Job Stress and Sexual Satisfaction in Health Workers

El estrés laboral y la satisfacción sexual representan un problema significativo en la sociedad moderna debido a que puede afectar notablemente en la calidad de vida de los trabajadores, además de ser una asociación que no ha sido estudiada a profundidad, por esta razón la presente investigación tuvo como objetivo determinar la relación entre estrés laboral y satisfacción sexual en el personal sanitario, mediante un enfoque cuantitativo, de alcance correlacional, diseño no experimental de corte transversal, en una muestra conformada de 100 profesionales pertenecientes al área de salud (40% hombres y 60% mujeres) seleccionados mediante un muestreo no probabilístico a quienes se les aplicó la escala de estrés laboral OIT- OMS y la nueva escala de satisfacción sexual (NSSS). Los resultados obtenidos identificaron la predominancia de estrés, así como nivel medio de satisfacción sexual sin diferencias estadísticamente significativas entre hombres y mujeres con relación a la variable satisfacción sexual (t (98.0) = -1.56, p >0.05). Además, existe una relación negativa leve entre estrés laboral y satisfacción sexual (Rho= -0.427 p < .001). Se concluyó que a mayor estrés laboral menor satisfacción sexual.Job stress and sexual satisfaction are relevant issues in the modern society. Those ones can change notably the life quality of health workers. Also, it is pointed out that health workers are a set of people that has not been studied deepen. This work aimed to determine the job stress and sexual satisfaction in health workers. It was carried out quantitative research of correlational scope with a non-experimental cross-sectional design. The sample selected had 100 workers of health industry that were selected through a non-probabilistic sampling. The sample was conformed of 40% men and 60% women. It was evaluated two kinds of test, the first one was job stress through the scale job stress of the ILO-WHO, and the second one was the new sexual satisfaction scale (NSSS). The results identified a predominant pattern of job stress and a medium level of sexual satisfaction. The sexual satisfaction results did not show meaningful differences based on the statistics between men and women (t (98.0) = -1.56, p >0.05). In addition, it is worth to mention that job stress and sexual satisfaction follow a slightly relation between both (Rho= -0.427 p < .001). Finally, it was concluded that the higher job stress is, the less sexual satisfaction is.&nbsp

Job Stress and Sexual Satisfaction in Health Workers

El estrés laboral y la satisfacción sexual representan un problema significativo en la sociedad moderna debido a que puede afectar notablemente en la calidad de vida de los trabajadores, además de ser una asociación que no ha sido estudiada a profundidad, por esta razón la presente investigación tuvo como objetivo determinar la relación entre estrés laboral y satisfacción sexual en el personal sanitario, mediante un enfoque cuantitativo, de alcance correlacional, diseño no experimental de corte transversal, en una muestra conformada de 100 profesionales pertenecientes al área de salud (40% hombres y 60% mujeres) seleccionados mediante un muestreo no probabilístico a quienes se les aplicó la escala de estrés laboral OIT- OMS y la nueva escala de satisfacción sexual (NSSS). Los resultados obtenidos identificaron la predominancia de estrés, así como nivel medio de satisfacción sexual sin diferencias estadísticamente significativas entre hombres y mujeres con relación a la variable satisfacción sexual (t (98.0) = -1.56, p >0.05). Además, existe una relación negativa leve entre estrés laboral y satisfacción sexual (Rho= -0.427 p < .001). Se concluyó que a mayor estrés laboral menor satisfacción sexual.Job stress and sexual satisfaction are relevant issues in the modern society. Those ones can change notably the life quality of health workers. Also, it is pointed out that health workers are a set of people that has not been studied deepen. This work aimed to determine the job stress and sexual satisfaction in health workers. It was carried out quantitative research of correlational scope with a non-experimental cross-sectional design. The sample selected had 100 workers of health industry that were selected through a non-probabilistic sampling. The sample was conformed of 40% men and 60% women. It was evaluated two kinds of test, the first one was job stress through the scale job stress of the ILO-WHO, and the second one was the new sexual satisfaction scale (NSSS). The results identified a predominant pattern of job stress and a medium level of sexual satisfaction. The sexual satisfaction results did not show meaningful differences based on the statistics between men and women (t (98.0) = -1.56, p >0.05). In addition, it is worth to mention that job stress and sexual satisfaction follow a slightly relation between both (Rho= -0.427 p < .001). Finally, it was concluded that the higher job stress is, the less sexual satisfaction is.&nbsp

Carbon fluxes resulting from land-use changes in the Tamaulipan thornscrub of northeastern Mexico

Information on carbon stock and flux resulting from land-use changes in subtropical, semi-arid ecosystems are important to understand global carbon flux, yet little data is available. In the Tamaulipan thornscrub forests of northeastern Mexico, biomass components of standing vegetation were estimated from 56 quadrats (200 m2 each). Regional land-use changes and present forest cover, as well as estimates of soil organic carbon from chronosequences, were used to predict carbon stocks and fluxes in this ecosystem

Impact of atrial fibrillation on clinical outcomes among patients with coronary artery disease undergoing revascularisation with drug-eluting stents

Coronary artery disease (CAD) and atrial fibrillation (AF) are major determinants of morbidity and mortality. A combined treatment with antiplatelet agents and vitamin K antagonists limits the risk of stent thrombosis and stroke while increasing the rate of bleeding. The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of atrial fibrillation (AF) on long-term clinical outcomes in patients with CAD undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with drug-eluting stents (DES)

