Jahn-Teller effect and features of divalent copper ion behavior in multicomponent borate crystals.

Crystals of YGa(BO), YAl(BO), EuGa(BO) and EuAl(BO) with copper alloy were studied by electron paramagnetic resonance and X-ray diffraction analysis. The lattice parameters and coordinates of copper-doped boron atoms were determined. The study of EPR spectra showed that copper is in the divalent state and replaces aluminum ions with C node symmetry.

A multilevel intervention in pediatric primary care for youth tobacco control: Outcomes of implementing an Ask, Advise, and Connect model.

Multilevel interventions in healthcare settings (e.g. Ask, Advise, and Connect; AAC) can reduce tobacco product use among adult patients: their effectiveness in pediatric practice is largely unknown.

Lasing Effect in Symmetrical van der Waals Heterostructured Metasurfaces Due to Lattice-Induced Multipole Coupling.

New practical ways to reach the lasing effect in symmetrical metasurfaces have been developed and theoretically demonstrated. Our approach is based on excitation of the resonance of an octupole quasi-trapped mode (OQTM) in heterostructured symmetrical metasurfaces composed of monolithic disk-shaped van der Waals meta-atoms featured by thin photoluminescent layers and placed on a substrate. We revealed that the coincidence of the photoluminescence spectrum maximum of these layers with the wavelength of high-quality OQTM resonance leads to the lasing effect.

Implementing Brief Tobacco Cessation Interventions in Community Pharmacies: An Application of Rogers' Diffusion of Innovations Theory.

Pharmacists, as highly accessible members of the healthcare team, have considerable potential to address tobacco use among patients. However, while published data suggest that pharmacists are effective in helping patients quit, barriers exist to routine implementation of cessation services in community pharmacy settings. Within the context of a randomized trial (n = 64 pharmacies), surveys were administered over a period of 6 months to assess pharmacists' perceptions of factors associated with the implementation of "Ask-Advise-Refer", a brief intervention approach that facilitates patient referrals to the tobacco quitline.

Feasibility of Mobile and Sensor Technology for Remote Monitoring in Cancer Care and Prevention.

Remote monitoring (RM) of health-related outcomes may optimize cancer care and prevention outside of clinic settings. CYCORE is a software-based system for collection and analyses of sensor and mobile data. We evaluated CYCORE's feasibility in studies assessing: (1) physical functioning in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients; (2) swallowing exercise adherence in head and neck cancer (HNC) patients during radiation therapy; and (3) tobacco use in cancer survivors post-tobacco treatment (TTP).

Single-particle and collective excitations of polar water molecules confined in nano-pores within a cordierite crystal lattice.

Recently, the low-temperature phase of water molecules confined within nanocages formed by the crystalline lattice of water-containing cordierite crystals has been reported to comprise domains with ferroelectrically ordered dipoles within the , -planes which are antiferroelectrically alternating along the -axis. In the present work, comprehensive broad-band dielectric spectroscopy is combined with specific heat studies and molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations in order to investigate in more detail the collective modes and single-particle excitations of nanoconfined water molecules. From DFT-MD simulations we reconstruct the potential-energy landscape experienced by the HO molecules.

Efficacy and Safety of Autologous Dendritic Cell-Based Immunotherapy, Docetaxel, and Prednisone vs Placebo in Patients With Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer: The VIABLE Phase 3 Randomized Clinical Trial.

Importance: DCVAC/PCa is an active cellular immunotherapy designed to initiate an immune response against prostate cancer.

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of DCVAC/PCa plus chemotherapy followed by DCVAC/PCa maintenance treatment in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC).

Design, Setting, And Participants: The VIABLE double-blind, parallel-group, placebo-controlled, phase 3 randomized clinical trial enrolled patients with mCRPC among 177 hospital clinics in the US and Europe between June 2014 and November 2017.

Sustained reduction of attentional bias to smoking cues by smartphone-delivered attentional bias modification training for smokers.

