Despite recent increases in nursing recruitment in Australia, participation in the workforce is still below the numbers predicted to meet future needs. This paper discusses factors impacting on nurses' job satisfaction, satisfaction with nursing and intention to leave in public sector hospitals in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Staffing and patient data were collected on 80 medical and surgi...

OBJECTIVES We seek to develop a prototype software analytical tool to augment FDA regulatory reviewers' capacity to harness scientific literature reports in PubMed/MEDLINE for pharmacovigilance and adverse drug event (ADE) safety signal detection. We also aim to gather feedback through usability testing to assess design, performance, and user satisfaction with the tool. METHODS A prototype, o...

Based on discrete event-triggered communication scheme (DETCS), this paper is concerned with the satisfactory H ! / H 2 event-triggered fault-tolerant control problem for networked control system (NCS) with α -safety degree and actuator saturation constraint from the perspective of improving satisfaction of fault-tolerant control and saving network resource. Firstly, the closed-loop NCS model w...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate family physicians' enjoyment of and knowledge gained from game-based learning, compared with traditional case-based learning, in a continuing medical education (CME) event on stroke prevention and management. DESIGN An equivalence trial to determine if game-based learning was as effective as case-based learning in terms of attained knowledge levels. Game questions and sm...

The lexical choice process should be regarded as a constraint satisfaction problem: the generation system must choose a lexical unit that is accurate (t~mthful), va//d (conveys the necessary information), and preferred (maxirnal under a preference function). This corts~aint-based architecture allows a clema separation to be made between what the system knows of the object or event, and what the...

Set-point theory posits that individuals react to the experience of major life events, but quickly adapt back to pre-event baseline levels of subjective well-being in the years following the event. A large, nationally representative panel study of Swiss households was used to examine set-point theory by investigating the extent of adaptation following the experience of marriage, childbirth, wid...

The aim of this study was to investigate whether cultural differences exist in event centrality, emotional distress and well-being in a total of 565 adults above age 40 from Mexico, Greenland, China and Denmark. Participants completed questionnaires to determine their level of post-traumatic stress disorder and depression symptoms, and of life satisfaction. They also completed event centrality ...

Based on discrete event-triggered communication scheme (DETCS), this paper is concerned with the satisfactory H ! / H 2 event-triggered fault-tolerant control problem for networked control system (NCS) with α -safety degree and actuator saturation constraint from the perspective of improving satisfaction of fault-tolerant control and saving network resource. Firstly, the closed-loop NCS model w...

The National Sports Week (known in Bahasa Indonesia as Pekan Olahraga Nasional or PON) consumes a large budget Indonesia’s largest multi-sports event. This raises the question of whether it is only sporting event has an impact on society. Studies related to events, specifically form local small-scale, such PON, are still limited Asia. aim this study was investigate six important domains (constr...

Background & aim: Birth of the first child is one of the major life events for every woman. This event can make extensive changes in couple’s life, which lead to the reduction of marital satisfaction or incidence of conflicts in wifehood and parenthood. Regarding this, the present study was conducted to determine the relationship between transition to parenthood and ma...