bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Response modification factor evaluation for vertically irregular MRF buildings
Authors: Ahmed Momen Mohamed M. , Abdo Mohamed Abdel-Basset , Mohamed Waleed Abo El-Wafa
Published: April 2023

Most design codes evaluate the non-linear seismic performance of structures using the response reduction/modification factor (R). The value of R is sensitive to a variety of factors in terms of overall ductility and over-strength. In this work, actual R values were assessed for vertical irregularity cases for reinforced concrete bare buildings with moment-resisting frames (MRFs). A significant relationship between R and the vertical irregularity index, calculated from the relative stiffness between adjacent storeys, was derived. Three-dimensional numerical modelling was carried out for soft storey and setback irregularity scenarios using Etabs. Modal pushover analysis was used to obtain the inelastic seismic capacity. It was found that vertically irregular buildings have weak inelastic seismic capacities compared with regular buildings. So, before the design stage, R should be scaled down by 15–40% for single and combined vertical irregularity scenarios. Structures with a combined asymmetric setback with a soft ground storey were found to have the worst R value and R was sensitive to the vertical irregularity index (Vtm) that has R-squared of 80%. So, the vertical irregularity index can be used to specify the allowable vertical irregularity ratio, location and combination of vertical irregularities for each seismic zone.
War Jacob Taubes ein Scharlatan?
Authors: Assmann Jan , Schröter Jens , Assmann Aleida , Scholz Danilo , Bolz Norbert , Macho Thomas , Grimm Dieter , Lewitscharoff Sibylle , Schulte Christoph , Bude Heinz
Published: April 2023

«Seine großen, dunklen Augen ruhten niemals auf einem Ding. Immer war ein Flackern in ihnen, dem oft eine Bewegung um einen verletzlichen Mund entsprach.» Dieter Henrich war diesem «Flackern» – das er in seinem Nachruf auf Jacob Taubes (1923–1987) mit einer zarten physiognomischen Vignette beschwört – in den frühen sechziger Jahren an der FU in Berlin begegnet. Und bald darauf auf der ersten Reise ins gelobte Land Amerika, wo Taubes, der schon einige Jahre an der Columbia University lehrte, erst den jüngeren, gebürtigen Marburger Kollegen in seinem Appartement in Manhattan beherbergte und ihm dann ein neues intellektuelles Feld erschloss: New York im Kontext. (Wenig später lehrte auch Henrich an der Columbia.) In diese Jahre fallen auch die ersten Colloquien der Forschergruppe «Poetik und Hermeneutik» – zu denen Taubes als inspirierender Geist eingeladen wurde.
Das freie Baden im Sittenspiegel
Authors: Adam-Tkalec Maritta
Published: April 2023

Die Presse beklagte den Sittenverfall in Berliner Mietskasernen. Über dreißig Menschen in einer Wohnung, Müll in den Hinterhöfen, Grünanlagen, in denen Kinder nicht spielen durften. Klo auf halber Treppe war die Regel. Nur ein Bruchteil der Wohnungen hatten eigene Sanitäranlagen. In den Flussbadeanstalten tauchten die Berliner in braune Brühe, in der seit dem Bau der Kanalisation statt Fäkalien Industriegifte schwammen. Auf zwei Millionen Menschen war die Bevölkerung Berlins innerhalb weniger Jahrzehnte angewachsen. Der Reichstag debattierte über die Einführung eines zehnstündigen Maximalarbeitstages. Vor diesem sozialen Gemälde Berlins um 1900 lässt sich verstehen, dass die Zulassung einer öffentlichen Badestelle an einem stadtnahen See einer kleinen Kulturrevolte gleichkam.
Die Kakteen vom Wannsee
Authors: Black Monica
Published: April 2023

Ende 2014 hatte ich für ein paar Monate das Glück, am südöstlichen Ufer des Großen Wannsees leben zu dürfen. Wie es sich an einem See lebt, erfuhr ich durch die alltäglichen Dinge: Oft radelte ich durch den Nebel, der früh am Morgen über der Wasserfläche aufzog. Ich machte Spaziergänge am Ufer entlang und jagte im Segelboot über den See. Ja, ich schwamm sogar noch weit in den Herbst hinein in seinem klaren, belebenden Wasser, worauf ich mächtig stolz war, denn in meiner Kindheit pflegte ich in der Badewannentemperatur des sommerlichen Atlantiks zu schwimmen. Aber als Fellow der American Academy in Berlin (AAB) erlebte ich den Wannsee auch in einem intellektuellen Sinn, als einen Ort, an dem unterschiedliche Planeten aufeinandertrafen: Wannsee als geistige Lebensform. Jedes akademische Semester – amerikanischer Zählung, also im Herbst und Frühjahr – zieht eine Gruppe von Fellows – Künstler und Dichter, Journalisten und Wissenschaftler, Architekten, Filmemacher und Schriftsteller – ins Hans Arnhold Center ein, in die Villa, in der die Academy residiert. Sie schreiben, lesen, studieren, führen Interviews, durchkämmen Bibliotheken, malen, drehen Filme, edieren und denken nach.
Automated synthesis of multiband matching devices
Authors:   Novosibirsk State Technical University, Russian Federation, Devyatkov G.N.
Published: April 2023

