nils-herrmann/clean_scirepeval huggingface dataset:
Oncology Nursing Certification: Relation to Nurses' Knowledge and Attitudes About Pain, Patient Reported Pain Care Quality, and Pain Outcomes.
Venue: Oncology nursing forum

To (a) compare pain knowledge and attitudes between nurses with oncology certified nurse (OCN(r) status, non OCN(r) certified nurses, and nurses ineligible for certification and (b) examine the relationships among OCN(r) status, nurses' knowledge and attitudes about pain, patient reported quality of nursing pain care, and pain outcomes.  Prospective, correlational survey design. Patients were nested within nurses.  Six inpatient oncology units in three hospitals. SAMPLE 91 nurses in three states (28 OCN(r) certified nurses, 37 noncertified nurses, and 26 not eligible for certification) Certification status was validated for 105 nurses who were matched with a sample of 320 patients.  Nurses completed a survey, and matched adult patients who were experiencing pain rated their pain care quality and pain experience during the past shift. MAIN RESEARCH VARIABLES Demographic characteristics, certification status, and responses to the Nurse Knowledge and Attitudes Survey Regarding Pain (NKASRP) Pain Care Quality Survey Nursing, and modified Brief Pain Inventory (Short Form) FINDINGS OCN(r) certified nurses scored significantly higher on the NKASRP (82% correct) compared to non OCN(r) eligible nurses (76% and non OCN(r) ineligible nurses (74% (p 0.001) Only 43% overall achieved a benchmark of 80% correct. No statistically significant relationships existed between (a) certification status and pain care quality or pain outcomes or (b) NKASRP and care quality or outcomes (p 0.05) CONCLUSIONS OCN(r) certified nurses' knowledge and attitudes related to pain management were superior to noncertified nurses. Neither knowledge and attitudes nor OCN(r) status were associated with pain care quality or pain outcomes.  Knowledge is necessary but insufficient to improve patient outcomes; providing optimal pain care requires action. Sustained efforts to improve cancer pain management are indicated.
CARES: Competencies And Recommendations for Educating Undergraduate Nursing Students Preparing Nurses to Care for the Seriously Ill and Their Families

Nurses play a key role in caring for seriously ill patients, as they assess and manage complicated diseases, monitor multiple technologies, and orchestrate respectful culturally competent care with the interprofessional team. In today's complex health care delivery system, the needs of patients with serious illness and their families demand that nurses and their interprofessional team members be educated in palliative care. 1 Although there is evidence supporting the value of palliative care, 2 the number of health care professionals available to provide palliative care is inadequate to meet the needs of patients and families across the lifespan, the illness trajectory and health care settings. 3 Therefore, it is imperative that future nurses be prepared with the knowledge and skills to provide palliative care to the seriously ill. This document is a timely and essential statement grounded in the mandates for educating nurses in quality, safety and interprofessional team based care. 4 Most importantly the document emphasizes the essential role of the nurse in providing compassionate, evidence based palliative care at the highest level of the registered nurses' scope of practice. 1, 4 6
Narrative Inquiry
Venue: The Canadian journal of nursing research Revue canadienne de recherche en sciences infirmieres

Narrative Inquiry is a research methodology that we adapted over the past two decades from Canadian higher education and curriculum studies to nursing research, education, and health care practice. The Narrative Inquiry we use originated from Connelly and Clandinin in the 1990s, and rests on John Dewey's philosophy that experience is relational, temporal, and situational, and as such, if intentionally explored, has the potential to be educational. More specifically, it is only when experience is reflected upon and reconstructed that it has the potential to reveal the construction of identity, knowledge, and the humanness of care. Congruent with the expectation that nurses are reflective practitioners and knowledge makers, Narrative Inquiry provides a means to enhance, not only quality of care, but quality of experience of those in our care: in education, our students, and in practice, our patients. In this article, we explicate how Narrative Inquiry may be lived in health care education and practice, with a primary focus on nursing. We illuminate how we support our graduate students, the next generation of narrative inquirers, through a Narrative Inquiry Works in Progress group.
Framework for 21st Century School Nursing Practice
Venue: NASN school nurse

The National Association of School Nurses (NASN) developed the Framework for 21st Century School Nursing Practice to reflect current school nurse practice. The Framework of practice was introduced in June 2015, and feedback was requested and obtained from practicing school nurses in a variety of ways. The final version of the Framework is introduced in this article. This article updates (and replaces) the articles in the July 2015 NASN School Nurse related to the Framework. Central to the Framework is student centered nursing care that occurs within the context of the students' family and school community. Surrounding the student, family, and school community are the nonhierarchical, overlapping key principles of Care Coordination, Leadership, Quality Improvement, and Community/Public Health.These principles are surrounded by the fifth principle, Standards of Practice, which is foundational for evidence based and clinically competent quality care. Each of these principles is further defined by practice components. Suggestions are provided regarding how the Framework can be used in a variety of settings to articulate and prioritize school nursing practice. The ultimate goal is to provide a resource to guide school nurses in their practice to help students be healthy, safe, and ready to learn.
Nurses as Leaders in Disaster Preparedness and Response A Call to Action.
Venue: Journal of nursing scholarship an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing

To develop a vision for the future of disaster nursing, identify barriers and facilitators to achieving the vision, and develop recommendations for nursing practice, education, policy, and research.  A series of semistructured conference calls were conducted with 14 national subject matter experts to generate relevant concepts regarding national nursing workforce preparedness. An invitational daylong workshop hosted by the Veterans Emergency Management Evaluation Center, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, was held in December 2014 to expand and refine these concepts. Workshop participants included 70 nurses, emergency managers, and a broad range of public health professionals. Conference call notes and audiotapes of the workshop were transcribed and thematic analysis conducted to outline a vision for the future of nursing in disaster preparedness and response, and to articulate an agenda for nursing practice, education, policy, and research to achieve that vision.  The group developed a vision for the future of disaster nursing, and identified current barriers and opportunities to advance professional disaster nursing. A broad array of recommendations for nursing practice, education, policy, and research, as well as implementation challenges, are summarized in this article.  This project represents an important step toward enhancing nurses' roles as leaders, educators, responders, policymakers, and researchers in disaster preparedness and response. Nurses and the health and human service organizations that employ them are encouraged to engage in an expansive national dialogue regarding how to best incorporate the vision and recommendations into their individual lives and the organizations for which they work.  Nurses comprise the largest healthcare workforce, and opportunities exist to strengthen disaster readiness, enhance national surge capacity, and build community resiliency to disasters.
Migration Experiences of Foreign Educated Nurses
Venue: Journal of transcultural nursing official journal of the Transcultural Nursing Society

Global nurse migration has a recognized impact on host and source countries, but the lived experience of foreign educated nurses is an important aspect of the success of this migration. A systematic review of the literature was conducted to understand the lived migration and acculturation experiences of foreign educated nurses.  A systematic review of the literature, based on Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines, was conducted. Primary research articles or secondary analyses were selected based on keyword and citation based searches (n 44) Findings: Nurses' experiences included migration and licensing barriers, difficulty with communication, racism and discrimination, skill underutilization, acculturation, and the role of the family.  Barriers encountered in host countries may impede acculturation and successful nursing practice, resulting in circular migration and poor patient safety outcomes.  Social support systems and cultural orientation programs can mitigate the impacts of social isolation and racism. Addressing common barriers can help minimize deskilling and allow safe and effective transitions to host countries.
Transformational and abusive leadership practices: impacts on novice nurses, quality of care and intention to leave.
Venue: Journal of advanced nursing

To investigate the impact of nurse managers exercising transformational vs. abusive leadership practices with novice nurses.  In a nursing shortage context, it is important to understand better the factors that potentially influence the retention of nurses in the early stages of their career. A large body of research has found that transformational leadership practices have a positive influence on employee functioning. However, very little research exists about the detrimental impact of abusive leadership practices, much less in a nursing context.  A cross sectional design where 541 nurses from the province of Quebec (Canada) were questioned in the fall of 2013.  A self administered questionnaire was completed by nurses with less than five years of nursing experience.  Results from three linear regression analysis indicated that transformational leadership practices potentially lead to high quality care and weak intention to quit the healthcare facilities. Conversely, abusive leadership practices potentially lead to poorer quality care and to strong intention to quit the healthcare facilities and the nursing profession.  Paying close attention to the leadership practices of nurse managers could prove effective in improving patient care and increasing the retention of new nurses, which is helpful in resolving the nursing shortage. Our results specifically suggest not only that we promote supportive leadership practices (transformational leadership) but, most of all, that we spread the word that abusive leadership creates working conditions that could be detrimental to the practice of nursing at career start.
The association of leadership styles and empowerment with nurses' organizational commitment in an acute health care setting: a cross sectional study
Venue: BMC Nursing

