Impact mechanism of social-related social media use on the job performance of caregivers of older adults.

This study investigated the impact mechanism of social-related social media use on the job performance of caregivers of older adults through mental health and analyzed gender differences. A total of 358 valid questionnaires were collected and analyzed using SPSS and Smart PLS. The results showed that mental health plays an important role in the relationship between social-related social media use and job performance. Such social media use can improve psychological well-being and reduce psychological distress by promoting relaxation experience. Psychological well-being has a significant positive impact on job performance. In addition, significant differences exist in the impact path of social-related social media use on psychological distress among different gender groups. The findings of this study can assist nursing homes in assessing the use of social media within their organizations and provide methodological references for enhancing the job performance of caregivers of older adults.

How transformational leadership and clan culture influence nursing staff's willingness to stay.

AIM: To explore the impact mechanism of transformational leadership and clan culture on the willingness to stay of nursing staff in the aged care industry. BACKGROUND: Previous researchers had paid much attention to the leadership and culture, yet it was unclear how the transformational leadership and clan culture influence the willingness to stay of nursing staff, especially those in the aged care industry. METHODS: A questionnaire was conducted in an aged care agency in Anhui Province, with a total of 217 valid questionnaires collected for empirical analysis. RESULTS: (a) Transformational leadership indirectly affects willingness to stay by affecting organisational commitment and job satisfaction. (b) Clan culture also affects the willingness to stay by affecting their organisational commitment and job satisfaction. (c) Professional identity also has a significant positive impact on the willingness to stay. CONCLUSIONS: The findings of the study emphasize the importance of transformational leadership and clan culture in enhancing the willingness to stay of nursing staff in the aged care industry, and clarify the specific impact mechanism. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING MANAGEMENT: Nurse leaders in the aged care agencies should improve transformational leadership, and strive to build clan culture to help retain nursing staff better.

JUNO high purity nitrogen plant.

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a 20 kt low level radioactivity liquid scintillator detector in a laboratory 650 m underground. An excellent energy resolution and a large volume offer exciting opportunities for addressing many important topics in neutrino physics. High purity nitrogen is an important factor to ensure the low background of the JUNO detector. High Purity Nitrogen (HPN) is used for detector purging, pipe cleaning, and scintillator purification, among other things in JUNO. According to JUNO's requirements, the radon concentration in HPN should be less than 10 µBq/m3. To meet this requirement, A high-purity nitrogen plant with 100 Nm3/h maximum rate was designed and constructed. Low-temperature adsorption technology is used to remove radioactive impurities in nitrogen. High purification efficiency was ensured by using an activated carbon column with high column height-to-diameter ratio. Electrostatic collection and low-temperature enrichment methods are combined to measure radon in nitrogen. After ten days of continuous operation at 50 Nm3/h flux rate, the plant can to reduce the radon concentration in nitrogen from 37.4±1.8µBq/m3 to less than 1.33 µBq/m3. After HPN with flow rate of 50 Nm3/h passing through low-background pipeline (About 1.3 km), the radon concentration of HPN is 5.6±0.6µBq/m3.

How Do COVID-19 Risk, Life-Safety Risk, Job Insecurity, and Work-Family Conflict Affect Miner Performance? Health-Anxiety and Job-Anxiety Perspectives.

The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has created challenging working conditions in coal-production activities. In addition to the massive loss of resources for miners, it has had a devastating impact on these individuals' mental health. Based on the conservation of resources (COR) theory and a resource-loss perspective, this study examined the impact of COVID-19 risk, life-safety risk, perceived job insecurity, and work-family conflict on miners' job performance. Moreover, this study investigated the mediating role of job anxiety (JA) and health anxiety (HA). The study data were collected through online structured questionnaires disseminated to 629 employees working in a coal mine in China. The data analysis and hypothesis generation were conducted using the structural equation modeling (partial least squares) method. The results demonstrated that the perception of COVID-19 risk, life-safety risk, job insecurity, and work-family conflict negatively and significantly impacted miners' job performance. In addition, JA and HA negatively mediated the relationships between the perception of COVID-19 risk, life-safety risk, perceived job insecurity, work-family conflict, and job performance. The findings of this study can give coal-mining companies and their staff useful insights into how to minimize the pandemic's effects on their operations.

