Vis-A-Plan /visualize a plan/ management technique provides performance-time scale

Vis-A-Plan is a bar-charting technique for representing and evaluating project activities on a performance-time basis. This rectilinear method presents the logic diagram of a project as a series of horizontal time bars. It may be used supplementary to PERT or independently

Imposters in the Sacred Grove: Working Class Women in the Academe

The authors of this paper take a critical approach within ethnographic narrative to explore issues of power, class and agency in their experiences as working class women in the academe. After first revealing their working class roots through personal narratives, they employ Clance\u27s Impostor Phenomenon to explore and discuss their experiences as working-class women within the Scared Grove of the academe. Results seem to indicate a dichotomy between their working class values and the expectations of university academics. Results also reveal that men faculty are their current allies, indicating that, for these three working class women in the academe, class is more of an issue than gender. The researchers conclude that they are negotiating the impostor phenomenon while accepting their outsider status. Suggestions for further research are included

Nurses\u27 Alumnae Association Bulletin - Volume 6 Number 9

Remember the Relief Fund Welcome! Miss Childs Financial Report Calendar of Coming Events Lest You Forget! Attention Review of the Alumnae Association Meetings Institutional Staff Nurses\u27 Section Report of Staff Activities - 1947-1948 Private Duty Section The White Haven Division Barton Memorial Division Remember the Relief Fund Student Nurses\u27 Activities Jefferson Scores Again The Clara Melville Scholarship Fund Interesting Activities of the Nurses\u27 Home Committee of the Women\u27s Board Exclusive for Nurses Changes in the Maternity Division Gray Lady Musical Therapy Service Memorial Service Honoring Mrs. Bessie Dobson Altemus The Blood Donor Center The Hospital Pharmacy Medical College News Remember the Relief Fund Administrative Staff and Faculty of the School of Nursing Streptomycin Changes in the Staff at Jefferson Hospital Care of the Thoracic Surgical Patient Miscellaneous Items Marriages New Arrivals Deaths The Bulletin Committee Attention, Alumnae New Addresse

Extreme salinity as a challenge to grow potatoes under Mars-like soil conditions: targeting promising genotypes.

One of the future challenges to produce food in a Mars environment will be the optimization of resources through the potential use of the Martian substratum for growing crops as a part of bioregenerative food systems. In vitro plantlets from 65 potato genotypes were rooted in peat-pellets substratum and transplanted in pots filled with Mars-like soil from La Joya desert in Southern Peru. The Mars-like soil was characterized by extreme salinity (an electric conductivity of 19.3 and 52.6 dS m−1 under 1 : 1 and saturation extract of the soil solution, respectively) and plants grown in it were under sub-optimum physiological status indicated by average maximum stomatal conductance <50 mmol H2O m−2 s−1 even after irrigation. 40% of the genotypes survived and yielded (0.3–5.2 g tuber plant−1) where CIP.397099.4, CIP.396311.1 and CIP.390478.9 were targeted as promising materials with 9.3, 8.9 and 5.8% of fresh tuber yield in relation to the control conditions. A combination of appropriate genotypes and soil management will be crucial to withstand extreme salinity, a problem also important in agriculture on Earth that requires more detailed follow-up studies

Influence of subunit structure on the oligomerization state of light harvesting complexes: a free energy calculation study