BackgroundThe current challenges facing healthcare systems, in relation to the shortage of health professionals, necessitates mangers and leaders to learn from different leadership styles and staff empowerment strategies, so as to create a work environment that encourages nursing staff commitment to patients and their organization. This study intends to measure the effects of nurses' overall perception of the leadership style of their managers, and psychological empowerment on their organizational commitment in acute care units, in National Guard Health Affairs, Riyadh City, Saudi Arabia.MethodsThis was a cross sectional survey, where the data was obtained from nurses at King Abdulaziz Medical City. Hard copy questionnaires were distributed to 350 randomly selected nurses. Three hundred and thirty two (332) were completed, representing a response rate of 95 Three validated survey instruments were used to obtain the data: (1) The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) formulated by Bass and Avolio (1997) (2) The Psychological Empowerment Scale developed by Spreitzer (1995) and (3) The Three Component Model of Employee Commitment developed by Meyer and Allen (1997) A theoretical model that conceptually links leadership, empowerment, and organizational commitment was used. The SPSS program version 19 was employed to perform descriptive and inferential statistics including correlation and stepwise multiple regression analysis.ResultsOverall most nurses perceived their immediate nursing managers as not displaying the ideal level of transformational leadership (TFL) behaviors. Nurses' commitment appeared to be negatively correlated with TFL style and perceived psychological empowerment. However, commitment was positively correlated with the Transactional Leadership (TAL) style. Analysis, also, showed that commitment is significantly associated with the nurse's nationality by region: North American (P 0.001) and Arab (p 0.027) The other important predictors of commitment include TAL (P 0.027) Laissez faire Leadership (LFL (P 0.012) and autonomy (P 0.016) The linear combination of these predictors explained 20 of the variability of the nurses' commitment.ConclusionThe study findings suggest that leadership styles and employee empowerment could play an instrumental role in promoting organizational commitment of nurses working in acute health care settings, at least in the Saudi Arabian context.
PRINCIPALS AND AGENTS, COLONIALISTS AND COMPANY MEN: THE DECAY OF COLONIAL CONTROL IN THE

Patrimonial states and their chartered East India companies propelled the first wave of European colonialism in Asia during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The metropolitan principals of these organizations faced special problems in monitoring and controlling their own colonial agents. Focusing primarily on the Dutch United East Indies Company and secondarily on its English counterpart, I argue that the network structure of each organization affected the degree to which relationships between patrimonial principals and their agents could serve as a disciplinary device. Dutch decline was imminent when alternative opportunities for private gain, available via the ascending English East India Company, allowed Dutch colonial servants to evade their own patrimonial chain and encouraged its organizational breakdown. Features of network structure determined whether colonial agents saw better alternatives to the official patrimonial hierarchy, when they could act on them, and whether principals could respond.
Dynamical model of humanoid considering slipping with nonlinear floor friction and internal force during free fall motion
Venue: 2016 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII)

Biped locomotion created by controlling methods based on Zero Moment Point (ZMP) has been realized in real world and been well verified its efficacy for stable walking. However the walking strategies that have been proposed so far seem to avoid such considerations as slipping of foot on the floor, even though there should exist the slipping large or small in real world. In this research, a dynamical model of humanoid robot including slipping of foot is proposed, which is derived by the Newton Euler (NE) method. To confirm the veracity of the derived dynamic model, the model has been verified from the view point that when all friction coefficients are identical to zero, the total kinetic energy should be conserved to be unchanged, and when the coefficients are not zero, the total kinetic energy should decrease monotonously.
Fully Convolutional Siamese Networks for Object Tracking
Venue: ECCV Workshops

The problem of arbitrary object tracking has traditionally been tackled by learning a model of the object's appearance exclusively online, using as sole training data the video itself. Despite the success of these methods, their online only approach inherently limits the richness of the model they can learn. Recently, several attempts have been made to exploit the expressive power of deep convolutional networks. However, when the object to track is not known beforehand, it is necessary to perform Stochastic Gradient Descent online to adapt the weights of the network, severely compromising the speed of the system. In this paper we equip a basic tracking algorithm with a novel fully convolutional Siamese network trained end to end on the ILSVRC15 dataset for object detection in video. Our tracker operates at frame rates beyond real time and, despite its extreme simplicity, achieves state of the art performance in multiple benchmarks.
Cultural Tightness Looseness and Perceptions of Effective Leadership

Previous research has investigated the relationship between cultural values and leadership. This research expands on this tradition and examines how the strength of social norms or tightness looseness influences perceptions of effective leadership. Data from Gelfand, Raver, et al. were integrated with GLOBE's leadership research to examine the attributes of leaders seen as leading to effectiveness in tight and loose cultures. Analyses of data across 29 samples show that cultural tightness is positively related to the endorsement of autonomous leadership and negatively related to the endorsement of charismatic and team leadership, even controlling for in group collectivism, power distance, and future orientation at the societal and organizational level of analysis. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
Neural correlates of dystonic tremor: a multimodal study of voice tremor in spasmodic dysphonia
Venue: Brain Imaging and Behavior

