Concern for the family members of patients who are at high risk of dying in intensive care units is both a necessary and integral part of providing holistic nursing care. When patients are at high risk of dying, their families experience burdens such as decision making and treatment choices that can cause the families psychological and physical symptoms, most commonly stress, anxiety, and depre...

This paper deals with simple portal or gable steel frames with varying moment of inertia. Critical load for such frames is calculated by means of a very simple and approximate method through which the variation of moment of inertia for the members is considered by a quadratic function and then the equilibrium and continuity conditions have been used. The degree of precision of this method has b...

Stable isotope probing (SIP) was used to identify the active members in a benzene-degrading sulfidogenic consortium. SIP-terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis indicated that a 270-bp peak incorporated the majority of the (13)C label and is a sequence closely related to that of clone SB-21 (GenBank accession no. AF029045). This target may be an important biomarker for anaero...

An efficient beam element, the modified elastofiber (MEF) element, has been developed to capture the overall features of the elastic and inelastic response of slender columns and braces under axial cyclic loading without unduly heavy discretization. It consists of three fiber segments, two at the member ends and one at mid-span, with two elastic segments sandwiched in between. The segments are ...

Family members of intensive care patients may experience stressors that threaten both personal health and family integrity. This study found that family members endure multiple concurrent stressors and exhibit numerous behavioral responses, including changes in eating, sleeping, activity, and family roles and responsibilities. Nurses can promote family integrity with interventions that address ...

When working in intensive care, it does not take long to realise hat intensive care nursing is not just about operating technology nd managing medical treatments. Nor is it solely about providng physical and psychological support for the critically ill patient. ntensive and critical care nursing is also caring for, and caring bout, families. Whether you are passionate about it, or are chalenged...

for the polynomial planar vector fields with a hyperbolic or nilpotent critical point at the origin, the monodromy problem has been solved, but for the strongly degenerate critical points this problem is still open. when the critical point is monodromic, the stability problem or the center- focus problem is an open problem too. in this paper we will consider the polynomial planar vector fields ...

In the last twenty years, the call for faculty members to focus on critical thinking has led to a laudable effort on the part of faculty members and teaching support professionals to move the focus of courses to the higher levels of Bloom’s (1956) classification of learning behaviors. But efforts to help students learn at the levels of analysis, synthesis, and evaluation may be impeded by a mis...