Conflict abroad and political trust at home evidence from a natural experiment by Klymak, M, Vlandas, T

“…While we know that conflicts impact trust in warring countries, we lack evidence on whether people in neighbouring, but non-involved, countries are also affected. …”

Cervicitis decidualis mimicking cervical cancer in pregnancy by Soleymani majd, H, Gaitskell, K, Johnson, C, Hellner, K

“…Whilst magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) supported a diagnosis of cervical cancer, cervical tissue biopsies showed decidual reaction and no invasion. Cervical appearance postpartum reverted back to normal. …”

What We Should Do Before the Social Bots Take Over: Online Privacy Protection and the Political Economy of Our Near Future by Graeff, Erhardt

“…The emergence of social bots, as means of entertainment, research, and commercial activity, poses an additional complication to online privacy protection by way of information asymmetry and failures to provide informed consent. In the U.S., the lack of an explicit right to privacy and the federal government’s predilection for laissez faire corporate regulation expose users to a risk of privacy invasion and unfair treatment when they provide personal data to websites and online services, especially those in the form of social bots. …”
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Tinospora crispa ethanolic extract downregulates Protein Kinase genes expression and activity during Toxoplasma gondii infection: a prospective drug target for lytic cycle inhibiti... by Abdullahi, Sharif Alhassan, Nordin, Norshariza, Unyah, Ngah Zasmy, Basir, Rusliza, Daneji, Isa Muhammad, Nasiru, Wana Mohammed, Majid, Roslaini Abd

“…The infection is poorly controlled due to lack of a potent vaccine against the parasite, and the current medication presents severe side effects on the host, less efficacy on the parasite and is accompanied by the potential development of resistance by the parasite. …”
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Tsewang Norbu NGB by Cantwell, C, Mayer, R

“…There are a few instances of texts which lack any obviously marked opening title, where we find the text title given in the chapter titles and perhaps in a colophon. …”

Diffuse Correlation Spectroscopy (DCS) and Diffuse Optical Spectroscopy (DOS) for photodynamic therapy monitoring. by Siti Raudhah Matyasir.

“…PDT is an emerging modality that has many advantages such as non-invasive, low side effects, low scarring, low risk of resistance, cost effective and shorter treatment time. …”
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Migration of magnetic microparticles through a liquid–liquid interface under an external magnetic field by Mondal, S, Abbasi, N, Tsai, SSH, Griffiths, IM

“…In all of these cases, non-invasive techniques to manipulate the microparticle transport are essential. …”

The Pandemic EVIDENCE Collaboration Pillar 1: diagnostics and transmission by Conly, J, Plüddemann, A, Jefferson, T, Rosca, C, Heneghan, C

“…The COVID-19 pandemic starkly revealed a lack of high-quality evidence for non-pharmacological interventions (NPIs). …”

AI-ML for quantitative blood pressure and blood glucose estimation from non-occlusive PPG/ECG bio-signals by Vignesh Sujith Menon

“…Even though this disease affects more than 500 million individuals, there is a lack of non-invasive methods for checking glucose levels, making the use of a glucometer with finger pricking the most common and reliable option for daily glucose testing in personal healthcare. …”
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Layer-by-layer deposition of insulin on nano-liposomes for loading and stability enhancement by Wee, Shi Ting

“…Although subcutaneous insulin injection is the standard route of insulin administration, it is often associated with a lack of patient compliance due to pain as well as the risk of hypoglycemia (low blood glucose level). …”
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Global cross-sectional survey on neonatal pharmacologic sedation and analgesia practices and pain assessment tools: impact of the sociodemographic index (SDI) by Arribas, C, Cavallaro, G, Gonzalez, J-L, Lagares, C, Raffaeli, G, Smits, A, Simons, SHP, Villamor, E, Allegaert, K, Garrido, F

“…Countries with different SDIs reported differences in analgosedation for neonatal intubation, invasive ventilation, and therapeutic hypothermia, among others. …”

A flexible optoacoustic blood 'stethoscope' for noninvasive multiparametric cardiovascular monitoring by Jin, Haoran, Zheng, Zesheng, Cui, Zequn, Jiang, Ying, Chen, Geng, Li, Wenlong, Wang, Zhimin, Wang, Jilei, Yang, Chuanshi, Song, Weitao, Chen, Xiaodong, Zheng, Yuanjin

“…Although there are various methods to extract blood information, they often require invasive procedures, lack continuity, involve bulky instruments, or have complicated testing procedures. …”
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Respiratory quality indices for automated monitoring of respiration from sensor data by Birrenkott, D

“…This is primarily because of the lack of a non-invasive, robust, automated method for estimating RR. …”

High-efficiency magnetophoretic labelling of adoptively-transferred T cells for longitudinal in vivo magnetic particle imaging by Tay, Rong En, Lokamitra, P., Pang, Shun Toll, Low, Kay En, Tay, Hui Chien, Ho, Charmaine Min, Malleret, Benoit, Rötzschke, Olaf, Olivo, Malini, Tay, Zhi Wei

“…A major obstacle to improving cell therapies for solid tumours is a lack of accessible and quantitative imaging modalities capable of tracking the migration and immune functional activity of ACT products for an extended duration in vivo. …”
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Bacteriocin-like peptides encoded by a horizontally acquired island mediate Neisseria gonorrhoeae autolysis by Poncin, K, McKeand, SA, Lavender, H, Kurzyp, K, Harrison, OB, Roberti, A, Melia, C, Johnson, E, Maiden, MCJ, Greaves, DR, Exley, R, Tang, CM

“…Furthermore, strains lacking the Naps exhibit reduced autolysis in assays of PCD. …”

Physical unclonable function based solutions to unification of user, device and data authentication by Zheng, Yue

“…These solutions are typically realized using conventional techniques that require the safekeeping of a secret binary key in the non-volatile memory, or battery-backed SRAM of some device, or a token owned by the user, which have been proven to be vulnerable to various kinds of invasive, semi-invasive and side channel attacks. …”
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