The effects of web-based situational learning on nursing students' transfer of learning in clinical practice.

Background: Transferring what has been learned in the classroom to clinical application is the main goal of nursing education. Our previous intervention study, in which a web-based interactive situational teaching strategy in a nursing ethic course was conducted as an experimental group, and the students in the class who were taught using a traditional teaching strategy was treated as the comparative group. The results, which were evaluated immediately after the class, showed that the web-based interactive situational teaching enhanced the students' competency in ethical reasoning and problem solving compared to traditional teaching.

Association between surgical volumes and hospital mortality in patients: a living donor liver transplantation single center experience.

Background: Many factors cause hospital mortality (HM) after liver transplantation (LT).

Methods: We performed a retrospective research in a single center from October 2005 to June 2019. The study included 463 living donor LT patients.

The Prevention of Periprosthetic Joint Infection in Primary Total Hip Arthroplasty Using Pre-Operative Chlorhexidine Bathing.

Periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) after total hip arthroplasty (THA) is a devastating complication. The aim of this study was to investigate whether preoperative bathing using chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) before THA can effectively reduce the postoperative PJI rate. A total of 933 primary THA patients, with the majority being female (54.

[Evaluating the Health and Social Care Competences of Nursing Students Using Skills Competition].

Background: After graduation, new nurses provide care directly to clients in the health and social care sectors. Nurses with higher levels of health and social care competences have been shown to provide better quality of care. The skills competitions organized and held by the Ministry of Labor follow international standards and address the general roles and functions of care providers worldwide.

17-DMAG, an Hsp90 inhibitor, ameliorates ovariectomy-induced obesity in rats.

Aims: Obesity is not only associated with metabolic diseases but is also a symptom of menopause in women. To date, there are no effective drugs for the management of obesity, and it is important to find new agents with fewer side effects, for the treatment of obesity. This study aimed to determine the anti-obesity effect of 17-dimethylaminoethylamino-17-demethoxygeldanamycin (17-DMAG), a heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) inhibitor, and its underlying mechanism in rats with ovariectomy-induced obesity.

Organic carbon and elemental carbon in Asia: a review from 1996 to 2006.

The principal sources of organic carbon (OC) and elemental carbon (EC) are anthropogenic or biogenic, whereas secondary sources are atmospheric oxidation processes of specific precursor gases. These compounds are considered atmospheric contaminants and adversely affect human health. Numerous studies have monitored atmospheric particulates and gaseous phases of OC and EC in Asia over the last decade.

A new elastic-wave-based imaging method for scanning the defects inside the structure.

In this paper, a new nondestructive testing method using elastic waves for imaging possible voids or defects in concrete structures is proposed. This method integrates the point-source/point receiver scheme with the synthetic aperture focusing technique (SAFT) process to achieve the effect like scanning with a phase array system. This method also is equipped with large functioning depth because of the high-energy feature that elastic waves usually possess over traditional ultrasound.

Atmosphic pollutants study of particles ionic species during high wind speed (>7 m s(-1)) near Taiwan strait in central Taiwan from 2004 to 2005.

This study monitored atmospheric pollutants during high wind speed (> 7 m s(-1)) at two sampling sites: Taichung Harbor (TH) and Wuci traffic (WT) during March 2004 to January 2005 in central Taiwan. The correlation coefficient (R (2)) between TSP, PM(2.5), PM(2.

Apply appropriate statistic methods in analyzing ambient air particulate and metallic elements concentrations at a traffic sampling site.

A study of the characteristics of the metallic elements concentrations in fine and coarse particulates at traffic sampling site in central Taiwan by using appropriate statistical analysis methods was described in this paper. The Spearman correlation analysis and non-linear regression analysis were used to analyze the collected data during sampling period from August 2003 to March 2004. During a half-month analysis periods, the average metallic elements concentrations, the major meteorological effects and temporal variation were discussed in this study.