Richards Post

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to provide guidance on supportive nurse manager role transition practices. BACKGROUND The nurse manager role is increasingly more complex and the workforce is increasingly less experienced. Wide variation in nurse manager role transition exists among organizations. Nurse managers are commonly hired without…[Read more]

OBJECTIVE Episodic memory is impaired in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) dementia but thought to be relatively spared in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD). This view is challenged by evidence of memory impairment in bvFTD. This study investigated differences in recognition memory performance between bvFTD and AD. METHOD We performed a…[Read more]

Background Electroporation has become a routine technique for rapid drug delivery for the treatment of cancer. Because of its simplicity and wide range of application, it has been applied for the transfer of gold-nanoparticles and can facilitate entry into target cancer cells. Objective The aim of this study is finding optimal conditions in order…[Read more]

Spectroscopic characterisations of the radical polyinterhalogen molecules IF2 and I2F are reported using anion photoelectron spectroscopy. The corresponding parent anions, IF2- and I2F-, are common products formed in hard Ar-CF3I plasmas and are relevant in the semiconductor manufacture industry. The I2F- species, which is present as the – isomer,…[Read more]

001); the majority were categorized as grade A (5.1% vs. 9.5%). Overall 30-day morbidity was lower with NAC (40.4% vs. 49.5%; P  less then  0.001). Specifically, pneumonia (2.3% vs. 4.1%), organ space infections (7.9% vs. 13.2%), sepsis (5.2% vs. 8.0%), and delayed gastric emptying (10.1% vs. 14.8%) occurred less frequently in the NAC group. Pos…[Read more]