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A Descriptive Study of Chaplains' Code Blue Responses.

Family presence during resuscitation is the compassionate practice of allowing a patient's family to witness treatment for cardiac or respiratory arrest (code blue event) when appropriate. Offering family presence during resuscitation as an interprofessional practice is consistent with patient- and family-centered care. In many institutions, the role of family facilitator is not formalized and may be performed by various staff members. At the large academic institution of this study, the family facilitator is a member of the chaplain staff. To examine the frequency of family presence during code blue events and describe the role of chaplains as family facilitators. Chaplain staff documented information about their code responses daily from January 2012 through April 2020. They documented their response time, occurrence of patient death, presence of family at the event, and services they provided. A retrospective data review was performed. Chaplains responded to 1971 code blue pages during this time frame. Family members were present at 53% of code blue events. Chaplains provided multiple services, including crisis support, compassionate presence, spiritual care, bereavement support, staff debriefing, and prayer with and for patients, families, and staff. Family members are frequently present during code blue events. Chaplains are available to respond to all such events and provide a variety of immediate and longitudinal services to patients, families, and members of the health care team. Their experience in crisis management, spiritual care, and bereavement support makes them ideally suited to serve as family facilitators during resuscitation events.

Dennis Paulson: Dragonflies and damselflies of the east

This welcome guide is a companion to an earlier volume in the same series (Paulson 2009) dealing with the western fauna of North America, and follows the same clear and informative format. As a fully illustrated field guide to adults of the 336 species of Odonata in the region, it has the primary goals of enabling identification and presenting material on natural history to prompt wide interest in these already popular insects. The two books together comprise authoritative guides to the North American representatives, with the excellent colour photographs of living adults a major feature. The book falls into three sections. The initial introduction is a wide-ranging account of the natural history of the Odonata, reflecting Paulson’s wise perspective that ‘they are such interesting animals that all who observe them in the field should know something about their lives’. It includes original and very readable accounts of many aspects of adult behaviour and biology, again with abundant high quality colour photographs adorning the book. I particularly liked the use of labeled colour photographs (rather than more conventional line diagrams) to indicate morphological features. Dennis Paulson writes enthusiastically and lucidly, and this section of the book encapsulates much very practical advice from his own extensive experiences with Odonata. The values of collecting (including roles in conservation) are noted, together with clear directions for specimen treatment. The short section on conservation is a succinct summary of threatening processes, and the limitations of the range maps given for each species are noted. Encouragingly, it is also noted (in context, p. 371) that the only odonate (Somatochlora hineana) listed under the United States Endangered Species Act is now known to be ‘much more widespread than was known when it was listed’. The two major sections of the guide are systematic treatments of the damselflies (87 species) and dragonflies (249 species), each given a common name, some novel. The species accounts each have one or more photographs, a small range map, and the accompanying text written in a standard, easily comparable, format. That text includes sections on descriptive features and identification, detailing differences in appearance from related or similar-looking taxa, notes on natural history, the kinds of biotope frequented, flight season (with notes on differences across the range, where this is broad). In cases where examination of terminalia or other morphology is needed for clear identification (such as for the ‘bluets’, Enallagma) clear outline drawings of the features are gathered together for easy comparison, and given on clearly demarcated blue pages to render them easily found by ‘page-flicking’. That use is facilitated also by a very comprehensive index to scientific and common names, a glossary of technical terms, and a short array of useful references and resources available to discover more about Odonata. The book is compact, excellently produced and presented on high quality paper. It will have wide and enduring use, and be of immense value to students of Odonata in North America, and as an exemplar for emulation, and envy, elsewhere.

The blue pages: a directory of companies rated by their politics and practices

The blue pages: a directory of companies rated by their politics and practices

Fast Learner: The Typescript of Pynchon's V. at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin

Fast Learner:The Typescript of Pynchon’s V. at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin Luc Herman and John M. Krafft "Scripts're in the top drawer." But they were all purple, Dittoed—worn, torn, stained with coffee. Nothing else in the drawer. "Hey. . . . Where's the original? What did you make these copies from?" (Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, 77–78) In the spring of 2001, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC) at The University of Texas at Austin announced its "acquisition of the corrected typescript to Thomas Pynchon's first novel, V. [1963]," along with eight letters written by Pynchon to Faith and Kirkpatrick Sale between 1960 and 1964 (Stephen Smith). Until now, critics have not had much apart from Pynchon's novels and stories to work on or with: the occasional letter; Pynchon's introduction to Slow Learner, his 1984 collection of the short stories he published between 1959 and 1964; some juvenilia (contributions to a high school newspaper, reprinted in the Pynchonbibliography by Clifford Mead); and a little nonfiction, including a New York Times Magazine article on the Watts riots. This lack of materials put Pynchon scholars at a disadvantage when it came to genetic criticism, in which texts are studied with a focus on their development. How did Pynchon's novels come to be what they are? We had almost no way of knowing until now, but the HRC typescript radically changes this situation with regard to V. We were aided in the early stages of our research into the Ransom Center's acquisition by the late Stephen Tomaske, a librarian at California State University at Los Angeles who had been doing biographical research on Pynchon for some twenty years. Since we thought (perhaps erroneously) that Pynchon himself would not like to collaborate on this project, we approached Corlies ("Cork") Smith, Pynchon's editor for V. at the publishing house J. B. Lippincott. Smith was extremely forthcoming. We interviewed him by telephone and face to face, and he even provided us with nearly all his editorial correspondence with Pynchon about V.1 [End Page 1] Those letters proved invaluable, since they provide the key to the connection between the Ransom Center's typescript and the published novel. The correspondence we have between Cork Smith and Pynchon starts in March 1960 with a "'Hello There!'" note from Smith and ends abruptly in June 1962 in the midst of a discussion about the place of a specific chapter in the eventual text. Thanks to the good offices of Pynchon's recently acquired agent, the famous Candida Donadio, Lippincott had bought his story "Low-lands" for inclusion in issue 16 of its New World Writing series, which came out in 1960. Donadio knew that Pynchon was writing a novel, and she managed to sell this unfinished novel to Lippincott as well. The date on the contract (as we learned from Tzofit Butler, the manager of theInformation Center Archives at HarperCollins, which currently holds the rights to V.) is January 29, 1960. Cork Smith told us in this connection that Lippincott also "faked up a delivery date. We put it like a year and a half later or something." Sure enough, on August 2, 1961, Smith wrote to Pynchon that Lippincott had accepted the novel. Smith recalls that, since the decision had to be cleared with his boss, he must have received the novel perhaps three or four weeks before the beginning of August, which means Pynchon delivered almost exactly on the fake date added at the time of the contract. The novel reached Lippincott in a box via Pynchon's agent. Smith is adamant that this box contained a clean typewritten original. Therefore, that document is not what can now be consulted in Austin. The typescript acquired by the HRC is a copy rather than an original. To be more precise, the typescript features two kinds of copies, one black, the other various shades of blue. Sarah Funke, an employee of Glenn Horowitz Bookseller in New York, through whom the HRC bought the typescript, identified the blue pages as carbon copies. But the crispness of the type, evidence of scraping, and exactness of corrections on the...

Blue pages (September 2003)

Blue pages (September 2003)

The Water Supply (Water Fittings) Regulations 1999: Protecting the quality of drinking water; preserving the environment

Articles on the state of the art of developments in building services engineering Welcome to the 'Blue Pages'. This is where guest editors address current developments in building services engineering practice and research. The articles are very short, on one theme of current interest, and do not go through the longer refereeing process for conventional research papers. This is to encourage consultants and contractors to discuss their latest developments in a non-commercial manner. Academics will also be asked to outline current research areas in universities and colleges. Without the constraint of full refereeing there is scope in the articles to provoke interest and to raise issues for discussion. Consequently the Editor of BSER&T is happy to receive and publish letters furthering the discussion of 'Blue Pages' articles.

CIBSE Research Programme

Articles on the state of the art of developments in building services engineering Welcome to the 'Blue Pages'. This is where guest editors from the Editorial Advisory Panel for Building Services Engineering Research and Technology address current developments in building services engineering practice and research. The articles are very short, on one theme of current interest, and do not go through the longer refereeing process for conventional research papers. This is to encourage consultants and contractors to discuss their latest developments in a non-commercial manner. Academics will also be asked to outline current research areas in universities and colleges. Without the constraint of full refereeing there is scope in the articles to provoke interest and to raise issues for discussion. Consequently the Editor of BSER&T is happy to receive and publish letters furthering the discussion of 'Blue Pages' articles. If you have a suggestion for an article or topic you would like to see included in the 'Blue Pages' please inform the Editor. Comments on the 'Blue Pages' are also welcome. 'Blue Pages' will only succeed if readers of the journal wish the feature to succeed and contribute to its success.

