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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"NWI"”.
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Environmental and Digital Data Analysis of the National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) Landscape Position Classification System
The National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) is the definitive source for wetland resources in the United States. The NWI production unit in Hadley, MA has begun to upgrade their digital map database, integrating descriptors for assessment of wetland functions. Updating is conducted manually and some …
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A new numerical method for the problem of nonlinear long-short wave interactions
… of the general Nonlinear Wave Interactions (NWI) problem. We will then focus on the High-Order Spectral (HOS) method, a specific mode-coupled method used extensively for the solution of NWI. This method is studied with the objective of developing a new Mapped-Domain Spectral Method (MDSM) …
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Evaluating Surface Area-Basin Volume Relationships for Prairie Potholes
… according to their National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) classification and tested using chi squared. T and F tests on the separate classes verified if the populations have a different mean and variance. Difference in depth, in particular, suggests that the two most common NWI classes PEMC and PEMA …
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Nurse Practice Environment and Peripheral Intravenous Infiltrations in a Pediatric Hospital on the Magnet Journey
… PIV infiltrations. Subsequently, the PES-NWI subscale score by nursing unit presented statistically significant differences in one or more of the nursing units in 4 of the 5 PES-NWI subscales. Overall, the PES-NWI composite mean score was 2.87, which indicated that nurses were generally …
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Retention of new graduates to their first professional role: perceptions of those that have stayed
… Environment Scale of Nursing Work Index (PES-NWI) to provide their perceptions of what is right within their professional environments.
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Assessing Coastal Plain Wetland Composition using Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer Imagery
… 86%) than current National Wetland Inventory (NWI) aerial photo interpretation procedures of locating wetlands, satellite imagery analysis holds great promise for speeding wetland mapping, lowering costs, and improving update frequency. To estimate wetland vegetation composition classs of the …
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Workplace Bullying, Nurse Practice Environment, Patient Outcomes: A Descriptive Study
… Environment Scale of the Nurse Work Index (PES-NWI) were used to measure structure variables. The process variables were measured using the Negative Acts Questionnaire Revised for the United States (NAQR-US) to measure workplace bullying, and an investigator designed instrument was used to …
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Demographics of Eastern South Dakota Wetlands and Wetland Basins and Techniques for Estimating the Area and Number of Wetland Basins
… mapped by the National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) covered 899,277 ha, or 9.8% of eastern South Dakota. Of these 899,277 ha, palustrine system wetlands covered 720,704 ha or 80.1% of the total area, lacustrine system wetlands and deepwater habitats covered 150,538 ha or 16.8% of the total area, …
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A Descriptive Study of the Organizational Attributes of Exemplar Tennessee Hospitals.
… from the Nursing Workforce Index Revised (NWI-R). The hospital characteristics and organizational attributes were then compared with those found in American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) magnet hospitals, which have a reputation for retaining and recruiting nurses.</p> <p>The study …
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The Impact of Practice Environment and Nursing Workload on Patient Outcomes among Non-Magnet Hospitals in Saudi Arabia
… environment and nursing workload. The PES-NWI was used to measure nursing practice environment and the IWPS-R was used to capture the perceived nursing workload. The 4 patient outcomes were retrieved from electronic patient records during a 6-month period from June 2016 to November.</p> …
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Demographics of Western South Dakota Wetlands and Basins
… Wildlife Service’s National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) office. Surface water covers approximately 257,006 ha or about 2.4% of the 10,810,700 ha of western South Dakota. Palustrine systems constitute 50.2%, lacustrine systems constitute 41.8%, and riverine systems constitute 8.1% of the surface …
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Nursing-Related Factors Influencing Medication Error Incidence On Medical Surgical Units
… Environment Survey - Nursing Work Index (PES-NWI), and Unit Profile Survey were collected from nursing personnel to evaluate work group effectiveness, practice environment, and workload. Established databases provided information on nursing factors (age, years of experience, and educational …
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Stochastic Processes and Multi-Resolution Analysis: A Trigonometric Moment Problem Approach and an Analysis of the Expenditure Trends for Diabetic Patients
<p>This dissertation is divided into two distinct parts. The main theme of the first part is to study stochastic processes (and related signal processing questions) using tools in wavelet analysis, functional analysis (we use in particular the trigonometric moment problem), the theory of …
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Nxopaxopo wa theme ra poetic justice eka tinovhele ta nhungu leti hlawunweke ta Xitsonga
… namely; Nsuku wa mina by Chauke WR, Ndzi ta nwi kuma by Chauke W R, N'waninginingi ma ka tindleve by Tshuketana FA, A hi fambe m'nghaname by Tshuketana FA, Ndzi ngo tinciki!!! by Tshuketana FA, Makumu ya vutomi byebyo by M'yeni EMC, Vutomi I vhilwa by Mgiba NR and I vutomi by Lubisi CM. The …
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The early workforce experiences of midwives who graduated from two different education courses in Australia
… Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index (PES-NWI); and Perceptions of Empowerment in Midwifery scale (PEMS). Due to sample size restrictions, analysis was restricted to non-parametric measures including frequency distribution and simple correlations (p ≤ 0.01). Phase 2 was a qualitative study …
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Factors that influence nurses’ intention to leave adult critical care areas: A mixed-method sequential explanatory study
… version of the Nursing Work Index-Revised (NWI-R) tool was used in phase one to survey all nurses currently working in adult critical care areas across England; 345 surveys were returned. Data were analysed using chi-square tests, t-tests, factor analysis and logistic regression analysis to …
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Wetland hydrology and soils as components of Virginia bog turtle (Glyptemys muhlenbergii) habitat
… and presence of National Wetland Indicator (NWI) wetlands on bog turtle occupied wetlands (n=50) to the same variables on apparently unoccupied (n=48) wetlands or random areas (n=74) along streams. Occupied areas differed from random areas in having near zero values of the topographic wetness …
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Vernal Pool Mapping and Geomorphology in the Appalachian Mountains of Pennsylvania
Vernal pools are small seasonally-ponded wetlands that provide crucial habitat for amphibian reproduction and support trophic levels beyond their boundaries. The Ridge and Valley physiographic province in Pennsylvania is known to have vernal pools, but a regional inventory and geomorphology …