The Effect of a Didactic Course on Gastroenterology Nurses' Knowledge and Interest in Anorectal Manometry.

Anorectal manometry may be performed by a nurse or physician, yet little has been written about what training is needed. Additionally, many gastroenterology nurses receive little exposure to motility studies such as anorectal manometry, limiting their ability to learn these procedures. We therefore sought to evaluate whether a short didactic course on anorectal manometry would increase nurses' knowledge about the procedure and stimulate their interest in becoming trained to perform it.

Electronic, magnetic, vibrational, and X-ray spectroscopy of inverse full-Heusler FeIrSi alloy.

We report the electronic, magnetic, structural, vibrational, and X-ray absorption spectroscopy of the inverse full-Heusler Fe2IrSi alloy. We employed state-of-the-art first-principles computational techniques. Our ab initio calculations revealed a ferromagnetic half-metallicity with a magnetic moment of ∼5.

Pressure dependent half-metallic ferromagnetism in inverse Heusler alloy FeCoAl: a DFT+U calculations.

We report the electronic and magnetic properties along with the Curie temperature ( ) of the inverse full Heusler alloy (HA) FeCoAl obtained by using the first-principles computational method. Our calculations suggests that FeCoAl is a magnetic metal when treated within PBE-GGA under the applied compressive pressures. However, the implementation of electron-electron (U) (, GGA+U) with varying compressive pressure () drastically changes the profile of the electronic structure.

[Hygienic evaluation of direct heating of the air delivered to the shaft].

The paper gives the results of exploring a test pre-heating system for the air (APHS) delivered to the shaft. The system has been first used in the Urals. The supply air is heated by burning natural gas in the air current.