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PURPOSE Those in prison have expert knowledge of issues affecting their health and wellbeing. The purpose of this paper is to report on work undertaken with male prisoners. This paper presents learning and findings from the process of engaging imprisoned men as peer researchers. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH The peer researcher approach offers an emic perspective to understand the experience of being in prison. The authors established the peer research role as an educational initiative at a long-stay prison in Wales, UK to determine the feasibility of engaging imprisoned men as peer researchers. Focus groups, interviews and questionnaires were used by the peer researchers to identify the health and wellbeing concerns of men in prison. FINDINGS The project positively demonstrated the feasibility of engaging imprisoned men as peer researchers. Four recurring themes affecting health and wellbeing for men in a prison vulnerable persons unit were identified communication, safety, respect and emotional needs. Bafilomycin A1 cell line Themes were inextricably linked demonstrating the complex relationships between prison and health. ORIGINALITY/VALUE This was the first prison peer-research project to take place in Wales, UK. It demonstrates the value men in prison can play in developing the evidence base around health and wellbeing in prison, contributing to changes within the prison to improve health and wellbeing for all. © Emerald Publishing Limited.PURPOSE Electronic medical case files of male prisoners in a category B prison in London were studied to establish a prevalence during an eight-month period of the use of and the reasons for prescribing gabapentinoids in prison and also to establish prescribing standards in prison and compliance with these. In addition, the prevalence of co-prescription of gabapentinoids with opioids and antidepressants, particularly tricyclic antidepressants such as amitriptyline, was also assessed in light of the increased risk of respiratory depression resulting in death when these drugs are used in combination. The paper aims to discuss these issues. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH A retrospective, SystmOne case-file based survey was undertaken searching by SNOMED CT supplemented by examination of free text, in a category B prison for males (Capacity 1,500 prisoners; Average turnover of prisoners up to 6,000 per year), to establish practice standards related to the prescription of Gabapentinoids in the prison and determine coioid substitutes. ORIGINALITY/VALUE This is an original study conducted at a category B prison in London. © Emerald Publishing Limited.PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to gain insight into justice-involved women's preferences for an internet-based Sexual Health Empowerment (SHE) curriculum. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH The authors analyzed data from four focus groups conducted with 52 women in a minimum-security county jail in a Midwestern US city. FINDINGS Women reported daily access to the internet while in the community and use of the internet for searching about health concerns. Four themes emerged in the discussion about preferences for an internet-based SHE curriculum, that it cover healthy sexual expression, how to access resources, video as an educational modality and a non-judgmental approach. PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS Justice-involved women are potentially reachable through internet-based health education. Their preferences for content and modality can be used to inform internet-based sexual health programming designed specifically for this population. Using this modality could offer easily disseminated, low-cost and consistent messaging about sexual health for a vulnerable group of women. ORIGINALITY/VALUE Though internet-based health education programming has been widely utilized in the general population, less attention has been paid to if and how these programs could be utilized with a vulnerable group of women who move between the justice system and communities. This exploratory study begins to fill that gap. © Emerald Publishing Limited.Cartilage endplate (CEP) degeneration has been considered as one of important factors related to intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD). Previous researches have showed that Rac1 played a pivotal role in chondrocyte differentiation. However, the effect of Rac1 during the process of CEP degeneration remains unclear. Herein, we explored the effect of Rac1 on CEP degeneration and elucidated the underlying molecular mechanism. We found expression of Rac1-GTP increased in human-degenerated CEP tissue and IL-1β-stimulated rat endplate chondrocytes (EPCs). Our study revealed that Rac1 inhibitor NSC23766 treatment promoted the expression of collagen II, aggrecan and Sox-9, and decreased the expression of ADTAMTS5 and MMP13 in IL-1β-stimulated rat EPCs. Moreover, we also found that NSC23766 could suppress the activation of Wnt/β-catenin pathway, suggesting that the beneficial effects of Rac1 inhibition in EPCs are mediated through the Wnt/β-catenin signalling. Besides, puncture-induced rats models showed that NSC23766 played a protective role on CEP and disc degeneration. Collectively, these findings demonstrated that Rac1 inhibition delayed the EPCs degeneration and its potential mechanism may be associated with Wnt/β-catenin pathway regulation, which may help us better understand the association between Rac1 and CEP degeneration and provide a promising strategy for delaying the progression of IVDD. © 2020 The Authors. Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd and Foundation for Cellular and Molecular Medicine.As the first discovered organoboron compound with photochromic property, B(ppy)Mes2 (ppy=2-phenylpyridine, Mes=mesityl) displays rich photochemistry that constitutes a solid foundation for wide applications in optoelectronic fields. In this work, we investigated the B(ppy)Mes2 to borirane isomerization mechanisms in the three lowest electronic states (S0 , S1 , and T1 ) based on the complete active space self-consistent field (CASSCF) and its second-order perturbation (CASPT2) methods combined with time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) calculations. Our results show that the photoisomerization in the S1 state is dominant, which is initiated by the cleavage of the B-Cppy bond. After overcoming a barrier of 0.5 eV, the reaction pathway leads to a conical intersection between the S1 and S0 states (S1 /S0 )x , from which the decay path may go back to the reactant B(ppy)Mes2 via a closed-shell intermediate (Int1-S0 ) or to the product borirane via a biradical intermediate (Int2-S0 ). Although triplet states are probably involved in the photoinduced process, the possibility of the photoisomerization in T1 state is very small owing to the weakly allowed S1 →T1 intersystem crossing and the high energy barrier (0.77 eV). In addition, we found the photoisomerization is thermally reversible, which is consistent with the experimental observations. © 2020 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.Thiol-ene cationic and radical reactions were conducted for 11 addition between a thiol and vinyl ether, and also for cyclization and step-growth polymerization between a dithiol and divinyl ether. p-Toluenesulfonic acid (PTSA) induced a cationic thiol-ene reaction to generate a thioacetal in high yield, whereas 2,2'-azobisisobutyronitrile resulted in a radical thiol-ene reaction to give a thioether, also in high yield. The cationic and radical addition reactions between a dithiol and divinyl ether with oxyethylene units yielded amorphous poly(thioacetal)s and crystalline poly(thioether)s, respectively. Under high-dilution conditions, the cationic and radical reactions resulted in 16- and 18-membered cyclic thioacetal and thioether products, respectively. Furthermore, concurrent cationic and radical step-growth polymerizations were realized using PTSA under UV irradiation to produce polymers having both thioacetal and thioether linkages in the main chain. © 2020 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.Talaromyces marneffei is an important opportunistic human pathogen endemic to Southeast Asia. It is one of a number of pathogenic fungi that exhibits thermally controlled dimorphism. At 25°C, T. marneffei grows in a multicellular, filamentous hyphal form that can differentiate to produce dormant spores called conidia. These conidia are the likely infectious agent. At 37°C, T. marneffei grows as a uninucleate yeast that divides by fission. The yeast cells are the pathogenic form of this fungus. The protocols described here explain how to grow T. marneffei in the two vegetative growth forms in vitro, grow yeast cells inside mammalian macrophages, produce conidial stocks, and store strains both short and long term. © 2020 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Basic Protocol 1 Growth of the vegetative hyphal form on solid medium Alternate Protocol 1 Growth of the vegetative hyphal form in liquid suspension Basic Protocol 2 Growth of the vegetative yeast form on solid medium Alternate Protocol 2 Growth of the vegetative yeast form in liquid suspension Basic Protocol 3 Growth for production of dormant conidia Support Protocol Preparation of Miracloth filter tubes Basic Protocol 4 Growth of Talaromyces marneffei in mammalian macrophages Basic Protocol 5 Storage of Talaromyces marneffei strains Alternate Protocol 3 Lyophilization of Talaromyces marneffei strains.Metal-CO 2 batteries, an attractive technology for both energy storage and CO 2 utilization, are typically classified into organic Li(Na)-CO 2 batteries with a high energy density/output voltage and aqueous Zn-CO 2 batteries with flexible chemical production. However, achieving high-efficiency energy storage and flexible chemical production simultaneously is still challenging. Herein, we proposed and realized a reversible hybrid aqueous Li-CO 2 battery integrating Li with aqueous phase, exhibiting not only a high operating voltage and energy density, but also highly selective HCOOH production simultaneously. Based on a Li plate as the anode, NaCl solution as aqueous electrolyte, solid electrolyte Li 1.5 Al 0.5 Ge 1.5 P 3 O 12 (LAGP) as separator and Li + transporter, and a bifunctional Pd-based electrocatalyst as the cathode, the resulting battery possessed the high discharge voltage up to 2.6 V, the outstanding energy conversion efficiency higher than 80%, and the remarkable selectivity of CO 2 -to-HCOOH conversion up to 97%. The related reaction mechanism was proposed as CO 2 +2Li+2H + ⇋HCOOH+2Li + . © 2020 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.We present herein a Cp*Co(III)-half-sandwich catalyst system for electrocatalytic CO2 reduction in aqueous acetonitrile solution. In addition to an electron-donating Cp* ligand (Cp*=pentamethylcyclopentadienyl), the catalyst featured a proton-responsive pyridyl-benzimidazole-based N,N-bidentate ligand. Owing to the presence of a relatively electron-rich Co center, the reduced Co(I)-state was made prone to activate the electrophilic carbon center of CO2 . At the same time, the proton-responsive benzimidazole scaffold was susceptible to facilitate proton-transfer during the subsequent reduction of CO2 . The above factors rendered the present catalyst active toward producing CO as the major product over the other potential 2e/2H+ reduced product HCOOH, in contrast to the only known similar half-sandwich CpCo(III)-based CO2 -reduction catalysts which produced HCOOH selectively. The system exhibited a Faradaic efficiency (FE) of about 70% while the overpotential for CO production was found to be 0.78 V, as determined by controlled-potential electrolysis.
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