Increases in Student Knowledge and Protective Behaviors Following Enhanced Supports for Sexual Health Education in a Large, Urban School District.

Purpose: School-based sexual health education (SHE) can teach students critical knowledge and skills. For effective SHE, school districts can offer support, including strong curricula and professional development. This study assessed changes in students' sexual health knowledge and sexual behaviors following implementation of enhanced support for SHE delivery in one school district.

Pharmacist prescribing in critical care: an evaluation of the introduction of pharmacist prescribing in a single large UK teaching hospital.

Objectives: To evaluate the introduction of pharmacist independent prescribing activity across three general critical care units within a single large UK teaching hospital. To identify the prescribing demographics including total of all prescriptions, number prescribed by pharmacists, reason for pharmacist prescription, range of medications prescribed, pharmacist prescribing error rate and the extent of pharmacist second 'clinical check'.

Methods: Retrospective evaluation of e-prescribing across all general critical care units of a single large UK teaching hospital.

On the keto-enol tautomerization of malonaldehyde: an effective fragment potential study.

Recent studies have mapped the keto-enol tautomerization of malonaldehyde through a general transition structure that leads exclusively to the Z isomer of the enol. However, it will be shown that a competing general transition structure exists that leads to both the E and Z isomers of the enol at the B3LYP/6-31G(d,p) and MP2/6-31G(d,p) levels of theory. Both the RHF- and DFT-based effective fragment potential methods have been used to model solvation effects, and the results are compared with full ab initio calculations.

Skill training, retention, and transfer: the effects of a concurrent secondary task.

In two experiments, we examined training, retention, and transfer of a duration production skill in a prospective paradigm. Participants were trained with feedback and then were either tested immediately for transfer without feedback or retrained with feedback 1 week later. There were three training and retraining conditions, two involving secondary tasks.

The influence of stimulus array on training of a speeded response.

We conducted two experiments to study the training of speeded responses to stimuli in a clock face array. Participants were trained on one clock face and later tested on either the same or a different clock face. The clock faces varied along 3 dimensions of change (left-right flip, up-down flip, and 180 degrees rotation).

Encoding and output order processes in short-term order recall of distinctive items.

Adults recalled the order of the letters in one of two four-letter segments following a distractor task. They knew in advance the identity of the letters in each segment. A letter was made distinctive by replacing it with a red dash.