Light harvesting complexes 2 (LH2) from Rhodospirillum (Rs.) molischianum and Rhodopseudomonas (Rps.) acidophila form ring complexes out of eight or nine identical subunits, respectively. Here, we investigate computationally what factors govern the different ring sizes. Starting from the crystal structure geometries, we embed two subunits of each species into their native lipid-bilayer/water environment. Using molecular dynamics simulations with umbrella sampling and steered molecular dynamics, we probe the free energy profiles along two reaction coordinates, the angle and the distance between two subunits. We find that two subunits prefer to arrange at distinctly different angles, depending on the species, at about 42.5 deg for Rs. molischianum and at about 38.5 deg for Rps. acidophila, which is likely to be an important factor contributing to the assembly into different ring sizes. Our calculations suggest a key role of surface contacts within the transmembrane domain in constraining these angles, whereas the strongest interactions stabilizing the subunit dimers are found in the C-, and to a lesser extent, N-terminal domains. The presented computational approach provides a promising starting point to investigate the factors contributing to the assembly of protein complexes, in particular if combined with modeling of genetic variants.Comment: 28 pages, 7 figures, LaTeX2e - requires elsart.cls (included), submitted to Chemical Physic

The impact of the pre-college high school program AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) on Millville Senior High School students\u27 success in college

The purpose of this study was to investigate the pre-college program AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) and its impact on Millville Senior High School\u27s recent graduates now attending higher education institutions. The study investigated the attitudes of students who had participated in AVID while attending Millville Senior High School in Millville, NJ and are now on course to complete a Bachelor\u27s Degree. This study utilized a mixed method design to collect data. The perception survey contained 30 items from four different factor groupings focused on family and parental support, academic persistence, college preparation, and AVID reflections. The second part of the study involved conducting a focus group interview in order to gather more data on the students\u27 experiences in the AVID program and their reflections on its effects on the college experience. The study found that AVID played a pivotal role in preparing and supporting these students in pursuing their academic goals. It is recommended that more studies similar in scope and design should be conducted on other AVID students and the progress in their academic careers

Nurses\u27 Alumnae Association Bulletin - Volume 7 Number 11

Anna M. Shafer Barton Memorial Division Births Changes in the Ophthalmology Division Change of Address Clara Melville Fund Continental Tour Deceased Digest of Meetings Inter-County Hospitalization Plan Katherine Childs\u27 Letter Lost Members Marriages Miscellaneous Nursing Home Committee\u27s Report Physical Advantages President James L. Kauffman\u27s Letter President\u27s Greeting Private Duty Section Prizes Relief Fund School Nursing Silhouette of a Public Health Nurse Rooming-in of Infant with Mother Staff Activities The Student White Haven Divisio

Nurses\u27 Alumnae Association Bulletin - Volume 6 Number 10

Financial Report Calendar of Events Attention, Class of 1945! Miss Shafer Retires Review of the Alumnae Association Meetings Institutional Staff Nurses\u27 Section Report of Staff Activites - 1948-1949 The Staff Stockings! Stockings! Stockings! Pop-Up Toaster It\u27s Not Too Soon Any White Elephants? Private Duty Section The Jefferson Hospital Private Duty Nurses\u27 Register Report for Barton Memorial Hospital Progress of the Orthopedic Department Just Under the Date Line Pediatrics at Jefferson Controlled Respiration in Anesthesia Anesthesia Progress Physical Advances at Jefferson During the Past Year The White Haven Division The Clara Melville Scholarship Fund The Relief Fund The Busy Year for the Nurses\u27 Home Committee of the Women\u27s Board The Gray Ladies Memories Lost Miscellaneous Items Medical College News Marriages Births Deaths Condolences Prizes District No. 1 Dues Help! Help! Help! Jap Prison School Spurs Nurse to Win University Degree Twenty Ways to Kill an Organization The Bulletin Committee Attention, Alumnae New Addresse

The Cultivation of Therapeutic Landscapes: A Medical Anthropological Approach to Understanding the Health and Wellbeing Qualities of the Garden of 1,000 Buddhas

