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Radio Frequency Identification Enhances Patient Safety
Get PDFRadio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a technology that uses tags and readers to identify and collect asset information. In pharmacies, this usually means RFID is used for high cost equipment or pharmaceuticals. RFID applications have been in use for many years but recently gained traction in health systems. RFID is becoming particularly effective in drug inventory and automation applications, such as medication carousels and pick-to-light systems
Influence of environmental factors on surface activity of \u3cem\u3eParuroctonus marksi\u3c/em\u3e (Scorpiones: Vaejovidae) in the Mojave Desert
Get PDFMany environmental factors may influence the activity pattern of scorpions in arid ecosystems. We investigated the seasonal variations of Paruroctonus marksi scorpion activity in the Mojave Desert (California, USA). Black light surveys were carried out within two 100 ×100 m plots from August 2017 to September 2018. The majority (85%) of scorpions were found in open areas compared with being in vegetation. The presence of P. marksi was positively correlated with both water vapor pressure and soil temperature, while moon illumination had no significant effect on P. marksi foraging behavior. Scorpions might be using humidity as an indicator of prey abundance and since they are not visual hunters, and moonlight does not affect their surface activity possibly due to lack of visual hunters in the study site
Plagues, Oblivion, and the Anonymous Dead Echoes from Seneca’s Oedipus and Lucan’s Civil War to COVID-19
Get PDFThe dead who are piled up in the literary worlds of Seneca’s Oedipus and Lucan’s Civil War are not very different than those of modernity. In their anonymity and silence, they speak so much about the atrocities and traumatic events of the societies in which they live. In Oedipus, nameless citizens claustrophobically are joined to one another in death, and, in Civil War, heaps of dead rot as Caesar looks on. One cannot help being reminded of the mass graves on Hart Island, the refrigerated morgue trucks, and the mass funeral pyres in India. This essay explores how the dead in these two ancient texts reverberate through time to the dead of our current pandemic, and, though anonymous and silent, haunt the living through their suffering, alienation, and absence. Through sheer numbers and the spaces, they leave behind, these ghosts gain a collective voice they never had while living
The genus \u3cem\u3eBarbaracurus\u3c/em\u3e in Saudi Arabia (Scorpiones: Buthidae), with description of a new species
Get PDFThe genus Barbaracurus (Scorpiones: Buthidae) is recorded for the first time from Saudi Arabia. B. yemenensis Kovařík et al., 2018 was found in the extreme southwest of the country, near its border with Yemen. The diagnosis of the species is emended based on the finding of adult males and a large adult female. The proximal margins of the pedipalp fingers of male B. yemenensis are strongly undulate, leaving a gap with the fingers closed. This character differentiates it from all other species of Barbaracurus in the Arabian Peninsula. A second species, B. kabateki sp. n. from Saudi Arabia is described as new. In addition to external morphological characters, we also describe the karyotypes of B. yemenensis (2n = 26), and the hemispermatophores of both species. A key to the species of Barbaracurus, and a map of the distribution of the genus in the Arabian Peninsula and Horn of Africa are provided
Review of \u3cem\u3eAfrican American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry\u3c/em\u3e, by Joe William Trotter, Jr.
Get PDFJoe William Trotter, Jr., ranks among the pantheon of America\u27s most influential historians. For more than forty years, beginning with his 1985 work Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915–1945, he has chronicled the African American experience, most profoundly on the centrality of the Black working class to America\u27s economic, industrial, cultural, and political development. His pioneering and provocative work examining the intersections of race, class, labor, urbanization, and gender within diverse urban- and rural-industrial settings has challenged prevailing historiography and expanded our understanding of Black migration, labor relations, and community formation. It has also added important dimensionality, complexity, and agency to Black workers, families, and communities within the historical narrative
In Appreciation: A Thank-You to Our Industrious Reviewers
Get PDFThe reputation of the Marshall Journal of Medicine depends on the authors\u27 contribution; however, the standard of the Journal\u27s level of excellence is also a consequence of the efforts of expert peer reviewers. We are grateful to the more than 530 individual reviewers who have contributed to the success of our Journal and enhanced the quality of 260 published papers. It is impossible to overstate the importance of their labor to ensure both the quality and relevance of work published in the Journal. On behalf of the Marshall Journal of Medicine editorial board, I want to express my sincere gratitude to the reviewers for assessing manuscript