When solving a number of technical problems, it often becomes necessary to create devices that operate in multiple operating frequency bands. This leads to the problem of designing multiband filters, which is solved quite simply with a purely active internal resistance of the signal source and load. In the case when the internal resistance of the signal source and load are complex, Along with this, there is also the problem of coordination. This leads to the need to solve the problem synthesis of broadband multiband circuits connecting complex internal resistance signal source and load. In this paper, the use of methods for constructing a good initial approximations that make it possible to obtain the structure of the eigenfunctions of the device of an adequately problem with subsequent optimization on a computer, allows the synthesis of broadband multiband matching circuits in a lumped element basis for arbitrary admittances signal source and load.
On the choice of elementary signals for complex signal radio systems
Authors:   Russia Navigator Company, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Zubarev V.Yu. , Ponomarenko B.V. ,   Russia Navigator Company, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Vostretsov A.G. ,   Novosibirsk State Technical University, Russian Federation,   Chinakal Institute of Mining of the Siberian Branch of the RAS, Novosibirsk
Published: April 2023

It widely uses complex signals based on code sequences in digital communication and radar systems. It pays most attention to code sequences analysis, synthesis, and implementation while developing such systems. Significantly less attention is paid to the shape of elementary signals (ES) constituting a complex signal. This work aims at a comparative analysis of the parameters of several known ES in terms of the rate of spectrum decrease and the accuracy of measuring the time position. Recommendations are given for choosing the best ES based on the criterion of unconditional preference. This paper aims in comparative parameter analysing of several known ESs from spectrum decrease rate and time position measurement accuracy points of view. Recommendations are given on choosing the best ES based on the unconditional preference criterion.
A review of computer-assisted translation (CAT) tools used by Croatian translators
Authors: Borucinski Mirjana , Kegalj Jana , Vukalović Nino
Published: April 2023

Nowadays, as the demand for fast and accurate translations is growing, translators increasingly rely on computer technology to facilitate the translation process. In this sense, computer-assisted translation (CAT) tools and machine translation (MT) tools have become a necessity in daily work. This study attempts to shed light on the use of CAT tools, particularly among Croatian translators, regarding the types of tools used, the extent to which they are used and the extent to which they facilitate and/or expedite the translation process. The results are discussed in the context of a previously conducted survey among translators around the world on the same topic. The sample for the survey included 94 translators registered in Croatia with different experience and language pairs. The results show that a large number of translators use CAT tools but they do not agree on the degree of their efficiency.
The role of responsible leadership in relationship between Machiavellianism and Organizational broken windows
Authors:   Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Turkey, Üzüm Burcu , Özkan Osman ,   Bandirma Onyedi Eylul University, Balıkesir, Turkey
Published: April 2023

Is it possible to see a livable world from a corporate social responsibility perspective? It canbe possible to find the answer for this question through responsible leadership since corporate social responsibility is managed by responsible leaders and the need for responsible leaders is increasing day by day in the 21st century. Purpose. This research aims to determine the effect of responsible leadership on Machiavellianism and organizational broken windows, and to examine the moderating role of responsible leadership in the relationship between Machiavellian behaviors of employees and organizational broken windows, based on theories of corporate social responsibility and self-regulation. Methodology. Therefore, a quantitative method was preferred in the research and a questionnaire form was used as a data collection tool. Participants are employees who are not in a managerial position at a manufacturing enterprise in Istanbul. Voluntarily, 218 participants gave support to the research with the simple random sampling method. Data were analyzed by using SPSS Statistics 25.0 and SmartPLS 3.3.7 software. The relationship between the variables in the research were measured by “Structural equation modeling based on the partial least squares method”. The scale used in the research were subjected to reliability and validity tests at the measurement model stage. In the structural model analysis, the research model and hypotheses were tested to reveal the direction of relations of the latent variables. Findings. In the consequence of the analysis, Machiavellianism has positive effect on organizational broken windows while responsible leadership has negative impact on Machiavellianism and organizational broken windows. Whereas, it was detected that responsible leadership has a regulatory role in the relation between Machiavellianism and organizational broken windows.
Blacktip Reef Shark Aggression in Moorea v1
Authors: not provided jparadise
Published: April 2023

On the island of Moorea, French Polynesia, tourism operators have engaged in consistent elasmobranch provisioning at specific sites since the 1990s, conditioning the area’s shark and ray populations to human feeding and developing profitable lagoon tours based on close-contact elasmobranch encounters. Over the years, various scientific studies have established that this provisioning significantly increases the density of elasmobranch populations at such feeding sites, with potential repercussions for the behavior of these species and the health of the ecosystem as a whole. However, the impacts of provisioning on individual, interaction-level elasmobranch behavior remains largely unexamined. Focusing on Moorea’s blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus) populations, this study will investigate whether elasmobranch provisioning impacts the species’ levels of aggression and/or territorial behaviors, comparing observed behaviors at comparable feeding and non-feeding sites. Using a combination of in-the-field observations and photographic methods, I will specifically examine 1) the presence of aggressive or territorial interactions between individual blacktip sharks and 2) the presence of over-confident or aggressive behaviors towards people within the provisioning areas. In doing so, I hope to gain a greater understanding of possible impacts on shark behavioral dynamics or health, so as to inform any measures that shark operators should take to enhance both shark health and human safety.
MEDI: Macronutrient Extraction and Determination from Invertebrates v2
Authors: P Cuff Jordan
Published: April 2023

