A quality improvement initiative to reduce excess inhaled therapy use in the neonatal intensive care unit.

Objective: Inhaled medications are commonly used at our single-center, Level IV neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). We lacked a standardized process for measuring efficacy of these medications to guide optimal duration of use, potentially leading to their overuse.

Methods: We utilized quality improvement methodology to reduce the length of inhaled hypertonic saline (HTS) course durations and high frequency albuterol use.

Longitudinal associations between parental mathematics anxiety and attitudes and young children's mathematics attainment.

The associations between parental mathematics anxiety and attitudes and children's mathematics attainment in early primary school were explored. Initially, parents of preschool children (M = 3;11 [years;months]) completed a questionnaire indexing parental mathematics anxiety and attitudes and the frequency of preschool home number experiences. The children completed mathematics assessments in their first year (n = 231, M = 5;2) and second year (n = 119, M = 6;3) of schooling and a mathematics anxiety questionnaire in their third year of schooling (n = 119, M = 6;7).

Critical nematic correlations throughout the superconducting doping range in BiPbSrLaCuO.

Charge modulations have been widely observed in cuprates, suggesting their centrality for understanding the high-T superconductivity in these materials. However, the dimensionality of these modulations remains controversial, including whether their wavevector is unidirectional or bidirectional, and also whether they extend seamlessly from the surface of the material into the bulk. Material disorder presents severe challenges to understanding the charge modulations through bulk scattering techniques.

Verbal estimation of the magnitude of time, number, and length.

Performance similarities on tasks requiring the processing of different domains of magnitude (e.g. time, numerosity, and length) have led to the suggestion that humans possess a common processing system for all domains of magnitude (Bueti and Walsh in Philos Trans R Soc B 364:1831-1840, 2009).

Scale-invariant magnetic textures in the strongly correlated oxide NdNiO.

Strongly correlated quantum solids are characterized by an inherently granular electronic fabric, with spatial patterns that can span multiple length scales in proximity to a critical point. Here, we use a resonant magnetic X-ray scattering nanoprobe with sub-100 nm spatial resolution to directly visualize the texture of antiferromagnetic domains in NdNiO. Surprisingly, our measurements reveal a highly textured magnetic fabric, which we show to be robust and nonvolatile even after thermal erasure across its ordering temperature.