While auscultating breath sounds, the nurse practitioner notes low-pitched, low-intensity sounds over healthy lung tissue. What type of breath sounds are these?

A 16-year-old patient presents to the emergency department complaining of chest pain, palpitations, fatigue and shortness of breath. The nurse practitioner determines that this is acute rheumatic fever. The nurse practitioner based this determination by using the Jones Criteria. This criteria consists of 

Answer the following 2 questions for each material:   Do they have a low, medium, or high contact angle? Is the material likely hydrophilic or hydrophobic?  Please list A, B, C and then your answers for each.   A –   B –   C –

A.S.P.E.N. guidelines are used for assessing…

Use the information provided below for questions 3, 4, 5, and 6. You have made three new synthetic polymers and are interested in testing them as scaffolds for tissue engineering. First, you measure their contact angle (using water droplets) and see the above results.  

When targeting reactive groups to conjugate to proteins, Carboxyl (-COOH) groups are used less often because they are less reactive and not found in all proteins.

One example of a micronutrient is:

Mesenchymal stem/stromal cells have been extensively studied because the cell holds great potential for tissue repair via a variety of mechanisms, such as MSC/cell fusion.  What are two other mechanisms of MSC mediated tissue repair that have been identified?

While auscultating the breath sounds of an adult, the nurse practitioner notes the smell of cinnamon. The nurse practitioner should suspect that the patient may have:

Which one of the polymers shown in Figures a) and b) in question 8 above is more hydrophobic? Why is it more hydrophobic than the other?