Nurses' Cultural Competence: A Meta-analysis

Cultural competence in nursing is essential in providing care that is centered around the unique, individual needs of patients from different cultures. This study used a meta-analysis research method to determine the different predictors of registered nurses’ cultural competence and their effect on cultural competence. Articles from 2010-2020 were collected on June 14-16, 2020 from research databases EBSCOhost, PubMed, and Google Scholar using the following search terms: nurse cultural competence, nurses cultural competency, nurse transcultural competence, nurse’ transcultural competency, nurse transcultural care, and nurse cultural care. From an initial of 170 studies, six studies qualified for inclusion in the meta-analysis based on the study criteria. From the six studies, 19 significant predictors of registered nurses’ cultural competence were identified, such as cultural skill, cultural desire, cultural encounter, cultural knowledge, attitude, cultural awareness, diversity training, empowerment, length of service, empathy, marital status, the experience of cultural education, work experience, experience caring for diverse patients, age, working in a specialty area, work shift, responsibility, and confidence level. Using the Hunter-Schmidt method, a significantly small correlation effect size (r =0.241) was found. There was no publication bias as revealed in the Rosenthal Fail-Safe N value of 3222. The results supported and confirmed Leininger’s Culture Care theory. It affirmed that the competence of nurses in caring for clients with different cultures is needed and important to provide culture-specific nursing care.Keywords: nurse, cultural competence, meta-analysi

Gravitational Waves Astronomy: a cornerstone for gravitational theories

Realizing a gravitational wave (GW) astronomy in next years is a great challenge for the scientific community. By giving a significant amount of new information, GWs will be a cornerstone for a better understanding of gravitational physics. In this paper we re-discuss that the GW astronomy will permit to solve a captivating issue of gravitation. In fact, it will be the definitive test for Einstein's general relativity (GR), or, alternatively, a strong endorsement for extended theories of gravity (ETG).Comment: To appear in Proceedings of the Workshop "Cosmology, the Quantum Vacuum and Zeta Functions" for the celebration of Emilio Elizalde's sixtieth birthday, Barcelona, March 8-10, 201

Design and Automation of a Solar Powered Soil Moisture Monitoring System (SPSMMS)

A solar powered soil moisture monitoring system (SPSMMS) was developed and evaluated at Cavite State University (CvSU) Main Campus, Cavite. The study evaluated the operating performance of the fabricated SPSMMS in terms of sensitivity of sensors, accuracy of reading, and transmission system efficiency. The device was fabricated using locally available materials. Its overall dimension in terms of length, width and height is 0.36m x 0.31m x 2m, respectively. The device is composed of the main frames, automation system, power system. The automation system is composed of main parts such as Arduino Mega2560, resistor type sensors, GSM module, data logger, and RTC. The system reads the moisture level every one (1) hour and thirty (30) minutes and send SMS every three (3) hours of operation. The study has two (2) installations placed in the crop production area of CvSU. The soil moisture was at the highest in the first installation compared from the second installation due to different environmental conditions. Installation 1 was placed in a fully irrigated area, slightly shaded, and vegetated. While, installation 2 was placed in a fully open, not vegetated, and not well irrigated. The total fabrication cost of two (2) devices is PhP 31,866.00. The total operating cost per year of the SPSMMS was compared to the standard soil moisture meter (Extech Meter Model) which is PhP 11,520 .00 and PhP 87,600.00, respectively

Estratégias de sucessão trigo/aveia preta-soja para sistemas de produção de grãos no Noroeste do Rio Grande do Sul.

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Gravito-electromagnetic analogies

We reexamine and further develop different gravito-electromagnetic (GEM) analogies found in the literature, and clarify the connection between them. Special emphasis is placed in two exact physical analogies: the analogy based on inertial fields from the so-called "1+3 formalism", and the analogy based on tidal tensors. Both are reformulated, extended and generalized. We write in both formalisms the Maxwell and the full exact Einstein field equations with sources, plus the algebraic Bianchi identities, which are cast as the source-free equations for the gravitational field. New results within each approach are unveiled. The well known analogy between linearized gravity and electromagnetism in Lorentz frames is obtained as a limiting case of the exact ones. The formal analogies between the Maxwell and Weyl tensors are also discussed, and, together with insight from the other approaches, used to physically interpret gravitational radiation. The precise conditions under which a similarity between gravity and electromagnetism occurs are discussed, and we conclude by summarizing the main outcome of each approach.Comment: 60 pages, 2 figures. Improved version (compared to v2) with some re-write, notation improvements and a new figure that match the published version; expanded compared to the published version to include Secs. 2.3 and

16(th) IHIW: population global distribution of killer immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR) and ligands.

In the last fifteen years, published reports have described KIR gene-content frequency distributions in more than 120 populations worldwide. However, there have been limited studies examining these data in aggregate to detect overall patterns of variation at regional and global levels. Here, we present a summary of the collection of KIR gene-content data for 105 worldwide populations collected as part of the 15th and 16th International Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Workshops, and preliminary results for data analysis