Green amorphous nanoplex as a new supersaturating drug delivery system by Cheow, Wean Sin, Hadinoto, Kunn

“…The solubility of curcumin as the least-soluble drug is magnified 9-fold upon its transformation to the nanoplex, and the supersaturated condition is maintained for 5 h.…”
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Moral panic, fear, stigma, and discrimination against returnee migrants and Muslim populations in Nepal: analyses of COVID-19 media content by Aryal, Nirmal, Regmi, Pramod, Dhakal Adhikari, Shovita, Sharma, Shreeman, van Teijlingen, Edwin

“…Six themes emerged from our analyses: (i) Moral panics: stereotypical perception in the media; (ii) Societal response: stigma, fear and panic responses in the community; (iii) Inadequate and inappropriate government actions; (iv) Othering practices: discrimination, stigmatisation against returnee migrants and Muslim populations (v) Health care access and treatment of returnee migrants; and (vi) Response and resilience from the Muslim community. …”
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Diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care lung ultrasound for community-acquired pneumonia in children in ambulatory settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Hughes-Davies, H, Ukwatte, U, Roberts, N, Turner, PJ, Hayward, GN, Fanshawe, TR, Bird, C

“…Meta-analysis of the combined results of the included six studies calculated a pooled sensitivity of 90.9% (95% CI [85.5%, 94.4%]) and pooled specificity of 80.7% (95% CI [63.6%, 91.0%]).…”

Homogeneous dose delivery for very high energy electron beams by Robertson, C

“…Dual-scattering foil design and operation at 200 MeV was studied with a range of setups. Bremsstrahlung emission in the foils required extended beamlines to prevent the loss of uniformity through a water phantom when producing a beam with a homogeneous radius of 75 mm. …”

Ventricular volume asymmetry as a novel imaging biomarker for disease discrimination and outcome prediction by McCracken, C, Szabo, L, Abdulelah, ZA, Condurache, D-G, Vago, H, Nichols, TE, Petersen, SE, Neubauer, S, Raisi-Estabragh, Z

“…Participants with values outside the 5th-95th percentiles of the healthy distribution were classed as either LV dominant (LV/RV > 112%) or RV dominant (LV/RV < 80%) asymmetry. …”

Mixing and warming characterisation of cryogenic hydrogen jets through proper orthogonal decomposition by Tretola, G, Shen, Li, Leach, F, Vogiatzaki, K

“…Jets with pressure up to 5 bar and temperatures just above the saturation liquid temperature were examined. …”

Dataset: Optical fabrication and characterisation of SU-8 disk photonic waveguide heterostructure cavities - version 2 by Taylor, R, Nuttall, L, Lennon, S, Reid, B, Brossard, F

“…<br><br> The folder fig5 contains a scanning electron microscope image and associated 2D uPL map of one of the cavities. …”

General practice antibiotic prescriptions attributable to respiratory syncytial virus by age and antibiotic class: an ecological analysis of the English population by Miller, L, Beaney, T, Hope, R, Cunningham, M, Robotham, J, Pouwels, K, Costelloe, CE

“…However, data on the type of antibiotics prescribed for such infections is only available for children &lt;5 years in the UK. Understanding the contribution of RSV to antibiotic prescribing would facilitate predicting the impact of RSV preventative measures on antibiotic use and resistance. …”

Association of Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (ido) activity with outcome after cardiac surgery in adult patients by Stieger, A, Huber, M, Yu, Z, Kessler, BM, Fischer, R, Andereggen, L, Kobel, B, Stueber, F, Luedi, MM, Filipovic, MG

“…A cohort of 192 adult patients undergoing cardiac surgery with the use of cardiopulmonary bypass were included (median age 67.0, IQR 60.0-73.0, 75.5% male). A significant perioperative decrease in the kynurenine/tryptophan (Kyn/Trp) ratio (-2.298, 95% CI -4.028 to -596, &lt;i&gt;p&lt;/i&gt; = 0.009) and significant perioperative dynamics in the associated metabolites was observed. …”

Kierkegaardian selfhood as pursuit of the Greatest Commandment by Callaway, DA

“…In turn, the concluding Chapter V asserts that, for Kierkegaard, to love God is to employ love’s dying away to purge oneself of adherence to idols of the mind (including Schopenhauerian knowledge of the <em>nihil</em> or nothingness of self, world, and God) and therein offer a love to God that is individually one’s own.…”

Comparison of models to predict incident chronic liver disease: a systematic review and external validation in Chinese adults by Cong, X, Song, S, Li, Y, Song, K, MacLeod, C, Cheng, Y, Lv, J, Yu, C, Sun, D, Pei, P, Yang, L, Chen, Y, Millwood, I, Wu, S, Yang, X, Stevens, R, Chen, J, Li, L, Kartsonaki, C, Pang, Y, Chen, Z

“…We aimed to systematically review and meta-analyze CLD prediction models and externally validated them in 0.5 million Chinese adults in the China Kadoorie Biobank (CKB).…”

First-in-man study of the PSMA Minibody IR800-IAB2M for molecularly targeted intraoperative fluorescence guidance during radical prostatectomy by Hamdy, FC, Lamb, AD, Tullis, IDC, Verrill, C, Rombach, I, Rao, SR, Colling, R, Barber, PR, Volpi, D, Barbera-Martin, L, Lopez, JF, Omer, A, Hewitt, A, Lovell, S, Niederer, J, Lambert, A, Snoeck, J, Thomson, C, Leslie, T, Bryant, RJ, Mascioni, A, Jia, F, Torgov, M, Wilson, I, Gudas, J, Wu, AM, Olafsen, T, Vojnovic, B

