Background: There is a notable lack of Communication of Bad News (CBN) training for nurses, along with the absence of validated tools to assess this. The aim of this research is to design and validate an instrument to assess the communication of bad...
23 September 2022
Background: We aimed to identify which attitudes and emotions accompany latter-year medical students as they experience situations where bad news is communicated. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted using the computer-assisted web intervie...
Background/Objectives: Breaking bad news is crucial for patient-centered care. This study aimed to assess physicians’ skills and investigate the possible factors affecting their ability to communicate bad news. Methods: This web-based cross-sec...
Breaking bad news is an intrinsic aspect of physicians’ clinical practices. This study aims to investigate how Saudi physicians manage the process of communicating bad news and explore potential differences in breaking bad news practices betwee...
18 June 2022
Nursing students experience anxiety during clinical practicum, which may interfere with their learning of clinical practice. This study explored the practicum anxiety symptom experience of clinical nursing students. The methodology was mixed research...
The communication of bad news, particularly in situations of an unexpected death, is one of the most difficult tasks for health professionals. It is important to be aware of the words used and the way the loss is conveyed, as these can mark the famil...
Gang of Four (GoF) design patterns are widely approved solutions for recurring software design problems, and their benefits to software quality are extensively studied. However, the occurrence of bad smells in design patterns increases the crisis of...
Visual traffic surveillance using computer vision techniques can be noninvasive, automated and cost effective. Traffic surveillance systems with the ability to detect, count and classify vehicles can be employed in gathering traffic statistics and ac...
The BH3-only molecule Bad regulates cell death via its differential protein phosphorylation, but very few studies address its effect on early embryonic development in vertebrate systems. In this work, we examined the novel role of zebrafish Bad in th...
SE is critical in ADNs integrating renewable DGs. Traditional SE methods face the challenges of increasing SE errors and decreased robustness due to the adverse impact of bad data in measurements and topology parameters. To address these issues, this...
This paper proposes the threshold-bad-scenario-set (TBS) robust unit commitment (TBSRUC) problem to hedge against wind-power uncertainty, which is described by a finite set of discrete scenarios. In the TBS robust optimization model, a performance th...
Power quality monitoring equipment is inevitably faced with the problem of data loss and is vulnerable to the interference of noise or bad data. We propose a harmonic data recovery method that is based on graph clustering and non-negative matrix fact...
23 February 2022
Hematologists adequately disclosing bad news is a critical point precluding patient-centered communication. Specific courses on communication for hematologists seem to be rare, as well as research exploring their communicative skills and patterns. We...
In this conceptual essay, the author draws on the concept of bad faith to explore its connections to Niceness and role in sustaining the historical failures of U.S. teacher education to prepare future teachers to effectively teach learners from diver...
Electroencephalogram (EEG) data are typically affected by artifacts. The detection and removal of bad channels (i.e., with poor signal-to-noise ratio) is a crucial initial step. EEG data acquired from different populations require different cleaning...
Caprine kobuvirus (CKoV) is a member of the Picornaviridae family that causes enteritis in goats and poses a significant health threat, yet its molecular pathogenesis remains largely unknown. Here, we show that experimental infection of goats with CK...
Studies have shown that the BH3-only domain Bad regulates brain development via the control of programmed cell death (PCD), but very few studies have addressed its effect on the molecular signaling of brain development in the system. In this work, we...
Bad breath or halitosis affects a majority of the population from time to time, causing personal discomfort and social embarrassment. Here, we report on a miniaturized, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)-based, amperometric hydrogen sulfide (H2S)...
Androgen receptor (AR) expression in estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer (BC) correlates with lower tumor grade and a better clinical outcome. Additionally, in normal mammary epithelium or ER+ BC preclinical models, androgens counteract ba...
Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree is a literary representation of existentialism. The eponymous protagonist seeks his meaning and purpose in a universe that offers none. Jean-Paul Sartre’s existentialism proposes that people must fill the blank slate of the...
Bad decisions have harmful effects on the quality of human life and an increase of their duration expands these undesirable effects. Systematic bad decisions related to dividend policy can affect the investors’ quality of life in the long-term....
The rapid development of the civil aviation industry has increased the pressure on airspace resources in China. The traditional sector capacity assessment method does not take into account the impact of bad weather, resulting in flight plans often de...
Residential electricity load data can include numerous types of bad data, even clustered bad data, as they that are typically captured by simple measurement instruments. For example, in the case of a time-series of Not-a-Number (NaN) errors, the valu...
Optimization is the science that presents a solution among the available solutions considering an optimization problem’s limitations. Optimization algorithms have been introduced as efficient tools for solving optimization problems. These algorithms...
This paper addresses the problem of robust identification of gross errors affecting both measurements and network parameters in power system state estimation. The study is conducted within a steady-state framework and focuses on improving bad data id...
