The Role of Nursing Leadership in Dismantling Racism in Nursing: A Call to Action.

Racism is a structural determinant of health that affects mental health outcomes in the United States and globally. Nursing leaders must respond to a call to action to address racism in nursing. The purpose of the current article is to present evidence-based, race-conscious strategies for nurses in leadership roles to identify, challenge, and mitigate racism in nursing education and practice.

A comprehensive update on the morphology and distribution of the invasive scaffold-web spider Eidmannella pallida (Araneae, Nesticidae) with a focus on new records from Italy.

Updated non-native distributional data of the invasive spider Eidmannella pallida (Emerton, 1875), Nesticidae, are herein summarized together with the morphological characters of the species. We report all the known localities from the literature. Furthermore, we present and discuss recent findings for the Italian peninsula.

Mock community experiments can inform on the reliability of eDNA metabarcoding data: a case study on marine phytoplankton.

Environmental DNA metabarcoding is increasingly implemented in biodiversity monitoring, including phytoplankton studies. Using 21 mock communities composed of seven unicellular diatom and dinoflagellate algae, assembled with different composition and abundance by controlling the number of cells, we tested the accuracy of an eDNA metabarcoding protocol in reconstructing patterns of alpha and beta diversity. This approach allowed us to directly evaluate both qualitative and quantitative metabarcoding estimates.

Impact of forest disturbance on microarthropod communities depends on underlying ecological gradients and species traits.

Windstorms and salvage logging lead to huge soil disturbance in alpine spruce forests, potentially affecting soil-living arthropods. However, the impacts of forest loss and possible interactions with underlying ecological gradients on soil microarthropod communities remain little known, especially across different environmental conditions. Here we used DNA metabarcoding approach to study wind-induced disturbances on forest communities of springtails and soil mites.

A call for health justice: Striving toward health equity at a community health center.

Community health centers play a key role in promoting health justice and equity. Health justice, which is the attainment of health equity, or the fair, unambiguous, and non-arbitrary distribution of all health resources necessary for optimal health of the individual, family, and community, is necessary to optimize their wellbeing and to build healthy communities. Community-based health centers are well-positioned to lead in these efforts, as they connect with, seek to understand, and innovatively serve communities that experience complex health-related needs and are differentially impacted by structural vulnerabilities (i.

The Conometric Concept: Definitive Rehabilitation of a Single Posterior Implant Using a Friction Retention Abutment. A 1-year Follow-up Report.

Purpose: To provide a 1-year assessment of friction-retention abutments (Acuris, Dentsply Sirona) used to retain a single lithium disilicate (LS) monolithic restoration.

Materials And Methods: A total of 522 implants were placed to treat single-tooth premolar and molar edentulous sites in the mandible or maxilla. Three types of implants were used.

Skin Lesion Area Segmentation Using Attention Squeeze U-Net for Embedded Devices.

Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer. Early diagnosis of malignant lesions is crucial for reducing mortality. The use of deep learning techniques on dermoscopic images can help in keeping track of the change over time in the appearance of the lesion, which is an important factor for detecting malignant lesions.

The Psychological Implications of Companion Robots: A Theoretical Framework and an Experimental Setup.

In this paper we present a theoretical framework to understand the underlying psychological mechanism involved in human-Companion Robot interactions. At first, we take the case of Sexual Robotics, where the psychological dynamics are more evident, to thereafter extend the discussion to Companion Robotics in general. First, we discuss the differences between a sex-toy and a Sexual Robots, concluding that the latter may establish a collusive and confirmative dynamics with the user.

Understanding Racism as a Historical Trauma That Remains Today: Implications for the Nursing Profession.

In order to promote health equity and support the human rights mandate contained in the American Nurses Association's , the nursing profession must understand historically the creation of race, white supremacy in the United States, and entrenched racial terror and brutality toward black and brown racialized populations. Considering the limited racial diversity in the nursing profession despite its stated mission to increase diversity, the profession must build a path to understanding antiblack racism as a historical trauma that remains to this day, a path that encompasses antiracist ideology. Antiracism education is critically needed at the pre-professional and professional levels, for nursing students, providers, educators, administrators, and researchers to inform our own understanding of bias within the contexts of our educational and health-care systems.

Fixed Partial Restorations Made of a New Zirconia-Reinforced Lithium Silicate Material: A 2-Year Short-Term Report.

Purpose: To evaluate the 2-year performance of definitive implant- or tooth-supported three-unit fixed dental prostheses made of zirconia-reinforced lithium silicate placed to restore premolars and molars in clinical cases of partial edentulism.

Materials And Methods: All patients received a three-unit fixed restoration made of monolithic, hot-pressed, zirconia-reinforced lithium silicate glass-ceramic. The restoration was cemented to two natural teeth or attached to two 3.

