21W.730-4 Writing and the Environment, Fall 2002 by Taft, Cynthia B.

“…The first paper of the term will draw upon personal experience; the others will require a modest amount of research. …”
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Aircraft noise, overheating and poor air quality in London primary schools' classrooms by Montazami, Azadeh

“…The overall findings of this thesis have been developed to draw the attention of school designers' to the current and future potential conflicts between the comfort factors in schools' classrooms. …”
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Percutaneous Intratumoral Immunoadjuvant Gel Increases the Abscopal Effect of Cryoablation for Checkpoint Inhibitor Resistant Cancer by Som, Avik, Rosenboom, Jan‐Georg, Wehrenberg‐Klee, Eric, Chandler, Alana, Ndakwah, Gabrielle, Chen, Eric, Suggs, Jack, Morimoto, Joshua, Kim, Jonathan, Mustafa, Abdul Rehman, Marcos‐Vidal, Asier, Fintelmann, Florian J., Basu, Arijit, Langer, Robert, Traverso, Giovanni, Mahmood, Umar

“…Its ability to significantly augment the abscopal rate of cryoablation is demonstrated in otherwise immunotherapy resistant metastatic tumors in two aggressive colorectal and breast cancer dual tumor models with an all or nothing response, responders generally demonstrating complete regression of bilateral tumors in 90‐day survival studies.…”
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Selectivity of stop codon recognition in translation termination is modulated by multiple conformations of GTS loop in eRF1 by Li, Yan, Pillay, Shubhadra, Frolova, Ludmila, Pervushin, Konstantin, Wong, Leo E.

“…The precise mechanism of stop codon discrimination by eRF1 remains obscure, hindering drug development targeting aberrations at translation termination. …”
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SemFunSim : a new method for measuring disease similarity by integrating semantic and gene functional association by Cheng, Liang, Li, Jie, Ju, Peng, Peng, Jiajie, Wang, Yadong

“…This indicates that SemFunSim is an effective method for drug repositioning.…”
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Lipid-coated hybrid nanoparticles for enhanced bacterial biofilm penetration and antibiofilm efficacy by Lee, Hiang Wee, Kharel, Sharad, Loo, Joachim Say Chye

“…Up to 80% of all infections are biofilm-mediated and they are often challenging to treat as the underlying bacterial cells can become 100- to 1000-fold more tolerant toward antibiotics. …”
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Small but prospective: development of enzyme-responsive small molecule fluorescent probes for specific bacterial imaging by Yan, Evelias Hui Xin

“…Owing to the evolving pathogenicity of bacteria, whereby more drug-resistant bacteria has been emerging and bacteria developing their own defense mechanism, traditional antimicrobial approaches like antibiotics treatment have been clinically ineffective. …”
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Luteolin restricts dengue virus replication through inhibition of the proprotein convertase furin by Peng, Minhua, Watanabe, Satoru, Chan, Kitti Wing Ki, He, Qiuyan, Zhao, Ya, Zhang, Zhongde, Lai, Xiaoping, Luo, Dahai, Vasudevan, Subhash G., Li, Geng

“…We show that luteolin inhibits the replication of all four serotypes of dengue virus, but the selectivity of the inhibition was weak. …”
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Treatment of acute sore throat in Malaysia: a consensus of multidisciplinary recommendations using modified Delphi methodology by Abdullah, Baharudin, Koh, Kar Chai, Mohamed, Mohazmi, Tan, Vincent Eng Soon, Mohammad, Nurashikin, Sekawi, Zamberi, Periyasamy, Petrick, Ramadas, Anitha, Duerden, Martin

“…A consensus was reached if at least 70% of the group agreed with the statement. Results: All 10 statements for managing acute sore throat achieved consensus. …”
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Development of red/near-infrared fluorescent molecules and macromolecules for biomedical applications by Yang, Cangjie

“…The hydrophobic layer of side chain was used to physically entrap drugs for chemotherapy. To address the potential problem of drug leakage, we utilized amphiphilic random copolymers containing drug-modified units as side chain of conjugated polymers instead in Chapter 7. …”
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Duration of carbapenemase-producing enterobacteriaceae carriage in hospital patients by Mo, Yin, Hernandez-Koutoucheva, Anastasia, Musicha, Patrick, Bertrand, Denis, Lye, David C., Ng, Oon Tek, Fenlon, Shannon N., Chen, Swaine L., Ling, Moi Lin, Tang, Wen Ying, Barkham, Timothy, Nagarajan, Niranjan, Cooper, Ben S., Marimuthu, Kalisvar

