The Mediating Role of Personality Strengths in the Relationship Between Gender Roles and Occupational Well-Being of Nurses

Background: The purpose of the study is to explore the relationships amongst gender roles, personality strengths and occupational well-being of nurses in Mainland China. Design: A crossâ€sectional study was used. Method: A total of 318 nurses from a tertiary hospital in Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, were measured with general information questionnaire, gender role scale (simplified version), three-dimensional character advantage questionnaire, and medical worker occupational well-being scale. Results: The character strengths and occupational well-being scores of the nurses in this study were (57.29±7.16) and (79.59±12.67), respectively. Bisexuality in gender roles was positively correlated with personality dominance and occupational well-being (r=0.535, r=0.204,P<0.01); undifferentiated was negatively correlated with both (r=-0.529, r=-0.230,P<0.01); and personality dominance was positively correlated with occupational well-being (r=0.350,P<0.01). In the effect of nurses' gender roles on occupational well-being, personality strengths played a fully mediating role. Conclusion: Gender roles and character strengths are important factors affecting nurses' professional well-being, and gender roles can indirectly affect nurses' professional well-being through character strengths. Clinical nursing managers should take relevant measures to cultivate character strengths appropriate to different gender roles to improve nurses' occupational well-being

Partial entropy in finite-temperature phase transitions

It is shown that the von Neumann entropy, a measure of quantum entanglement, does have its classical counterpart in thermodynamic systems, which we call partial entropy. Close to the critical temperature the partial entropy shows perfect finite-size scaling behavior even for quite small system sizes. This provides a powerful tool to quantify finite-temperature phase transitions as demonstrated on the classical Ising model on a square lattice and the ferromagnetic Heisenberg model on a cubic lattice.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figures, Revised versio

Modeling Privacy Preservation in Smart Connected Toys by Petri-Nets

Children data privacy must be considered as integral and factored into the system design of Smart Connected Toy (SCT). The challenge is that SCTs are capable to gather significant amount volunteered and non-volunteered data, which lacks privacy considerations. It is imperative to adopt a modeling technique that autonomously preserves privacy and secure children’s data in SCT transactions. This paper surveys the current data flow modeling techniques, which most of them do not have elements to address the privacy of Personal Identifiable Information (PII). This paper shows a Petri-Net simulation which provides privacy assurance in order to minimize the risk of privacy violation of a child’s PII and related data

HICSS - Modeling Privacy Preservation in Smart Connected Toys by Petri-Nets

Children data privacy must be considered as integral and factored into the system design of Smart Connected Toy (SCT). The challenge is that SCTs are capable to gather significant amount volunteered and non-volunteered data, which lacks privacy considerations. It is imperative to adopt a modeling technique that autonomously preserves privacy and secure children’s data in SCT transactions. This paper surveys the current data flow modeling techniques, which most of them do not have elements to address the privacy of Personal Identifiable Information (PII). This paper shows a Petri-Net simulation which provides privacy assurance in order to minimize the risk of privacy violation of a child’s PII and related data

Laser Beam Propagation through Oceanic Turbulence

Using a recently proposed model for the refractive index fluctuations in oceanic turbulence, optical beam propagation through seawater is explored. The model provides an accurate depiction of the ocean through the inclusion of both temperature and salinity fluctuations to the refractive index. Several important statistical characteristics are explored including spatial coherence radius, angle-of-arrival fluctuations, and beam wander. Theoretical values of these parameters are found based on weak fluctuation theory using the Rytov method. The results presented serve as a foundation for the study of optical beam propagation in oceanic turbulence, which may provide an important support for further researches in applications for underwater communicating, imaging, and sensing systems

Novel sulfamoylamino-containing cephalosporin derivatives, and their in vitro antibacterial properties

Purpose: To prepare and develop new antibacterial agents with novel molecular structures. Method: A series of novel sulfamoylamino-containing cephalosporin derivatives were synthesized. The in vitro antibacterial effects of the derivatives against Gram-positive bacteria (S. aureus, S. pneumonia and S. epidermidis), and Gram-negative bacteria (E. coli, P. aeruginosa, and K. pneumonia) were investigated. Results: Compounds 13a and 13b exhibited excellent antibacterial effects against all the Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria tested, when compared with other cephalosporin derivatives. Conclusion: Of these new cephalosporin derivatives, compounds 13a and 13b show the most potent antibacterial activity and would need to be further investigated

A Preliminary Study of the Microbial Resources and Their Biological Activities of the East China Sea

East China Sea is one of the four sea areas in China, which possesses peculiar ecological environment and many kinds of living creatures, especially the microorganisms. We established the East China Sea microorganism library (during 2006–2010) for the first time, which stored about 30000 strains that covered most kinds of the species. In this paper, 395 pure strains of East China Sea microorganism library which belong to 33 different genera were mainly introduced. Sulfitobacter, Halomonas, Bacillus, Pseudoalteromonas, and Idiomarina were the most dominant species. On the large-scale biological activity screening of the 395 strains, 100 strains possess different biological activities based on different screening models, of which 11.4% strains have antibacterial activities, 15.9% have cytotoxicity activities, and 6.1% have antioxidation activities. Besides, the secondary metabolites of 6 strains with strong biological activities were studied systematically; diketopiperazines and macrocyclic lactones are the active secondary metabolites. The species and the biological activity of microorganisms diversity, the abundant structure type of the secondary metabolites, and their bioactivities all indicate that East China Sea is a potent marine microorganisms-derived developing resource for drug discovery

Population Structure and Genetic Diversity in a Rice Core Collection (Oryza sativa L.) Investigated with SSR Markers

The assessment of genetic diversity and population structure of a core collection would benefit to make use of these germplasm as well as applying them in association mapping. The objective of this study were to (1) examine the population structure of a rice core collection; (2) investigate the genetic diversity within and among subgroups of the rice core collection; (3) identify the extent of linkage disequilibrium (LD) of the rice core collection. A rice core collection consisting of 150 varieties which was established from 2260 varieties of Ting's collection of rice germplasm were genotyped with 274 SSR markers and used in this study. Two distinct subgroups (i.e. SG 1 and SG 2) were detected within the entire population by different statistical methods, which is in accordance with the differentiation of indica and japonica rice. MCLUST analysis might be an alternative method to STRUCTURE for population structure analysis. A percentage of 26% of the total markers could detect the population structure as the whole SSR marker set did with similar precision. Gene diversity and MRD between the two subspecies varied considerably across the genome, which might be used to identify candidate genes for the traits under domestication and artificial selection of indica and japonica rice. The percentage of SSR loci pairs in significant (P<0.05) LD is 46.8% in the entire population and the ratio of linked to unlinked loci pairs in LD is 1.06. Across the entire population as well as the subgroups and sub-subgroups, LD decays with genetic distance, indicating that linkage is one main cause of LD. The results of this study would provide valuable information for association mapping using the rice core collection in future