Health literacy in patients with gout: A latent profile analysis.

Objectives: Understanding the health literacy status of patients with gout diagnosis is essential for improving the health of this population. Our study aimed to investigate the latent profiles of health literacy in patients with gout and to analyze differences in characteristics across potential profiles.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional study.

Relationships among social support, self-efficacy, and patient activation in community-dwelling older adults living with coronary heart disease: A cross-sectional study.

Objectives: To explore whether social support indirectly influences patient activation through self-efficacy in older adults living with coronary heart disease.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted. Older patients (n=451) from four communities in the city of Qingdao completed a questionnaire survey.

Recycle of resin-based analogue material for geo-mechanical model test.

Analogue materials are widely used to simulate prototype rocks in geo-mechanical model tests. The large amounts of solid waste generated by a large-scale model test has always posed problems for studies. The re-use of analogue materials can significantly reduce the cost of geo-mechanical model tests and the resulting environmental problems.

Synthesis of hollow CuS nano-cubes for electromagnetic interference shielding.

The applications of inorganic semiconductor nano-structures as electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding materials have been scarcely researched. Herein, we have designed hollow CuS nano-cubes via a mild anion exchange and etching process. These 30 wt% hollow CuS nano-cubes loaded in wax can display 30 dB of EMI shielding effectiveness (SE) in the whole tested frequency range of 2-18 GHz with a sample thickness of only 1 mm.

Fabrication of poly(methyl methacrylate) capillary electrophoresis microchips by in situ surface polymerization.

A novel method based on in situ surface polymerization of methyl methacrylate (MMA) has been developed for the rapid fabrication of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) capillary electrophoresis (CE) microchips. MMA containing both thermal and ultraviolet (UV) initiators was allowed to prepolymerize in a water bath to form a fast curing molding solution that was subsequently sandwiched between a nickel template and a PMMA plate. The images of the raised microchannels on the nickel template were precisely replicated into the synthesized PMMA substrates during the UV-initiated polymerization of the molding solution within 30 min under ambient temperature.