Whole-Killed Blood-Stage Vaccine: Is It Worthwhile to Further Develop It to Control Malaria? by Jingjing Cai, Suilin Chen, Suilin Chen, Suilin Chen, Feng Zhu, Feng Zhu, Feng Zhu, Xiao Lu, Taiping Liu, Taiping Liu, Taiping Liu, Wenyue Xu, Wenyue Xu, Wenyue Xu

“…Major challenges have been encountered regarding the development of highly efficient subunit malaria vaccines, and so whole-parasite vaccines have regained attention in recent years. …”
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Horizontal Gene Transfer of Functional Type VI Killing Genes by Natural Transformation by Jacob Thomas, Samit S. Watve, William C. Ratcliff, Brian K. Hammer

“…IMPORTANCE The contact-dependent type VI secretion system (T6SS) is frequently used by Proteobacteria to kill adjacent competitors. While DNA released by T6 killing can be horizontally acquired, it remains untested whether T6 genes themselves can be horizontally acquired and then utilized to compete with neighboring cells. …”
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Clinically encountered growth phenotypes of tuberculosis-causing bacilli and their in vitro study: A review by Saurabh Mishra, Kohta Saito

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Encountering children and child soldiers during military deployments: the impact and implications for moral injury by Myriam Denov

“…Objective: This paper addresses encounters with children and child soldiers during military deployments, as well as the risk for moral injury during and following these encounters, and their implications. …”
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Close encounters of the fatal kind: Landscape features associated with central mountain caribou mortalities by Tracy L. McKay, Karine E. Pigeon, Terrence A. Larsen, Laura A. Finnegan

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Social Perception and Encounters with Snakes in Costa Rica: An Analysis through the Social Network Facebook by Katherine Sánchez-Paniagua, Katherine González-Villalobos, Juan G. Abarca

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What remains amiss? Film bodies, traumatic experience and absence in the cinematic encounter with the essay film by Chia, Justin Ian Soon Hann

“…All four films gesture towards the recuperation of images that represent the victims of Khmer Rouge era Cambodia, and the 1965–66 killings of Indonesia “Communists” respectively. This dissertation then explores the cinematic encounters generated between the embodied spectator and the essay films which essay the traumatic events that shaped the socio-political landscapes of Cambodia and Indonesia. …”
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Behavioral and Physiological Responses of Scandinavian Brown Bears (Ursus arctos) to Dog Hunts and Human Encounters by Luc Le Grand, Neri H. Thorsen, Boris Fuchs, Alina L. Evans, Timothy G. Laske, Jon M. Arnemo, Jon M. Arnemo, Solve Sæbø, Ole-Gunnar Støen, Ole-Gunnar Støen

“…Nonetheless, not every hunt leads to a killed bear. This means that for each bear that is shot, multiple bears may be chased but not killed. …”
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Why so serious? - Comparing two traffic conflict techniques for assessing encounters in shared space by Carla Jakobowsky, Felix W. Siebert, Caroline Schießl, Marek Junghans, Mandy Dotzauer

“…While the PVCA and STCT yielded similar results in most encounters, this could not be confirmed for all. Results indicate that spatial distance may contribute to the severity of encounters between pedestrians and vehicles in a shared space.…”
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Bioinspired antifouling Fe-based amorphous coating via killing-resisting dual surface modifications by Yu Li, Ling-Yu Zhang, Cheng Zhang, Zhan-Rong Zhang, Lin Liu

“…However, these coatings encounter a great challenge of biofouling in marine environments. …”
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“It’s Killing Us!” Narratives of Black Adults About Microaggression Experiences and Related Health Stress by Joanne M. Hall, Becky Fields

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Thermodynamic modeling of deoxidation products and inclusion chemistry in Mn/Si killed tire-cord steel by Prasad A.D., Sankaranarayanan S.R.

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Regenerable bacterial killing–releasing ultrathin smart hydrogel surfaces modified with zwitterionic polymer brushes by Xiao Shengwei, Zhao Yuyu, Jin Shuqi, He Zhicai, Duan Gaigai, Gu Haining, Xu Hongshun, Cao Xingyu, Ma Chunxin, Wu Jun

“…By tuning the initial organosilane (BrTMOS:KH570) ratios, the prepared PSBMA-P(HEAA-co-METAC) coating exhibits different antibacterial abilities from single “capturing–killing” to versatile “capturing–killing–releasing.” …”
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Colorimetric Detection and Killing of Bacteria by Enzyme-Instructed Self-Aggregation of Peptide-Modified Gold Nanoparticles by Dan Yin, Xiao Li, Xin Wang, Jin-Zhou Liu, Wen-Zhi She, Jiahui Liu, Jian Ling, Rong Sheng Li, Qiue Cao

“…Furthermore, the aggregation of AuNPs-CF₄KY^P kills approximately 80% of <i>Salmonella typhimurium</i>. …”
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What doesn't kill you makes you wary? Effect of repeated culling on the behaviour of an invasive predator. by Isabelle M Côté, Emily S Darling, Luis Malpica-Cruz, Nicola S Smith, Stephanie J Green, Jocelyn Curtis-Quick, Craig Layman

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NK3.3-Derived Extracellular Vesicles Penetrate and Selectively Kill Treatment-Resistant Tumor Cells by Allyson McCune, Jacki Kornbluth

“…We generated an imatinib-resistant K562 chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) cell line to investigate whether NK3.3EVs were able to kill tumor cells resistant to front-line chemotherapy. …”
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Beyond the encounter: Predicting multi‐predator risk to elk (Cervus canadensis) in summer using predator scats by Kara M. MacAulay, Eric G. Spilker, Jodi E. Berg, Mark Hebblewhite, Evelyn H. Merrill

“…An exception is a prey kill site that reflects an encounter resulting in mortality, but obtaining information on kill sites is expensive and requires time to accumulate adequate sample sizes. …”
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Dynamic interactions between cephalexin and macrophages on different Staphylococcus aureus inoculum sizes: a tripartite in vitro model by Elodie Anne Lallemand, Claudine Zemirline, Pierre-Louis Toutain, Alain Bousquet-Melou, Aude A. Ferran, Séverine Boullier

“…Abstract Background The bactericidal activity of an antimicrobial drug is generally assessed by in vitro bacterial time-kill experiments which do not include any components of the immune system, even though the innate immunity, the primary host defence, is probably able to kill a large proportion of pathogenic bacteria in immunocompetent patients. …”
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Adreno-immunological response to healthcare facility noise during rehabilitation of Tropical Screech Owls by Heriberto Barbosa-Moyano, Mayra Hespanhol Frediani, Melissa Peixoto Prosperi, Stefanny Christie Monteiro Titon, Aymam Cobo de Figueiredo, Fernando Ribeiro Gomes, Claudio Alvarenga De Oliveira

“…Wild animals, particularly those affected by urban expansion frequently face challenges such as vehicle collisions, and encounters with domestic dogs. Rehabilitation in care facilities usually conducted in ex-situ conditions poses considerable challenges. …”
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Functionally Relevant Differences in Plasma Fatty Acid Composition and Expression of Cytotoxic and Inhibitory NK Cell Receptors between Healthy Young and Healthy Elder Adults by Juan Bautista De Sanctis, Daciana Catalina Dumut, Danuta Radzioch, Marián Hajdúch

“…At basal levels, significant (<i>p</i> < 0.005) differences in KR and KIR expression were encountered; 12/16 antigens. Treatment of cells with saturated fatty acids or arachidonic acid (AA) significantly enhanced KR expressions (<i>p</i> < 0.001). …”
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