Tremor, affecting a dystonic body part, is a frequent feature of adult onset dystonia. However, our understanding of dystonic tremor pathophysiology remains ambiguous as its interplay with the main co occurring disorder, dystonia, is largely unknown. We used a combination of functional MRI, voxel based morphometry and diffusion weighted imaging to investigate similar and distinct patterns of brain functional and structural alterations in patients with dystonic tremor of voice (DTv) and isolated spasmodic dysphonia (SD) We found that, compared to controls, SD patients with and without DTv showed similarly increased activation in the sensorimotor cortex, inferior frontal (IFG) and superior temporal gyri, putamen and ventral thalamus, as well as deficient activation in the inferior parietal cortex and middle frontal gyrus (MFG) Common structural alterations were observed in the IFG and putamen, which were further coupled with functional abnormalities in both patient groups. Abnormal activation in left putamen was correlated with SD onset; SD/DTv onset was associated with right putaminal volumetric changes. DTv severity established a significant relationship with abnormal volume of the left IFG. Direct patient group comparisons showed that SD/DTv patients had additional abnormalities in MFG and cerebellar function and white matter integrity in the posterior limb of the internal capsule. Our findings suggest that dystonia and dystonic tremor, at least in the case of SD and SD/DTv, are heterogeneous disorders at different ends of the same pathophysiological spectrum, with each disorder carrying a characteristic neural signature, which may potentially help development of differential markers for these two conditions.
Brain structural changes in spasmodic dysphonia: A multimodal magnetic resonance imaging study.
Venue: Parkinsonism related disorders

The pathophysiology of spasmodic dysphonia is poorly understood. This study evaluated patterns of cortical morphology, basal ganglia, and white matter microstructural alterations in patients with spasmodic dysphonia relative to healthy controls.  T1 weighted and diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans were obtained from 13 spasmodic dysphonia patients and 30 controls. Tract based spatial statistics was applied to compare diffusion tensor MRI indices (i.e. mean, radial and axial diffusivities, and fractional anisotropy) between groups on a voxel by voxel basis. Cortical measures were analyzed using surface based morphometry. Basal ganglia were segmented on T1 weighted images, and volumes and diffusion tensor MRI metrics of nuclei were measured.  Relative to controls, patients with spasmodic dysphonia showed increased cortical surface area of the primary somatosensory cortex bilaterally in a region consistent with the buccal sensory representation, as well as right primary motor cortex, left superior temporal, supramarginal and superior frontal gyri. A decreased cortical area was found in the rolandic operculum bilaterally, left superior/inferior parietal and lingual gyri, as well as in the right angular gyrus. Compared to controls, spasmodic dysphonia patients showed increased diffusivities and decreased fractional anisotropy of the corpus callosum and major white matter tracts, in the right hemisphere. Altered diffusion tensor MRI measures were found in the right caudate and putamen nuclei with no volumetric changes.  Multi level alterations in voice controlling networks, that included regions devoted not only to sensorimotor integration, motor preparation and motor execution, but also processing of auditory and visual information during speech, might have a role in the pathophysiology of spasmodic dysphonia.
Scheduling challenges and opportunities in integrated CPU+GPU processors
Venue: 2016 14th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Embedded Systems For Real time Multimedia (ESTIMedia)

Heterogeneous processors with architecturally different devices (CPU and GPU) integrated on the same die provide good performance and energy efficiency for wide range of workloads. However, they also create challenges and opportunities in terms of scheduling workloads on the appropriate device. Current scheduling practices mainly use the characteristics of kernel workloads to decide the CPU/GPU mapping. In this paper we first provide detailed infrared imaging results that show the impact of mapping decisions on the thermal and power profiles of CPU+GPU processors. Furthermore, we observe that runtime conditions such as power and CPU load from traditional workloads also affect the mapping decision. To exploit our observations, we propose techniques to characterize the OpenCL kernel workloads during run time and map them on appropriate device under time varying physical (i.e. chip power limit) and CPU load conditions, in particular the number of available CPU cores for the OpenCL kernel. We implement our dynamic scheduler on a real CPU+GPU processor and evaluate it using various OpenCL benchmarks. Compared to the state ofthe art kernel level scheduling method, the proposed scheduler provides up to 31% and 10% improvements in runtime and energy, respectively.
Analysis of molecular diversity in Indian and Exotic genotypes of Brassica juncea using SSR markers

Molecular diversity analysis of Indian and Exotic genotypes of Brassica juncea genotypes was carried out using simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. Sixteen out of 32 SSR markers were found to be polymorphic and amplified 54 alleles in 23 genotypes with an average of 2.37 and 0.31 for alleles per locus and polymorphic information content (PIC) respectively. The genotypes were grouped into three distinct clusters based on unweighted neighbour joining and population structure analyses. The molecular analysis revealed that markers obtained from diploid progenitors were useful for molecular diversity studies in Brasicca juncea.