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BMC Psychology, 2017 Background Many young women experiment with using indoor tanning beds with some becoming regular users. There is a dearth of research focused on factors related to the development of regular tanning.
Jerod L. Stapleton, Benjamin F. Crabtree
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Indoor tanning is associated with an increased risk of skin cancer. Nonetheless, its use is still widespread. We aimed to investigate the socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of sunbed users in a group of participants in the skin cancer ...
Simona Mastroeni +7 more
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Children, 2021 Prior to 2011 legislation prohibiting children from using commercial sunbeds, the prevalence of sunbed use in 15- to 17-year-olds in some areas in England was as high as 50%.
Louisa G. Gordon +7 more
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Health Beliefs About UV and Skin Cancer Risk Behaviors
Cancer Control, 2020 Our purpose was to examine the beliefs of college students about UV exposure and sunscreen use and their associations with skin cancer risk and protective behaviors in a cloudy climate. The sample was online survey participants (N = 334) recruited from a
Anne Julian PhD +2 more
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Decreases in tanning behaviors following a short online survey: Potential for prevention?
Preventive Medicine Reports, 2015 Objectives: To date, tanning prevention programs have led to limited success. The aim of the present study was to investigate potential unexpected prevention effects of completing an online survey focused on tanning attitudes, behaviors, and knowledge ...
Rachel F. Rodgers +3 more
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Collision‐Resilient Winged Drones Enabled by Tensegrity Structures
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Based on structures of birds such as the woodpeck, this article presents the collision‐resilient aerial robot, SWIFT. SWIFT leverages tensegrity structures in the fuselage and wings which allow it to undergo large deformations in a crash, without sustaining damage. Experiments show that SWIFT can reduce impact forces by 70% over conventional structures.
Omar Aloui +5 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Utilizing molecular engineering for network design, three pesticide‐loaded organogels (PLOs) carriers exhibiting varying degrees of flexibility were prepared. The mechanical properties of these carriers, tunable via their network molecular structures, enhance their structural adaptability and retention stability at biological interfaces, thereby ...
Yue Wang +6 more
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Nonmelanoma skin cancer in women
International Journal of Women's Dermatology, 2019 Men continue to develop nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC) at higher rates than women, but the epidemiologic pattern of NMSC development is evolving.
H. Heaton, MD, N. Lawrence, MD
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Current Oncology, 2022 Over five million cases of skin cancer are diagnosed each year in the United States with melanoma the third most common cancer in young adults. While publications have shown that sunburns increase the risk of developing melanoma throughout the lifetime ...
Dylan T. Miller +2 more
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Measuring Nonsolar Tanning Behavior [PDF]
Archives of Dermatology, 2008 To develop items to measure indoor tanning and sunless tanning that can be used to monitor trends in population surveys or to assess changes in behavior in intervention studies.A group of experts on indoor tanning convened in December 2005, as part of a national workshop to review the state of the evidence, define measurement issues, and develop items ...
Lazovich, DeAnn +10 more
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