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    Aims: To investigate the quality of care transition and examine health service satisfaction among older adults with orthopaedic surgery. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on older adults with orthopaedic conditions who were admitted to the orthopaedic unit and scheduled for surgery. Prospective participants were eligible if they were aged 60 years and over, both men and women, not having cognitive impairment, and not planned to admit to the intensive care unit after surgery. Participants

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    A cross-sectional anatomy is the representation of an organ’s slices of the patient for a given plane of section; the sagittal, coronal or transverse planes. According to Madden (2008), the sectional anatomy images are the organ’s slices obtained for acquiring the details of the anatomical organ and the nearby structures. Due to the some limitations of the conventional x-ray modality that is provides the 2D images of grayscale anatomy structures and a small amount of diagnostic detail of the anatomy

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    Research utilization and critical thinking among newly graduated nurses: predictors for research use. A quantitative cross-sectional study The quantitative research study authored by Wangensteen, Johansson, Bjorkstrom, and Nordstrom and published by the Journal of Clinical Nursing in 2011 is a cross-sectional study that utilized the Research Utilization Questionnaire and the California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory. This model is found in the textbook. The study is exploring if critical

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    testing. A cross-sectional research design of what characteristics of capital punishment (independent variables) influence support from people from various social, education, race, gender and economic status (dependent variable) would be appropriate; however, this will only measure the impact at one point in time. Exploratory: There is a difference in level of support of capital punishment between states that are republican than states that are democrat. A repeated cross-sectional research design

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    By the year 1860, the bloodshed that would develop into the Civil War had become inevitable. After being delayed through compromise multiple times, the election of Lincoln as the 16th president proved to be the final straw in the war over sectional conflicts. Since the invention of the cotton gin in the late 18th century by Eli Whitney, The North and South began courses with two opposite trajectories, both economically and socially. Countless events from 1800 to 1860 drove the regions further apart

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    Article 4: The Prevalence of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors among Employees in the Kingdom of Bahrain between October 2010 and March 2011: A Cross-Sectional Study from a Workplace Health Campaign. Background and Purpose In this article, the authors Ameera Ali AL-Nooh, Abdulhussain Abdulabbas Abdulla Alajmi, and David Wood highlight the increasing prevalence of Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD) and factors contributing to CVD among working adults in Bahrain (AL-Nooh, Abdulhussain

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    1. Do you think the slave economy increased sectional tension in the antebellum period? How so? My thoughts are that the slave economy did create a tension in the antebellum period. This is since in the late 1700s cotton was the main source of gaining currency. According to khan Academy, “ Eli Whitney revolutionized cotton production when he invented the cotton gin...cotton emerged as the South’s major cash crop—a good produced for commercial value instead of for use by the owner. Cotton quickly

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    Williford (2015) conducted a cross-sectional qualitative study using a sample of both certified and noncertified elementary school staff members with the purpose of examining whether differences exist between these two groups on measures of attitudes towards bullying, perceptions of the prevalence of bullying, self-efficacy beliefs to intervene, and overall school climate. IRB approval was granted prior to implementation at the University of Kansas and participating school districts. School staff

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    historians examine the Sectional Crisis and the Compromise of 1850 in the decades leading up to the worst years in American History. Some historians prefer to focus on the underlying theme of the war, others tightly examine individual leaders, events, and political parties, connecting them all together like puzzle pieces to define the years prior to the war. Despite the contrasting views, it is clear to realize the constant prevailing issues of the Antebellum Period, the Sectional Crisis and the Compromise

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    •evolutionary theory •behavioural genetics •Piaget’s theory of cognitive development •Erikson’s theory •developmental systems Define and describe the following research methods •correlational study •experimental study •cross sectional study •longitudinal study Study Questions 1. Define cohort and briefly summarize at least one major difference in how different cohorts, past and present, are experiencing childhood, old age, and adulthood (pp. 5-9). Cohorts are the

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