126 research outputs found
Factors influencing the implementation of advanced midwife practitioners in healthcare settings: a qualitative study
Objective: To explore factors influencing the implementation of advanced midwife practitioner roles.
Design: Semi-structured individual face-to-face and focus group interviews were conducted. Data analysis was performed using the Framework Method.
Setting and participants: A purposive sample (n = 32) included chief nursing officers, middle managers, head midwives/nurses, primary care team leaders, midwives with and without advanced midwife practitioner roles, heads of midwifery educations, and obstetricians.
Findings: Budgetary constraints on a governmental and healthcare organizational level were mentioned as main barriers for role implementation. The current fee-for-service financing model of healthcare professionals was also seen as an impediment. Obstetricians considered the implementation of advanced midwife practitioner roles as a possible financial and professional threat. Documenting the added value of advanced midwife practitioner roles was regarded a prerequisite for gaining support to implement such roles. Healthcare managers' and midwives' attitudes towards these roles were considered essential. Participants warned against automatically transferring the concept of advanced practice nursing to midwifery. Although participants seldom discussed population healthcare needs as a driver for implementation, healthcare organizations' heightened focus on quality improvement and client safety was seen as an opportunity for implementation. University hospitals were perceived as pioneers regarding advanced midwife practitioner roles.
Key conclusions and implications for practice: Multiple factors influencing role implementation on a governmental, healthcare organizational, and workforce level illustrate the complexity of the implementation process, and highlight the need for a well-thought-out implementation plan involving all relevant stakeholders. Pilot projects for the implementation of advanced midwife practitioners in university hospitals might be useful
Design and Initial Performance of the Prototype for the BEACON Instrument for Detection of Ultrahigh Energy Particles
The Beamforming Elevated Array for COsmic Neutrinos (BEACON) is a planned
neutrino telescope designed to detect radio emission from upgoing air showers
generated by ultrahigh energy tau neutrino interactions in the Earth. This
detection mechanism provides a measurement of the tau flux of cosmic neutrinos.
We have installed an 8-channel prototype instrument at high elevation at
Barcroft Field Station, which has been running since 2018, and consists of 4
dual-polarized antennas sensitive between 30-80 MHz, whose signals are
filtered, amplified, digitized, and saved to disk using a custom data
acquisition system (DAQ). The BEACON prototype is at high elevation to maximize
effective volume and uses a directional beamforming trigger to improve
rejection of anthropogenic background noise at the trigger level. Here we
discuss the design, construction, and calibration of the BEACON prototype
instrument. We also discuss the radio frequency environment observed by the
instrument, and categorize the types of events seen by the instrument,
including a likely cosmic ray candidate event.Comment: 21 pages, 20 figure
A mathematical model for unsteady mixed flows in closed water pipes
We present the formal derivation of a new unidirectional model for unsteady
mixed flows in non uniform closed water pipe. In the case of free surface
incompressible flows, the \FS-model is formally obtained, using formal
asymptotic analysis, which is an extension to more classical shallow water
models. In the same way, when the pipe is full, we propose the \Pres-model,
which describes the evolution of a compressible inviscid flow, close to gas
dynamics equations in a nozzle. In order to cope the transition between a free
surface state and a pressured (i.e. compressible) state, we propose a mixed
model, the \PFS-model, taking into account changes of section and slope
variation
Tau Neutrinos in the Next Decade: from GeV to EeV
Tau neutrinos are the least studied particle in the Standard Model. Thiswhitepaper discusses the current and expected upcoming status of tau neutrinophysics with attention to the broad experimental and theoretical landscapespanning long-baseline, beam-dump, collider, and astrophysical experiments.This whitepaper was prepared as a part of the NuTau2021 Workshop.<br
The multiplicity of performance management systems:Heterogeneity in multinational corporations and management sense-making
