Knowledge, attitude and practice of rehabilitation management of the caregivers of pediatric patients with hemiplegia.

This study aimed to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) of caregivers managing rehabilitation for pediatric hemiplegia patients. Conducted at our hospital from January 25 to July 20, 2024, self-developed questionnaires were used to evaluate KAP scores among caregivers and compare demographic factors. Spearman correlation analysis explored relationships between variables, and structural equation modeling (SEM) examined direct effects.

Can digitalization improve the equality and equity of food environment? Evidence from greengrocers in central Shanghai.

Introduction: Online food shopping has a profound impact on people's food acquisition behavior, the current study aims to understand how online food shopping may affect the accessibility of the local food environment and further influence the health equity among different populations.

Methods: Taking 8512 traditional and online greengrocers in central Shanghai as an example, this paper uses Gini coefficient, location quotient and spatial clustering method to compare the equality and equity of food environment between physical and digital food outlets.

Results: It finds that spatial equality is more significantly improved as a result of online food stores than are population equality and social equity of the food environment; older populations are not disadvantaged in terms of healthy food access but lower-income people are; the impact of online stores varies for different regions and different types of stores; depot-based stores have the most positive impact on health equity.

Aging in Place or Institutionalization? A Multiscale Analysis of Independent-Living Older Adults From Four Large Cities in China's Yangtze River Delta.

Background And Objectives: Aging in place (AIP) has been adopted as a key strategy to cope with the global public health challenge posed by population aging. The current study aimed to understand the association between older adult's AIP preference and various social and physical environmental factors at different scales.

Research Design And Methods: Following the ecological model of aging, this paper conducted a questionnaire survey of 827 independent-living older adults (60 years old and above) from four big cities in China's Yangtze River Delta region and employed a structural equation modeling method for analysis.

Assessing the health impacts of the urban expansion of small cities in China: A case study of Jiawang.

Empirical studies undertaken in developed countries have shown that urban expansion may exert both positive and negative impacts on residents' health, depending on the planning strategy; however, the impact of rapid urban expansion on public health in developing countries is understudied. This paper takes Jiawang, China, as an example of rapid urban expansion and carries out a health impact assessment (HIA) on its regulatory detailed plan to better understand the interaction of the built environment and public health. We establish an HIA framework and select a series of indicators as health determinants.

Turning lignin into treasure: An innovative filler comparable to commercial carbon black for the green development of the rubber industry.

Driven by the global carbon neutrality action, biomass-derived functional materials have been applied in many fields to alleviate the pressure brought by the depletion of fossil energy. However, due to the complex structure, lignin faces many difficulties in its high-value utilization. The second largest biomass in the world has become the largest "natural waste".

Shape estimation of the anterior part of a flexible ureteroscope for intraoperative navigation.

Purpose: Flexible ureteroscopy (FURS) plays an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of urological diseases. However, manipulating a flexible ureteroscope to the target quickly and safely may be challenging because of the tortuous lumen or poor visibility. Thus, information on the shape of the anterior part of a flexible ureteroscope in addition to the real-time pose is needed to perform accurate maneuvering in the lumen with minimal impingement on the inner renal wall and resulting tissue damage in FURS.

Food Acquisition during the COVID-19 Lockdown and Its Associations with the Physical-Digital Integrated Community Food Environment: A Case Study of Nanjing, China.

The COVID-19 pandemic and measures such as lockdowns affect food access, dietary choices, and food security. We conducted an online survey among 517 respondents during early 2020 in Nanjing, China to explore respondents' food acquisition behaviors before and during the pandemic and associations with the community food environment. Using geographic analysis and binary logistic models, we revealed that despite inconvenience regarding food acquisition, no food security issues occurred during lockdown in Nanjing.

A Novel Central Camera Calibration Method Recording Point-to-Point Distortion for Vision-Based Human Activity Recognition.

The camera is the main sensor of vison-based human activity recognition, and its high-precision calibration of distortion is an important prerequisite of the task. Current studies have shown that multi-parameter model methods achieve higher accuracy than traditional methods in the process of camera calibration. However, these methods need hundreds or even thousands of images to optimize the camera model, which limits their practical use.

Controllable conversion of biomass to lignin-silica hybrid nanoparticles: High-performance renewable dual-phase fillers.

Due to the complex network of aromatic units, lignin is difficult to achieve high-value applications in the industrial field, becoming the largest "natural waste". In this paper, dual-phase fillers with excellent rubber reinforcement were prepared from lignin and sodium silicate through the method of controllable two-step acid precipitation without any complicated modification. During the formation of hybrid nanoparticles, silica nanoparticles were formed as templates in the first step, and then lignin was used as coating agent to bind with silica.

Clinically Available Optical Imaging Technologies in Endoscopic Lesion Detection: Current Status and Future Perspective.

Endoscopic optical imaging technologies for the detection and evaluation of dysplasia and early cancer have made great strides in recent decades. With the capacity of in vivo early detection of subtle lesions, they allow modern endoscopists to provide accurate and effective optical diagnosis in real time. This review mainly analyzes the current status of clinically available endoscopic optical imaging techniques, with emphasis on the latest updates of existing techniques.

Novel endoscopic optical diagnostic technologies in medical trial research: recent advancements and future prospects.

Novel endoscopic biophotonic diagnostic technologies have the potential to non-invasively detect the interior of a hollow organ or cavity of the human body with subcellular resolution or to obtain biochemical information about tissue in real time. With the capability to visualize or analyze the diagnostic target in vivo, these techniques gradually developed as potential candidates to challenge histopathology which remains the gold standard for diagnosis. Consequently, many innovative endoscopic diagnostic techniques have succeeded in detection, characterization, and confirmation: the three critical steps for routine endoscopic diagnosis.

[Progress in application of molecularly imprinted polymers based on -cyclodextrin to environmental and food sample pretreatment].

-cyclodextrin (-CD) and its derivatives are an emerging class of functional monomers that find widespread use in molecular imprinting. It is well known that -CD and its derivatives are capable of forming host-guest interaction inclusion complexes with many guest molecules. Molecularly imprinted polymers prepared via this type of interaction have the advantages of high stability and excellent selectivity.

Selective-detection NO at room temperature on porous ZnO nanostructure by solid-state synthesis method.

High sensitivity and selectivity detection of NO at room temperature has always been full of challenges. In this work, a kind of porous ZnO with coralline-like nanostructure was prepared by a rapid and simple solid-state synthesis strategy, using zinc acetate and oxalic acid as precursors. Structural analysis and morphological investigations of the ZnO powder showed that it has a large specific surface area (32.

Microwave-assisted facile synthesis of polymer dots as a fluorescent probe for detection of cobalt(II) and manganese(II).

Polymer dots (PDs) were synthesized at 200 °C for 90 min via a microwave-assisted method. The PDs were characterized by fluorescence spectroscopy, UV-vis absorbance spectra, transmission electron microscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The PDs display blue fluorescence under 320 nm excitation with a fluorescent quantum yield of 13.