Perceptions of community healthcare workers on the use of teledentistry for seniors in Singapore: A qualitative study.

Objective: This study aimed to identify barriers and facilitators surrounding the implementation of TDOCS from Community Health Workers (CHW)'s perspective before TDOCS implementation.

Methods: A descriptive qualitative study was conducted through semistructured interviews with a purposive sampling of CHWs from partner nursing homes and home care teams. A French framework outlining barriers to asynchronous oral teleconsultation adoption was used to develop the topic guide for this study.

A Comparison of Three Automated Nucleic Acid Extraction Systems for Human Stool Samples.

Automated nucleic acid extractors are useful instruments for the high-throughput processing of bio-samples and are expected to improve research throughput in addition to decreased inter-sample variability inherent to manual processing. We evaluated three commercial nucleic acid extractors Bioer GenePure Pro (Bioer Technology, Hangzhou, China), Maxwell RSC 16 (Promega Corporation, Madison, WI, USA), and KingFisher Apex (ThermoFisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA) based on their DNA yield, DNA purity, and 16S rRNA gene amplicon results using both human fecal samples and a mock community (ZymoBIOMICS Microbial Community Standard (Zymo Research Corp., Irvine, CA, USA)).

Suppression of the H3K27me3 demethylase disrupts diapause formation in mosquito Culex pipiens.

Diapause (D) is a hormonally controlled alternative developmental pathway that allows mosquitoes to survive harsh winter conditions. Key characteristics of mosquito diapause include elevated lipid storage, enhanced stress and cold endurance, and extended longevity. These phenotypic changes are often associated with dynamic alterations in the transcriptome and epigenome.

Ultrahigh electromechanical response from competing ferroic orders.

Materials with electromechanical coupling are essential for transducers and acoustic devices as reversible converters between mechanical and electrical energy. High electromechanical responses are typically found in materials with strong structural instabilities, conventionally achieved by two strategies-morphotropic phase boundaries and nanoscale structural heterogeneity. Here we demonstrate a different strategy to accomplish ultrahigh electromechanical response by inducing extreme structural instability from competing antiferroelectric and ferroelectric orders.