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Wales, the Enlightenment and the New British History

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A website supporting sensitive religious and cultural advance care planning (ACPTalk): Formative and summative evaluation

Background: Advance care planning (ACP) promotes conversations about future health care needs, enacted if a person is incapable of making decisions at end-of-life that may be communicated through written documentation such as advance care directives. To meet the needs of multicultural and multifaith populations in Australia, an advance care planning website, ACPTalk, was funded to support health professionals in conducting conversations within diverse religious and cultural populations. ACPTalk aimed to provide religion-specific advance care planning content and complement existing resources. Objective: The purpose of this paper was to utilize the context, input, process, and product (CIPP) framework to conduct a formative and summative evaluation of ACPTalk. Methods: The CIPP framework was used, which revolves around 4 aspects of evaluation: context, input, process, and product. Context: health professionals’ solutions for the website were determined through thematic analysis of exploratory key stakeholder interviews. Included religions were determined through an environmental scan, Australian population statistics, and documentary analysis of project steering committee meeting minutes. Input: Project implementation and challenges were examined through documentary analysis of project protocols and meeting minutes. Process: To ensure religion-specific content was accurate and appropriate, a website prototype was built with content review and functionality testing by representatives from religious and cultural organizations and other interested health care organizations who completed a Web-based survey. Product: Website analytics were used to report utilization, and stakeholder perceptions were captured through interviews and a website survey. Results: Context: A total of 16 key stakeholder health professional (7 general practitioners, 2 primary health nurses, and 7 palliative care nurses) interviews were analyzed. Website solutions included religious and cultural information, communication ideas, legal information, downloadable content, and Web-based accessibility. Christian and non-Christian faiths were to be included in the religion-specific content. Input: Difficulties gaining consensus on religion-specific content were overcome by further state and national religious organizations providing feedback. Process: A total of 37 content reviewers included representatives of religious and cultural organizations (n=29), health care (n=5), and community organizations (n=3). The majority strongly agree or agree that the content used appropriate language and tone (92%, 34/37), would support health professionals (89%, 33/37), and was accurate (83%, 24/29). Product: Resource usage within the first 9 months was 12,957 page views in 4260 sessions; majority were (83.45%, 3555/4260) from Australia. A total of 107 Australian-based users completed the website survey; most felt information was accurate (77.6%, 83/107), easy to understand (82.2%, 88/107), useful (86.0%, 92/107), and appropriate (86.0%, 92/107). A total of 20 nurses (general practice n=10, palliative care n=8, and both disciplines n=2) participated in stakeholder interviews. Qualitative findings indicated overall positivity in relation to accessibility, functionality, usefulness, design, and increased knowledge of advance care planning. Recommended improvements included shortened content, a comparable website for patients and families, and multilingual translations. Conclusions: The CIPP framework was effectively applied to evaluate the development and end product of an advance care planning website. Although overall findings were positive, further advance care planning website development should consider the recommendations derived from this study

Measurement of the inclusive b →τνX branching ratio

Using the L3 detector, the branching ratio BR(b → πνX) has been measured using a sample of Z → b events tagged by high momentum and high transverse momentum leptons in one hemisphere and with missing energy in the opposite hemisphere. From a sample of 948 000 hadronic events we find BR(b → πνX) = (2.4 ± 0.7 (stat.) ± 0.8 (syst.))%.Facultad de Ciencias Exacta

Measurement of the weak dipole moments of the τ lepton

Using the data collected by the L3 experiment at LEP from 1991 to 1995 at energies around the Z mass, a measurement of the weak anomalous magnetic dipole moment, awτ, and of the weak electric dipole moment, dwτ, of the τ lepton is performed. These quantities are obtained from angular distributions in e+e−→τ+τ−→h+ν̄τh−ντ, where h is a π or a p. The results are: Re(awτ)=(0.0±1.6±2.3)×10−3, Im(awτ)=(−1.0±3.6±4.3)×10−3 and Re(dwτ)=(−0.44±0.88±1.33)×10−17e·cm. This is the first direct measurement of awτ.Facultad de Ciencias Exacta

The Q2 evolution of the hadronic photon structure function Fγ2 at LEP

New measurements at a centre-of-mass energy √s ≃183 GeV of the hadronic photon structure function Fγ2(x) in the Q2 interval, 9 GeV2 ≤ Q2 ≤ 30 GeV2 , are presented. The data, collected in 1997 with the L3 detector, correspond to an integrated luminosity of 51.9 pb-1 . Combining with the data taken at a centre-of-mass energy of 91 GeV, the evolution of Fγ2 with Q2 is measured in the Q2 range from 1.2 GeV2 to 30 GeV2. Fγ2 shows a linear growth with lnQ2; the value of the slope α−1dFγ2(Q2)/dlnQ2 is measured in two x bins from 0.01 to 0.2 and is somewhat higher than predicted.Facultad de Ciencias Exacta

Angular multiplicity fluctuations in hadronic Z decays and comparison to QCD models and analytical calculations

Local multiplicity fluctuations in angular phase space intervals are studied using factorial moments measured in hadronic events at √s≃91.2 GeV, which were collected by the L3 detector at LEP. Parton shower Monte Carlo programs agree well with the data. On the other hand, first-order QCD calculations in the Double Leading Log Approximation and the Modified Leading Log Approximation are found to deviate significantly from the data.Facultad de Ciencias Exacta