Clinical supervision: a concept analysis Clinical supervision is a commonly discussed concept within nursing. There appears to be a common belief that it is a good thing for nursing. Many practitioners, however, are still unsure what clinical supervision is and what is expected of them. A number of definitions and models of supervision have been developed but it remains ill defined. This paper ...

In the present work, the effects of operating conditions including pH, transmembrane pressure, oil concentration, and temperature on fouling resistance and the rejection of turbidity for a polymeric membrane in an ultrafiltration system of wastewater treatment were studied. A new modeling technique called evolutionary polynomial regression (EPR) was investigated. EPR is a method based on regres...

Here we provide a thorough discussion of the study conducted by Rodgers et al. (2015) to investigate focal seizures and acquired epileptogenesis induced by head injury in the rat. This manuscript serves as supplementary document for our letter to the Editor to appear in the Journal of Neuroscience. We find that the subject article suffers from poor experimental design, very selective considerat...

Bennett, A., Chow, C., Chou, M., Dehbi, H., Webster, R., Salam, A., Patel, A., Neal, B., Peiris, D., Thakkar, J., Chalmers, J., Woodward, M., Hilmer, S., Usherwood, T., Rodgers, A., et al (2017). Efficacy and Safety of Quarter-Dose Blood PressureLowering Agents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Hypertension, 70(1), 85-93. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/...

DOE technology assessments evaluate use of ethanol as a vehicle fuel Alternative fuels offer the advantages of reduced emissions and petroleum use, but how do you choose among the different fuels? DOE’s David Rodgers finds full-energy-cycle assessments useful. A recent study showed that using ethanol made from corn reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 16-28% and petroleum use by 73-75% as compar...

The Eastern Ghats are isolated hill ranges spreading across states of Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka in Peninsular India and covers an area of about 1750 km. It lies in 11 30 ́ to 21 0 N Latitudes and 77 22 ́ to 85 20 ́ E Longitudes. It is included under 6°C eastern highlands of the Deccan plateau and one of the biologically richest biogeographic zones of India (Rodgers et al., 2...

Due to the resource constraint and dynamic parameters, reducing energy consumption became the most important issues of wireless sensor networks topology design. All proposed hierarchy methods cluster a WSN in different cluster layers in one step of evolutionary algorithm usage with complicated parameters which may lead to reducing efficiency and performance. In fact, in WSNs topology, increasin...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this concept analysis was to better understand and define collaboration as it relates to the implementation of problem-based learning (PBL). METHODS The process of concept analysis was conducted in three phases; namely, theoretical or literature review, empirical or fieldwork; and analysis phases. Rodgers' evolutionary approach was used to clarify the attributes, ant...