A neutron beam monitor based on ceramic gas electron multiplier with high spatial resolution for low flux measurements.

Neutron scattering instruments play an important role in studying the inner structure of materials. A neutron beam monitor is a detector commonly used in a neutron scattering instrument. The detection efficiency for most neutron beam monitors is quite low (10-4-10-6). However, in some experiments with a low neutron flux, such as small angle neutron scattering (SANS) and inelastic neutron scattering experiments, a neutron beam monitor with a higher detection efficiency (∼1% for thermal neutrons) is required to reduce the duration of the experiment. To meet this requirement, a ceramic gas electron multiplier-based neutron beam monitor equipped with a 1 µm 10B4C neutron converter was developed in this study. Its performance was determined both experimentally and in simulations. The detection efficiency in the wavelength range of 1.8-5.5 Å was measured experimentally and was confirmed by the simulation results. An algorithm based on event selection and position reconstruction was developed to improve the spatial resolution to about 1 mm full-width-half-maximum. The wavelength spectrum was measured in beamline 20 (BL20) and agreed well with the results obtained using a commercial monitor. The maximum counting rate was 1.3 MHz. The non-uniformity over the whole 100 × 100 mm2 active area was determined to be 1.4%. Due to the excellent performance of this monitor, it has been used in several neutron instruments, such as the SANS and the High-Energy Direct-Geometry Inelastic Spectrometer instruments in the China spallation neutron source.

How Safety Climate Influences the Willingness to Stay of Nursing Staff during the COVID-19 Outbreak.

The outbreak of COVID-19 in China at the beginning of 2020 has made the problems that the aged care agency face with large mobility and high turnover of aged nursing staff become more serious. Aiming at this problem, this paper incorporates psychological capital and social panic into the model from the perspective of the organizational safety climate and constructs a theoretical model of the mechanism of the effect on nursing staff's willingness to stay in the context of the outbreak. Through a questionnaire survey in an aged care agency in Anhui Province, a total of 321 valid questionnaires were collected for empirical analysis. The results show that: (1) the safety climate of the organization has a significant positive impact on the transactional psychological capital and interpersonal psychological capital of nursing staff in the aged care industry and their willingness to stay; (2) transactional psychological capital and social panic have a significant positive impact on the willingness to stay of nursing staff, while interpersonal psychological capital has no significant impact on the willingness to stay; (3) the mediating role of transactional psychological capital and interpersonal psychological capital between the safety climate and the willingness to stay is established, and the moderating role of social panic between psychological capital and willingness to stay is also established. Finally, based on the research conclusions, corresponding countermeasures and suggestions are put forward to deal with the problems that occur in special periods.

Factors Influencing College Students' Mental Health Promotion: The Mediating Effect of Online Mental Health Information Seeking.

For college students, mental health is an important factor in ensuring their ability to study and have a normal life. This research focuses on factors affecting the mental health of college students in the information network society. We constructed a theoretical model that influences their online mental health information seeking behavior from internal and external perspectives, and by extension, affects their mental health. Through the data obtained by field research and questionnaire survey on the online mental health information seeking behavior of some college students in Internet health information platforms, a structural equation model is used to test the hypotheses. Results show that the quality of external Internet platforms and the quality of internal electronic health literacy have a significantly positive impact on the online health information searching behavior of college students; electronic health literacy and online mental health information seeking behavior have significantly direct positive effects on college students' mental health. Further, online health information searching behavior has a significant mediating effect between Internet platform quality, electronic health literacy, and college students' mental health. The research conclusions have theoretical value and practical significance to study the factors influencing college students' mental health in the context of information network society.