The effects of diverse fidelity scenarios on stress in medical students when taking patients' medical histories: A longitudinal study.

Taking patients' medical history correctly is the basis of diagnosis and therapy. Medical students as a vulnerable group may perceive patient-physician interactions as stressful. This study examines stress among medical students in different degrees of fidelity when taking a patient's medical history.

Magnetic Refrigeration with Recycled Permanent Magnets and Free Rare-Earth Magnetocaloric La-Fe-Si.

Magnetic refrigeration is an upcoming technology that could be an alternative to the more than 100-year-old conventional gas-vapor compression cooling. Magnetic refrigeration might answer some of the global challenges linked with the increasing demands for readily available cooling in almost every region of the world and the global-warming potential of conventional refrigerants. Important issues to be solved are, for example, the required mass and the ecological footprint of the rare-earth permanent magnets and the magnetocaloric material, which are key parts of the magnetic cooling device.

Fast single-cell biochemistry: theory, open source microscopy and applications.

Fluorescence lifetime sensing enables researchers to probe the physicochemical environment of a fluorophore providing a window through which we can observe the complex molecular make-up of the cell. Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) quantifies and maps cell biochemistry, a complex ensemble of dynamic processes. Unfortunately, typical high-resolution FLIM systems exhibit rather limited acquisition speeds, often insufficient to capture the time evolution of biochemical processes in living cells.

A multicaloric cooling cycle that exploits thermal hysteresis.

The giant magnetocaloric effect, in which large thermal changes are induced in a material on the application of a magnetic field, can be used for refrigeration applications, such as the cooling of systems from a small to a relatively large scale. However, commercial uptake is limited. We propose an approach to magnetic cooling that rejects the conventional idea that the hysteresis inherent in magnetostructural phase-change materials must be minimized to maximize the reversible magnetocaloric effect.