This article describes the findings of a pilot program designed to enter advanced prostate cancer patients into the hospice benefit while they are still being actively treated, but in situations where treatment is known to be primarily palliative in nature. The supportive care program (SCP) combines the medical model's goal to prolong life with the goal of hospice to palliate symptoms and impro...

A set of styrene-ethylene-butylene-styrene triblock copolymer (SEBS) membranes with 10 or 25 wt% divinyl-benzene (DVB) as a crosslinking agent were prepared and validated. Physicochemical characterization revealed suitable hydrolytic thermal stability photo-crosslinked containing DVB post-sulfonated. These compositions evaluated in H2/O2 single cells, electrical proton conductivities furtherly ...

Although neither the physiological function nor the mechanism of action of sterol carrier protein 2 (SCP(2)) is yet completely clear, it is thought that SCP(2) interacts with membranes to elicit its biological effects. The results presented here show that the SCP(2) N-terminus, composed of two amphipathic alpha-helices, interacted preferentially with highly curved but not lower-curvature membra...

Many studies advance the contemporary technologies of Industry 4.0. However, relatively little is known about how 4.0 affects corporate financial performance. Using a survey, bootstrap sampling, and structural-equation modeling, this study evaluates moderated mediation effects maturity on The results show that significantly internal business process performance (IBPP), which influences customer...

Despite intense recent research, the neural correlates of conscious visual perception remain elusive. The most established paradigm for studying brain mechanisms underlying conscious perception is to keep the physical sensory inputs constant and identify brain activities that correlate with the changing content of conscious awareness. However, such a contrast based on conscious content alone wo...

Sterol carrier protein-2 (SCP-2) and SCP-x are ubiquitous proteins found in all mammalian tissues. Although both proteins interact with fatty acids, their relative contributions to the uptake, oxidation, and esterification of straight-chain (palmitic) and branched-chain (phytanic) fatty acids in living cells has not been resolved. Therefore, the effects of each gene product on fatty acid metabo...

We present green organohydrogel-based stretchable (up to 700% strain), transparent, and room-temperature O2 sensors with impressive performance, including drying freezing tolerances, high sensitivity, broad detection range (100 ppm-100%), long-term stability, low theoretical limit (0.585 ppm), linearity, the capability real-time monitor human respiration by directly attaching on skin. A facile ...

High performance electromagnetic (EM) interference shielding composites are of high demand due to increasing EM wave radiation pollution. In this work, GO/NiNCs/PMMA microcellular foams with different GO/NiNCs gradient and 3D conductive filler framework were fabricated by thermal reduction supercritical CO2 foaming process. With the crosslink 1D NiNCs 2D GO sheets, electrical conductivity varie...