School of Nursing Class of 2006

Top Row: Rebecca Adams, Leslie Babich, Katherine Banas, Lori Barnett, Stacey Bednarz, Kelly C Berryman, Adam Brieger, Tina Brown, Kimberly Burleigh, Anne Byrne, Julia Carl, Terra Caswell, Angela Chabot, Molly Colgan, Desiree Conyers, Amy Cook, Melissa Cooley, Ashley Cooper, Morgan Cornell

Row 2: Delphine Cornet, Laura Cortina, Casey Cox, Bradley Crow, Lauren D'Agostino, Katelyn Davis, Kara Dendrinos, Rachael Dunckel, Carolyn Ellis, Kristin Ellis

Row 3: Deonna French, Erin Gasser, Amanda George, Michelle Gilmore, Jacquelene Goyett, LaRonda Gracia, Tera Greenberg, Tracy Guzzardo, Amy Hamlin Tapper, Shawn Hathaway

Row 4: Jennifer Heller, Michele Hetfield, Hilary Heuer, Christen Hicks, unknown, Melissa Jenkins, Terri Jobkar, Jennifer Keller, Karissa Kerg, Katherine Kern

Row 5: Keri Kingma, Amanda Kristofik, Brigid Kutner, Melissa LaDuke, Lorraine Law, Katherine Lawler, Allison Ledtke, Corinne Lee

Row 6: Kerrie Lemerand, Kristen Maki, Smith Margaret, Cynthia Mathew, Thomas Mazzocco, Cara McAlpin

Row 7: Lana McCarthy, Erin McKeever, Nicolyn Meek, Patricia Coleman-Burns, Carol Loveland-Cherry, Judith Lynch-Sauer, Ada Sue Hinshaw, Barbara Guthrie, Marge Calarco, Carolyn Sampeselle, Joanne Pohl, Therese Messing, Rachel Milkowski, Renee Miller

Row 8: Andrea S Miller, Stephanie Mizer, Melissa Morgan, Heather Bidgoli, Elisa Brunetto, Jessica Cleghorn, Jade Curry, Ashley Dorow, Megan Finn, Lisa Gruen, Margaret Kelemen, Andrea Munger, Elizabeth Spencer, Mary Vanderweele, Abigail Vertalka, Jackelyn Ng, Phuong Nguyen, Gracia Nicolaescu

Row 9: Laura Norris, Elizabeth Osborn, Lavinia Pacurar, Carly Palmer, Kristine Parish, Jill Patterson, Mary Pepper, David Perout, Michael Pfeifer, Kristin Phillips, Susanne Pickman, Vanessa Polly, Sabrina Porter, Christina Quillan, Lauren Ramoie, Natasha Rivers, Teresa Roberts, Megan Robertson, Byanqa Robinson

Row 10: Mary Rodzik, Kimberly Sanders, Weber Sasha, Rebecca Scheiblauer, Taylor Schmidt, Jacquelyn Schrot, Tanya Shisler, Daniel Shivel, Sophia Shyu, Michelle Skurulsky, Melissa Smalligan, Erin Sorensen, Allison Spinweber, Lindsay Steiger, Natalya Stokely, Karen Stoneburner, Katherine Stout, Stephanie Swihart, Aaron Taylor

Row 11: Lori Thome, Christopher Thuer, Carolyn Trabka, Kathryn Trommbley, Valerie Tumbleson, Stacey Ventola, Dana Verkade, Caitlyn Vert, Angela Videto, Kari Wanless, Abby Wegener, Stephanie Westphal, Eric Williams, Whitney Zachritz, Amber Zemer, Joanna Zizzo, Chelsea Zussman

Lives of the queens of Scotland and English princesses connected with the regal succession of Great Britain.

"Elizabeth [Strickland] contributed Elizabeth Stuart, queen of Bohemia, and Sophia, electress of Hanover."--Dict. nat. biog.

Marysieńka Marie de la Grange D'Arquien, queen of Poland, and wife of Sobieski. 1641-1716,

"List of authorities consulted": p. [xiii]-xvi.

Bonnet and shawl; an album.

"Five hundred and seventy-one copies of the first edition of Bonnet and shawl. of which two hundred and fifty copies will be for distribution in England, were printed by William Edwin Rudge, at Mount Vernon, N.Y. Designed by Frederic Warde. Distributed in America by Random House.

