Materials approaches for next-generation encapsulated cell therapies by Krishnan, Siddharth R., Langer, Robert, Anderson, Daniel G.

“…Transplanted cells can act as living drug factories capable of secreting therapeutic proteins in vivo, with applications in the treatment of Type 1 diabetes (T1D), blood borne disease, vision disorders, and degenerative neural disease, potentially representing functional cures for chronic conditions. …”
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TraceTogether : pandemic response, democracy, and technology by Stevens, Hallam, Haines, Monamie Bhadra

“…However, by deploying these within a context that centralizes data, the app turns ideals borne of dissent and protest on their head, using them to build trust not within a community but rather in government power and control. …”
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The post-modern Japanese identity of Haruki Murakami's literature. by Ling, Shannon.

“…And for the modern Japanese writers like Haruki Murakami, this conflict presents a pertinent issue with his literature often derided by Japanese scholars and writers alike for the failure to represent the real Japan in his novels.In the first part of my thesis, I would seek to explore the influence that the writer himself has on his writing, discussing a little about his history such as the generation of Japanese that he was borne into. At the same time, I would also look at the particular genre of detective fiction in a critical component in understanding Murakami’s writings, as well as his fondness of music and how shapes his style of writing and in symbolizing the search for the identity. …”
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Exploring students' hypertext reading behaviour and social media use in their learning by Sharifah Maisharah Mohamed

“…The impetus to explore hypertext reading as part of information seeking behavior was borne out of the findings of a study which highlighted many problematic characteristics of the students’ information search process and attributed these tendencies to hypertext reading and multitasking. …”
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Dengue Virus Non-Structural Protein 5 by El Sahili, Abbas, Lescar, Julien

“…The World Health Organization estimates that the yearly number of dengue cases averages 390 million. This mosquito-borne virus disease is endemic in over 100 countries and will probably continue spreading, given the observed trend in global warming. …”
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Lights, camera, and action : vertebrate skin sets the stage for immune cell interaction with arthropod-vectored pathogens by Chong, Shu Zhen., Evrard, Maximilien., Ng, Lai Guan.

“…Despite increasing studies targeted at host-pathogen interactions, vector-borne diseases remain one of the largest economic health burdens worldwide. …”
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The Pandemic EVIDENCE Collaboration Pillar 1: diagnostics and transmission by Conly, J, Plüddemann, A, Jefferson, T, Rosca, C, Heneghan, C

“…The transmission dynamics to allow for a replication-competent virus to move from a reservoir to a susceptible host and establish an invasive infection is complex and it is likely multiple modes of transmission exist from direct reservoir-to-host (contact, droplet deposition, transplacental) and indirect reservoir-to-intermediary-to- host (vehicle-borne, foodborne, waterborne, and airborne) routes. …”

A critical analysis of current debates in natural law: a theo-cultural engagement with John Finnis, Jean Porter, & John Milbank by Morgan, G

“…The contribution of this thesis is borne out of a two-fold realisation: (1) that despite renewed levels of inter-disciplinary interest within the academy, the discourse has become increasingly fragmented and will continue to fragment in the absence of a critical analysis of the deeper theo-cultural assumptions and aporias that animate current debates in natural law; (2) that by illuminating and attending to the theological and methodological “unsaid(s)” that have, heretofore, been seldom acknowledged, one can begin to appreciate how the fragmentation of the discourse is inexorably linked to the fragmentation of the secular mythos. …”

The physiological effect of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanopesticide on Aedes aegypti Larvae by Ting, Chuan Hsieh, Syahirah Zakaria, Siti Khadijah Mohd Bakhori, Shahrom Mahmud, Siti Nasuha Hamzah

“…Aedes aegypti is responsible for transmitting various mosquito-borne diseases. Recently, there have been concerns about the negative impacts of the insecticides used in vector control including insecticide resistance development in the mosquito population. …”
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Laser-Guide-Star Satellite for Ground-Based Adaptive Optics Imaging of Geosynchronous Satellites by Marlow, Weston, Carlton, Ashley, Hyosang, Yoon, Clark, James, Haughwout, Christian, Cahoy, Kerri, Males, Jared, Close, Laird, Morzinski, Katie

“…The concept for a satellite guide star was first discussed in the literature by Greenaway and Clark in the early 1990s ("PHAROS: An Agile Satellite-Borne Laser Guidestar," Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 2120, 1994, pp. 206-210), and expanded upon by Albert in 2012 ("Satellite-Mounted Light Sources as Photometric Calibration Standards for Ground-Based Telescopes," Astronomical Journal, Vol. 143, No. 1, 2012, p. 8). …”
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Strategies to mitigate establishment under the Wolbachia incompatible insect technique by Soh, Stacy, Ho, Soon Hoe, Ong, Janet, Seah, Annabel, Dickens, Borame Sue, Tan, Ken Wei, Koo, Joel Ruihan, Cook, Alex R., Sim, Shuzhen, Tan, Cheong Huat, Ng, Lee Ching, Lim, Jue Tao

