Exploring the association of mindfulness, confidence, competitive state anxiety, and attention control in soccer penalty shootouts.

Introduction: Penalty shootouts are a pivotal factor influencing outcomes in soccer matches. Soccer players face the challenge of overcoming physical fatigue and psychological pressure when taking penalty kicks. Instances of low confidence and competitive state anxiety during matches exacerbate the detrimental impact on attention control, particularly in non-target defined features, leading to suboptimal performance during penalty kicks.

Multifunctional hierarchical mesoporous silica and black phosphorus nanohybrids as chemo-photothermal synergistic agents for enhanced cancer therapy.

Synergistic therapy with high efficacy and low side effects is of great significance in cancer treatment, and therefore the elaborate design of advanced nanocarriers to benefit diverse loading requirements of size-varied therapy agents is of critical importance. Herein, we demonstrate a multifunctional drug carrier platform based on a hierarchical porous and -NH2-modified silica nanocarrier (FMSN) with a super high specific surface area and a large pore volume, which not only improves the loading capacity of both doxorubicin, a chemotherapeutic drug, and black phosphorus quantum dots (BPQDs), a kind of biocompatible photothermal agent, but also enhances the photothermal stability and biostability of the degradable BPQDs. The unique structure and surface design enable our multimodal platform with heat-stimulative, pH-responsive and sustained-release properties for chemo-photothermal synergistic cancer therapy.