Equity of Māori access to the orthopaedic rehabilitation service of the Bay of Plenty: a cross-sectional survey.

Aims: Examine the access to the Bay of Plenty rehabilitation service for Indigenous Māori patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Identify structural aspects of the rehabilitation service which promote or restrict access for Māori.

Methods: All patients who underwent TKA in publicly funded Bay of Plenty hospitals in 2021 were retrospectively supplied with a survey.

New QSPRs for Liquid Heat Capacity.

Quantitative Structure-Property Relationships (QSPRs) have found applications in many areas of chemistry and engineering as effective prediction methods. QSPRs use molecular descriptors to simplify complex molecular properties to a single value and have been used extensively for constant value properties. Liquid heat capacity ( ) is another property where QSPRs can be helpful prediction tools.

Sedentary behaviour in non-ambulant children and young people with physical disabilities: a systematic search and review protocol.

Introduction: Non-ambulant children and young people with physical disabilities are at high risk of experiencing negative health outcomes associated with sedentary time. A previous scoping review summarising evidence relating to sedentary behaviours of children with physical disabilities identified the need for validated methods of measuring physical activity of children who use wheelchairs and evaluation of interventions to reduce sedentary time. The scoping review did not assess the quality of evidence relating to this topic, therefore its validity remains unclear.

Charge trapping by iodine ions in photorefractive SnPS crystals.

Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) is used to establish the role of iodine as an electron trap in tin hypothiodiphosphate (SnPS) crystals. Iodine ions are unintentionally incorporated when the crystals are grown by the chemical-vapor-transport method with SnI as the transport agent. The SnPS crystals consist of Sn ions and (PS) anionic groups.

Quadruply Stranded Metallo-Supramolecular Helicate [Pd(hextrz)] Acts as a Molecular Mimic of Cytolytic Peptides.

[Pd(hextrz)] is a quadruply stranded helicate, a novel bioinorganic complex designed to mimic the structure and function of proteins due to its high stability and supramolecular size. We have previously reported that [Pd(hextrz)] exhibited cytotoxicity toward a range of cell lines, with IC values ranging from 3 to 10 μM. Here we demonstrate that [Pd(hextrz)] kills cells by forming pores within the cell membrane, a mechanism of cell death analogous to the naturally occurring cytolytic peptides.