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Normen voor commissarissen:een verwachtingskloof?
Normen voor commissarissen: een verwachtingskloof
Diapycnal mixing across the photic zone of the NEÂ Atlantic
Variable physical conditions such as vertical turbulent exchange, internal wave, and mesoscale eddy action affect the availability of light and nutrients for phytoplankton (unicellular algae) growth. It is hypothesized that changes in ocean temperature may affect ocean vertical density stratification, which may hamper vertical exchange. In order to quantify variations in physical conditions in the northeast Atlantic Ocean, we sampled a latitudinal transect along 17âÂąâ5ââW between 30 and 63ââN in summer. A shipborne conductivityâtemperatureâdepth (CTD) instrumented package was used with a custom-made modification of the pump inlet to minimize detrimental effects of ship motions on its data. Thorpe-scale analysis was used to establish turbulence values for the upper 500âm from three to six profiles obtained in a short CTD yo-yo, 3 to 5âh after local sunrise. From south to north, average temperature decreased together with stratification while turbulence values weakly increased or remained constant. Vertical turbulent nutrient fluxes did not vary significantly with stratification and latitude. This apparent lack of correspondence between turbulent mixing and temperature is likely due to internal waves breaking (increased stratification can support more internal waves), acting as a potential feedback mechanism. As this feedback mechanism mediates potential physical environment changes in temperature, global surface ocean warming may not affect the vertical nutrient fluxes to a large degree. We urge modellers to test this deduction as it could imply that the future summer phytoplankton productivity in stratified oligotrophic waters would experience little alterations in nutrient input from deeper waters
Lived Experience of Caregivers of Family-Centered Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: âEvocation of Being at Home
Background: In recent decades, family-centered care (FCC) has come to be known, accepted, and reported as the best care strategy
for admitted children and their families. However, in spite of the increasing application of this approach, the experiences of the
caregivers have not yet been studied.
Objectives: The present study aimed at the description and interpretation of the FCC experience in two neonatal intensive care
units (NICU) at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences.
Methods: This study was conducted through the hermeneutic phenomenological approach. Semi-structured interviews were conducted
with 17 professional and familial caregivers, and their interactions were observed in three work shifts. The interviews were
audiotaped and transcribed verbatim. After observations, field notes were also written. Finally, the data were analyzed through van
Manenâs methodology.
Results: One of the essential themes that emerged in this study was the âevocation of being at homeâ among familial and even professional
caregivers. This theme had three subthemes: i.e., âmeta-family interaction,â âcomprehensive support,â and âreconstruction
of a normal family.â Accordingly, FCC eliminated borders between professional and non-professional caregivers and built close
relationships among them in the NICU. It also provided for the needs of neonates, their families, and even professional caregivers
through perceived and received support.
Conclusions: Parents of the neonates admitted to the NICU experience hard moments. They not only play the role of primary caregivers,
but they also receive the care. Focusing on the different meanings of this care from the caregiversâ points of view and having
managers provide certain requirements can guarantee the establishment of comprehensive care for clients and proper support for
the staff in this uni
Understanding chemical production processes by using PLS path model parameters as soft sensors
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âShared intelligibilityâ and two reflexive strategies as methods of supporting âresponsible decisionsâ in a hermeneutic phenomenological study
Hermeneutic phenomenologists propose that researchers inescapably bring themselves into their research because interpretation must inevitably be influenced by their contexts and pre-understandings. They propose that interpretation is a dynamic and active part of the construction of a textâs meaning, and involvement in this construction process leads to deep empathic understanding of othersâ experience, reappraisal of accepted social and cultural systems, and a level of self-enlightenment. The strengths of the hermeneutic methodological approach have led to its use in a number of disciplines, however, there remains concerns about interpretative validity. It is widely acknowledged that in order to support rigour and validity in hermeneutic studies, researchers are required to develop and integrate strategies within the research process to promote awareness of the interplay between their pre-understandings and interpretation. This paper discusses how episodic interviewing which capitalises on âshared intelligibilityâ, and the reflexive strategies of âoppositional arrangement of perspectivesâ and âbackgroundingâ were used to shed light on data from a study of the experiences and views of nursing home nurses regarding their occupational role and status, and work identity
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