Macronutrients, comprising carbohydrates, proteins and lipids, underpin many ecological processes, but their quantification in ecological studies is often inaccurate and laborious, requiring large investments of time and bulk samples, which make individual‐level studies impossible. This is a protocol for the direct, rapid and relatively low‐cost determination of macronutrient content from single small macroinvertebrates. Macronutrients are extracted by a sequential process of soaking in 1:12 chloroform:methanol solution to remove lipid and then solubilising tissue in 0.1M NaOH. Proteins, carbohydrates and lipids were determined by colorimetric assays from the same individual specimens. Macronutrient Extraction and Determination from Invertebrates (MEDI) can directly and rapidly determine macronutrient content in tiny (dry mass ~3mg) and much larger individual invertebrates. Using MEDI, the total macronutrient content of over 50 macroinvertebrates can be determined within around 3days of collection at a cost of ~$1.35 per sample.
Inhibitor-free DNA extraction from soil and sediment samples v1
Authors: Buchner Dominik
Published: April 2023

This protocol describes how to extract inhibitor-free DNA from soil and sediment samples. of soil or up to of sediment can be processed in one extraction, but there is also a miniaturized version for of input material, if less DNA is required. The protocol is based on the DNeasy PowerMax Soil Kit but costs much less. A lot of the buffers can be found in the following patent https://patents.google.com/patent/US7459548B2/en
2023 GenomeTrakr Proficiency Testing exercise (PulseNet Harmonized) v2
Authors: Balkey Maria
Published: April 2023

Version Updates v5: Added links to GalaxyTrakr_PT_exercise_report_2022.xlsx v6: added 2023 PT strains; edited Steps 1, 2, 4, and 5 to include references to growth of Listeria on BHIA plates; Updated Tables in Steps 7.1 and 8.1 with sample information for 2023 PT strains. v7: Section 9 and Section 11: deleted file GalaxyTrakr_PT_exercise_report_2023.xlsx; uploaded new file version GalaxyTrakr_PT_exercise_report_2023-v2.xlsx This SOP outlines guidelines on how to process the isolates for the 2023 GenomeTrakr (GT) Proficiency Testing exercise. This SOP is applicable to all GenomeTrakr labs participating in the 2023 GenomeTrakr Proficiency Testing exercise (PulseNet Harmonized). The FDA GenomeTrakr program will ship the following proficiency testing isolates in April 2023. ESP23-5286 Escherichia/Shigella ESP23-9201 Escherichia/Shigella SAP23-3307 Salmonella LMP23-6714 Listeria Completion of the entire proficiency test entails the following: GT participating laboratory generates sequencing data (fastq files) using the PT strains provided by CDC through FDA-CFSAN-WGS Program-GT in accordance to GT and/or PulseNet SOPs. Populate sample sheet according to 2023 GT Proficiency Testing exercise (PulseNet Harmonized) SOP Submission of sequencing records to the appropriate project on BaseSpace or Isilon according to GT SOPs By participating in the 2023 GT Proficiency Testing exercise (PulseNet Harmonized), GT labs provide consent to use the PT exercise data in subsequent analysis and manuscript publications. Participants will be acknowledged for their contribution on any publication that might require processing data from the 2023 GT PT exercise.
Differentiation of human Dopamine Neurons (DaNs) from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) v2
Authors: not provided kaitlyn.cramb
Published: April 2023

This protocol employs a floor plate-based differentiation method to produce human midbrain dopaminergic neurons from induced pluripotent stem cells. Based on Kriks, S. et al., 2011 with adaptations from Fedele, S. et al., 2017, this protocol incorporates expansion of floor plate progenitors which can be frozen and thawed with limited cell death. By the end of the protocol, tyrosine hydroxylase positive neurons are produced with high efficiency that fire action potentials and produce and release dopamine upon stimulus.
Nuestra revista tiene un especial afecto por la investigación cualitativa
Authors: Rodríguez Gázquez María de los Ángeles
Published: April 2023

La investigación cualitativa ha sido, por más de una década, fuente de un buen número de artículos que han llenado las páginas de Investigación y Educación en Enfermería. Esto demuestra, por una parte, el afecto especial que ha tenido, y sigue teniendo, este tipo de informes de investigación en nuestra revista; por otra, su importancia en la medida en que enriquece y guía el trabajo investigativo en cualquier campo, principalmente, en el que nos incumbe directamente, el quehacer de la enfermería.
Improvement of self-care behaviors in patients with heart failure
Authors: Arredondo Holguín Edith , Rodríguez Gázquez María de los Ángeles , Higuita Urrego Lina Marcela
Published: April 2023

Objective. To evaluate the improvement in self-care behaviors after a nursing educational intervention in patients with heart failure.

