Aim The aim of this paper is to discuss some of the issues around continuing development of the Emergency Nurse Practitioner (ENP) role in a Victorian metropolitan Emergency Department (ED) setting. More specifically the discussion will consider the evolving clinical practice of the ENP in relation to clinical practice guidelines (CPG) and optimal utilisation of ENP skills and expertise. Backgr...

In this paper we introduce ENP-regex, a prototype of a regular expression matcher developed for Expressive Notation Package (ENP). ENP-regex allows us to use the regular expression syntax to match against several score attributes, such as pitch and rhythm. Instead of writing the regular expression matcher from scratch we implement a scheme where a thin conversion layer is inserted between an ex...

Ebola virus (EBOV) is an enveloped negative-sense RNA virus that causes sporadic outbreaks with high case fatality rates. Ebola viral protein 30 (eVP30) plays a critical role in EBOV transcription initiation at the nucleoprotein (eNP) gene, with additional roles in the replication cycle such as viral assembly. However, the mechanistic basis for how eVP30 functions during the virus replication c...

BACKGROUND Vasopeptidase inhibitors are a new class of compounds that inhibit both angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) and neutral endopeptidase. This study determined whether treatment with the vasopeptidase inhibitor omapatrilat (OMA) produced different effects on renal and cardiovascular structure compared with inhibition of ACE by enalapril (ENP) in rats with two-kidney, one clip hypertensi...

Consumer products containing engineered nanoparticles (ENP) are already entering the marketplace. This leads, inter alia, to questions about the potential for release of ENP into the environment from commercial products. We have inventoried the prevalence of ENP-containing consumer products in the Singapore market by carrying out onsite assessments of products sold in all major chains of retail...

Endotoxin neutralizing protein (ENP), a recombinant form of the anti-lipopolysaccharide factor that was isolated from amebocytes of the American horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, detoxifies lipopolysaccharide (LPS) both in vitro and in vivo. Using the Limulus amebocyte lysate assay, LPS was detoxified by ENP at a 1 to 1 weight ratio (1:1). When isolated rat aortic rings were preincubated for ...

In the present paper we introduce a new tool called ENP Expression Designer (ED). It is aimed at visually creating new notational attributes (ENP-expressions) in ENP. ENP, in turn, is a music notation program written in Lisp and CLOS with a special focus on compositional and music analytical applications. Currently, ENP allows to create new expressions by using Lisp and CLOS. The strictly textu...

The purpose of this paper is to give the reader a concise overview of Expressive Notation Package 2.0 (henceforward ENP). ENP is music notation program that belongs to a family of music and sound related software packages developed at Sibelius Academy in Finland. ENP has been used in various research projects during the past several years.

Nitrate can be a source of NPN for microbial growth at the same time that it reduces ruminal methane production. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of 2 encapsulated nitrate products used as urea replacers on blood and rumen constituents, methane emission, and growth performance of lambs. Eighteen Santa Inês male lambs (27 ± 4.9 kg) were individually allotted to indoor pens...

The focus of this paper is on ENP-expressions that can be used for annotating ENP scores with user definable information. ENP is a music notation program written in Lisp and CLOS with a special focus on compositional and music analytical applications. We present number of built-in expressions suitable for visualizing, for example, music analytical information as a part of music notation. A Lisp...