Establishing a Consensus-Based Framework for the Use of Wearable Activity Trackers in Health Care: Delphi Study.

Background: Physical activity (PA) plays a crucial role in health care, providing benefits in the prevention and management of many noncommunicable diseases. Wearable activity trackers (WATs) provide an opportunity to monitor and promote PA in various health care settings.

Objective: This study aimed to develop a consensus-based framework for the optimal use of WATs in health care.

Elderly Population with COVID-19 and the Accuracy of Clinical Scales and D-Dimer for Pulmonary Embolism: The OCTA-COVID Study.

Background: Elderly COVID-19 patients have a high risk of pulmonary embolism (PE), but factors that predict PE are unknown in this population. This study assessed the Wells and revised Geneva scoring systems as predictors of PE and their relationships with D-dimer (DD) in this population.

Methods: This was a longitudinal, observational study that included patients ≥75 years old with COVID-19 and suspected PE.

Predictive Factors of Pulmonary Embolism in Older Patients with SARS-CoV-2: The OCTA-COVID-19 Study.

Background: The risk of pulmonary embolism (PE) has not been studied in older patients affected by COVID-19. We aimed to assess PE incidence and risk factors in a population of older patients infected with SARS-CoV-2.

Methods: An ambispective, observational cohort study.

Evaluation of transformation products from chemical oxidation of micropollutants in wastewater by photoassisted generation of sulfate radicals.

In this research, the degradation of seven different micropollutants (MPs) and the formation of their transformation products (TPs) have been assessed during the application of different advanced oxidation processes: photolytic and photocatalytic activation of peroxymonosulfate (PMS) and persulfate (PS). The results were compared with those obtained from the photolytic experiments using hydrogen peroxide (HO) as oxidant. A significant abatement of almost all MPs was achieved, even with very low UV-C contact time (9 and 28 s).

Few-Layer MoS₂ Nanodomains Decorating TiO₂ Nanoparticles: A Case Study for the Photodegradation of Carbamazepine.

S-doped TiO₂ and hybrid MoS₂/TiO₂ systems have been synthesized, via the sulfidation with H₂S of the bare TiO₂ and of MoO supported on TiO₂ systems, with the aim of enhancing the photocatalytic properties of TiO₂ for the degradation of carbamazepine, an anticonvulsant drug, whose residues and metabolites are usually inefficiently removed in wastewater treatment plants. The focus of this study is to find a relationship between the morphology/structure/surface properties and photoactivity. The full characterization of samples reveals the strong effects of the H₂S action on the properties of TiO₂, with the formation of defects at the surface, as shown by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and infrared spectroscopy (IR), while also the optical properties are strongly affected by the sulfidation treatment, with changes in the electronic states of TiO₂.