BACKGROUND Centralised incident reporting in a Dutch collaboration of nine out-of-hours services yielded very few incident reports. To improve incident reporting and the awareness of primary caregivers about patient safety issues, a local incident-reporting procedure was implemented. AIM To compare the number and nature of incident reports collected in a local incident-reporting procedure (in...

Hannah Golan Burnett has recently joined the Library as a volunteer. Hannah will be initially working in the Chifley Library alongside Luciana who along with other Chifley staff members has been working on a project to deselect the Beta and U-matic videos that have been in storage on Level 1. Hannah has previously undertaken volunteer work in school libraries and her available hours for volunte...

Venomous snakebites are an important health problem in tropical and subtropical countries. King cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) is the largest venomous snake found in South and Southeast Asia. In this study, the O. hannah venom proteome and the venom components cross-reactive to N. kaouthia monospecific antivenin were studied. O. hannah venom consisted of 14 different protein families, including thr...

Hannah Gola ([email protected]) Harald Engler ([email protected]) Annette Sommershof ([email protected]) Hannah Adenauer ([email protected]) Stephan Kolassa ([email protected]) Manfred Schedlowski ([email protected]) Marcus Groettrup ([email protected]) Thomas Elbert ([email protected]) Iris-Tatjana Kolass...

Her parents, therapists, nutritionists and teachers had spent years preparing the way. They had moved mountain to improve her sense of balance, her sensory perception and her overall health. They sent in truckloads of occupational and physical therapy and emotional support. But it wasn't until the fall of 2005 that traffic finally began to flow in the other direction. Hannah, whose speech was l...

Human activity and specifically tourism has been increasing in Antarctica over the last few years. Few studies have examined the indirect effects of human visits on Antarctic penguin rookeries. This work aims to study the differences between a highly visited (Hannah Point) and a rarely visited (Devil’s Point, Byers Peninsula) gentoo penguin rookery on Livingston Island. Our results suggest that...

Paper copyrights are retained by the authors, however, The Spectra retains the right to non-exclusive use in print and electronic formats for all papers submitted for publication in The Spectra. PECTR S A 2 Hannah Meredith is a fourth year bio-medical engineering student from Richmond, Virginia. She has been involved with The Spectra since its inception in 2009, serving as a primary editor, Ass...

(The importance of the preacher's exegetical work is greater than the life-span of one sermon. It has more to do with the life-span of the preacher himself. Exegetical study maketh the exact theologian. His study builds his ministering. It is therefore interesting to examine the relationship between a detailed exegetical study of a text and a sermon that is preached as part of its results. This...

Principles of Citizenship Education Based on Hannah Arendt’s Philosophy M. Khezri Aghdam S.M. Sajjaadi, Ph.D. A. Manoochehri, Ph.D. A.R. Saadeghzaadeh Ghamsari, Ph.D. Citizenship education, like education in general, has its philosophical foundations, and curriculum planners need to be familiar with these philosophies in order to do their job well. Among such philos...

The effects of the venoms of Naja melanoleuca, Naja nigricollis, and Ophiophagus hannah on blood coagulation, platelet aggregation, and fibrinolysis were studied in vitro. All three venoms were shown to be anticoagulant. This action appeared to be due to an effect on both the extrinsic and blood thromboplastin mechanisms. Platelet aggregation in Chandler's tubes and adenosine diphosphate reacti...