Patients' views: improving care for people with fibromyalgia.

Aim: The purpose of this research is to provide healthcare professionals with patients' views on improving care for people with fibromyalgia.

Background: Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain syndrome that often challenges patients and healthcare professionals. Current literature suggests that the people with fibromyalgia are disempowered by their interactions with physicians.

Cultivations...and potting on a strategic plan for a social and horticultural therapy program.

This research endeavored to develop a strategic growth plan for St. Ann's Garden Club (SAGC), a Non-Profit Social and Horticultural Therapy program, located at Providence Farm in Duncan, British Columbia. SAGC is a day program for older adults with mental illness and/or drug/alcohol addiction.

Willingness and its relevance to nursing.

Nursing practice is embedded in contexts that inhibit or constrain emancipatory relationships. This article explores willingness in relation to agency and actualization fostered by emancipative relationships in nursing practice. Opportunities for emancipative choice are possible only when nurses are willing to engage in critical reflection, authentic discourses, and risk congruent action within the constraints of dominant paradigms.

Solvent effects on the spectroscopic and photophysical properties of the trans-(1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradecane)diisothiocyanatochromium(III) ion, trans-[Cr(cyclam)(NCS)(2)]+.

The spectroscopy and photophysics of trans-[Cr(cyclam)(NCS)2]+ (where cyclam is 1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradecane) were studied in a range of solvents. The cyclam NH stretching vibration [nu(NH)] wavenumber correlates with the Gutmann donor number, whereas the thiocyanate CN stretching vibration [nu(CN)] wavenumber correlates with the Snyder solvent strength (P') scale. These results signify that there is a difference in the solvent interactions with the two types of ligands.

In Vogue: North American and British representations of women smokers in Vogue, 1920s-1960s.

The image of a cigarette in a woman's hand symbolizes independence, non-conformity and personal power, despite widespread awareness that smoking has serious health risks. Through a content analysis of North American and British editions of Vogue, we trace the representation of women smokers from the 1920s-1960s. Vogue located the cigarette within the culture of the feminine elite.

An enzyme derivatized polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) membrane for use in membrane introduction mass spectrometry (MIMS).

Membrane introduction mass spectrometry (MIMS) provides direct measurement of volatile and semivolatile analytes in condensed and gas-phase samples without sample preparation steps. Although MIMS has numerous advantages that include direct, on-line, real-time analysis with low detection limits, current applications of MIMS are predominantly limited to volatile and semivolatile analytes that permeate hydrophobic membranes (e.g.

Notes on the distribution of mosquito species that could potentially transmit West Nile virus on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

We record the spatial and temporal distribution of 8 potential vectors of West Nile virus (WNV) on Vancouver Island in 2003 and 2004. Five species were widely distributed, but the other 3 were restricted to specific larval habitats. Adults were trapped from early April to September.

The Canadian cigar and tobacco journal in the forties: a remembrance.

This paper is a period snapshot of the life and times of Canadian smoking culture, filtered through "The Canadian Cigar and Tobacco Journal" (the industry's trade paper) from 1943-1949. "The Journal" provided a vivid portrait of neighbourhood tobacconists, travelling salesman, wholesalers and factory workers, homemakers and entrepreneurs. I discuss the role of Jews in the industry, as manufacturers and retailers.

A coaxially heated membrane introduction mass spectrometry interface for the rapid and sensitive on-line measurement of volatile and semi-volatile organic contaminants in air and water at parts-per-trillion levels.

A coaxially heated membrane introduction mass spectrometry (MIMS) sampling interface is presented that demonstrates improved on-line performance for the direct measurement of semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) in air and water samples at parts-per-trillion levels. The device is based on a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) capillary hollow fibre membrane (HFM) in a pneumatically assisted "flow-over" configuration that is resistively heated on the membrane interior via a coaxial nichrome wire, establishing a thermal gradient counter to the analyte concentration gradient. This arrangement allows for continuous and/or pulsed heating modes, affording excellent sensitivity for the on-line measurement of SVOCs while retaining sensitivity for volatile organic compounds (VOCs).

Monitoring the TiO2-photocatalyzed destruction of aqueous environmental contaminants at parts-per-trillion levels using membrane introduction mass spectrometry (MIMS).

