Georgia College & State University

About: Georgia College & State University is a education organization based out in Milledgeville, Georgia, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Higher education. The organization has 950 authors who have published 1591 publications receiving 37027 citations.

Family physician perceptions of nurse practitioners and physician assistants in a family practice setting

Abstract: As more health care providers are pursuing advanced education as nurse practitioners and physician assistants, obtaining clinical sites for these students becomes an issue. These students appear in a multitude of settings, including occupational medicine clinics, outpatient clinics, and private offices. With an increasing number of physicians serving as clinical preceptors, perceptions of these preceptors toward the advanced practice role and role preparation will likely impact the educational opportunities provided to the student, and, ultimately, possible employment. In the economic reality of managed care, some argue, fewer physicians will be making employment decisions and, consequently, their preference for one type of provider over another is a moot point. It would seem, however, that preferences borne from misinformation set a milieu for noncollegial relationships, affecting job satisfaction and, ultimately, patient satisfaction. The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of family physicians toward nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAS). General perceptions of, experience with, and role distinction of NPs and PAS, as well as knowledge of their educational and credentialing requirements, were assessed. Also included were the potentially sensitive topics of third-party reimbursement and prescriptive authority. Sharp contrast in perceptions about these providers was found. Reputation of, more than experience with, NPs appeared to shape perceptions. The perceptions of these family physicians and marked distinctions made between the roles are startling and disturbing, especially for NPs. To ignore the voices of family physicians who shared candidly about their perceptions, albeit based on misinformation, is to be the proverbial “ostrich with his head in the sand.”

Justice for the average Joe: the role of envy and the mentalizing network in the deservingness of others' misfortunes.

Abstract: The misfortunes of enviable individuals are met by observers with pleasure whereas those of “average”, non-enviable individuals elicit pain. These responses are mirrored in deservingness judgments, as enviable individuals’ misfortunes are perceived as deserved and those of non-enviable individuals perceived as undeserved. However, the neural underpinnings of these deservingness disparities remain unknown. To explore this phenomenon, we utilized fMRI to test the hypotheses that (A) non-enviable targets’ misfortunes would be associated with activation of brain regions that mediate empathic responding (pain matrix, mentalizing network) and not for enviable targets and (B) that activation of those regions would predict decreases in deservingness judgments. Supporting our first hypothesis, the misfortunes of non-enviable targets (as opposed to good fortunes) were associated with activation of the mentalizing network: medial prefrontal cortex, posterior cingulate cortex, temporal–parietal junction, and anterior...

Pearls and the Southern Persian/Arabian Gulf: A Lesson in Sustainability

Abstract: Scholars often discuss marine commodities within the framework of man-made declension; indeed there are several examples in this volume. This article expands the scope of marine environment...

Diversity and the environmental drivers of spatial variation in Bacteria and micro- Eukarya communities from the Hawaiian anchialine ecosystem

Abstract: Little is currently known regarding microbial community structure, and the environmental factors influencing it, within the anchialine ecosystem, defined as near-shore, land-locked water bodies with subsurface connections to the ocean and groundwater aquifer. The Hawaiian Archipelago is home to numerous anchialine habitats, with some on the islands of Maui and Hawaii harboring unique, laminated orange cyanobacterial–bacterial crusts that independently assembled in relatively young basalt fields. Here, benthic and water column bacterial and micro-eukaryotic communities from nine anchialine habitats on Oahu, Maui, and Hawaii were surveyed using high-throughput amplicon sequencing of the V6 (Bacteria-specific) and V9 (Eukarya-biased) hypervariable regions of the 16S- and 18S-rDNA genes, respectively. While benthic communities from habitats with cyanobacterial–bacterial crusts were more similar to each other than to ones lacking it on the same island, each habitat had distinct benthic and water column microbial communities. Analyses of the survey data in the context of environmental factors identified salinity, site, aquifer, and watershed as having the highest explanatory power for the observed variation in microbial diversity and community structure, with lesser drivers being annual rainfall, longitude, ammonium, and dissolved organic carbon. Our results epitomize the abiotic and biotic uniqueness characteristic of individual habitats comprising the Hawaiian anchialine ecosystem.

E-Business Application in the Hospitality Industry: A Case Study

Abstract: This paper describes some recent development of e-business application in the hospitality industry (e.g., travel industry, and recreational entities) and illustrate with two case studies. One is about a local hotel industry’s effort to use the Internet to boost its local market. Another describes the operations and its competitive strategy of an emerging online travel agency. The research objective is to investigate the trends and level of prevalence of application of the Internet in the hospitality industry focusing on some emerging issues and challenges. Managerial implications are discussed with suggestions for future research.