Abstract
During the period 1970–2020, evident interdecadal variability of meridional tropical cyclone (TC) genesis occurs in the western North Pacific (WNP) from September through October (SO). From ...the periods 1970–1996 (IP1) to 1998–2020 (IP2), TC genesis during SO is enhanced (suppressed) in the region north (south) of 20°N. The large‐scale modulating processes feature a general warming of sea surface temperature (SST) over the WNP and systematic northward displacement in atmospheric circulations. The northward‐shifted Pacific subtropical high and monsoon trough result in an anomalous anticyclone across the subtropical region and an anomalous cyclone across the South China Sea and the northern WNP east of Taiwan. This anomalous cyclone facilitates TC genesis to increase in the northern WNP. Meanwhile, the southeastward‐extending monsoon trough retreats northwestward, leading to an anomalous anticyclone over the tropical eastern WNP and a decrease in TC genesis over the southern region. Correlation analyses indicate that the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) is more effective than global warming in modulating interdecadal increases of TC genesis in the northern region due to inclusions of both trend and oscillation features. Interdecadal decreases of TC genesis in the southern region exhibit a major oscillation feature and are thus mainly affected by interdecadal oscillation components of PDO. More TCs forming in the oceans east of Taiwan are steered by the overlying anomalous cyclone to recurve northward toward oceans to the northeast and north of Taiwan. TC‐induced rainfall over Taiwan thus increases by 25% from IP1 to IP2, which accounts for about 82% of increased total rainfall in Taiwan, showing the notable impact of interdecadal TC genesis on local climate in the WNP.
Aim
To develop a hospital‐based nursing human capital model for Taiwan.
Background
Effective nursing management only becomes possible when nurse managers are able to manage and maintain the right ...equilibrium among human capital components.
Method
We developed an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) model with 8 dimensions and 31 indicators based on extensive literature review and experts’ perceptual assessment. We used expert and purposive sampling and invited 82 nursing professionals to rate the importance of these dimensions and indicators. The AHP process was performed to identify the weightage and prioritize the dimensions and indicators of the nursing human capital.
Results
Our analysis showed that, for nursing human capital, health was the most important factor (weight: 34.8%), followed by employee protection (20.4%), work attitude (13.7%), employee stability (10.8%), general nursing training (6.3%), competencies (5.8%), advanced nursing training (4.3%) and clinical nursing experience (3.9%).
Conclusion and Implication for Nursing Management
The model would be most useful for nurse administrators in long‐range strategic management. Specifically, the model can be used as a reference to form a rating system to analyse nursing human capital. Health promotion programs and employee protection measures targeting nurses could improve nursing human capital in hospitals.
Purpose>COVID-19 impacts different groups and subsectors of tourism unevenly, with massive vulnerabilities in tourism operating systems among urban tourism areas. Different types of COVID-19 related ...crises depend on isolation or returning to “normal” in various urban areas. Boosting domestic tourism activities to spark resilience before international demand returns is essential to stimulating local demand worldwide. This paper aims to build upon a non-exhaustive review of the scientific literature about tourism resilience issues to see the bigger picture of tourism resilience on three levels worldwide.Design/methodology/approach>This research applies a content analysis technique to collect research data from the latest scientific papers on tourism resilience issues. This study will use searching and filtering on the Scopus web database and based on the VOSviewer algorithm to identify useful insights and determine a framework for tourism resilience issues on three levels.Findings>The outcome of three aspects of resilience, which mainly relate to the development of tourism industry sectors (transportation, accommodation, food and beverage) and other industries (research and education) connected to urban tourism resilience, could be useful for future researchers to explore less-studied issues and policymakers’ future application.Research limitations/implications>The research data are mostly from literature reviews of papers that may not interpret all contemporary resilience issues and the research data are based on urban areas alone.Originality/value>The research idea is fresh and adds new knowledge to professionals’ or policymakers’ future applications.
Global climate change has resulted in extreme events occurring with increasing intensity and frequency. Due to the limitations of traditional structural engineering measurements, vulnerability ...measurement has become critical in disaster mitigation according to the IPCC and UNISDR. Currently, flood vulnerability studies focus on evaluating the present state of flood vulnerability at various spatial scales. Different levels of development progress and varying environmental factors result in variations in disaster capacity in urban and rural areas. Therefore, this study explores the temporal and spatial variations of vulnerability in urban and rural built environments by using spatial autocorrelation analysis and principal component analysis. Bivariate local indicators of spatial association (LISA) results show that particular areas maintain high or low vulnerability in both examined years: 2008 and 2018. The critical differences between HH and LL might be caused by different urban development statuses and insufficient emergency or recovery facilities.
