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Ultraviolet (UV) radiation has numerous beneficial effects on human health, including stimulating vitamin D and serotonin production and immuno-regulatory activities. Conversely, UV radiation is also classified as a group one carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer.

To investigated the effects of UV radiation avoidance in melanoma patients in terms of vitamin D levels but also of bone mineral density and trabecular bone microarchitecture.

We conducted an observational study investigating the effects of UV radiation avoidance in 31 melanoma patients in terms of vitamin D levels but also of bone mineral density and trabecular bone microarchitecture by using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry scan. Data were compared with two control groups of healthy subjects, who were chronically exposed or not exposed to UV radiation during their lifetime.

Melanoma patients had on average slightly lower levels of vitamin D, without reaching statistical significance (P=.135). No significant difference was found across the three groups on T-scores of femoral neck (P=.544), of total hip (P=.617) and of lumbar spine P=.155). No significant difference was found on and trabecular bone score across exposure groups (P=.895).

UV radiation avoidance does not seem to significantly impact vitamin D levels nor bone health in melanoma patients. Thus, UV protective behavior is advisable for all melanoma patients.
UV radiation avoidance does not seem to significantly impact vitamin D levels nor bone health in melanoma patients. Thus, UV protective behavior is advisable for all melanoma patients.Invited for the cover of this issue is the group of Ian Teasdale and Yolanda Salinas at the Johannes Kepler University Linz. The image depicts the self-propelled Janus micromotors reported in this work. Read the full text of the article at 10.1002/chem.202004792.
Sensory modulation refers to a condition in which an individual's behavioural responses to sensory stimuli do not correspond to the nature or intensity of the stimuli. Sensory modulation affects children's participation in everyday activities and their well-being. The most common assessments used are caregiver questionnaires. Our aim is twofold; first to develop a clinical evaluative measure, the Sensory Adventure Measure (SAM), for directly assessing sensory modulation in children via therapists and children's self-report, second, we aim to establish its reliability and validity.

The study sample comprised 87 children ranging in age from 4 to 6years and 11months old divided into two groups study group included 63 children with mild developmental disabilities and the control group included 24 typically developed children. The SAM's internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and inter-rater reliability were examined. In addition, criterion validity was established using the total score of the Short Senon among children aged 4 to 6 years. The SAM can be used by therapists to assess sensory modulation disorder based on observed responses to sensory stimuli and the child's self-report. The SAM contributes additional perspective to the evaluation process of sensory modulation disorder.The ARTO device is a percutaneous device for functional mitral regurgitation composed of a transseptal anchor and a T-bar sitting in the coronary sinus which reduce the minor axis of the mitral valve. We present a case showing the technical feasibility of an LV lead implant in patients with an ARTO device in situ.Excitons, bound pairs of electrons and holes, could act as an intermediary between electronic signal processing and optical transmission, thus speeding up the interconnection of photoelectric communication. However, up to date, exciton-based logic devices such as switches that work at room temperature are still lacking. This work presents a prototype of a room-temperature optoelectronic switch based on excitons in WSe2 monolayer. The emission intensity of WSe2 stacked on Au and SiO2 substrates exhibits completely opposite behaviors upon applying gate voltages. GF109203X Such observation can be ascribed to different doping behaviors of WSe2 caused by charge-transfer and chemical-doping effect at WSe2 /Au and WSe2 /SiO2 interfaces, respectively, together with the charge-drift effect. These interesting features can be utilized for optoelectronic switching, confirmed by the cyclic PL switching test for a long time exceeding 4000 s. This study offers a universal and reliable approach for the fabrication of exciton-based optoelectronic switches, which would be essential in integrated nanophotonics.Melanin and related polyphenolic pigments are versatile functional polymers that serve diverse aesthetic and protective roles across the living world. These polymeric pigments continue to inspire the development of adhesive, photonic, electronic and radiation-protective materials and coatings. The properties of these structures are dictated by covalent and non-covalent interactions in ways that, despite progress, are not fully understood. It remains a major challenge to direct oxidative polymerization of their precursors (amino acids, (poly-)phenols, thiols) toward specific structures. By taking advantage of supramolecular pre-organization of tyrosine-tripeptides and reactive sequestering of selected amino acids during enzymatic oxidation, we demonstrate the spontaneous formation of distinct new chromophores with optical properties that are far beyond the range of those found in biological melanins, in terms of color, UV absorbance and fluorescent emission.We designed and synthesized a colorless transparent glassy polyurethane assembled using low-molecular-weight oligomers carrying a large number of loosely packed weak hydrogen bonds (H-bonds), which has a glass transition temperature (Tg ) up to 36.8 °C and behaves unprecedentedly robust stiffness with a tensile Young's modulus of 1.56±0.03 GPa. Fast room-temperature self-healing was observed in this polymer network the broken glassy polyurethane (GPU) specimen can recover to a tensile strength up 7.74±0.76 MPa after healing for as little as 10 min, which is prominent compared to reported room-temperature self-healing polymers. The high density of loose-packed hydrogen bonds can reversibly dissociate/associate below Tg of GPU (that is secondary relaxation), which enables the reconfiguration of the damaged network in the fractured interfaces, despite the extremely slow diffusion dynamics of molecular chains under room temperature. This GPU shows potential application as an optical lens.
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