Understanding the role of Enterococcus faecalis in polymicrobial wounds by Davient, Bala

“…Current chronic wound therapies involve costly interventions such as wound debridement to remove microbial biofilms, and antibiotics to prevent the re-establishment of microbial biofilms, to facilitate wound healing. Recently, topical application of lactic acid bacteria onto chronic wounds has been shown to improve wound healing by antagonizing the biofilm production and growth of wound pathogens. …”
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Superhydrophobic surface of Ti6Al4V using direct nanosecond laser texturing by Mohd Harizan, Zul, Mahadzir, Ishak, Aiman, Mohd Halil, Ramdziah, Md Nasir, Moinuddin, Mohammed Quazi

“…Laser texturing techniques successfully improved surface roughness and profile, facilitating the development of superhydrophobic surfaces. …”
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CMMF-Net: A Generative network based on CLIP-guided multi-modal feature fusion for thermal infrared image colorization by Jiang, Qian, Zhou, Tao, He, Youwei, Ma, Wenjun, Hou, Jingyu, Ahmad Shahrizan, Abdul Ghani, Miao, Shengfa, Jing, Xin

“…This enhancement is conducive to facilitating human interpretation and downstream analytical tasks. …”
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Development of an educational method to rethink and learn oncological brain surgery in an “a la carte” connectome-based perspective by Valdes, Pablo A., Ng, Sam, Bernstock, Joshua D., Duffau, Hugues

“…However, accessible resources facilitating such an approach are lacking. Here we present an educational method that is readily accessible, simple, and reproducible that enables the visualization of WMTs on individual patient images via an atlas-based approach. …”
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Who2chat: A Social Networking System for Academic Researchers in Virtual Social Hours Enabling Coordinating, Overcoming Barriers and Social Signaling by Park, Soya, Song, Jaeyoon, Karger, David R., Malone, Thomas W.

“…We introduce a system called Who2chat to tackle the challenge and facilitate connections of researchers in virtual social hours. …”
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Mobile Robotic Platform for Contactless Vital Sign Monitoring by Huang, Hen-Wei, Chen, Jack, Chai, Peter R., Ehmke, Claas, Rupp, Philipp, Dadabhoy, Farah Z., Feng, Annie, Li, Canchen, Thomas, Akhil J., da Silva, Marco, Boyer, Edward W., Traverso, Giovanni

“…The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated methods to facilitate contactless evaluation of patients in hospital settings. …”
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High-throughput quantification of quasistatic, dynamic and spall strength of materials across 10 orders of strain rates by Eswarappa Prameela, Suhas, Walker, Christopher C, DiMarco, Christopher S, Mallick, Debjoy D, Sun, Xingsheng, Hernandez, Stephanie, Sasaki, Taisuke, Wilkerson, Justin W, Ramesh, KT, Pharr, George M, Weihs, Timothy P

“…These methods are low throughput and do not facilitate high-fidelity microstructure–property linkages. …”
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Fouling and mitigation mechanisms during direct microfiltration and ultrafiltration of primary wastewater by Hube, Selina, Wang, Jingwei, Sim, Lee Nuang, Ólafsdóttir, Dagmar, Chong, Tzyy Haur, Wu, Bing

“…At 50 °C, the geothermal water performed similar cleaning behaviors as clean water, facilitating lower reversible and irreversible fouling than the geothermal brine. …”
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Model predictive control for integrated control of air-conditioning and mechanical ventilation, lighting and shading systems by Yang, Shiyu, Wan, Man Pun, Ng, Bing Feng, Dubey, Swapnil, Henze, Gregor P., Chen, Wanyu, Baskaran, Krishnamoorthy

“…The MPC system was implemented in a test facility having two identical, side-by-side experimental cells to facilitate comparison with a building management system (BMS) employing conventional reactive feedback control. …”
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A BIM-data mining integrated digital twin framework for advanced project management by Pan, Yue, Zhang, Limao

“…In short, the significance of this paper is to build a data-driven digital twin framework integrating with BIM, IoT, and data mining for advanced project management, which can facilitate data communication and exploration to better understand, predict, and optimize the physical construction operations. …”
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Parent-infant affect synchrony during social and solo play by Kidby, Sayaka, Neale, Dave, Wass, Sam, Leong, Victoria

“…While mother-infant affect synchrony has been proposed to facilitate the early development of social understanding, most investigations into affect synchrony have concentrated more on negative than positive affect. …”
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Waffle-inspired hydrogel-based macrodevice for spatially controlled distribution of encapsulated therapeutic microtissues and pro-angiogenic endothelial cells by Pham, Chi H. L., Zuo, Yicong, Chen, Yang, Tran, Nam M., Nguyen, Dang T., Dang, Tram T.

