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A Quality Improvement Project to Improve Sepsis-Related Outcomes at an Integrated Healthcare System
(Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the National Association for Healthcare Quality, 2019-11)Hospitals are encouraged to take steps to improve outcomes for patients with sepsis, a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. A retrospective analysis examined data (n 5 4,475) from three health systems to better determine ... -
Quantifying groundwater-sapping landforms with a hypsometric technique
(American Geophysical Union, 2000)The groundwater-sapping process generates peculiar landform features, including amphitheater channel head, U-shaped cross section with steep wall and flat floor, and short stubby tributaries. However, previous attempts to ... -
Quantum Mechanics and Paradigm Shifts
(Springer Netherlands, 2015-03-05)It has been argued that the transition from classical to quantum mechanics is an example of a Kuhnian scientific revolution, in which there is a shift from the simple, intuitive, straightforward classical paradigm, to the ... -
Queering the conflicts: What LGBT students can teach us in the classroom and online
(Elsevier, 2004-09)Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students need to develop successful rhetorical strategies for dealing with the conflicts that education, community, and society impose upon them. Webbed writing environments ... -
Race, Poverty, and Bail: An Annotated Bibliography
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2018-07)On June 9, 2017, Illinois's Bail Reform Act of 2017 was signed into law by Governor Bruce Rauner. Among other important provisions, the Act creates a presumption that non-monetary release conditions will be granted for ... -
Rambo as Potted Plant: Local Rulemaking's Preemptive Strike Against Witness-Coaching During Depositions
(1995)Several federal district courts have enacted rules that seek to preempt attorneys from interfering with the discovery process through improper "witness-coaching" by prohibiting an attorney from engaging in off-the-record ... -
Rapid Recovery of Damaged Ecosystems
(PloS, 2009)Background: Recent reports on the state of the global environment provide evidence that humankind is inflicting great damage to the very ecosystems that support human livelihoods. The reports further predict that ecosystems ... -
Reactive Oxygen Species and the Regulation of Hyperproliferation in a Colonial Hydroid
(University of Chicago Press, 2011-08)Colonies of Podocoryna carnea circulate gastrovascular fluid among polyps via tubelike stolons. At polyp-stolon junctions, mitochondrion-rich cells in part regulate this gastrovascular flow. During competition, colonies ... -
The Real Problem: Avatars, Metaphysics, and Online Social Interaction
(Sage Publications, 2010-02)It is often assumed that the problem with ‘virtual reality’ – the concept, its various technological deployments and the apparently oxymoronic phrase itself – has been our understanding, or perhaps misunderstanding, of the ... -
The Reasons for Wage Rigidity: Evidence From a Survey of Firms
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1997-08)A survey of 184 firms was conducted to investigate the reasons for wage rigidity. The strongest support was found for explanations based on adverse selection in quits and on the effect of wages on effort. In addition, ... -
Recipe for Disaster: How the Dynamic Ingredients of Risk and Exposure Are Changing the Tornado Disaster Landscape
(American Meteorological Society, 2016-06-03)Tornado disasters and their potential are a product of both hazard risk and underlying physical and social vulnerabilities. This investigation appraises exposure, which is an important component and driver of vulnerability, ... -
Recognizing Party and Nonparty Interests in Written Civil Procedure Laws
(2001)Since their inception in 1938, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure have largely directed civil litigation procedures in American trial courts. The organization of the rules reflects the natural progression of a civil case ... -
Recording Police Interrogations Has Worked -- And Should Be Expanded
(Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, 2013-05-29)Legislation to expand the use of audio and video recordings of police interrogations of criminal suspects is now pending in the Illinois General Assembly. As originally conceived, the bills would modify the current statute ... -
Redox Signaling in Colonial Hydroids: Many Pathways for Peroxide
(The Company of Biologists, 2005-01)Studies of mitochondrial redox signaling predict that the colonial hydroids Eirene viridula and Podocoryna carnea should respond to manipulations of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Both species encrust surfaces with ... -
Reduced Viscosity of the Free Surface in Entangled Polymer Melt Films
(American Physical Society, 2010)By embedding ‘‘dilute’’ gold nanoparticles in single polystyrene thin films as ‘‘markers’’, we probe the local viscosity of the free surface at temperatures far above the glass transition temperature (Tg). The technique ... -
Reforming the Processes for Challenging Voluntary Acknowledgements of Paternity
(2017)Voluntary acknowledgements of paternity (VAPs) significantly determine male legal parentage at birth for many children born of sex to unwed mothers in the United States. VAP processes are chiefly dictated by the federal ... -
The relationship between insufficient sleep and self-rated health in a nationally representative sample
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2012)Reduced sleep has been found to be associated with increased risk of diabetes mellitus, hypertension, cardiovascular disease (CVD), and mortality. Self-rated health (SRH) has been shown to be a predictor of CVD and mortality. ... -
Relationship between multiple sources of perceived social support and psychological and academic adjustment in early adolescence: Comparisons across gender.
(Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2010)The goal of the current study was to investigate gender differences in the relationship between multiple sources of perceived support (parents, teachers, classmates, close friends, and school) and indices of psychological ... -
The relationship between tornadic and nontornadic convective wind fatalities and warnings
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)A database of tornado fatalities, nontornadic convective wind fatalities, severe thunderstorm warnings, and tornado warnings was compiled for the period 1986–2007 to assess the spatial and temporal distribution of warned ... -
Relationships between glycemic control and cardiovascular fitness
(Biological Nursing Research, 2018-07)INTRODUCTION: Diabetes is a serious health problem affecting approximately 29.1 million individuals in the United States. Another 86 million have prediabetes. The development and implementation of lifestyle modifications ...
