Analyzing the Scientific Community Focused on Nursing Informatics Using Publication Data.

The scientific community focused on nursing informatics can be described as a graph with the authors as vertices and the author-coauthor relationship as the connecting edges. Methods to describe and analyze networks like average path length, diameter, centrality measures, or partitioning into subcommunities are applied to the nursing informatics community. It is shown that the community consists of one large connected subnet with many small disjoint subnets, each representing one or several authors.

Mindfulness and sustainability: correlation or causation?

Mindfulness-based approaches have been suggested as a potential remedy for an increasingly unsustainable consumption level in early industrialized countries. This article reviews twelve current empiric papers (2005ø2013) on five different potential pathways in which mindfulness is thought to unfold its effects on sustainable behaviors. Unfortunately, robust empiric evidence on the instrumentality of mindfulness-based interventions to promote sustainable lifestyles is still rare.

Mindfully Green Healthy: An Indirect Path from Mindfulness to Ecological Behavior.

This paper examines the nature of the link between mindfulness and ecological behavior. Based on the notion that mindfulness incorporates heightened awareness of bodily sensations, we suggest an indirect path from mindfulness to ecological behavior that is mediated through individual health behavior, such as improved nutrition and increased exercise. This indirect path is corroborated with two online studies ( = 147/ = 239) where mindfulness, personal health behavior and ecological behavior were assessed.

Challenges facing European agriculture and possible biotechnological solutions.

Agriculture faces many challenges to maximize yields while it is required to operate in an environmentally sustainable manner. In the present study, we analyze the major agricultural challenges identified by European farmers (primarily related to biotic stresses) in 13 countries, namely Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, UK and Turkey, for nine major crops (barley, beet, grapevine, maize, oilseed rape, olive, potato, sunflower and wheat). Most biotic stresses (BSs) are related to fungi or insects, but viral diseases, bacterial diseases and even parasitic plants have an important impact on yield and harvest quality.

The ICNP BaT - from translation tool to translation web service.

The ICNP BaT has been developed as a web application to support the collaborative translation of different versions of the ICNP into different languages. A prototype of a web service is described that could reuse the translations in the database of the ICNP BaT to provide automatic translations of nursing content based on the ICNP terminology globally. The translation web service is based on a service-oriented architecture making it easy to interoperate with different applications.

The ICNP-BaT--a multilingual web-based tool to support the collaborative translation of the International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP).

To ease and speed up the translation of the ICNP version 1 into the German language a web service was developed to support the collaborative work of all Austrian, Swiss, and German translators and subsequently of the evaluators of the resultant translation. The web service does help to support a modified Delphi technique. Since the web service is multilingual by design it can facilitate the translation of the ICNP into other languages as well.

Health care in 2020.

While this case study uses an example of a home health team, it is meant to describe a system in which clinicians and healthcare organizations specialize and develop expertise by performing a large volume of specific services, procedures for given medical conditions or diagnoses. We introduce the concept of "consumer as a direct employer" of healthcare services. In this model, nurses may work as independent contractors, or as a member of a team contracting out as a unit, as in our example of the Rhine Home Health Team.

Migrating a lecture in nursing informatics to a blended learning format--A bottom-up approach to implement an open-source web-based learning management system.

At the university of applied sciences in Germany a learning management system has been implemented. The migration of classic courses to a web-enhances curriculum can be categorized into three phases independent of the technology used. The first two phases "dedicated website" and "database supported content management system" are mainly concerned with bringing the learning material and current information online and making it available to the students.

Two years of German summer school of nursing informatics: Did we reach the goals?

This paper describes a continuous effort to improve the knowledge of nursing informatics among German nurses. The authors have co-operated in the nursing informatics working group of the German Medical Informatics Association GMDS. Besides, one of the authors has been active in the European summer school of nursing informatics (Essoni) for several years.

How can we improve informatics education for German nurses? Statements derived from the first German nursing informatics summer school.

For German nurses it is difficult to join training in health informatics besides their professional activity. The authors have successfully established a German nursing informatics summer school in shape of a 5 day intensive curriculum which they offer to German nurses during the summer holidays. The summer school introduces nurses into health informatics and nursing informatics.

Realization of a CPR using HL7 queries from communication server to information server.

