Background: Moral care provision is an essential part of nursing work. Nursing schools are responsible for developing moral competencies in nursing students. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between moral competencies and the formation of professional identity among nursing students. Methods: This study was designed as a descriptive-correlational study. The study population consisted of nursing students who were enrolled in nursing schools at the time of the study. Two hundred and twenty-one nursing students completed the study tools. The research tools were a demographic questionnaire, Moral Development Scale for Professionals (MDSP), and Professional Identity Scale for Nursing Students (PISNS). Results: The mean (SD) of MDSP and PISNS scores were 45.69±5.90 and 55.61±12.75, respectively. There was a significant statistical relationship between MSDP and PISNS scores (p<0.05). A significant equation was found (f (2, 218) = 16.68, p<0.001) with an R2 of 0.113. The MSDP scores increased 0.136 for each score of PISNS, and married students had 2.452 scores higher than single students. Conclusions: There was a significant correlation between the formation of professional identity and development of morality in nursing students. By supporting the formation of professional identity, nursing schools can help the development of moral competencies in nursing students.

Metastable scheelite EuVO 4 was stabilized by a high temperature and pressure method, which was transformed into a stable zircon phase by annealing treatment in air. Scheelite EuVO 4 gave strong emissions with a dominant peak at 617 nm associated with the 5 D 0 -7 F 2 transition of Eu 3ϩ . 151 Eu Mössbauer spectra indicated that the isomer shift for the metastable scheelite phase was ca. 0.5 mm/s lower than that for the zircon phase, which was ascribed to a reduced covalency in the Eu-O bond originated via a charge transfer from oxygen to Eu 3ϩ in scheelite lattice by producing an enhanced shielding of 4f electrons on the s orbital as well as a decrease in s electron density around Eu 3ϩ nucleus. Impedance spectra for the zircon phase clearly demonstrated an ionic hopping in the bulk with a conductivity of ca. 1.0 ϫ 10 Ϫ3 S cm Ϫ1 at 500°C. EuVO 4 is proved to be both a potential phosphor and a potential ionic conductor.Oxide materials usually exhibit several novel physical phenomena under high pressures including pressure-induced ferroelectric transformations, amorphorization, and electronic transitions. 1-3 Zircon ZrSiO 4 exists in the earth's crust, a common accessory mineral of igneous rocks and sediments. It has excellent physical properties such as low thermal conductivity and high melting points, and shows great potential in industrial applications. It is found that zircon ZrSiO 4 transforms into a scheelite structure, a common feature for other zircon oxides at high pressures. 4 To well understand these pressure-induced behaviors, one has to introduce some probe ions at the framework sites to follow the microstructural variations. REVO 4 ͑RE rare earth ions, V vanadium͒ shows a similar crystallographic habit to ZrSiO 4 at high pressures with RE being framework ions. Recently, research 5-7 was carried out focusing on the phase behaviors and physical properties of REVO 4 at high pressures on the basis of considerations that ͑i͒ REVO 4 could become a promising host material for phosphors when some rare earth ions ͑such as Eu 3ϩ and Tb 3ϩ ͒ were doped at RE sites. On the other hand, these dopants can also be taken as the efficient probes for identification of local structures and electronic transitions after excitation of the host and subsequent energy transfer to the dopants, and (ii) such studies could provide insight on the nature of phase transitions in these kinds of minerals, and furthermore, on finding new materials of different physical properties. However, there exist some controversies about both microstructural and physical properties for such materials.With regard to the microstructures, zircon and scheelite phases are recognized to show some structural similarities. The former one has a space group of I4 1 /a at room temperature. Each unit cell contains four molecules, in which four equivalent rare earth ions are of D 2d site symmetry. 8 At high pressures, zircon REVO 4 transforms reversibly into a tetragonal scheelite phase that is ca. 10% more dense than zircon. 9 In a scheelite lattice, rare ea...

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In this paper, the test of the indoor thermal environment for Tibetan traditional dwellings of Shangri-la in winter, that have tested indoor temperature and the temperature of house surface, and contrast to analysis tested parameters. The results of the test show climate characteristics in Shangri-la and variations of temperature effecting indoor thermal comfortable.