Biogeochemistry, the watershed approach: some uses and limitations

The watershed (catchment) approach provides a powerful conceptual model for quantitatively evaluating the structure, function and change within a landscape or region. The values and limitations of this approach are considered in this paper, with particular reference to the Hubbard Brook watershed–ecosystem model. The need for informed long-term (sustained) research is stressed; a haphazard collection of data is rarely valuable. Team-building efforts will be needed increasingly in the future to enhance the success of multidisciplinary teams tackling large and complex environmental problems.

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Periodic monitoring of vampire bats and rabies: a new framework for animal restoration projects in the Neotropics

10.32942/osf.io/53hda ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Fernando Gonçalves ◽

Daniel G. Streicker ◽

Mauro Galetti

Keyword(s):

Disease Transmission ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Multidisciplinary Teams ◽

Risk Area ◽

Food Web Structure ◽

Land Bridge ◽

High Risk Area ◽

Restoration Project ◽

Vampire Bats

Nowadays, restoration project might lead to increased public engagement and enthusiasm for biodiversity and is receiving increased media attention in major newspapers, TED talks and the scientific literature. However, empirical research on restoration project is rare, fragmented, and geographically biased and long-term studies that monitor indirect and unexpected effects are needed to support future management decisions especially in the Neotropical area. Changes in animal population dynamics and community composition following species (re)introduction may have unanticipated consequences for a variety of downstream ecosystem processes, including food web structure, predator-prey systems and infectious disease transmission. Recently, an unprecedented study in Brazil showed changes in vampire bat feeding following a rewilding project and further transformed the land-bridge island into a high-risk area for rabies transmission. Due the lessons learned from ongoing project, we present a novel approach on how to anticipate, monitor, and mitigate the vampire bats and rabies in rewilding projects. We pinpoint a series of precautions and the need for long-term monitoring of vampire bats and rabies responses to rewilding projects and highlighted the importance of multidisciplinary teams of scientist and managers focusing on prevention educational program of rabies risk transmitted by bats. In addition, monitoring the relative abundance of vampire bats, considering reproductive control by sterilization and oral vaccines that autonomously transfer among bats would reduce the probability, size and duration of rabies outbreaks. The rewilding assessment framework presented here responds to calls to better integrate the science and practice of rewilding and also could be used for long-term studying of bat-transmitted pathogen in the Neotropical area as the region is considered a geographic hotspots of “missing bat zoonoses”.

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Team Building in Educational Settings

10.31234/osf.io/zp268 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Alan Basham ◽

Valerie E. Appleton ◽

Cass Dykeman

Keyword(s):

School Reform ◽

Grade Level ◽

Team Building ◽

Multidisciplinary Teams ◽

Educational Settings ◽

Grade Level Teams ◽

American Schools ◽

Student Assistance ◽

Student Assistance Teams ◽

Teacher Assistance

American schools make rather wide use of teams. Multidisciplinary teams (MDTs), teacher assistance teams, student assistance teams, teaching teams, department teams, grade-level teams, and schoolwide teams are common. Further, teams are thought to be a key catalyst for the implementation of school reform. This article will first review the research on team building in educational settings. Then step-by-step instructions on how to conduct team building will be presented.

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Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Maintaining Sexual Desire in Long-Term Relationships: A Systematic Review and Conceptual Model.

F1000 - Post-publication peer review of the biomedical literature ◽

10.3410/f.732821364.793546135 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Chiara Simonelli ◽

Roberta Rossi ◽

Stefano Eleuteri

Keyword(s):

Systematic Review ◽

Conceptual Model ◽

Sexual Desire

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Nor Gloom of Night: A New Conceptual Model for the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study

BioScience ◽

10.1641/0006-3568(2004)054[0139:ngonan]2.0.co;2 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 54 (2) ◽

pp. 139 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

PETER M. GROFFMAN ◽

CHARLES T. DRISCOLL ◽

GENE E. LIKENS ◽

TIMOTHY J. FAHEY ◽

RICHARD T. HOLMES ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Conceptual Model ◽

Hubbard Brook

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Recruitment, Readiness, and Retention of Providers at a Field Hospital during the Pandemic

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness ◽

10.1017/dmp.2022.2 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 1-21

Author(s):

Ishaan Gupta ◽

Zishan K. Siddiqui ◽

Mark D. Phillips ◽

Amteshwar Singh ◽

Shaker M. Eid ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Team Building ◽

Well Being ◽

Just In Time ◽

Multidisciplinary Teams ◽

Full Time ◽

Full Time Equivalent ◽

Field Hospital ◽

Convention Center ◽

Key Steps ◽

Experienced Personnel

Abstract In response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the State of Maryland established a 250-bed emergency response field hospital at the Baltimore Convention Center to support the existing healthcare infrastructure. To operationalize this hospital with 65 full-time equivalent (FTE) clinicians in less than four weeks, more than 300 applications were reviewed, 186 candidates were interviewed, and 159 clinicians were credentialed and onboarded. The key steps to achieve this undertaking involved employing multidisciplinary teams with experienced personnel, mass outreach, streamlined candidate tracking, pre-interview screening, utilizing all available expertise, expedited credentialing, and focused onboarding. To ensure staff preparedness, the leadership developed innovative team models, applied principles of effective team building, and provided ‘just in time’ training on COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 related topics to the staff. The leadership focused on staff safety and well-being, offered appropriate financial remuneration and provided leadership opportunities that allowed retention of staff.

