Effect of a Nursing Research Council on System-Wide Practice Changes: An Evidence-Based Practice Process Improvement.

Ensuring that evidence-based practice is adopted across hospital systems is difficult. A system-wide Nursing Research Council in a large academic health care system in Maryland implemented a unique strategy to support the evidence-based practice process by collaborating with other system-wide councils. As a result, new system-wide evidence-based practices were adopted and improved organizational outcomes were seen.

Perylenediimide nanowires and their use in fabricating field-effect transistors and complementary inverters.

Perylenetetracarboxyldiimide (PTCDI) nanowires self-assembled from commercially available materials are demonstrated as the n-channel semiconductor in organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) and as a building block in high-performance complementary inverters. Devices based on a network of PTCDI nanowires have electron mobilities and current on/off ratios on the order of 10(-2) cm2/Vs and 10(4), respectively. Complementary inverters based on n-channel PTCDI nanowire transistors and p-channel hexathiapentacene (HTP) nanowire OFETs achieved gains as high as 8.

Quinoidal oligoquinoline: a novel quinodimethane exhibiting high electroluminescence efficiency and p-channel field effect charge transport.

A novel tetraphenylquinodimethane based on electron-deficient 4-phenylquinoline oligomer displayed an unusually low ionization potential and was used as a p-channel semiconductor in thin-film transistors and as an emitter to achieve very bright and high efficiency green light-emitting diodes.