Igniting a movement in a dual-licensed dental workforce: The Minnesota model.

Aims: Increased awareness of oral health disparities in the United States has highlighted the need to expand the workforce and access to both primary and preventive dental care. Achieving the goal of oral health equity will require dental team members with appropriate clinical skills dedicated to reaching historically marginalized populations through intra- and interprofessional practice.

Materials And Methods: Collective efforts by healthcare advocates in Minnesota led to legislation that created a dental hygiene-based workforce model inspired by the vision and foresight of the American Dental Hygienists' Association's 'Advanced Dental Hygiene Practitioner'.

Igniting a Movement in a Dual Licensed Dental Workforce: The Minnesota Model.

Increased awareness of oral health disparities in the United States has highlighted the need to expand the workforce and access to both primary and preventive dental care. Achieving oral health equity will require new dental team members with appropriate clinical skills dedicated to reaching historically marginalized populations through intra and interprofessional practice. Collective efforts by health care advocates in Minnesota led to legislation that created a dental hygiene-based workforce model inspired by the vision and foresight of the American Dental Hygienists' Association's "Advanced Dental Hygiene Practitioner.

Patient Outcomes and Unit Composition With Transition to a High-Intensity ICU Staffing Model: A Before-and-After Study.

Unlabelled: Provider staffing models for ICUs are generally based on pragmatic necessities and historical norms at individual institutions. A better understanding of the role that provider staffing models play in determining patient outcomes and optimizing use of ICU resources is needed.

Objectives: To explore the impact of transitioning from a low- to high-intensity intensivist staffing model on patient outcomes and unit composition.

Evaluating the Representation of Community Colleges in Biology Education Research Publications following a Call to Action.

Interest in biology education research (BER) has been growing over the last two decades, yet few BER publications focus on community colleges, which serve a large percentage of the undergraduate student population and a majority of those students who identify with historically underserved groups. In this paper, we define community college biology education research (CC BER) as publications with a community college faculty member as an author, publications with a community college study context or a focus on community college biology teaching and learning, and publications that use community college students as a source of data. We conducted a literature review to quantify how CC BER has progressed since initial calls for broadening participation by recording the number of CC BER publications in seven prominent journals between 2016 and 2020.

DENTAL THERAPY AND DENTAL PATIENT-REPORTED OUTCOMES (dPROs).

Dental therapy was introduced into the dental team as an advanced practice provider with the intention to increase access to care while providing high quality care in a cost-effective manner. It is essential that the dental therapist is able to provide patient-centered care to minimize patients' suffering. In order to assess patients' suffering, it is critical to understand the impact of care and dental patient-reported outcomes (dPROs).

Contaminants of Emerging Concern in the Lower Volta River, Ghana, West Africa: The Agriculture, Aquaculture, and Urban Development Nexus.

Contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) are ubiquitous in aquatic environments across all continents and are relatively well known in the developed world. However, few studies have investigated their presence and biological effects in low- and middle-income countries. We provide a survey of CEC presence in the Volta River, Ghana, and examine the microbial consequences of anthropogenic activities along this economically and ecologically important African river.

Natural selection and neutral evolutionary processes contribute to genetic divergence in leaf traits across a precipitation gradient in the tropical oak Quercus oleoides.

The impacts of drought are expanding worldwide as a consequence of climate change. However, there is still little knowledge of how species respond to long-term selection in seasonally dry ecosystems. In this study, we used Q -F comparisons to investigate (i) the role of natural selection on population genetic differentiation for a set of functional traits related to drought resistance in the seasonally dry tropical oak Quercus oleoides and (ii) the influence of water availability at the site of population origin and in experimental treatments on patterns of trait divergence.

Dental Therapists as New Oral Health Practitioners: Increasing Access for Underserved Populations.

The development of dental therapy in the U.S. grew from a desire to find a workforce solution for increasing access to oral health care.

Do environmental factors affect male fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas) response to estrone? Part 2. Temperature and food availability.

Fish are subject to constantly changing environmental conditions and food availability, factors that may impact their response to endocrine disruptors (EDs). This may, in part, explain outcome discrepancies between field studies and laboratory exposures to EDs. This study assessed whether standard laboratory conditions for fish exposures adequately represent effects of ED exposure at two environmentally realistic temperatures.

Minnesota Alliance for Nursing Education (MANE): A Unique Multi-institutional Approach to Preparing Nurses for the Future.

Aim: The purpose of this article is to inform nurse educators of an innovative and transformative approach to advancing nursing education through the creation of the Minnesota Alliance for Nursing Education (MANE).

Background: MANE was formed to answer national appeals to transform nursing education and demands by health care organizations for a more highly educated nursing workforce.

Method: An action plan was developed with the Minnesota Action Coalition to create a dual admission community college and university eight-semester baccalaureate curriculum that students could complete seamlessly in four years.

Minnesota Extends Oral Healthcare Delivery to Impact Population Health.

Unlabelled: Collaborative leadership and stakeholder engagement have created the concept of dental therapist intraprofessional dental team members who are expanding and extending the reach of oral health care to help meet the public need in Minnesota.

Background And Purpose: Partially owing to inadequate access to affordable oral health care, health disparities exist within Minnesota's population with significant numbers of residents lacking access to basic oral health care. Policymakers, advocacy organizations, and dental professionals recommended action to address these issues.

Affinity and matrix effects in measuring fish plasma vitellogenin using immunosorbent assays: considerations for aquatic toxicologists.

