Valuation of the cultural adaptation and psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the hidden curriculum evaluation scale in nursing education.

Background: The hidden curriculum in baccalaureate nursing programs is a means of moral education. Evaluation of the curriculum by students and faculty can increase awareness of its characteristics, which could be useful for planning and further development.

Objectives: This study's aim was to translate the Hidden Curriculum Evaluation Scale in Nursing Education (HCES-N) to Chinese, adapt the scale to the Chinese culture and evaluate its validity and reliability in a sample of undergraduate nursing students.

Prevalence and factors associated with depression and anxiety in living liver donors: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Objective: This study aimed to systematically review the prevalence and factors associated with depression and anxiety in living liver donors after liver transplantation.

Methods: Five English language electronic databases and four Chinese language electronic databases were searched from inception to February 2023. Two investigators independently extracted the data and assessed the study quality.

Investigation of non-National Immunization Program vaccination intentions in rural areas of China.

Background: China's current immunization program was revised in 2007. Some common childhood vaccines such as those for influenza, pediatric pneumonia, Haemophilus influenzae, varicella, and rotavirus have not been included in the National Immunization Program (NIP) and need to be purchased by children's guardians at their own expense. Rural areas, constrained by economic development and vaccine awareness, have a low non-NIP vaccination rate and more family medical expenses and social burden.

Living well or not? Quality of life of parental living liver donors: A cross-sectional study.

Aim: The aim of this study was to gain comprehensive insight into the quality of life of parental living liver donors after liver donation.

Background: Several studies reported good quality of life of living liver donors with the SF-36 scale. Care demand from the recipient and responsibility of being parent might make a difference in parental donors' personal experienced quality of life after transplantation surgery.

Robust Superpixel Segmentation for Hyperspectral-Image Restoration.

Hyperspectral-image (HSI) restoration plays an essential role in remote sensing image processing. Recently, superpixel segmentation-based the low-rank regularized methods for HSI restoration have shown outstanding performance. However, most of them simply segment the HSI according to its first principal component, which is suboptimal.

Photothermal effect of indocyanine green modified scaffold inhibits oral squamous cell carcinoma and promotes wound healing.

As the most prevalent malignant tumor of the oral and maxillofacial regions, squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) has relatively high recurrence and low survival rates. Currently, the most common treatment strategies are surgery and chemoradiotherapy. However, incomplete removal of the tumor can allow residual tumor cells to regrow and metastasis, resulting in treatment failure.

Advanced Polymeric Nanoagents for Oral Cancer Theranostics: A Mini Review.

Oral cancer is one of the most common tumours in the world threatening human life and health. The 5-years survival rate of patients with oral cancer has not been improved significantly for many years. The existing clinical diagnostic methods rarely achieve early diagnosis due to deficiencies such as lack of sensitivity.

Specific High-Sensitivity Enzymatic Molecular Detection System Termed RPA-Based CRISPR-Cas13a for Duck Tembusu Virus Diagnostics.

In China, drastic losses in the economy have been caused by the Tembusu virus (TMUV), the causative agent of the egg-drop syndrome, to the duck-raising industry. To succeed in preventing and controlling infections, extant techniques must be upgraded to achieve fast detection of viruses. This work is the first attempt to present the development of a recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA)-based clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPRs)-Cas13a approach for the TMUV infection diagnosis, where the CRISPR-Cas13a system is exploited, , the programmability of CRISPR RNA (crRNA) and the promiscuous RNase collateral cleavage of Cas13a upon recognition of target RNAs.

Heat shock transcription factor (Hsf) gene family in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris): genome-wide identification, phylogeny, evolutionary expansion and expression analyses at the sprout stage under abiotic stress.

Background: Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) is an essential crop with high economic value. The growth of this plant is sensitive to environmental stress. Heat shock factor (Hsf) is a family of antiretroviral transcription factors that regulate plant defense system against biotic and abiotic stress.

Effects of Fiber Cross-Angle Structures on the Mechanical Property of 3D Printed Scaffolds and Performance of Seeded MC3T3-E1 Cells.

The three-dimensional (3D) printing technology combined with bone tissue engineering has become one of the major methods for mandibular reconstruction. However, the key factor retarding mandible reconstruction is the barrier of understanding and achieving the complex 3D gridwork formed by the trabeculae. This study innovatively constructed a low-temperature 3D printing silk fibroin/collagen/hydroxyapatite (SF/COL/HA) composite scaffold with a stable structure and remarkable biocompatibility.

Preparation and evaluation of a novel solid dispersion using leucine as carrier.

Objective: The aim of this study was to develop a novel formulation of oleanolic acid (OA) solid dispersion (SD), using leucine (Leu) as the carrier to improve OA oral bioavailability.

Methods: The OA-Leu SD was prepared by solvent evaporation and was evaluated in vitro using differential scanning calorimetry, X-ray powder diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, flowability, hygroscopicity and dissolution test. The stability of the SD was evaluated using accelerated testing.

Compressive Sensing via Nonlocal Smoothed Rank Function.

Compressive sensing (CS) theory asserts that we can reconstruct signals and images with only a small number of samples or measurements. Recent works exploiting the nonlocal similarity have led to better results in various CS studies. To better exploit the nonlocal similarity, in this paper, we propose a non-convex smoothed rank function based model for CS image reconstruction.