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The rising global incidence of AD demands innovation that will help alleviate the burden to healthcare systems when coupled with the potentially near-term approval of disease-modifying therapies. Additionally, we argue that adequate infrastructure, equipment, and resources urgently should be integrated in the primary care setting to optimize the patient journey and accommodate widespread cognitive evaluation.Disease-modifying pharmacotherapies for Alzheimer's Disease (AD) are currently in late-stage clinical development; once approved, new healthcare infrastructures and services, including primary healthcare, will be necessary to accommodate a huge demand for early and large-scale detection of AD. The increasing global accessibility of digital consumer electronics has opened up new prospects for early diagnosis and management of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) with particular regard to AD. This new wave of innovation has spurred research in both academia and industry, aimed at developing and validating a new "digital generation" of tools for the assessment of the cognitive performance. In light of this paradigm shift, an international working group (the Global Advisory Group on Future MCI Care Pathways) convened to elaborate on how digital tools may be optimally integrated in screening-diagnostic pathways of AD The working group developed consensus perspectives on new algorithms for large-scale screening, detection, and diagnosis of individuals with MCI within primary medical care delivery. In addition, the expert panel addressed operational aspects concerning the implementation of unsupervised at-home testing of cognitive performance. The ultimate intent of the working group's consensus perspectives is to provide guidance to developers of cognitive tests and tools to facilitate the transition toward globally accessible cognitive screening aimed at the early detection, diagnosis, and management of MCI due to AD.The termination of many clinical trials of amyloid-targeting therapies for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD) has had a major impact on the AD clinical research enterprise. However, positive signals in recent studies have reinvigorated support for the amyloid hypothesis and amyloid-targeting strategies. In December 2019, the EU-US Clinical Trials on Alzheimer's Disease (CTAD) Task Force met to share learnings from these studies in order to inform future trials and promote the development of effective AD treatments. Critical factors that have emerged in studies of anti-amyloid monoclonal antibody therapies include developing a better understanding of the specific amyloid species targeted by different antibodies, advancing our insight into the mechanism by which those antibodies may reduce pathology, implementing more comprehensive repertoires of biomarkers into trials, and identifying appropriate doses. Studies suggest that Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities - effusion type (ARIA-E) are a manageable safety concern and that caution should be exercised before terminating studies based on interim analyses. The Task Force concluded that opportunities for developing effective treatments include developing new biomarkers, intervening in early stages of disease, and use of combination therapies.Ferroelectric nanostructures have received much attention because they can be used for the next generation of ferroelectric random-access memory (FeRAM) in flexible electronic devices. Manipulation of domain reversal in ferroelectric nanostructures is extremely important, but rarely studied. Herein, we present generic and reusable fabrication of 2D-confined P(VDF-TrFE) nanodots with an integration density of up to 4 Gbit per inch2, and then investigate the structural maps and the corresponding domain switching kinetics of P(VDF-TrFE) nanodots by atomic force microscope-based (AFM-based) technology. Meanwhile, their storage features, such as precise programmability and data stability, are well characterized by piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM). Remarkably, the ferroelectric crystals in single-confined P(VDF-TrFE) nanodots simultaneously aligned in a plane over the whole patterned region. 2D-confined P(VDF-TrFE) 50 50 nanodots has high-temperature ferroelectric (HT FE) phase with all-trans conformations, which endows them with excellent memory characteristics, such as a low operating voltage of 3 V, a short domain nucleation of 100 ms (by V = 10 V), a fast domain growth, an excellent writing-erasing repeatability, and a long retention time. Compared with normal ferroelectric materials, like P(VDF-TrFE) 70 30, approximately 150% ratio of energy loss and a 5-fold duration for domain nucleation can be saved. Especially, written domains were well confined in the P(VDF-TrFE) 50 50 nanodots, which attains precise programmability on a single nanodot. Our systematic study provides an alternative route for the fabrication of ferroelectric nanostructures that are worth considering for the next generation of flexible FeRAM in all-organic nanoelectronic devices.The construction of multiscale Ti surfaces of high osteogenic ability has always attracted significant attention in the fields of oral implantology and implantable biomaterials. However, to date, the absence of a solid understanding of the correlation between the multiscale surface structure and the biological properties is the main obstacle in the development of these multiscale implants. In this study, a series of novel multiscale Ti surfaces were prepared via a three-step subtractive method. E-7386 price Moreover, based on the grayscale analysis of SEM images, we developed multiscale surface topography analysis methods. The typical topography characteristics at each scale of a multiscale complex surface can be analyzed according to the corresponding magnified SEM images. Thus, the evolution rule of the surface topography from a simple surface to multiscale complex surfaces can be mathematically described. Based on this, the correlation between multiscale surface structures and the corresponding biological properties was established. For the multiscale surface of superior osteogenic capacity, strict inherent regularity was found among the structures at multiple scales (i.e., multiscale order), that is, there was a balance between the construction of the 3D collagen-like network nanostructure and the preservation of the typical topographical features of the pre-existing macro- and micro-structures of the classic micro-roughened surface. Moreover, it was further found that the multiscale-ordered hierarchical Ti surface structure could modulate ROS production and enhance macrophage M2 polarization to create an osteogenesis-favorable immuno-inflammatory microenvironment and synergistically exhibit superior biological capability. Consequently, an optimized collagen-like hierarchical surface with superior osteogenic abilities was achieved.