The Impact on Midwives of Undertaking Screening for Domestic Violence: Focus Group Findings

Objective: To investigate the impact mandatory screening for domestic violence has had upon registered midwives. Design: Three phase study – Phase one involved focus group interviews. Setting: Hospitals in South-East Queensland undertaking mandatory domestic violence screening. Participants: Registered midwives undertaking screening for domestic violence. Results: Several barriers were identified that directly impacted upon the midwives' potential to screen effectively. Barriers identified were classified as intrinsic (intrapersonal and perception) and extrinsic (interpersonal, environmental and organisational infrastructure). Principle, conclusions and implications for practice: Although midwives have strong beliefs about the value of domestic violence screening, there is a negative perception about it's efficacy and an assumption of failure due to the barriers identified by the registered midwives

The role of biographical characteristics in preservice classroom teachers\u27 school physical activity promotion attitudes

Recommendations for increasing children’s daily physical activity (PA) call on classroom teachers to assume an activist role at school. This study examined relationships among preservice classroom teachers’ (PCT; n = 247) biographical characteristics, perceptions and attitudes regarding school PA promotion (SPAP). Results indicated participants who completed SPAP-related college coursework and had PA-related teaching/coaching experiences reported higher SPAP competence. Significant relationships were found among BMI, personal PA competence and SPAP competence in the contexts of PE and extracurricular settings. Personal PA competence and SPAP competence at recess and in the classroom predicted 19% of the variance in SPAP attitudes. Experiences in PA settings and preservice training may have important implications for the overall success of efforts to enhance school PA promotion

Collaborative filtering: possibilities for libraries

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Transportation for Seniors in a Rural Community: Can the Nursing Home Play a Role?

In New Brunswick, a large percentage of the population is made up of older adults living in rural communities. This situation presents a number of challenges, particularly in terms of transportation. This paper describes a pilot project in a small rural community in New Brunswick in which a shuttle bus belonging to a long-term care facility was used to provide transportation for older adults living in the community. Both interviews and standardized quantitative measures of life satisfaction and depressive symptoms were used to measure quality of life with older adults who used the bus (n = 8) and older adults who did not use the bus (n = 17). Interviews with the bus drivers and program coordinators, as well as observations of a bus trip were also carried out. Bus takers were found to have lower scores on many quality-of-life indicators than non-bus takers, and were very satisfied with the bus service. Recommendations for increasing the long-term viability of the initiative are addressed in the Discussion.Au Nouveau Brunswick, une grande proportion de la population se compose d’adultes plus âgés qui vivent dans des collectivités rurales. Une telle situation pose un certain nombre de défis, notamment quant au transport. Le présent article expose un projet pilote d’une petite collectivité rurale du Nouveau Brunswick dans laquelle un bus-navette appartenant à un établissement de soins de longue durée a été utilisé pour transporter les adultes plus âgés qui vivent dans la collectivité. À la fois les entretiens, les mesures quantitatives normalisées de satisfaction à l’égard de la vie et les symptômes dépressifs ont été utilisés afin de mesurer la qualité de la vie des adultes plus âgés qui utilisaient le bus-navette (n = 8) et de ceux qui ne l’utilisaient pas (n = 17). Des entretiens avec les chauffeurs et les coordonnateurs du programme ont été effectués et des observations ont été recueillies au cours d’un trajet en bus-navette. Les personnes qui adoptaient ce moyen de transport présentaient des résultats plus faibles quant à de nombreux indicateurs de la qualité de vie que les personnes qui ne prenaient pas le bus et elles étaient très satisfaites du service de bus-navette. Des recommandations en vue d’accroître la viabilité à long terme de l’initiative sont abordées dans la discussion

Tsunami Digital Library Needs Assessment: Final Report to Oregon State University Libraries and the Northwest Alliance for Computational Science & Engineering

The project team surveyed and interviewed forty identified experts within the diverse tsunami community. The survey revealed that this community is a sophisticated user of Internet search engines and tools and is very familiar with existing information. The sites mentioned most frequently as being helpful were those of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) as well as the International Tsunami Information Center and the National Earthquake Information Center. The primary criticism of other sites is that many of these sites are difficult to utilize. The survey results list uneven organization, dead links, and poor quality information as part of these difficulties. From the results, this community is looking for a centralized means to find and retrieve realtime as well as historical data, geographic resources, outreach materials, and modeling information. The data demonstrate a clear need for more coherent and effective access to tsunami information such as could be found in a Tsunami Digital Library. The following report describes the concept of the TDL, its technical framework and proposed content. We explain the methodology of the needs assessment, report the results of our survey, and recommend further work

Evolved Gas Measurements Planned for the Lower Layers of the Gale Crater Mound with the Sample Analysis at Mars Instrument Suite

