The Association Between Personality Traits and Health-Related Quality of Life and the Mediating Role of Smoking: Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study.

Background: There are positive and negative correlations in different directions between smoking, personality traits, and health-related quality of life (HRQOL), where smoking may mask the pathway between personality traits and HRQOL. Understanding the masking pathway of smoking between personality traits and HRQOL can elucidate the mechanisms of smoking's psychosocial effects and provide new ideas for developing tobacco control strategies.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the correlation between Big Five personality traits and HRQOL and whether smoking mediates the relationship between them.

The association between smoking and family health with the mediation role of personality among Chinese people: nationwide cross-sectional study.

Background: There may be unexplored interactions between family health, personality, and smoking that could help provide new perspectives on tobacco control.

Objective: To examine the relationship between the health of one's family and their smoking habits, as well as investigate the potential influence of personality on this relationship.

Methods: For this cross-sectional investigation, a national survey conducted in China in 2022 recruited a total of 21,916 individuals.

A rate adaptive control method for Improving the imaging speed of atomic force microscopy.

A simple rate adaptive control method is proposed to improve the imaging speed of the atomic force microscope (AFM) in the paper. Conventionally, the probe implemented on the AFM scans the sample surface at a constant rate, resulting in low time efficiency. Numerous attempts have been made to realize high-speed AFMs, while little efforts are put into changing the constant-rate scanning.

Investigation on blind tip reconstruction errors caused by sample features.

Precision measurements of a nanoscale sample surface using an atomic force microscope (AFM) require a precise quantitative knowledge of the 3D tip shape. Blind tip reconstruction (BTR), established by Villarrubia, gives an outer bound with larger errors if the tip characterizer is not appropriate. In order to explore the errors of BTR, a series of simulation experiments based on a conical model were carried out.