Hygiene Practice for Hospitalized Patients Marian Pokrywka, MS, CIC; Margaret Dicuccio, MSN, RN; Heather Dixon, MSN, RN; Thomas Hritz, PhD, RD, LDN; Mohamed Yassin, MD, PhD; Infection Control, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA; Nursing, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA; Quality, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Me...

background: sustained release delivery system can reduce the dosage frequency and maintain the therapeutic level of drugs for a longer time. biodegradable, biocompatible and thermosensitive chitosan-beta-glycerophosphate (c-gp) solutions can solidify at body temperature and maintain their physical integrity for a longer duration. objectives: to develop a novel delivery system based on the integ...

Abstract Major depressive disorder (MDD) has been shown to be associated with structural abnormalities in a variety of spatially diverse brain regions. However, the correlation between changes MDD and gene expression is unclear. Here, we examine link brain-wide morphometric individuals MDD, using neuroimaging data from two independent cohorts publicly available transcriptomic dataset. Morphomet...

contact: A contest between three Japanese tertiary care centers Hitoshi Honda, MD; Tomoko Sakihama, RN, CNIC, MSN; Sanjay Saint, MD, MPH; Karen Fowler, MPH; Toru Kamiya, MD; Yumiko Sato, RN, CNIC, MSN; Ritsuko Iuchi, RN, CNIC, MSN; Yasuharu Tokuda, MD MPH; Division of Infectious Diseases and Department of Medicine, Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Medical Center, Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan; Department of Nursi...

A mobile social network (MSN) is a special delay tolerant network (DTN) composed of mobile nodes with social characteristics. Mobile nodes in MSNs generally visit community homes frequently, while other locations are visited less frequently. We propose a novel zero-knowledge MSN routing algorithm, homing spread (HS). The community homes have a higher priority to spread messages into the network...

We have developed composite hydrogels of chitosan (CS) and mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) in this study. The gelation rate, gel strength, drug delivery behavior and chondrocyte proliferation properties were investigated. The introduction of MSNs into CS accelerated the gelation process at body temperature and also increased the elastic modulus G' from 1000 to 1800 Pa. When we used genta...

Ann Butler Maher RN, MS, FNP-BC, ONC (Family Nurse Practitioner) *, Anita J Meehan RN-BC, MSN, ONC (Clinical Nurse Specialist, Gerontology/ Director) , Karen Hertz RN, BSc(Hons), MSc (Advanced Nurse Practitioner T&O) , Ami Hommel RN, CNS, PhD (Associate Professor) , Valerie MacDonald RN, BSN, MSN, ONC (Clinical Nurse Specialist) , Mary P O’Sullivan RGN, RM, BNS/RNT, MSc Nursing (Clinical Develo...

It is well-known that the skew-normal distribution can provide an alternative model to the normal distribution for analyzing asymmetric data. The aim of this paper is to propose two goodness-of-fit tests for assessing whether a sample comes from a multivariate skew-normal (MSN) distribution. We address the problem of multivariate skew-normality goodness-of-fit based on the empirical Laplace tra...

Loss of dopamine from the striatum can cause both profound motor deficits, as in Parkinson's disease, and disrupt learning. Yet the effect of dopamine on striatal neurons remains a complex and controversial topic, and is in need of a comprehensive framework. We extend a reduced model of the striatal medium spiny neuron (MSN) to account for dopaminergic modulation of its intrinsic ion channels a...