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Religious leaders\u27 perceptions of advance care planning: a secondary analysis of interviews with Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Islamic, Jewish, Sikh and Bahai leaders
Background: International guidance for advance care planning (ACP) supports the integration of spiritual and religious aspects of care within the planning process. Religious leaders’ perspectives could improve how ACP programs respect patients’ faith backgrounds. This study aimed to examine: (i) how religious leaders understand and consider ACP and its implications, including (ii) how religion affects followers’ approaches to end-of-life care and ACP, and (iii) their implications for healthcare.
Methods: Interview transcripts from a primary qualitative study conducted with religious leaders to inform an ACP website, ACPTalk, were used as data in this study. ACPTalk aims to assist health professionals conduct sensitive conversations with people from different religious backgrounds. A qualitative secondary analysis conducted on the interview transcripts focussed on religious leaders’ statements related to this study’s aims. Interview transcripts were thematically analysed using an inductive, comparative, and cyclical procedure informed by grounded theory.
Results: Thirty-five religious leaders (26 male; mean 58.6-years-old), from eight Christian and six non-Christian (Jewish, Buddhist, Islamic, Hindu, Sikh, Bahá’í) backgrounds were included. Three themes emerged which focussed on: religious leaders’ ACP understanding and experiences; explanations for religious followers’ approaches towards end-of-life care; and health professionals’ need to enquire about how religion matters. Most leaders had some understanding of ACP and, once fully comprehended, most held ACP in positive regard. Religious followers’ preferences for end-of-life care reflected family and geographical origins, cultural traditions, personal attitudes, and religiosity and faith interpretations. Implications for healthcare included the importance of avoiding generalisations and openness to individualised and/ or standardised religious expressions of one’s religion.
Conclusions: Knowledge of religious beliefs and values around death and dying could be useful in preparing health professionals for ACP with patients from different religions but equally important is avoidance of assumptions. Community-based initiatives, programs and faith settin
Global Alfven Wave Heating of the Magnetosphere of Young Stars
Excitation of a Global Alfven wave (GAW) is proposed as a viable mechanism to
explain plasma heating in the magnetosphere of young stars. The wave and basic
plasma parameters are compatible with the requirement that the dissipation
length of GAWs be comparable to the distance between the shocked region at the
star's surface and the truncation region in the accretion disk. A two-fluid
magnetohydrodynamic plasma model is used in the analysis. A current carrying
filament along magnetic field lines acts as a waveguide for the GAW. The
current in the filament is driven by plasma waves along the magnetic field
lines and/or by plasma crossing magnetic field lines in the truncated region of
the disk of the accreting plasma. The conversion of a small fraction of the
kinetic energy into GAW energy is sufficient to heat the plasma filament to
observed temperatures.Comment: Submitted to ApJ, aheatf.tex, 2 figure
Mancha foliar em batata-doce causada por Bipolaris sp.
Sintomas. Reação das cultivares.bitstream/CPAA-2009-09/9288/1/IT_10_2000.pd
Radial Alignment in Simulated Clusters
Observational evidence for the radial alignment of satellites with their dark
matter host has been accumulating steadily in the past few years. The effect is
seen over a wide range of scales, from massive clusters of galaxies down to
galaxy-sized systems, yet the underlying physical mechanism has still not been
established. To this end, we have carried out a detailed analysis of the shapes
and orientations of dark matter substructures in high-resolution N-body
cosmological simulations. We find a strong tendency for radial alignment of the
substructure with its host halo: the distribution of halo major axes is very
anisotropic, with the majority pointing towards the center of mass of the host.
The alignment peaks once the sub-halo has passed the virial radius of the host
for the first time, but is not subsequently diluted, even after the halos have
gone through as many as four pericentric passages. This evidence points to the
existence of a very rapid dynamical mechanism acting on these systems and we
argue that tidal torquing throughout their orbits is the most likely candidate.Comment: v2: 13 pages, 10 figures, ApJ in press. Revisions include a new
section (4.2) comparing our results with observations, and a few added
reference
Monitoramento de unidades de produção orgânica de hortaliças no Distrito Federal com indicadores de qualidade de solo.
avaliar a pratica da adubação verde na qualidade do solo por meio da construção participativa de indicadores de sustentabilidade e alguns aspectos tecnicos em propriedades organicas do DF
Caracterização da variabilidade intraespecífica do patótipo 65 de Colletotrichum lindemuthianum.
O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar a reação diferencial entre feijoeiro comum e diferentes isolados do patótipo 65
Efeito da interação genótipo x ambiente no ganho esperado com seleção em feijoeiro-comum.
O objetivo do presente trabalho foi avaliar o efeito da interação genótipos x ambientes e o reflexo do ganho com a seleção em determinados ambiente, por meio da seleção praticada em outros ambientes, para produtividade de grãos.CONAF
Ferromagnetic order in aged Co-doped TiO2 anatase nanopowders
Oxide based diluted magnetic semiconductor (DMS) materials have been a
subject of increasing interest due to reports of room temperature
ferromagnetism in several systems and their potential use in the development of
spintronic devices. However, concerns on the stability of the magnetic
properties of different DMS systems have been raised. Their magnetic moment is
often unstable, vanishing with a characteristic decay time of weeks or months,
which precludes the development of real applications. This paper reports on the
ferromagnetic properties of two-year-aged Ti1-xCoxO2-{\delta} reduced anatase
nanopowders with different Co contents (0.03<x<0.10). Aged samples retain
rather high values of magnetization, remanence and coercivity which provide
strong evidence for a quite preserved long-range ferromagnetic order. In what
concern Co segregation, some degree of metastability of the diluted Co doped
anatase structure could be inferred in the case of the sample with the higher
Co content.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figure
A Closed Formula for the Barrier Transmission Coefficient in Quaternionic Quantum mechanics
In this paper, we analyze, by using a matrix approach, the dynamics of a
non-relativistic particle in presence of a quaternionic potential barrier. The
matrix method used to solve the quaternionic Schrodinger equation allows to
obtain a closed formula for the transmission coefficient. Up to now, in
quaternionic quantum mechanics, almost every discussion on the dynamics of
non-relativistic particle was motived by or evolved from numerical studies. A
closed formula for the transmission coefficient stimulates an analysis of
qualitative differences between complex and quaternionic quantum mechanics,
and, by using the stationary phase method, gives the possibility to discuss
transmission times.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figure
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