Membrane introduction mass spectrometry (MIMS) was used to directly monitor the TiO2/UV-photocatalyzed destruction of acetophenone, toluene, and chloroform in H2O at ppm to pptr concentrations. The instrument response time was sufficiently rapid for these environmental contaminants (1-6min) that "real-time" monitoring of their degradation was possible. This method was used to follow the loss of toluene at pptr levels and the concomitant formation of one of its primary photo-oxidation intermediates, methylphenol.

Nursing and native peoples in Northern Saskatchewan: 1930s-1950s.

The aim of this research is to investigate the role of nurses in northern Saskatchewan Aboriginal communities in Canada between 1930 and the 1950s. During and after the war, the federal government began sharing its responsibilities for delivering health services to Indian communities with a growing system of provincial Public Health nursing stations. In northern Saskatchewan, interaction between Aboriginal peoples and the state health care system occurred primarily through provincial Public Health nurses permanently stationed at these outpost clinics.

Using a linked learning activity to foster nursing students' professional growth.

Linked learning assignments employ a learner-centered approach that views differences among students as educationally enriching, rather than problematic. This article describes a linked learning activity that systematically incorporated differences between first-year and fourth-year nursing students to enrich learning outcomes related to professional growth and the image of nursing. The process of developing, implementing, and evaluating this professional growth-linked learning activity is described.

'Patient satisfaction': knowledge for ruling hospital reform--an institutional ethnography.

Driven by funding restraint, Canadian health-care has undergone over a decade of significant reform. Hospitals are being restructured, as text-based practices of accountability bring a new business-orientation into hospital and clinical management. New forms of knowledge, generated through records of various sorts, are a necessary resource for managing care in the new environment.

Prevalence and intensity of Haemobaphes diceraus (Copepoda: Pennellidae) from shiner perch, Cymatogaster aggregata (Embiotocidae).

The prevalence and intensity of the hematophagous pennellid copepod Haemobaphes diceraus were monitored over a 10-mo period in shiner perch Cymatogaster aggregata at Pipers Lagoon, Nanaimo, British Columbia. The prevalence and mean intensity of metamorphosed adult female H. diceraus (n = 421) were 10.

Vastus medialis muscle oxygenation trends during a simulated 20-km cycle time trial.

In this study we examined the oxygenation trend of the vastus medialis muscle during sustained high-intensity exercise. Ten cyclists performed an incremental cycle ergometer test to voluntary exhaustion [mean (SD) maximum oxygen uptake 4.29 (0.

Competency and practical judgment.

At least four different frameworks--psychiatric, cognitive, functional and decision-making--are used in the evaluation of competence, all of which remain more or less unrelated in the literature. In the first section of this paper we consider various meanings of "competence," in order to arrive at a definition of the term relevant to the medical and legal setting. Patient or client "competence," we conclude, refers to the practical abilities that individuals employ in pursuing their own autonomous goals in life.

Validity of breathing frequency to monitor exercise intensity in trained cyclists.

This study compared breathing frequency (fB) during a ventilation threshold (VT) test with fB during a simulated 40 km time trial (40TT) to assess whether fB can be used to monitor exercise intensity. Twenty-six male cyclists (mean +/- SD VO2max = 4.42 +/- 0274 l.

Preliminary analysis of the polypeptides of the salmon leukemia virus (SLV) and evidence for development of a bimodal viremia following SLV infection.

A retrovirus, known as salmon leukemia virus (SLV), was purified from farm-reared chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) with plasmacytoid leukemia (PL). Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) analysis of purified SLV revealed the presence of 9 virus-associated polypeptides with molecular weights from 82 kDa to 15 kDa. Endoglycosidase digestion and alcian blue staining of viral polypeptides separated by SDS-PAGE, and immunoprecipitation experiments using hyperimmune antisera suggest that the non-glycosylated 27 kDa polypeptide may represent a capsid-associated protein and the 82 kDa glycoprotein may represent an envelope-associated protein, which appears to be composed of a 67 kDa protein moiety.

Isolation of a retrovirus from two fish cell lines developed from chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) with plasmacytoid leukaemia.

Two new cell lines developed from chinook salmon with plasmacytoid leukaemia have been found to be producing a virus. The virus has been identified as a retrovirus based on: type of c.p.

A retrovirus in chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) with plasmacytoid leukemia and evidence for the etiology of the disease.

A plasmacytoid leukemia (PL) has caused mortalities in chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) reared in seawater netpens in western British Columbia, Canada, since 1988. Kidney or eye tissues from 11 of 13 fish from netpens with clinical PL had reverse transcriptase (RT) activity. This RT activity was associated with virus particles of retrovirus morphology and buoyant density.