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  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,824 Views
16 Pages

16 September 2021

The United States immigration policy Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) which protects some individuals from deportation was enacted in 2012, phased out in 2017 and is now under court challenges. There are still thousands of DACA students...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
11,062 Views
15 Pages

19 September 2019

This study explores the aspirations of undocumented youth seeking to defer deportation from the United States and obtain temporary employment authorization through Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). The data are twenty-three letters submi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,491 Views
15 Pages

16 March 2021

Approximately 650,000 children and young adults currently reside in the United States with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status, providing them with temporary legal status to reside in the country. We explored the phenomenon of how fi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,183 Views
16 Pages

Study of SarA by DNA Affinity Capture Assay (DACA) Employing Three Promoters of Key Virulence and Resistance Genes in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

  • Byungchan Kim,
  • Hong-Ju Lee,
  • Sung-Hyun Jo,
  • Min-Gyu Kim,
  • Yeonhee Lee,
  • Wonsik Lee,
  • Wooseong Kim,
  • Hwang-Soo Joo,
  • Yun-Gon Kim and
  • Yung-Hun Yang
  • + 1 author

28 November 2022

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), one of the most well-known human pathogens, houses many virulence factors and regulatory proteins that confer resistance to diverse antibiotics. Although they have been investigated intensively, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,662 Views
21 Pages

25 June 2013

The accumulation of weakly basic drugs into acidic organelles has recently been described as a contributor to resistance in childhood cancer rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) cell lines with differential sensitivity to a novel topoisomerase II inhibitor, AS-DAC...

  • Article
  • Open Access
996 Views
14 Pages

22 October 2025

In this article, I build on liminal legality to highlight how 1.5-generation Latinx immigrant young adults who benefited from Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) confronted an additional dimension of uncertainty, which I describe as tempora...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
9,455 Views
15 Pages

30 June 2017

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) represent the fastest-growing racial category in the U.S., largely due to its increasing immigration from the Asia-Pacific region (AAJC 2015). Of the 10.9 million undocumented immigrants residing in the U....

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,586 Views
15 Pages

Spinal Involvement in Patients with Chronic Non-Bacterial Osteomyelitis (CNO): An Analysis of Distinctive Imaging Features

  • Marta Byrdy-Daca,
  • Marek Duczkowski,
  • Iwona Sudoł-Szopińska,
  • Marta Żelewska,
  • Krzysztof Piłat,
  • Filip Daca,
  • Michał Nieciecki,
  • Paweł Sztwiertnia,
  • Jerzy Walecki and
  • Piotr Palczewski
  • + 6 authors

30 November 2023

Spinal involvement by chronic non-bacterial osteomyelitis (CNO) has been increasingly reported in recent years, often being presented as a diagnostic dilemma requiring differential diagnosis with bacterial spondylodiscitis and/or neoplasia. This stud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,115 Views
16 Pages

10 October 2022

Guided by sense of belonging and counterspaces, this critical ethnographic study investigates the people, places, and spaces collegians that are Latinx and undocu/DACAmented use to persist toward graduation amidst an ongoing anti-im/migrant sociopoli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,183 Views
13 Pages

26 January 2022

In the last ten years, the world has experienced unprecedented, forced migration due to civil unrest, political persecution, and the ever-growing climate crisis. This is a qualitative study of the professional experiences of social workers (n = 73) w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,279 Views
19 Pages

Optimization of Location-Routing for Multi-Vehicle Combinations with Capacity Constraints Based on Binary Equilibrium Optimizers

  • Rui Xi,
  • Danju Lv,
  • Yueyun Yu,
  • Xin Huang,
  • Ziqian Wang,
  • Lianglian Gu,
  • Zhicheng Zhu and
  • Yan Zhang

31 December 2023

The Location-Routing Problem (LRP) becomes a more intricate subject when the limits of capacities of vehicles and warehouses are considered, which is an NP-hard problem. Moreover, as the number of vehicles increases, the solution to LRP is exacerbate...