Species-habitat networks elucidate landscape effects on habitat specialisation of natural enemies and pollinators.

Measuring habitat specialisation is pivotal for predicting species extinctions and for understanding consequences on ecosystem functioning. Here, we sampled pollinator and natural enemy communities in all major habitat types occurring across multiple agricultural landscapes and used species-habitat networks to determine how habitat specialisation changed along gradients in landscape composition and configuration. Although it is well known that landscape simplification often causes the replacement of specialists with generalists, our study provided evidence for intraspecific variation in habitat specialisation, highlighting how a large number of arthropod species adapted their way of selecting habitat resources depending on the landscape structure.

Age-associated decline in septum neuronal activation during spatial learning in homing pigeons (Columba livia).

The relationship between hippocampal aging and spatial-cognitive decline in birds has recently been investigated. However, like its mammalian counterpart, the avian hippocampus does not work in isolation and its relationship to the septum is of particular interest. The current study aimed to investigate the effects of age on septum (medial and lateral) and associated nucleus of the diagonal band (NDB) neuronal activation (as indicated by c-Fos expression) during learning of a spatial, delayed non-match-to-sample task conducted in a modified radial arm maze.

Achieving Health Equity Through Eradicating Structural Racism in the United States: A Call to Action for Nursing Leadership.

Purpose: To advocate for strategic actions by U.S. nursing leadership that denote the presence, customs, and implications of racism that has been institutionalized within the structures of U.

Vertical-surface navigation in the Neotropical whip spider Paraphrynus laevifrons (Arachnida: Amblypygi).

Studies on whip spider navigation have focused on their ability to locate goal locations in the horizontal plane (e.g., when moving along the ground).

Pharmacologic Induction of Endotoxin Tolerance in Dendritic Cells by L-Kynurenine.

Endotoxin tolerance aims at opposing hyperinflammatory responses to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) exposure. The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) participates in protection against LPS-mediated tissue damage, as it plays a necessary role in restraining the proinflammatory action of IL-1β and TNF-α while fostering the expression of protective TGF-β. TGF-β, in turn, promotes durable expression of the immune regulatory enzyme indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase 1 (IDO1).

Spatial reorientation with a geometric array of auditory cues.

A visuocentric bias has dominated the literature on spatial navigation and reorientation. Studies on visually accessed environments indicate that, during reorientation, human and non-human animals encode the geometric shape of the environment, even if this information is unnecessary and insufficient for the task. In an attempt to extend our limited knowledge on the similarities and differences between visual and non-visual navigation, here we examined whether the same phenomenon would be observed during auditory-guided reorientation.

The conometric concept for the definitive rehabilitation of a single posterior implant by using a conical indexed abutment: A technique.

This report describes the restoration of the healed single implant in the posterior region by using a lithium disilicate crown supported by an Acuris abutment. The restored implants were placed in the premolar and molar region of both the mandible and the maxilla by using a 1-stage approach. The definitive Acuris abutment was placed after an implant healing period of at least 3 months.

Nursing colonialism in America: Implications for nursing leadership.

The purpose of this paper is to explore the nurse leader's role in understanding the impact of American colonialism - specifically racism, a product of colonialism - as a key determinant in shaping the education of nursing students and its influence on practicing nurses. American values have been grounded in its colonialism and continue to be influential in shaping beliefs, attitudes, behaviors, and policies within the United States. Like racism, American colonialism depends on its perceived death for its survival - this is its paradox.

Local geometric properties do not support reorientation in hippocampus-engaged homing pigeons.

It is generally accepted that the geometry of an environment is a reliable source of information for spatial navigation used by most vertebrate species. However, there is a continuing debate on which geometrical properties of space are the ones that matter for reorientation. In this study, pigeons were trained to find a food reward hidden in 2 opposite corners in a rectangular arena.

The Conometric Concept: A Two-Year Follow-Up of Fixed Partial CEREC Restorations Supported By Cone-In-Cone Abutments.

Purpose: To evaluate the performance of definitive, implant-supported, lithium disilicate fixed dental prostheses (LS FDPs) manufactured with a computer-assisted design/computer-assisted manufacturing (CAD/CAM) system. All patients received two-unit restorations placed in posterior regions, supported by osseointegrated implants with cone-in-cone connection abutments.

Materials And Methods: Two implants (Ankylos) were placed into healed sites or fresh extraction sockets in the maxillary/mandibular posterior regions of partially edentulous patients.

No environmental context-dependent effect, but interference, of physical activity on object location memory.

Research on context-dependent memory has addressed many external and internal types of contexts. However, whether the physical activity engaged in at the time of encoding and recall can act as an environmental context cue has been systematically investigated only in one study. The purpose of the present study was to replicate this; furthermore, given the effect of physical activity/effort on the way space is represented, we sought to extend the findings to object location memory.