Ecological Implications of Extreme Events: Footprints of the 2010 Earthquake along the Chilean Coast

Deciphering ecological effects of major catastrophic events such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, storms and fires, requires rapid interdisciplinary efforts often hampered by a lack of pre-event data. Using results of intertidal surveys conducted shortly before and immediately after Chile's 2010 Mw 8.8 earthquake along the entire rupture zone (ca. 34–38°S), we provide the first quantification of earthquake and tsunami effects on sandy beach ecosystems. Our study incorporated anthropogenic coastal development as a key design factor. Ecological responses of beach ecosystems were strongly affected by the magnitude of land-level change. Subsidence along the northern rupture segment combined with tsunami-associated disturbance and drowned beaches. In contrast, along the co-seismically uplifted southern rupture, beaches widened and flattened increasing habitat availability. Post-event changes in abundance and distribution of mobile intertidal invertebrates were not uniform, varying with land-level change, tsunami height and coastal development. On beaches where subsidence occurred, intertidal zones and their associated species disappeared. On some beaches, uplift of rocky sub-tidal substrate eliminated low intertidal sand beach habitat for ecologically important species. On others, unexpected interactions of uplift with man-made coastal armouring included restoration of upper and mid-intertidal habitat seaward of armouring followed by rapid colonization of mobile crustaceans typical of these zones formerly excluded by constraints imposed by the armouring structures. Responses of coastal ecosystems to major earthquakes appear to vary strongly with land-level change, the mobility of the biota and shore type. Our results show that interactions of extreme events with human-altered shorelines can produce surprising ecological outcomes, and suggest these complex responses to landscape alteration can leave lasting footprints in coastal ecosystems

Search for new phenomena in final states with an energetic jet and large missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at √ s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Results of a search for new phenomena in final states with an energetic jet and large missing transverse momentum are reported. The search uses 20.3 fb−1 of √ s = 8 TeV data collected in 2012 with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Events are required to have at least one jet with pT > 120 GeV and no leptons. Nine signal regions are considered with increasing missing transverse momentum requirements between Emiss T > 150 GeV and Emiss T > 700 GeV. Good agreement is observed between the number of events in data and Standard Model expectations. The results are translated into exclusion limits on models with either large extra spatial dimensions, pair production of weakly interacting dark matter candidates, or production of very light gravitinos in a gauge-mediated supersymmetric model. In addition, limits on the production of an invisibly decaying Higgs-like boson leading to similar topologies in the final state are presente

Effects of cigarette smoke condensate on proliferation and wound closure of bronchial epithelial cells in vitro: role of glutathione

BACKGROUND: Increased airway epithelial proliferation is frequently observed in smokers. To elucidate the molecular mechanisms leading to these epithelial changes, we studied the effect of cigarette smoke condensate (CSC) on cell proliferation, wound closure and mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK) activation. We also studied whether modulation of intracellular glutathione/thiol levels could attenuate CSC-induced cell proliferation. METHODS: Cells of the bronchial epithelial cell line NCI-H292 and subcultures of primary bronchial epithelial cells were used for the present study. The effect of CSC on epithelial proliferation was assessed using 5-bromo-2-deoxyuridine (BrdU) incorporation. Modulation of epithelial wound repair was studied by analysis of closure of 3 mm circular scrape wounds during 72 hours of culture. Wound closure was calculated from digital images obtained at 24 h intervals. Activation of mitogen-activated protein kinases was assessed by Western blotting using phospho-specific antibodies. RESULTS: At low concentrations CSC increased proliferation of NCI-H292 cells, whereas high concentrations were inhibitory as a result of cytotoxicity. Low concentrations of CSC also increased epithelial wound closure of both NCI-H292 and PBEC, whereas at high concentrations closure was inhibited. At low, mitogenic concentrations, CSC caused persistent activation of ERK1/2, a MAPK involved in cell proliferation. Inhibition of cell proliferation by high concentrations of CSC was associated with activation of the pro-apoptotic MAP kinases p38 and JNK. Modulation of intracellular glutathione (GSH)/thiol levels using N-acetyl-L-cysteine, GSH or buthionine sulphoximine (BSO), demonstrated that both the stimulatory and the inhibitory effects of CSC were regulated in part by intracellular GSH levels. CONCLUSION: These results indicate that CSC may increase cell proliferation and wound closure dependent on the local concentration of cigarette smoke and the anti-oxidant status. These findings are consistent with increased epithelial proliferation in smokers, and may provide further insight in the development of lung cancer

Bridging ultrahigh-Q devices and photonic circuits

Optical microresonators are essential to a broad range of technologies and scientific disciplines. However, many of their applications rely on discrete devices to attain challenging combinations of ultra-low-loss performance (ultrahigh Q) and resonator design requirements. This prevents access to scalable fabrication methods for photonic integration and lithographic feature control. Indeed, finding a microfabrication bridge that connects ultrahigh-Q device functions with photonic circuits is a priority of the microcavity field. Here, an integrated resonator having a record Q factor over 200 million is presented. Its ultra-low-loss and flexible cavity design brings performance to integrated systems that has been the exclusive domain of discrete silica and crystalline microcavity devices. Two distinctly different devices are demonstrated: soliton sources with electronic repetition rates and high-coherence/low-threshold Brillouin lasers. This multi-device capability and performance from a single integrated cavity platform represents a critical advance for future photonic circuits and systems

Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report

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