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Teacher recruitment is a pressing need in the United States. Equally important is the recruitment of more racial-minority teachers to help close the teacher-student diversity gap. We surveyed 300 undergraduates at our university regarding their perspectives on teaching careers--what they found attractive and deterring. Results from this survey and three race-alike focus groups were analyzed for racial group differences to inform recruitment strategies. Black, indigenous, and people of color respondents generally found proposed deterrents more dissuading than did White respondents, especially deterrents considered to be racially charged. Personal experiences as a K-12 student emerged as salient, attracting some but deterring others from teaching. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Acaena myriophylla (cadillo) es una rosácea que desarrolla en la región pampeana. Se analizó la acción de los extractos de sus partes aéreas sobre componentes celulares y tisulares en heridas netas provocadas en ratones. Las lesiones provocadas fueron tratadas tópicamente durante 10 días con extractos diluidos de la especie nombrada obteniéndose muestras diarias para realizar estudios histológicos. En forma paralela, y para poder comparar la evolución de las heridas, se procedió en forma similar con ratones que no fueron tratados. Los ratones del grupo tratado mostraron en la zona de aplicación una importante edematización que determinó, posiblemente, el retardo en el proceso de curación de la herida. Al microscopio se evidenció una mayor permanencia de los neutrófilos, el retraso en la aparición y permanencia de los fibroblastos en la zona lesionada, y congestión en las etapas iniciales. El ordenamiento de fibras colágenas también sufrió demora con respecto al grupo control. La prueba estadística "t" mostró diferencias significativas (P<0.01) con respecto al número de neutrófilos y fibroblastos entre los ratones tratados y los no tratados. Acaena myriophylla (cadillo) is a rosacea family plant that naturally grows in the pampas area. The Acaena myriophylla extract action over cellular and tissue components on skin wounds in white mice was analyzed. Skin wounds in mice were treated topically with diluted extracts of Acaena myriophylla for 10 days and samples were taken every day for histological analysis. In order to compare the evolution of the wounds the same procedure was applied to a non-treated group of animals. (Control group) Mice from the treated group showed an important local edema and significant delay in the healing wound process evidenced by an increase in neutrophil and fibroblast remain in the injured tissue, (P<0,05) as well as in the collagen fiber arrangement in relation to the control group. The statistic test showed significant differences (P<0.01) in the number of neutrophil and fibroblast between the treated and untreated mice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Acaena myriophylla (cadillo) is a rosacea family plant that naturally grows in the pampas area. The Acaena myriophylla extract action over cellular and tissue components on skin wounds in white mice was analyzed. Skin wounds in mice were treated topically with diluted extracts of Acaena myriophylla for 10 days and samples were taken every day for histological analysis. In order to compare the evolution of the wounds the same procedure was applied to a non-treated group of animals. (Control group) Mice from the treated group showed an important local edema and significant delay in the healing wound process evidenced by an increase in neutrophil and fibroblast remain in the injured tissue, (P<0,05) as well as in the collagen fiber arrangement in relation to the control group. The statistic test showed significant differences (P<0.01) in the number of neutrophil and fibroblast between the treated and untreated mice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Decision support systems can alert physicians to the existence of drug interactions. The Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina, has an in-house electronic health record with computerized physician order entry and clinical decision support. It includes a drug-drug interaction alert system, initially developed under traditional engineering techniques. As we detected a high alert override rate, we rebuilt the knowledge database and redesigned the alert interface with User-Centered Design techniques. A laboratory crossover study using clinical vignettes showed that new alerts were more usable than traditional ones.This paper aimed to validate these results through a controlled and randomized experimental study with two branches (old vs. new design) in a real setting. We analyzed, quantitatively, every fired alert between April 2015 and September 2016. Finally, we performed user surveys and qualitative interviews to inquire about their satisfaction and perceptions.In real scenarios, user-centered design alerts were more usable, being more effective and satisfactory, but less efficient than traditional alerts. "Safe omission", as a new concept, emerged from our stratified analyses and interviews.