This article examines the concept of telepresence and the use of video chat platforms to facilitate family and nurse presence in hospital settings. Ethical, technical, and logistical challenges for using video chat platforms at the bedside are addressed. In addition, the Community of Inquiry model is used to explore how human presence is facilitated in distance-accessible nursing education. Special focus is on the use of technology to meet the challenges of presence during virtual nursing instruction.
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Behav Res Ther
January 2025
Faculty of Psychology, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany. Electronic address:
Background: Decision-making processes may play a pivotal role in the etiology and maintenance of specific phobia. However, empirical evidence is limited. This study examined whether decision-making is only impaired in presence of fear-related stimuli or whether general impairments exist but are more pronounced in the presence of fear-related stimuli.
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January 2025
Department of Radiation Oncology, Kasturba Medical College Mangalore, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India.
Goal of the present study was to develop and build a phantom that replicates the air gaps under a gel bolus and to estimate the surface dose (D) under normal incidence with a 6 MV photon beam. For this, an acrylic phantom with 10 plates, each including five open slots (one in the centre and four off axis) with a size of 2 cm × 2 cm at depths of 0.54 cm, 0.
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January 2025
Université Paris Cité, Institut Cochin, CNRS, INSERM, Paris, France.
Context: Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is characterized by the presence of autoantibodies on a genetic background largely determined by HLA class II haplotypes. Stage 1 T1D is characterized by the presence of multiple autoantibodies and normoglycemia.
Objective: To investigate the prevalence of high-risk HLA-DQB1 haplotypes and the extent of islet autoimmunity in pancreatic tissues from non-diabetic organ donors with autoantibodies.
Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw
January 2025
School of Psychology, Korea University, Seongbuk-gu, Republic of Korea.
With the rapid development of virtual technology, the metaverse has become an influential communication tool driving engagement in prosocial behavior. This study examined whether spatial presence in a metaverse affects charitable involvement and prosocial behavior. Additionally, it explored the impact of descriptive norms in the metaverse, validated as effective in the physical world.
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March 2025
University Medical Center Utrecht, Department of Radiation Oncology, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Background And Purpose: This study assessed the treatment time of online adaptive (i.e. Adapt-to-Shape, ATS) and virtual couch shift (i.
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