A review of performance indicators for real losses from water supply systems

Research Article| October 01 1999 A review of performance indicators for real losses from water supply systems A. O. Lambert; A. O. Lambert *International Water Data Comparisons Ltd Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar T. G. Brown; T. G. Brown †AWWA, North American Representative to UFW Task Force Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar M. Takizawa; M. Takizawa ‡Tokyo Metropolitan Waterworks Japan Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar D. Weimer D. Weimer §Neckarwerke Stuttgart AG, Germany Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Water Supply: Research and Technology-Aqua (1999) 48 (6): 227–237. https://doi.org/10.2166/aqua.1999.0025 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Permissions Search Site Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentAll JournalsThis Journal Search Advanced Search Citation A. O. Lambert, T. G. Brown, M. Takizawa, D. Weimer; A review of performance indicators for real losses from water supply systems. Journal of Water Supply: Research and Technology-Aqua 1 October 1999; 48 (6): 227–237. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/aqua.1999.0025 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex The IWA's Task Force on Unaccounted-for Water (UFW) had two key objectives. The first—Recommendations for a standard international terminology for calculation of real and apparent losses from water balance—is presented as a Blue Pages [1]. As the second—to review performance indicators (PIs) for international comparisons of losses in water supply systems—is only briefly mentioned in the Blue Pages, this AQUA paper explains the technical basis for the task force's recommendations on PIs for real (physical) losses. Traditional PIs were checked against several key local factors which constrain performance in managing real losses. ‘Number of service connections’ was found to be the most consistent of the traditional PIs over the greatest range of density of service connections, and is recommended as the preferred basic traditional technical indicator for real losses (TIRL). However, TIRL does not take account of several key local factors. To overcome this deficiency, TIRL should be compared with an estimate of unavoidable annual real losses (UARL). An auditable component-based approach is developed and satisfactorily tested for predicting UARL for any system, taking into account the local factors and using international data. The infrastructure leakage index (ILI), calculated as the ratio of TIRL to UARL, is a nondimensional PI, which enables overall infrastructure management performance in control of real losses to be assessed independently of the current operating pressures; minimum achievable operating pressures are usually constrained by local topography and standards of service. This content is only available as a PDF. © 1999 IWSA You do not currently have access to this content.

Water supply and drainage for buildings

Articles on the state of the art of developments in building services engineering Welcome to the 'Blue Pages'. This is where guest editors from the Editorial Advisory Panel for Building Services Engineering Research and Technology address current developments in building services engineering practice and research. The articles are very short, on one theme of current interest, and do not go through the longer refereeing process for conventional research papers. This is to encourage consultants and contractors to discuss their latest developments in a non-commercial manner. Academics will also be asked to outline current research areas in universities and colleges. Without the constraint of full refereeing there is scope in the articles to provoke interest and to raise issues for discussion. Consequently the Editor of BSER&T is happy to receive and publish letters furthering the discussion of 'Blue Pages' articles. If you have a suggestion for an article or topic you would like to see included in the 'Blue Pages' please inform the Editor. Comments on the 'Blue Pages' are also welcome. 'Blue Pages' will only succeed if readers of the journal wish the feature to succeed and contribute to its success.

Aspects of recent research on natural ventilation in non-domestic buildings

Articles on the state of the art of developments in building services engineering Welcome to the 'Blue Pages'. This is where guest editors from the Editorial Advisory Panel for Building Services Engineering Research and Technology address current developments in building services engineering practice and research. The articles are very short, on one theme of current interest, and do not go through the longer refereeing process for conventional research papers. This is to encourage consultants and contractors to discuss their latest developments in a non-commercial manner. Academics will also be asked to outline current research areas in universities and colleges. Without the constraint of full refereeing there is scope in the articles to provoke interest and to raise issues for discussion of 'Blue Pages' articles. If you have a suggestion for an article or topic you would like to see included in the 'Blue Pages' please inform Robert Yarham, CIBSE. Comments on the 'Blue Pages' are also welcome. 'Blue Pages' will only succeed if readers of the journal wish the feature to succeed and contribute to its success.

Airtightness in UK non-domestic buildings: Current status and future practice

Articles on the state of the art of developments in building services engineering Welcome to the 'Blue Pages'. This is where guest editors from the Editorial Advisory Panel for Building Senices Engineering Research and Technology address current developments in building services engineering practice and research. The articles are very short, on one theme of current interest, and do not go through the longer refereeing process for conventional research papers. This is to encourage consultants and contractors to discuss their latest developments in a non-commercial manner. Academics will also be asked to outline current research areas in universities and colleges. Without the constraint of full refereeing there is scope in the articles to provoke interest and to raise issues for discussion. Consequently the Editor of BSER&T is happy to receive and publish letters furthering the discussion of'Blue Pages' articles. If you have a suggestion for an article or topic you would like to see included in the 'Blue Pages' please inform Robert Yarham, CIBSE. Comments on the 'Blue Pages' are also welcome. 'Blue Pages' will only succeed if readers of the journal wish the feature to succeed and contribute to its success.

