Academic Articles & Research Papers

Developments in Exploring Fungal Secondary Metabolites as Antiviral Compounds and Advances in HIV-1 Inhibitor Screening Assays

The emergence of drug-resistant Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1 strains against anti-HIV therapies in the clinical pipeline, and the persistence of HIV in cellular reservoirs remains a significant concern. Therefore, there is a continuous ne...

Editorial: Application of network-theoretic approaches in biology

Merging organoid and organ-on-a-chip technology to generate complex multi-layer tissue models in a human retina-on-a-chip platform

The devastating effects and incurable nature of hereditary and sporadic retinal diseases such as Stargardt disease, age-related macular degeneration or retinitis pigmentosa urgently require the development of new therapeutic strategies. Add...

PRODUCTION OF L-TRYPTOPHAN BY MUTANTS OF CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM

L-Tryptophan, is one of the amino acids, also is one of the 9 essential amino acids of human which cannot be synthesized internally by him, microbial production is the main method for obtaining tryptophan for commercial uses. Typical microo...

Patricia Knapp's Landmark Project to Develop a Plan of Curriculum-Integrated Library Instruction

A Review of: Knapp, P. B. (1966). The Monteith College library experiment. New York, NY: Scarecrow Press. Objective — To create a college-level, four-year plan of library instruction in which assignments directly relate to students' ...

How Does the Diversity of Divers Affect the Design of Citizen Science Projects?

Divers have widely participated in citizen science (CS) projects and are one of the main groups of marine citizen scientists. However, there is little knowledge about profiles of, and incentives for potential divers to join CS projects. To ...

Communication Studies (PC)

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Consumers perception on green marketing towards eco-friendly fast moving consumer goods

In today’s commercial world, ecological concerns have become increasingly essential. A lot of governments care about environmental issues. Sustainable development that doesn’t harm the environment is a major concern for companies today. The...

Antenna array based on open ring radiators

Relevance. The creation of antenna arrays for communication systems is an urgent task in the unmanned aviation industries, in particular, for video signal transmission systems. Also, the relevance of the work is due to the need to use direc...

Full-scale simulations to improve disaster preparedness in hospital pharmacies

Abstract Purpose Assess whether full-scale simulation exercises improved hospital pharmacies’ disaster preparedness. Methods Swiss hospital pharmacies performed successive full-scale simulation exercises at least four months apart. An inter...

Monitoring development from 0–6 years: an online system, standardized for Dutch children

BackgroundMonitoring and screening children's development from infancy into early childhood is important for prevention purposes, as potential delay may best be addressed as soon as possible. For an efficient monitoring system, standardized...

Developing and defining core climate and environmental epidemiology competencies for field epidemiology training programs in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: a Delphi study

BackgroundClimate change, environmental degradation, and chemical hazards increasingly shape population health risks, particularly in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR), where water scarcity, rapid urbanization, conflict, and fragile he...

Human Pacemakers and Experiential Reading

This paper applies an embodied perspective to the study of reading and has a two-fold aim: (i) to discuss how reading is best understood in terms of cultural-cognitive performance that involves living bodies who actively engage with reading...

Pattern Distribution of Connexins in the Ortho- and Parakeratinized Epithelium of the Lingual Mucosa in Birds

Connexins are important proteins involved in cell-to-cell communication and cytodifferentiation during renewal and cornification of the multilayered epithelia. So far, there is a lack of reports on this subject in birds’ structurally differ...

Modeling and analysis for dynamical Doppler shifts on terahertz communication signals propagating in inhomogeneous hypersonic plasma sheath

Previous studies have shown that terahertz (THz) signals could penetrate hypersonic plasma sheaths. Thus, it is considered to be a potential solution to the “blackout” problem. Nevertheless, although previous studies have systematically rev...

The Evanescent Bouquet of Individual Bear Fingerprint

The evanescent and invisible communication carried by chemical signals, pheromones, or signature mixtures or, as we prefer, the pheromonal individual fingerprint, between members of the same species is poorly studied in mammals, mainly beca...

Communication Studies

Critical Communication Studies

The development of communication studies has been a lively process of adoption and integration of theoretical constructs from Pragmatism, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies. Critical Communication Studies describes the intellectual and pr...

Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies

The Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies has provided students and the general public alike with a gateway into the study of intercultural communication, public relations and marketing communications since 1984. In this 9th edition...

Communication Studies