Background: In a world confronted with new and connected challenges, novel strategies are needed to help children and adults achieve their full potential, to predict, prevent and treat disease, and to achieve equity in services and outcomes. Australia's Generation Victoria (GenV) cohorts are designed for multi-pronged discovery (what could improve outcomes?) and intervention research (what actually works, how much and for whom?). Here, we describe the key features of its protocol.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFulminating gold, the first high-explosive compound to be discovered, disintegrates into a mysterious cloud of purple smoke, the nature of which has been speculated upon since its discovery in the 15th century. In this work, we show that the colour of the smoke is due to the presence of gold nanoparticles.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSavolitinib is a compound that can crystallize in an undesirable, high aspect ratio needle morphology. This morphology type may cause issues in downstream processing. This paper demonstrates a unique method to alter the crystal morphology of savolitinib to make it more processable, resulting in the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) crystallizing out in considerably more processable stellates.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs
October 2024
Unlabelled: WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: Mental health services report adverse incidents in different ways and the relationship between adverse incidents and the workforce is uncertain. In England, there are national datasets recording all incidents and workforce statistics though there is no peer-reviewed evidence examining recent trends. WHAT THIS PAPER ADDS TO EXISTING KNOWLEDGE?: Although there has been an overall increase in the number of mental health nurses, more are working in the community and the number of nurses relative to adverse incidents has decreased.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe synthesis of corundum (α-AlO) via a layered AlO-MoO system was directly observed for the first time. This revealed a new crystal growth process with three key features: (1) the formation of an Al(MoO) intermediate layer through a solid-solid interaction in the temperature range of ∼705-860 °C; (2) the melting of the Al(MoO) layer between approximately 870 and 890 °C; and (3) the decomposition of Al(MoO) to corundum between 950 and 1100 °C. This molten intermediate decomposition (MIND) mechanism produced corundum, which was light bluish-gray in color and was defined in CIE () color space as = 76.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWiley Interdiscip Rev Cogn Sci
March 2024
Background: Elicitation of patients' preferences is an integral part of shared decision-making, the recommended approach for prostate cancer decision-making. Existing decision aids for this population often do not specifically focus on patients' preferences. Healium is a brief interactive web-based decision aid that aims to elicit patients' treatment preferences and is designed for a low health literate population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDoping modification is regarded as a simple and effective method for increasing the ionic conductivity and air stability of solid state electrolytes. In this work, a series of (100-)(0.75LiS·0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs
February 2024
WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: Artificial intelligence (AI) is freely available, responds to very basic text input (such as a question) and can now create a wide range of outputs, communicating in many languages or art forms. AI platforms like OpenAI's ChatGPT can now create passages of text that could be used to create plans of care for people with mental health needs. As such, AI output can be difficult to distinguish from human-output, and there is a risk that its use could go unnoticed.
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June 2023
Two crystal structures of chalcones, or 1,3-diarylprop-2-en-1-ones, are presented; both contain a p-methyl substitution on the 3-Ring, but differ with respect to the m-substitution on the 1-Ring. Their systematic names are (2E)-3-(4-methylphenyl)-1-(3-{[(4-methylphenyl)methylidene]amino}phenyl)prop-2-en-1-one (CHNO) and N-{3-[(2E)-3-(4-methylphenyl)prop-2-enoyl]phenyl}acetamide (CHNO), which are abbreviated as 3'-(N=CHCH-p-CH)-4-methylchalcone and 3'-(NHCOCH)-4-methylchalcone, respectively. Both chalcones represent the first reported acetamide-substituted and imino-substituted chalcone crystal structures, adding to the robust library of chalcone structures within the Cambridge Structural Database.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Geriatr Psychiatry
March 2023
Background: Plasma phosphorylated-tau181 (p-tau181) represents a novel blood-based biomarker of Alzheimer's disease pathology. We explored clinicians' experience of the utility of plasma p-tau181 in Camden and Islington Memory Services.
Methods: Patients were identified by their clinician as appropriate for p-tau181.
