Leadership engagement is an important aspect of integrating best practices at the bedside. The catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) prevention workgroup at our academic medical center implemented leadership rounding in partnership with clinical staff to increase participation in CAUTI prevention initiatives on inpatient units. There was an associated decrease in urinary catheter ...

Floating point units form an important component of many reconfigurable computing applications. The creation of floating point units under a collection of area, latency, and throughput constraints is an important consideration for system designers. Given the range of possible tradeoffs, most commercial or academic floating point libraries for FPGAs provide a small fraction of possible floating ...

The University has 3 active pension plans. Faculty, Excluded Faculty, Professional/Managerial staff, College Academic/Research Group and Ontario Nurses Association employees participate in the Professional Pension Plan [2]. UGFSEA Units 1 & 2 and OSSTF/TARA District 35 members enrolled on or after October 1, 2014 participate in the Non-Professional Pension Plan [3]. All other eligible employees...

The University has 3 active pension plans. Faculty, Excluded Faculty, Professional/Managerial staff, College Academic/Research Group and Ontario Nurses Association employees participate in the Professional Pension Plan [2]. UGFSEA Units 1 & 2 and OSSTF/TARA District 35 members enrolled on or after October 1, 2014 participate in the Non-Professional Pension Plan [3]. All other eligible employees...

The University has 3 active pension plans. Faculty, Excluded Faculty, Professional/Managerial staff, College Academic/Research Group and Ontario Nurses Association employees participate in the Professional Pension Plan [2]. UGFSEA Units 1 & 2 and OSSTF/TARA District 35 members enrolled on or after October 1, 2014 participate in the Non-Professional Pension Plan [3]. All other eligible employees...

It appears that while the immediate objectives of the agriculturist differ from those of the academic biologist, the long-range needs for standards of growth and aging, for physiologically equivalent units of time and mass, and for knowledge of the influence and mechanisms of various internal and external factors on growth and related processes are the same for both. This suggests that these tw...

The University has 3 active pension plans. Faculty, Excluded Faculty, Professional/Managerial staff, College Academic/Research Group and Ontario Nurses Association employees participate in the Professional Pension Plan [2]. UGFSEA Units 1 & 2 and OSSTF/TARA District 35 members enrolled on or after October 1, 2014 participate in the Non-Professional Pension Plan [3]. All other eligible employees...

The University has 3 active pension plans. Faculty, Excluded Faculty, Professional/Managerial staff, College Academic/Research Group and Ontario Nurses Association employees participate in the Professional Pension Plan [2]. UGFSEA Units 1 & 2 and OSSTF/TARA District 35 members enrolled on or after October 1, 2014 participate in the Non-Professional Pension Plan [3]. All other eligible employees...

This paper presents three analysis concerning the relevance of Behavioral Economics (BE). First, to evaluate its academic relevance, we analyze impact BE contributions in some main scientific databases. Second, recognize level implementation, reports published by international organizations and so-called Insight Units (nudge units). And third, validate as a distinctive approach, compare eight r...

introduction: increasing costs of health and treatment services has led health economics specialists and even physicians in all countries to seek new methods for controlling and reducing costs in medical and health services. the present study was aimed to estimate the costs of a cardiac care unit (ccu) in a governmental hospital in iran. methods: in order to determine the end cost, a stepwise p...