Inequitable barriers and opportunities for leadership and professional development, identified by early-career to mid-career allied health professionals.

Introduction: Interprofessional leadership is essential to sustain the National Health Service (NHS) in pressured times, which should include the NHS's third largest clinical workforce in England: allied health professionals (AHPs) (AHPs as defined by NHS England: Art therapists; Dramatherapists; Music therapists; Dietitians; Occupational therapists; Operating department practitioners; Orthoptists; Osteopaths; Paramedics; Physiotherapists; Podiatrists, Prosthetists and Orthotists; Radiographers; Speech and language therapists). Therefore, a feasibility study was undertaken, to explore the views of AHPs working in early to mid-career positions, regarding the barriers and opportunities they encounter, in both leadership and career development.

Methods: Twenty-seven participants, representing 8 of the 14 AHP professions across England, were interviewed across 10 focus groups.

Controlling a Van Hove singularity and Fermi surface topology at a complex oxide heterostructure interface.

The emergence of saddle-point Van Hove singularities (VHSs) in the density of states, accompanied by a change in Fermi surface topology, Lifshitz transition, constitutes an ideal ground for the emergence of different electronic phenomena, such as superconductivity, pseudo-gap, magnetism, and density waves. However, in most materials the Fermi level, [Formula: see text], is too far from the VHS where the change of electronic topology takes place, making it difficult to reach with standard chemical doping or gating techniques. Here, we demonstrate that this scenario can be realized at the interface between a Mott insulator and a band insulator as a result of quantum confinement and correlation enhancement, and easily tuned by fine control of layer thickness and orbital occupancy.

Response of the Lattice across the Filling-Controlled Mott Metal-Insulator Transition of a Rare Earth Titanate.

The lattice response of a prototype Mott insulator, SmTiO_{3}, to hole doping is investigated with atomic-scale spatial resolution. SmTiO_{3} films are doped with Sr on the Sm site with concentrations that span the insulating and metallic sides of the filling-controlled Mott metal-insulator transition (MIT). The GdFeO_{3}-type distortions are investigated using an atomic resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy technique that can resolve small lattice distortions with picometer precision.

Disorder versus two transport lifetimes in a strongly correlated electron liquid.

We report on angle-dependent measurements of the sheet resistances and Hall coefficients of electron liquids in SmTiO/SrTiO/SmTiO quantum well structures, which were grown by molecular beam epitaxy on (001) DyScO. We compare their transport properties with those of similar structures grown on LSAT [(LaSr)(AlTa)O]. On DyScO, planar defects normal to the quantum wells lead to a strong in-plane anisotropy in the transport properties.

Potential Fluctuations at Low Temperatures in Mesoscopic-Scale SmTiO/SrTiO/SmTiO Quantum Well Structures.

Heterointerfaces of SrTiO with other transition metal oxides make up an intriguing family of systems with a bounty of coexisting and competing physical orders. Some examples, such as LaAlO/SrTiO, support a high carrier density electron gas at the interface whose electronic properties are determined by a combination of lattice distortions, spin-orbit coupling, defects, and various regimes of magnetic and charge ordering. Here, we study electronic transport in mesoscale devices made with heterostructures of SrTiO sandwiched between layers of SmTiO, in which the transport properties can be tuned from a regime of Fermi-liquid like resistivity (ρ ∝ T) to a non-Fermi liquid (ρ ∝ T) by controlling the SrTiO thickness.

Pseudogaps and Emergence of Coherence in Two-Dimensional Electron Liquids in SrTiO_{3}.

Using tunneling spectroscopy, we show that pseudogaps emerge in strongly correlated, two-dimensional electron liquids in SrTiO_{3} quantum wells that are tuned near a quantum critical point. Coherence peaks emerge at low temperatures in quantum wells embedded in antiferromagnetic SmTiO_{3} that remain itinerant to the lowest thickness. Quantum wells embedded in ferrimagnetic GdTiO_{3} that become ferromagnetic at low temperatures show no indication of quasiparticle coherence.

Carrier density independent scattering rate in SrTiO3-based electron liquids.

We examine the carrier density dependence of the scattering rate in two- and three-dimensional electron liquids in SrTiO3 in the regime where it scales with T(n) (T is the temperature and n ≤ 2) in the cases when it is varied by electrostatic control and chemical doping, respectively. It is shown that the scattering rate is independent of the carrier density. This is contrary to the expectations from Landau Fermi liquid theory, where the scattering rate scales inversely with the Fermi energy (EF).

Preparation of alginate-chitosan fibers with potential biomedical applications.

The preparation of alginate-chitosan fibers, through wet spinning technique, as well as the study of their properties as a function of chitosan's molecular weight and retention time in the coagulation bath, is presented and discussed in this work. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) revealed that the fibers presented irregular and rough surfaces, with a grooved and heavily striated morphology distributed throughout the structure. Dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) showed that, with the exception of elongation at break, the incorporation of chitosan into the fibers improved their tensile properties.

Pairing trainee managers and doctors: an initiative to facilitate joint working for better patient care.

Clinical leadership is part of the curriculum for all doctors in training. This article describes one deanery's approach to developing leadership skills while improving collaborative working.

Detection and analysis of the bacterium, Xylella fastidiosa, in glassy-winged sharpshooter, Homalodisca vitripennis, populations in Texas.

The glassy-winged sharpshooter, Homalodisca vitripeninis Germar (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), is a xylophagous insect that is an endemic pest of several economically important plants in Texas. H. vitripennis is the main vector of Xylella fastidiosa Wells (Xanthomonadales: Xanthomonadaceae), the bacterium that causes Pierce's disease of grapevine and can travel long distances putting much of Texas grape production at risk.