  • Review
  • Open Access
40 Citations
5,323 Views
9 Pages

DNA-Binding Anticancer Drugs: One Target, Two Actions

  • Bruce C. Baguley,
  • Catherine J. Drummond,
  • Ying Yi Chen and
  • Graeme J. Finlay

21 January 2021

Amsacrine, an anticancer drug first synthesised in 1970 by Professor Cain and colleagues, showed excellent preclinical activity and underwent clinical trial in 1978 under the auspices of the US National Cancer Institute, showing activity against acut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,177 Views
14 Pages

19 September 2025

Background: Dental age (DA) estimation, which is widely used in orthodontics, pediatric dentistry, and forensic dentistry, predicts chronological age (CA) by assessing tooth development and maturation. Most methods rely on radiographic evaluation of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,614 Views
18 Pages

8 November 2021

Ochratoxin A (OTA) is toxic to animals and threatens food safety through residues in animal tissues. A novel degrading strain Bacillus subtilis ANSB168 was isolated and further investigated. We cloned d-alanyl-d-alanine carboxypeptidase DacA and DacB...

  • Review
  • Open Access
67 Citations
8,343 Views
19 Pages

The Inherited and Familial Component of Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer

  • Maria Daca Alvarez,
  • Isabel Quintana,
  • Mariona Terradas,
  • Pilar Mur,
  • Francesc Balaguer and
  • Laura Valle

23 March 2021

Early-onset colorectal cancer (EOCRC), defined as that diagnosed before the age of 50, accounts for 10–12% of all new colorectal cancer (CRC) diagnoses. Epidemiological data indicate that EOCRC incidence is increasing, despite the observed heterogene...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,817 Views
20 Pages

2-Methoxyestradiol Damages DNA in Glioblastoma Cells by Regulating nNOS and Heat Shock Proteins

  • Paulina Emilia Bastian,
  • Agnieszka Daca,
  • Agata Płoska,
  • Alicja Kuban-Jankowska,
  • Leszek Kalinowski and
  • Magdalena Gorska-Ponikowska

12 October 2022

Gliomas are the most prevalent primary tumors of the central nervous system (CNS), accounting for over fifty percent of all primary intracranial neoplasms. Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most prevalent form of malignant glioma and is often incurable. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,461 Views
24 Pages

Urolithins Modulate the Viability, Autophagy, Apoptosis, and Nephrin Turnover in Podocytes Exposed to High Glucose

  • Milena Kotewicz,
  • Mirosława Krauze-Baranowska,
  • Agnieszka Daca,
  • Agata Płoska,
  • Sylwia Godlewska,
  • Leszek Kalinowski and
  • Barbara Lewko

9 August 2022

Urolithins are bioactive compounds generated in human and animal intestines because of the bacterial metabolism of dietary ellagitannins (and their constituent, ellagic acid). Due to their multidirectional effects, including anti-inflammatory, antiox...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,607 Views
16 Pages

26 January 2023

Background and Objectives: Interpersonal violence is a social and public health problem globally, and though it is related to poor health outcomes across all genders, most research has been directed towards violence against women. As a result, the he...

  • Review
  • Open Access
80 Citations
7,814 Views
13 Pages

Fungal Gut Microbiota Dysbiosis and Its Role in Colorectal, Oral, and Pancreatic Carcinogenesis

  • Karolina Kaźmierczak-Siedlecka,
  • Aleš Dvořák,
  • Marcin Folwarski,
  • Agnieszka Daca,
  • Katarzyna Przewłócka and
  • Wojciech Makarewicz

22 May 2020

The association between bacterial as well as viral gut microbiota imbalance and carcinogenesis has been intensively analysed in many studies; nevertheless, the role of fungal gut microbiota (mycobiota) in colorectal, oral, and pancreatic cancer devel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,645 Views
12 Pages

Secular Trends in Habitual Physical Activities of Mozambican Children and Adolescents from Maputo City

  • Fernanda Karina Dos Santos,
  • José A. R. Maia,
  • Thayse Natacha Q. F. Gomes,
  • Timóteo Daca,
  • Aspacia Madeira,
  • Albertino Damasceno,
  • Peter T. Katzmarzyk and
  • António Prista

Social and economic changes occurring in the last two decades in Mozambique may have induced lifestyle changes among youth. This study aimed to document secular changes in habitual physical activities of Mozambican youth between 1992, 1999 and 2012....

  • Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
12,214 Views
16 Pages

19 February 2024

Enterococcus faecalis is a bacterium which accompanies us from the first days of our life. As a commensal it produces vitamins, metabolizes nutrients, and maintains intestinal pH. All of that happens in exchange for a niche to inhabit. It is not surp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,949 Views
14 Pages

Chemokines and Cytokines Profiles in Patients with Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibodies-Associated Vasculitis: A Preliminary Study

  • Agnieszka Daca,
  • Hanna Storoniak,
  • Alicja Dębska-Ślizień,
  • Mariusz Andrzej Kusztal,
  • Magdalena Krajewska and
  • Katarzyna Aleksandra Lisowska

18 October 2023

The damage to small vessels in AAV and inflammatory reactions are accompanied by the release of various chemokines and cytokines. Using a flow cytometry technique, we assessed the levels of specific cytokines, namely IL-1β IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, IL1...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,054 Views
11 Pages

The Impact of Diclofenac Gel on Ion Transport in the Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) Skin: An In Vitro Study

  • Wioletta Dobrzeniecka,
  • Małgorzata Daca,
  • Barbara Nowakowska,
  • Marta Sobiesiak,
  • Karolina Szewczyk-Golec,
  • Alina Woźniak and
  • Iga Hołyńska-Iwan

30 January 2023

Diclofenac belongs to the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs with analgesic, antipyretic and anti-inflammatory effects. Diclofenac administration on the skin may be associated with the appearance of side effects. The study aimed to evaluate the im...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,305 Views
25 Pages

Z-Disk-Associated Plectin (Isoform 1d): Spatial Arrangement, Interaction Partners, and Role in Filamin C Homeostasis

  • Lilli Winter,
  • Ilona Staszewska-Daca,
  • Stefan Zittrich,
  • Fatiha Elhamine,
  • Michaela M. Zrelski,
  • Katy Schmidt,
  • Irmgard Fischer,
  • Christian Jüngst,
  • Astrid Schauss and
  • Gerhard Wiche
  • + 2 authors

26 April 2023

Plectin, a highly versatile cytolinker protein, is crucial for myofiber integrity and function. Accordingly, mutations in the human gene (PLEC) cause several rare diseases, denoted as plectinopathies, with most of them associated with progressive mus...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,424 Views
13 Pages

Dilemmas in the Clinical Management of pT1 Colorectal Cancer

  • Diana Zaffalon,
  • Maria Daca-Alvarez,
  • Karmele Saez de Gordoa and
  • María Pellisé

6 July 2023

Implementation of population-based colorectal cancer screening programs has led to increases in the incidence of pT1 colorectal cancer. These incipient invasive cancers have a very good prognosis and can be treated locally, but more than half of thes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,286 Views
18 Pages

Urolithin A Ameliorates the TGF Beta-Dependent Impairment of Podocytes Exposed to High Glucose

  • Barbara Lewko,
  • Milena Wodzińska,
  • Agnieszka Daca,
  • Agata Płoska,
  • Katarzyna Obremska and
  • Leszek Kalinowski

28 August 2024

Increased activity of transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-β) is a key factor mediating kidney impairment in diabetes. Glomerular podocytes, the crucial component of the renal filter, are a direct target of TGF-β action, resulting in irreve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,627 Views
14 Pages

Staphylococcus aureus Co-Infection in COVID-19 Patients: Virulence Genes and Their Influence on Respiratory Epithelial Cells in Light of Risk of Severe Secondary Infection