The lower mound strata of Gale Crater provide a diverse set of chemical environments for exploration by the varied tools of the Curiosity Rover of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Mission. Orbital imaging and spectroscopy clearly reveal distinct layers of hydrated minerals, sulfates, and clays with abundant evidence of a variety of fluvial processes. The three instruments of the MSL Sample Analysis at aMars (SAM) investigation, the Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer (QMS), the Tunable Laser Spectrometer (TLS), and the Gas Chromatograph (GC) are designed to analyze either atmospheric gases or volatiles thermally evolved or chemically extracted from powdered rock or soil. The presence or absence of organic compounds in these layers is of great interest since such an in situ search for this type of record has not been successfully implemented since the mid-60s Viking GCMS experiments. However, regardless of the outcome of the analysis for organics, the abundance and isotopic composition of thermally evolved inorganic compounds should also provide a rich data set to complement the mineralogical and elemental information provided by other MSL instruments. In addition, these evolved gas analysis (EGA) experiments will help test sedimentary models proposed by Malin and Edgett (2000) and then further developed by Milliken et al (2010) for Gale Crater. In the SAM EGA experiments the evolution temperatures of H2O, CO2, SO2, O2, or other simple compounds as the samples are heated in a helium stream to 1000 C provides information on mineral types and their associations. The isotopic composition of O, H, C, and S can be precisely determined in several evolved compounds and compared with the present day atmosphere. Such SAM results might be able to test mineralogical evidence of changing sedimentary and alteration processes over an extended period of time. For example, Bibring et al (2006) have suggested such a major shift from early nonacidic to later acidic alteration. We will illustrate through a variety of evolved gas experiments implemented under SAM-like gas flow and temperature ramp conditions on terrestrial analog minerals on high fidelity Sam breadboards the type of chemical information we expect SAM to provide

Growth mechanism of dendritic hematite via hydrolysis of ferricyanide

W.Z. thanks EPSRC for financial support to purchase the FEG SEM (EP/F019580/1).The detailed process of the hydrolysis of ferricyanide into dendritic α-Fe2O3 (hematite) crystals with snowflake-like, feather-like and leaf-like morphologies has been investigated. [Fe(CN)6]3– anions were found to polymerize into large, disordered soft matter aggregates at an early stage. The nucleation of hematite crystals took place near the surface of these aggregates via further hydrolysis. After the crystals grew to a certain size, branches started to appear. When the concentration of ferricyanide was low (i.e. 2 mM to 3.8 mM), growth was preferentially along the six equivalent directions, resulting in a flat snowflake-like shape, while high concentrations (i.e. 9 mM to 500 mM) of ferricyanide led to the growth of selective directions along the zone axes, forming a feather-like or leaf-like morphology. Highly selective adsorption and surface hydrolysis of [Fe(CN)6]3– anions on α-Fe2O3 crystals was found to be a crucial process in the formation of these novel morphologies. It was found that the polymeri- sation of ferricyanide led to a reduction of pH value and that the formation of Fe2O3 increased pH value. The pH value of the solution at the point when the branches start to grow can significantly affect the distribution of Lewis acidic sites on different surfaces and, therefore, change the growth direction. The newly established mechanism is complementary to the classical theories of crystal growth.PostprintPeer reviewe

Yaquina Bay bibliography by date to 2023

Oregon's estuaries are important ecosystems for scientific study. Consequently, knowledge of what research has been conducted helps us identify benchmarks and plan new projects. A comprehensive bibliography of published research, technical reports, local documents, and data sets is one means of recording this knowledge. For these reasons, the Guin Library staff have compiled bibliographies on Netarts Bay, the Salmon River Estuary, Siletz Bay, Yaquina Bay, the Alsea River Basin, the Yachats River Estuary and the Umpqua River Basin.Yaquina Bay, located in Oregon's Lincoln County, has been extensively altered by jetties, dredging, landfills, roads and other human modifications. The Oregon estuary classification system designates Yaquina Bay as a Deep Draft Development estuary. It has been studied for decades, at times aggressively so. With renewed interest in Yaquina Bay as a research site, Oregon Sea Grant and the Environmental Protection Agency generously funded the beginning of this bibliography. The initial compilation was done by graduate student Heather Hiveley and the Guin Librarian, Janet Webster. Further citations were added by Susan Gilmont, under the direction of Janet Webster and Mary Markland. In addition to some attention to the area’s pre-history, the historical period covered extends from Theodore Talbot’s trip through the region in 1849 through June 2023. A web-based version of this bibliography is available at: https://guin.library.oregonstate.edu/oregon-estuaries. The web version offers keyword searching, including major concepts as well as species names and geographic referents