917 research outputs found
Nursing Home Registered Nurses' and Licensed Practical Nurses' Knowledge of Causes of Falls
No full textReducing falls in nursing homes (NHs) requires a knowledgeable nursing workforce. To test knowledge, 8 validated vignettes, representing multifactorial fall causes were administered to 47 nurses from 3 NHs. Although Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) scored higher than Registered Nurses in individual categories of falls, when we computed the average score of all 8 categories between groups of RNs’ versus LPNs’ we found RNs scored higher (F value =4.106; p<0.05) in identifying 8 causal reasons for older adults to fall.This is a non-final version of an article published ahead of print in Journal of Nursing Care Quality, October 7, 2015, and available at: https://dx.doi.org/10.1097/NCQ.0000000000000157Peer reviewe
Parameters in a class of leptophilic dark matter models from PAMELA, ATIC and FERMI
No full textAbstractIn this work we study a class of leptophilic dark matter models, where the dark matter interacts with the standard model particles via the U(1)Li−Lj gauge boson, to explain the e± excess in cosmic rays observed by ATIC and PAMELA experiments, and more recently by Fermi experiment. There are three types of U(1)Li−Lj models: (a) U(1)Le−Lμ, (b) U(1)Le−Lτ, and (c) U(1)Le−Lτ. Although ATIC or Fermi data are consistent with PAMELA data separately, ATIC and Fermi data do not agree with each other. We therefore aim to identify which of the three models can explain which data set better. We find that models (a) and (b) can give correct dark matter relic density and explain the ATIC and PAMELA data simultaneously recur to the Breit–Wigner enhancement. Whereas model (c) with a larger Z′ mass can explain Fermi and PAMELA data simultaneously. In all cases the model parameters are restricted to narrow regions. Future improved data will decide which set of data is correct and also help to decide the correct dark matter model
Creighton University Window Fall 1991
No full textTHE WAR THAT CHANGED CREIGHTON: "WE WILL NEVER BE HAPPY LIKE THIS AGAIN" / REMEMBERING THE 'BIG WAR' 50 YEARS LATER; WWII CHANGED CREIGHTON FOREVER
Author Robert Reilly, long a denizen of the Creighton campus, recalls the days of World War II - preceding, during, and following ~ and the many changes it brought to the Hilltop and its people. Page 4.
EMERALD IMAGES / EMERALD IMAGES: FR. DOLL IN IRELAND
Creighton's famed Jesuit photographer, Rev. Don Doll, S.J., was among 75 photographers from around the world invited to capture "A Day in the Life of Ireland." Some of his images from the Emerald Isle appear starting on Page 10.
COLUMBUS QUINCENTENARY: YEAR OF CELEBRATION OR YEAR OF MOURNING / COLUMBUS QUINCENTENARY: IS IT CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION OR MOURNING?
Freelancer Cynthia Furlong Reynolds writes about the Columbus who is no longer "politically correct" and despite a 500th-year commemoration may not be thought of as the hero and discoverer of the New World. Meanwhile, Creighton produces a video play about Columbus. Page 17.
WHAT IS LIFE? / WHAT IS LIFE? A BIOLOGIST'S TEXTBOOK
Dr. Allen Schlesinger, professor of biology and a member of the Window editorial advisory board, shares part of a chapter from his forthcoming book. It examines the science and philosophy of life at its simplest levels. Page 20.
FROM RED TO PINK TO ... COMMUNISM SELF-DESTRUCTS / CHANGE IN THE SOVIET UNION: INSIDE THE RUSSIAN ENIGMA
Pamela Vaughn interviews Dr. Ross Homing, who shares insights on the momentous events occurring in Russia as Communism self-destructs. Page 24.1
Richardson, Barbauld, and the construction of an early modern fan club
No full textMPhilMuch has been written about the life and long works of the eighteenth century epistolary novelist, Samuel Richardson, but the prospect of his position as the first celebrity novelist – responsible for courting his own fame as well as initiating his own fan club – has largely been ignored. The body of manuscripts housed at the National Art Library in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London provides the modern scholar with evidence of the skeletal beginnings of an early fan club. This thesis aims to show how these manuscripts were turned into a saleable commodity by the publisher and entrepreneur Richard Phillips, while under the guiding hand of another, slightly later, literary celebrity, Anna Laetitia Barbauld. In order to restore Richardson’s reputation amongst a new nineteenth century audience, Barbauld was required to construct her own idea of him as an eighteenth century celebrity author, and in doing so the insecurities of a self-professed, apparently diffident man, are revealed. Barbauld’s capacious, but heavily edited selection of letters is analyzed in this thesis, providing ample evidence that Richardson’s correspondents were more than just eager letter writers. By using Barbauld’s biography of Richardson this thesis aims to show how she manipulates the genre of life writing in her construction of him.
This thesis offers an alternative reading of how the Richardson manuscripts are viewed, redefining them as not simply a collection of letters, but as a collective entity, deliberately selected and archived as evidence of an early modern fan club, and its celebrity managing director
Arthur William Upfield: a biography
No full textThis dissertation is an exhaustive account of the life and work of Arthur William Upfield (1890-1964). It is presented as a critical biography and narrates the life of the writer, in his socio-cultural milieu, from birth. It also positions Upfield as a writer who dealt with issues of Aboriginality at a time when this was a singularly polemical subject. My work is informed by the theory of Zygmunt Bauman and others and is posited in the context of late-modern biography theory.
