AIM This quality improvement project aims to reduce nurse-to-nurse lateral violence and create a more respectful workplace culture through a series of workshops. BACKGROUND Lateral violence is common and pervasive in nursing, with detrimental physical, psychological and organizational consequences. METHODS This project describes the organization-wide pre- and post-intervention survey of reg...

In this paper, an effective T-gate with Drain-Field-Plate (TGDFP) technology is used in GaN-based HEMT for high breakdown voltage of 500V and drain current of 540mA/mm. Silvaco TCAD simulation showed that normally-off TGDFP HEMT with recessed gate length of 0.5μm exhibited high threshold voltage up to +1V and transconductance of 140mS/mm along with frequency operation in Sband (∼3GHz). The prop...

To date, there is no research examining how adults with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or Motor Neurone Disease (MND) and severe communication disability use Twitter, nor the use of Twitter in relation to ALS/MND beyond its use for fundraising and raising awareness. In this paper we (a) outline a rationale for the use of Twitter as a method of communication and information exchange for adu...

Based on the slope of speech intelligibility decline, 54 individuals with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) were classified as fast or slow bulbar disease progressors. Following group assignment, the course of speech decline was modeled separately for these two subgroups. Fast progressors were characterized by a three-phase progression pattern with intelligibility declining at a progressively...

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Introduction: While most symptoms from concussions recover in 7-10 days [1], challenging motor control tasks can be affected longer. Concussed athletes have shown prolonged changes in challenging motor control tasks such as dual-task gait [2], but only traditional stability measures such as medio-lateral (ML) sway have been investigated thus far. The current investigation compared the local dyn...

Introduction In light cases of scoliosis it is general consensus to apply therapy regimes consisting of physiotherapy and corset wearing. In border cases, between 40 and 50° curvature, opinions vary considerably. The corset supporters often target solely one dimension, specifically the lateral curvature. This is the case where the alternative surgical treatment is possible. In recent times prec...

The field resulting from a beam incident upon a planar dielectric layer placed between media having different refractive indices is examined by using both an approximate approach and a highly accurate Gaussian-beam analysis. We find that, if the incidence angle is adjusted to couple energy to a leaky wave that may be guided by the layer, both the reflected and the transmitted beams may undergo ...

Non-rigid registration can automatically quantify small changes in volume of anatomical structures over time by means of segmentation propagation. Here we use a non-rigid registration algorithm based on optimising normalised mutual information to quantify small changes in brain ventricular volume in MR images of a group of ve patients treated with growth hormone replacement therapy and a contro...