AIM This paper is a report of a concept analysis of renal supportive care. BACKGROUND Approximately 1.5 million people worldwide are kept alive by renal dialysis. As services are required to support patients who decide not to start or to withdraw from dialysis, the term renal supportive care is emerging. Being similar to the terms palliative care, end-of-life care, terminal care and conservat...

Using stable isotope tracers to identify hydrological flow paths, residence times and landscape controls in a mesoscale catchment P. Rodgers , C. Soulsby, S. Waldron, and D. Tetzlaff Department of Geography and Environment, University of Aberdeen, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen, AB24 3UF, United Kingdom Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, Scottish Enterprise Technology Park, East K...

The sequence complexity of sea urchin embryo micromere RNA is about 75% of that of total 16-cell embryo cytoplasmic RNA, as reported earlier by Rodgers and Gross [Rodgers, W. H., and Gross, P. R. (1978) Cell 14, 279-2881. In contrast to the rest of the embryo, there are few, if any, complex maternal RNA species in the micromere cytoplasm which are not represented in the polysomes. The micromere...

The purpose of this article is to examine the concept of self-organization in chronic pain using Rodgers' (2000) evolutionary approach. This article describes the antecedents, attributes, and consequences of self-organization in chronic pain. Self-organization in chronic pain may be achieved through the attributes of being believed, accessing credible resources, and taking action and responsibi...

This study aimed to define the concept of chronic health condition in adults as presented in literature. An evolutionary perspective of concept analysis was used, as presented by Rodgers, emphasizing the essential attributes, antecedents, consequences and related concepts. The adult's chronic health condition was presented by the characteristics of permanence, irreversibility, residual handicap...

OBJECTIVE to analyze the concept of critical thinking (CT) in Rodger's evolutionary perspective. METHOD documentary research undertaken in the Cinahl, Lilacs, Bdenf and Dedalus databases, using the keywords of 'critical thinking' and 'Nursing', without limitation based on year of publication. The data were analyzed in accordance with the stages of Rodger's conceptual model. The following were...

the vast use of linear prediction coefficients (lpc) in speech processing systems has intensified the importance of their accurate computation. this paper is concerned with computing lpc coefficients using evolutionary algorithms: genetic algorithm (ga), particle swarm optimization (pso), dif-ferential evolution (de) and particle swarm optimization with differentially perturbed velocity (pso-dv...

We have attached ACT-R to the Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL’s) Uninhabited Air Vehicle (UAV) Synthetic Task Environment (STE). The UAV STE is a high fidelity simulation of the Predator RQ1A UAV with built in basic maneuvering, landing, and reconnaissance tasks and data collection capabilities. The UAV STE’s design and capabilities are described in detail in Schreiber, Lyon, Martin, and ...