22 research outputs found
The use of blog to facilitate clinical learning during practicum among undergraduate nursing students: a preliminary study
Blogging has been increasingly used in the education field. This study is the first to explore the use of blogging to facilitate clinical learning for undergraduate nursing students (N=57) with surface or deep study approaches during their clinical practicum in Hong Kong. The findings indicated that blogging is useful in facilitating clinical learning as it fulfills different learning styles and needs of students by promoting information and knowledge sharing, enhancing self-reflection and providing emotional support.postprintThe 6th International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM 2009), Hong Kong, 3-4 December 2009. In Proceedings of ICKM, 2009, p. 1-1
Energy loss in perturbative QCD
We review the properties of energetic parton propagation in hot or cold QCD
matter, as obtained in recent works. Advances in understanding the energy loss
- collisional and radiative - are summarized, with emphasis on the latter: it
features very interesting properties which may help to detect the quark-gluon
plasma produced in heavy ion collisions. We describe two different theoretical
approaches, which lead to the same radiated gluon energy spectrum. The case of
a longitudinally expanding QCD plasma is investigated. The energy lost by a jet
with given opening angle is calculated in view of making predictions for the
suppression (quenching) of hard jet production. Phenomenological implications
for the difference between hot and cold matter are discussed. Numerical
estimates of the loss suggest that it may be significantly enhanced in hot
compared to cold matter.Comment: 49 pages latex file with 11 embedded PS figures. Uses ar.sty
(included), one equation revised. submitted to Annual Review of Nuclear and
Particle Scienc
Does trust play a role when it comes to donations? A comparison of Italian and US higher education institutions
Higher education institutions (HEIs) have experienced severe cutbacks in funding over the past few years, with universities examining options for alternative funding streams, such as alumni funding. Identifying the factors influencing their alumni's intentions to invest in their alma mater can be of significant importance when establishing a sustainable revenue stream. Within this context, empirical research on the potential role of trust is scarce. This paper aims to deepen the analysis of the relationship between alumni trust and engagement as well as three outcomes, namely support, commitment, and attitude toward donation. A structural equation model was tested on two samples of US ( = 318) and Italian ( = 314) alumni. Although both countries are affluent and developed countries, the USA has an established tradition of alumni donations, which is not such a developed practice in Italy. For both countries, results confirm that engagement is an antecedent of trust, which in turn leads to the three investigated outcomes (support, commitment, and attitude toward donations). In contrast, the effect of commitment on attitude toward donations is significant only for the USA universities. The paper has interesting theoretical and managerial implications. From a theoretical point of view, the study aims to address a gap concerning the role of trust in the HE context. Managerially, the study has significant implications for universities that want to change alumni attitude toward donations. [Abstract copyright: © Springer Nature B.V. 2020.
Colour octet contribution in exclusive P-wave charmonium decay into proton-antiproton
In inclusive P-wave charmonium decay, to cancel infrared divergence in
the colour singlet contribution requires the inclusion of the colour
octet which becomes degenerate with the former in the infrared limit. In
the corresponding exclusive decay, such an infrared divergence does not
exist. On this ground, it becomes doubtful whether the colour octet is
needed in exclusive reactions. A contradiction in the underlying
picture, however, would result once all strong decay channels are
summed. We provide an answer to this question in support of the colour
octet with theoretical arguments as well as an explicit calculation of
chi(J) –> p (p) over bar. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V, All rights
reserved
Off-mass-shell Sudakov-like suppression factor for the fermionic four-point function in QCD
We consider a four-point process, associated with a wide-angle elastic
scattering of two off-mass-shell spin-1/2 matter particles, in a
non-abelian gauge theory, On the basis of a worldline approach, which
reverts the functional to a path-integral description of the system, we
factorize an eikonal (”soft”) subsector of the full theory and
calculate the Sudakov-like suppression factor for the four-point
function as a whole, once we have extracted the associated anomalous
dimensions and taken into account the renormalization-group controlled
evolution. (C) 1999 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights
reserved
The effects of bending speed on the lumbo-pelvic kinematics and movement pattern during forward bending in people with and without low back pain
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