Methodology. The study had the participation of 29 patients over 30 years of age, who attended in 2010 the cardiovascular healthcare program of a hospital institution in Medellín (Colombia) and who signed the informed consent and received for nine months a nursing educational intervention consisting of group educational meetings, telenursing sessions, home visits, and support leaflet. The study applied Artinian’s Self-care scale validated in the field, composed of 28 items distributed in four dimensions (request for help, adaptation to disease, and adherence to pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments). To evaluate changes in these behaviors, the scale was applied at the beginning and end of the study.

Results. Bearing in mind that the maximum possible score in the scale is 84, the patients had initial and final median scores of 40 and 53 (p < 0.05). The dimensions in which the most positive changes were observed were: request for help, adaptation to the disease, and adherence to the pharmacological treatment; regarding adherence to the non-pharmacological treatment, two behaviors did not obtain favorable changes (reduction in salt intake and measurement of the amount of urine eliminated).

Conclusion. The nursing educational intervention conducted in our study had beneficial effects on most of the self-care behaviors assessed in individuals with HF.
In the footsteps of research in the Faculty of Nursing at U de A
Authors: Salazar Maya Ángela
Published: April 2023

This year, on the 24th of August, we commemorated 25 years since the creation of the Research Center at the Faculty of Nursing (CIFE, for the term in Spanish). Celebrating this date implies visiting the past and rescuing the events that permitted its creation and development.

The Center, a project by Dean Liria Pérez (1983 - 1985), had as main objectives to continue promoting research among professors and editing a scientific journal.1 It was approved by the Superior Council on 24 August 1987,2 when Cecilia Soto was Dean.

The CIFE began operating under the direction of Professor Marta Lucía Toro (1987-1989). In 1989, the CIFE Technical Committee (TC) evaluated the state of research in the Faculty and considered it a priority for its advancement the creation of groups to develop lines of research. One of the most important results by the Center, along these years, was when it held the Forum on Nursing Practices1 in 1990, which concluded with the proposal to stimulate the development of research to contribute in the elaboration of protocols for care, validation of nursing models, and which could help in the construction of standards to improve the quality of care at different levels.
Coping and adaptation and their relationship to the spiritual perspective in patients with HIV/AIDS.
Authors: Pérez Giraldo Beatriz , Veloza Gómez Mónica del Mar , Ortiz Pinilla Jorge Eduardo
Published: April 2023

Objective. To identify the coping and adaptation process and its relationship to the spiritual perspective in patients with HIV/AIDS.

Methodology. Cross-sectional descriptive study in which 100 patients participated and who were applied instruments like Roy’s coping and adaptation measurement scale and Reed’s Spiritual Perspective Scale. The study was conducted in 2009, at a state healthcare institution in Bogotá (Colombia).

Results. Five patient subgroups were identified (Recursive and Centered, Physical and Focused, in warning process, in systematic processing, and knowing and relating) who presented different dynamics regarding the greater or lesser use of coping strategies. In most patients a high spiritual perspective was identified upon the experience of the disease. A weak, but significant correlation was found between the coping and adaptation processes and the components of the spiritual perspective.

Conclusion. A relationship exists between the spiritual perspective and the coping and adaptation process to the HIV/AIDS disease; the aforementioned must be considered in the therapeutic relationship as a relevant component of caretaking.
ADULT LITERACY: POTENTIAL STAGE FOR HEALTH PROMOTION
Authors: Rodríguez Villamil Luz Natalia , Arias López Beatriz Elena
Published: April 2023

Objective: to be able to understand the meaning of learning to read and write in everyday life situations for adults who live in slums of Medellín and the Aburrá valley in Antioquia, Colombia which take part on literacy processes focusing on pedagogy of the text.

Methodology: qualitative investigation with a perspective of focused etnography, developed between July 2006 and July 2008, by means of group and individual interviews as well as observations of educational sessions and family environments. Thirty two adults participated, the majority of them mature and medium aged women. The analysis is based on the results of the program Atlas.ti.

Results: while carrying out this educational experience the participants experience tensions derived from their inability to read and to have taken the decition to study at an advanced age. The meaning of the signature appeared as a symbolic element of identity, allowing the participation on spaces and public events. The strengthening of orality through reading and writing broadened the posibilities of social interaction.

Conclusions: the intra and interpersonal identities are moved and transformed during the educational process. Those people until then blocked by the predominance of the written culture started a process of self recognition, changes on family relationships and a decrease on the feeling of uncertainty. Although this new knowledge begin to be embodied in their family and social life, they do not necessarily secure an improvement on life conditions. However a greater control and projection of the individual life plan is envisaged as recognized aspiration on the objectives of health promotion.
TEACHING AND LEARNING OF OLD AGE CARE AND SELF CARE: THE “AULA UNIVERSITARIA” EXPERIENCE
Authors: Zea Herrera María del Carmen
Published: April 2023

The “Aula Universitaria de Mayores” is an extracurricular proposal to answer the educational requirements of old age people from the life-health-illness perspective.

Objectives: the principal aspects of the “Aula Universitaria de Mayores” program experience show that it has enabled for more than two years the training of 120 people with satisfactory assessment and approval within the Medellín and Metropolitan Area adult population.

