Emotional labor as emotional regulation: Italian adaptation and longitudinal validation of the scale among undergraduate nursing students

Aim: The aim of the present study is to perform a longitudinal Italian validation of the scale and to adapt it to the nursing education contest. Background: Research on emotional labor has shown that the roles played by surface acting and deep acting are still uncertain. To overcome this gap, scholars suggest observing emotional labor through the lens of the emotional regulation theory. Andela and her colleagues developed a fine grained instrument, which differentiates attentional deployment, cognitive re-evaluation and expressive suppression, emotional amplification and emotional dissonance. Design. To fulfill our aim, a longitudinal study was performed in an Italian University. Method. The adapted scale was administered to 168 nursing students across the three years of attendance in the course. Results. Our results confirm the five-factor structure, and the instrument shows good psychometrical properties. Conclusion. Having shown satisfactory psychometric properties, this scale can be considered a useful instrument to assess those emotional elements of clinical practice, which are important for the assurance of education quality to the under graduated nursing students

Casual factors of increased project risk : a review of four in-flight anomalies

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design and Management Program, 2006.Includes bibliographical references (p. 62-64).Risk management is an essential component any project. Traditional tools of risk management, however, tend to focus solely on the three traditional project elements-cost, schedule, and technical-ignoring the broader environmental issues which also play a part in project success. Without a knowledge and understanding of these additional factors, incident prevention is not possible. The thesis analyzes four in-flight anomalies to identify the underlying environmental factors that contributed to the technical failures. The major themes found from the in-flight anomalies include the importance of a system perspective throughout the life of the project, the criticality of maintaining excellence during routine tasks, and the experimental nature of the projects. Although nothing can guarantee a project success, research indicated the absence of key elements can set a project up for failure. These key elements include environmental awareness, proficient system engineering, engineering curiosity, engineering humility, and hands-on experience. Additionally, a cursory look at human and system behaviors that lead to resistance to change is provided.(cont.) Best practices and lessons learned from past incidents are provided and recommendations for future projects are suggested. A few of the recommendations are to establish a strong system engineering discipline, to provide hands-on training opportunities, and to improve current risk management practices to include system factors.by Rita M. Dal Santo.S.M

Alexithymia, impulsiveness, and psychopathology in Nonsuicidal self-injured adolescents

Introduction: Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a multifaceted phenomenon and a major health issue among adolescents. A better understanding of self-injury comorbidities is crucial to improve our ability to assess, treat, and prevent NSSI. Purpose: This study aimed at analyzing some of the psychobehavioral correlates of NSSI: psychological problems, alexithymia, impulsiveness, and sociorelational aspects. Patients and methods: This was a case-control study. The clinical sample (n=33) included adolescents attending our unit for NSSI and other issues; the controls (n=79) were high-school students. Data were collected using six questionnaires: Youth Self-Report, Barratt\u2019s Impulsiveness Scale, Toronto Alexithymia Scale, Children\u2019s Depression Inventory, Symptom Checklist-90-R, and Child Behavior Checklist. Results: Cases scored significantly higher in all questionnaires. Habitual self-injurers scored higher on impulsiveness and alexithymia. The gesture\u2019s repetition seems relevant to the global clinical picture: habitual self-injurers appear more likely to seek help from the sociosanitary services. We found a difference between the self-injurers\u2019 and their parents\u2019 awareness of the disorder. Conclusion: Habitual self-injurers show signs of having difficulty with assessing the consequences of their actions (nonplanning impulsiveness) and the inability to manage their feelings. Given the significantly higher scores found for cases than for controls on all the psychopathological scales, NSSI can be seen as a cross-category psychiatric disorder, supporting the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders decision to include it as a pathological entity in its own right

Discovering indium as hydrogen production booster for a Cu/SiO2 catalyst in steam reforming of methanol

We report on the use of In as an effective H2 production promoter in a Cu/SiO2 catalyst for the steam reforming of methanol. To date, In promotion has been limited to noble metals because of its tendency to “bury” other metals thus compromising the catalytic activity. Here, we prepared a silica-supported Cu-In catalyst via a urea-assisted co-precipitation method that showed a higher H2 productivity compared to the monometallic catalyst and a remarkable H2/CO2 molar ratio of almost 3 at 220 °C. Through XPS, XRPD and HRTEM-EDX along with H2- and CO-TPR, H2O-TPD, and N2O titrations, supported by computational modeling, we attributed such superior performances to an easier H2O activation due to improved electronic properties of the Cu phase, that is, its lower oxidation state via electron density transfer from the InOx buffer phase as a 1D “necklace” structures crucially mediating the interaction of small Cu nanoparticles (2.6 nm) and silica

Search for magnetic monopoles and stable particles with high electric charges in √s = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