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) are important tools in aquatic toxicology and have become crucial in assessing exposure concentrations in the aquatic environment and acute physiological responses in exposed organisms. These assays utilize the inherent properties of antibodies to recognize and selectively bind a target molecule, while largely ignoring other molecules to provide semiquantitative values. A variety of methodologies to measure plasma vitellogenin using ELISAs have generated widely divergent data.

Cytotype regulation in Drosophila melanogaster: synergism between telomeric and non-telomeric P elements.

The X-linked telomeric P elements TP5 and TP6 interact synergistically with non-telomeric P elements to repress hybrid dysgenesis. In this repression, the telomeric P elements exert maternal effects, which, however, are not sufficient to establish synergism with the non-telomeric P elements. Once synergism is established, the capacity to repress dysgenesis in the offspring of a cross persists for at least two generations after removing the telomeric P element from the genotype.

4-(4-Chlorobenzylidenehydrazonomethyl)benzonitrile and the bromo and iodo analogs.

4-Cyano-4'-chlorobenzalazine [systematic name: 4-(4-chlorobenzylidenehydrazonomethyl)benzonitrile], C(15)H(10)ClN(3), occurs in two polymorphs. Polymorph A is isostructural with the corresponding dichloro compound. Polymorph B is isostructural with the bromo and iodo analogs, viz.

Faculty teaching time: a comparison of web-based and face-to-face graduate nursing courses.

Web-based education brings a new dimension to the issue of measuring faculty workload. Current literature reflects instructor concerns related to the time required to teach web-based courses (McAlpine, Lockerbie, Ramsay & Beaman 2002; Sellani & Harrington, 2002; Smith, Ferguson & Caris, 2001). This descriptive, comparative study seeks to determine the time required to teach web-based graduate nursing courses and compare that to teaching similar courses in the face-to-face setting.

Mediation and moderation of the relationship between intrinsic religiousness and mental health.

The present study examined specific aspects of individuals' personal strivings as mediators, and religious tradition as a moderator, of the relationship between intrinsic religiousness and mental health. In a sample of 268 university students, the negative relationship between intrinsic religiousness and hostility was mediated by the degree of sanctification within individuals' strivings. The relationships between intrinsic religiousness and both anxiety and depression were moderated by religious tradition, with Catholics' intrinsic religiousness significantly associated with greater anxiety and depression but Protestants' intrinsic religiousness not significantly associated with either of these mental health variables.

The saccharide-hydrazide linkage: molecular and crystal structures of the semicarbazide derivatives of D-glucose, D-galactose, and D-xylose, including a 'forbidden' conformation of the galactose derivative.

The X-ray crystal structures of the semicarbazide derivatives of D-glucose, D-galactose, and D-xylose are described. All are glycopyranosyl derivatives in the solid state. The glucose semicarbazide crystallizes as a dihydrate.

Molecular and crystal structures of N-aryl-beta-D-glycopyranosylamines from mannose and galactose.

The molecular and crystal structures of 12 N-aryl-beta-D-glycopyranosylamines have been determined by X-ray crystallography. Six of these are mannose derivatives, the N-p-bromophenyl (1), N-p-tolyl (2), N-m-chlorophenyl (3), N-p-methoxyphenyl (4), N-o-chlorophenyl (5), and N-o-tolyl (6) derivatives that are formed by reaction with the corresponding substituted anilines. The remaining six are galactose derivatives, the N-phenyl (7), N-p-chlorophenyl (8), N-p-bromophenyl (9), N-p-iodophenyl (10), N-p-nitrophenyl (11) and N-p-tolyl (12), derivatives prepared similarly.

Molecular and crystal structures of N-arylglycopyranosylamines formed by reaction between sulfanilamide and D-ribose, D-arabinose and D-mannose.

The X-ray crystal structures of three monosaccharide derivatives prepared by the reaction of sulfanilamide with D-ribose, D-arabinose, and D-mannose have been determined. The derivatives are N-(p-sulfamoylphenyl)-alpha-D-ribopyranosylamine (1), N-(p-sulfamoylphenyl)-alpha-D-arabinopyranosylamine (2), and N-(p-sulfamoylphenyl)-beta-D-mannopyranosylamine monohydrate (3). The monosaccharide ring of 1 and 2 has the 1C4 conformation, stabilized in 1 by an intramolecular hydrogen bond from 0-2 to 0-4.

Packing similarities of three isosteric molecules: 4,5-dichlorophthalic anhydride, 4,5-dibromophthalic anhydride and 5,6-dichlorobenzfurazan 1-oxide, including three polymorphs of 5,6-dichlorobenzfurazan 1-oxide.

4,5-Dichlorophthalic anhydride (CPA) lies on a twofold axis in space group C2/c; the molecules pack as stacks of two-dimensional sheets. Polymorph A of 5,6-dichlorobenzfurazan 1-oxide (CBF; systematic name 5,6-dichloro-2,1,3-benzoxadiazole 1-oxide) is isomorphous with CPA with disordered CBF molecules being pseudo-isosteric with the CPA molecule. Polymorph C of CBF has similar unit-cell dimensions but the arrangement of the molecules in the cell is different.

Dental hygienists' knowledge and opinions about fluorides and fluoridation.

This article reports results of a study of 563 practicing Minnesota and Wisconsin dental hygienists' knowledge and opinions about fluorides and water fluoridation. Two independent samples were selected randomly from the populations of licensed dental hygienists residing in the two states. Data were collected using a pretested, 42-item, mailed questionnaire.