Characteristics of sleep disturbance across two waves of the COVID-19 pandemic among nursing staffs.

Objectives: COVID-19 has impacted human lifestyles, including sleep quality. For nursing staff, sleep disorders not only impact their health and daily lives but also have implications for patient safety. The objective of this study is to explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the psychological and social aspects of nursing staff and the factors influencing their sleep quality through a two-wave survey.

Two-dimensional monolayer C: a metallic carbon allotrope as an anode material for high-performance sodium/potassium-ion batteries.

Carbonaceous materials are promising candidates as anode materials for non-lithium-ion batteries (NLIBs) due to their appealing properties such as good electrical conductivity, low cost, and high safety. However, graphene, a classic two-dimensional (2D) carbon material, is chemically inert to most metal atoms, hindering its application as an electrode material for metal-ion batteries. Inspired by the unique geometry of a four-penta unit, we explore a metallic 2D carbon allotrope C composed of 5-10-16 carbon rings.

Relationship between using cancer resource center services and patient outcomes.

Purpose: Psychological and social support are crucial in treating cancer. Cancer resource centers provide patients with cancer and their families with services that can help them through cancer treatment, ensure that patients receive adequate treatment, and reduce cancer-related stress. These centers offer various services, including medical guidance, health education, emotional assistance (e.

Long-term care insurance purchase decisions of registered nurses: Deep learning versus logistic regression models.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to use a deep learning model and a traditional statistical regression model to predict the long-term care insurance decisions of registered nurses.

Methods: We Prospectively surveyed 1,373 registered nurses with a minimum of 2 years of full-time working experience at a large medical center in Taiwan: 615 who already owned long-term care insurance (LTCI), 332 who had no intention to purchase LTCI (group 1), and 426 who intended to purchase LTCI (group 2).

Results: After inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW), no statistically significant differences were identified in the study characteristics of the two groups.

Determinants of Successful Nursing Home Accreditation.

Objectives: This study examined the factors associated with better accreditation outcomes among nursing homes.

Method: A total of 538 nursing homes in Taiwan were included in this study. Measures included accreditation scores, external factors (household income, Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, old-age dependency ratio, population density, and number of older adult households), organizational factors (hospital-based status, chain-affiliated status, occupancy rate, the number of registered nurses or nurse aides per bed, and bed size), and internal factors (accountability, deficiencies, person-centered care, nursing skills, quality control, and integrated care).

Private Long-Term Care Insurance Decision: The Role of Income, Risk Propensity, Personality, and Life Experience.

The rising aging population contributes to increased caregiver burden and a greater need for long-term care services, thereby posing stronger financial burden. The current study aimed to examine the effect of income, risk-taking propensity, personality traits, and life experience on the ownership of and intention to own private long-term care insurance (LTCI). Primary data were collected from 1373 registered nurses with a minimum of two years of full-time working experience.

Degradation of trimethoprim in aqueous by persulfate activated with nanosecond pulsed gas-liquid discharge plasma.

The persulfate activation by nanosecond pulsed gas-liquid discharge (NPG-LD) is employed to degrade the trimethoprim (TMP) in water. The results show that persulfate addition enhances the degradation of TMP by NPG-LD through an obvious synergetic effect. With treatment time of 50 min, the high removal efficiency and energy yield reach 94.

Ultra-high synergetic intensity for humic acid removal by coupling bubble discharge with activated carbon.

Humic acid (HA) removal research focuses on the global water treatment industry. In this work, efficient HA degradation with an ultra-high synergetic intensity is achieved by combined bubble discharge with activated carbon (AC). Adding AC to the discharge greatly improves HA removal efficiency and degradation speed; the synergetic intensity reaches 651.

Neuroprotective effects of a ketogenic diet in combination with exogenous ketone salts following acute spinal cord injury.

We have previously shown that induction of ketosis by ketogenic diet (KD) conveyed neuroprotection following spinal cord injury in rodent models, however, clinical translation may be limited by the slow raise of ketone levels when applying KD in the acute post-injury period. Thus we investigated the use of exogenous ketone supplementation (ketone sodium, KS) combined with ketogenic diet as a means rapidly inducing a metabolic state of ketosis following spinal cord injury in adult rats. In uninjured rats, ketone levels increased more rapidly than those in rats with KD alone and peaked at higher levels than we previously demonstrated for the KD in models of spinal cord injury.