President William Howard Taft and First Lady Nellie Taft at South Bass Island

This picture shows President William Howard Taft and First Lady Helen Herron Taft readying to lay the cornerstone of Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial on South Bass Island in August 1912. The monument was built between 1912 and 1915 to commemorate Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry's victory on Lake Erie over the British fleet in September 1813. It also represented the lasting peace between the U.S., Canada, and England.

Lady Nugent and Tom Cringle on the veranda : early nineteenth century observations on a Caribbean architectural feature

This study of the veranda as seen through the eyes of Lady Maria Nugent and Michael Scott, alias Tom Cringle, clearly demonstrates the important role that the piazza, as it was then more commonly known, played in the life of early nineteenth century Caribbean colonial society. The popularity of the veranda throughout the region, in places influenced by different European as well as African cultures, and among all classes of people, suggests that the appeal of this typical feature was based on something more than architectural fashion. A place of relative comfort in hot weather, the veranda is also a space at the interface of indoors and outdoors which allows for a wide variety of uses, for solitary or small or large group activities, many of which were noted by Nugent and Scott. Quintessentially, the veranda is a place in which to relax and take pleasure, not least of which is the enjoyment of the prospect, be it a panoramic view, a peaceful garden or a lively street scene. Despite the great changes in the nature of society, in the Caribbean and in many other parts of the world, the veranda and related structures such as the balcony continue to play at least as important a role in daily life as they did two centuries ago. The veranda of today’s Californian or Australian bungalow, and the balcony of the apartment block in the residential area of the modern city are among the contemporary equivalents of the lower and upper piazzas of Lady Nugent’s and Tom Cringle’s day.

Vibration of ship structures and its control

Noise and vibration in complex ship structures are becoming a prominent issue for ship building industry and ship companies due to the constant demand of building faster ships of lighter weight, and the stringent noise and libration regulation of the industry. In order to retain the full benefit of building faster ships without compromising too much on ride comfort and safety, noise and vibration control needs to be implemented. Due to the complexity of ship structures, the coupling of different wave types and multiple wave propagation paths, active control of global hull modes is difficult to implement and very expensive. Traditional passive control such as adding damping materials is only effective in the high frequency range. However, most severe damage to ship structures is caused by large structural deformation of hull structures and high dynamic stress concentration at low frequencies. The most discomfort and fatigue of passengers and the crew onboard ships is also due to the low frequency noise and vibration. Innovative approaches are therefore, required to attenuate the noise and vibration at low frequencies. This book was developed from several specialized research topics on vibration and vibration control of ship structures, mostly from the author's own PhD work at the University of Western Australia. The book aims to provide a better understanding of vibration characteristics of ribbed plate structures, plate/plate coupled structures and the mechanism governing wave propagation and attenuation in periodic and irregular ribbed structures as well as in complex ship structures. The book is designed to be a reference book for ship builders, vibro-acoustic engineers and researchers. The author also hopes that the book can stimulate more exciting future work in this area of research. It is the author's humble desire that the book can be some use for those who purchase it. This book is divided into eight chapters. Each chapter focuses on providing solution to address a particular issue on vibration problems of ship structures. A brief summary of each chapter is given in the general introduction. All chapters are inter-dependent to each other to form an integration volume on the subject of vibration and vibration control of ship structures and alike. I am in debt to many people in completing this work. In particular, I would like to thank Professor J. Pan, Dr N.H. Farag, Dr K. Sum and many others from the University of Western Australia for useful advices and helps during my times at the University and beyond. I would also like to thank my wife, Miaoling Wang, my children, Anita, Sophia and Angela Lin, for their sacrifice and continuing supports to make this work possible. Financial supports from Australian Research Council, Australian Defense Science and Technology Organization and Strategic Marine Pty Ltd at Western Australia for this work is gratefully acknowledged.

