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Quantum Spin Wave Excited from a Cr–Dy Single-Molecule Magnet

Estimating strawberry weight for grading by picking robot with point cloud completion and multimodal fusion network

Intercepting a Mycobacterial Biosynthetic Pathway with Covalent Labeling

Computing Euler characteristic of $${N}$$-dimensional objects via a Skyrmion-inspired overlaying ($${N}$$+1)-dimensional chiral field

Charged Water Microdroplets Enable Dissociation of Surrounding Dioxygen

Underwater vessel sound recognition based on multi-layer feature and attention mechanism

Acylphosphine Route to Colloidal InP Quantum Dots

The effect of language discordance on the experience of palliative care: A scoping review

Background Internationally, research demonstrates consistent disparities in access to palliative care services for those in underserved communities with life-limiting conditions. Objectives This outcomes-oriented scoping review examines the impact of language discordance on palliative care (PC) experiences. It seeks to answer the question: what are the PC experiences of individuals who do not speak the same language as their care provider? The review explored the range and depth of existing research and synthesizing trends across studies. Design Online databases were used to find articles published in English or French, from January 1, 2010, to February 5, 2024. Inclusion criteria included studies that explored the relationship between palliative, end-of-life or hospice care, as well as advance care planning in the context of language discordance between individual and health care provider. This scoping review was originally designed to explore Canadian official language minority communities, but was broadened to an international search for a more robust dataset. Results A total of 39 articles were included in the review, 23 qualitative studies, nine quantitative studies and seven mixed-methods studies. The following elements were extracted from eligible articles: country, study design, target population and definitions, participant characteristics, definitions of PC, outcomes studied, findings related to the study aims, as well as author-defined study limitations and next steps. Areas for further research were identified, as were areas for policy and practice change. Studies used various perspectives of PC, often synonymizing it with end-of-life and hospice care, as well as advanced care planning. There was no contextual definition of language barriers in the studies and no studies that explored the PC in any Canadian official language minority communities. The importance of in-language resources, accessibility of skilled interpreters, education in cross-cultural care were all common themes in the literature. Conclusions From a variety of perspectives, studies generally found that language discordance has a negative impact on the quality of accessibility of palliative, end-of-life and hospice care, as well as advanced care planning. Given that Canada’s population is becoming increasingly linguistically diverse, there is a need to better understand the impact of receiving PC from individuals who speak another language on both the quality of PC and quality of life at the end of life.

Identification of dental related ChatGPT generated abstracts by senior and young academicians versus artificial intelligence detectors and a similarity detector

Prolonged Trapping of Adeno-Associated Virus Capsids Reveals that Genome Packaging Affects Single-Ion Mass Spectrometry Measurements

Lessons learned from operationalizing the integration of nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions in rural Ethiopia

Background Undernutrition reduction requires coordinated efforts across sectors to address its causes. A multisectoral approach is important in diagnosing the problem and identifying solutions that would be implemented across different sectors. The study aimed to explore the experience of health and agriculture extension workers in integrating nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions provided to households with children under two years of age at community level. Methods A qualitative study was conducted in agrarian areas of Ethiopia following the completion of a multi-sectoral program that integrated health and agriculture interventions, in 2021. The program’s goal was to reduce stunting and improve the dietary diversity of young children. In total, 28 key informant interviews were conducted with health- and agriculture-extension workers and mothers. A framework analysis approach was applied to manage and analyze data using NVivo version 12 software. Results The study showed that joint health and agriculture interventions improved community knowledge on childcare and agricultural practices. The practice of farm gardening and cooking demonstrations were improved after the implementation of the program. Because of service integration, extension workers perceived an improved father’s role in supporting mothers in childcaring and feeding nutritious diets to children and decreased severe cases of undernutrition. Integration of health and agriculture sectors for nutrition intervention was challenged by the high workload on extension workers, poor supervision and leadership commitment, lack of appropriate agricultural inputs, and absence of clarity on sector-specific roles. In some areas nutrition services are not owned by the health and agriculture sectors, and it was overlooked. Conclusion Integrating community-level platforms were key entry points to address undernutrition and promote key agriculture and health interventions. The joint implementation of health and agriculture services were effective in the reduction of wasting and improved the role of family members in supporting mothers. However, Integration of sectors were facing challenges in creating shared vision to improve nutrition status of children and women, distributing workload and equal commitment among sectors.

