Review of ecological valuation and equivalency analysis methods for assessing temperate nearshore submerged aquatic vegetation.

Nearshore seagrass, kelp, and other macroalgae beds (submerged aquatic vegetation [SAV]) are productive and important ecosystems. Mitigating anthropogenic impacts on these habitats requires tools to quantify their ecological value and the debits and credits of impact and mitigation. To summarize and clarify the state of SAV habitat quantification and available tools, we searched peer-reviewed literature and other agency documents for methods that either assigned ecological value to or calculated equivalencies between impact and mitigation in SAV.

Impact of cytotoxic plant naphthoquinones, juglone, plumbagin, lawsone and 2-methoxy-1,4-naphthoquinone, on Chlamydomonas reinhardtii reveals the biochemical mechanism of juglone toxicity by rapid depletion of plastoquinol.

Hydrophilic, untethered 1,4-naphthoquinones (1,4-NQs) are plant secondary metabolites that are often excreted into the environment and play a role in various plant-microbial, plant-fungal, plant-insect and plant-plant interactions. The biological activity of 1,4-NQs is mainly related to their redox properties, i.e.

PRDM16 expression and function in mammalian cochlear development.

Background: PR domain containing 16 (PRDM16) is a key transcriptional regulator in the development of craniofacial, adipose, and neural tissues. Our lab identified PRDM16 expression in the epithelial cells of the Kölliker's organ (KO) that starts at ~E13.5 and is maintained until KO disappearance.

Resident-Driven Holistic Lean Daily Management System to Enhance Care Experience at a Safety Net Hospital.

Objective: To describe the use of Lean in urology at Zuckerberg San Francisco General, a community safety-net and trauma hospital that serves as a major teaching site for the University of California San Francisco.

Methods: We examined our process improvement activities from 2016 to 2018. Our Lean Daily Management System (DMS) includes a 15-minute team huddle ("urology Lean work") of service residents, faculty, clinic and operating room nursing staff, and anesthesia liaisons.

Why is data sharing in collaborative natural resource efforts so hard and what can we do to improve it?

Increasingly, research and management in natural resource science rely on very large datasets compiled from multiple sources. While it is generally good to have more data, utilizing large, complex datasets has introduced challenges in data sharing, especially for collaborating researchers in disparate locations ("distributed research teams"). We surveyed natural resource scientists about common data-sharing problems.

ThedaCare's business performance system: sustaining continuous daily improvement through hospital management in a lean environment.

Background: For 2003-2008, ThedaCare, a community health system in Wisconsin, achieved significant improvements in quality and the elimination of waste through the development of an improvement system, which included Value Stream analysis, rapid improvement events, and projects applied to specific processes. However, to meet its continuous daily improvement goals, particularly the goal of increasing productivity by 10% annually, ThedaCare needed to change the way its managers and leaders (in its hospital division) conduct and manage their daily work. Accordingly, it developed its Business Performance System (BPS) to achieve and sustain continuous daily improvement.

Stillbirth.

Stillbirth is a professional blind spot for physicians and nurses, who may experience denial in dealing with the bereaved mother and her family. Providing choices and information about the conduct of labor and perinatal decisions, as well as pictures of the infant, a hospital birth certificate and other memory items, may be helpful to the parents in their grief. Hospital perinatal loss teams can provide support both to families and to medical staff.