The Transformation Lab at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City, Utah, opened in 2013 to create transformative patient care solutions through thoughtful design, development, testing, and validation. Funded by forward-looking strategic collaborators like Intel, the Lab is well positioned to solve quality and care challenges by quickly and effectively bringing innovative technologies to the ...

Single crystals of the title organic-inorganic hybrid, {(C(5)H(7)N(2))(2)[MnCl(2)(H(2)O)(2)]Cl(2)}(n), were synthesized from an ethanol solution containing manganese(II) chloride tetra-hydrate and 4-amino-pyridine under acidic conditions. The asymmetric unit contains a disordered organic cation (occupancies in the ratio 0.72:0.28), a chloride anion and an MnCl(H(2)O) moiety with the Mn(II) atom...

The reaction of aluminium(III) with Hydroxynaphtol Blue (HNB) in aqueous media at apparent pH 5.5 results in a red complex that is stable for at least 4 hr. Beer's Law is obeyed up to 1.6 microg/ml of aluminium(III) with an apparent molar absorptivity of 1.66 x 10(4) l.mol(-1). cm(-1) at 569 nm. This paper proposes procedures for aluminium(III) determination by ordinary and first-derivative spe...

Two new zinc phosphonates, [(C5H14N2)0.5Zn5(HO3PCH(OH)CO2)(O3PCH(OH)CO2)3 x 2 H2O] x 2 H2O (1) and [(C4H12N2)Zn2(O3PCH(OH)CO2)2] (2), have been synthesized under hydrothermal conditions and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction along with powder XRD, elemental analysis (EA), IR, and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). In compound 1, [ZnO6] octahedra and [ZnO5] square-pyramids are brid...

Cryptochrome blue-light photoreceptors are found in both plants and animals and have been implicated in numerous developmental and circadian signaling pathways. Nevertheless, no action spectrum for a physiological response shown to be entirely under the control of cryptochrome has been reported. In this work, an action spectrum was determined in vivo for a cryptochrome-mediated high-irradiance ...

First, in the author’s study methylene blue was administered in a dose of 1–2 mg/kg bolus over 10 min and the median time until a maximum hemodynamic response was 2 h after drug administration. Out of 88 patients who received methylene blue, only 39 (44.3%) showed a positive hemodynamic response to the drug. We believe that if the bolus of methylene blue was followed by a continuous infusion of...

Evidence supporting the existence of higher order color mechanisms, that is, ones beyond the previously identified second stage mechanisms is presented. This evidence includes a reanalysis of the data of Krauskopf et al. [Vision Res. 20, 1123-1131 (1982)] on the desensitizing effects of viewing chromatically modulated fields, new experiments on a generalized version of the "transient tritanopia...

Campbell and colleagues developed an evaluation Toolkit for use by sexual assault nurse examiners (SANEs) to assess criminal case outcomes in adult sexual assault cases seen by SANE programs (Campbell, Townsend, Shaw, Karim, & Markowitz, 2014; Campbell, Bybee, et al., 2014). The Toolkit provides step-by-step directions and an easy-to-use statistical program. This study describes implementation ...

This study examines the determinants of farmers’ willingness to pay (WTP) and their payment levels for ecological compensation of the Poyang Lake Wetland in China. We developed a farmer household survey and gathered 292 effective responses. The contingent valuation method (CVM) and Heckman’s two-step model were employed for the empirical study. Results show that 46.58% of farmers are willing to...

Writing for Scientific Meetings October 16-22 (Online) Receive feedback on your first-author abstract while improving your abstract writing skills. Manuscript Writing Skills Writing and Reviewing for Scientific Journals January 16-19 (Lake Buena Vista, FL) Work with leading experts in-person to improve your first-author draft manuscript while learning the essentials of scientific writing and re...