An Exploration of Adults Transitioning Into Retirements' Perspectives on Vigorous Intermittent Lifestyle Physical Activity.

Issue Addressed: Australian adults transitioning into retirement aged 55-75 years (> 50%) do not meet the World Health Organization recommendation of physical activity (PA). One potential strategy to promote PA is through vigorous intermittent lifestyle physical activity (VILPA). This study aimed to investigate barriers and facilitators from adults transitioning to retirement about participation in VILPA and to identify strategies to promote and implement VILPA.

Barriers to breast cancer care and recommendations for improving services: findings from a UK qualitative study with an Asian Women's Cancer Support Group.

Objectives: Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK, accounting for 15% of all new cases in women. Evidence still points to disparities in outcomes linked to ethnicity and screening uptake is overall lower in South Asians than the White population. We investigated the experiences and perceptions of Gujarati Hindu community members on their 'cancer journeys'.

Development and Validation of Emoji Response Scales for Assessing Patient-Reported Outcomes.

Purpose: Emoji are digital images or icons used to express an idea or emotion in electronic communication. The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate the psychometric properties of two patient-reported scales that incorporate emoji.

Methods: The Emoji Response Scale developed for this study has two parts: the Emoji-Ordinal and Emoji-Mood scales.

Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists and upper endoscopy: a real-world experience.

Objective: Increased use of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) has raised safety concerns during endoscopy due to their mechanism of delaying gastric emptying. This study aims to evaluate the impact of GLP-1RAs on technical success and safety of esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD).

Methods: This was a retrospective study of bariatric patients who underwent EGD between January 2022 and December 2023.

Copper Oxidation-Induced Nanoscale Deformation of Electromechanical, Laminate Polymer/Graphene Thin Films during Thermal Annealing: Implications for Flexible, Transparent, and Conductive Electrodes.

The transfer of large-area, continuous, chemical vapor deposition (CVD)-grown graphene without introducing defects remains a challenge for fabricating graphene-based electronics. Polymer thin films are commonly used as supports for transferring graphene, but they typically require thermal annealing before transfer. However, little work has been done to thoroughly investigate how thermal annealing affects the polymer/graphene thin film when directly annealed on the growth substrate.