  • Lidia Piechowicz,
  • Katarzyna Kosznik-Kwaśnicka,
  • Tomasz Jarzembowski,
  • Agnieszka Daca,
  • Agnieszka Necel,
  • Ada Bonawenturczak,
  • Olesia Werbowy,
  • Małgorzata Stasiłojć and
  • Anna Pałubicka

18 September 2024

Pandemics from viral respiratory tract infections in the 20th and early 21st centuries were associated with high mortality, which was not always caused by a primary viral infection. It has been observed that severe course of infection, complications...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,139 Views
13 Pages

Lymph Node Molecular Analysis with OSNA Enables the Identification of pT1 CRC Patients at Risk of Recurrence: A Multicentre Study

  • Karmele Saez de Gordoa,
  • Maria Teresa Rodrigo-Calvo,
  • Ivan Archilla,
  • Sandra Lopez-Prades,
  • Alba Diaz,
  • Jordi Tarragona,
  • Isidro Machado,
  • Juan Ruiz Martín,
  • Diana Zaffalon and
  • Miriam Cuatrecasas
  • + 3 authors

20 November 2023

Early-stage colorectal carcinoma (CRC)—pT1—is a therapeutic challenge and presents some histological features related to lymph node metastasis (LNM). A significant proportion of pT1 CRCs are treated surgically, resulting in a non-negligib...

  • Correction
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,086 Views
2 Pages

Correction: Winter et al. Z-Disk-Associated Plectin (Isoform 1d): Spatial Arrangement, Interaction Partners, and Role in Filamin C Homeostasis. Cells 2023, 12, 1259

  • Lilli Winter,
  • Ilona Staszewska-Daca,
  • Stefan Zittrich,
  • Fatiha Elhamine,
  • Michaela M. Zrelski,
  • Katy Schmidt,
  • Irmgard Fischer,
  • Christian Jüngst,
  • Astrid Schauss and
  • Gerhard Wiche
  • + 2 authors

22 November 2023

The authors wish to make the following changes to their paper [...]

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
11,747 Views
16 Pages

The Impact of Nigella sativa Essential Oil on T Cells in Women with Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis

  • Klaudia Ciesielska-Figlon,
  • Karolina Wojciechowicz,
  • Agnieszka Daca,
  • Adam Kokotkiewicz,
  • Maria Łuczkiewicz,
  • Jacek Maciej Witkowski and
  • Katarzyna Aleksandra Lisowska

Background: Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT) is an autoimmune disease mediated by T cells. It is characterized by the presence of thyroid autoantibodies in the serum, such as anti-thyroid peroxidase antibodies (TPO-Ab) and anti-thyroglobulin antibo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
8,729 Views
17 Pages

Identification of Endogenous Control miRNAs for RT-qPCR in T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

  • Monika Drobna,
  • Bronisława Szarzyńska-Zawadzka,
  • Patrycja Daca-Roszak,
  • Maria Kosmalska,
  • Roman Jaksik,
  • Michał Witt and
  • Małgorzata Dawidowska

20 September 2018

Optimal endogenous controls enable reliable normalization of microRNA (miRNA) expression in reverse-transcription quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR). This is particularly important when miRNAs are considered as candidate diagnostic or prognostic biomarkers....

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,024 Views
20 Pages

The Major Heat Shock Proteins, Hsp70 and Hsp90, in 2-Methoxyestradiol-Mediated Osteosarcoma Cell Death Model

  • Magdalena Gorska-Ponikowska,
  • Alicja Kuban-Jankowska,
  • Antonella Marino Gammazza,
  • Agnieszka Daca,
  • Justyna M. Wierzbicka,
  • Michal A. Zmijewski,
  • Hue H. Luu,
  • Michal Wozniak and
  • Francesco Cappello

2-Methoxyestradiol is one of the natural 17β-estradiol derivatives and a potential novel anticancer agent currently being under evaluation in advanced phases of clinical trials. However, the mechanism of anticancer action of 2-methoxyestradiol h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,231 Views
21 Pages

Differences in Salivary Cytokinome and Pathogen Load Between Rheumatoid Arthritis and Other Rheumatic Disease Patients