“…Regular releases of male Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes can lead to the suppression of mosquito populations, thereby reducing the risk of transmission of vector-borne diseases such as dengue. However, due to imperfect sex-sorting under IIT, fertile Wolbachia-infected female mosquitoes may potentially be unintentionally released into the environment, which may result in replacement and failure to suppress the mosquito populations. …”
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Current collector health monitoring of LRT trains powered by three-phase AC power rail based on inductive coupling method by Zhao, Zhenyu, Chua, Eng Kee, Svimonishvili, Tengiz, Fan, Fei, Jie, Huamin, Wang, Wensong, Shu, Zhou, Sun, Quqin, See, Kye Yak

“…The monitoring system developed using the proposed method can be easily fitted on a train so that it doubles up as a train-borne health monitoring system (TBHMS) during revenue hours. …”
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Assessment of Radiometer Calibration With GPS Radio Occultation for the MiRaTA CubeSat Mission by Marinan, A. D., Cahoy, K. L., Bishop, R. L., Lui, S. S., Bardeen, J. R., Mulligan, T., Blackwell, W. J., Leslie, R. V., Osaretin, I. A., Shields, M.

“…The MiRaTA mission will validate new technologies in both passive microwave radiometry and GPSRO: 1) new ultracompact and low-power technology for multichannel and multiband passive microwave radiometers, 2) the application of a commercial off-the-shelf GPS receiver and custom patch antenna array technology to obtain neutral atmospheric GPSRO retrieval from a nanosatellite, and 3) a new approach to space-borne microwave radiometer calibration using adjacent GPSRO measurements. …”
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Small molecule motion within and through organic nanomaterials: an anthology by Kaser, Sam

“…AAs are noteworthy within the class of self-assembled amphiphile materials because of their unusual mechanical stability borne of strong intermolecular interactions between aramid units. …”
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Structural and functional characterisation of chikungunya virus replication complex dynamics by Tan, Yaw Bia

“…Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a 12 kilobase (kb) positive sense single strand RNA (+ssRNA) mosquito-borne virus. Through mosquito bites, the infected victims develop Chikungunya Fever (CHIKF) associated with symptoms like acute fever and painful polyarthritis. …”
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Dynamic Expansion and Merging of the Equatorial Ionization Anomaly During the 10–11 May 2024 Super Geomagnetic Storm by Aa, Ercha, Chen, Yanhong, Luo, Bingxian

“…The investigation utilizes multi-instrument datasets, including ground-based observations (GNSS TEC, ionosonde, and Fabry–Perot interferometer) as well as space-borne satellite measurements (GOLD, Swarm, DMSP, and TIMED). …”
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Nanoparticle-induced chemoresistance: the emerging modulatory effects of engineered nanomaterials on human intestinal cancer cell redox metabolic adaptation by Wu, Zhuoran, Setyawati, Magdiel Inggrid, Lim, Hong Kit, Ng, Kee Woei, Tay, Chor Yong

“…Herein, we screened several representative food-borne comparator ENMs (i.e. ZnO, SiO2 and TiO2 nanoparticles (NPs)) and report that human colon cancer cells can insidiously exploit ZnO NP-induced adaptive response to acquire resistance against several chemotherapeutic drugs. …”
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Virus-specific T lymphocytes home to the skin during natural dengue infection by Rivino, Laura, Kumaran, Emmanuelle A., Thein, Tun-Linn, Too, Chien Tei, Gan, Victor Chih Hao, Hanson, Brendon J., Wilder-Smith, Annelies, Bertoletti, Antonio, Gascoigne, Nicholas R. J., Lye, David Chien, Leo, Yee Sin, Akbar, Arne N., Kemeny, David M., MacAry, Paul A.

“…Dengue, which is the most prevalent mosquito-borne viral disease afflicting human populations, causes a spectrum of clinical symptoms that include fever, muscle and joint pain, maculopapular skin rash, and hemorrhagic manifestations. …”
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Adenovirus-associated health risks for recreational activities in a multi-use coastal watershed based on site-specific quantitative microbial risk assessment by Kundu, Arti., McBride, Graham., Wuertz, Stefan.

“…In conclusion, site-specific QMRA on water-borne adenoviruses in this watershed provided a similar level of protection against public health risks as would be obtained by enumeration of fecal indicator bacteria under the new U.S. …”
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Viral proteases activate the CARD8 inflammasome in the human cardiovascular system by Nadkarni, Rhea, Chu, Wern Cui, Lee, Cheryl Q. E., Mohamud, Yasir, Yap, Lynn, Toh, Gee Ann, Beh, Sheryl, Lim, Radiance, Fan, Michelle Yiyun, Zhang, Lyanne Yizhuo, Robinson, Kim, Tryggvason, Karl, Luo, Honglin, Zhong, Franklin, Ho, Lena

“…The endothelium is the first line of defense against blood-borne pathogens, but it is unclear which NLRs control endothelial cell (EC) intrinsic immunity. …”
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