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Mental health nurses' encounters with occupational health services
This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Occupational Medicine following peer review. Under embargo until 16 June 2019. The version of recordJ. Oates, J. Jones, and N. Drey, âMental health nursesâ encounters with occupational health servicesâ, Occupational Medicine, kqy084, (2018), is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqy084.Background: Staff wellbeing is vital to the functioning of the UK National Health Service (NHS). Mental health nurses with personal experience of mental illness can offer a professionally and personally informed insight into the occupational health service offered by their employer. Aims: To investigate mental health nursesâ views of occupational health provision in the NHS, based on their personal experience. Methods: A qualitative interview study using a purposive sample of mental health nurses with personal experience of mental illness. Results: Twenty-seven mental health nurses met the inclusion criteria. Thematic analysis identified three themes: comparisons of ârelative expertiseâ between the mental health nurse and the occupational health clinician; concerns about âbeing treatedâ by a service at their work; and âreturning to workâ. Conclusion: Occupational health provision in mental health settings must take account of the expertise of its staff. Further research, looking at NHS occupational health provision from the provider perspective is warranted.Peer reviewe
Studying Innovation in Businesses: New Research Possibilities
The rapid pace of globalization and technological change has created demand for more and better analysis to answer key policy questions about the role of businesses in innovation. This demand was codified into law in the America COMPETES Act. However, existing business datasets are not adequate to create an empirically based foundation for policy decisions. This paper argues that the existing IRS data infrastructure could be used in a number of ways to respond to the national imperative. It describes the legal framework within which such a response could take place, and outlines the organizational features that would be required to establish an IRS/researcher partnership. It concludes with a discussion of the role for the research policy community.Business microdata, innovation, confidentiality, researcher access, tax policy
Pulsing corals: A story of scale and mixing
Effective methods of fluid transport vary across scale. A commonly used
dimensionless number for quantifying the effective scale of fluid transport is
the Reynolds number, Re, which gives the ratio of inertial to viscous forces.
What may work well for one Re regime may not produce significant flows for
another. These differences in scale have implications for many organisms,
ranging from the mechanics of how organisms move through their fluid
environment to how hearts pump at various stages in development. Some
organisms, such as soft pulsing corals, actively contract their tentacles to
generate mixing currents that enhance photosynthesis. Their unique morphology
and intermediate scale where both viscous and inertial forces are significant
make them a unique model organism for understanding fluid mixing. In this
paper, 3D fluid-structure interaction simulations of a pulsing soft coral are
used to quantify fluid transport and fluid mixing across a wide range of Re.
The results show that net transport is negligible for , and continuous
upward flow is produced for .Comment: 8 pages, 8 figure
Conference Report âJudgment, Pluralism, and Democracy: On the Desirability of Speaking with Others (Nicholas Dunn, Julia Kiernan)
 
Fun Versus Meaningful Video Game Experiences: A Qualitative Analysis of User Responses
Emerging research on video games has suggested that feelings of both enjoyment and meaningfulness can be elicited from gameplay. Studies have shown enjoyment and meaningfulness evaluations to be associated with discrete elements of video games (ratings of gameplay and narrative, respectively), but have relied on closed-end data analysis. The current study analyzed participantsâ open-ended reviews of either their âmost funâ or âmost meaningfulâ video game experience (N = 575, randomly assigned to either condition). Results demonstrated that âfunâ games were explained in terms of gameplay mechanics, and âmeaningfulâ games were explained in terms of connections with players and in-game characters
Easy as (Happiness) Pie? A Critical Evaluation of a Popular Model of the Determinants of Well-Being
An underlying principle behind much of the research in positive psychology is that individuals have considerable leeway to increase their levels of happiness. In an influential article that is frequently cited in support of such claims, Lyubomirsky et al. (Rev Gen Psychol 9:111â131, 2005. https://doi.org/10.1037/1089-2680.9.2.111) put forward a model (subsequently popularized under the name of the âhappiness pieâ) in which approximately 50% of individual differences in happiness are due to genetic factors and 10% to life circumstances, leaving 40% available to be changed via volitional activities. We re-examined Lyubomirsky et al.âs claims and found several apparent deficiencies in their chain of arguments on both the empirical and the conceptual level. We conclude that there is little empirical evidence for the variance decomposition suggested by the âhappiness pie,â and that even if it were valid, it is not necessarily informative with respect to the question of whether individuals can truly exert substantial influence over their own chronic happiness level. We believe that our critical re-examination of Lyubomirsky et al.âs seminal article offers insights into some common misconceptions and pitfalls of scientific inference, and we hope that it might contribute to the construction of a more rigorous and solid empirical basis for the field of positive psychology
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An Activity-Based Nanosensor for Traumatic Brain Injury.
Currently, traumatic brain injury (TBI) is detected by medical imaging; however, medical imaging requires expensive capital equipment, is time- and resource-intensive, and is poor at predicting patient prognosis. To date, direct measurement of elevated protease activity has yet to be utilized to detect TBI. In this work, we engineered an activity-based nanosensor for TBI (TBI-ABN) that responds to increased protease activity initiated after brain injury. We establish that a calcium-sensitive protease, calpain-1, is active in the injured brain hours within injury. We then optimize the molecular weight of a nanoscale polymeric carrier to infiltrate into the injured brain tissue with minimal renal filtration. A calpain-1 substrate that generates a fluorescent signal upon cleavage was attached to this nanoscale polymeric carrier to generate an engineered TBI-ABN. When applied intravenously to a mouse model of TBI, our engineered sensor is observed to locally activate in the injured brain tissue. This TBI-ABN is the first demonstration of a sensor that responds to protease activity to detect TBI
Effects of Dual-Frequency Environment Exploration on Stiffness Discrimination Thresholds
Previously, excitation frequency has been found to alter perceptual discrimination thresholds of stiffness, mass, and damping. Here, we explore how the blending of two frequencies could affect the just noticeable difference for stiffness. In a perceptual experiment based on the method of adjustments, we tested participantsâ ability to match a reference stiffness moving at combinations of two frequencies to explore the effects on stiffness discrimination. As more of the lower frequency was added, participantsâ ability to accurately match the reference was hampered. Results suggest that as two frequencies are excited, the resulting perceptual thresholds are blended between the levels for the individual frequencies
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