Metabolic Profile of in Dwyer's Media with and Without Rice Starch.

Background And Objectives: , the causative agent of histomonosis (i.e., blackhead disease), threatens the poultry industry with serious economic losses due to its high mortality and morbidity in turkey and chicken flocks.

Nurse-Led Interventions for Improving Medication Adherence in Chronic Diseases: A Systematic Review.

: Poor medication adherence results in negative health outcomes and increased healthcare costs. Several healthcare professionals provide interventions to improve medication adherence, with the effectiveness of nurse-led interventions in people with chronic diseases remaining unclear. : This study sought to evaluate the effectiveness of nurse-led interventions for improving medication adherence in adults with chronic conditions.

Serious Game for the Nursing Assessment of Home-Dwelling Older Adults: Development and Validation Study.

Background: The use of serious games (SGs) in nursing education is increasing, with the COVID-19 pandemic significantly accelerating their development. A key feature of SGs is their flexibility, allowing students to train at any place and time as needed. Recently, there has been a shift from developing disease-specific SGs to games focused on broader health issues.

Impact of Quality Improvement Interventions on Hospital Admissions from Nursing Homes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Objective: To synthesize evidence assessing the effectiveness of quality improvement (QI) interventions in reducing hospital service use from nursing homes (NHs).

Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs), controlled before-after (CBA), uncontrolled before-after (UBA), and interrupted time series studies. Searches were conducted in MEDLINE, CINAHL, The Cochrane Library, Embase, and Web of Science from 2000 to August 2023 (PROSPERO: CRD42022364195).

Discovery of Combustion-Like in-Source Oxidation of Linear Saturated Hydrocarbons Using GC-APCI-HRMS.

Atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (APCI) is often used in the analysis of linear saturated hydrocarbons (LSHs) as this ionization technique commonly produces [M - H] ions in high abundance. However, APCI (along with other atmospheric pressure sources) is often impacted by in-source oxidation, leading to a variety of ionic products. Identifying these products and understanding their mechanisms of formation is crucial for characterizing complex mixtures with substantial hydrocarbon content, such as those found in the petrochemical industry.

[Impact of 12-hour shifts on nurse, patient, and organizational outcomes. A critical review].

Unlabelled: . Impact of 12-hour shifts on nurse, patient and organizational outcomes. A critical review.

Scanning resources to build an international nursing knowledge network.

This paper reports the gathered information from an international environmental scan of university-baseline information for the creation of a Nursing Knowledge Network. An online environment scan of organizational context (February to October 2021) explored the identification of research areas, existing resources, expected benefits, innovations in teaching research, barriers to knowledge dissemination, and prospective contributions of the Network. Target informants were 200 nursing faculty affiliated with 63 universities located in 13 countries, as well as nursing networks in the Ibero-American context.

Cultural adaptation and psychometric evaluation of the Italian version of the active-empathic listening scale among undergraduate nursing students: A three phase validation study.

Aim: To translate, culturally adapt and evaluate the psychometric properties of an Italian version of the Active Empathic Listening Scale (AELS-It) for first year students on a Bachelor degree in nursing.

Background: Active and empathic listening is characterised by the active and emotional involvement of the listener and is particularly important for nurses to understand and address patients' needs. When nurses demonstrate to patients that they are active and empathic listeners, it leads to deeper engagement and trust, strengthens the nurse-patient relationship and enhances the quality of care.

Lived experience of ethical challenges among undergraduate nursing students during their clinical learning.

Background: Undergraduate nursing students may experience several ethical challenges during their clinical learning placement that can lead to moral distress and intention to leave the profession. Ethical challenges are complex phenomena and ethical frameworks may help improve their understanding and provide actionable recommendations to enhance students' readiness for practice.

Aim: To explore undergraduate nursing students' ethical challenges experienced during their clinical learning and their suggestions for better ethics education; to illuminate students' experience against a foundational ethical framework.

Time spent on activities that can be delegated and reasons for not delegating among acute care nurses: A mixed-methods study.

Aim: To describe the activities nurses perceived to be delegable to other staff (delegable activities) in order to estimate the time nurses spend on delegable activities and explore nurses' reasons for not delegating these activities.

Design: Mixed-methods explanatory sequential.

Methods: In total, 236 nurses from 27 medical and surgical wards of five hospitals in northern Italy completed a web-based survey during a single shift between June and July 2022.

Impact of preovulatory follicle maturity on oocyte metabolism and embryo development.

