departments regarding work load assessment, productivity management, and the level of outcome reporting required to support programs such as patient-driven protoco...

Nonconfonning parts are often produced when a process moves from one level to another due to transition events. Control charting, when applied to a stable state process, is an effective monitoring tool to continuously check for process shifts or upsets. However, the presence of transition events can impede the nonnal perfonnance of traditional control chart with increased false alarms. The pres...

On the surface, the protein universe seems dauntingly vast. Driven by the increasingly rapid accumulation of genomic sequences, the past few decades have yielded sequence data for several million gene products, leaving researchers struggling to keep up. Of the 10,000 protein families listed in the latest release from PFAM (http://pfam.sanger.ac.uk/), an online database that groups proteins base...