Conclusions: despite the popular saying that “old birds do not learn to sing” that would exclude them from university spaces, it is well known that old people retain repertories to defend themselves in daily life. Their education challenges the professionals; but is important to conceive it as a necessity, a right and a social service.
THE SPIRITUAL WELLBEING OF TERMINALLY ILL PEOPLE AND THE SPIRITUAL WELL BEING OF APPARENTLY HEALTHY PEOPLE
Authors: Sánchez Herrera Beatriz
Published: April 2023

Objective:  The main objective of the study was to describe and compare the spiritual wellbeing of people with terminal illness with the spiritual well being of apparently healthy people.

Methodology: the study was developed with a quantitative, descriptive and comparative approach.  It included 44 patients hospitalized at the Luis Carlos Galan Clinic and 44 people with similar characteristics but apparently healthy. The spiritual well being was measured with the Ellison Spiritual Wellbeing Scale®.

Results: the general level of spiritual well being of the people with terminal illness was high as well as its religious component. The level of the existential component of the spiritual well being in the same group was medium.  In the apparently healthy people the general level of spiritual wellbeing and the level of its religious and existential components were high.

Conclusion: when the spiritual wellbeing of people withterminal illness was compared with the spiritual well being of apparently healthy people, a higher general spiritual well being and a higher existential component of the spiritual wellbeing was found in the group of the apparently healthy people.   No differences were found in the religious component of the spiritual wellbeing between the groups.
FAMILY CARE: A CRITICAL REVIEW
Authors: De la Cuesta Benjumea Carmen
Published: April 2023

Family care is an increasingly common phenomenon that is situated in the private domain and characterized as a feminine domain. Because of this, it is a pending issue in the public policy of some countries. Objetive: the paper explores the family care literature to highlight significant gaps in three issues: the nature of care, the burden of care and t responses to alleviate this burden. The aim is to make visible an area of interest in Public Health and Nursing. Results: it is argued that family care has intangible features and therefore it is amenable to research using qualitative methods.  It is also argued that the burden of care must be considered as an issue of inequity in health. Conclusions:  the area of family care requires today more research and diverse approaches as without a wide understanding of family care there cannot be effective intervention; in addition, collective health, understood as a study area, would benefit from the subjective and social constructions  of qualitative research studies.
KNOWLEDGE DIALOGUE AS A HUMAN POSITION TOWARD “THE OTHER”: ONTOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL BACKGROUND FOR HEALTH EDUCATION
Authors: Bastidas Acevedo Miriam , Pérez Becerra Francy Nelly , Torres Ospina Julio Nicolás , Escobar Paucar Gloria , Arango Córdoba Adriana , Peñaranda Correa Fernando
Published: April 2023

This article presents an alternative proposal to the traditional model, based in a “knowledge dialogue”. More than a pedagogical proposal, “knowledge dialogue” is a position based on respectful and democratic relations and practices, which recognizes the pupil as a subject, responsible of its own destiny, and human beings as not finished beings that construct themselves interacting with others and the world. “Knowledge dialogue” is a communicative process in which there is an interaction between two rationalities, scientific and daily knowledge, trying to understand each other. It implies the recognition of the “other” as someone different, with diverse knowledge and positions. It doesn’t deny that health education has an intention, directed to promote autonomy and liberty, so that each person can take the most appropriate decisions according to its own context and situation. It is a scene where different knowledge, truths, feelings and rationalities play, in the construction of consensus, but respecting disagreement. It is a meeting among human beings – pupil and teacher – where both construct and strengthen themselves. It is a dialogue in which both of them are transformed.
Editorial
Authors: Pastor Durango María Del Pilar
Published: April 2023

Editorial
THE MORAL CONTRACT ESTABLISHED BETWEEN THE PROFESSOR OF PRACTICAL NURSING AND COLLEGE EDUCATION
Authors: Palencia Gutíerrez Esperanza Marbela
Published: April 2023

Each era leaves an indelible impression upon education which in turn satisfactorily evolve in order to achieve the effective insertion of man into society. This change, given at the level of university education, conveys a reflection about the moral contract that he the professor acquires and by which he is bound when he is a staff member at a higher education institution. This is not given the appropriate importance due to the fact that it is not a written contract. In this case we will refer to the profound thought that must be given by the professor of practical nursing over those areas of education in which he really establish relationships that unfolds his job such with students, colleagues or workmates, and not only on compliance with the institutional rules that are presented in written documents that must be met as part of the commitments acquired when we accept the teaching role. The professional nurse devoted to teaching has to the bear in mind that the moral contract highlights a pedagogical model that relates to elements that emphasize the development of autonomy, dialogue and dialogical reason dialogical, a balanced lifestyle and to accept and learn to respondto the differences in the real environment. That lets it keep the basic and foremost goal of education on pre-graduate as well as post-graduate studies. The present days professor must keep in mind that there is certain essential criteria in his moral contract that demands of him prescription, impartiality, responsibility and modesty, without leaving aside the reality of each context for action.
THE CALL FOR LIFE: URGENT CARE AT HOME
Authors: Lopera Betancur Martha Adiela
Published: April 2023

