This study evaluated serum eosinophil cationic protein (ECP) as a biomarker for pediatric allergic airway diseases. A cross-sectional analysis was performed on children (1–17 years) with allergic asthma (AA, n = 124), allergic rhinitis (AR, n =...
The survival rate of cardiac arrest (CA) can be improved by utilizing percutaneous left ventricular assist devices (pLVADs) instead of conventional chest compressions. However, existing pLVADs require complex fluoroscopy-guided placement along a guid...
The attachment of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) to intestinal epithelial cells is facilitated by several adhesins; however, the individual host-cell receptors for pili-mediated adherence have not been fully characterized. In this study, we...
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are alternative therapeutics to traditional antibiotics against bacterial resistance. Our previous work identified an antimicrobial region at the N-terminus of the eosinophil cationic protein (ECP). Following structure-b...
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Drying is a crucial and energy-consuming process in black tea manufacturing that is aimed at reducing moisture content and terminating enzymatic reactions in tea leaves. In Sri Lanka, an endless chain pressure (ECP) dryer is commonly used for drying,...
Disaster Area Wireless Networks (DAWNs) are widely deployed in natural or man-made disaster scenes, since the communication infrastructure may be completely destroyed by the disaster. This paper proposes a hybrid network architecture for DAWNs due to...
Resilience is a new path to express and enhance urban sustainability. Cities suffer from natural shocks and human-made disturbances due to rapid urbanization and global climate change. The construction of an urban resilient developmental environment...
Extracorporeal photopheresis (ECP) is an FDA-approved immunotherapy for cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, which can provide a complete response in some patients. However, it is still being determined who will respond well, and predictive biomarkers are urge...
Background/Objectives: Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is a severe complication of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) resulting from histocompatibility differences between donor and host cells leading to inflammation, tis...
Background: Extracorporeal photopheresis (ECP) consists of the collection of a patient’s peripheral blood mononuclear cells (MNCs) that, after incubation with a photosensitive molecule, are exposed to ultraviolet-A (UVA) and then reinfused into...
Clinical evidence suggests an improvement or stabilization of lung function in a fraction of patients with bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) treated by extracorporeal photopheresis (ECP); however, few studies have explored the epigenetic and mo...
Background/Objectives: Pancreas divisum (PD) is a congenital malformation associated with chronic and recurrent acute pancreatitis. Although PD often presents asymptomatically, the extent to which early chronic pancreatitis (ECP) changes occur in asy...
Background: The optimal approach for adult patients hospitalized with severe and critical coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), non-responsive to antiviral and immunomodulatory drugs, is not well established. Our aim was to evaluate feasibility and sa...
Background: Long COVID remains a challenging and heterogeneous condition, with mechanisms that are still incompletely understood. Emerging evidence suggests that patients with allergic disease may experience more persistent post-COVID symptoms, possi...
Myopia is a common refractive error with a rising prevalence worldwide, and its early diagnosis is crucial to prevent long-term visual impairment. This study presents an accessible, automated approach for detecting myopia from fundus photographs by a...
Although the cough reflex is one of the essential protective mechanisms in the respiratory tract, it is considered a considerable health problem in adults and children when it becomes chronic and hypersensitive. However, the need for biomarkers for c...
Background/Clinical Significance: Development of acute antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) of allograft is one of the leading causes of mortality in heart-transplant recipients; however, the standard therapy does not always resolve severe forms of reje...
This study introduces a decision-oriented framework integrating fresh-state rheology, standardized post-cracking performance, and cradle-to-gate embodied carbon for steel-fiber-reinforced concretes incorporating recycled and commercial fibers. The mo...
Vibrio mediterranei is an emerging pathogen causing vibriosis outbreaks in marine bivalves, yet the molecular mechanisms by which environmental conditions modulate its virulence remain poorly understood. Here, we combined in vivo infection assays wit...
Immune checkpoint inhibition (ICI) has yielded remarkable results in prolonging survival of metastatic melanoma patients but only a subset of individuals treated respond to therapy. Success of ICI treatment appears to depend on the number of tumor-in...
Sézary syndrome (SS) is a rare primary cutaneous T-cell lymphoma variant. Despite various treatment options, it remains incurable, with a poor prognosis. There is an urgent need for additional descriptive research to enhance our understanding...
Chronic pancreatitis (CP) is a progressive condition that is associated with severe complications. Diagnosis of late CP is easy due to characteristic clinical presentation and pathognomonic imaging findings, such as pancreatic calcifications. Early c...
Due to the high oxygen evolution reaction (OER) activity, stability, and abundance of NiOx materials, they are found to be promising catalysts, competitive with expensive metal oxides such as IrO2 and RuO2. From a theoretical point of view, studies r...
Background/Objectives: With the increasing prevalence of Crohn’s disease (CD), treatment options for patients who fail conventional and advanced therapy are highly needed. Therefore, we explored the safety and efficacy of extracorporeal photoph...
Under rapid urbanization and watershed-scale spatial restructuring, urban green-space systems are often treated as residual indicators after construction land has been allocated, which limits the capacity of blue–green networks to act as leadin...