English-born, Upfield arrived in Australia in 1911 and took work in the bush, serving overseas with the Australian army at the outbreak of World War I and marrying an Australian army nurse in Egypt. Returning with his wife and son to Australia in 1921 he intermittently carried his swag until he was employed patrolling the Western Australian number 1 rabbit-proof fence for three years to 1931. By that time he had published four novels, including two crime novels featuring his fictional creation, the part-Aboriginal, part-European, Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte ('Bony'), arguably the first fully-developed character in Australian popular fiction.
Leaving the fence, Upfield settled with his family in Perth and wrote full-time until joining the Melbourne Herald in 1933. Retrenched, he resumed career writing to be further interrupted by a war-time intelligence posting in 1939. In 1943 the first Bony mysteries were published in America, where Upfield's critical success was maintained until his death. In 1945 he left his wife for Jessica Uren, to whom he remained devoted.
Upfield's in all twenty-nine Bony novels, many of which have been translated across eleven languages, afforded him notable success both at home and abroad, in good part due to his descriptive gifts and the uniqueness of his fictional character, the part-Aboriginal Bony
R-parity breaking via type II seesaw, decaying gravitino dark matter and PAMELA positron excess
No full textWe propose a new class of R-parity violating extension of MSSM with type 11 seesaw mechanism for neutrino masses where an unstable gravitino is the dark matter of the Universe. It decays predominantly into three leptons final states, thereby providing a natural explanation of the positron excess but no antiproton excess in the PAMELA experiment. The model can explain neutrino masses without invoking any high scale physics while keeping the pre-existing baryon asymmetry of the universe in tact. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Physics, MultidisciplinarySCI(E)40ARTICLE5311-31767
Beyond ‘Needy’ Individuals: Conceptualizing Information Behavior
No full textUnderstanding information users and their behavior is a question of central importance for information
research and practice. The paper challenges several aspects of existing approaches to understanding information behavior, including: the focus on individual cognition at the expense of social and affective factors; the construction of information users as defined by their areas of ignorance and uncertainty, rather than their expertise; and the focus on purposive rather than non-purposive information behavior. It argues that only by addressing these weaknesses and developing new research strategies and theoretical frameworks which focus attention on the social processes and relationships which underpin users’ information behavior can we hope to develop a truly holistic understanding of the relationship between people and information. The paper uses the author’s study of information behavior researcher’s constructions of an author (Brenda Dervin) to illustrate how a social constructivist approach can both build on existing approaches to information behavior research and address some of their weaknesses. It argues that social constructivist approaches provide a theoretical lens through which information researchers can gain a clearer picture of information users not as ‘needy’ individuals to be ‘helped’, but as social beings, experts in their own life-worlds
Inhibitory control and symptomatology of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
No full textBACKGROUND: Inhibitory control has been described as a factor causing difficulties in the regulation present in the ADHD. Objective: The aim was to analyze the relationship between inhibitory control and symptoms of ADHD in a sample of 81 subjects diagnosed with ADHD (Mage=10.05, SD=2.53). METHODS: A quantitative, cross-sectional and correlational scope research was carried out. The instruments used were the ADHD RS IV and SIMON experiment. Correlation inferential statistical regression and regression processes were applied. RESULTS: Three regression models were tested, where inhibitory control presents a significant prediction with the (a) attention deficit F (1,79) =20.69, p=<.001, R 2 =.21, (b) hyperactivity and impulsivity F (1, 79) =5.90, p=.01, R 2 =.07 and (c) the combination of both (a+b) F (1, 79) =13.25, p=< .01, R 2 =.14. CONCLUSIONS: The findings suggest that inhibitory control is one of the main executive functions that determines the degree of affectation of the symptomatology of the child population with ADHD
Inhibitory control and symptomatology of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
No full textBACKGROUND: Inhibitory control has been described as a factor causing difficulties in the regulation present in the ADHD. Objective: The aim was to analyze the relationship between inhibitory control and symptoms of ADHD in a sample of 81 subjects diagnosed with ADHD (Mage=10.05, SD=2.53). METHODS: A quantitative, cross-sectional and correlational scope research was carried out. The instruments used were the ADHD RS IV and SIMON experiment. Correlation inferential statistical regression and regression processes were applied. RESULTS: Three regression models were tested, where inhibitory control presents a significant prediction with the (a) attention deficit F (1,79) =20.69, p=<.001, R 2 =.21, (b) hyperactivity and impulsivity F (1, 79) =5.90, p=.01, R 2 =.07 and (c) the combination of both (a+b) F (1, 79) =13.25, p=< .01, R 2 =.14. CONCLUSIONS: The findings suggest that inhibitory control is one of the main executive functions that determines the degree of affectation of the symptomatology of the child population with ADHD
How are families who left welfare doing over time? a comparison of two cohorts of welfare leavers
No full textPublic welfare ; Employment (Economic theory)
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