Nanosecond pulsed uniform dielectric barrier discharge in atmospheric air: A brief spectroscopic analysis.

The paper proposes a simple and convenient approach to represent the discharge uniformity of nanosecond-pulse dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) in air by observation of the ratio of N (BΣ → XΣ, 0-0, 391.4 nm) to N (CΠ → BΠ, 2-5, 394.3 nm) intensities.

HISTONE DEACETYLASE6 Acts in Concert with Histone Methyltransferases SUVH4, SUVH5, and SUVH6 to Regulate Transposon Silencing.

Histone deacetylases (HDACs) play important roles in regulating gene expression. In yeast and animals, HDACs act as components of multiprotein complexes that modulate transcription during various biological processes. However, little is known about the interacting proteins of plant HDACs.

Spectroscopic and electrical characters of SBD plasma excited by bipolar nanosecond pulse in atmospheric air.

In this paper, an atmospheric surface barrier discharge (SBD) generated by annular electrodes in quartz tube is presented through employing bipolar nanosecond pulse voltage in air. The discharge images, waveforms of pulse voltage and discharge current, and optical emission spectra emitted from the discharges are recorded and calculated. A spectra simulation method is developed to separate the overlap of the secondary diffraction spectra which are produced by grating in monochromator, and N2 (B(3)Πg→A(3)Σu(+)) and O (3p(5)P→3s(5)S2(o)) are extracted.

Optical and application study of gas-liquid discharge excited by bipolar nanosecond pulse in atmospheric air.

In this study, a bipolar nanosecond pulse with 20ns rising time is employed to generate air gas-liquid diffuse discharge plasma with room gas temperature in quartz tube at atmospheric pressure. The image of the discharge and optical emission spectra of active species in the plasma are recorded. The plasma gas temperature is determined to be approximately 390K by compared the experimental spectra with the simulated spectra, which is slightly higher than the room temperature.

[Cognitive impairment in earthquake brain injury treated with comprehensive program of acupuncture and rehabilitation: a randomized controlled trial].

Objective: To explore the comprehensive program of integrated Chinese and western medicine in the treatment of cognitive impairment in earthquake brain injury.

Methods: The multi-central randomized controlled trial was adopted. The qualified subjects were randomized into an acupuncture + rehabilitation group (38 cases) and a rehabilitation group (35 cases).

A large-area diffuse air discharge plasma excited by nanosecond pulse under a double hexagon needle-array electrode.

A large-area diffuse air discharge plasma excited by bipolar nanosecond pulse is generated under a double hexagon needle-array electrode at atmospheric pressure. The images of the diffuse discharge, electric characteristics, and the optical emission spectra emitted from the diffuse air discharge plasma are obtained. Based on the waveforms of pulse voltage and current, the power consumption, and the power density of the diffuse air discharge plasma are investigated under different pulse peak voltages.

An uniform DBD plasma excited by bipolar nanosecond pulse using wire-cylinder electrode configuration in atmospheric air.

In this study, a bipolar nanosecond pulsed power supply with 15 ns rising time is employed to generate an uniform dielectric barrier discharge using the wire-cylinder electrode configuration in atmospheric air. The images, waveforms of pulse voltage and discharge current, and the optical emission spectra of the discharges are recorded. The rotational and vibrational temperatures of plasma are determined by comparing the simulated spectra with the experimental spectra.

Photoconductivities in monocrystalline layered V2O5 nanowires grown by physical vapor deposition.

Photoconductivities of monocrystalline vanadium pentoxide (V2O5) nanowires (NWs) with layered orthorhombic structure grown by physical vapor deposition (PVD) have been investigated from the points of view of device and material. Optimal responsivity and gain for single-NW photodetector are at 7,900 A W-1 and 30,000, respectively. Intrinsic photoconduction (PC) efficiency (i.

The influencing factors of nanosecond pulse homogeneous dielectric barrier discharge in air.