“…Overall, this macrodevice design lays foundation for a cell delivery platform, which has the potential to facilitate nutrients and oxygen transport to therapeutic grafts and thereby might lead to improved disease management outcome.…”
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Inherently separated syngas production from plastic waste fast pyrolysis integrated with volatile chemical looping conversion with CO₂ splitting by Liu, Guicai, Lisak, Grzegorz

“…Focusing on the cracking mode, higher temperature facilitated the fuel and coke conversion, due to the endothermic nature of both reaction stages. …”
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Waste to wealth: near-infrared/pH dual-responsive copper-humic acid hydrogel films for bacteria-infected cutaneous wound healing by Zha, Kangkang, Xiong, Yuan, Zhang, Wenqian, Tan, Meijun, Hu, Weixian, Lin, Ze, Cheng, Peng, Lu, Li, Cai, Kaiyong, Mi, Bobin, Feng, Qian, Zhao, Yanli, Liu, Guohui

“…This PVA@Cu-HAs NPs@SEW hydrogel film improves tissue regeneration by promoting M2 macrophage polarization, alleviating oxidative stress, enhancing angiogenesis, and facilitating collagen deposition. These findings highlight the therapeutic potential of PVA@Cu-HAs NPs@SEW hydrogel film for the treatment of bacterially infected cutaneous wound healing.…”
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Temperature drift characteristics analysis of GMM-FBG current sensor based on finite-element multi-physics simulations by Li, Ying, Sun, Weifeng, Zhang, Weichao

“…The temperature drift characteristics of the GMM-FBG are generalized into a formula by fitting the wavelength shifting as a function of thermal strain, which will significantly facilitate designing the scale calibration for various ambient temperatures. …”
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Impact of China's financial development on the sustainable development goals of the Belt and Road Initiative participating countries by Li, Chenggang, Zhao, Gang, Koh, Keumseok Peter, Xu, Zhenci, Yue, Mu, Wang, Weiyan, Tan, Yuanyuan, Wu, Liang

“…This study provides valuable insights for decision-makers in China to facilitate the sustainable development of BRI participating countries and foster a shared community within the BRI framework.…”
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Hyperspectral vision beyond 3D: a review by Antony, Maria Merin, Sandeep, C. S. Suchand, Matham, Murukeshan Vadakke

“…Latest compact HSI cameras with panoramic imaging capabilities offering high spatial and spectral resolutions are perfect candidates for remote sensing applications. Such capabilities facilitated the evolution of HSI into machine vision, resulting in the creation of a new realm named hyperspectral vision that enables intelligent automation. …”
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Mannitol enhances antibiotic sensitivity of persister bacteria in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms by Rice, Scott A., Barraud, Nicolas, Buson, Alberto, Jarolimek, Wolfgang

“…Overall, these results suggest that in addition to improvements in lung function by facilitating mucus clearance in CF, mannitol also affects antibiotic sensitivity in biofilms and does so through an active, physiological response.…”
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Characterizing the scouring efficiency of Granular Activated Carbon (GAC) particles in membrane fouling mitigation via wavelet decomposition of accelerometer signals by Wang, Jingwei, Wu, Bing, Yang, Shiliang, Liu, Yu, Chew, Jia Wei, Fane, Anthony Gordon

“…In particular, the particles facilitate back-transport in the polarization layer and also play the role of mechanical scouring agents, the latter of which is dominant for millimeter-sized particles. …”
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Hypoxia-inducible factor-2 alpha up-regulates CD70 under hypoxia and enhances anchorage-independent growth and aggressiveness in cancer cells by Kitajima, Shojiro, Lee, Kian Leong, Fujioka, Masaki, Sun, Wendi, You, Jia, Chia, Grace Sushin, Wanibuchi, Hideki, Tomita, Shuhei, Araki, Marito, Kato, Hiroyuki, Poellinger, Lorenz

“…Hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs) facilitate cellular adaptation to environmental stress such as low oxygen conditions (hypoxia) and consequently promote tumor growth. …”
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