In recent years, states have looked to reforms in advanced practice nursing scope of practice (SOP) barriers as a potential means to increase access to primary care while reducing costs. Currently, 16 states and the District of Columbia permit advanced practice registered nurses to practice independently of physicians, allowing them to perform functions such as diagnosing and prescribing under ...

This editorial celebrates the re-launch of PMC Biophysics previously published by PhysMath Central, in its new format as BMC Biophysics published by BioMed Central with an expanded scope and Editorial Board. BMC Biophysics will fill its own niche in the BMC series alongside complementary companion journals including BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Medical Physics, BMC Structural Biology and BMC Systems...

Abstract The presented work provides an overview of sustainability dimensions relevant to urban planning at district level along multiple ressource axis. An analysis innovative development projects and a literature review on city were coupled with grading schemes. Interviews municipal stakeholders allowed determine the extent which these are already integrated into practices, if not, what barri...

THE IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC) had a great year in 2013 and will have an even better year in 2014. In 2013, TSC expanded in a number of dimensions, including scope, editorial board, and contributing communities. First, TSC expanded its scope by introducing the new taxonomy of services computing (http://www.computer.org/ portal/web/tsc/taxonomy). This new taxonomy broadens the...

With the United States having shifted its defense emphasis to peer and near-peer rivals, study of irregular warfare has likewise expanded scope applicable lessons for strategic level, wi...

13C flux analysis studies have become an essential component of metabolic engineering research. The scope of these studies has gradually expanded to include both isotopically steady-state and transient labeling experiments, the latter of which are uniquely applicable to photosynthetic organisms and slow-to-label mammalian cell cultures. Isotopomer network compartmental analysis (INCA) is the fi...