This article presents the evaluation of a basic life support (BLS) CD-ROM, developed as part of the Interactive Teaching and Learning (INTaL) staff development project. Student nurses’ preand post-test percentage results were compared using the non-parametric Wilcoxon test. Competency in delivering BLS skills was measured at one of the sites. A Pearson’s co-efficient test was applied to measure...

Major Guidelines Changes Changes in the pediatric section of the International Guidelines 2000 generally represent qualifications and refinements rather than major paradigm shifts from the 1992 Guidelines.1 The new guidelines continue to emphasize prevention of cardiac arrest. Pediatric BLS guidelines detail specific modifications of adult techniques necessary to address anatomic, physiological...

BACKGROUND Little empirical data exist to identify the reasons for underreporting in the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) non-fatal occupational injury and illness data. METHODS We interviewed occupational injury and illness record keepers from Washington State establishments that participated in the 2008 BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII). Qualitative and quantitativ...

With the development of urbanization, hourly PM2.5 concentration in air is constantly changing. In order to improve accuracy prediction, a prediction model based on Classification and Regression Tree (CART) Broad Learning System (BLS) was constructed. Firstly, CART algorithm used segment dataset hierarchical way obtain subset with similar characteristics. Secondly, BLS trained by using data eac...

Background Beta-lactam (BLs) antibiotics are among the drugs most frequently eliciting allergic reactions, thus posing an important clinical problem. Protein haptenation plays a key role in immunological reactions to BLs and this process is considered necessary for the activation of the immune system. Therefore, it is of interest to develop tools to monitor this process. We have synthesized a b...

In this study, the electrodeposition (ED) of ultrathin, compact TiO2 blocking layers (BLs) on fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) glass for perovskite solar cells (PSCs) is evaluated. This bottom-up method allows for controlling the morphology and thickness of TiO2 films by simply manipulating deposition conditions. Compared with BLs produced using the spin-coating (SC) method, BLs produced using ED...

Major Guidelines Changes Changes in the pediatric section of the International Guidelines 2000 generally represent qualifications and refinements rather than major paradigm shifts from the 1992 Guidelines.1 The new guidelines continue to emphasize prevention of cardiac arrest. Pediatric BLS guidelines detail specific modifications of adult techniques necessary to address anatomic, physiological...

Micrometeorological techniques can be applied to estimate methane (CH4) emissions from ruminants and livestock manure using CH4 concentration measured within the internal surface boundary layer. The main advantage of these techniques is that they are non-intrusive, thereby eliminating the impact of the measurement set-up on the calculated CH4 emission. This review focuses on four micrometeorolo...

Major Guidelines Changes Changes in the pediatric section of the International Guidelines 2000 generally represent qualifications and refinements rather than major paradigm shifts from the 1992 Guidelines.1 The new guidelines continue to emphasize prevention of cardiac arrest. Pediatric BLS guidelines detail specific modifications of adult techniques necessary to address anatomic, physiological...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Relative cerebral blood volume (rCBV) accuracy can vary substantially depending on the dynamic susceptibility-weighted contrast-enhanced (DSC) acquisition and postprocessing methods, due to blood-brain barrier disruption and resulting T1-weighted leakage and T2- and/or T2*-weighted imaging (T2/T2*WI) residual effects. We set out to determine optimal DSC conditions that ad...