A communication server is often used in Germany to interface legacy systems. It handles the translation, duplication, and transmission of messages to all systems that might need this information. Based on the principles of "for every data there is only one master" and "information on demand" we have built an information server that reduces the messages required and simplifies the handling of messages, the update of data already sent compared to a communication server.

Experience with PACS in an ATM/Ethernet switched network environment.

Legacy local area network (LAN) technologies based on shared media concepts are not adequate for the growth of a large-scale picture archiving and communication system (PACS) in a client-server architecture. First, an asymmetric network load, due to the requests of a large number of PACS clients for only a few main servers, should be compensated by communication links to the servers with a higher bandwidth compared to the clients. Secondly, as the number of PACS nodes increases, the network throughout should not measurably cut production.

Quality criteria for electronic publications in medicine.

This paper defines "electronic publications in medicine (EPM)" as computer based training programs, databases, knowledge-based systems, multimedia applications and electronic books running on standard platforms and available by usual distribution channels. A detailed catalogue of quality criteria as a basis for development and evaluation of EPMs is presented. The necessity to raise the quality level of electronic publications is stressed considering aspects of domain knowledge, software engineering, media development, interface design and didactics.

Computer-based training and electronic publishing in the health sector: tools and trends.

CBT (computer-based training) applications and hypermedia publications are two different approaches to the utilisation of computers in medical education. Medical CBT software continues to play a minor role in spite of the increasing availability, whereas hypermedia have become very popular through the World Wide Web (WWW). Based on the HTML format they can be designed by non-programmers using inexpensive tools while the production of CBT applications requires programming expertise.

Critical success factors for a hospital-wide PACS.

Since 1996 a picture archiving and communications system (PACS) is installed at the university hospital of Freiburg. The PACS is integrated in the hospital information system (HIS) and several modalities of different vendors are attached to it. During the implementation phase three critical factors to the success of our PACS installation where identified: the support of the workflow, the interface of the radiological information system (RIS) to the modalities, and the security policy to allow hospital-wide access to the images and results in the PACS.

CareBase: a reference base for nursing.

Due to the lack of generally accepted nursing classifications and standards in Germany the introduction of nursing information systems for planning and documentation of care is a very time consuming process since the classifications and standards must be defined locally to adjust the systems. At the University Hospital Freiburg a nursing reference system was developed to collect this knowledge, make it available for easy reference and as a source usable for the initialisation of nursing information systems to be installed in the future.

Nonopioid effects of beta-casomorphin-5 in guinea pig heart: alterations to the beta-adrenoceptor-G-protein complex and inhibition of myocardial responses to isoproterenol.

The influence of beta-casomorphin-5 on the beta-adrenoceptor complex in guinea pig heart membranes was studied by means of binding studies, G-protein investigations and isolated heart preparations. In nanomolar concentrations beta-CM-5 induced an increase in receptor affinity towards the agonist isoproterenol whereas the antagonist affinity was reduced. The isoproterenol-stimulated increase in cardiac contractility, moreover, is reduced by 10 nM beta-CM-5.

[Follow-up study of accuracy of fit of crowns, prepared for phantom head under practice conditions].

Mesial, distal, oral and vestibular measurement of fissure spaces in 39 crowns and 51 bridges (divided with interlock-connection) made in the context of propedeutic instruction showed a mean marginal discrepancy of 62-90 microns in a range of 30-160 microns. A simple method to evaluate the fissure space was described. In actually discussion the results would be helpful to determine criterions for quality on fixed restorations.

[3H]naloxone as an opioid receptor label: analysis of binding site heterogeneity and use for determination of opioid affinities of casomorphin analogues.

The nonselective antagonist [3H]naloxone was used to identify opioid receptors in rat brain membranes. The multiple naloxone binding sites were related to different opioid receptors by means of selective opioid ligands as well as various beta-casomorphin analogues. Analysis of binding site heterogeneity was performed using several computer curve fitting methods.

Opioid receptor affinities of the blood-derived tetrapeptides hemorphin and cytochrophin.

Hemorphin-4 and cytochrophin-4 displayed affinities for mu- and delta-opioid receptors that were in the same range as those observed for the structurally related beta-casomorphins. However, they showed markedly higher affinities at kappa-opioid binding sites when compared to the beta-casomorphins. These blood-derived peptides could be involved in blood pressure regulation.