As we work toward an integrated global scientific community, with English as the lingua franca (or, as linguist J M Swales suggests, the linguistic Tyrannosaurus rex), scientific editors are increasingly called on to edit papers written by authors for whom English is a second language. Pressure to publish in English is intense, and writ-ing is a difficult skill for many scientists (and editors). How many of us are aware of just how much additional effort it can take a nonnative speaker, even one who is fluent in spoken English, to produce a publishable document? Some English-as-a-second-language (ESL) writers are able to

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A training, assessment and feedback package for the trainee shoulder sonographer

stressful professional life. Gen-erations of British-trained doctors have grown up with Corrigan’s secret door, as it was featured in the introduc-tion of the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine. Accordingly, trainees as well as more senior doctors are often reminded that having a ‘secret door ’ is vital

Developing the role of nurse educators cannot be overstated in this turbulent time of healthcare system uncertainty and nursing shortage. The need for competent and well-prepared nurse educators continues to be a dynamic and challenging issue and a number of national and state programs are encouraging nurses to move into nurse educator positions. Nursing programs must make sure that as nurses take on the educator role that they are equipped with the confidence, experience, and problem-solving skills to meet the demands for practice, teaching, scholarship, and service. Mentoring and mentorship programs have been utilized formally in other disciplines and within the corporate world serving as a vehicle for career development, yet nursing has not made mentoring a consistent practice within academia. Preceptor programs are a type of mentoring that has been

Prolonged dormancy interacts with senescence for two perennial herbs

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analysis of the problems involved in our contemporary understanding of how the Man of the shroud was nailed to the cross.

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1. A standard protocol is developed that provides for attaining a standard disinfectant concentration in all rooms of the facility; the concentration should be sufficient to result in consistent, repeatable inactivation of the indicator organisms. 2. Within the space to be decontaminated, the concentration of the disinfectant should be constant for a sufficient time to allow for the inactivation as mentioned above. 3. Indicator organisms should be placed in areas of the facility that are considered difficult to decontaminate in order to demonstrate complete distribution and decontamination. 4. Any protocol that is chosen should be capable of being repeatable, and for validation purposes should be performed a minimum of three times with complete inactivation of the indicator organisms demonstrated for each test. 5. The validation of decontamination of HEPA filter housings should be a standardized process, performed by drawing the disinfectant gas through the filter and recirculating the disinfectant through the filter or holding the disinfectant in the filter at an appropriate concentration and for a sufficient time to inactivate indicator organisms on the surface and within the HEPA filter pleats. Again, this procedure should be performed a minimum of three times with complete inactivation of the indicator organisms demonstrated for each test. Any process suggested for use as biological decontamination of biocontainment laboratories should be demonstrated to be equal to, or exceed, the efficacy of the paraformaldehyde/formaldehyde process. Other decontamination materials (VHP, Cl02, etc.) have significant potential to provide a safe and effective decontamination of such facilities; however, any new technologies for decontamination of biocontainment laboratories or HEPA filter housings must demonstrate a scientifically defensible, effective, repeatable process on either the specific laboratory facility or the HEPA filters and HEPA filter housings.