Apoptosis-related genes confer resistance to Fusarium wilt in transgenic ‘Lady Finger’ bananas

Fusarium wilt, caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc), is one of the most devastating diseases of banana (Musa spp.). Apart from resistant cultivars, there are no effective control measures for the disease. We investigated whether the transgenic expression of apoptosis-inhibition related genes in banana could be used to confer disease resistance. Embryogenic cell suspensions of the banana cultivar, ‘Lady Finger’, were stably transformed with animal genes that negatively regulate apoptosis, namely Bcl-xL, Ced-9 and Bcl-2 3’ UTR, and independently transformed plant lines were regenerated for testing. Following a 12 week exposure to Foc race 1 in small-plant glasshouse bioassays, seven transgenic lines (2 x Bcl-xL, 3 x Ced-9 and 2 x Bcl-2 3’ UTR) showed significantly less internal and external disease symptoms than the wild-type susceptible ‘Lady Finger’ banana plants used as positive controls. Of these, one Bcl-2 3’ UTR line showed resistance that was equivalent to that of wild-type Cavendish bananas that were included as resistant negative controls. Further, the resistance of this line continued for 23 weeks post-inoculation at which time the experiment was terminated. Using TUNEL assays, Foc race 1 was shown to induce apoptosis-like features in the roots of wild-type ‘Lady Finger’ plants consistent with a necrotrophic phase in the lifecycle of this pathogen. This was further supported by the observed reduction of these effects in the roots of the resistant Bcl-2 3’ UTR transgenic line. This is the first report on the generation of transgenic banana plants with resistance to Fusarium wilt.

Why do nurses migrate? – a review of recent literature

Aim��� To identify the reasons why nurses continue migrating across international borders. Background  International nurse recruitment and migration have been increasing in the last decade and recent trends show an increase in the movement of nurses between developing and developed countries, resulting in a worldwide shortage of nurses. Methods  A manual and electronic database literature search was conducted from January 2004 to May 2010. Qualitative content analysis was completed for the final 17 articles that satisfied the inclusion criteria. Results  Motivators to nurse migration were linked to financial, professional, political, social and personal factors. Although economic factors were the most commonly reported, they were not the only reason for migration. This was especially evident among nurses migrating between developed countries. Conclusion  Nurses migrate for a wide variety of reasons as they respond to push and pull factors. Implications for nursing management  It is important for nurse managers in the source countries to advocate incentives to retain nurses. In the recipient countries the number of international nurses continues to increase implying the need for more innovative ways to mentor and orientate these nurses.

Resourcing Early Learners : New Networks, New Actors

The landscape of early childhood education and care is changing. Governments world-wide are assuming increasing authority in relation to child-rearing in the years before school entry, beyond the traditional role in assisting parents to do the best they can by their children. As part of a social agenda aimed at forming citizens well prepared to play an active part in a globalised knowledge economy, the idea of ‘early learning’ expresses the necessity of engaging caregivers right from the start of children’s lives. Nichols, Rowsell, Rainbird, and Nixon investigate this trend over three years, in two countries, and three contrasting regions, by setting themselves the task of tracing every service and agent offering resources under the banner of early learning. Far from a dry catalogue, the study involves in-depth ethnographic research in fascinating spaces such as a church-run centre for African refugee women and children, a state-of-the-art community library and an Australian country town. Included is an unprecedented inventory of an entire suburban mall. Richly visually documented, the study employs emerging methods such as Google-mapping to trace the travels of actual parents as they search for particular resources. Each chapter features a context investigated in this large, international study: the library, the mall, the clinic, and the church. The author team unravels new spaces and new networks at work in early childhood literacy and development.

Experience of overseas-trained health professionals in rural and remote areas of destination countries: A literature review

This study aimed to review and synthesise existing literature that investigated the experience of overseastrained health professionals (OTHPs) in rural and remote areas of destination countries. A systematic literature review was conducted using electronic databases and manual search of studies published from January 2004 to February 2011. Data were analysed from the final 17 original report articles that met the inclusion criteria. The reviewed research studies were conducted in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the USA. Overseas-trained medical practitioners were the most frequently researched (n = 14); two studies involved nurses and one study included several health professionals. Three main themes emerged from the review and these were: (i) expectations; (ii) cultural diversity; and (iii) orientation and integration to rural and remote health work environment. The OTHPs were expected to possess the appropriate professional and cultural skills while they themselves expected recognition of their previous experiences and adequate organisational orientation and support. A welcoming and accepting community coupled with a relaxed rural lifestyle and the joy of continued patient care resulted in successful integration and contributed to increased staff retention rates. Recognition of expectations and cultural diversity by all parties and comprehensive orientation with sufficient organisational support are important elements in the integration of OTHPs and subsequent delivery of quality health care to people living in rural and remote areas.