Although schools of nursing market their programs to all segments of society, men are underrepresented in schools of nursing. The purpose of this study was to identify male students' perceptions of the motivational factors, barriers and frustrations encountered in becoming a nurse. Eighteen students attended one of four focus groups representing one associate program, two baccalaureate programs and one diploma program. The students' belief that society perceived nursing as a feminine profession was an underlying thread that related to many of their perceptions and feelings. The roost influential support people noted were immediate family, especially wives. The participants also believed that high school counselors were of no assistance in choosing nursing as a career. Even though the schools of nursing were perceived as supportive, the participants had feelings of isolation and self-doubt.

Hybridomas are used to produce monoclonal antibodies used in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases such as cancer, multiple sclerosis, heart disease, infl ammatory diseases, macular degeneration, transplant rejection, and viral infections [3]. Other systems for producing monoclonal antibodies have been developed since Milstein's pioneering work. Monoclonal anti bodies (mAbs) are also made using Chinese Hamster Ovaries (CHO), yeasts, insects, plants, bacteria and phages [3]. CHO is the most popular method of mAb production due to cheaper costs, favourable approval history and reliability in the lab [3]. Hybridomas could soon see increased use in mAb production as improvements are made to the hybridoma platform [4-6], see Table 1. Since their initial creation, hybridomas have been widely employed in the commercial production of mAbs. Initially, the main diffi culty with hybridomas was in generating highly

Figure 1: (left) Typical animated scene containing multiple simulated elements including hair, cloth, cargo nets and ropes; (right) complex garment model for the character Stoick that mixes cloth, armor, leather, and even his beard in a single interacting cloth model that executes in 0.3 secs per frame on an artist desktop.During production of How To Train Your Dragon 2 we were motivated to improve our technology for character effects such as ropes, chains and cloth. Our goal was to reduce artist iteration time for simulation work while retaining the flexibility required for art direction. Inspired by the success of position-based dynamics in games, we implemented a new simulation pipeline for deformable solids based on a fast, stable simulation engine that has delivered significant improvements. SimulationPosition-based dynamics is attractive because it produces algorithms that are fast, unconditionally stable, and controllable. The technology is well established in games, virtual reality and special effects where it is used extensively for rigid body dynamics [Bender et al. 2013]. However, position-based solvers are not widely used in film production for deformable solids, and there is little in the literature to indicate the challenges in adopting these methods for feature animation. In this talk we introduce a system based on the Carbon dynamics library with novel features for performance, setup flexibility, art directability and control.Performance is addressed by using parallel nested collision detection that enables aggressive multicore scaling. Parallelism is implemented using Intel Threading Building Blocks. The algorithm is based on order-deterministic dynamic task splitting and recycling. We process collision detection for the entire scene by starting from the broad phase and nesting the narrow phase and contact generation. We show that this approach generates excellent scaling for typical workloads on up to 16 cores. Setup flexibility is addressed by solving a single heterogeneous system for the interaction of all soft and rigid bodies. Collision constraints and joint constraints between dynamic or kinematic, rigid or deformable objects are handled within a single solver. All object collisions can be modeled using a common set of geometric primitives: points, edges, and single or double sided faces. All primitives may have a user-specified thickness. Faces can be arranged with no requirements for convex decomposition. This heterogeneous systems supports complex cloth models, e.g. mixed soft and rigid bodies for garments that combine elements like cotton and leather that interact within a single simulation.Art direction for motion is supported via animated position constraints that drive a simulation towards an animated goal shape, while respecting other constraints such as collision surfaces. Artists may also animate the rest shape of a model in order to control effects such as squash and stretch, which require the simulation to adapt to non-physical changes. We deal with pinching, another form of no...

In Mileena Malign, a frightened doll moves helplessly to her own destruction at the hands of the very person who should love and protect her. In this cycle of abuse, our heroine doll is destroyed repeatedly, unable to escape the consequences of abuse, even in her dreams.

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