Objective: Cigarette smoking is thought to be at least partially maintained by the attentional bias (AB) toward smoking cues that develops as a consequence of drug dependence. This study evaluated the impact of smartphone-delivered, in-home attentional bias modification (ABM) to reduce AB to smoking cues and to reduce smoking behavior and withdrawal-related symptoms when used as an adjunct to conventional smoking cessation treatment.

Method: Participants ( = 246) were treatment-seeking smokers who completed up to 13 days of either ABM designed to train attention away from smoking cues, using a modified dot-probe task, or sham training, followed by 8 weeks of nicotine replacement therapy and counseling.

The Impact of Hydrogenation on Structural and Superconducting Properties of FeTeSe Single Crystals.

Properties of FeTeSe single crystals, with the onset of critical temperature () at 15.5 K, were modified via hydrogenation performed for 10-90 h, at temperatures ranging from 20 to 250 °C. It was found that the tetragonal matrix became unstable and crystal symmetry lowered for the samples hydrogenated already at 200 °C.

Mobile Text Messaging for Tobacco Risk Communication Among Young Adult Community College Students: Randomized Trial of Project Debunk.

Background: The use of new and emerging tobacco products (NETPs) and conventional tobacco products (CTPs) has been linked to several alarming medical conditions among young adults (YAs). Considering that 96% of YAs own mobile phones, SMS text messaging may be an effective strategy for tobacco risk communication.

Objective: Project Debunk is a community-based randomized trial aiming to identify specific types of messages that effectively improve perceived NETP and CTP risk among YAs in community colleges.

Thrombus aspiration without stenting in a patient with anterior STEMI: Regression and healing of an unstable plaque assessed by OCT at 24 months of follow-up.

In selected cases, when STEMI caused by mild or moderate degree lesion with a large concomitant thrombus, additional OCT-guided PCI strategy after thrombus removal allows us to defer stenting with the follow-up natural healing of the vessel wall.

Friendship influence moderating the effect of a web-based smoking prevention program on intention to smoke and knowledge among adolescents.

Purpose: Web-based tobacco prevention programs for adolescents have stressed human-computer interaction, but they have not yet extensively applied social interactivity (i.e., computer-mediated or face-to-face interactions).

Role of the paramagnetic donor-like defects in the high n-type conductivity of the hydrogenated ZnO microparticles.

The magnetic and electronic properties of the hydrogenated highly conductive zinc oxide (ZnO) microparticles were investigated by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and contactless microwave (MW) conductivity techniques in the wide temperature range. The EPR spectra simulation allowed us to resolve four overlapping EPR signals in ZnO microparticles. The Lorentzian EPR line with isotropic g-factor 1.

Dielectric ordering of water molecules arranged in a dipolar lattice.

Intermolecular hydrogen bonds impede long-range (anti-)ferroelectric order of water. We confine HO molecules in nanosized cages formed by ions of a dielectric crystal. Arranging them in channels at a distance of ~5 Å with an interchannel separation of ~10 Å prevents the formation of hydrogen networks while electric dipole-dipole interactions remain effective.

Revision of the Melanogaster jaroslavensis group (Diptera: Syrphidae), with description of a new species from Afghanistan.

Within the genus Melanogaster Rondani, 1857, the group of species characterized by their yellow wing base was named as M. jaroslavensis group and revised for the first time. Redescriptions of M.

All-Plasmonic Switching Effect in the Graphene Nanostructures Containing Quantum Emitters.

Nonlinear plasmonic effects in perspective 2D materials containing low-dimensional quantum emitters can be a basis of a novel technological platform for the fabrication of fast all-plasmonic triggers, transistors, and sensors. This article considers the conditions for achieving a strong coupling between the surface plasmon-polariton (SPP) and quantum emitter taking into account the modification of local density of optical states in graphene waveguide. In the condition of strong coupling, nonlinear interaction between two SPP modes propagating along the graphene waveguide integrated with a stub nanoresonator loaded with core-shell semiconductor nanowires (NWs) was investigated.