We present a search for magnetic monopoles and high-electric-charge objects using LHC Run 2 √s = 13 TeV proton-proton collisions recorded by the ATLAS detector. A total integrated luminosity of 138 fb−1 was collected by a specialized trigger. No highly ionizing particle candidate was observed. Considering the Drell-Yan and photon-fusion pair production mechanisms as benchmark models, cross-section upper limits are presented for spin-0 and spin-1/2 magnetic monopoles of magnetic charge 1gD and 2gD and for high-electric-charge objects of electric charge 20 ≤ |z| ≤ 100, for masses between 200 GeV and 4000 GeV. The search improves by approximately a factor of three the previous cross-section limits on the Drell-Yan production of magnetic monopoles and high-electric charge objects. Also, the first ATLAS limits on the photon-fusion pair production mechanism of magnetic monopoles and high-electric-charge objects are obtained

Photocatalytic degradation of acetone in gas-phase: comparison between nano and micro-sized TiO2

Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) are widely used in industrial processes and for domestic activities, so generating water and air pollution. Well-known in-door sources of VOCs include cigarette smoke, building materials, paints, lacquers, glues and cleaning products [1]. In particular, the use of paints in industrial processes is responsible for the widespread utilization of organics solvents, such as acetone. Acetone (CH3COCH3) is a common chemical used extensively in a variety of in-dustrial and domestic applications. Therefore, we chose it as a model contaminant. Photocatalytic oxidation of acetone is based on the following overall reaction: CH3COCH3 + 4O2 \u2192 3CO2 + 3H2O The reaction occurs through radical mechanism car-ried out by hydroxyl radicals, with the formation of sev-eral intermediate products such as formaldehyde, formic acid, methanol and acetaldhehyde [2]. The TiO2 photodegradation of organic compounds has been proposed as an alternative Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOP) for the decontamination of air, since the photocatalytic oxidation of organic compounds in gas phase appears to be a promising process for the re-mediation of polluted air. In this paper the photocatalytic efficiency towards acetone degradation of four commercial samples, two micro-sized and two nano-sized TiO2 powders is com-pared. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasi-bility of using micro-sized TiO2 instead of nanometric particles, which results in a greater environmental im-pact and higher production costs if compared to the for-mer on

Search for vector-boson resonances decaying into a top quark and a bottom quark using pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

A search for a new massive charged gauge boson, W′, is performed with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The dataset used in this analysis was collected from proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 13 TeV, and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1. The reconstructed tb invariant mass is used to search for a W′ boson decaying into a top quark and a bottom quark. The result is interpreted in terms of a W′ boson with purely right-handed or left-handed chirality in a mass range of 0.5–6 TeV. Different values for the coupling of the W′ boson to the top and bottom quarks are considered, taking into account interference with single-top-quark production in the s-channel. No significant deviation from the background prediction is observed. The results are expressed as upper limits on the W′ → tb production cross-section times branching ratio as a function of the W′-boson mass and in the plane of the coupling vs the W′-boson mass

Lo sviluppo delle conoscenze genomiche in vite e il loro potenziale utilizzo nella viticoltura attuale e futura

Nel 2007 sono stati pubblicati i risultati del sequenziamento e dell\u2019analisi dettagliata del genoma di Vitis vinifera frutto di due iniziative indipendenti, una italo-francese e l\u2019altra italo-americana. Questi risultati costituiscono la base per studi futuri e gettano le fondamenta per l\u2019adozione di metodologie innovative per sviluppare e rafforzare la viticoltura italiana e mondiale del XXI secolo. In questa review verranno illustrate le potenzialit\ue0 delle tecnologie derivate dalla conoscenza del genoma come ad esempio lo sviluppo di strumenti per l\u2019analisi di espressione genica su larga scala, e riportati alcuni esempi inerenti al loro impiego attuale e futuro in viticoltura

Ni Catalysts Supported Over TiO2, SiO2 and ZrO2 for the Steam Reforming of Glycerol

Ni-based catalysts supported on TiO2, ZrO2 and SiO2 (in the form of mesoporous Santa Barbara Amorphous 15 (SBA-15) and amorphous dense nanoparticles), were employed in the steam reforming of glycerol. Each sample was prepared by liquid phase synthesis of the support followed by impregnation with the active phase and calcination at 8008C or by direct synthesis through flame pyrolysis. Many techniques have been used to assess the physical chemical properties of both the fresh and spent catalysts, such as atomic absorption, N2 adsorption/desorption, XRD, SEM, TEM, temperature-programmed reduction (TPR), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Micro-Raman and FTIR spectroscopy. The samples showed different textural, structural and morphological properties,as well as different reducibility and thermal resistance depending on the preparation method and support. Some of these properties were tightly bound to catalyst performance, in terms of H2 productivity and stability towards coking and sintering. A key parameter was the metal\u2013support interaction, which strongly depended on the preparation procedure. In particular, the stronger the interaction, the more stable the metallic Ni clusters, which in turn lead to a higher catalytic activity and stability. Surface acidity was also taken into account, in which the nature of the acid sites was differentiated (silanols, titanols or Lewis acid sites). The characterisation of the spent catalysts also allowed us to interpret the deactivation process. The formation of multi-walled nanotubes was observed for every sample, though it was only in some cases that this led to severe deactivatio