A skin self-exam is best done in a well-lit room in front of a full-length mirror. You can use a hand-held mirror to look at areas that are hard to see, such as the backs of your thighs. A spouse, partner, or close friend or family member may be able to help you with these exams, especially for those hard-to-see areas like your back or scalp.
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Not all skin cancers look the same. In fact, skin cancers can show up in many shapes and sizes. Sometimes they might even look like other skin conditions. Many skin cancers are more common on parts of the body that tend to get more sun, such as the face, head, neck, and arms. But skin cancers can occur anywhere on the body.
While highly stretchable and self-healable ionic skins have been frequently reported10,11,12,13,14, most of the synthetic ionic conductors are strain-softening. There is often a conflict among elasticity, self-healability, and strain-stiffening for stretchable ionic conductors. In traditional elastomers, good elasticity relies on strong covalently bonded crosslinks, which allow the material to fully recover its original state driven by entropic gain15. In contrast, self-healing generally occurs through the reorganization of the intrinsic elastic network by regenerating dynamic non-covalent bonds7. Stretching such a dynamic network is usually accompanied by crosslinking density reduction and stress relaxation, leading to the remarkable attenuation of material modulus as well as poor elastic recovery from large deformations14,16,17,18,19. On the other hand, strain-stiffening materials normally involve two distinct networks with different rigidities that unfold progressively for synergizing softness and firmness20,21,22,23. For instance, bottlebrush elastomers could replicate the strain-stiffening characteristics of biological tissues by unfolding flexible strands at lower forces followed by stretching rigid backbone at higher forces9,21,22,23,24. In other reported elastomers, integrating permanent chemical crosslinks or crystalline domains with weak intermolecular crosslinks may also lead to strain-induced modulus increase25,26,27. Therefore, one major challenge to synthesize elastic, self-healing yet strain-stiffening ionic conductors arises in designing multiscale polymer networks, which concurrently possess dynamic yet strong crosslinks as well as supramolecular weak bonding to mimic the respective roles of stiff collagen fiber and soft elastin matrix in natural skin. Tian et al. recently developed a hybrid elastic hydrogel featuring cell-like starch granules embedded in a crosslinked polyacrylamide matrix, which displays both tissue-like strain-stiffening and self-healing behaviors through dynamic hydrogen bonding and granular interactions; however, in their system, chemical crosslinks are still existing, and thus only 90% healing efficiency was observed28. To the best of our knowledge, there is thus far no report on stretchable ionic conductors with combined good elasticity, full self-healability, and unique strain-stiffening properties.
Lil Peep and XXXTentacion's attitudes towards each other while Lil Peep was alive have been described as murky.[14] Fish Narc, a fellow member of GothBoiClique with Lil Peep, opposed XXXTentacion's inclusion on the song. In August 2018, Fish Narc posted a story onto Instagram in which he disavowed the collaboration. He stated, "[Lil Peep] explicitly rejected Triple X for his abuse of women, spent time and money getting Triple X's songs removed from his Spotify playlists, and wouldn't have co-signed that song. Don't listen to it." Fish Narc's claims of Lil Peep rejecting associations with XXXTentacion have not been substantiated.[11] Likewise, one of Lil Peep's closest collaborators, Lil Tracy, said that the two artists were "never even friends [and] didn't even like each other.. RIP to both of them."[11] On the contrary, rapper Fat Nick, a mutual friend of Lil Peep and XXXTentacion, said on Twitter that right before Lil Peep died, he and Lil Peep had a conversation about XXXTentacion and had planned to meet up with him, and that XXXTentacion was "super happy about it".[15] Fat Nick also spoke about the matter on an Instagram livestream, where he dismissed the claims from Fish Narc and others about tension between XXXTentacion and Lil Peep, and confirmed that Lil Peep wanted to meet XXXTentacion once he was off tour. In the livestream, he also implied that members of GothBoiClique were responsible for Lil Peep's death, saying, "Some of y'all are siding with the people that took advantage of Peep. I don't get it... That's crazy. Y'all say shit about fucking X, but you're not saying shit about the people that killed [Lil Peep]... The people that gave him fentanyl. Y'all don't say shit to them."[16] After this, Fish Narc faced criticism for his initial statement condemning the song. Fish Narc responded on Twitter, "I feel that people think I am trying to insult X. But really I wish him rest. I protest a posthumous collab between unaffiliated artists," and clarified that he did not wish to attack XXXTentacion and that his comments were, "how I interpreted what Peep told me as a friend."[17][18] Following the release of the song, Fish Narc and Lil Tracy retracted their initial statements, with Fish Narc stating that his original stance was "what [he] said in anger".[11]
Flexible and stretchable electronic components are currently at the heart of macroelectronics research. Materials useful for such applications are based on entropy elastic soft matter, combined with energy elastic functional elements. Examples include functional materials for sensing pressure and temperature changes, such as ferroelectrets, ferroelectric polymers, and nanocomposites of ferroelectric polymers and piezoelectric ceramics. Components for making flexible or stretchable electronic components additionally require electronic circuitry based on amorphous silicon or on organic semiconductors. Progress in such electronic elements is rapid, state of the art are elements which can easily operate at low voltage levels of 1 V. Combined with functional materials, sensing elements for temperature and pressure changes are easily achieved, as demonstrated with a few working examples of paper thin microphones, optothermal switching elements and skin-like electronics. Entropy-elastic elastomers form the basis for actuating elements, outlined by examples based on self organized actuating structures. Such materials can be also made functional by design, enabling fully reversible stretchable sensing elements for temperature, pressure and other physical parameters.
Eminem, a hip-hop artist does not go on tour for long because it at times causes him to almost relapse. Unlike Eminem, Ed Sheeran goes on tour, but just prefers not to because it keeps him away from his family and friends. The option of buying their albums, which is their main source of income has generally disappeared because of the amount of people who prefer to stream music.
"Ten minutes, and he's like this," one of them says. Austin's wheezing grows more clipped and then, suddenly, vomit gushes all over him, streams of muddy liquid dripping down his chest like rivulets.
Kathleen watches a child's rash spread across her chest and down her arms like a special effect in a movie. Her mom is unduly calm, the type of worn-down calm that comes from a life of crappy odds, low expectations, and thin mattresses. No one ever reports a good night's sleep.
Kathleen has never known anything as simple as a tear in a window screen. Her life has been carefully constructed to impress, built from private schools, deep bank accounts, and wide safety nets. This is what happens when your grandfather patented a lightweight aluminum engine for lawn mowers in the 1950s, then marketed it like a boss. Her family is rich, a fortune all tied up in manicured lawns, a recession-proof revenue stream because the Joneses will always want trimmed crabgrass.
TJ has to think on his feet, dodge drivers who are texting, putting on make up, eating burritos. He has to be resourceful in the summer heat, dipping towels in coolers of ice and wrapping them around his neck, using old school zinc oxide as a sunscreen because it creates, "like an extra layer of skin, like a shield from the sun."
Kathleen makes small talk with the girl and learns she lives in Austin's neighborhood. She almost asks the girl if she knows Austin, but luckily something stops her because later, driving home, trying to shake the hospital smell like alcohol wipes, like fear mixed with mashed potatoes, she imagines the girl asking, "The boy who died? That one?"
Nothing in here feels real, not the boxed pie or his baby-clean skin or his flowery speech. But the sheen of it all feels familiar. Kathleen knows spit polish. It was like milk growing up. She also knows the drain of keeping up the shine. Fighting something you shouldn't be fighting, shouldn't have to fight, really. 2ff7e9595c
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