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Long-term environmental problems of radioactively contaminated land

Environment International ◽

10.1016/0160-4120(86)90149-2 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 12 (5) ◽

pp. 545-553 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

C.F. Baes ◽

C.T. Garten ◽

F.G. Taylor ◽

J.P. Witherspoon

Keyword(s):

Environmental Problems ◽

Contaminated Land

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Interventions to Promote a Healthy Sexuality among School Adolescents: A Scoping Review

Journal of Personalized Medicine ◽

10.3390/jpm11111155 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (11) ◽

pp. 1155

Author(s):

Fernanda Loureiro ◽

Margarida Ferreira ◽

Paula Sarreira-de-Oliveira ◽

Vanessa Antunes

Keyword(s):

Open Science ◽

Multidisciplinary Teams ◽

Adolescent Sexual Behavior ◽

Scoping Reviews ◽

Key Factor ◽

Nurses Role ◽

Healthy Sexuality ◽

Science Framework ◽

Meta Analyses

Schools are particularly suitable contexts for the implementation of interventions focused on adolescent sexual behavior. Sexual education and promotion have a multidisciplinary nature. Nurses’ role and the spectrum of the carried-out interventions is not clear. We aimed to identify interventions that promote a healthy sexuality among school adolescents. Our review followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews and was registered in the Open Science Framework. Published articles on sexuality in adolescents in school contexts were considered. The research limitations included primary studies; access in full text in English, Spanish, or Portuguese; and no data publication limitation. Research was carried out on the EBSCOhost, PubMed, SciELO, and Web of Science platforms; gray literature and the bibliographies of selected articles were also searched. A total of 56 studies were included in the sample. The studies used a broad range of research methods, and 10 types of interventions were identified. Multi-interventional programs and socio-emotional interventions showed a greater impact on long-term behavioral changes, and continuity seemed to be a key factor. Long-term studies are needed to reach a consensus on the effectiveness of interventions. Nurses’ particular role on the multidisciplinary teams was found to be a gap in the research, and must be further explored.

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PERBANDINGAN STRUKTUR, FUNGSI, DAN NILAI BUDAYA PADA LEGENDA TELAGA NGEBEL PONOROGO DAN LEGENDA DANAU RANU PASURUAN

Jurnal Pena Indonesia ◽

10.26740/jpi.v3n2.p201-222 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 201

Author(s):

Nuraini Saura Putri ◽

Oktavian Aditya Nugraha

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Structure Function ◽

Cultural Values ◽

General Public ◽

Oral Literature ◽

Cultural Institutions ◽

Literature Research ◽

New Knowledge ◽

Similarities And Differences

Efforts to preserve the legendary cultural heritage and in the framework of seeking the identity of the nation as well as the diversity of ethnic groups in Indonesia, one way to do is to collect and care for folklore. This research as a means to treat foklor legend of Lake Ranu and Ngebel legend Telaga. Both legends have almost the same story, both the character and the story. The purpose of this study is to determine the similarities and differences in the two legends, through its structure, function and cultural values. Such long-term goal in this study is, to provide knowledge about oral literature research on literature students who can be used as a reference for the future. In addition, this research can also provide new knowledge for the general public about the storyline of the legend of Lake Ngebel and the legend of Lake Ranu. Based on the results of research that has been done then can be drawn a conclusion, namely: the structure there are four equations and has three differences. Something contained in the two legends have three functions, namely; as entertainment, as a means of legitimizing institutions and cultural institutions, as child educators. For the cultural values contained in these two legends are the value of Diktatik, Ethical, and Religious values

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Paediatric paediatric tracheostomy: Changing indications and key complications

Morecambe Bay Medical Journal ◽

10.48037/mbmj.v8i6.1246 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (6) ◽

pp. 175-180

Author(s):

Guilherme Movio ◽

Ms Shadaba Ahmed

Keyword(s):

Health Care Professionals ◽

Survival Rates ◽

Ventilatory Support ◽

Upper Airway ◽

Multidisciplinary Teams ◽

Vaccination Programs ◽

Airway Obstructions ◽

Life Threatening ◽

Indications And Complications

Background: Paediatric Tracheostomy is a procedure used to ventilate children through a hole in the trachea. Indications for the procedure were once primarily for acute upper airway obstruction due to infections but have now changed. Generally, there is poor knowledge surrounding tracheostomies and a limited knowledge of guidelines amongst health-care professionals. Aim: The aim of this review is to discuss the basis of changes to the indications of paediatric tracheostomy. It will also investigate the key complications related to the procedure and discuss the importance of multidisciplinary teams being aware of the emergency algorithms for dealing with such complications. Findings: Indications have changed due to advancements in medicine with increased life expectancy and survival rates for children with often life threatening congenital conditions. Tracheostomies can offer these children long term ventilatory support. Upper airway obstructions due to infections are now infrequently indicated for tracheostomy due to successful vaccination programs. Complications today are because of obstructions and decannulations. Intra-operative complications are infrequent, due to refinements in surgical technique. Conclusion: Paediatric Tracheostomy is a rapidly evolving field because of continuous advancements in neonatal and intensive care medicine. The indications and complications have changed together over the last four decades. A greater understanding of tracheostomy complications is requiredfor successful management.

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