Aims
Our study investigates the influence of career facilitators and barriers on nurses’ improvement of their professional capabilities and their professional turnover intention.
Background
Reducing ...nurses’ professional turnover intention could help alleviate the global nursing shortage. Nevertheless, little research has addressed how career facilitators and barriers, nurses’ improvement of their professional capabilities and professional turnover intention are related, indicating a gap.
Design
This study used a cross‐sectional design.
Methods
We surveyed 502 out of 2,660 full‐time nurses who worked for a medical centre in Taiwan between January–March 2018. Our items were adapted from Cunningham et al. and Teng et al. and had adequate reliability and validity. Structural equation modelling was used to test the study hypotheses.
Results
Human capital, social capital, and discrimination were positively related to intention to improve professional capabilities. Moreover, intention to improve professional capabilities was positively related to action to improve professional capabilities, which was negatively related to professional turnover intention.
Conclusion
Most of the career facilitators and even barriers, boost the improvement of professional capabilities and are useful for retaining nurses in the nursing profession.
Impact
Findings of this study should have an impact on nursing managers by offering them means to retain nurses, for example, enhancing human capital and social capital among nurses to reduce their turnover intention.
目的
我们的研究探讨了职业促进因素和障碍对护士专业能力提升和职业转换意愿的影响。
背景
降低护士的职业转换意愿有助于缓解全球护士短缺问题。然而,很少有研究探讨职业促进因素与障碍、护士专业能力的提高与职业转换意愿之间的关系,这说明存在差距。
设计
本研究使用了横向设计。
方法
我们调查了2018年1月至3月期间在台湾一家医疗中心工作的2660名全职护士中的502人。我们的项目由Cunningham等人和Teng等人的研究改编而成,具有足够的信度和效度。结构方程模型用于验证研究假设。
结果
人力资本、社会资本、歧视与提升专业能力的意愿呈正相关。提高专业能力的意愿与提高专业能力的行动呈正相关,与专业离职意愿呈负相关。
结论
大多数的职业促进因素乃至障碍都促进了专业能力的提高,有利于在护理专业留住护士。
影响
本研究的结果应该通过为他们提供留住护士的手段(如提高护士的人力资本和社会资本)来对护理管理者产生影响,以降低护士的离职意愿。
Aims and Objectives
To test how the three components of professional commitment (i.e. affective, continuance and normative professional commitment) are associated with nurse‐reported patient‐centred ...care and care quality.
Background
Patient‐centred care and care quality are the two critical care outcomes. However, no study has yet examined how the three components of professional commitment are related to nurse‐reported patient‐centred care and care quality, showing a research gap.
Design
This study adopted a two‐wave design (first wave in 2017 and second wave in 2019), which is known to reduce the possibility of reverse causality, and which was conducted in a large hospital in Northern Taiwan.
Methods
Proportionate random sampling was used. Full‐time nurses were surveyed, while nursing students, interns, nurse practitioners and nursing supervisors were excluded. The first wave included 524 nurses, and 438 nurses were retained in the second wave. We used confirmatory factor analysis to verify the psychometric properties of the measures. Structural equation modelling was used to implement hypothesis testing. We used the Professional Commitment Scale of Meyer et al. (Journal of Applied Psychology, 1993, 78, 538), the Patient‐Centered Care Scale of Laird‐Fick et al. (Patient Education and Counseling, 2011, 84, 90) and the Care Quality Perceptions Scale of Teng et al. (Journal of Nursing Management, 2010, 18, 275). The STROBE statement was chosen as the EQUATOR checklist.
Results
Affective professional commitment was positively associated with nurse‐reported patient‐centred care (β = .18, p = .002 and .01), which was positively associated with nurse‐reported care quality (β = .85, p < .001). Affective and normative professional commitment were also positively associated with nurse‐reported care quality (β = .17, p < .001).
Conclusions
Our findings offer insights for nursing managers that nurses’ affective and normative professional commitment could help upgrade care outcomes. Hospital managers should consider professional commitment as relevant to their workforce.
Relevance to clinical practice
Nursing managers could publicise reports documenting nurses’ significant contributions to public health. This could strengthen affective professional commitment among nurses.
