Barriers to nurses performing physical assessments in rehabilitation care units: An observational study.

To describe the perceived barriers to nurses performing physical assessments of patients in rehabilitation wards. Secondarily, to investigate how sociodemographic and professional characteristics influence the use and frequency of physical assessments by nurses and their perceptions of barriers to their practice. A multicentre, cross-sectional, observational study. Data were collected from September to November 2020 among nurses working with inpatients in eight rehabilitation care institutions in French-speaking Switzerland. Instruments included the Barriers to Nurses' use of Physical Assessment Scale. Almost half of the 112 nurses who responded reported performing physical assessments regularly. The predominant perceived barriers to performing physical assessments were 'specialty area', 'lack of nursing role models' and 'lack of time and interruptions'. Greater clinical nursing experience in rehabilitation wards and more senior nurse specialist positions were associated with significantly lower use of physical assessment procedures by nurses. The present study revealed heterogeneity in the use of physical assessment by nurses practicing in rehabilitation units and highlighted their perceived barriers to this. Most nurses working in rehabilitation care units did not routinely perform physical assessments as part of their daily clinical practice. These results should raise stakeholders' awareness of this fact. Effective interventions to increase the use of physical assessments in nursing practice are to be recommended, including continuing education or hiring enough highly qualified nurses as role models in wards. This will promote quality of care and patient safety in rehabilitation care units. There was no patient or public involvement in the present study

Synthesis and electrochemical characterization of aPEO-based polymer electrolyte

In this paper the preparation and purification of an amorphous polymer network, poly[oxymethylene-oligo(oxyethylene)], designated as aPEO, are described. The flexible CH2CH2O segments in this host polymer combine appropriate mechanical properties, over a critical temperature range from -20 to 60 ºC, with labile salt-host interactions. The intensity of these interactions is sufficient to permit solubilization of the guest salt in the host polymer while permitting adequate mobility of ionic guest species. We also report the preparation and characterization of a novel polymer electrolyte based on this host polymer with lithium tetrafluoroborate, LiBF4, as guest salt. Electrolyte samples are thermally stable up to approximately 250 ºC and completely amorphous above room temperature. The electrolyte composition determines the glass transition temperature of electrolytes and was found to vary between –50.8 and –62.4 ºC. The electrolyte composition that supports the maximum room temperature conductivity of this electrolyte system is n = 5 (2.10×10-5 S cm-1 at 25 ºC). The electrochemical stability domain of the sample with n = 5 spans about 5 V measured against a Li/Li+ reference. This new electrolyte system represents a promising alternative to LiCF3SO3 and LiClO4-doped PEO analogues.Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologi

Armazenabilidade de sementes de Coffea canephora Pierre colhidas em diferentes estádios de maturação e submetidas a diferentes métodos de secagem.

A lenta e desuniforme germinação de sementes de cafeeiro aliadas ao seu baixo potencial de armazenamento, dificultam a obtenção de mudas uniformes e bem desenvolvidas. Apesar dos esforços das pesquisas as causas da lenta germinação ou baixa armazenabilidade das sementes continuam obscuras. Para a produção de sementes de cafeeiro é recomendada à colheita dos frutos no estádio cereja, no entanto pesquisas têm demonstrado que estas sementes já adquirem a sua máxima capacidade germinativa entre os estádios verde cana e cereja e que sementes completamente maduras, podem não ter o máximo potencial de armazenamento ou maior tolerância à desidratação devido à provável iniciação do processo de germinação já no final do processo de desenvolvimento. Assim, o presente trabalho foi realizado com o objetivo de investigar os efeitos do estádio de desenvolvimento e do método de secagem sobre a germinabilidade e a armazenabilidade de sementes de cafeeiro. Sementes foram processadas a partir de frutos de Coffea canephora Pierre, cultivar Apoatã IAC2258, colhidos no estádio cereja e verde cana e submetidas a três métodos de secagem (sem secagem, secagem lenta à sombra e secagem rápida em secador estacionário). Após quatro meses de armazenamento sob temperatura de 10ºC em embalagens herméticas, foram avaliados a qualidade fisiológica e o vigor das sementes por meio dos testes de germinação, de protrusão radicular, de matéria seca de plântulas, de emergência em bandejas, de índice de velocidade de emergência, de condutividade elétrica e de viabilidade pelo teste de tetrazólio. Analisando-se os resultados pode-se concluir que sementes de Coffea canephora L. apresentam maior capacidade de armazenamento quando colhidas no estádio cereja e são armazenadas úmidas. Além disto, em ambos estádios de maturação, as sementes apresentam desempenhos fisiológicos semelhantes, após quatro meses de armazenamento, quando são submetidas uma secagem lenta. A secagem rápida é prejudicial à qualidade fisiológica de sementes de Coffea canephora L

Fragility of ferromagnetic double exchange interactions and pressure tuning of magnetism in 3d-5d double perovskite Sr2FeOsO6

FAPESP - FUNDAÇÃO DE AMPARO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULOThe ability to tune exchange (magnetic) interactions between 3d transition metals in perovskite structures has proven to be a powerful route to discovery of novel properties. Here we demonstrate that the introduction of 3d-5d exchange pathways in double perovskites enables additional tunability, a result of the large spatial extent of 5d wave functions. Using x-ray probes of magnetism and structure at high pressure, we show that compression of Sr2FeOsO6 drives an unexpected continuous change in the sign of Fe-Os exchange interactions and a transition from antiferromagnetic to ferrimagnetic order. We analyze the relevant electron-electron interactions, shedding light into fundamental differences with the more thoroughly studied 3d-3d systems.The ability to tune exchange (magnetic) interactions between 3d transition metals in perovskite structures has proven to be a powerful route to discovery of novel properties. Here we demonstrate that the introduction of 3d-5d exchange pathways in double perovskites enables additional tunability, a result of the large spatial extent of 5d wave functions. Using x-ray probes of magnetism and structure at high pressure, we show that compression of Sr2FeOsO6 drives an unexpected continuous change in the sign of Fe-Os exchange interactions and a transition from antiferromagnetic to ferrimagnetic order. We analyze the relevant electron-electron interactions, shedding light into fundamental differences with the more thoroughly studied 3d-3d systems.912317FAPESP - FUNDAÇÃO DE AMPARO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULOFAPESP - FUNDAÇÃO DE AMPARO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO2013/14338-3Work at Argonne is supported by the US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. L.S.I.V. is supported by FAPESP (SP-Brazil) under Contract No. 2013/14338-3. M.v.V. was supported by DOE-BES under Grant No. DE-FG02-03ER46097. This research was supported in part by the World Premier International Research Center of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) through a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (25289233). We would like to thank Changyong Park and Curtis Kenney-Benson for their assistance at 16-BM-D beamline, Sergey N. Tkachev for assistance with gas loading, and Richard Rosenberg for help with soft x-ray measurements. We also thank GSECARS for use of the gas loading and laser drilling facilities

Genetic diversity by molecular markers in lines of phaseolus vulgaris from VCU experiments at Embrapa Rice and Beans breeding program.

This study aimed to characterize the diversity and to determine the genetic differentiation within lines and cultivars from VCU 2009/2010, based on a set of SSR markers. Twenty-three lines (10 from ?Preto?, 12 from ?Carioca? and one from special grains group) and nine cultivars (four from ?Preto? and five from ?Carioca? group) comprised VCU from 2009/2010