NURSING RESEARCH

TITLE: The Power of Clinical Nursing Research: Engage Clinicians, Improve Patients Lives, and Forge a Professional Legacy PROPONENT: Anna Gawlinski

Abstract Sparked by the Institute of Medicine s report titled Crossing the Quality Chasm,researchbased decision making has been emphasized for improving care. Patients should receive care that is based on the best available scientific knowledge, and care should not vary from clinician to clinician or from place to place. Implementing research-based practices at the bedside is a complex endeavor. It is all too easy to discover that clinically important research findings are either not known by practitioners or not being used in actual practice. Efforts to instill and sustain research-based practices improve significantly when staff nurses are involved with the research from the start. Institutions that are effective in involving clinicians have built a foundation of infrastructures that enable processes for engaging clinicians to take place. What distinguishes effective from ineffective hospital nursing research and evidence-based practice programs is the presence of structures whereby processes can occur that (1) unleash the creativity of staff by securing their involvement early, (2) educate staff by involving them, (3) create internal expertise for research and evidence-based practice, and (4) ensure that patients experience principled implementation of research-based practices to improve their lives. This article describes infrastructures that can ensure and sustain research-based practices while unleashing the talent and creativity of clinicians as they question practice and ponder the merits of current research. Fostering participation in such clinical inquiry will summon professional growth, influence the lives of patients, and help each nurse develop a unique personal professional legacy.

AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH
TITLE : Agro-Processing Industries in India Growth, Status and Prospects

PROPONENT: R. P. Kachru Abstract Agro processing is defined as set of techno-economic activities, applied to all the produces, originating from agricultural farm, livestock, aquacultural sources and forests for their conservation, handling and value-addition to make them usable as food, feed, fibre, fuel or industrial raw materials. Agro processing sector has experienced expansion during last 5 decades, starting with a handful of facilities which were mainly operating at domestic/cottage level. The paper provides a summary of the growth history of the sector covering role of R&D, recent trends vis-a-vis crop-wise status of agro processing industrialization and problems, export trends, SWOT analysis and thrust areas for future for achieving greater role of this sector in the national economy

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH

TITLE : RF-SAW Passive Wireless Sensors and Systems PROPONENT: Donald Malocha Abstract Surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices provide a robust approach to multi-sensor sensors. Our efforts have demonstrated the first SAW orthogonal frequency coded (OFC) devices and systems ranging in frequency from 250 MHz to >1 GHz, with ultra-wide-band (UWB) operation (>25% BW) and moderate bandwidths (< 10%). The systems have demonstrated multi-sensor operation using frequency and time diversity, in open range, and closed environments, and device processing gains over 50 have been achieved. This presentation will discuss recent results on OFC SAW sensor system development, and will show results from an operational 915 MHz OFC temperature sensor system. Some of the critical parameters demonstrated are multi-coding approaches, operational range predictions, frequency and bandwidth choices, sensor post processing, and antenna-SAW device integration. A synchronous correlator receiver and software radio approach provides great flexibility for diverse sensor applications and future enhancements. The most ubiquitous sensor requirement is for temperature, which is the first application demonstrated for the devices and system. The system has demonstrated a range of approximately 60 meters with a single sensor and over 5 meters with multiple sensors. This presentation s focus will be on the key SAW device technology development to date, addressing the critical device and system parameters, and will present the operational OFC device system results. A number of SAW sensor results for hydrogen, closure, strain, and cryo will be shown. Wireless passive RF-SAW sensors are a reality, and the some visions for the future will be discussed.

BUSINESS RESEARCH

TITLE : A Conversation Analytical Approach to Business Communication The Case of Leadership PROPONENT : Jonathan Clifton Abstract The use of conversation analysis (CA) as an applied research methodology that can be of interest to business communication is sometimes overlooked. Taking the case of leadership as an example, this article demonstrates how CA can provide a fine-grained analysis of talkin-interaction during a business meeting, which reveals an emic perspective on what is going on. By linking such an analysis to wider social theorizing, notably a social constructivist approach to leadership and the construction of reality, CA is able to make explicit the normally seen but unnoticed machinery of talk with which leadership is enacted. Moreover, the results of such an analysis can give researchers a clearer insight into the phenomenon and help practitioners improve leadership and communication skills.

EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

TITLE : The effectiveness of school-based sex education programs in the promotion of abstinent behavior: a meta-analysis PROPONENT : Mnica Silva Abstract The use of conversation analysis (CA) as an applied research methodology that can be of interest to business communication is sometimes overlooked. Taking the case of leadership as an example, this article demonstrates how CA can provide a fine-grained analysis of talk-in-interaction during a business meeting, which reveals an emic perspective on what is going on. By linking such an analysis to wider social theorizing, notably a social constructivist approach to leadership and the construction of reality, CA is able to make explicit the normally seen but unnoticed machinery of talk with which leadership is enacted. Moreover, the results of such an analysis can give researchers a clearer insight into the phenomenon and help practitioners improve leadership and communication skills.

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