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Detection of florfenicol resistance in opportunistic Acinetobacter spp. infections in rural Thailand by Tan, Bernice Siu Yan, Mohan, Lalit, Watthanaworawit, Wanitda, Ngamprasertchai, Thundon, Nosten, Francois H., Ling, Clare, Bifani, Pablo

“…Whole genome sequencing was carried out for all the samples collected. Speciation and genome annotation was performed revealing the presence of the floR gene in the bacterial genome. …”
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That mysterious man by Lin, Enyi

“…Xu An is a rookie policeman who is working undercover in the Tang Nightclub as a waiter called Ann. The police suspect that the nightclub is implicated in the drug trade and Zhang Xu, a medicine dealer who is a regular, is involved. …”
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Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950–2021, and the impact of the COVID-... by Schumacher, AE, Kyu, HH, Aali, A, Almidani, O, Bandyopadhyay, S, Basnyat, B, Maude, RJ, Bennett, D, Browne, AJ, Dolecek, C, Dunachie, SJ, Newton, CRJ, Rodriguez, JAB

“…Uncertainty intervals (UIs) were calculated for every metric using the 25th and 975th ordered values from a 1000-draw posterior distribution. <p><b>Findings</b></p> Global all-cause mortality followed two distinct patterns over the study period: age-standardised mortality rates declined between 1950 and 2019 (a 62·8% [95% UI 60·5–65·1] decline), and increased during the COVID-19 pandemic period (2020–21; 5·1% [0·9–9·6] increase). …”

Renal-clearable molecular probe for near-infrared fluorescence imaging and urinalysis of SARS-CoV-2 by Liew, Si Si, Zeng, Ziling, Cheng, Penghui, He, Shasha, Zhang, Chi, Pu, Kanyi

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White-light-responsive prussian blue nanophotonic particles for effective eradication of bacteria and improved healing of infected cutaneous wounds by Chakraborty, Nayanika, Jha, Diksha, Singh, Vijay Pal, Kumar, Pradeep, Verma, Navin Kumar, Gautam, Hemant Kumar, Roy, Indrajit

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Organic solvent-assisted control of hydrogel structures and properties by Zhou, Quan

“…Hydrogels are three-dimensional (3D) cross-linked polymeric networks containing a significant amount of water and have found their applications in various fields, including tissue engineering, drug delivery, etc. However, major limitations still exist for hydrogels, especially their mechanical weakness, which limits their use in load-bearing applications. …”
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Gametocyte carriage in uncomplicated plasmodium falciparum malaria following treatment with artemisinin combination therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of individual pat... by Abdulla, S, Achan, J, Yeka, A, D'Alessandro, U, Adam, I, Alemayehu, B, Allan, R, Temu, E, Allen, E, Barnes, K, Anvikar, A, Valecha, N, Arinaitwe, E, Ashley, E, Carrara, V, McGready, R, Nosten, F, Lee, S, White, N, Asih, P, Awab, G, Dondorp, A, Fanello, C, Woodrow, C, Dahal, P, Guerin, P, Humphreys, G, Moreira, C, Nsanzabana, C, Price, R, Sibley, C, Stepniewska, K, Bassat, Q, Gonzalez, R, Baudin, E, Checchi, F, Espie, E, Grandesso, F, Nabasumba, C, Schramm, B, Björkman, A, Bompart, F, Lameyre, V, Bonnet, M, Borrmann, S, Bousema, T, Cenci, F, Cot, M, Faucher, J, Kapulu, M, Marsh, K, Mayxay, M, Newton, P, Roper, C, Deloron, P, Djimde, A, Fofana, B, Doumbo, O, Sagara, I, Dorsey, G, Rosenthal, P, Drakeley, C

“…The gametocytocidal properties of antimalarial drugs are important for malaria elimination efforts. …”

Cryo-electron microscopy structure of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis cytochrome bcc:aa₃ supercomplex and a novel inhibitor targeting subunit cytochrome cI by Mathiyazakan, Vikneswaran, Wong, Chui Fann, Harikishore, Amaravadhi, Pethe, Kevin, Grüber, Gerhard

“…Thus, the bcc:aa3 complex represents a valid drug target for Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections. …”
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Activated Metals to Generate Heat for Biomedical Applications by Remlova, Eva, Feig, Vivian Rachel, Kang, Ziliang, Patel, Ashka, Ballinger, Ian, Ginzburg, Anna, Kuosmanen, Johannes, Fabian, Niora, Ishida, Keiko, Jenkins, Joshua, Hayward, Alison, Traverso, Giovanni

“…Delivering heat in vivo could enhance a wide range of biomedical therapeutic and diagnostic technologies, including long-term drug delivery devices and cancer treatments. To date, providing thermal energy is highly power-intensive, rendering it oftentimes inaccessible outside of clinical settings. …”
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