Publications by authors named "Jennifer Hutchings"

The Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) was a yearlong expedition supported by the icebreaker R/V Polarstern, following the Transpolar Drift from October 2019 to October 2020. The campaign documented an annual cycle of physical, biological, and chemical processes impacting the atmosphere-ice-ocean system. Of central importance were measurements of the thermodynamic and dynamic evolution of the sea ice.

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A network of autonomous, ice-tethered buoys was deployed around the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) experiment in late September 2019 for a year-long drift in the Arctic Transpolar Drift Stream. The buoys were deployed as part of the MOSAiC distributed network (DN) which included 12 multi-instrumented ice stations and an additional 116 GPS buoys distributed primarily within a 40 km radius of the MOSAiC Central Observatory. Buoy coverage within the DN was maintained with additional deployments throughout the year-long drift allowing for collection of data over a full sea ice growth and melt cycle.

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This study examined the attitudes of baccalaureate student nurses regarding the care of the incontinent patient and to explore their beliefs of the psychosocial impact urinary incontinence has on the affected adult patient. It explored the beliefs and attitudes of traditional-aged student nurses compared to those of: older, non-traditional students. Students have a more positive attitude when caring for patients who have urinary incontinence yet have a moderate level of understanding regarding the associated psychosocial sequela.

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Interventional pulmonologists are often called upon to diagnose a variety of intrathoracic abnormalities. Linear array endobronchial ultrasound has greatly increased the diagnostic accuracy of transbronchial needle aspiration for centrally located lesions in the chest, and radial endobronchial ultrasound and electromagnetic navigation have markedly increased the diagnostic yield for biopsies of peripheral pulmonary lesions. Image-guided transthoracic biopsies of peripheral pulmonary lesions that approximate the pleural surface have been successfully performed using the "core" biopsy devices, though these may be less successful for smaller pleural-based lesions given their design.

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