Objective:As a developable ability,empathy is significantly associated with patient-centered care.The authors intended to evaluate the effect of Virtual Dementia Tour(VDT)upon nursing students'empathy level and pr...Objective:As a developable ability,empathy is significantly associated with patient-centered care.The authors intended to evaluate the effect of Virtual Dementia Tour(VDT)upon nursing students'empathy level and propose practical rationales for optimizing future dementia care.Methods:A total of 45 second-year undergraduate nursing students were organized to watch a theme movie entitled Still Alice and participate in an 8-min VDT.Jefferson Scale of Empathy-Health Professional Students(JSE-HPS)was employed for evaluating the empathy level of nursing students.After VDT,all nursing students participated in a structured interview.Descriptive statistics and paired t-tests were performed using SPSS 24.0.Results:Their empathy levels demonstrated significant overall improvements(106.69±9.49 vs 115.51±10.16,P<0.01).During the course of VDT,nursing students experienced varying levels of anxiety and frustration.All of them were satisfied with the program since they had gained a deeper understanding of demented patients and the program could change their attitudes toward demented elders.Conclusion:Watching a specially selected movie and participating in VDT may be an effective method for enhancing empathy and caring during nursing student education.展开更多
Recently,‘Liquid crystal display(LCD)vs.organic light-emitting diode(OLED)display:who wins?’has become a topic of heated debate.In this review,we perform a systematic and comparative study of these two flat panel di...Recently,‘Liquid crystal display(LCD)vs.organic light-emitting diode(OLED)display:who wins?’has become a topic of heated debate.In this review,we perform a systematic and comparative study of these two flat panel display technologies.First,we review recent advances in LCDs and OLEDs,including material development,device configuration and system integration.Next we analyze and compare their performances by six key display metrics:response time,contrast ratio,color gamut,lifetime,power efficiency,and panel flexibility.In this section,we focus on two key parameters:motion picture response time(MPRT)and ambient contrast ratio(ACR),which dramatically affect image quality in practical application scenarios.MPRT determines the image blur of a moving picture,and ACR governs the perceived image contrast under ambient lighting conditions.It is intriguing that LCD can achieve comparable or even slightly better MPRT and ACR than OLED,although its response time and contrast ratio are generally perceived to be much inferior to those of OLED.Finally,three future trends are highlighted,including high dynamic range,virtual reality/augmented reality and smart displays with versatile functions.展开更多
基金Science and Technology Innovative Research Team in Higher Educational Institutions of Hunan Province(S201910823040)
文摘Objective:As a developable ability,empathy is significantly associated with patient-centered care.The authors intended to evaluate the effect of Virtual Dementia Tour(VDT)upon nursing students'empathy level and propose practical rationales for optimizing future dementia care.Methods:A total of 45 second-year undergraduate nursing students were organized to watch a theme movie entitled Still Alice and participate in an 8-min VDT.Jefferson Scale of Empathy-Health Professional Students(JSE-HPS)was employed for evaluating the empathy level of nursing students.After VDT,all nursing students participated in a structured interview.Descriptive statistics and paired t-tests were performed using SPSS 24.0.Results:Their empathy levels demonstrated significant overall improvements(106.69±9.49 vs 115.51±10.16,P<0.01).During the course of VDT,nursing students experienced varying levels of anxiety and frustration.All of them were satisfied with the program since they had gained a deeper understanding of demented patients and the program could change their attitudes toward demented elders.Conclusion:Watching a specially selected movie and participating in VDT may be an effective method for enhancing empathy and caring during nursing student education.
基金AFOSR for partial financial support under contract No.FA9550-14-1-0279.
文摘Recently,‘Liquid crystal display(LCD)vs.organic light-emitting diode(OLED)display:who wins?’has become a topic of heated debate.In this review,we perform a systematic and comparative study of these two flat panel display technologies.First,we review recent advances in LCDs and OLEDs,including material development,device configuration and system integration.Next we analyze and compare their performances by six key display metrics:response time,contrast ratio,color gamut,lifetime,power efficiency,and panel flexibility.In this section,we focus on two key parameters:motion picture response time(MPRT)and ambient contrast ratio(ACR),which dramatically affect image quality in practical application scenarios.MPRT determines the image blur of a moving picture,and ACR governs the perceived image contrast under ambient lighting conditions.It is intriguing that LCD can achieve comparable or even slightly better MPRT and ACR than OLED,although its response time and contrast ratio are generally perceived to be much inferior to those of OLED.Finally,three future trends are highlighted,including high dynamic range,virtual reality/augmented reality and smart displays with versatile functions.
