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Magnet4Europe Intervention to Improve Clinician and Patient Well-Being A Quasi-Experimental Study of 56 Hospitals in 6 European Countries
No full textBACKGROUND: Descriptive studies have documented high hospital nurse burnout and turnover but there are few, if any, large-scale evaluations of organizational interventions to improve clinician retention. The Magnet model is an organizational hospital intervention associated with better clinician and patient outcomes but there is insufficient evidence as to whether the Magnet model based on structural empowerment of clinicians results in better outcomes or rewards hospitals with good work environments, and whether the Magnet model can be implemented at scale outside the United States. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate whether Magnet4Europe-a multiyear organizational intervention of European hospitals-could be implemented and would result in improvements in nurse well-being, care quality, and patient safety. DESIGN: Quasi-experimental longitudinal evaluation of 56 European intervention hospitals in 6 countries. Hospital-level implementation of the intervention measured by changes (from baseline to follow-up) in 77 Magnet model intervention targets. Outcome measures (eg, nurse burnout, intent to leave, quality of care, patient safety) were derived from surveys of nurses (4546 nurses at baseline; 3171 at follow-up). FINDINGS: Hospitals that implemented intervention targets during the study period observed reductions in nurse burnout, nurses' intentions to leave their jobs, and unfavorable care quality. Each 10-percentage-point increase in intervention target implementation was associated with 2.7%-point reduction in nurses who intend to leave (β -2.66; 95% CI: -4.74, -0.58, P <0.05). Hospitals which implemented more than 25% of intervention targets observed 6.3%-point reduction in nurse burnout, 7.6%-point reduction in intent to leave, 6.4%-point reduction in unfavorable care quality, and 3.7%-point reduction in unfavorable patient safety. Improvements in hospital percentages of nurses reporting staffing adequacy were associated with reductions in burnout, intentions to leave, unfavorable care quality, and patient safety. CONCLUSION: Successful implementation of Magnet4Europe demonstrates promise for international adoption at scale of Magnet as an organizational intervention for improving clinician well-being, care quality, and patient safety.sponsorship: Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute of Nursing Research of the National Institutes of Health under grant number R01NR014855; and by European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the project Magnet4Europe: Improving Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Health Care Workplace (Grant Agreement Number 848031). (National Institute of Nursing Research|R01NR014855, H2020 European Research Council|848031)status: Accepte
Deciphering the antimicrobial resistomes and microbiome landscape of open drain wastewater using metagenomics in a progressive Indian state
No full textsponsorship: The authors would like to thank the Council of Scientific and In-dustrial Research (CSIR) , New Delhi, India for encouragement and support. This work was supported by funding from CSIR through project grants MLP 103926 and MLP 202 to NCL and NEERI respectively. (Council of Scientific and In-dustrial Research (CSIR) , New Delhi, India, CSIR|MLP 103926, CSIR|MLP 202)status: Published onlin
Model of 22 nm FDSOI MOSFET and digital cell characteristics at cryogenic temperature
No full textsponsorship: This work was supported by FWO - Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek/Research Foundation Flanders by means of the cryProbe project. The authors want to thank Globalfoundries for the PDK and technology support. (FWO - Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek/Research Foundation Flanders)status: Accepte
Development of a holistic Assessment and Selection Instrument to Reduce the Energy Poverty and the Environmental Impact of the Residential Building Stock - Learnings for stakeholders from the ASiRE² project.
No full textsponsorship: KU Leuven (KUL)|C3/22/029status: Published onlin
Does cocoa certification influence vegetation cover and tree cover loss? A case study from Sulawesi, Indonesia
No full textsponsorship: This work was supported by the Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek; KU Leuven [Special Research Fund BOF (Project Nr.C24M/19/031)]; The Society for Tropical Ecology; King Leopold III Fund for Nature Exploration and Conservation. (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek; KU Leuven [Special Research Fund BOF]|C24M/19/031, Society for Tropical Ecology, King Leopold III Fund for Nature Exploration and Conservation)status: Accepte
Miyake Revisited: Validating the Factor Structure of an Open-Source Cognitive Control Test Battery.
