Dry conifer forest restoration benefits Colorado Front Range avian communities.

Fire suppression has increased stand density and risk of severe, stand-replacing wildfire in lower elevation dry conifer forests of western North America, threatening ecological function. The U.S.

What Influences Home Care Nurses to Accept or Reject Precepting Opportunities? A Pilot Study.

Nurse managers and nursing faculty report, anecdotally, on their difficulty identifying nurses willing to precept new staff or students. To understand more about this topic, we queried home care nurses at a small agency on their perceived incentives and barriers to precepting, their preceptor status, generation of birth, and birth order. The purpose of this pilot study was to identify home care nurses' perceived incentives and barriers to becoming a preceptor.

Thyroid follicular carcinoma presenting as metastatic skin nodules.

Background: Follicular thyroid cancer (FTC) metastasizes most commonly to the lungs and non-cranial bones. Skull and skin are uncommon sites and usually manifest well after the diagnosis of primary malignancy. Metastasis to skull and skin as the presenting feature of FTC is infrequently reported in the literature.

29 year-old male with seizure and syncope. Intracerebral Langerhans cell histiocytosis.

Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH), previously referred to as histiocytosis X, is a dendritic cell histiocytic tumor that demonstrates a variable spectrum of organ involvement. Clinical syndromes within this entity include eosinophilic granuloma, Hand-Schuller-Christian disease, Abt-Letterer-Siwe Disease, and Hashimoto-Pritzker disease. Currently, it is classified on the basis of extent, such as unifocal, multifocal, or disseminated disease.

Historical and contemporary DNA indicate fisher decline and isolation occurred prior to the European settlement of California.

Establishing if species contractions were the result of natural phenomena or human induced landscape changes is essential for managing natural populations. Fishers (Martes pennanti) in California occur in two geographically and genetically isolated populations in the northwestern mountains and southern Sierra Nevada. Their isolation is hypothesized to have resulted from a decline in abundance and distribution associated with European settlement in the 1800s.