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D B Chambers

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PubMed1988

A contextual analysis of faculty productivity.

This study examined the contextual effects of the educational environment on faculty productivity (N = 241) from 25 nursing doctoral programs. There was a modest contextual effect upon faculty productivity after removing the contributions of individual characteristics. Highly productive programs were characterized by faculty of senior rank who had extensive teaching experience and who worked in highly productive environments. In addition, faculty who perceived their environment positively were more productive. There was also a significant individual effect upon faculty productivity after removing the contributions of the environment. Highly productive faculty were characterized by having higher academic rank, being older, and reporting a higher percentage of time spent on research activity. The significance of the contextual effects of working in a productive environment, perceiving the environment positively, and time spent on research activity are discussed.

Education, Nursing, Graduate↗
PubMed1987

Estimation of long-term risk from Canadian uranium mill tailings.

A methodology is presented for assessing the risk from Canadian uranium mill tailings piles. The methodology is based on the "set of triplets" concept and uses an event tree to identify various scenarios representing the performance of a pile over its 1,000-year design life. Compartment-type mathematical models are used to quantify the movement of hazardous substances through the environment. Numerical examples are given of both "level 1" (straight probabilistic) and "level 2" (probability of frequency) type analyses.

Canada↗
PubMed1986

Healthy nursing doctoral programs: relationship between perceptions of the academic environment and productivity of faculty and alumni.

Indicators of the environment of doctoral programs in nursing were examined in relationship to productivity. Student and faculty perceptions of the academic program environment were correlated with outcome measures of productivity for both faculty and alumni. Twenty-five of the 29 eligible doctoral programs in nursing participated in the study; results are based on the responses of 326 faculty, 659 students, and 296 alumni. Environmental and productivity indicators were primarily measured by the Graduate Program Self-Assessment (GPSA) instruments developed by Educational Testing Service (ETS) for studying dimensions of quality in doctoral education. Significant relationships were found between faculty perceptions of the environment's scholarly excellence, available resources, and student commitment and motivation and faculty productivity. Students consistently viewed the environment more positively when greater percentages of the faculty were at the associate, rather than the assistant, professor level. There was minimal relationship between faculty and student perceptions of the environment and alumni productivity.

Education, Nursing, Graduate↗
PubMed1985

The glioblastoma multiforme in Georgia, 1977-1981.

To characterize the incidence and mortality of the glioblastoma multiforme as it is seen at the primary care level, a retrospective study was done through the Georgia Tumor Registry on 299 patients with histologically confirmed supratentorial glioblastoma multiforme. Specifically, the age incidence distribution, sex ratio, and the postoperative survivals were studied. The Registry also provided the opportunity to define the relative racial frequencies of this neoplasm in a large biracial population. The mean age of the patients at the time of surgery was 58.6 years and the age group having the highest incidence was 60 to 74 years. The overall ratio of affected males to females was 1.04 to 1. The postoperative survival periods were considerably shorter than those reported from large cooperative clinical trials. The overall postoperative survivals at 12 and 24 months were only 22% and 4%, respectively. Advancing age had a strong negative relationship with the length of survival such that the 50% survival for patients less than 30 years of age was 17 months, for those age 30 to 44 years it was 10.2 months, for those age 45 to 59 it was 5.8 months, and for those older than 60 it was only 2.2 months. The study confirmed previous suggestions that the incidence of the neoplasm is considerably higher in whites. There were 2.3 glioblastomas in whites for every one in blacks. No difference was noted in the length of survival between whites and blacks.

Adolescent↗
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The development of a computer-based tutorial for an introductory course on nursing research.

This article describes the development, implementation, and evaluation of a computer-based tutorial for a master's level course titled "Introduction to Nursing Research." The five parts of the paper include: related literature, background and rationale for the selection of the tutorial content, structure of the tutorial, an overview of the authoring language used to develop the tutorials, and the current evaluation activities.

Computer-Assisted Instruction↗