The Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index (PES-NWI) is a National Quality Forum nursing care performance standard with sizable global evidence about nurse practice environments. This research synthesis includes qualitative integration (meta-synthesis) and quantitative integration (meta-analysis). A multinomial meta-analysis was used to model multiple classes of like outcomes for ...

by growing the population and need for settlement, many cities have been built on soft sediments and seismic areas. it emphasizes the need for a careful and reliable assessment of site effect phenomena. beyond the methods of studying site effects, microtremor recordings has become popular over the last decades as it offers a convenient, practical and low cost tool to be used in urbanized areas....

The Shallow Water Equations (SWE) are a set of nonlinear hyperbolic equations, describing long waves relative to the water depth. Physical phenomena such as tidal waves in rivers and seas, breaking of waves on shallow beaches and even harbour oscillations can be modelled successfully with the SWE. The 3D SWE (1.1){(1.3) given below for Cartesian (;) coordinates are based on the hydrostatic assu...

Apparent shear stress acting on a vertical interface between the main channel and floodplain in a compound channel serves to quantify the momentum transfer between sub sections of this cross section. In this study, three soft computing methods are used to simulate apparent shear stress in prismatic compound channels. The Genetic Algorithm Artificial neural network (GAA), Genetic Programming (GP...