Background: Delivering bad news is a sensitive and challenging aspect of nursing healthcare, requiring a holistic approach that respects patients’ preferences, cultural values, and religious beliefs to promote adaptation to the person’s s...
24 February 2022
Background: Numerous reports indicate the educational deficiencies of medical students in delivering bad-news-related skills. Evaluation of the performance of training programs in this area should be one of the key components of the educational proce...
With the rapid development of Internet technology, the number of global Internet users is rapidly increasing, and the scale of the Internet is also expanding. The huge Internet system has accelerated the spread of bad information, including bad image...
Background: Many nurses and physicians report difficulties with breaking bad news to their patients due to the lack of adequate skills and training. This study aimed to explore the communication skills, knowledge, and self-perceived difficulties of h...
In this paper, we propose a novel city-scale distance sensing algorithm based on atmosphere optics. The suspended particles, especially in bad weather, would attenuate the light at almost all wavelengths. Observing this fact and starting from the lig...
The physiological responses and molecular mechanisms of apoptosis in Japanese flounder under hypoxic stress remain unclear. In the present study, we performed acute hypoxia stress on Japanese flounder (2.39 ± 0.84 mg/L) and detected gills resp...
Background: Effective communication improves patient satisfaction and reduces stress for both patients and physicians. Surveys consistently highlight the importance of strong communication skills among physicians, especially in oncologic settings. Ye...
The design and development of a small molecule named NPB [3-{(4(2,3-dichlorophenyl)piperazin-1-yl}{2-hydroxyphenyl)methyl}-N-cyclopentylbenzamide], which specifically inhibited the phosphorylation of BAD at Ser99 in human carcinoma cells has been pre...
20 October 2026
Nightmares are distressing sleep experiences associated with emotional difficulties, impaired daytime functioning, and reduced sleep quality. Although imagery rescripting (IR) has demonstrated effectiveness in reducing nightmare-related distress amon...
Numerous vehicle detection methods have been proposed to obtain trustworthy traffic data for the development of intelligent traffic systems. Most of these methods perform sufficiently well under common scenarios, such as sunny or cloudy days; however...
Apoptosis has been proven to play a crucial role in early brain injury pathogenesis and to represent a target for the treatment of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Previously, we demonstrated that astaxanthin (ATX) administration markedly reduced neuro...
Socio-emotional abilities have been proposed as an extension to models of intelligence, but earlier measurement approaches have either not fulfilled criteria of ability measurement or have covered only predominantly receptive abilities. We argue that...
10 January 2020
Communicating bad news (CBN) is a fundamental skill in nursing; nevertheless, few instruments exist for its evaluation. This study presents a questionnaire designed to measure nurses’ knowledge and ability of CBN, as well as the analysis of its...
Bad data as a result of measurement errors in secondary substation (SS) monitoring equipment is difficult to detect and negatively affects power system state estimation performance by both increasing the computational burden and jeopardizing the stat...
A wafer bin map (WBM), which is the result of an electrical die-sorting test, provides information on which bins failed what tests, and plays an important role in finding defective wafer patterns in semiconductor manufacturing. Current wafer inspecti...
Communication in neonatal intensive care units and the relationship between families and staff have been reported to influence parental mental well-being. Research has also shown an impact of parental educational level on their well-being. However, w...
Delivering difficult news to parents of children with neurodisabilities, often involving new diagnoses, prognosis changes, or declines in function or health, presents a complex task. Our aim was to assess physicians’ self-perceived competence i...
Evidence suggests that phytochemicals can safely modulate cancer cell biology and induce apoptosis. Here, we investigated the anti-cancer activity of morin, a flavone originally isolated from members of the Moraceae family in human leukemic cells, fo...
To defend against insider attacks in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), trust mechanisms (TMs) using the notion of trust in human society have been proposed and are still actively researched. In the WSN with a trust mechanism (TM), each sensor node eva...
Women commit significantly fewer murders than men and are perceived to be less violent. This belief about women’s non-violence reflects the discourses surrounding gender, all of which assume that women possess certain inherent essential characteristi...
Human decision-making plays a critical and challenging role in the prevention and control of public bads within socio-ecological systems. Farmers daily confront dilemmas regarding public bad management, such as infectious diseases in their crops. The...
Various factors such as natural disasters, vandalism, weather, and environmental conditions can affect the physical state of traffic signs. The proposed model aims to improve detection of traffic signs affected by partial occlusion as a result of ove...
With the rapid development of modern power systems, the structure and operation of distribution networks are becoming increasingly complex, demanding higher levels of intelligence and digitization. Digital twin, as a virtual cutting-edge technique, c...
This article is the second in a series of two and presented findings from field-testing an experimental boardgame (Musa-game) with banana farmers in four villages in Eastern Rwanda. The conceptualization and design of the Musa-game were described in...
Given the continued existence, personal success, and organizational damage of ‘bad’ leadership (e.g., with Bankman-Fried, Lay, Welch, Stonecipher), how do we—in academia—do more good than harm in studying and informing others...
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