Photovoltaic-clad buildings

Articles on the state of the art of developments in building services engineering Welcome to the 'Blue Pages'. This is where guest editors from the Editorial Advisory Panel for Building Services Engineering Research and Technology address current developments in building services engineering practice and research. The articles are very short, on one theme of current interest, and do not go through the longer refereeing process for conventional research papers. This is to encourage consultants and contractors to discuss their latest developments in a non-commercial manner. Academics will also be asked to outline current research areas in universities and colleges. Without the constraint of full refereeing there is scope in the articles to provoke interest and to raise issues for discussion. Consequently the Editor of BSER&T is happy to receive and publish letters furthering the discussion of 'Blue Pages' articles. If you have a suggestion for an article or topic you would like to see included in the 'Blue Pages' please inform the Editor, Barry Copping. Comments on the 'Blue Pages' are also welcome. 'Blue Pages' will only succeed if readers of the journal wish the feature to succeed and contribute to its success.

CIBSE research programme

Articles on the state of the art of developments in building services engineering Welcome to the 'Blue Pages'. This is where guest editors from the Editorial Advisory Panel for Building Services Engineering Research and Technology address current developments in building services engineering practice and research. The articles are very short, on one theme of current interest, and do not go through the longer refereeing process for conventional research papers. This is to encourage consultants and contractors to discuss their latest developments in a non-commercial manner. Academics will also be asked to outline current research areas in universities and colleges. Without the constraint of full refereeing there is scope in the articles to provoke interest and to raise issues for discussion. Consequently the Editor of BSER&T is happy to receive and publish letters furthering the discussion of 'Blue Pages' articles. If you have a suggestion for an article or topic you would like to see included in the 'Blue Pages' please inform the Editor, Barry Copping. Comments on the 'Blue Pages' are also welcome. 'Blue Pages' will only succeed if readers of the journal wish the feature to succeed and contribute to its success.

Ventilation and air pollution: Buildings located in urban and city centres

Articles on the state of the art of developments in building services engineering Welcome to the 'Blue Pages'. This is where guest editors from the Editorial Advisory Panel for Building Services Engineering Research and Technology address current developments in building services engineering practice and research. The articles are very short, on one theme of current interest, and do not go through the longer refereeing process for conventional research papers. This is to encourage consultants and contractors to discuss their latest developments in a non-commercial manner. Academics will also be asked to outline current research areas in universities and colleges. Without the constraint of full refereeing there is scope in the articles to provoke interest and to raise issues for discussion. Consequently the Editor of BSER&T is happy to receive and publish letters furthering the discussion of 'Blue Pages' articles. If you have a suggestion for an article or topic you would like to see included in the 'Blue Pages' please inform the Editor, Barry Copping. Comments on the 'Blue Pages' are also welcome. 'Blue Pages' will only succeed if readers of the journal wish the feature to succeed and contribute to its success.

Water supply and drainage for buildings: Summary of CIB-W62 Seminar

Articles on the state of the art of developments in building services engineering Welcome to the 'Blue Pages'. This is where guest editors from the Editorial Advisory Panel for Building Services Engineering Research and Technology address current developments in building services engineering practice and research. The articles are very short, on one theme of current interest, and do not go through the longer refereeing process for conventional research papers. This is to encourage consultants and contractors to discuss their latest developments in a non-commercial manner. Academics will also be asked to outline current research areas in universities and colleges. Without the constraint of full refereeing there is scope in the articles to provoke interest and to raise issues for discussion. Consequently the Editor of BSER&T is happy to receive and publish letters furthering the discussion of 'Blue Pages' articles. If you have a suggestion for an article or topic you would like to see included in the 'Blue Pages' please inform the Editor, Barry Copping. Comments on the 'Blue Pages' are also welcome. 'Blue Pages' will only succeed if readers of the journal wish the feature to succeed and contribute to its success.

