Academy of Engineering Sciences

Introduction: Effective discharge documentation is essential for safe transitions from hospital to community care. The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) outlines seven core data categories for patient discharge summaries. In low-resource settings, structured formats have been shown to improve completeness, clarity, and patient safety. This quality improvement project (QIP) aimed to develop and implement a standardized discharge card in the Internal Medicine Department of Atbara Teaching Hospital, Sudan, adapted from HIQA standards.Methodology: The project followed a two-cycle audit (April-August 2025). In the first cycle, 50 discharge records were reviewed to identify gaps. Records were randomly selected from the pool of available patient files, and auditing was conducted by three physicians not directly involved in patient care during the study period. A standardized discharge card was co-developed with staff, including essential demographic, clinical, and follow-up details. Training was provided, and the tool was implemented. In the second cycle, 40 discharge records were audited. Data was analyzed using chi-square tests to compare pre- and post-intervention documentation rates.Results: Significant improvements were observed in gender documentation (46.8%→100%, P < 0.001), allergy recording (12.9%→88.3%, P < 0.001), telephone number (0%→36.6%, P < 0.001), address (1.6%→43.0%, P < 0.001), referral to specialist (0%→35.0%, P < 0.001), and referrer details (32.3%→55.0%, P = 0.028). High compliance was maintained for the patient’s name, age, primary diagnosis, and clinical summary. These gains are clinically meaningful, as improved allergy and contact documentation directly support patient safety and follow-up. Persistent deficiencies remained for date of birth (0%→5.0%, P = 0.110) and professional role documentation (40.3%→50.0%, P = 0.343), likely reflecting reliance on age notation and limited emphasis on role identification.Conclusion: The standardized discharge card significantly improved documentation in key patient safety domains. Sustained gains require ongoing staff training and regular audits. This model may also be generalizable to other departments and hospitals in low-resource settings.

Chemistry and biotechnology played a central role in transforming a poverty-stricken region in the middle of Europe into a flourishing industrial country. Rural areas remained destitute well into the 18th century. However, during the second half of the 18th century the foundation of the chemical powerhouses was laid. The biotechnological sector was built on these strong fundaments. This paper describes the development of the Swiss biotechnology sector from the early beginnings in the 1930s with a biocatalytic step in Vitamin C production to today’s multifaceted application of biotechnology in Switzerland. As a matter of fact, biotechnology has become a key asset of the contemporary Swiss economy, and this paper outlines what is needed to stay on a successful path.

Objetivo: Investigar na literatura científica as implicações da pandemia de COVID-19 na qualidade do sono de universitários Métodos: Realizou-se uma revisão integrativa da literatura entre os meses de abril e maio de 2023. A busca de artigos ocorreu nas seguintes bases de dados: Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde (BVS), Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) e PUBMED. Utilizou-se descritores indexados no Descritores em Ciências da Saúde (DeCS) e o Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) em português/inglês (Sono/sleep, Covid-19/covid-19 e estudantes/ students). Foram inclusos estudos do tipo observacional ou de intervenção, publicados entre 2020 e 2023, nos idiomas português e inglês e disponíveis em texto completo que abordasse a variável sono na população universitária. Os critérios de exclusão foram estudos de revisões, teses e dissertações. Resultados: Foram encontrados 1334 artigos nas bases de dados, sendo que 639 na PUBMED, 683 na BVS, e 12 na SciELO. Deste total, após a utilização dos critérios de inclusão foram selecionados 12 artigos. Conclusão: O presente estudo evidenciou que os universitários tiveram implicações no sono em decorrência do período da COVID-19, e sua associação com múltiplos fatores relacionados a saúde e desempenho acadêmico. Conclui-se que a pandemia trouxe impactos negativos no sono e em outras variáveis de saúde na população estudada.

In this article, we investigate the sufficient conditions on weighted Nakano sequence space to be premodular Banach (sss). We examine some topological and geometrical structures of the multiplication operators defined on weighted Nakano prequasi-normed (sss).

The development of a modern motor vehicle is aimed at improving the performance in the field of dynamics (both longitudinal and lateral), economy, safety and ergonomic characteristics. Special attention is paid to passenger comfort. Torsional oscillations in transmission cause longitudinal vibrations of the vehicle, depending on inertial parameters, as well as on stiffness and damping of the transmission. Taking into account the complexity of the problem, it is estimated that it is useful to analyse the impact of the transmission design parameters on the longitudinal (fore and aft) vibrations of freight motor vehicle. For this purpose, the dynamic simulation method was used, and the analysis of the influence of certain constructive parameters on the longitudinal oscillations of the vehicle was performed using the sensitivity function.

Gadolinium ions have been demonstrated experimentally to be incorporated into magnetite nanoparticles. Increasing the percentage of gadolinium considerably reduces the magnetic moment of the magnetite nanoparticles (by two orders of magnitude). This effect is discussed in terms of known models for the effect of nanocrystal size (the number of dopant atoms) on the dopant solubility in nanocrystals. Experimental data obtained for a system of gadolinium-doped iron oxide nanoparticles by magnetometry are in qualitative agreement with the models.