Improved oocyte competence for embryo development and pregnancy was observed following ovulation of preovulatory follicles with greater physiological maturity, as indicated by estradiol production, prior to the gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH)-induced luteinizing hormone (LH) surge. It was hypothesized that follicular fluid from preovulatory follicles of greater maturity better supports the maturing oocyte's metabolic requirements and improves embryo development. The objective was to determine if differences in preovulatory follicular fluid due to follicle maturity influence oocyte metabolism during in vitro maturation (IVM) and affect embryo development.

Higher abundance of 2-dehydro-d-gluconate in the plasma of sub-fertile or infertile Bos taurus heifers.

Infertility or subfertility impacts approximately 5% and 15% of dairy and beef heifers (Bos taurus), respectively. Heifers that do not produce a calf within an optimum window of time have a significant negative impact on the profitability and sustainability of the cattle industry. Selection of heifers based on their fertility potential remains a challenge yet to be resolved.

Channel Expansion in the Ligand-Binding Domain of the Glucocorticoid Receptor Contributes to the Activity of Highly Potent Glucocorticoid Analogues.

Glucocorticoids (GCs) act through the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) and are commonly used as anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressant medications. Chronic GC use has been linked with unwanted complications such as steroid-induced diabetes mellitus (SIDM), although the mechanisms for these effects are not completely understood. Modification of six GC parent molecules with 2-mercaptobenzothiazole resulted in consistently less promoter activity in transcriptional activation assays using a 3xGRE reporter construct while constantly reducing inflammatory pathway activity.

Emergency department visits by nursing home residents. A retrospective Italian study of administrative databases from 2015 to 2019.

Background: Visits to Emergency Departments (ED) can be traumatic for Nursing Home (NH) residents. In Italy, the rate of ED visits by NH residents was recently calculated as 3.3%.

A phylogeny for North American and taxonomic revision of eastern North American taxa.

A multigene phylogenetic assessment of North American species of is presented based on analyses of ITS, and 28S rDNA nucleotide data. This framework enables a systematic revision of the genus for 16 eastern North American species and captures taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity in a global context. A grade of two unusual and poorly known North American species stems from the most recent common ancestor of the genus that gives rise to three core subgroups named here as clades Unicolores, Nothosperma, and Mallocybe.

Photo-driven water oxidation performed by supramolecular photocatalysts made of Ru(II) photosensitizers and catalysts.

Two new supramolecular photocatalysts made of covalently linked Ru(II) polypyridine chromophore subunits ([Ru(bpy)3]2+-type species; bpy = 2,2'-bipyridine) and [RuL(pic)2] (L = 2,2'-bipyridine-6,6'-dicarboxylic acid; pic = 4-picoline) water oxidation catalyst subunits have been prepared. The new species, 1 and 2, contain chromophore and catalyst subunits in the molecular ratios 1:1 and 1:2, respectively. The model chromophore species [Ru(bpy)2(L1)]2+ (RuP1; L1=4-[2-(4-pyridyl)-2-hydroxyethyl]-4-methyl-2,2'-bipyridine) and [Ru(bpy)2(L2)]2+ (RuP2; L2 = 4,4'-bis[2-(4-pyridyl)-2-hydroxyethyl]-2,2'-bipyridine) have also been prepared.

Experiences of people with spinal cord injuries readmitted for continence-related complications: a qualitative descriptive study.

Study Design: Qualitative descriptive.

Objectives: To describe the experiences of people with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) re-admitted to the hospital due to continence-related complications.

Setting: Inpatient service of a large spinal unit in North-West of Italy.

Quality improvement interventions to prevent the use of hospital services among nursing home residents: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Introduction: Quality improvement interventions are a promising strategy for reducing hospital services use among nursing home residents. However, evidence for their effectiveness is limited. It is unclear which characteristics of the quality improvement intervention and activities planned to facilitate implementation may promote fidelity to organisational and system changes.

[Patient and public involvement in research].

. Patient and public involvement in research. Patient and public involvement (PPI) entails research being carried out 'with' members of the public, rather than 'to', 'about' or 'for' them.

Photophysical Properties of Homo- and Hetero-Aggregate Assemblies Made of N-Annulated Perylene Derivatives.

We report the absorption spectra and photophysical properties of homo and hetero-aggregate assemblies of a strongly emissive N-annulated perylene dye (P) and of a dyad made of P and a methyl viologen derivative (P-MV), in ethanol-water solutions. In homo-aggregate assemblies of P, the π-π* fluorescence of the isolated chromophore is replaced by excimer emission at lower energy, with a lifetime of 900 ps, due to excimer formation from the initially prepared excitons. In homo-aggregate assemblies of P-MV, photoinduced charge separation, with formation of P -MV species, occurs in 3 ps with a charge recombination of 20 ps.