Although traditional "NPO (nothing by mouth) after midnight" policies are being liberalized, noncompliance with NPO status remains a threat to patient safety and may result in delays of elective surgical procedures, decrease the efficiency of the ambulatory surgery setting, and waste healthcare dollars. The purpose of the present study was to examine how comprehensive NPO instructions affected ...

Given the equivocal state of the literature as to the symptom-level specificity of the cognitive variable labeled negative problem orientation (NPO), we targeted NPO-symptom relations. A clinical sample (N = 132) of adults diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, mood disorder, or obsessive-compulsive disorder completed self-reports of NPO and symptom types (worry, depression, obsessive-compulsive, ...

Complexation of NpO(2)(+) with dipicolinic acid (DPA) has been investigated in 1 M NaClO(4) at 25 degrees C. Two complexes, NpO(2)(DPA)(-) and NpO(2)(DPA)(2)(3-), were identified, and the stability constants (log beta(1) and log beta(2)) were determined to be 8.68 and 12.31, respectively, by spectrophotometry. The enthalpies of the complexation (DeltaH(1) and DeltaH(2)) were measured to be -25....

Digestive organ development occurs through a sequence of morphologically distinct stages, from overtly featureless endoderm, through organ primordia to, ultimately, adult form. The developmental controls that govern progression from one stage to the next are not well understood. To identify genes required for the formation of vertebrate digestive organs we performed a genetic screen in zebrafis...

The polymeric complex [(NpO(2)Py(5))(KI(2)Py(2))](n) is prepared from dry "NpO(2)Cl" by anion exchange with potassium iodide in pyridine affording the first convenient starting material for the development of NpO(2)(+) coordination chemistry in anhydrous organic media.

Several theorists advocate the application of relationship marketing concepts to the not-for-profit organisation (NPO) sector. The authors build on these contributions to adapt and extend the Morgan and Hunt [J. Mark. 58 (1994) 20] commitment– trust model to the NPO sector. The proposed model is applied to the relationship between an NPO and its organisational funders and is empirically tested....

The North Pacific Oscillation (NPO) and the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) have effects on California that are of interest to energy producers and consumers. In particular, changes in the NPO are associated with statewide shifts in simultaneous wintertime temperatures, and, to a lesser extent, temperatures in the following summer. Observations over the period 1960 to 2001 indicate that the...

The present study was designed to elucidate the neuronal projections from the amygdala to the nucleus pontis oralis (NPO). We propose that glutamatergic cells in the central nucleus of the amygdala (CNA) activate neurons in the NPO, which is the critical brainstem site that is responsible for the generation and maintenance of active (REM) sleep. Phaseolus vulgaris-leucoagglutinin (PHA-L), an an...