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ABSTRACTOccupational therapists assist individuals by providing suitable activities and skills, making it important to understand the user’s experiences. We explored discrepancies between daycare facility users’ quality of experience (based on the channels of the flow model) and providers’ perceptions of that quality. We obtained the cooperation of 48 daycare facility users and five providers. The results showed that the experience channels differed according to the user for the same activities. Furthermore, providers found it difficult to perceive users’ channels during daycare facility activities; overall, they accurately perceived only 24.5% of users’ channels, even for the easiest for the providers to perceive, agreement occurred in approximately half of the cases. Since it is difficult for health care providers to fully perceive what users are experiencing while participating in activities in their daycare facility, we recommend that providers put further effort into attending to users’ situations and emotions to provide suitable activities.

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to clarify the structural aspect of the construct validity of the Japanese version of the Model of Human Occupation Screening Tool.Method: The Japanese version of the Model of Human Occupation Screening Tool was examined using a Rasch model and confirmatory factor analysis. Demographic variables and scores on the Japanese version of the Model of Human Occupation Screening Tool and the Functional Independence Measure were retrieved from 115 clients in rehabilitation wards.Findings: The results of our study indicate that the Japanese version of the Model of Human Occupation Screening Tool effectively assesses clients' ability to engage in activities of daily living and their occupational participation as a dynamic process of engaging in these activities. The level of correlation between the Japanese version of the Model of Human Occupation Screening Tool and the Functional Independence Measure indicates that the former is able to effectively evaluate occupational participation. The structure of the items within the Japanese version of Model of Human Occupation Screening Tool was found to be commensurate with the structure of the Model of Human Occupation.Conclusion: The Japanese version of Model of Human Occupation Screening Tool is a useful assessment tool for assessing occupational participation.

Background: With a growing increase in the population of older people worldwide, there is an undeniable need for efficient and cost-effective service delivery in occupational therapy.Method: This randomised clinical trial employed a parallel design, with an experimental and a control group and a pre-test and post-test, to evaluate the effectiveness of a wellness programme based on the Model of Human Occupation (MOHO). Participants were 65 years of age or older, community-dwelling Japanese older people. Data were analysed for 30 experimental participants who received a 15-session MOHO programme and 33 controls who received a 15-session standard care, crafts programme. Quality of life and psychological wellbeing were compared between groups using the Japanese versions of the Life Satisfaction Index — Z (LSI-Z) and the World Health Organisation Quality of Life-26 (QOL26), respectively.Results: The LSI-Z score for the experimental group improved an average of 3.4 points whereas the control group's mean score improved by 0.1 point. The mean change for the experimental group (m.chg = 3.4, SD = 5.8) was significantly different (p = 0.01) from that of the control group (m.chg = 0.1, SD = 4.8) and the effect size (Cohen's d) was 0.62 (95% confidence interval = 0.13–1.11). The psychological domain score (QOL26) improved slightly for the experimental group whereas it declined slightly for the control group. The mean change was significantly different (p = 0.02) between the experimental (m.chg = 0.1, SD = 0.5) and control (m.chg = −0.1, SD = 0.3) groups; effect size (Cohen's d) was 0.49 (95% confidence interval = 0.02–0.96).Conclusion: The findings support the conclusion that MOHO-based occupational therapy interventions can promote wellness effectively in older people by having an impact on quality of life and sense of wellbeing.

AbstractMicroporous activated carbon fibers consisting of a disordered network of micrographites provide a micropore random network available for the adsorption of a large amount of gaseous materials. We investigate magnetic properties of oxygen molecules condensed in the micropore as a molecule-based random magnet. Magnetic susceptibility shows Curie-Weiss temperature dependence with the Weiss temperature of about -20K at low oxygen concentrations below 1% of the saturation concentration. The increase in the oxygen concentration makes the development of the second contribution to the susceptibility that has a broad hump around 60K. The magnetic behavior is explained in term of the formation of antiferromagnetic oxygen clusters on micrographitic domains, where the internal and marginal oxygen molecules in the cluster contribute to the susceptibility with a short range order hump and the Curie-Weiss susceptibility, respectively.

(η5-Cyclopentadienyl)(1,2-di-2-pyridyl-1,2-ethylendithiolato)cobalt(III) (1) and its selenium analog (2) show interesting reactivities at the S and Se moiety. A characteristic peak in MS of 1and 2measured using a direct inlet system under heating is found at m/z=304 assigned to ((M-2S)+or (M-2Se)+). The reflux of 2in toluene with S8causes the exchange of Se by S in the complex.

(η5-Cyclopentadienyl)(1,2-diphenyl-2-selenolatoethylenethiolato-S,Se)cobalt(III) (1) is formed in the reaction of CpCo(1,5-cyclooctadiene) (4), Ph–C≡C-Ph (5), and a mixture of S8and Se8, together with the dithiolato and diselenolato complexes. A possible mechanism for the formation of 1is the attack of 5to some S,Se-mixed clusters which are formed in the reaction of 4with Se8and S8.

A one-pot-reaction of (?-cyclopentadienyl)(1,5-cyclooctadiene or dicarbonyl)cobalt(I) with alkyne (diphenylacetylene and phenylacetylene) and a mixture of S8and Se8gives (?-cyclopentadienyl)(2-selenolatoethylenethiolato-S,Se)cobalt(III) complex in addition to the corresponding dithiolato and diselenolato complexes. When phenylacetylene was used as an alkyne, a (2-phenyl-2-selenolatoethylenethiolato-S,Se)cobalt(III) complex was formed preferentially rather than the (1-phenyl-2-selenolatothiolato-S,Se)cobalt(III) complex. The separation of the diselenolato and selenolatothiolato complexes from the dithiolato complex was successfully done by utilizing the difference in how these complexes form adducts with tributylphosphine. The dithiolato complexes have more negative reversible half-wave potentials (for reduction) than the diselenolato complexes; the selenolatothiolato complexes have intermediate half-wave potentials.

Carboxylic acids RCOOH (R = Me, Et, Ph) are catalytically produced from carbon dioxide, dihydrogen, and the corresponding organic iodides in the presence of homogeneous Ru/Co or Ni/Co bimetallic catalysts.