Understanding how nurses can effectively utilise social media for increasing public involvement, recruitment and impact dissemination of Clinical Research Trials.

Background: The methodologies for clinical research trials are evolving to greater usage of social media platforms, providing opportunities to incorporate smart technologies in their delivery. Research Nurses should consider how they can utilise platforms for public engagement in trials.

Aim: To explore the experiences of social media platforms and clinical research trials in a healthy population group, to gain insight into how clinical researchers can utilise these platforms professionally and ethically.

Tracheal tube introducer-associated airway trauma: a systematic review.

Background: Tracheal tube introducers are recommended in airway management guidelines and are used increasingly as videolaryngoscopy becomes more widespread. This systematic review aimed to summarise the published literature concerning tracheal tube introducer-associated airway trauma.

Methods: PubMed, EMBASE and CINAHL databases were searched using pre-determined criteria.

Macroscopic and histological examination of human bridging veins.

In infantile abusive head injury (AHT), subdural haemorrhage (SDH) is commonly held to result from traumatic damage to bridging veins traversing from the surface of the brain to the dura and dural venous sinuses. However, there are limited published radiological or autopsy demonstrations of ruptured bridging veins and several authors also assert that bridging veins are too large to rupture due to the forces associated with AHT. There have been several studies on the size, locations and numbers of adult bridging veins and there is one small study of infant bridging veins.

How Reproducible are Surface Areas Calculated from the BET Equation?

Porosity and surface area analysis play a prominent role in modern materials science. At the heart of this sits the Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) theory, which has been a remarkably successful contribution to the field of materials science. The BET method was developed in the 1930s for open surfaces but is now the most widely used metric for the estimation of surface areas of micro- and mesoporous materials.

An X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Study of Postsynthetic Exchange in UiO-66.

Postsynthetic exchange (PSE) is a method that is widely used to change the composition of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) by replacing connecting linkers or metal nodes after the framework has been synthesized. However, few techniques can probe the nature and distribution of exchanged species following PSE. Herein, we show that X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy can be used to compare the relative concentrations of exchanged ligands at the surface and interior regions of MOF particles.