Testing the psychometric properties of the Brisbane Practice Environment Measure using Exploratory Factor Analysis and Confirmatory Factor Analysis in an Australian registered nurse population

A cross-sectional survey was conducted, and the construct validity and reliability of the Brisbane Practice Environment Measure in an Australian sample of registered nurses were examined. Nurses were randomly selected from the database of an Australian nursing organization. The original 33 items of the Brisbane Practice Environment Measure were utilized to inform the psychometric properties using confirmatory factor analysis. The Cronbach's alpha was 0.938 for the total scale and ranged 0.657–0.887 for the subscales. A five-factor structure of the measure was confirmed, χ2 = 944.622, (P < 0.01), χ2/d.f. ratio = 2.845, Tucker Lewis Index 0.929, Root Mean Square Error = 0.061 and Comparative Fit Index = 0.906. The selected 28 items of the measure proved reliable and valid in measuring effects of the practice environment upon Australian nurses. The implications are that regular measurement of the practice environment using these 28 items might assist in the development of strategies which might improve job satisfaction and retention of registered nurses in Australia.

Employment comovements at the sectoral level over the business cycle

This paper extends the technique suggested by den Haan (2000) to investigate contemporaneous as well as lead and lag correlations among economic data for a range of forecast horizons. The technique provides a richer picture of the economic dynamics generating the data and allows one to investigate which variables lead or lag others and whether the lead or lag pattern is short term or long term in nature. The technique is applied to monthly sectoral level employment data for the U.S. and shows that among the ten industrial sectors followed by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, six tend to lead the other four. These six have high correlations indicating that the structural shocks generating the data movements are mostly in common. Among the four lagging industries, some lag by longer intervals than others and some have low correlations with the leading industries indicating that these industries are partially influenced by structural shocks beyond those generating the six leading industries.

Diário da Constituinte [gravação de vídeo] : [programa n. 217]

O substitutivo do Relator Bernardo Cabral estabelece a proibição da propaganda de medicamentos, tabaco, bebidas alcoólicas e agrotóxicos. Cidadãos opinam sobre o tema. A Associação Brasileira de Propaganda lembra que o Brasil é hoje o segundo exportador de fumo no mundo. Seu presidente afirma que a propaganda desses setores representa 20% do faturamento dos meios de comunicação e que a proibição gerará grande desemprego. O Deputado Thelmo Kirtz (PDS-RS) esclarece que só no Paraná, Santa Catarina e Rio Grande do Sul setecentas e quarenta mil pessoas trabalham nas lavouras de fumo. O Deputado Fausto Rocha (PFL-SP) observa que o cigarro traz malefícios muito sérios para o fumante, inclusive vários tipos de câncer. A Comissão de Sistematização da Assembleia Nacional Constituinte (ANC) começa a debater o substitutivo da Constituição. Na primeira reunião, constituintes criticaram a ausência do Relator Bernardo Cabral e a elaboração de um novo substitutivo que está sendo feito no Instituto Israel Pinheiro, fora do Congresso Nacional. O Deputado José Genoíno (PT-SP) considera que o trabalho da Assembleia Nacional Constituinte tem que ser feito dentro do Congresso Nacional. O Líder do Governo, Deputado Carlos Santana diz que esse trabalho tem que vir para a Comissão de Sistematização. No Instituto Israel Pinheiro, distante 25 kilômetros do Congresso Nacional, o Relator Bernardo Cabral estuda as emendas recebidas sobre o sistema de governo que, segundo ele, é o problema mais difícil de ser contornado.

Design of a Self-Adaptive Down-Hole Layered Steam Injector and Its Application

Layered steam injection, widely used in Liaohe Oilfield at Present, is an effective recovery technique to heavy oil reserves. Which makes the steam front-peak push forward uniformly, the amount of steam injection be assigned rationally, and the effect of injection steam be obtained as expected. To maintain a fixed ratio of layered steam injection and solve the problem of nonadjustable hole diameter with the change of layer pressure in the existing injectors, a new method is proposed in this paper to design layered steam injectors based on the dynamic balance theory. According to gas-liquid two-phase flow theory and beat transfer theory, the energy equation and the heat conduction equation in boreholes are developed. By analyzing the energy equilibrium of water-steam passing through the injector hole, we find an expression to describe the relation between the cross-sectional area of injector hole and the layer pressure. With this expression, we provide a new set of calculation methods and write the corresponding computer program to design and calculate the main parameters of a steam injector. The actual measurement data show that the theoretically calculated results are accurate, the software runs reliably, and they provide the design of self-adjustable layered steam injectors with the theoretical foundation.

三角帆蚌死亡情况的调查研究

<正> 当前淡水珍珠生产大多是采用三角帆蚌育珠。作为育珠生产用的三角帆蚌,在生产过程中常大批死亡,造成重大经济损失,为广大蚌珠生产者及有关科研人员所关注。作者曾在1982年报道了三角帆蚌细菌性疾病的研究,认为点状产气单胞菌的一新亚种—帆蚌点状产气单胞菌(Aeromonas punctata

Preparation of self-supporting hierarchical nanostructured anatase/rutile composite TiO2 film

Via the combination of an electrospinning method with a hydrothermal reaction, a large-scale cedar-like hierarchical nanostructured TiO2 film with an anatase/rutile composite phase was fabricated.

成骨细胞铺展形状和面积对其凋亡的影响

<正>骨组织内的三种细胞(即骨细胞、成骨细胞和破骨细胞)控制着骨的形成与吸收。骨细胞位于胞外矿物质沉积形成的骨陷窝内,而成骨细胞与破骨细胞位于骨小梁的表面。成骨细胞在向骨细胞进行分化的过程中,首先大量分泌细胞外基质逐渐将自身束缚在一个狭小的空间内,并最终在这种狭小的空间中分化为骨细胞。另一方面,成骨细胞紧密排列在骨小梁的表面,细胞间距离约为1μm,当分化为骨细胞后,细胞间距离