Objective: to identify situations when people request urgent home care. Methodology: the ethnographic approach was used. The information was gathered with interviews and observations of adult people that received urgent attention at home, in the city of Medellín-Colombia between January of 2005 and December of 2006. Results and discussion: the people call to request urgent help when they suffer a circumstance and a necessity. Circumstance, is the event of health that alters the daily life, added to critical situations in the surroundings like self diagnosis and emotion. Necessities are individual and ask for immediate help when the circumstance looks urgent. The necessities found in this study were to have company; security, transport and tranquillity. Conclusions: the situations that push the people to request non programmed help from their house are health events that alter daily life. The circumstances and necessities are individual matters that require of that the health services provider discover and solve them.
QUALITATIVE EVALUATION OF A NURSING EDUCATION PROGRAM. PROFESSORS AND STUDENTS´ PERSPECTIVE
Authors: Tejada Tayabas Luz María , Castro Ramírez Juana , Miranda Herrera María Magdalena , Alcántara Hernández Elizabeth
Published: April 2023

This paper presents the results of the evaluation to analyse (from the teachers and students’ perspective) of the implementation process of a Licenciatura in Nursing in the Facultad de Enfermería, Universidad autónoma de San Luis Potosí México, since the programme that was radically restructured. Methodology: it was a qualitative evaluation with an ethnographic focus that lasted from January 2004 to August 2005. The informants were 36 teachers and 42 students who were selected through a convenience sample. Eleven central groups were formed for the collection of the information. The data was analysed through the examination of the content according to different topics.  Results:  the teachers and students  referred  to their perception of strengths and weaknesses in relation to the experiences, and the evaluation of the content and implementation of the theory and practice areas in the programme, the teaching and learning process and its elements; as well as the teaching strategies and the evaluation, the perspective of the main parties and the relation among them. Conclusion:  it  is evident that the strengths and weaknesses in the structure, and the processes of a formative programme that established ambitious objectives based on the pedagogical focuses that sustain them, required a practical transformation of those involved. The constructive and critical restructuring of the programme detonated changes in the existing education schemes and so the teachers and students faced the need to change these. The process has encouraged some people to discover themselves and to make decisions to improve their practices. However it has caused in others a bigger resistance to change.
EVALUATION OF A DISTANT LEARNING COURSE ON HEPATITIS C
Authors: Aparecida Jacomini Regiane , Piai Thaís Helena , Moralez de Figueiredo Rosely
Published: April 2023

Hepatitis C is a recent disease—it appeared just over a decade ago—and has demanded that nursing professionals study and constantly update their knowledge so as to provide effective assistance. Information technologies, in turn, are increasingly present in today’s world and can greatly facilitate the performance of everyday activities. Objective: this study aims at evaluating a distant education (DE) course on hepatitis C offered to nursing students. Methodology: it is an end-of-course assignment based on an applied research project of a transversal nature. Its participants are thirty-seven 3rd and 4th-year nursing students from Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil. The DE course was offered on a MOODLE virtual learning platform.  Results and discussion: out of the thirty-seven students that initially showed interest in the course and consented to participate in the research only twenty-nine enrolled in the module (78%) and thirteen completed it (45%). The average number of accesses to the virtual environment was 114, while this number reached 515 in the beginning module of the course and 141 in the final one. The participants’ final knowledge on hepatitis C improved by 50% when compared to the results of a pre-assessment. Their final average grade was 7.5 (0-10 scale). The drop-out rate in this educational mode is still quite high (55%) — its main causes being the participants’ deficient organization of study time and difficulties related to prompt access to computers and Internet services. Conclusions: The results of this study suggest that DE is a viable strategy for the continued education of health professionals. To this end, however, variables such as students’ study time and ready access to computers and the Internet should be carefully dimensioned.
PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY IN NURSING: A PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL CHALLENGE
Authors: Zamorano Pabón Ingrid Carolina
Published: April 2023

This article reflects about the sometimes historically distorted image of nurses through means of communication and its influence in our professional identity. It invites to recognize the importance of our identity construction from the first passages in the profession and through my clinical practice, with which I could determine the object of nursing: The wonderful thing that is the act of taking care of and how human interaction dignifies the human being. The experience that I will relate is motivating to redefine the professional identity and find in each of us the difficulties and strengths that we own for its construction.
FINDING A UNIVERSAL AND CULTURAL CARE
Authors: Rohrbach Cecilia
Published: April 2023

Every one hold analytical responsibility when a caring theory is shown be cause building and conﬁrming or invalidating postulates contributes to the progress of science Criticism, in its original analysis sense, it is part of science as well as conﬁrming and enriching legitimately its khowledge and application. Transcultural care formed and mainly transmitted by American nurses, it is originated within American anthropology. It is convenient to reﬂect, in order to elude privileging speciﬁc cultural group’s studies, impoverishing those groups of a western culture. This speciﬁc situation encourages analyzing some aspects of the American anthropology with a European perspective attaching those positions and proposing a universal and cultural care.
EVOLUTION OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE IN THE NURSING FIELD: THE POPULAR CARE OF CONSTRUCTION OF THEORIES
Authors: De Oliveira Gomes Vera Lúcia , Schubert Backes Vânia Marli , Coelho de Souza Padilha Maria Itayra , De Cezar Vaz Marta Regina
Published: April 2023

