Utilizing the determinants of healthy aging to guide the choice of social prescriptions for older adults.

Executive summary: The age of Canada's population is increasing, necessitating innovative methods and tools for assessing the needs of older adults and identifying effective health and social prescriptions. In Alberta, a community-based, senior-serving organization undertook the development and piloting of the Healthy Aging Asset Index, an assessment tool and social prescribing guide for use by a variety of professionals within the community. Tool development was rooted in medical complexity assessment and social work practice, and adhered to the determinants of healthy aging established by Alberta's Healthy Aging Framework, which is based on the determinants of healthy aging published by the World Health Organization.

Role of the revised Baux score in predicting mortality among burn patients in an African low-income country: a multicentre prospective cohort.

Introduction: Burn injury is a major cause of mortality. Majority of the burns occur in low and middle-income countries like Uganda. Uganda has a limited number of burn centres and medical resources, making a predictor of mortality necessary in allocation of the limited resources.

Factors associated with early inhospital adverse outcome following surgery for acute appendicitis in Uganda: a multicenter cohort.

Introduction: Surgery for acute appendicitis has been associated with significant morbidity. This study aimed to determine the factors associated with early inhospital adverse outcomes following surgery for acute appendicitis in Uganda.

Methods: This was a multicentre, prospective cohort in which early inhospital outcome following surgery for acute appendicitis was assessed at 4 regional referral hospitals in Uganda.

Testicular salvageability and its predictors among patients with testicular torsion in a resource limited setting: a multicentre longitudinal study.

Introduction: Testicular torsion refers to ischemia of the testicle due to twisting or rotation of the vessels supplying the testes. It is a urologic emergency requiring a high index of clinical suspicion and prompt surgical intervention with management aimed at avoiding testicular loss and resulting infertility. This paper gives an update on the current situation regarding this topic in low-income settings.

Flat Γ Moiré Bands in Twisted Bilayer WSe_{2}.

The recent observation of correlated phases in transition metal dichalcogenide moiré systems at integer and fractional filling promises new insight into metal-insulator transitions and the unusual states of matter that can emerge near such transitions. Here, we combine real- and momentum-space mapping techniques to study moiré superlattice effects in 57.4° twisted WSe_{2} (tWSe_{2}).

Back illuminated photo emission electron microscopy (BIPEEM).

A new, complementary technique based on Photo Emission Electron Microscopy (PEEM) is demonstrated. In contrast to PEEM, the sample is placed on a transparent substrate and is illuminated from the back side while electrons are collected from the other (front) side. In this paper, the working principle of this technique, coined back-illuminated PEEM (BIPEEM), is described.

Incidence and outcomes of surgical site infection following emergency laparotomy during the COVID-19 pandemic in a low resource setting: A retrospective cohort.

Introduction: Surgical site infection (SSI) is the commonest form of hospital acquired infection in sub-Saharan Africa, associated with increased morbidity and mortality. This study was aimed at determining the incidence and outcomes of surgical site infection following emergency laparotomy during the COVID -19 pandemic in a low resource setting.

Methods: This was a retrospective single Centre cohort of patients that had emergency laparotomy between July 2021-June 2022 (COVID period) and July 2018-June 2019 (pre-COVID period).

A rare presentation of urolithiasis in a child with urine retention from a nonendemic area: a case report and literature review.

Unlabelled: Even though urolithiasis in general is not uncommon, urethral stones have an incidence of less than 0.3% and are 20 times less common in children. Though cases of urethral stones have been reported in children from endemic areas, they are even rarer in countries like Uganda that are not endemic for urolithiasis.

Effect of Chewing Gum on Duration of Postoperative Ileus Following Laparotomy for Gastroduodenal Perforations: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background: Prolonged post-operative ileus is associated with increased risk of other complications, length of hospital stays and health care related costs. Chewing gum has been shown to reduce duration of ileus in many elective surgeries, but there is a paucity of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) on its effect on duration of ileus among patients undergoing emergency surgery, specifically patients with peritonitis. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of chewing gum on duration of postoperative ileus following laparotomy for gastroduodenal perforations.

Low-Energy Electron Irradiation Damage in Few-Monolayer Pentacene Films.

Crystalline films of pentacene molecules, two to four monolayers in thickness, are grown via in situ sublimation on silicon substrates in the ultrahigh vacuum chamber of a low-energy electron microscope. It is observed that the diffraction pattern of the pentacene layers fades upon irradiation with low-energy electrons. The damage cross section is found to increase by more than an order of magnitude for electron energies from 0 to 10 eV and by another order of magnitude from 10 to 40 eV.

Quantitative analysis of spectroscopic low energy electron microscopy data: High-dynamic range imaging, drift correction and cluster analysis.

For many complex materials systems, low-energy electron microscopy (LEEM) offers detailed insights into morphology and crystallography by naturally combining real-space and reciprocal-space information. Its unique strength, however, is that all measurements can easily be performed energy-dependently. Consequently, one should treat LEEM measurements as multi-dimensional, spectroscopic datasets rather than as images to fully harvest this potential.

Growing a LaAlO/SrTiO heterostructure on CaNbO nanosheets.

The two-dimensional electron liquid which forms between the band insulators LaAlO (LAO) and SrTiO (STO) is a promising component for oxide electronics, but the requirement of using single crystal SrTiO substrates for the growth limits its applications in terms of device fabrication. It is therefore important to find ways to deposit these materials on other substrates, preferably Si, or Si-based, in order to facilitate integration with existing technology. Interesting candidates are micron-sized nanosheets of CaNbO which can be used as seed layers for perovskite materials on any substrate.

Nonuniversal Transverse Electron Mean Free Path through Few-layer Graphene.

In contrast to the in-plane transport electron mean-free path in graphene, the transverse mean-free path has received little attention and is often assumed to follow the "universal" mean-free path (MFP) curve broadly adopted in surface and interface science. Here we directly measure transverse electron scattering through graphene from 0 to 25 eV above the vacuum level both in reflection using low energy electron microscopy and in transmission using electronvolt transmission electron microscopy. From these data, we obtain quantitative MFPs for both elastic and inelastic scattering.