Pilot study to inform young adults about the risks of electronic cigarettes through text messaging.

Introduction: Young adults are rapidly adopting electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use. The popularity of e-cigarettes among young people can be attributed to heavy industry advertising and misleading health claims. Data indicate that young e-cigarette users who have never used conventional cigarettes may transition toward smoking combustible cigarettes.

Description of the larva of Meliboeus morawitzi (Semenov, 1905 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae).

The mature larva of Meliboeus morawitzi (Semenov, 1905) from material collected within the roots of Artemisia marschalliana Spreng. in Khomutovskyi Steppe Nature Reserve (Donetsk Region, Ukraine) is described. Diagnosis of the larva of this species together with improved key to the known larvae of the genus Meliboeus are provided.

Revealing users' experience and social interaction outcomes following a web-based smoking prevention intervention for adolescents: A qualitative study.

Background: Tobacco smoking remains a public health problem among adolescents in the United States. While Web-based interventions for smoking prevention have been successful at the individual level, there is still an urgent need to understand their engagement capabilities and their effects at the social level. In the current study, we aimed to (1) learn about adolescents' subjective experience with a Web-based program called a smoking prevention interactive experience (ASPIRE), (2) obtain suggestions for improvement in ASPIRE content, (3) identify psychological outcomes of ASPIRE, and (4) explore outcomes of social interaction.

Optical and magnetic properties of the ground state of Cr doping ions in REM(BO) single crystals.

New data about the state of Cr doping ions in a single crystal of YGa(BO) have been obtained by studying different methods. Using electron paramagnetic resonance, it was found that the Cr ions substitute the trivalent gallium ions. The obtained spin Hamiltonian parameters of the Cr ions in the YGa(BO) single crystal (g = 1.

Efficacy of Mobile Phone-Delivered Smoking Cessation Interventions for Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Individuals: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Importance: Limited evidence supports mobile phone-delivered cessation interventions for socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals.

Objective: To assess the efficacy of mobile phone-delivered cessation interventions targeted to smokers at neighborhood sites serving racial/ethnic minority and socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals.

Design, Setting, And Participants: This group-randomized clinical trial with neighborhood site serving as the sampling unit compared smoking cessation interventions that included (1) nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), (2) NRT plus text messaging, and (3) NRT plus text messaging plus proactive counseling via mobile phone.

Mobile Phone Text Messaging for Tobacco Risk Communication Among Young Adult Community College Students: Protocol and Baseline Overview for a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background: Community-college students are at high risk for tobacco use. Because the use of mobile phone text messaging is nearly ubiquitous today, short message service (SMS) may be an effective strategy for tobacco risk communication in this population. Little is known, however, concerning the message structure significantly influencing perceived tobacco risk.

[Combined treatment of colorectal cancer followed by metastatic liver injury].

Aim: To increase the effectiveness of treatment of colorectal cancer followed by metastatic liver lesion.

Material And Methods: This study included 319 patients with colorectal cancer and metastatic liver lesion Gennari grade I, II, and III for the period from 2002 to 2017. All patients received combined treatment.

Validation of mobile phone text messages for nicotine and tobacco risk communication among college students: A content analysis.

Introduction: In the United States, young adults have the highest prevalence of tobacco use. The dissemination of mobile phone text messages is a growing strategy for tobacco risk communication among young adults. However, little has been done concerning the design and validation of such text messages.

Cost-effectiveness analysis of smoking cessation interventions using cell phones in a low-income population.

Background: The prevalence of cigarette smoking is significantly higher among those living at or below the federal poverty level. Cell phone-based interventions among such populations have the potential to reduce smoking rates and be cost-effective.

Methods: We performed a cost-effectiveness analysis of three smoking cessation interventions: Standard Care (SC) (brief advice to quit, nicotine replacement therapy and self-help written materials), Enhanced Care (EC) (SC plus cell phone-delivered messaging) and Intensive Care (IC) (EC plus cell phone-delivered counselling).