A recent discussion on the International Academy of Nursing Editors (INANE) email update list revealed editors' experiences with virtual meetings. The was reminiscent a distance school nursing education program study published years ago using teleconferencing.1 reported uptake course objectives and use teleconference strategy. Students were in place at university across state. syllabus containe...

2448 Abstract—For more than a decade, mild induced hypothermia (32°C–34°C) has been standard of care for patients remaining comatose after resuscitation from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with an initial shockable rhythm, and this has been extrapolated to survivors of cardiac arrest with initially nonshockable rhythms and to patients with in-hospital cardiac arrest. Two randomized trials publi...

Fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) are model research organisms and are frequently reared in research institutions. Research specimens domesticated in a laboratory-reared setting may have different behavioral phenotypes as compared to their wild counterpart. Additionally, it has been determined that the absence of “key” stimuli in the physical environment of captive animals may result in alt...

The Research Advisory Board (RAB) was initiated in 2005 by Eugene Washington, then Provost at UCSF. The charge to the RAB is to identify research-related issues that are important to investigators at UCSF and to work with the office of the Executive ViceChancellor/Provost (EVCP) on improving operations that affect research. The RAB includes members of the faculty, administrative staff from depa...

When our division changed its method of requesting the purchase of materials and services from a paper form to electronic mail, we incorporated an expert system to look for errors before the user’s fingers had left the keyboard. With patient explanations, gentle prodding, and occasional subtle threats, the system has reduced the error rate from 75% to absolutely zero for the 12,000 documents ge...