1996 UK Research Assessment Exercise, and CIBSE research projects in progress

Articles on the state of the art of developments in building services engineering Welcome to the 'Blue Pages'. This is where guest editors from the Editorial Advisory Panel for Building Services Engineering Research and Technology address current developments in building services engineering practice and research. The articles are very short, on one theme of current interest, and do not go through the longer refereeing process for conventional research papers. This is to encourage consultants and contractors to discuss their latest developments in a non-commercial manner. Academics will also be asked to outline current research areas in universities and colleges. Without the constraint of full refereeing there is scope in the articles to provoke interest and to raise issues for discussion. Consequently the Editor of BSER&T is happy to receive and publish letters furthering the discussion of 'Blue Pages' articles. If you have a suggestion for an article or topic you would like to see included in the 'Blue Pages' pleasc inform the Editor, Barry Copping. Comments on the 'Blue Pages' are also welcome. 'Blue Pages' will only succeed if readers of the journal wish the feature to succeed and contribute to its success.

Research grants by UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Articles on the state of the art of developments in building services engineering Welcome to the 'Blue Pages'. This is where guest editors from the Editorial Advisory Panel for Building Services Engineering Research and Technology address current developments in building services engineering practice and research. The articles are very short, on one theme of current interest, and do not go through the longer refereeing process for conventional research papers. This is to encourage consultants and contractors to discuss their latest developments in a non-commercial manner. Academics will also be asked to outline current research areas in universities and colleges. Without the constraint of full refereeing there is scope in the articles to provoke interest and to raise issues for discussion. Consequently the Editor of BSER&T is happy to receive and publish letters furthering the discussion of 'Blue Pages' articles. If you have a suggestion for an article or topic you would like to see included in the 'Blue Pages' please inform the Editor, Barry Copping. Comments on the 'Blue Pages' are also welcome. 'Blue Pages' will only succeed if readers of the journal wish the feature to succeed and contribute to its success.

Identifying faults in HVAC systems

Articles on the state of the art of developments in building services engineering Welcome to the 'Blue Pages'. This is where guest editors from the Editorial Advisory Panel for Building Services Engineering Research and Technology address current developments in building services engineering practice and research. The articles are very short, on one theme of current interest, and do not go through the longer refereeing process for conventional research papers. This is to encourage consultants and contractors to discuss their latest developments in a non-commercial manner. Academics will also be asked to outline current research areas in universities and colleges. Without the constraint of full refereeing there is scope in the articles to provoke interest and to raise issues for discussion. Consequently the Editor of BSER&T is happy to receive and publish letters furthering the discussion of 'Blue Pages' articles. If you have a suggestion for an article or topic you would like to see included in the 'Blue Pages' please inform the Editor, Barry Copping. Comments on the 'Blue Pages' are also welcome. 'Blue Pages' will only succeed if readers of the journal wish the feature to succeed and contribute to its success.

Computer modelling as a design tool for predicting building performance: Part 2

Articles on the state of the art of developments in building services engineering Welcome to the 'Blue Pages'. This is where guest editors from the Editorial Advisory Panel for Building Services Engineering Research and Technology address current developments in building services engineering practice and research. The articles are very short, on one theme of current interest, and do not go through the longer refereeing process for conventional research papers. This is to encourage consultants and contractors to discuss their latest developments in a non-commercial manner. Academics will also be asked to outline current research areas in universities and colleges. Without the constraint of full refereeing there is scope in the articles to provoke interest and to raise issues for discussion. Consequently the Editor of BSER&T is happy to receive and publish letters furthering the discussion of 'Blue Pages' articles. If you have a suggestion for an article or topic you would like to see included in the 'Blue Pages' please inform the Editor, Barry Copping. Comments on the 'Blue Pages' are also welcome. 'Blue Pages' will only succeed if readers of the journal wish the feature to succeed and contribute to its success.

Computer modeling as a design tool for predicting building performance: Part 1

Articles on the state of the art of developments in building services engineering Welcome to the 'Blue Pages'. This is where guest editors from the Editorial Advisory Panel for Building Services Engineering Research and Technology address current developments in building services engineering practice and research. The articles are very short, on one theme of current interest, and do not go through the longer refereeing process for conventional research papers. This is to encourage consultants and contractors to discuss their latest developments in a non-commercial manner. Academics will also be asked to outline current research areas in universities and colleges. Without the constraint of full refereeing there is scope in the articles to provoke interest and to raise issues for discussion. Consequently the Editor of BSER&T is happy to receive and publish letters furthering the discussion of 'Blue Pages' articles. If you have a suggestion for an article or topic you would like to see included in the 'Blue Pages' please inform the Editor, Barry Copping. Comments on the 'Blue Pages' are also welcome. 'Blue Pages' will only succeed if resders of the journal wish the feature to succeed and contribute to its success.