The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Processes: Process Engineering—Current State and Future Trends (ECP 2023) was hosted online from 17 to 31 May 2023 [...]
The 3rd International Electronic Conference on Processes—Green and Sustainable Process Engineering and Process Systems Engineering (ECP 2024) was hosted online from 29 to 31 May 2024 [...]
The materials used for the piston cylinders of automobile engines, or the ring and tappets of various mechanical components, are continuously experiencing lubricated sliding motions. These surfaces are prone to damage due to the various tribological...
Efficient query optimization is crucial for relational database systems, especially for optimizing join orders in complex queries. This work introduces a hybrid approach that integrates Eliminating Cartesian Products (ECP) with splitting the QUBO sea...
Object detection in UAV imagery is hindered by micro-scale targets, dense distributions, and cluttered backgrounds, where existing detectors fail to simultaneously achieve high accuracy and real-time throughput. We propose ECP-YOLO, a lightweight fra...
The article reviews the discovery, properties and functional activities of new bacterial enzymes, proteases grimelysin (ECP 32) of Serratia grimesii and protealysin of Serratia proteamaculans, characterized by both a highly specific “actinase&r...
Case reports indicate that magnets in smartphones could be a source of electromagnetic interference (EMI) for active implantable medical devices (AIMD), which could lead to device malfunction, compromising patient safety. Recognizing this challenge,...
Tendon profile geometry is a structural design variable whose effects on prestressed concrete beams have, until now, been studied separately for shear, ductility, and stiffness response. This paper unifies those threads through a single nonlinear fin...
Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is a chronic esophageal disease that needs lifelong management and follow-up. The diagnosis requires an upper endoscopy with at least one esophageal biopsy demonstrating >15 eosinophils/high-power field, and often oc...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) play a pivotal role in diverse applications such as environmental monitoring, industrial automation, healthcare, and smart cities. The motivation behind the development of WSNs stems from their impact in providing real...
The 4th International Electronic Conference on Processes—Sustainable Process Design, Engineering, Control and Systems Innovation (ECP 2025) was hosted online from 20 to 22 October 2025. The event presented recent process/systems-related researc...
This study aims to evaluate the impact of using the ‘Getting Involved in a Change Process (ECP)’ tool in promoting sustainable eating practices. A total of 16 public educational institutions (5 primary schools and 11 kindergartens) partic...
The main goal of the present study was to verify in detail whether the use of a cluster model for Stone–Wales (SW) defect-containing graphene (SWG) to study the adsorption of Ln atoms yields results similar to those previously obtained by emplo...
Currently, many consumers are reluctant to consume edible-cricket protein (ECP). Chocolate brownie (CB) formulations without (WO) and with (W) 6%w/w ECP (CBWO and CBW, respectively) were presented under two informed conditions: formulated without ECP...
Enzymatic chicken pulp (ECP) is an animal protein source that has been proven to be of excellent nutritional content and good quality for the majority of aquatic organisms because of its quality protein, small peptides, palatability, vitamins, and mi...
This study appraised the impact of enzymatic cottonseed protein concentrate (ECP) as a fish meal (FM) substitute on the growth and health of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) (initial weight 14.99 ± 0.03 g). Five diets with equal nitroge...
Recently, accumulating evidence has suggested that Enteromorpha clathrata polysaccharide (ECP) could contribute to the treatment of diseases. However, as a promising candidate for marine drug development, although ECP has been extensively studied, le...
The emergency contraception pill (ECP) is a non-prescribed medication in Spain. However, there is not enough evidence of its use among young people to define sex education contents. The aims of this research were to describe the experiences of the us...
While synchronous ovarian and endometrial endometrioid carcinomas (ECs) have long been described in the literature, ovarian or endometrial EC involving concomitant endocervical polyp (ECP) has not yet been reported. This study aimed to investigate th...
Chemical graph theory comprehends the basic properties of an atomic graph. The sub-atomic diagrams are the graphs that are comprised of particles called vertices and the covalent bond between them are called edges. The eccentricity
The increasing resistance to cephalosporins in Salmonella poses a serious threat to public health. In our previous study, the blaCTX-M-101 gene, a new blaCTX-M variant, was first reported in Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis (S. Enteritidi...
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) using 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) which is the precursor of the photosensitizer protoporphyrin IX (PpIX) is an available treatment for several diseases. ALA-PDT induces the apoptosis and necrosis of target lesions. We have...
Wyniki badan ostatnich kilkunastu lat dostarczajll wielu danych na temat istotnej roli eozynofila w patogenezie licznych chorob o podlozu zapalnym [...]
In industrial practice, various methods of external influences on metal melts are used. For example, vibration processing, exposure to ultrasound, and other physical fields. The main purpose of such influences is purposeful grinding of the metal stru...
Salmonella Enteritidis was the primary foodborne pathogen responsible for acute gastroenteritis. The growing ceftriaxone resistance poses a significant threat to public health. Infection with S. Enteritidis has emerged as a major public health concer...
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