Madeleine Leininger and the Transcultural Theory of Nursing

This paper explores Madeleine Leininger’s Theory of Transcultural Nursing and the importance that her theory has in the realm of modern nursing care. The United States is a nation widely acclaimed for its advances in health care, and nurses hold a vital role in delivering such quality care to their patients, who offer differences in “values, beliefs, and lifeways. In light of the globalization of health care and the stress put on professionalism in nursing, Leininger’s theories and research on comparative human care hold a prominent place in health care that provide congruency in the beliefs and cultural values of the recipient of care. Accordingly, Leininger brings to light “a state of well-being that is culturally defined, valued, and practiced” (Finkelman & Kenner, 2013 p. 70). Leininger’s theory holds true in the clinical setting for the author, as, with regards to Leininger’s stress cultural competence, he remains sensitive to the diversity of cultural needs in the nurse-patient setting

Madeleine Leininger and the Transcultural Theory of Nursing

This paper explores Madeleine Leininger’s Theory of Transcultural Nursing and the importance that her theory has in the realm of modern nursing care. The United States is a nation widely acclaimed for its advances in health care, and nurses hold a vital role in delivering such quality care to their patients, who offer differences in “values, beliefs, and lifeways. In light of the globalization of health care and the stress put on professionalism in nursing, Leininger’s theories and research on comparative human care hold a prominent place in health care that provide congruency in the beliefs and cultural values of the recipient of care. Accordingly, Leininger brings to light “a state of well-being that is culturally defined, valued, and practiced” (Finkelman & Kenner, 2013 p. 70). Leininger’s theory holds true in the clinical setting for the author, as, with regards to Leininger’s stress cultural competence, he remains sensitive to the diversity of cultural needs in the nurse-patient setting

Detecting Hands in Egocentric Videos: Towards Action Recognition

Recently, there has been a growing interest in analyzing human daily activities from data collected by wearable cameras. Since the hands are involved in a vast set of daily tasks, detecting hands in egocentric images is an important step towards the recognition of a variety of egocentric actions. However, besides extreme illumination changes in egocentric images, hand detection is not a trivial task because of the intrinsic large variability of hand appearance. We propose a hand detector that exploits skin modeling for fast hand proposal generation and Convolutional Neural Networks for hand recognition. We tested our method on UNIGE-HANDS dataset and we showed that the proposed approach achieves competitive hand detection results

Summarizing First-Person Videos from Third Persons' Points of Views

Video highlight or summarization is among interesting topics in computer vision, which benefits a variety of applications like viewing, searching, or storage. However, most existing studies rely on training data of third-person videos, which cannot easily generalize to highlight the first-person ones. With the goal of deriving an effective model to summarize first-person videos, we propose a novel deep neural network architecture for describing and discriminating vital spatiotemporal information across videos with different points of view. Our proposed model is realized in a semi-supervised setting, in which fully annotated third-person videos, unlabeled first-person videos, and a small number of annotated first-person ones are presented during training. In our experiments, qualitative and quantitative evaluations on both benchmarks and our collected first-person video datasets are presented.Comment: 16+10 pages, ECCV 201

Application of large area SiPMs for the readout of a plastic scintillator based timing detector

In this study an array of eight 6 mm x 6 mm area SiPMs was coupled to the end of a long plastic scintillator counter which was exposed to a 2.5 GeV/c muon beam at the CERN PS. Timing characteristics of bars with dimensions 150 cm x 6 cm x 1 cm and 120 cm x 11 cm x 2.5 cm have been studied. An 8-channel SiPM anode readout ASIC (MUSIC R1) based on a novel low input impedance current conveyor has been used to read out and amplify SiPMs independently and sum the signals at the end. Prospects for applications in large-scale particle physics detectors with timing resolution below 100 ps are provided in light of the results

Application of large area SiPMs for the readout of a plastic scintillator based timing detector

In this study an array of eight 6 mm x 6 mm area SiPMs was coupled to the end of a long plastic scintillator counter which was exposed to a 2.5 GeV/c muon beam at the CERN PS. Timing characteristics of bars with dimensions 150 cm x 6 cm x 1 cm and 120 cm x 11 cm x 2.5 cm have been studied. An 8-channel SiPM anode readout ASIC (MUSIC R1) based on a novel low input impedance current conveyor has been used to read out and amplify SiPMs independently and sum the signals at the end. Prospects for applications in large-scale particle physics detectors with timing resolution below 100 ps are provided in light of the results

Topological mass in seven dimensions and dualities in four dimensions

The massive topologically and self dual theories en seven dimensions are considered. The local duality between these theories is established and the dimensional reduction lead to the different dualities for massive antisymmetric fields in four dimensions.Comment: 7 page

Local cohomology and Lyubeznik numbers of F-pure rings

In this article, we study certain local cohomology modules over F-pure rings. We give sufficient conditions for the vanishing of some Lyubeznik numbers, derive a formula for computing these invariants when the F-pure ring is standard graded and, by its means, we provide some new examples of Lyubeznik tables. We study associated primes of certain Ext-modules, showing that they are all compatible ideals. Finally, we focus on properties that Lyubeznik numbers detect over a globally F-split projective variety