"You have to be clean:" a qualitative study of pubic hair grooming behaviours among women living in Italy.

The majority of pubic hair and genital self-image research describes women living in the USA, UK and Australia. This may leave attitudes and behaviours across other cultures and geographic regions ambiguous. The purpose of this study was to describe pubic hair removal attitudes and behaviours among reproductive-age women living in Italy.

'It's just a very personal thing': contraceptive influences and decision making among women living in Italy.

The purpose of the study was to assess contraceptive knowledge, perceptions and experiences among reproductive-aged women in Italy. As part of a larger mixed-methods study, researchers conducted 46 interviews (June-July 2017) with English-speaking women aged 18-45 living in or near Florence, Italy, who were using the Italian health care system. Researchers used grounded theory to explore women's contraceptive decision making and use.

"My mama told me it would happen": menarche and menstruation experiences across generations.

The purpose of this study was to understand women's menarche and menstruation-related knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors across generations. Women ages 18 years and older (Mean = 49.13 ± 14.

Understanding women's postpartum sexual experiences.

This study aimed to understand women's sexual health experiences, specifically knowledge, attitudes and norms related to sexual behaviour resumption during the postpartum period. Semi-structured, reproductive health-focused interviews (N = 70) were conducted among women aged 18 years or older (range: 19-78) residing in South Carolina. Findings demonstrated that women identified clinicians as most influential concerning when they should and could resume sexual activity.

Suppression of Kasha's rule as a mechanism for fluorescent molecular rotors and aggregation-induced emission.

Although there are some proposed explanations for aggregation-induced emission, a phenomenon with applications that range from biosensors to organic light-emitting diodes, current understanding of the quantum-mechanical origin of this photophysical behaviour is limited. To address this issue, we assessed the emission properties of a series of BF-hydrazone-based dyes as a function of solvent viscosity. These molecules turned out to be highly efficient fluorescent molecular rotors.