Medical anthropology researchers have just begun exploring therapeutic landscapes as the benefits of location are just now being understood in the field as potentially promoting a sense of healing and wellbeing. Some cultural heritage sites are translocated sites that are important to disseminate traditional cultural knowledge. While some of these cultural heritage landscapes become formal cultural resources, others also add a level of therapeutic quality to their existence. The Garden of 1,000 Buddhas was such a location. Discerning how these sites develop and are mitigated through affective responses, messaging symbols and personal beliefs was an important part of the process. How these were linked to the social and symbolic environments of the therapeutic landscape was not well known. For this reason, it became important to explore the central questions: How do affective responses, personal beliefs, and messaging symbols at the Garden of 1,000 Buddhas impact visitors’ social and symbolic environments? Are affective responses, personal beliefs, and messaging symbols integral in therapeutic landscape development? To fully explore this question, three subquestions should be explored which will then provide adequate responses to the central question. These three subquestions will be as follows: 1) How do affective responses emerging from interacting with a cultural heritage site influence the visitors’ health and wellbeing outcomes from visiting the Garden of 1,000 Buddhas?, 2) How are visitors’ personal health and wellbeing beliefs formative in the construction of a therapeutic landscape where no official health and wellbeing attributes are articulated by the Garden of 1,000 Buddhas site management?; 3) How does visitor placement of health and wellbeing messaging symbols throughout the Garden of 1,000 Buddhas impact the social environment of the therapeutic landscape at the Garden of 1,000 Buddhas? Answering these questions will demonstrate how they are related and the impact they have on the social and symbolic environments. The answers to these questions will also facilitate an understanding of how therapeutic landscapes develop and their relationship with cultural heritage sites

Sex, Body Size, and Winter Weather Explain Migration Strategies in a Partial Migrant Population of American Kestrels (\u3cem\u3eFalco sparverius\u3c/em\u3e)

Partially migratory systems describe populations that consist of both individuals that migrate away from the breeding grounds for the winter, and others that remain resident near their nesting sites year-round. Partial migration is the most common type of migration across all animal taxa, but the evolution, maintenance, and consequences associated with different movement strategies are still poorly understood. Studying the factors that drive migratory strategies and the associated consequences of those decisions is important to understand how migratory animals may adapt to climate change. Partial migrant populations offer a great opportunity for which to study these questions because individuals with different movement strategies live in the same environment for a portion of their annual cycle. This allows researchers to directly compare individuals exhibiting both migration strategies in the same study area. In our study, we examined the correlates, patterns, and consequences associated with migratory decisions in the American Kestrel (Falco sparverius), a small falcon species that exhibits partial migration tendencies across its range in North America. To investigate the factors associated with an individual’s migratory strategy, and to assess the migratory patterns in a population of kestrels in southwestern Idaho, we used stable hydrogen isotope values (δD) extracted from talon tissues to distinguish migrant from resident kestrels during the 2013 – 2021 breeding seasons. We determined the migratory status for 349 birds with a previously unknown strategy and saw that males were more likely to migrate than females, and that in colder than average winters, smaller birds of both sexes were more likely to migrate than larger birds. Additionally, kestrels can switch migration patterns on an annual basis, and the proportion of individuals with a migrant or resident strategy in the local southwestern Idaho population is not consistent over time. Broadly, these results offer support for the body size hypothesis in that larger individuals may be better equipped to withstand harsher winters compared to smaller-bodied individuals. We also examined the consequences associated with an individual’s movement strategy by comparing a bird’s stable hydrogen isotope value to the date that they initiated breeding. For this work, we collaborated with project partners to collect talon samples from breeding kestrels across seven sites in Indiana, Kansas, Wisconsin, Wyoming, New York, Washington, and Saskatchewan, Canada; some of which were on Department of Defense lands. There was no significant association between an individual’s isotope composition and lay date suggesting that individuals that wintered further south did not initiate breeding later than individuals that migrated shorter distances. Although these results contrast with what we predicted, they are consistent with results found in similar taxa. Overall, this study elucidates the factors influencing migration decisions in American Kestrels and uncovers previously unknown phenomena in this species such as migration strategy switching. Lastly, we determined that extracting stable hydrogen isotope values from talon tissue is a viable option for researchers seeking to categorize individuals into discrete migratory strategies in studies of animal migration