Connecting blog, Twitter and Facebook use with gaps in knowledge and participation

Although they share a similar ‘social media’ tag, blogs, micro- blog sites like Twitter, and social networking sites (SNS) like Facebook are distinctive in their relationships with political engagement. This paper examined the impact of the use of the three media on the gaps in political knowledge and participation between the more and less educated people. In the results, Facebook use interacted positively with education in predicting civic and issue knowledge. The gap of offline participation was larger among heavy Twitter users than among light users. Overall, findings imply that social media amplify or reinforce inequality of political engagement

Multiphoton processes via conditional measurements in the two-field interaction

In this contribution, we show that the use of conditional measurements in the resonant interaction of two quantized electromagnetic fields gives rise to nonclassical multiphoton processes. Furthermore, we demonstrate that this phenomenon may enable a robust integrated-optics protocol to engineer quantum states containing a high number of photons, thus making it a potentially appealing platform for exploring mesoscopic quantum phenomena.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figure

Factibilidad agronómica y entomológica de la siembra intercalada caña de azúcar (Saccharum officinarum L.) y fríjol (Phaseolus vulgaris L.).

Fríjol-Phaseolus vulgarisCaña de azúcar-Saccharum officinaru

Strengthening Geriatric Expertise in Swiss Nursing Homes: Intercare Implementation Study Protocol

Nursing home (NH) residents with complex care needs ask for attentive monitoring of changes and appropriate in-house decision making. However, access to geriatric expertise is often limited with a lack of geriatricians, general practitioners, and/or nurses with advanced clinical skills, leading to potentially avoidable hospitalizations. This situation calls for the development, implementation, and evaluation of innovative, contextually adapted nurse-led care models that support NHs in improving their quality of care and reducing hospitalizations by investing in effective clinical leadership, geriatric expertise, and care coordination. DESIGN An effectiveness-implementation hybrid type 2 design to assess clinical outcomes of a nurse-led care model and a mixed-method approach to evaluate implementation outcomes will be applied. The model development, tailoring, and implementation are based on the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR). SETTING NHs in the German-speaking region of Switzerland. PARTICIPANTS Eleven NHs were recruited. The sample size was estimated assuming an average of .8 unplanned hospitalizations/1000 resident days and a reduction of 25% in NHs with the nurse-led care model. INTERVENTION The multilevel complex context-adapted intervention consists of six core elements (eg, specifically trained INTERCARE nurses or evidence-based tools like Identify, Situation, Background, Assessment and Recommendation [ISBAR]). Multilevel implementation strategies include leadership and INTERCARE nurse training and support. MEASUREMENTS The primary outcomes are unplanned hospitalizations/1000 care days. Secondary outcomes include unplanned emergency department visits, quality indicators (eg, physical restraint use), and costs. Implementation outcomes included, for example, fidelity to the model's core elements. CONCLUSION The INTERCARE study will provide evidence about the effectiveness of a nurse-led care model in the real-world setting and accompanying implementation strategies

La confianza en los actores institucionales en 22 países. Análisis de la confianza en la política, la ciencia y los medios de comunicación en el mundo

Introducción. La confianza social ha atraído desde hace mucho tiempo el interés de los investigadores de diferentes disciplinas. La mayoría de los estudios sobre esta materia se han basado en datos de un solo país, y han considerado una sola dimensión de la confianza social cada vez (por ejemplo, la confianza en la ciencia, en los medios de comunicación o en las instituciones políticas). Esta investigación desarrolla el modelo propuesto por el Inventario Global de la Confianza (Global Trust Inventory, GTI) al analizar simultáneamente varias dimensiones de la confianza social, además de examinar cómo la confianza en las instituciones varía en las distintas sociedades. A partir de una encuesta online de panel distribuida en 22 países (N = 22.033), estudiamos las diferencias en la confianza social entre sociedades, incluyendo en nuestro análisis la confianza en el Gobierno, en los organismos gubernamentales, en las instituciones nacionales de seguridad y en los productores de conocimiento científico. Además, el estudio contribuye a una operacionalizacíon más amplia del concepto de confianza social al introducir una medida de confianza en los medios de comunicación. Los resultados se discuten a partir de la comparación entre países emergentes y desarrollados, de acuerdo con su Índice de Desarrollo Humano (IDH)