“…<p><strong> Methods</strong></p> The minibody was evaluated pre-clinically using PSMA positive/negative xenograft models, following which 23 men undergoing RARP between 2018 and 2020 received between 2.5 mg and 20 mg of IR800-IAB2M intravenously, at intervals between 24 h and 17 days prior to surgery. …”

Prioritizing questions and topics for the development of guidelines and consensus-based recommendations supported by ILAE: a scoping review and proposal of prioritization criteria by Lin, K, Eyal, S, Demarchi, IG, Ben-Shushan, T, Auvin, S, Khoo, CS, Al-Baradie, R, Sen, A, Newton, C, Ngwende, G, Candez, NM, Sperling, M, Brigo, F, Jette, N, Wiebe, S

“…Thirty-nine participants, including clinicians, experts in the field, methodologists, and other relevant stakeholders, contributed to developing the final instrument (based on a 5-point Likert scale). Of 721 unique citations, 8 papers reporting prioritization approaches for guideline development were included. …”

A comparative machine learning study of schizophrenia biomarkers derived from functional connectivity by Shevchenko, V, Benn, RA, Scholz, R, Wei, W, Pallavicini, C, Klatzmann, U, Alberti, F, Satterthwaite, TD, Wassermann, D, Bazin, P, Margulies, DS

“…To this end, we leveraged data of 936 individuals from three large open-access datasets: COBRE, LA5c, and SRPBS-1600. We developed a pipeline which allows us to aggregate over a million different features and assess their predictive potential in a single, computationally efficient experiment. …”

Decentralised finance and automated market making by Monga, M

“…First, we consider an LT who trades in a CPMM with CL and uses the dynamics of prices in competing venues as market signals. We use Uniswap v3 data to study price, liquidity, and trading cost dynamics, and to motivate the model. …”

Pengambilan makanan, kadar pertumbuhan dan kecekapan penukaran makanan bagi ikan inggu Amphiprion ocellaris menggunakan diet buatan by Nurain Naziratul Akma Mohamad Daud, Mohamad Saupi Ismail, Khoo, Mei Ling

“…Ikan yang diberi makan tiga kali sehari menunjukkan nilai FCR yang terendah iaitu 3.146 + 2.370 (p<0.05) dan jumlah makanan diambil paling minimum iaitu 93.229 ± 5.938 g. Kesimpulannya, kekerapan pemberian makanan yang optimum untuk ikan inggu adalah tiga kali sehari untuk menghasilkan peningkatan panjang tertinggi dan jumlah pengambilan makanan terendah.…”
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In vitro anti-cancer and antimicrobial effects of manganese oxide nanoparticles synthesized using Glycyrrhiza uralensis leaves extract on breast cancer cell lines by Althobiti, Maryam Musleh, Alzahrani, Badr, Elderdery, Abozer Y., Alzerwi, Nasser A. N., Rayzah, Musaed, Elkhalifa,, Ahmed M. E., Idrees, Bandar, Bakhsh, Ebtisam, Alabdulsalam, Abdulrahim A., Mohamedain, A., Kumar, Suresh S., Mok, Pooi Ling

“…DAPI, EtBr/AO dual staining, and Annexin-V-FITC-based flow cytometry analysis revealed that PF127-coated Mn2O3 NP-treated breast cancer cells exhibit nuclear damage and apoptotic cell death, resulting in cell cycle arrest in the S phase. …”
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Thyroid autoimmunity and autoimmune thyroid disease in Malaysian girls with Turner syndrome: an understudied population by Lee, Yee L, Zaini, Azriyanti A, Idris, Arini N, Abdullah, Raja A, Wong, Jeanne SL, Hong, Joyce SS, Hussain, Suhaimi, Lim, Poi G, Lim, Song H, Nor, Noor SM, Wu, Loo L, Jalaludin, Muhammad Y

“…Patients with isochromosome X and patients with 45,X mosaicism or other X chromosomal abnormalities were more prone to have thyroid autoimmunity compared to those with 45,X karyotype (OR 5.09, 95% CI 1.54–16.88, P = 0.008 and OR 3.41, 95% CI 1.32–8.82, P = 0.01 respectively). …”

Effect of harvest rate, waste loading, and stocking density on the yield of duckweeds by M. Said, M. Zaki, Culley, Dudley D., Standifer, Leon C., Epps, Ernest A., Myers, Robert W., Boney, Steve A.

“…The highest dry duckweed crude protein value recorded was 43.5% and the mean was 38.2% when the plants were cultured on 10 g fresh manure/liter of solution. …”

The effect of varying the duration of the butane/air pretreatment on the morphology and reactivity of (VO)2P2O7 catalysts by Waugh, K.C, Taufiq-Yap, Y.-H

“…Three vanadium pyrophosphate catalysts have been prepared by calcining vanadium hydrogen phosphate hemihydrate (VOHPO4·0.5H2O), prepared in an organic medium, for different lengths of time (40, 100 and 132h) in a n-butane (0.75%)/air mixture at 673K. …”
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