Objective: to relate the evolution of scientiﬁc knowledge of nursing with the proper history of modern nursing. Methodology: it is a question of theoretical reﬂection achieved by literary revision. Results: four expressive phases were identiﬁed and characterized as: “the contribution of Florence Nightingale, the technic dominion, the advent of scientiﬁc principles and the construction of Nursing Theories”. In the ﬁrst one, one the focal of the investigation was centralized on “what to do?”; in the second one, trying to investigate scientiﬁc principles based-on “why to do it?”. At this moment it is dedicated to scientiﬁc research nursing investigate “what is your proper knowledge?” Conclusions: Evidently, there are unquestionably, the advance of nursing in the search of its identity, remains as a task in the struggle for acknowledging the profession, with the adoption of strategies that permit to legitimate knowledge produced, with the use of proper theories to found their research, for example, like the conquest of new and interesting spaces, either for the implementation of the process of caring for application and reapplication of theories.
WOMAN, DRUG CONSUMPTION AND VIOLENCE: COMPLEXITY OF A CURENT PHENOMENON
Authors: Musayón Oblitas Yesenia , Vaiz B Rosa , Loncharich V Natalie , Leal D. Helena
Published: April 2023

Relationship between woman, drug consumption and violence is a phenomenon which could be visualized clearly in the world. Objective: Analyze relation of this triad from the complexity and interrelation between determinants, risk factors and conditionants about violence and drug consumption of Latin America and discuss any intervention strategies. Methodology: We did a documental revision of research articles in data base from internet such as LIPECS, LILACS, BIREME, SciELO y PUBMED, and institutional reports. We selected ten articles according to inclusion criteria: research articles publicized in indexed journals from 2000 year which includes subject of drug consumption, violence and Peruvian woman. We analyzed titles, abstracts and full articles where we obtained this information. Results: Drug consumption, violence and woman are being little explored in Peru as a phenomenon related strongly, however there are studies which analyze these topics but in a isolated way. Drug consumption is not related just to aggressor is also related to woman attacked. Kind of violence more frequent is verbal; followed physical violence, and sexual violence. In this way, when more women are being affected for this problem, it is important toestablish strategies of intervention that involve at a woman, family and community, to secure a healthy environment for the affected women, their sons, their family and the society, and to be the north for the public politics.
EFFECTS OF CONTAINMENT ON PERCUTANEOUS HIPOXIA AFTER ENDOTRACHEAL SUCTIONING IN NEONATES
Authors: Salazar González Bertha Cecilia , Whetsell Martha V. , Ruvalcaba Rodríguez Diana , Rojas Garza Irma Guadalupe , Cervantes Valero Noemí
Published: April 2023

Objective: The purpose was to verify the effectiveness of containment using pre-suction oxygen bag versus non pre-suction oxygen bag on recovery time of percutaneous hipoxia values after endotracheal suctioning of premature infants with respiratory distress syndrome. Containment is proposed as an aid to induce relaxation in premature babies; it is a technique that limits a neonate’s movements resembling the uterus environment. Material and methods: A crossover design with one group was used, each neonate serve as its own control. This study was conducted in 30 neonates who had been born between 26 and 36 weeks gestational age, in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of a Social Security’s Hospital in Monterrey. Each neonate was observed during four suction procedures: two without containment and two with containment. Results: The neonate’s weight ranged from .790 to 3.275Kg., according to their medical chart 25 neonates experienced moderate respiratory distress syndrome. The ANOVA test (F(3,87), = 7.77, p < 0.001) showed that the means were signiﬁcantly lower for the two containment procedures The recovery time was signiﬁcantly reduced on the two containment procedures. Conclusions: Results indicate that containment may help on recovery time of percutaneous hipoxia values after suctioning of premature infants with respiratory distress syndrome.
Incorrect use of medicines by patients post cerebrovascular accident
Authors: Dopico da Silva Lolita , De Mendonça Henrique Danielle
Published: April 2023

Objective. To evaluate how patients cerebrovascular accidents (CVA) victims use their medicines at home.

Methodology. Cross sectional study. A representative sample of 30 patients who received home care in the city of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) in 2008 was studied. Information about CVA risk factors and the medicines they were taking was collected using a structured interview to the patients, and the DRUGDEX® classification system was used to determine the correct or incorrect use of the medicines.

Results. Participants were mostly elder women. The average of medicines per patient was of 3.3 medicines. The main reasons for mistaking were: taking medicines with food, and taking other medicines at the same time. The highest proportions of in­correct administration of medicines in more than 50% of the doses were: Spironolactone, glibenclamide, and atenolol (each of them with a 100.0%), simvastatin (87.5%), captopril (72.5%) and NPH insulin (66.7%).