This field study examines the workings of multiple performance measurement systems (PMSs) used within and between a division and Headquarters (HQ) of a large European corporation. We explore how multiple PMSs arose within the multinational corporation. We first provide a first‐order analysis which explains how managers make sense of the multiplicity and show how an organization's PMSs may be subject to competing processes for control that result in varied systems, all seemingly functioning, but with different rationales and effects. We then provide a second‐order analysis based on a sense‐making perspective that highlights the importance of retrospective understandings of the organization's history and the importance of various legitimacy expectations to different parts of the multinational. Finally, we emphasize the role of social skill in sense‐making that enables the persistence of multiple systems and the absence of overt tensions and conflict within organizations
Probing invisible neutrino decay with KM3NeT-ORCA
In the era of precision measurements of the neutrino oscillation parameters,
upcoming neutrino experiments will also be sensitive to physics beyond the
Standard Model. KM3NeT/ORCA is a neutrino detector optimised for measuring
atmospheric neutrinos from a few GeV to around 100 GeV. In this paper, the
sensitivity of the KM3NeT/ORCA detector to neutrino decay has been explored. A
three-flavour neutrino oscillation scenario, where the third neutrino mass
state decays into an invisible state, e.g. a sterile neutrino, is
considered. We find that KM3NeT/ORCA would be sensitive to invisible neutrino
decays with ~ at confidence
level, assuming true normal ordering. Finally, the impact of neutrino decay on
the precision of KM3NeT/ORCA measurements for ,
and mass ordering have been studied. No significant effect of neutrino decay on
the sensitivity to these measurements has been found.Comment: 27 pages, 14 figures, bibliography updated, typos correcte
The Power Board of the KM3NeT Digital Optical Module: design, upgrade, and production
The KM3NeT Collaboration is building an underwater neutrino observatory at
the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea consisting of two neutrino telescopes, both
composed of a three-dimensional array of light detectors, known as digital
optical modules. Each digital optical module contains a set of 31 three inch
photomultiplier tubes distributed over the surface of a 0.44 m diameter
pressure-resistant glass sphere. The module includes also calibration
instruments and electronics for power, readout and data acquisition. The power
board was developed to supply power to all the elements of the digital optical
module. The design of the power board began in 2013, and several prototypes
were produced and tested. After an exhaustive validation process in various
laboratories within the KM3NeT Collaboration, a mass production batch began,
resulting in the construction of over 1200 power boards so far. These boards
were integrated in the digital optical modules that have already been produced
and deployed, 828 until October 2023. In 2017, an upgrade of the power board,
to increase reliability and efficiency, was initiated. After the validation of
a pre-production series, a production batch of 800 upgraded boards is currently
underway. This paper describes the design, architecture, upgrade, validation,
and production of the power board, including the reliability studies and tests
conducted to ensure the safe operation at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea
throughout the observatory's lifespa
Embedded Software of the KM3NeT Central Logic Board
The KM3NeT Collaboration is building and operating two deep sea neutrino
telescopes at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. The telescopes consist of
latices of photomultiplier tubes housed in pressure-resistant glass spheres,
called digital optical modules and arranged in vertical detection units. The
two main scientific goals are the determination of the neutrino mass ordering
and the discovery and observation of high-energy neutrino sources in the
Universe. Neutrinos are detected via the Cherenkov light, which is induced by
charged particles originated in neutrino interactions. The photomultiplier
tubes convert the Cherenkov light into electrical signals that are acquired and
timestamped by the acquisition electronics. Each optical module houses the
acquisition electronics for collecting and timestamping the photomultiplier
signals with one nanosecond accuracy. Once finished, the two telescopes will
have installed more than six thousand optical acquisition nodes, completing one
of the more complex networks in the world in terms of operation and
synchronization. The embedded software running in the acquisition nodes has
been designed to provide a framework that will operate with different hardware
versions and functionalities. The hardware will not be accessible once in
operation, which complicates the embedded software architecture. The embedded
software provides a set of tools to facilitate remote manageability of the
deployed hardware, including safe reconfiguration of the firmware. This paper
presents the architecture and the techniques, methods and implementation of the
embedded software running in the acquisition nodes of the KM3NeT neutrino
telescopes
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