Exam Wrappers in Nursing Education: A Metacognitive Tool to Improve Performance.

Background: Metacognition can assist students in improving poor examination (exam) performance. An exam wrapper is a metacognitive tool used to assess a student's thought processes and behavioral patterns during test-taking.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of an exam wrapper tool used during one-to-one exam review sessions with faculty on prelicensure nursing students' subsequent exam performance.

Complete Genome Sequences of Microbacterium paraoxydans Phages Cassita and Fransoyer.

Phages Cassita and Fransoyer were isolated from soil in northwestern Wisconsin using Microbacterium paraoxydans as the host. The genomes of Cassita and Fransoyer are 61,868 bp and 62,277 bp, respectively, with direct terminal repeats. Both phages exhibit siphoviral morphology and are predicted to have lytic life cycles.

Unravelling the fundamentals of thermal and chemical expansion of BaCeO from first principles phonon calculations.

Differentiating chemical and thermal expansion is virtually impossible to achieve experimentally. While thermal expansion stems from a softening of the phonon spectra, chemical expansion depends on the chemical composition of the material. In the present contribution, we, for the first time, completely decouple thermal and chemical expansion through first principles phonon calculations on BaCeO, providing new fundamental insights to lattice expansion.

Gang youth as a vulnerable population for nursing intervention.

Background: Gang youth often come from socially and economically marginalized communities. Such youth report significantly higher rates of participation in violence, substance use, and risky sexual behaviors than their nongang peers.

Aims: This manuscript argues that gang-identified youth constitute a vulnerable population.