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This article draws analogies between the activities of statisticians and of chefs. It suggests how these analogies can be used in teaching, both to help understanding of what statistics is about and to increase motivation to learn the subject.

It is important for health clinics to capture clinical laboratory results such as point-of-care testing (POCT) data in order to meet personal health information needs while increasing patient throughput and improving clinical and economical outcomes. Personal health information needs should be exchanged at three levels: among patients and providers, across a community, and across the country. Health information technology is an important tool in addressing such a need while providing efficiency, safety, and quality. Electronically stored clinical data are necessary to attain the benefit of health information technology, so that the provider can achieve greater patient safety and efficiency through provider order entry, disease management, and clinical decision support. In any field of health care and medicine it is important to carefully document all forms of data. The purpose of this study was to examine the workflow associated with the collection of clinical lab data at the point of care. Staff members at an ambulatory, multi-specialty primary care clinic in Indianapolis, Indiana, were observed via a continuous time-motion study. Flowcharts were created for the step-by-step workflow process of a general POCT, lab, and for each role observed. Analysis of the subjects’ interview responses revealed the content of the pros and cons of possible data transfer modes from an electronic medical record (EMR) to a health information exchange (HIE). The tables derived from the time-motion study table were then analyzed, resulting in the creation of tables summarizing the approximate total time and percentage involved for each category of tasks observed. It was found that the majority of the time spent throughout the workflow process is on behalf of the nurse vs. the medical records clerk, who is involved, the least amount of time. The nurse plays the role of directing the entire workflow process of point of care testing and clinical laboratory tests. It was observed that the POCT results are recorded directly into a patient’s chart, resulting in no electronic documentation, while clinical laboratory test results are stored electronically in an EMR and printed out for chart storage. The processing task category takes the most amount of time throughout the duration of workflow process for POCT, clinical laboratory test, and the observed subject. Changes in the workflow process would most likely affect the phlebotomist; least likely affect the primary care provider, while the nurse, check-out clerk, and medical records clerk would be minimally affected. Overall, a change in the workflow process for a provider such as the medical facility observed in the study would create a higher patient intake and faster result turnaround, resulting in quality patient care. The use of data transfer of POCT and the clinical laboratory from an EMR to a HIE would create a broader depth of content that would be available for healthcare providers locally, regionally, nationally, and ultimately internationally.

The collecting behaviour of specific animals is increasingly becoming of interest to a variety of scientific disciplines. Collectors can be found in the rodent and carnivore mammal populations, as well as certain avian species. Of the carnivores it is hyaenids and leopards (Panthera pardus) that appear to be the most prolific collectors of faunal remains. Of the four species in the hyaena family, three are known to collect various quantities of faunal material in their prospective dens; they are spotted hyaenas (Crocuta crocuta), brown hyaenas (Parahyaena brunnea) and striped hyaenas (Hyaena hyaena). The question surrounding the collector of faunal remains in the archaeological record is as important as it is old. This is an in depth examination of the bone collections of all three extant hyaenids and the related taphonomy corresponding to each species. New collections were made from various dens and locations in southern Africa for both Parahyaena and Crocuta. Additionally previous collections of Parahyaena were reanalysed and data from Hyaena collections in Jordan reviewed. In all a total of 23,324 bones and bone fragments were examined during this study, specifically looking at species collected, skeletal elements, minimum number of individuals (MNI), number of identified specimens (NISP), fusion data, fragmentation, weathering and an assortment of taphonomic characteristics. Specific taphonomic characteristics recorded were crenulated edges, striations, punctate depressions and punctures, scouring, acid etching and all combinations thereof. The main thrust of this research is to determine if hyaenids in general can be positively identified from other collectors as the collector of a specific assemblage of faunal remains and to determine if the three species of hyaena can be distinguished from one another by studying the faunal collections alone. / Thesis (PhD (Anatomy))--University of Pretoria, 2006. / Anatomy and Physiology / PhD / unrestricted

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Women who are medically underserved may be less likely to obtain provider-based cervical cancer screening because of structural and intrapersonal barriers. Self-collection for human papillomavirus (HPV) testing, a method for women to collect their own sample through a vaginal swab or urine collection, has accuracy comparable to provider-based cervico-vaginal HPV testing and may be useful in overcoming barriers to provider-based cervical cancer screening. The purpose of this dissertation study is to examine factors associated with self-collection for HPV testing, psychometrically test Diffusion of Innovations (DOI) instruments, and identify preferences for self-collection for HPV testing. Three distinct aims were developed: 1) factors (sociodemographic, health-related, and theoretical variables) associated with mailed return of vaginal self-collection for HPV testing, 2) psychometric examination of DOI ÷instruments (relative advantages and complexity), and 3) dimensions of self-collection and characteristic preferences to self-collection for HPV testing stratified by age cohorts. This dissertation involved two cross-sectional studies. In Chapters 2-3, data were collected from women (n=168) at food pantries and online. Women were eligible if they were: 1) female, 2) between the ages of 30-65, 3) could read and speak English, and 4) at 2019 federal poverty guidelines for income and family size as defined by the Department of Health and Human Services. Women were not eligible if they had a history of hysterectomy or were adherent to cervical cancer screening guidelines. Logistic regression analyses, item analysis, Cronbach’s alpha, exploratory factor analysis, and tests were used to analyze data. Chapter 4 involved collection of data from an online survey with a sample (n=878) provided by Dynata. Participants evaluated 9 scenarios that varied along 4 attributes: HPV self-collection kit type (vaginal swab or urine collection), HPV self-collection kit delivery (mail, pharmacy pick-up, or clinic pick-up), HPV self-collection kit return (mail, pharmacy drop-off, or clinic drop-off), and HPV test result communication (mail, phone call, or text message). Ratings-based conjoint analysis (RBCA) determined how each attribute influenced the ratings of each scenario.

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This is a collection of poems.

This is a book of poems.

A collection of stories that deals with family, religion and death.