The AMM'O type materials NaCaBiO and NaNiBiO were successfully synthesised through two sol-gel techniques - a method based on a natural deep eutectic solvent, and a biopolymer-mediated synthesis. The materials were analysed using Scanning Electron Microscopy to determine if there was a difference in final morphology between the two methods, and it was found that the natural deep eutectic solvent method resulted in a more porous morphology. For both materials, the optimum dwell temperature was found to be 800 °C, which in the case of NaCaBiO was a much less energy-intensive synthesis process than its seminal solid-state synthesis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe true molecular conformation and the crystal structure of benzo[e]dinaphtho[2,3-a;1',2',3',4'-ghi]fluoranthene, 7,14-diphenylnaphtho[1,2,3,4-cde]bisanthene and 7,16-diphenylnaphtho[1,2,3,4-cde]helianthrene were determined ab initio by 3D electron diffraction. All three molecules are remarkable polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. The molecular conformation of two of these compounds could not be determined via classical spectroscopic methods due to the large size of the molecule and the occurrence of multiple and reciprocally connected aromatic rings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNanostructured high-temperature superconductors YBaCuO and BiSrCaCuO were synthesised using a melamine formaldehyde sponge as a sacrificial template, three solution-based approaches. In the case of YBaCuO , a modified Pechini method produced a material with a superconducting transition at 92 K and a specific surface area of 4.22 m g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFControl over nanorod dimensions is critical to their application, requiring fast, robust characterisation of their volume and aspect ratio whilst in their working medium. Here, we present an extension of Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis which determines the aspect ratio of nanoparticles from the polarisation state of scattered light in addition to a hydrodynamic diameter from Brownian motion. These data, in principle, permit the determination of nanorod dimensions of any composition using Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Phosphoinositide-3-kinase-delta (PI3Kδ) inhibition is a promising therapeutic approach for inflammatory conditions due to its role in leucocyte proliferation, migration and activation. However, the effect of PI3Kδ inhibition on group 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s) and inflammatory eosinophils remains unknown. Using a murine model exhibiting persistent airway inflammation we sought to understand the effect of PI3Kδ inhibition, montelukast and anti-IL5 antibody treatment on IL33 expression, group-2-innate lymphoid cells, inflammatory eosinophils, and goblet cell metaplasia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis work discusses the effects of increasing laser power on the size data derived from NTA for particles of known size and scatterers in solutions of flufenamic acid in ethanol. We find that whilst a higher laser power reveals more particles as expected, their residence time changes due to laser-induced convection. This reduced residence time decreases the number of tracks available for individual particle size determination, shifting the size distribution to smaller values.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe structure solution of the δ-polymorph of indomethacin was obtained using three-dimensional electron diffraction. This form shows a significantly enhanced dissolution rate compared with the more common and better studied α- and γ-polymorphs, indicating better biopharmaceutical properties for medicinal applications. The structure was solved in non-centrosymmetric space group P2 and comprises two molecules in the asymmetric unit.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To provide real-time assessment and feedback on the competency of urology residents' surgical skill via mobile applications and examine their feasibility and utility.
Materials And Methods: Two mobile application-based systems (SIMPL and myTIPreport) were sequentially implemented for the case-by-case assessment of residents' performance of surgical skills at a single institution. Data was collected regarding residents' perception of their feedback pre- and post-implementation of the applications.
Introducing heterostructures to graphitic carbon nitrides (g-CN) can improve the activity of visible-light-driven catalysts for the efficient treatment of multiple toxic pollutants in water. Here, we report for the first time that a complex material can be constructed from oxygen-doped g-CN and a MIL-53(Fe) metal-organic framework using facile hydrothermal synthesis and recycled polyethylene terephthalate from plastic waste. The novel multi-walled nanotube structure of the O-g-CN/MIL-53(Fe) composite, which enables the unique interfacial charge transfer at the heterojunction, showed an obvious enhancement in the separation efficiency of the photochemical electron-hole pairs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Tessier 30 facial cleft is a rare anomaly presenting in the soft and hard tissues over the central lower face. Owing to the rarity of cases and difficulty of treatment, there is no universally accepted surgical management strategy. The last comprehensive literature review of Tessier 30 clefts was in 1996.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDefective phagocytosis has been shown in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) bronchoalveolar lavage and blood monocyte-derived macrophages. Phagocytic capabilities of sputum macrophages and neutrophils in COPD are unknown. We investigated phagocytosis in these cells from COPD patients and controls.
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