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A study abroad course adds to the academic experience of nursing students by offering exposure to other cultures, service opportunities, and an introduction to international healthcare systems. The purpose of this study was to explore the perceived impact of a student study abroad experience on the subsequent career of the professional nurse. The phenomenological qualitative study approach revealed three themes: changed personal perspectives in practice, appreciation and service orientation, and insights on the healthcare system. Nurses reported that the study abroad experience helped to shape their views as professional nurses.

Defining a quadratic function through the slopes of its secant/tangent lines leads to the fundamental theorem of calculus (FTC) and an alternative way of understanding integration.

Species delineation has a long and contentious history, yet most agree that sympatric populations exhibiting high levels of reproductive isolation and evolving independently are species. In an opinion piece, Hill and Powers (2021; hereafter H&P) claim that several recognized species of crossbills (Loxia spp.) do not represent species because by no measure are they discrete, the vocalizations used to categorize crossbills are learned, modified and can switch to that of a different species, and reproductive isolation is incomplete and weak. We argue that the behavioral and genetic evidence indicate that Cassia crossbills L. sinesciuris, which we focus on because the data relevant to species status are more diverse and extensive, are genetically discrete; call modification rarely leads to crossbill misclassification and overwhelmingly results in call divergence and enhanced discrimination; and are nearly completely reproductively isolated with little evidence of introgression from sympatric red crossbills. The differences in our conclusions result in part from H&P mischaracterizing and misconstruing the ecology of Cassia crossbills, geographic context of their divergence, and evidence for reproductive isolation. H&P seemingly require that crossbills must adhere to the typical model of bird speciation–protracted divergence in allopatry, followed by a gradual increase in sympatry if reproductive isolation and ecological divergence allow–and require evidence such as initial long periods of allopatry, FST values > 0.2, divergent mtDNA and intrinsic postzygotic isolation. Although such evidence commonly distinguishes bird species, an increasing number of studies show that such criteria are not necessary to indicate sympatric, evolutionarily independent lineages.

Abstract We investigate the information content of equity analysts' recommendation changes subsequent to the passage of Regulation Fair Disclosure. We find that analyst upgrades (downgrades) are associated with positive (negative) abnormal returns. Overall, stock prices tend to react significantly more strongly to recommendation changes accompanied by news events than to those that are not. Even so, returns around recommendation changes not accompanied by news are significantly different from zero. This result holds after controlling for firm‐specific variables and the incidence of multiple simultaneous recommendation changes. We conclude that analyst recommendation changes, in and of themselves, are informative.

A typology of religious prejudice is developed which differentiates prejudice based on ignorance or psychological abnormality and prejudice based on a conflict of values, and the extent to which each influences actual behavior. The typology is used to analyze the attitudes of young adult non-Catholics toward Catholics and Catholicism and the relationship of these attitudes to intended voting behavior. The data show that preference for Nixon or Kennedy is more closely associated with attitude toward Catholicism than with party affiliation or any other variable tested. Moreover, the extent to which anti-Catholic attitude actually influenced intended voting behavior is shown to be a function of the level of information about the Catholic Church. As was expected, the less informed are more likely to be anti-Catholic than the more informed, but, contrary to expectations, the less informed were less likely to let their attitude influence their vote than the more informed.