Addressing Falls Among Older Oncology Patients Through Complexity Science.

Traditional quality assurance processes provide significant opportunities for positive disruption. Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) students are well positioned to apply program learning to large-scale change in complex organizations. This article presents an innovative approach for creating a point-of-care interdisciplinary approach to address high fall risk frequencies in ambulatory oncology clinics using complexity leadership principles.

Spinal cord stimulation facilitates functional walking in a chronic, incomplete spinal cord injured.

Design: This paper describes a treatment paradigm to facilitate functional gait in a quadriplegic, ASIA C spinal cord injured (SCI), wheelchair-dependent subject who presented with some large fiber sensation, sub-functional motor strength in all lower limb muscles, and moderate spasticity. The study utilizes partial weight bearing therapy (PWBT) followed by epidural spinal cord stimulation (ESCS) with the assumption that both treatments would be necessary to elicit a well organized, near effortless functional gait with a walker. Function is defined in terms of accomplishing task-specific activities in the home and community.

Statistical analysis of decay of organophosphorus and pyrethroid insecticides and carbaryl on paddy rice, maize, sunflowers and field peas.

A model is developed to describe the decay of seven insecticides on stored paddy rice, maize, sunflowers and peas, and is shown to be more precise than each of six literature models on pesticide decay. It relates residues (R), as a ratio of applied concentration (R(0)), to time after insecticide application (t), modifying the usual first-order kinetics equation lnR=lnR(0)-kt by assuming that the rate constant k has a mixture of values according to a gamma distribution with mean K. The resulting equation is lnR=lnR(0)-Kcln(1+t/c), where c is a constant determined empirically.

Determination of pyrethroid residues on paddy rice by reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography.

Several synthetic pyrethroids and the synergist piperonyl butoxide have been determined as aged residues on paddy rice by reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography with detection at 225 nm. These compounds are commonly used as protectants for stored grains. Studies on the comparative rates of extraction of both the pesticides and interfering material from the grain were conducted with acetone, methanol, and hexane as extracting solvents.