in clinical management of singers it’s important to identify risk components of vocal fatigue and glottic damage, predicting and assessing the vocal cost of the various vocal performances to avoid any risk. despite many difficulties, we made dosimetries on singers (9 opera and 9 musical) during live theatre performances. our aim was to evaluate phonatory behaviours before, during and after perf...

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This article describes the context and development of the new Nurse Practitioner Standards for Practice in Australia, which went into effect in January 2014. The researchers used a mixed-methods design to engage a broad range of stakeholders who brought both political and practice knowledge to the development of the new standards. Methods included interviews, focus groups, surveys, and work-bas...

The increased use of technology within the educational field gives rise to the need for developing valid instruments to measure key constructs associated with performance. We present some self-report instruments developed and/or validated in the Italian context that could be used to assess achievement emotions and correlates, within the theoretical framework of Pekrun’s control-value model. Fir...

In the view of constantly increasing number of reports about participation of advanced oxidation protein products (AOPPs) in pathogenesis of many diseases as well as in the pathomechanism of their biochemical disturbances and clinical complications, the possibility of treatment of these diseases by reducing of AOPPs concentration and prevention or inhibition of their formation poses the object ...

While the concept of advanced practice nursing (APN) is still relatively new, distinct patterns of evolution from specialty practice to advanced practice nursing are evident over the last 100 years. The purpose of this article is to describe 3 stages in this evolutionary process, as well as discuss several internal and external issues that represent challenges facing APN educators and clinician...

Many authors have underlined that it is improper to make comparisons between citation counts generated in different research fields, because citation practices can vary significantly from one field to another. For instance, articles in biochemistry often contain over 50 cited references, while a typical mathematical paper has perhaps only 10. This difference explains why biochemical papers are ...

Non-speaking people who use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) systems typically have low rates of communication which reduces their ability to interact with others. Research and development continues in the quest to improve the effectiveness of AAC systems in terms of communication rate and impact. One strategy involves making the basic unit of communication an entire utterance, ...