The Mediating Role of Personality Strengths in the Relationship Between Gender Roles and Occupational Well-Being of Nurses

Background: The purpose of the study is to explore the relationships amongst gender roles, personality strengths and occupational well-being of nurses in Mainland China. Design: A crossâ€sectional study was used. Method: A total of 318 nurses from a tertiary hospital in Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, were measured with general information questionnaire, gender role scale (simplified version), three-dimensional character advantage questionnaire, and medical worker occupational well-being scale. Results: The character strengths and occupational well-being scores of the nurses in this study were (57.29±7.16) and (79.59±12.67), respectively. Bisexuality in gender roles was positively correlated with personality dominance and occupational well-being (r=0.535, r=0.204,P<0.01); undifferentiated was negatively correlated with both (r=-0.529, r=-0.230,P<0.01); and personality dominance was positively correlated with occupational well-being (r=0.350,P<0.01). In the effect of nurses' gender roles on occupational well-being, personality strengths played a fully mediating role. Conclusion: Gender roles and character strengths are important factors affecting nurses' professional well-being, and gender roles can indirectly affect nurses' professional well-being through character strengths. Clinical nursing managers should take relevant measures to cultivate character strengths appropriate to different gender roles to improve nurses' occupational well-being

How Does Information Sharing of a Supervisor Influence Proactive Change Behavior of an Employee? The Chain Mediating Role of Family-Like Employee–Organization Relationship and Relationship Energy

The proactive change behavior of an employee is the key to promoting organizational innovation. However, the proactive change has a certain risk, and many employees are unwilling to implement initiatively. How to promote the occurrence of a proactive change behavior of an employee has become a hot issue in the theoretical and practical areas. Based on the self-disclosure theory, this study uses the questionnaire survey method, containing a total of 32 items, and uses the 5-point Likert scale (1 = strongly disagree and 5 = strongly agree), with the Mplus and SPSS statistical software to analyze the impact mechanism of work-related information sharing of supervisors on the proactive change behavior of employees through the structural equation model. The regulatory effect of non-work information sharing of leaders is analyzed using the latent regulatory structural equation method. The conclusions are as follows: work-related information sharing positively of supervisors influences the family-like employee–organization relationship of employees; the family-like employee–organization relationship and relationship energy play serial mediating roles in the relationship between work-related information sharing of supervisors and the proactive change behavior of employees; non-work information sharing of supervisors moderates the serial mediating path by enhancing the positive influence of work-related information sharing of supervisors on the family-like employee–organization relationship. Theoretically, this study has complemented and enriched the research on the influence mechanism between the information sharing of supervisors and the proactive change behavior of employees. Practically, this study has important implications for supervisors to promote the proactive change behavior of employees by sharing work-related information and non-work information with employees

PromptCBLUE: A Chinese Prompt Tuning Benchmark for the Medical Domain

Biomedical language understanding benchmarks are the driving forces for artificial intelligence applications with large language model (LLM) back-ends. However, most current benchmarks: (a) are limited to English which makes it challenging to replicate many of the successes in English for other languages, or (b) focus on knowledge probing of LLMs and neglect to evaluate how LLMs apply these knowledge to perform on a wide range of bio-medical tasks, or (c) have become a publicly available corpus and are leaked to LLMs during pre-training. To facilitate the research in medical LLMs, we re-build the Chinese Biomedical Language Understanding Evaluation (CBLUE) benchmark into a large scale prompt-tuning benchmark, PromptCBLUE. Our benchmark is a suitable test-bed and an online platform for evaluating Chinese LLMs' multi-task capabilities on a wide range bio-medical tasks including medical entity recognition, medical text classification, medical natural language inference, medical dialogue understanding and medical content/dialogue generation. To establish evaluation on these tasks, we have experimented and report the results with the current 9 Chinese LLMs fine-tuned with differtent fine-tuning techniques

Hybrid composites of silica glass fibre/nano-hydroxyapatite/polylactic acid for medical application

Fibre reinforced composites (FRC) have shown great potential for the application of internal bone fixation due to mechanical properties that are similar to those of human cortical bones. Ternary composites of silica glass fibres, nano-hydroxyapatite (n-HA) and polylactic acid (PLA) were prepared by compression moulding and their mechanical properties were characterized in this study. With the volumetric content of glass fibre remained constantly at 30% and the volume fraction of n-HA increased from 0% to 5%, the flexural strengths of composites decreased from 625.68 MPa to 206.55 MPa, whereas a gradual increment of flexural modulus from 11.01 to 14.08 GPa were observed at the same time. Within a 28-day degradation period, the flexural strengths decreased by 30%, while no obvious trend of modulus variation was found. The flexural properties of all composites prepared in this study were all found to be close to the reported flexural properties. On the other hand, as more n-HA were incorporated, the water absorption percentages increased, whereas negligible mass loss were recorded. SEM images revealed that the impregnation of fibre mats was poor as loose fibres were observed, which shall be solved in future research to further improve the mechanical properties as well as endurance against degradation. © 2017 International Committee on Composite Materials. All rights reserved

Association between ultra-processed food consumption and risk of breast cancer: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of observational studies

BackgroundSome epidemiological studies have examined the association between consumption of ultra-processed food (UPF) and the risk of breast cancer. However, the results were inconsistent. Therefore, we carried out a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis to examine whether an association exists between high consumption of UPF and breast cancer risk.MethodsPubMed/MEDLINE, ISI Web of Science, EBSCO and CNKI databases were systematically searched from inception to May 2023. The summary relative risks (RRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) associated with UPF consumption and breast cancer were calculated using a random-effects model (DerSimonian-Laird method). Heterogeneity between included studies was examined using the Cochran’s Q test and I-square (I2) statistics. Publication bias was studied by visual inspection of funnel plot asymmetry and Begg’s and Egger’s tests.ResultsOverall, six articles involving 462,292 participants, were eligible to be included in this study. Compared to the lowest consumption, highest consumption of UPF was related to a higher risk of breast cancer (RR = 1.10; 95%CI: 1.00–1.22, p = 0.056). Besides, the linear dose–response analysis showed that each 10% increment in UPF consumption was related to a 5% higher risk of breast cancer (RR = 1.05; 95%CI: 1.00–1.10, p = 0.048). Subgroup analyses suggested that UPF consumption was positively associated with breast cancer risk in case-control studies (RR = 1.13; 95%CI: 1.01–1.26, p = 0.028). Additionally, there was also a significant positive association between UPF consumption and breast cancer risk in the subgroup with sample size<5,000(RR = 1.17; 95%CI: 1.02–1.35, p = 0.028).ConclusionOur results indicate that higher consumption of UPF is slightly related to a higher risk of breast cancer. Further studies in particular of large prospective cohort studies are warranted to confirm these results

Simultaneous Detection of Chlamydia Trachomatis, Neisseria Gonorrhoeae, Ureaplasma Urealyticum by Multiplex PCR-Running

Chlamydia trachomatis (CT), Ureaplasma urealyticum (UU) and Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG) are the most common pathogens of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), frequently founded in urogenital infections, and showed a criminal role in increasing the risk of potential adverse outcomes. In this study a multiplex PCR assay for the simultaneous detection and accurate identification of 3 clinically relevant pathogens of STIs, i.e., CT, NG and UU in a single tube was developed and evaluated. The limits of detection for the multiplex PCR assay were ~10 copies of DNAs per reaction. This assay has comparable clinical sensitivity to the conventional monoplex real-time PCR assay and considerable potential to be routine molecular diagnostic tool for simultaneous identification of STIs at relatively low cost due to multiplexing