Closing the Workforce Staffing Chasm by Breaking Boundaries: Innovative Partnerships and Strategies Between Recruitment and Nursing.

As hospitals are experiencing a nursing shortage, nursing leaders must build innovative partnerships and strategies between nursing and recruitment to close the workforce gap. One large health care system was experiencing a high vacancy rate. To improve recruitment and retention efforts, nursing leaders partnered with the recruitment department and other key stakeholders to develop strategies.

AQME: A forensic mitochondrial DNA analysis tool for next-generation sequencing data.

The feasibility of generating mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) data has expanded considerably with the advent of next-generation sequencing (NGS), specifically in the generation of entire mtDNA genome (mitogenome) sequences. However, the analysis of these data has emerged as the greatest challenge to implementation in forensics. To address this need, a custom toolkit for use in the CLC Genomics Workbench (QIAGEN, Hilden, Germany) was developed through a collaborative effort between the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System - Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory (AFMES-AFDIL) and QIAGEN Bioinformatics.

Bayesian Geostatistical Analysis and Ecoclimatic Determinants of Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis Infection among Horses.

Kansas witnessed an unprecedented outbreak in Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis infection among horses, a disease commonly referred to as pigeon fever during fall 2012. Bayesian geostatistical models were developed to identify key environmental and climatic risk factors associated with C. pseudotuberculosis infection in horses.

Effects of lidocaine administration via continuous rate infusion on the minimum alveolar concentration of isoflurane in New Zealand White rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus).

Objective: To evaluate the effect of a continuous rate infusion (CRI) of lidocaine on the minimum alveolar concentration (MAC) of isoflurane in rabbits.

Animals: Five 12-month-old female New Zealand White rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus).

Procedures: Rabbits were anesthetized with isoflurane.

Effects of selenomethionine on the gene expression profile of cloned human prostate cancer cells representing a phenotypic continuum of cancer progression.

We previously characterized three cell clones that were derived by limiting dilution from a human prostate cancer cell line (LNCaP) representing a phenotypic continuum of cancer progression (1). The present study was undertaken to examine the effects of L-selenomethionine (SeM), a potential cancer chemopreventive agent, on the gene expression profile of the cultured cell clones. Following a three-day incubation period with SeM, total RNA was extracted, and the gene expression profile was evaluated using Affymetrix human HG U133A microarrays and analyzed by ViaLogy's (Altadena, CA) VMAxS platform deploying quantum resonance interferometry (QRI) processing.