  • Aleksandra Korzeniowska,
  • Agnieszka Daca,
  • Maria Szarecka,
  • Małgorzata Bykowska,
  • Jacek Witkowski and
  • Ewa Bryl

29 December 2024

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), an autoimmune disease with complex pathogenesis, is characterized by an immune imbalance reflected, e.g., in the disturbed cytokines’ profile. Various viruses and bacteria can cause the upregulation of pro-inflammator...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,341 Views
13 Pages

Background/Objectives: According to the One Health concept, wild birds can be indicators of ecosystem pollution and disease incidence. Escherichia coli strains are widespread worldwide, but there are still few reports on the association of human infe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,305 Views
17 Pages

The Effect of Ketamine on the Immune System in Patients with Treatment-Resistant Depression

  • Łukasz P. Szałach,
  • Klaudia Ciesielska-Figlon,
  • Agnieszka Daca,
  • Wiesław J. Cubała and
  • Katarzyna A. Lisowska

Treatment-resistant depression (TRD) is associated with immune dysregulation. Ketamine, a rapid-acting antidepressant, may exert effects via immunomodulation. The aim was to examine ketamine’s impact on immune markers in TRD, including T-cell s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,918 Views
19 Pages

20 May 2025

Although some progress has been made in deep learning-based remote sensing image change detection, the complexity of scenes and the diversity of changes in remote sensing images lead to challenges related to background interference. For instance, rem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,042 Views
29 Pages

MDFFN: Multi-Scale Dual-Aggregated Feature Fusion Network for Hyperspectral Image Classification

  • Ge Song,
  • Xiaoqi Luo,
  • Yuqiao Deng,
  • Fei Zhao,
  • Xiaofei Yang,
  • Jiaxin Chen and
  • Jinjie Chen

Employing the multi-scale strategy in hyperspectral image (HSI) classification enables the exploration of complex land-cover structures with diverse shapes. However, existing multi-scale methods still have limitations for fine feature extraction and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,724 Views
16 Pages

7 February 2023

On 5 September 2017, the Trump administration decided to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Action (DACA) policy, impacting over 800,000 recipients, and more colleges and universities witnessed a heightened sense of emboldened racism in colleg...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
4,407 Views
8 Pages

Traumatic intracranial pseudoaneurysms (tIPAs) are a very rare pathology caused by blunt or penetrating head trauma. Diagnostic and therapeutic challenges of tIPAs are due to their unpredictable onset during the initial injury, or in a delayed manner...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,369 Views
28 Pages

Techno-Economic Optimization and Assessment of Solar Photovoltaic–Battery–Hydrogen Energy Systems with Solar Tracking for Powering ICT Facility

  • Olubayo Babatunde,
  • Oluwaseye Adedoja,
  • Oluwaseun Oyebode,
  • Uthman Abiola Kareem,
  • Damilola Babatunde,
  • Toyosi Adedoja,
  • Busola Akintayo,
  • Michael Emezirinwune,
  • Desmond Eseoghene Ighravwe and
  • Olanrewaju Oludolapo
  • + 1 author

This paper addresses the critical issue of selecting the optimal solar tracking configuration for maximum energy generation, given the increasing demand for sustainable energy solutions in information and communication technology (ICT) facilities. Th...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,112 Views
9 Pages

Optical Coherence Tomography Study of Choroidal Response to Exercise-Induced Hypertension in Chronic Central Serous Chorioretinopathy

  • Anindya Samanta,
  • Giulia Gregori,
  • Alessio Muzi,
  • Ramkailash Gujar,
  • Cesare Mariotti,
  • Daniela Fruttini,
  • Kiran K. Vupparaboina,
  • Jay Chhablani,
  • Massimo Nicolò and
  • Marco Lupidi
  • + 2 authors

1 November 2024

Background/Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the choroidal vascular response using optical coherence tomography (OCT) in patients with chronic central serous chorioretinopathy (CSCR) during transient increases in blood pressure. Metho...