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    Nursing Information Behavior (NIB) in the Pandemic: Resilience of a Knowledge Base

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    Health care assumed epic proportions in 2020 as the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic swept the globe, crossing all social, geographic, economic and political lines. A key component of care at every phase of the pandemic has been home care nursing. A virtual domain analysis clinic (DAC) was constructed around the focus of nursing information behavior (NIB). An important question for research was the extent to which the ontological base underlying NIB might be the subject of conceptual evolution during the pandemic. The clinic began by using domain analytical techniques to extract a NIB taxonomy from a key text; the taxonomy was then mapped to an international nursing classification and published online where it could be available for scholarship. As the pandemic evolved the DAC employed ethnographic techniques to discover ways in which the knowledge base represented by the pandemic was affected over time. The knowledge base of NIB is resilient. The taxonomy of the domain originally drawn from research and mapped to a classification of practice is sustainably efficacious throughout this project. The analysis of video transcripts reveals ethnographic contexts emerging over the course of the pandemic that provide new contours for the knowledge base. Beyond the resilient core lies a rich panoply of emergent vocabulary. The vocabulary of the pandemic itself becomes part of the knowledge base of the home care nurse. The rise of an emotional layer beyond the core vocabulary of NIB reveals the contours of the social impact of the pandemic as vocabulary concerning the very human psychological and social impacts enter the knowledge base with terms forming a credo of moral fiber, hope, dedication and determination

    Shifting Taxonomies in Home Care Nursing Information Behavior: Patients, Pandemic, Community

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    IKOS has continued to monitor the nursing information behavior (NIB) of home care nurses. In earlier reports we described how we developed an online taxonomy of NIB. We then took on a qualitative analysis of video representations of home care nursing in the pandemic. Merging the codes from two rounds of open coding yielded a set of categories (or axes) that could be used to construct a narrative analysis. Contextual quotations from the video transcripts further reveal the intensity of the potential taxonomic extension. The importance of this research for knowledge organization is the understanding we develop concerning shifting taxonomies in the NIB environment

    Nursing Information Behavior (NIB) in the Context of

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    Abstract: This research explores two elements of the information behavior of homecare nurses, their commonly identified information drivers and frequently used information leads and conduits. Additionally, information behavior is examined in the context of the nurses ’ helpseeking motivators. Résumé: Cette recherche explore deux éléments du comportement informationnel des infirmiers et infirmières à domicile, leurs priorités informationnelles habituellement identifiées et les pistes et comportements informationnels généralement utilisés. En outre, le comportement informationnel est examiné dans le contexte des facteurs de motivation de l’aide à la recherche des infirmiers et infirmières. 1.

    A search for bottom-type vector-like quark pair production in dileptonic and fully hadronic final states in proton-proton collisions at s\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV

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    International audienceA search is described for the production of a pair of bottom-type vector-like quarks (B VLQs) with mass greater than 1000 GeV. Each B VLQ decays into a b quark and a Higgs boson, a b quark and a Z boson, or a t quark and a W boson. This analysis considers both fully hadronic final states and those containing a charged lepton pair from a Z boson decay. The products of the H toto bb boson decay and of the hadronic Z or W boson decays can be resolved as two distinct jets or merged into a single jet, so the final states are classified by the number of reconstructed jets. The analysis uses data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb1^{-1} collected in proton-proton collisions at s\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC from 2016 to 2018. No excess over the expected background is observed. Lower limits are set on the B VLQ mass at 95% confidence level. These depend on the B VLQ branching fractions and are 1570 and 1540 GeV for 100% B \to bH and 100% B \to bZ, respectively. In most cases, the mass limits obtained exceed previous limits by at least 100 GeV

    A search for bottom-type vector-like quark pair production in dileptonic and fully hadronic final states in proton-proton collisions at s\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV

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    International audienceA search is described for the production of a pair of bottom-type vector-like quarks (B VLQs) with mass greater than 1000 GeV. Each B VLQ decays into a b quark and a Higgs boson, a b quark and a Z boson, or a t quark and a W boson. This analysis considers both fully hadronic final states and those containing a charged lepton pair from a Z boson decay. The products of the H toto bb boson decay and of the hadronic Z or W boson decays can be resolved as two distinct jets or merged into a single jet, so the final states are classified by the number of reconstructed jets. The analysis uses data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb1^{-1} collected in proton-proton collisions at s\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC from 2016 to 2018. No excess over the expected background is observed. Lower limits are set on the B VLQ mass at 95% confidence level. These depend on the B VLQ branching fractions and are 1570 and 1540 GeV for 100% B \to bH and 100% B \to bZ, respectively. In most cases, the mass limits obtained exceed previous limits by at least 100 GeV
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