No full textCognitive control is a prerequisite for achieving goals in daily life. Miyake et al. (2000) distinguished three separable but correlated cognitive control functions in young adults: inhibition, shifting, and updating. This three-factor model was later adapted to a bi-factor model with a common factor and separate updating and shifting factors. Over the years, these models have been replicated in various young adult samples. However, other studies have failed to confirm these models. Furthermore, the variety of tasks used in these studies hampers replication of the underlying factor structure of cognitive control. The primary goal of this study was to address this issue of replicability by validating the factor structure of cognitive control functions using a new test battery based on often-used tasks, while offering full transparency about each step in the analysis process. This test battery comprises nine behavioral tasks measuring inhibition, shifting and updating. The factor structure was assessed in 247 young adults (84.21% female). Confirmatory Factor Analysis was used to test the one-factor model with a common cognitive control function, the three-factor model with separate but correlated cognitive control functions, and the bi-factor model. Our findings supported the three-factor model with correlated cognitive control functions as the best-fitting model, despite some fit indices yielding mixed evidence. Additionally, the test battery in this study is offered as an open-source and easily accessible resource. Finally, we offer a critical look on the field and provide recommendations for future use and adaptations of this test battery to increase its broad applicability.status: Published onlin
Review of methods for assessing the measured heat transfer coefficient (HTC)
No full textsponsorship: The authors would like to thank the organisations funding their respective research: Katia Ritosa acknowledges support from KU Leuven (PDMt1/24/009) and Research Foundation Flanders - FWO (12AE226N), Mark Collett is completing a post-doctoral project on QUB funded by Saint-Gobain, and Sarah Juricic is funded by the Sereine project (PRO-INNO-60 publicised in JORF no 0302 du 29 decembre 2021). (KU Leuven|PDMt1/24/009, Research Foundation Flanders - FWO|12AE226N, Sereine project|PRO-INNO-60)status: Accepte
Tuning Surface Concentrations of Building Units to Enable the Cathodic Deposition of Metastable ZIF-L Films for Gas Separations
No full textCathodic deposition is an emerging technique for the preparation of metal-organic framework (MOF) films. However, monitoring and controlling the concentrations of MOF building units (i.e., metal nodes and ligands) on the electrode surface remains challenging and has yet to be reported. This limitation greatly hinders the application of this technique to the synthesis of MOFs sensitive to building unit concentrations, such as the well-known metastable ZIF-L. Here, using the cathodic deposition of ZIF-L films as an example, we demonstrate how the surface metal node and ligand concentrations influence ZIF-L film generation by utilizing in situ pH measurements and theoretical calculations. Also, we propose a strategy to regulate the concentrations of these building units, enabling the straightforward and rapid cathodic deposition of thin ZIF-L films. With polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) post-modification, the electrochemically deposited ZIF-L films on commercial anodized alumina oxide (AAO) substrate exhibit good gas separation performance, achieving a H2/N2 selectivity of 19.4 and a H2 permeance exceeding 360 GPU (1 GPU = 3.35 × 10-1⁰ mol m- 2 s-1 Pa-1).sponsorship: This project received funding from the FWO and F.R.S.- FNRS under the Excellence of Science (EOS) program-ECOBAT (40007515). S.X. and X.T. thank for their PDM fellowships (ZKE4577 and PDMT223060) from KU Leuven and their FWO postdoc fellowships (1235225N and 12A8X25N). (FWO postdoc fellowships)status: Publishe
Measuring Chinese personality in 8 minutes: A short measure of the five-factor model of personality
No full textUsing data from three Chinese samples (Ns = 611, 403, 299) collected using both monolingual and bilingual designs, we evaluated the psychometric properties and factor structure of the NEO Five-Factor Inventory 3 (FFI-3), the short form of the NEO Personality Inventory 3 (PI-3), for use in Chinese communities. Although the FFI-3 contains only a quarter of the 240 items of the PI-3, exploratory structural equation modeling revealed that it maintained the five-factor structure of the long form and achieved acceptable levels of internal consistency, cross-language validity, and test-retest reliability. The correlation coefficients between the short-form factors and the corresponding long-form factors were all above .86, indicating a strong association between the short and long versions of the scale. Taken together, our findings suggest that the FFI-3 is a viable tool for mapping personality in Chinese communities.status: Publishe
The Days On Days Off Scheduling Problem
No full textPersonnel scheduling problems have received considerable academic attention due to their relevance in various real-world applications. These problems involve preparing feasible schedules for an organization’s employees and often account for factors such as qualifications of workers and holiday requests, resulting in complex constraints. While certain versions of the personnel rostering problem are widely acknowledged as NP-hard, there is limited theoretical analysis specific to many of its variants. Many studies simply assert the NP-hardness of the general problem without investigating whether the specific cases they address inherit this computational complexity.
In this paper, we examine a variant of the personnel scheduling problems, which involves scheduling a homogeneous workforce subject to constraints concerning both the total number and the number of consecutive work days and days off. This problem was originally motivated by real world examples in the hospitality sector and was previously claimed to be NP-complete. In this paper, we analyze the problem from a theoretical point of view: we prove its NP-completeness and investigate how the combination of constraints contributes to this complexity. More precisely, we analyze various special cases that arise from the omission of certain parameters, classifying them as either NP-complete or polynomial-time solvable. For the latter, we provide easy-to-implement and efficient algorithms to not only determine feasibility, but also compute a corresponding schedule.sponsorship: Internal funds KU Leuven|C24E/23/012status: Publishe