Conclusion. A great proportion of patients after having suffered a CVA use their medicines prescribed for home treatment incorrectly.
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Authors: Rodríguez Gázquez María de los Ángeles
Published: April 2023

Les hemos preparado un número de Investigación y Educación en Enfermería con gran variedad de temas, producto de contribuciones de enfermeros y otros profesionales de la salud de seis países que hacen parte de tres continentes (Colombia, México, Chile, Brasil, Portugal e Irán). Estamos seguros que los artículos seleccionados sabrán despertarles mucho interés.
Prescription characteristics given by nurses in the city of Cali, Colombia
Authors: Céspedes Zamora Leydy Diana , Bedoya Londoño Catherine , Palacios Gómez Mauricio
Published: April 2023

Objective. To describe the drug prescription duties held by nursing professionals in the city of Cali (Colombia) during the year of 2008.

Methodology. A survey was applied to 135 nurses who work in different kinds of healthcare or administrative services about prescription habits, perceptions about their education, abilities and necessities to prescribe drugs.

Results. Drug prescription is a frequent practice in most of the surveyed population,unrelated to the work performed, the postgraduate degree or the job experience. The surveyed consider they need more than a legal support the pharmacological training to prescribe drugs; however they don’t recognize this practice as part of their professional job. Nurses’ drug prescription is sometimes presented as part of their occupation tasks into the institution.

Conclusion. Drug prescription is a practice performed by the city nurses and according to the presented results they require an academic, legal, professional debate to be considered between their tasks.
Living conditions in Antioquia’s (Colombia) paludic areas, 2005
Authors: Carmona Fonseca Jaime , Uscátegui Peñuela Rosa Magdalena , Correa Botero Adriana María
Published: April 2023

Objective. To explore the paludic children families living conditions in two different areas of Antioquia.

Methodology. Transversal cut, descriptive design. A group of socioeconomic variables that express the families’living conditions between the years 2004 and 2005 are described and analyzed.

Results. From 88 families that lived in the cities of Turbo and el Bagre, 58% lived in area. In general the analyzed variables present a statistically significant difference per city and area (worst conditions: Rural-Turbo; worse: Urban-Bagre). The most frequent family characteristics were: Typical nuclear families (66%), with an average of 7.1 members per family. 29% live in a ranch/hovel, 42% have indoor toilets, 31% litter in the open fields. 69% of the houses have vegetation around them, another 66% have stagnant/running water. 64% of the fathers had a job, 59% of the jobs were unsteady. The most common occupations were: farmer (53%), miner (13%) and field worker (12%). The average monthly income was only about $244000. 58% of the families had steady food sources. The meat/ viscera consumption were less than once a week, milk and eggs 2-3 times a week, fruit rich in provitamin A carotenes were not consumed. The consumed food had a high probability to highly satisfy the family vitamin A requirements (45%).

Conclusion. Turbo and El Bagre families’ living conditions are very deficient and there are a high number of families with unsatisfied basic necessities. There are important differences between the studied cities and between the rural and urban area. The poor living conditions situation in these malaria regions widely overcome what has been referred by Antioquia’s department and Colombia’s rates.
Theory, practice and research in nursing: Marie-Luise Friedmann in conversation with Rafael Pineda Perdomo
Authors: Pineda Perdomo Rafael
Published: April 2023

Transcription of the interview that Doctor Marie-Luise Friedmann gave to Nelly Garzon Alarcon and the author during her visit to Colombia in the year of 2009 in which the importance of re-searchers’ training for the development of nursing as science and occupation was discussed.
Stress in the nursing academic life. (Un) awareness and prevention
Authors: Da Silva Philbert Larissa Angélica , Corral-Mulato Sabrina , Antoniassi Baldissera Vanessa Denardi , Luiza dos Santos Janaina , Villela Bueno Sonia Maria
Published: April 2023

Objective. To describe the personal and professional perceptions of stress, prevention and issue approach in training Brazilian nursing students.

Methodology. A qualitative, descriptive-exploratory study was developed in the year of 2009, through an open survey application. Answers were analyzed through thematic analysis categorizing identified qualitative variables.

Results. Eight female students in their last year of nursing school with ages between 21 and 27 years old participated. Personal stress is related to unbalanced situations and difficulties in their professional life, work overload, and lack of vocation, they all have physical and mental manifestations.

Conclusion. Participants related personal stress with unbalanced situations and difficulties in the professional life, work overload and lack of vocation.
Hypertensive patients’ attended with the family health strategy lifestyle
Authors: Paz Elisabete Pimenta Araujo , Souza Maria Helena do Nascimento , Mendonça Guimarães Raphael , Fragoso Pavani Gabriella , Dos Santos Correa Heloisa Ferreira , De Carvalho Priscila Moreira , Rodrigues Ravenna Magalhães
Published: April 2023

Objective. To describe hypertensive patients’ attended with the Family Health strategy lifestyle.

Methodolo­gy. Cross sectional study, carried out between October 2009 and January 2010. 273 hypertensive patients randomly chosen from the Family Health program attended by three areas of Piraí/RJ (Brazil) participated. For data collection, the “fantastic lifestyle” questionnaire was used.

Results. From the studied sample: 61% were women, 56% were 60 and over years of age, 81% had a low level of education and 74% reported having low family income. The most frequent risk factors were: overweight or obesity (72%) and diabetes mellitus (37%). Lifestyle scores were: 13% excellent, 55% very good, 27% good, and 4% poor.

Conclusion. Even though lifestyle was considered satisfactory, conditions and health profiles indicate that there are still cardiovascular risk factors.