OBJECTIVE To examine hospital nurses' patient safety competencies and the association between these competencies and safety climate. DESIGN Cross-sectional questionnaire survey. SETTING Three teaching hospitals in Seoul, Korea. PARTICIPANTS In total, 459 nurses from general adult nursing care units, intensive care units or operating rooms (response rate = 87.4%). METHOD Self-administere...

research-article Share on Elevating strengths and capacities: the different shades of assets-based design in HCI Authors: Marisol Wong-Villacres Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral LitoralView Profile , Sheena Erete University Maryland College Park ParkView Aakash Gautam San Francisco State UniversityView Azra Ismail Georgia Tech TechView Neha Kumar Lucy Pei California, Irvine IrvineView W...

The time-dependent local-density approximation (TDLDA) is shown to remain accurate in describing the atomic response of group IB elements under the additional approximation of using pseudopotentials to treat the effects of core electrons. This extends the work of Zangwill and Soven who showed the utility of the all-electron TDLDA in the atomic response problem.

Four hundred and fiftynine students from 20 different high school classrooms in Michigan participated in focus group discussions about the character strengths included in the Values in Action Classification. Students were interested in the subject of good character and able to discuss with candor and sophistication instances of each strength. They were especially drawn to the positive traits of...