Comparison of antimicrobial resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa from intensive care and non-intensive care units and its impact on treatment decisions

Hand Milling Induced Phase Transition for Marcasite-type Carbodiimide

Repeated exposure decreases aesthetic chills likelihood but increases intensity

Aesthetic chills are a peak emotional response to stimuli such as music, films, or speech characterized by shivers and goosebumps and activation of dopaminergic circuits. Despite growing scientific interest in this phenomenon, repeated exposure to chills stimuli has not been studied yet, due to the absence of a validated database. This study leverages a recent gold standard in chills stimuli to investigate the impact of repeated exposure on the frequency and intensity of aesthetic chills. Participants (n = 58) were randomly exposed to 6 chill-evoking stimuli pre-validated on the population of interest, in a counterbalanced order. Our findings revealed a significant decrease in the likelihood of experiencing chills with repeated exposure, suggesting habituation to chills itself or potential fatigue in response to aesthetic stimuli. However, we observed an increase in the intensity and duration of chills over successive exposures among those who did experience chills. The study also identified distinct demographic and psychophysiological response patterns across different participant groups, indicating variability in chill responses. These results provide insights into the dynamic nature of aesthetic experiences and their underlying neural mechanisms, with implications for understanding emotional and reward processing in psychophysiology.

Object spatial certainty as a measure of spatial variability and its influence on attention

Microdroplet Chemistry with Unactivated Droplets

Association of tobacco use with depressive symptoms in adults: Considerations of symptom severity, symptom clusters, and sex

Objective We aim to assess the association between depressive symptoms, depressive symptom severity and symptom clusters with tobacco use. We will also evaluate sex differences in these associations. Method This cross-sectional study used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2005-2018). Depressive symptoms were assessed using the Patient Health Questionnaire-9. Tobacco use was categorized into four groups: cigarette use, smoked tobacco products (pipes and cigars), smokeless tobacco products (chewing tobacco and snuff), and non-tobacco use (reference group). Results This study included 33,509 participants. Cigarette use was associated with a 0.83-unit increase in total PHQ-9 scores (95% CI =  [0.63, 1.04]), and 1.73 times higher odds of reporting depressive symptoms (95% CI =  [1.48, 2.02]) compared to non-tobacco use. However, the use of smoked and smokeless tobacco was not associated with depressive symptoms. In females, cigarette use showed a stronger association with total PHQ-9 scores (aCoef =  1.23, 95% CI =  [0.92, 1.55]) than in males (aCoef =  0.45, 95% CI =  [0.21, 0.69]). Additionally, female smoked tobacco users showed positive associations with both PHQ-9 scores and the presence of depressive symptoms, but this relationship was not observed in males. Furthermore, subgroup analysis revealed associations between cigarette use and cognitive-affective and somatic symptom clusters, as well as a relationship between the logarithm of total cigarette consumption and depressive symptoms. Conclusion Cigarette use was associated with higher odds of depressive symptoms with females having a stronger association. Further studies are needed to replicate these findings and examine the underlying mechanisms.

Machine learning fusion for glioma tumor detection

Aqueous-S vs Organic-S Battery: Volmer-Step Involved Sulfur Reaction

Protocol of the PROMOTE study: characterization of the microbiome, the immune response, and one-carbon metabolism in preconceptional and pregnant women with and without obesity (an observational subcohort of the Rotterdam Periconception cohort)

Introduction Preconceptional and maternal obesity are well-known risk factors for pregnancy and fetal complications including gestational diabetes, hypertensive disorders, and macrosomia. Maternal obesity is associated with offspring obesity and increased healthcare costs. To disrupt the cycle of obesity, we aim to investigate the impact of the composition of the maternal microbiota (bacteria and viruses) throughout preconception and pregnancy and the associations with the immune responses and one-carbon metabolism (1-CM) as an underlying mechanism in the pathophysiology of increased adverse pregnancy outcomes in maternal obesity. Methods and analysis The PROMOTE study is a subcohort of the Rotterdam Periconceptional Cohort, a hospital-based observational cohort study. We will include 70 women per BMI group: ≥ 30 kg/m2 or 18.5-25 kg/m2, at different time points in each group: 10 preconceptional, 50 in the first trimester (with longitudinal follow-up during pregnancy, delivery and postpartum) and 10 in the third trimester of pregnancy. Which makes a total of 140 inclusions. Vaginal and rectal bacteriome, virome, and blood samples are collected. In the third trimester inclusions, only faecal samples are collected. Microbiota samples will be analysed using 16S rRNA sequencing. Bacteriome and virome profiles are compared between the BMI subgroups, associations with general immune responses and 1-CM markers will be shown. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT05754645)