BACKGROUND There are several reasons postulated for undergraduate nursing students discontinuing their studies; one being the experiences exposed to during clinical placement. This research explores and describes the experiences of second year undergraduate nursing students at one University in Victoria, Australia undertaking their first acute clinical placement. In particular, it offers insigh...

Renal failure in cancer patients is a common problem in oncology; this complication is frequently multifactorial in origin. Several antineoplastic agents are potentially nephrotoxic; previous renal impairment as well as combinations with other nephrotoxic drugs may increase the risk of nephrotoxicity during administration of chemotherapy. Methotrexate-related renal damage most frequently occurs...

Drug use tends to follow cycles. Monitoring may be used to establish the trends over time and to analyse their dynamics. An approach is described which establishes the stage of adoption or discontinuance of drug use in the community and a method for the prediction of future trends. Monitoring in New South Wales from 1971 to 1973 provided data which are analysed to show that alcohol was in the p...

In recent years, many organizations have been confronted with cloud computing deployment decisions. One critical decision is to balance between discontinuation of in-house systems and adoption of cloud computing systems. Previous researchers usually investigated the determinants that influence cloud adoption only from a new IT adoption perspective. However, when a firm makes its decision to rep...

Previous studies have attempted to demonstrate the reversibility of rabbit atherosclerosis after discontinuance of cholesterol feeding or by other measures. These attempts have been largely unsuccessful. In all the studies, atherosclerosis was induced by cholesterol feeding for several months. At the end of these prolonged periods, the animals had advanced aortic lesions. The present study soug...