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Proper Care and Cleaning of the Microscope
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2008
Keeping the microscope optics clean is important for high-quality imaging. Dust, fingerprints, excess immersion oil, or mounting medium on or in a microscope causes reduction in contrast and resolution. DIC is especially sensitive to contamination and scratches on the lens surfaces. This protocol details the procedure for keeping the microscope clean.
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Design and Construction of an Urban Runoff Research Facility
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2014
This paper describes the design, construction, and function of a 1,000 m2 facility containing 24 individual 33.6 m2 field plots equipped for measuring total runoff volumes with time and collection of runoff subsamples at selected intervals for quantification of chemical constituents in the runoff water from simulated home lawns.
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Facile Preparation and Photoactivation of Prodrug-Dye Nanoassemblies
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2023
This protocol describes the fabrication and characterization of a photoresponsive prodrug-dye nanoassembly. The methodology for drug release from the nanoparticles by light-triggered disassembly, including the light irradiation setup, is explicitly described. The drugs released from the nanoparticles following light irradiation exhibited excellent anti-proliferation effects on human colorectal tumor cells.
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Basic Mouse Care and Maintenance
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2023
Mice (Mus musculus) are small rodents that breed and sexually mature quickly, making them perfectly suited to generating large animal colonies for biological research. As compared to other mammalian species, mice are simple and inexpensive to maintain in the laboratory. Nevertheless, mouse colonies do have specific husbandry needs that are critical to preserving animal health and safety as well as experimental reproducibility. This video demonstrates standard practices that ensure mice are...
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Facile Preparation of Ultrafine Aluminum Hydroxide Particles with or without Mesoporous MCM-41 in Ambient Environments
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2017
An ultrafine aluminum hydroxide nanoparticle suspension was prepared via the controlled titration of [Al(H2O)]3+ with L-arginine to pH 4.6 with and without cage-effect confinement within mesoporous channels of MCM-41.
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An interdisciplinary team links nursing assessment, medication management, assistance with daily activities, rehabilitation, and ongoing monitoring. Each discipline contributes a different part of the care picture, allowing clinical and supportive needs to be considered together rather than handled in isolation. This coordinated model is especially relevant when a resident has chronic illness, disability, aging-related limitations, or recovery needs.
Continuity of care helps maintain consistent clinical oversight when residents require ongoing support rather than a short episode of treatment. Regular monitoring, medication management, rehabilitation, and assistance with daily activities can continue in one coordinated setting. This approach also helps reduce gaps when people move between hospitals and longer-term care environments, supporting safer transitions and more consistent follow-up.
Support is organized around both health needs and everyday functioning. Nursing assessment and monitoring address clinical changes, while assistance with daily activities and rehabilitation can help residents maintain their capabilities. Combining these services with respectful personal support promotes safety, preserves dignity, and contributes to quality of life rather than focusing only on illness management.
Ongoing care may bring together assessment, medication management, rehabilitation, personal assistance, and coordinated monitoring. These functions address different aspects of a resident’s needs while allowing the care team to follow changes over time. Their combination is useful for supporting people with chronic conditions, disability, aging-related limitations, or recovery needs that require sustained attention.
These settings represent different forms of long-term support identified in clinical practice. Nursing homes, assisted living communities, and specialized centers may all coordinate health and supportive services, but specialized centers are associated with complex or long-term conditions. The appropriate setting depends on the person’s ongoing clinical, functional, personal, and recovery-related needs.
They provide a setting where monitoring, medication management, rehabilitation, and assistance with daily activities can continue after hospital care. Coordinating these services helps reduce gaps between treatment environments and supports follow-up for people who still need structured assistance. In clinical practice, this continuity can help maintain safety, function, dignity, and quality of life during recovery or longer-term care.