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Biomarker Magazine Winter 2014, vol. 8
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Previous issue date: 2014-01Vasi, Nicholas (Managing Editor); Coulter, Kathryn (Design); Aronson, Deb (Writing); Jongeneel, Susan (Writing); Lutz, Claudia (Writing); Sturgeon, Claire (Writing); Yates, Diana (Writing); Ahlers, Haley (Imagery); Fried, Glen (Imagery); Hamerman, Don (Imagery); Lindsey, Jason (Imagery); Morrison, Marc (Imagery); Murphy, Tom (Imagery); Stauffer, L. Brian (Imagery); Coulter, Kathryn (Imagery); Sturgeon, Claire (Imagery); Vasi, Nick (Imagery
Mentorship Matters: Understanding the Impact of Mentorship for Advanced Practice Providers
No full textabstract: Nurse practitioners and physician assistants, collectively termed advanced practice providers (APPs), report a lack of onboarding and professional support which has been shown to lead to job dissatisfaction, high turnover rates, professional attrition, and gaps in patient care; wasting billions of healthcare dollars and falling short of the Quadruple Aim. A time-honored, integral means of support in many industries is mentorship. This is a dynamic, evolving relationship between an experienced professional and a novice professional that promotes knowledge application, systems navigation, organizational socialization and personal role integration. Unfortunately, healthcare organizations have been slow to adopt mentorship, as evidenced by the paucity of studies on mentorship programs in health care, and APP turnover rates twice that of physicians. This evidenced-based project expands on the limited existing studies regarding the associations between mentorship and organizational commitment, as well as explores the desired characteristics of quality mentors and perceived barriers to APP mentorship. A survey of multispecialty APPs at an oncology practice within a larger, multi-state integrated healthcare delivery system reveals access to mentors and time are the biggest barriers. The most desired mentorship characteristics are professional knowledge and motivational support. Career development through mentorship can increase job satisfaction and retention, as well as improve the quality of care provided by APPs. By strengthening the professional foundations, patients will benefit with continuity of care, improved quality measures, and efficient systems communication reaching the Quadruple Aim targets
Microbial community composition in sediments resists perturbation by nutrient enrichment
No full textAuthor Posting. © The Author(s), 2010. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Nature Publishing Group for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in The ISME Journal 5 (2011): 1540–1548, doi:10.1038/ismej.2011.22.Functional redundancy in bacterial communities is expected to allow microbial assemblages to survive perturbation by allowing continuity in function despite compositional changes in communities. Recent evidence suggests, however, that microbial communities change both composition and function as a result of disturbance. We present evidence for a third response: resistance. We examined microbial community response to perturbation caused by nutrient enrichment in salt marsh sediments using deep pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA and functional gene microarrays targeting the nirS gene. Composition of the microbial community, as demonstrated by both genes, was unaffected by significant variations in external nutrient supply, despite demonstrable and diverse nutrient–induced changes in many aspects of marsh ecology. The lack of response to external forcing demonstrates a remarkable uncoupling between microbial composition and ecosystem-level biogeochemical processes and suggests that sediment microbial communities are able to resist some forms of perturbation.Funding for this research came from NSF(DEB-0717155 to JEH, DBI-0400819 to JLB). Support for the sequencing facility came from NIH and NSF (NIH/NIEHS-P50-ES012742-01 and NSF/OCE 0430724-J Stegeman PI to HGM and MLS, and WM Keck Foundation to MLS). Salary support provided from Princeton University Council on Science and Technology to JLB. Support for development of the functional gene microarray provided by NSF/OCE99-081482 to BBW. The Plum Island fertilization experiment was funded by NSF (DEB 0213767 and DEB 0816963)
Taxonomy of coccids (Hemiptera: Coccidae: Coccus L.) associated with Crematogaster ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the stems of Macaranga plants (Euphorbiaceae) in Southeast Asia
No full textThe Southeast Asian soft scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccidae) associated with ants of the Crematogaster borneensis-group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and living in the hollow stems of Macaranga plants (Euphorbiaceae) are revised taxonomically. Ten species of the genus Coccus L. are recognised: seven were described previously and three new species are described herein. The species are: Coccus caviramicolus Morrison, C. circularis Morrison, C. heckrothi Gullan & Kondo sp. n., C. lambirensis Gullan & Kondo sp. n., C. macarangicolus Takahashi, C. macarangae Morrison, C. penangensis Morrison, C. pseudotumuliferus Gullan & Kondo sp. n., C. secretus Morrison and C. tumuliferus Morrison. All of these species are described or redescribed and newly illustrated based on the adult females, and a key to distinguish the species is provided. We designate a lectotype for C. macarangicolus. The first-instar nymphs of all species are morphologically extremely similar and therefore only the first-instar nymph of C. macarangae is described and illustrated. Seven of these species currently are known only from Macaranga, but C. macarangae, C. secretus and perhaps C. pseudotumuliferus have been recorded from the hollow stems of several other ant-plants and a few non-myrmecophytes. The Coccus species from Macaranga are closely related to C. hesperidum L., the type species of the genus, and therefore are retained in the genus Coccus even though the adult females exhibit a few morphological differences from C. hesperidum. The species of Coccus from Macaranga appear to be parthenogenetic because no male nymphs or adults have been found, despite extensive collecting.BF received financial support from the German Academic Research Foundation (DFG) and the German
Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). SPQ was supported by a Putnam Expedition Grant (Museum of Comparative Zoology,
Harvard University) and a National Science Foundation (USA) grant (DEB 0106866). PJG and TK were supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation
(Partnership for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy program, under Grant No. 0118718) and by Hatch funding from
the California Agricultural Experiment Station, both to PJG. Funding for PJG's visit to Brunei was provided by the
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) and permits for research and collection in the Kuala
Belalong Field Studies Centre (KBFSC) were arranged by the Biology Department of the Universiti Brunei
Darussalam. Peter S. Cranston assisted PJG with fieldwork at KBFSC
Reliability-based optimization for multiple constraints with evolutionary algorithms
No full textIn this paper, we combine reliability-based optimization with a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm for handling uncertainty in decision variables and parameters. This work is an extension to a previous study by the second author and his research group to more accurately compute a multi-constraint reliability. This means that the overall reliability of a solution regarding all constraints is examined, instead of a reliability computation of only one critical constraint. First, we present a brief introduction into this so-called 'structural reliability' aspects. Thereafter, we introduce a method for identifying inactive constraints according to the reliability evaluation. With this method, we show that with less number of constraint evaluations, an identical solution can be achieved. Furthermore, we apply our approach to a number of problems including a real-world car side impact design problem to illustrate our method
The Development Impact of Information Technology in Trade Facilitation
No full textThe main purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview and context of the country studies on Information Technology (IT) for Trade Facilitation (TF) in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).Impact of Information Techonology, Trade Facilitation, SMEs
Grande Ronde Basin spring chinook salmon captive broodstock program: F₁ generation performance
No full textTim Hoffnagle, Rich Carmichael, Joseph Feldhaus, Deb Eddy, Nick Albrecht, Sally Gee.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Diverse values, philosophies and ideas beget innovation and resilience in ecology and for our world
No full textDiversification of complex butterfly wing patterns by repeated regulatory evolution of a Wnt ligand
No full textAlthough animals display a rich variety of shapes and patterns, the genetic changes that explain how complex forms arise are still unclear. Here we take advantage of the extensive diversity of Heliconius butterflies to identify a gene that causes adaptive variation of black wing patterns within and between species. Linkage mapping in two species groups, gene-expression analysis in seven species, and pharmacological treatments all indicate that cis-regulatory evolution of the WntA ligand underpins discrete changes in color pattern features across the Heliconius genus. These results illustrate how the direct modulation of morphogen sources can generate a wide array of unique morphologies, thus providing a link between natural genetic variation, pattern formation, and adaptation.sponsorship: We thank D. Kapan, S. Rusza, M. Abanto, P. Etter, J. Davey, H. Hines, A. Morrison, N. Gillingham, T. Douglas, J. Olander, A. Tapia, C. Pardo-Diaz, L. Maroja, and L. Gilbert for laboratory help and breeding work; and governmental agencies from Panama, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and French Guiana for permits. This work was funded by National Science Foundation Grants DEB-0844244, DEB-1020355, and IOS-1052541; and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Grant BB/H01439X/1. (National Science Foundation|DEB-0844244, National Science Foundation|DEB-1020355, National Science Foundation|IOS-1052541, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council|BB/H01439X/1, BBSRC|BB/H01439X/1, Direct For Biological Sciences; Division Of Environmental Biology|0844244, Direct For Biological Sciences; Division Of Environmental Biology|1020355, Division Of Environmental Biology; Direct For Biological Sciences|1316037, Division Of Integrative Organismal Systems; Direct For Biological Sciences|1305686, Div Of Biological Infrastructure; Direct For Biological Sciences|0959864)status: Publishe
Review of the genus Acrobolbia with remarks on its classification, and a key to the world genera of Cyclocephalini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae)
No full textThe monotypic South American scarab genus Acrobolbia Ohaus, 1912 is reviewed and transferred to the tribe Cyclocephalini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae). It was formerly placed in the subtribe Acrobolbiina (Rutelinae: Rutelini) or subtribe Oryctomorphina (Dynastinae: Pentodontini), depending on the author. We discuss characters that warrant transfer, redescribe the genus (including the first description of a female), and briefly discuss natural history of A, macrophylla Ohaus, 1912. We include a key to males and females of all 14 genera of Cyclocephalini.This research was supported by
an NSFIPEET grant (DEB-971 2447) to B. C. Ratcliffe and M. L. Jameson and an
NSF/BS&I grant (DEB-9870202) to B. C. Ratcliffe and R. Cave
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