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Simulations with Standardized Patients for Nursing Students in Preparation for Clinical Placements in Mental Health Care
2021
Abstract Background Nursing students often express uncertainty about clinical placement in a mental health care setting. Simulation with standardized patients may provide an opportunity for students to explore clinical situations in mental health nursing before their clinical placement, thereby increasing these students’ overall satisfaction and confidence levels with regard to mental health nursing. Method A qualitative descriptive design was selected. Twenty-four undergraduate nursing students participated in four focus-group interviews after mental health simulations with standardized patients were conducted. Thematic analysis was used to analyze the data. Results Three main themes were …
El cumplimiento de la obligación
2021
Il saggio offre una sintetica panoramica sulla disciplina italiana dell'adempimento e sulle principali questioni interpretative sorte negli ultimi anni. Lo studio intercala l'esposizione del diritto italiano con il confronto con il diritto colombiano delle obbligazioni. La seconda parte è dedicata ad alcune delle questioni dogmatiche più rilevanti, a partire dalla nozione di adempimento e dalle teorie sull'oggetto dell'obbligazione. The essay offers a concise overview of the Italian discipline of performance and the main interpretative issues that have arisen in recent years. The study intersperses the exposition of Italian law with the comparison with Colombian law of obligations. The seco…
Cultural institutions as agents of urban and community regeneration in the (post-)pandemic city. The case of the «Laboratorio Zen Insieme» in Palermo
2022
Although all cities in the world have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, its impacts on the territories, yet to be understood, are unevenly distributed, revealing extremely varied imbalances depending on the places. However, it is clear that the virus and its variants have aggravated pre-existing socio-spatial inequalities, creating new ones and bringing attention back to those implications between space, planning, public health and citizenship that are at the origins of contemporary urbanism. In a reference framework in which the crisis is globalized but unequal and in the absence of a welfare system capable of responding to the urgencies of the most marginalized social contexts and g…
Predicting the environmental suitability for onchocerciasis in Africa as an aid to elimination planning
2021
Recent evidence suggests that, in some foci, elimination of onchocerciasis from Africa may be feasible with mass drug administration (MDA) of ivermectin. To achieve continental elimination of transmission, mapping surveys will need to be conducted across all implementation units (IUs) for which endemicity status is currently unknown. Using boosted regression tree models with optimised hyperparameter selection, we estimated environmental suitability for onchocerciasis at the 5 × 5-km resolution across Africa. In order to classify IUs that include locations that are environmentally suitable, we used receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis to identify an optimal threshold for suitabil…
Development and Validation of a New Prognostic System for Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma
2016
Background Prognostic assessment in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains controversial. Using the Italian Liver Cancer (ITA.LI.CA) database as a training set, we sought to develop and validate a new prognostic system for patients with HCC. Methods and Findings Prospective collected databases from Italy (training cohort, n = 3,628; internal validation cohort, n = 1,555) and Taiwan (external validation cohort, n = 2,651) were used to develop the ITA.LI.CA prognostic system. We first defined ITA.LI.CA stages (0, A, B1, B2, B3, C) using only tumor characteristics (largest tumor diameter, number of nodules, intra- and extrahepatic macroscopic vascular invasion, extrahepatic metas…
Water quality sensor placement: a multi-objective and multi-criteria approach
2021
[EN] To satisfy their main goal, namely providing quality water to consumers, water distribution networks (WDNs) need to be suitably monitored. Only well designed and reliable monitoring data enables WDN managers to make sound decisions on their systems. In this belief, water utilities worldwide have invested in monitoring and data acquisition systems. However, good monitoring needs optimal sensor placement and presents a multi-objective problem where cost and quality are conflicting objectives (among others). In this paper, we address the solution to this multi-objective problem by integrating quality simulations using EPANET-MSX, with two optimization techniques. First, multi-objective op…
Does optimal partitioning of color space account for universal color categorization?
2017
A 2007 study by Regier, Kay, and Khetarpal purports to show that universal categories emerge as a result of optimal partitioning of color space. Regier, Kay, and Khetarpal only consider color categorizations of up to six categories. However, in most industrialized societies eleven color categories are observed. This paper shows that when applied to the case of eleven categories, Regier, Kay, and Khetarpal's optimality criterion yields unsatisfactory results. Applications of the criterion to the intermediate cases of seven, eight, nine, and ten color categories are also briefly considered and are shown to yield mixed results. We consider a number of possible explanations of the failure of th…
Radiological implications of crestal and subcrestal implant placement in posterior areas. A cone-beam computed tomography study
2020
Background Subcrestal implant placement has been suggested as a method that could contribute to maintain the periimplant soft and hard tissues in comparison with crestal placement. The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between implant placement at different depths in the alveolar bone and (a) the thickness of the buccal bone plate (BBP); and (b) crestal cortical bone thickness, based on the use of cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT). Material and Methods A cross-sectional study was performed, analyzing CBCT scans from the database of the Oral Surgery Unit of the University of Valencia. Individuals with single missing teeth in posterior sectors were included. Two t…
Single- and Partial Multiple-Unit Provisional Restorations in the Esthetic Area
2019
The immediate implant-supported provisional restoration in the partially or totally edentulous patients is a predictable and well-accepted procedure in dentistry. The Glossary of Prosthodontic Terms defines a provisional prosthesis as a prosthesis designed to improve or evaluate esthetics, speech, and occlusal function in a period of time between implant placement and final restoration with a definitive prosthesis. Planning and design should always take place during the pre-surgical phase of treatment and constitute a tool for communication among the members of the team, which in most cases is of a multidisciplinary nature (prosthodontist, surgeon, dental technician, and patient).
Scuola inclusiva e Outdoor Education. Un’indagine esplorativa nel primo ciclo di istruzione
2022
Le tematiche dell’inclusione e dello sviluppo sostenibile rappresentano oggi, senza dubbio, uno dei terreni di dibattito fondamentali per una riflessione pedagogica, mossa verso la promozione di forme autentiche di convivenza democratica e di cittadinanza globale nell’ottica della costruzione di un’identità plurale e di un armonioso sviluppo umano. L’educazione inclusiva assume allora i connotati di un’educazione democratica i cui valori fondamentali dell’ambiente e dei contesti, della comunità e della partecipazione sono rivolti a tutti. Ma, se da un lato la letteratura nazionale ed internazionale ha fornito cospicue evidenze scientifiche a sostegno di come la relazione diretta con la natu…