The restraint chair: A qualitative study of the patient experience.

Despite initiatives to eliminate restraint from acute psychiatric care, there remain times when violent episodes threaten the safety of patients and/or staff. The restraint chair may be used in these moments and provide an alternative to four-point restraint. The purpose of this study was to examine the patient experience of the restraint chair.

Interfacing Machine Learning and Microbial Omics: A Promising Means to Address Environmental Challenges.

Microbial communities are ubiquitous and carry an exceptionally broad metabolic capability. Upon environmental perturbation, microbes are also amongst the first natural responsive elements with perturbation-specific cues and markers. These communities are thereby uniquely positioned to inform on the status of environmental conditions.

Computational flow cytometry of planktonic populations for the evaluation of microbiological-control programs in district cooling plants.

Biofouling poses a serious concern for the district cooling (DC) industry. Current industry practises for monitoring biofouling continue to rely on culture-based methods for microbial enumeration, which are ultimately flawed. Computational flow cytometric (cFCM) analyses, which offer enhanced reproducibility and streamlined analytics versus conventional flow cytometry were applied to samples taken from 3 sites in each of 3 plants over a 5-week sampling program.

The epitranscriptome landscape of small noncoding RNAs in stem cells.

Stem cells (SCs) are unique cells that have an inherent ability to self-renew or differentiate. Both fate decisions are strongly regulated at the molecular level via intricate signaling pathways. The regulation of signaling networks promoting self-renewal or differentiation was thought to be largely governed by the action of transcription factors.

Electrostatically coupled SiO nanoparticles/poly (L-DOPA) antifouling coating on a nanofiltration membrane.

In this work, the fouling resistance of TFC (thin film composite) nanofiltration membranes have been enhanced using an electrostatically coupled SiO (silica dioxide) nanoparticles/poly(L-DOPA) (3-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-l-alanine) antifouling coating. SiO nanoparticles were synthesized in different size ranges and combined with L-DOPA; and then coated as an anti-fouling layer on the membrane surface by recirculated deposition. Membranes were coated with S-NP (silica nanoparticles) in small (19.