Europium ions (Eu3+) have been utilized as a fluorescence-sensing probe for a variety of analytes, including tetracycline (TC). When Eu3+ is chelated with TC, its fluorescence can be greatly ...enhanced. Moreover, Eu3+ possesses 6 unpaired electrons in its f orbital, which makes it paramagnetic. Being a hard acid, Eu3+ can chelate with hard bases, such as oxygen-containing functional groups (e.g., phosphates and carboxylates), present on the cell surface of pathogenic bacteria. Due to these properties, in this study, Eu3+ was explored as a magnetic-trapping and sensing probe against pathogenic bacteria present in complex samples. Eu3+ was used as a magnetic probe to trap bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Enterococcus faecalis, Acinetobacter baumannii, Bacillus cereus, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The addition of TC facilitated the easy detection of magnetic Eu3+–bacterium conjugates through fluorescence spectroscopy, with a detection limit of approximately ∼104 CFU mL–1. Additionally, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry was employed to differentiate bacteria tapped by our magnetic probes.
Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found extensive indoor applications. In numerous indoor UAV scenarios, navigation paths remain consistent. While many indoor positioning methods offer ...excellent precision, they often demand significant costs and computational resources. Furthermore, such high functionality can be superfluous for these applications. To address this issue, we present a cost-effective, computationally efficient solution for path following and obstacle avoidance. The UAV employs a down-looking camera for path following and a front-looking camera for obstacle avoidance. This paper refines the carrot casing algorithm for line tracking and introduces our novel line-fitting path-following algorithm (LFPF). Both algorithms competently manage indoor path-following tasks within a constrained field of view. However, the LFPF is superior at adapting to light variations and maintaining a consistent flight speed, maintaining its error margin within ±40 cm in real flight scenarios. For obstacle avoidance, we utilize depth images and YOLOv4-tiny to detect obstacles, subsequently implementing suitable avoidance strategies based on the type and proximity of these obstacles. Real-world tests indicated minimal computational demands, enabling the Nvidia Jetson Nano, an entry-level computing platform, to operate at 23 FPS.
Aims
The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between psychological ownership of the nursing profession and turnover intention.
Background
There is a severe shortage of nurses worldwide. ...Research is needed to understand how nurses' intention to leave hospitals and the nursing profession can be alleviated.
Methods
This study adopted a cross‐sectional design and a survey method. Proportionate random sampling was used to ensure sample representativeness. This study surveyed 430 registered nurses in a medical centre in Taiwan between December 2021 and January 2022. We used Turnover Scale and Self‐Efficacy Scale and developed Having a Place Scale.
Results
Psychological ownership comprises three dimensions: self‐efficacy, nurse identity and ‘having a place’ in the nursing profession. This research is the first to examine how these three dimensions of psychological ownership of the nursing profession are related to the intention to leave a hospital or the nursing profession. Self‐efficacy and ‘having a place’ are negatively related to nurses' intention to leave a hospital (r = −.23 and −.31, p < .001). Nurse identity is negatively related to nurses' intention to leave the nursing profession (r = −.38, p < .001). Intention to leave a hospital is positively related to nurses' intention to leave the profession (r = .76, p < .001).
Conclusion
The findings provide novel insights for retaining nurses. Nurse managers could use strategies such as including nurses in making workplace decisions and encouraging them to personalize their workspace.
Implications for Nursing Management
Nurse managers can enhance nurses' self‐efficacy and sense of ‘having a place’ to retain nurses in hospitals, while enhancing nurse identity to retain nurses in the profession.
The dysbiosis of human gut microbiota is strongly associated with the development of colorectal cancer (CRC). The dysbiotic features of the transition from advanced polyp to early-stage CRC are ...largely unknown. We performed a 16S rRNA gene sequencing and enterotype-based gut microbiota analysis study. In addition to Bacteroides- and Prevotella-dominated enterotypes, we identified an Escherichia-dominated enterotype. We found that the dysbiotic features of CRC were dissimilar in overall samples and especially Escherichia-dominated enterotype. Besides a higher abundance of Fusobacterium, Enterococcus, and Aeromonas in all CRC faecal microbiota, we found that the most notable characteristic of CRC faecal microbiota was a decreased abundance of potential beneficial butyrate-producing bacteria. Notably, Oscillospira was depleted in the transition from advanced adenoma to stage 0 CRC, whereas Haemophilus was depleted in the transition from stage 0 to early-stage CRC. We further identified 7 different CAGs by analysing bacterial clusters. The abundance of microbiota in cluster 3 significantly increased in the CRC group, whereas that of cluster 5 decreased. The abundance of both cluster 5 and cluster 7 decreased in the Escherichia-dominated enterotype of the CRC group. We present the first enterotype-based faecal microbiota analysis. The gut microbiota of colorectal neoplasms can be influenced by its enterotype.
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