Academic Articles & Research Papers

Risk Communication and Public Health

Abstract Controversies about risks to public health regularly hit the news, whether about food safety, environmental issues, medical interventions, or ‘lifestyle’ risks such as drinking. To those trying to manage or regulate risks, public r...

Hypertension and diabetes patients’ perspective of challenges and their coping mechanisms in Mukono and Buikwe districts in Uganda – a qualitative study

Background: In sub-Saharan Africa, the burden of non-communicable diseases is steadily rising amidst a high prevalence of communicable diseases stretching the healthcare system. This study explored hypertension and diabetes patients’ perspe...

A DFT Study on the Electronic Structures and Conducting Properties of Rubrene and its Derivatives in Organic Field-Effect Transistors

Abstract We systematically studied the electronic structures and conducting properties of rubrene and its derivatives reported recently, and disscussed the influences of electron-withdrawing groups and chemical oxidation on the reorganizati...

LASIK Surgery

Photo by Scott Van Daalen on Unsplash INTRODUCTION LASIK surgery, one of the most common elective procedures worldwide, aims to decrease or eliminate the need to wear glasses or contact lenses by reshaping the cornea’s curvature to re...

Exact solution for bending analysis of functionally graded micro-plates based on strain gradient theory

In the present article, static analysis of thin functionally graded micro-plates, based on Kirchhoff plate theory, is investigated. Utilizing the strain gradient theory and principle of minimum total potential energy, governing equations of...

Multithreaded two-pass connected components labelling and particle analysis in ImageJ

Sequential region labelling, also known as connected components labelling, is a standard image segmentation problem that joins contiguous foreground pixels into blobs. Despite its long development history and widespread use across diverse d...

Speciation of Ruthenium(III) Chloro Complexes in Hydrochloric Acid Solutions and Their Extraction Characteristics with an Amide-Containing Amine Compound

The refining of platinum group metals is based mainly on solvent extraction methods, whereas Ru is selectively recovered by distillation as RuO4. Replacement of distillation by extraction is expected to simplify the purification process. To...

Materials Science Forum

Materials Science Forum (MSF) is a peer-reviewed journal. The journal scope covers all aspects of theoretical, computational and experimental research in the area of materials science. It includes but is not limited to materials synthesis, ...

From Isolation to Application: Utilising Phage‐Antibiotic Synergy in Murine Bacteremia Model to Combat Multidrug‐Resistant Enterococcus faecalis

ABSTRACT Enterococcus species, natural inhabitants of the human gut, have become major causes of life‐threatening bloodstream infections (BSIs) and the third most frequent cause of hospital‐acquired bacteremia. The rise of high‐level gentam...

Clinical characteristics of and risk factors for secondary bloodstream infection after pneumonia among patients infected with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Purpose: To investigate the clinical features and risk factors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) pneumonia (MP) with secondary MRSA bloodstream infections (MRSA-BSI) (termed MP-BSI) compared with MP alone and to study t...

Hydrogen gas (H2) delivered by intraperitoneal injection alleviated methionine- and choline-deficient diet-induced metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease in mice via inhibiting GSDMD- and GSDME-mediated pyroptosis

BackgroundHydrogen gas (H2), which is the lightest and diffusible gas molecule, has strong abilities to alleviate excessive oxidative stress, inflammation, and apoptosis. Inhalation of H2 is beneficial for preventing the damage of the lung,...

Period of Arrhythmia Anchored around an Infarction Scar in an Anatomical Model of the Human Ventricles

Rotating nonlinear waves of excitation in the heart cause dangerous cardiac arrhythmias. Frequently, ventricular arrhythmias occur as a result of myocardial infarction and are associated with rotation of the waves around a post-infarction s...

Invertebrate Ecological Immunology

Ecological immunology is a rapidly expanding field that examines the causes and consequences of variation in immune function in the context of evolution and of ecology. Millions of invertebrate species rely solely on innate immunity, compar...

Efficacy of anti-PD-1/PD-L1 plus chemotherapy in treatment-naïve advanced HER2-negative gastric adenocarcinoma among different PD-L1 intervals: an updated meta-analysis and reconstructed individual patient-level data analysis.

Cardiovascular and metabolic outcomes associated with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Background: Chronic systemic inflammation in individuals with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis (AD) potentially predisposes them to metabolic and cardiovascular diseases. Nevertheless, evidence with regard to such association is limited...

Antibacterial activity of selenium nanoparticles/copper oxide (SeNPs/CuO) nanocomposite against some multi-drug resistant clinical pathogens

Abstract Background Recent advances in nanomedicine have derived novel prospects for development of various bioactive nanoparticles and nanocomposites with significant antibacterial and antifungal properties. This study aims to investigate ...

Worldwide productivity and research trend of publications concerning extracellular vesicles role in fibrosis: A bibliometric study from 2013 to 2022

Background: Fibrosis is a heavy burden on the global healthcare system. Recently, an increasing number of studies have demonstrated that Extracellular vesicles play an important role in intercellular communication under both physiological a...

Basic and Clinical Immunology.

This text and review has been updated and revised since the last edition in 1974. The normal immunologic function and disease processes are presented clearly. New features include emphasis on normal immunologic function and disease processe...

Current Protocols in Immunology

Current Protocols in Immunology is a three-volume looseleaf manual that provides comprehensive coverage of immunological methods from classic to the most cutting edge, including antibody detection and preparation, assays for functional acti...

The critical involvement of monocytes/macrophages in the pathogenesis of primary Sjögren's syndrome: New evidence from Mendelian randomization and single-cell sequencing

Background: Primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS) stands as a chronic autoimmune disease characterized by an elusive pathogenesis. The synergy of single-cell RNA sequencing and Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis provides an opportunity to com...