In this paper, a bipolar nanosecond high pulse voltage with 20 ns rising time was employed to generate homogeneous dielectric barrier discharges using the plate-plate electrode configuration in air at atmospheric pressure. The effects of pulse peak voltage, gas discharge gap, and dielectric plates made by different materials or thicknesses on the discharge homogeneity, voltage-current waveform, and optical emission spectra were investigated. Results show that aforementioned parameters have a strongly impact on the discharge homogeneity and the optical emission spectra, but it is hard to identify definitely their influences on the discharge voltage-current waveform.

[Optical diagnosis of large area homogenous dielectric barrier discharge in nitrogen at atmospheric pressure].

In the present study, dielectric barrier homogenous discharge in nitrogen was obtained between large plate electrodes (150 x 300 mm) at atmospheric pressure and the emission spectra of N2 (C3pi(u) --> B3 pi(g)) and N2+ (B2 sigma(u)+ --> X2 sigma(g)+ 0-0 391.4 nm) were recorded. It was found that both the emission intensities of N2 (C3 pi(u) --> B3 pi(g) and N2+ (B2 sigma(u)+ --> X2 sigma(g)+ 0-0 391.

[Effect on the activities of daily life of the patients with traumatic spinal cord injury treated by the paraplegia-triple-needling method].

Objective: To compare the differences in the efficacy on traumatic spinal cord injury(SCI) in the thoracic and lumbar vertebra between the paraplegia-triple-needling method and the conventional acupuncture therapy.

Methods: The perspectively randomized controlled trial was adopted. Forty-eight cases of traumatic SCI in the thoracic and lumbar vertebra were randomized into an observation group and a control group, 24 cases in each one.

Clinical studies on treatment of earthquake-caused posttraumatic stress disorder using electroacupuncture.

The objective of this study was to assess the efficacy and safety of electroacupuncture in 138 patients with earthquake-caused PTSD using Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs). 138 cases enrolled were randomly assigned to an electro-acupuncture group and a paroxetine group. The electro-acupuncture group was treated by scalp electro-acupuncture on Baihui (GV 20), Sishencong (EX-HN 1), Shenting (GV 24), and Fengchi (GB 20), and the paroxetine group was treated with simple oral administration of paroxetine.

[Spectroscopic measurements of atomic hydrogen concentrations in dielectric barrier discharge hydrogen plasmas].

Atomic hydrogen plays important roles in chemical vapor deposition of functional materials, plasma etching, and surface cleaning. The present work introduces the fundamental principle to determine atomic hydrogen density via optical emission spectroscopy using Ar as an actinometer, and also reports the experimental results of atomic hydrogen density in the DBD discharge hydrogen plasmas. The variations of atomic hydrogen density and the hydrogen dissociation fraction as a function of pressure were calculated based on some of the available electron-impact excitation cross section and quenching cross sections in the literatures.

Determination of atomic hydrogen in non-thermal hydrogen plasmas by means of molecular beam threshold ionization mass spectrometry.

Atomic hydrogen plays important roles in chemical vapor deposition of functional materials, plasma etching and new approaches to chemical synthesis of hydrogen-containing compounds. The present work reports experimental determinations of atomic hydrogen near the grounded electrode in medium-pressure dielectric barrier discharge hydrogen plasmas by means of molecular beam threshold ionization mass spectrometry (MB-TIMS). At certain discharge conditions (a.

[Study of radicals in pulsed corona discharge by emission spectroscopy].

The emission spectra of OH(A2 sigma --> X2 pi, O-O), O(3p5 P --> 3s5 S2(0)) and H(a)(3P --> 2S) produced by the positive pulsed corona discharge of N2 and H2O mixture in a needle-plate reactor have been successfully recorded against a severe electromagnetic interference coming from the pulsed corona discharge at one atmosphere. The relative populations and the vibrational temperature of N2 (C, v') were determined. The emission intensity of OH(A2 sigma --> X2 pi, 0-0) is obtained through the simulation of the emission spectra of the delta v = +1 vibration transition band of N2(C3 pi(u) --> B3 pi(g)).