Maternal and Infant Pathways HUB in NE Ohio: Influence on Birth Outcomes.

Introduction: This investigation examines the outcomes of the Pathways HUB Community Action, a Maternal and Infant Mortality HUB in NE Ohio. The purpose of a HUB is to provide a one-stop point of contact for primarily minority pregnant women who are low-income and are at high risk for pregnancy complications. As a HUB client, each mother is assigned a community health worker who provides wrap-around support across 20 identified areas of potential need.

Approaches to Anesthetic Mechanisms: The C. elegans Model.

Understanding the mechanisms of volatile anesthetics has been a complex problem that has intrigued investigators for decades. Through the use of relatively simple model organisms-including the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans-progress has been made. Like any model system, C.

Evaluating best educational practices, student satisfaction, and self-confidence in simulation: A descriptive study.

Background: The National League for Nursing (NLN) has endorsed simulation as a necessary teaching approach to prepare students for the demanding role of professional nursing. Questions arise about the suitability of simulation experiences to educate students. Empirical support for the effect of simulation on patient outcomes is sparse.

Using Spatial Video to Analyze and Map the Water-Fetching Path in Challenging Environments: A Case Study of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Access to clean drinking water remains a significant health problem in the developing world. Traditional definitions of water access oversimplify the geographic context of water availability, the burden of water collection, and challenges faced along the path, mainly due to a lack of fine scale spatial data. This paper demonstrates how spatial video collected in three informal areas of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, can be used to quantify aspects of the walk to water.

Mapping to Support Fine Scale Epidemiological Cholera Investigations: A Case Study of Spatial Video in Haiti.

The cartographic challenge in many developing world environments suffering a high disease burden is a lack of granular environmental covariates suitable for modeling disease outcomes. As a result, epidemiological questions, such as how disease diffuses at intra urban scales are extremely difficult to answer. This paper presents a novel geospatial methodology, spatial video, which can be used to collect and map environmental covariates, while also supporting field epidemiology.

A semi-empirical cell dynamics model for bone turnover under external stimulus.

The normal periodic turnover of bone is referred to as remodeling. In remodeling, old or damaged bone is removed during a 'resorption' phase and new bone is formed in its place during a 'formation' phase in a sequence of events known as coupling. Resorption is preceded by an 'activation' phase in which the signal to remodel is initiated and transmitted.

Complexes of ditopic carbo- and thio-carbohydrazone ligands--mononuclear, 1D chain, dinuclear and tetranuclear examples.

Ligands based on carbo- and thio-carbohydrazone cores, modified with pyridine, carboxylate and oxime ends, have been examined. They display a tautomeric versatility based on the flexible nature of the hydrazone linkages, leading to varied coordination motifs. Examples of mononuclear (Co(II), Ni(II)), dinuclear (Co(III)), 1D chain (Cu(II)) and square [2 × 2] grid (Ni(II)) complexes are obtained.

Copper coordination polymers based on single-chain or sheet structures involving dinuclear and tetranuclear copper(II) units: synthesis, structures, and magnetostructural correlations.

Reactions between the potentially pentadentate (N(2)O(3)), trianionic double Schiff-base ligand 2,6-bis[[(2-hydroxyethyl)imino]methyl]-4-methylphenol (H(3)L) and Cu(CH(3)CO(2))(2) or Cu(ClO(4))(2), in the presence of NaN(3), give novel coordination polymers with chain {[Cu(2)(H(2)L)(N(3))(3)](2).H(2)O}(n) (1) or sheet [Cu(2)(H(2)L)(N(3))(3)](n) (2) and [Cu(2)(HL)(N(3))](n)[ClO(4)](n) (3) structures, respectively. These clusters are comprised of repeating dinuclear units (1) or their dimers (2 and 3).