A low-power, low-phase-noise quadrature oscillator for Medical Implantable Communications Service (MICS) transceivers is presented. The proposed quadrature oscillator generates 349~689 MHz I/Q (In-phase and Quadrature) signals covering the MICS band....
Background/Objectives: Brassica spp. constitute an important group of edible plants. Over the last century, the important power of these plants as bioactive producers with anticancer, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant or cardioprotective properties has...
An implantable stacked planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) for biotelemetric communication in the 402–405 MHz Medical Implant Communications Service (MICS) frequency band is designed and fabricated. With the proposed PIFA structure, a slot on each...
Background: Antibiotics at sub-inhibitory concentrations can rewire bacterial regulatory networks, impacting virulence. Objective: The way that exposure to selected antibiotics (ciprofloxacin, amikacin, azithromycin, ceftazidime, and meropenem) below...
Background: Stylohyoid syndrome, also known as classical Eagle syndrome (ES), is a rare condition characterized by elongation of the styloid process (SP) or calcification of the stylohyoid chain, presenting numerous non-specific symptoms. Most papers...
Toxoplasma gondii is a globally significant zoonotic pathogen responsible for severe parasitic diseases in humans and animals. This study aimed to design, develop, and evaluate a novel immunochromatographic test (ICT) using a recombinant MIC2-MIC3 fu...
Background: Minimally invasive off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (MICS-OPCAB) offers potential advantages over conventional sternotomy, including reduced trauma and faster recovery. This study evaluates the safety and feasibility of MICS-OPCAB...
The enteric human adenoviruses of species F (HAdVs-F), which comprise HAdV-F40 and HAdV-F41, are significant pathogens that cause acute gastroenteritis in children worldwide. The early transcription unit 3 (E3) of HAdVs-F is markedly different from t...
In this study, we investigated the potential of MIC-1 (macrophage inhibitory cytokine-1) on the severity of prostate cancer between African American men and Caucasians. Differences between the races were examined using Mann–Whitney tests for co...
Salmonella spp., a leading cause of foodborne illness, is a formidable global menace due to escalating antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The evaluation of minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) for antimicrobials is critical for characterizing AMR. The...
The assessment of minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) is a conventional technique used for the screening of microbial resistance against antibiotics, biocides, and contaminants such as heavy metals. However, as part of our ongoing work, we have ob...
As an essential constituent of the mitochondrial contact site and cristae organization system (MICOS), MIC19 plays a crucial role in maintaining the stability of mitochondrial function and microstructure. However, the mechanisms and functions of MIC1...
Background/Objectives: Antigen-specific adoptive CD8+ T-cell therapy has demonstrated promising clinical activity in selected cancers; however, its broader efficacy against solid tumors remains limited by the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment...
Minimum inhibition concentration (MIC) of antibiotic is an effective value to ascertain the agent and minimum dosage of inhibiting bacterial growth. However, current techniques to determine MIC are labor intensive and time-consuming, and require skil...
In order to investigate the effects of aging on the expression of Mic60 and OPA1 and mitochondrial morphology in plateau animals, the expression of Mic60 and OPA1 genes and proteins, and the morphology of mitochondria in the myocardium of adult and a...
Vancomycin is an antibiotic commonly used for the treatment of enterococcal infections. However, there is no clear correlation regarding of vancomycin area under the curve/minimum inhibitory concentration (AUC/MIC) ratio and clinical outcomes for the...
This study demonstrated a statistically significant difference in vancomycin minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) for Staphylococcus aureus between a common automated system (Vitek 2) and the E-test method in patients with S. aureus bloodstream inf...
Extracting reliable corrosion kinetic parameters from polarization curves is particularly challenging for X70 steel under the synergistic effect of microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) and alternating current (AC) interference, as both factor...
Ibrexafungerp is a novel triterpenoid antifungal that inhibits glucan synthase and thus fungal cell wall synthesis. We examined the in vitro activity against contemporary clinical yeast, investigated inter-laboratory and intra-laboratory variability,...
Introduction: The preferred PK/PD goal for vancomycin is now AUC0–24/MIC-guided dosing, which requires two blood samples, additional time, increased cost, and possibly specialized staff, potentially limiting its use. Our study compared vancomyc...
Fructose 1,6-bisphosphatase 2 (FBP2) is a multifunctional protein whose cellular functions depend on its oligomeric state. Forced FBP2 tetramerization has been linked to microtubule disruption and impaired mitochondrial trafficking, accompanied by ab...
Background: The surveillance of non-clinical bacteria from food-producing animals can reveal antimicrobial selection patterns without conditioning sampling on clinical disease, but categorical resistance estimates are difficult to compare when organi...
With the integration of sustainable energy, the power grid has become increasingly information-intensive and complex. To address the issue of power grid cyber-physical systems being unable to operate securely and stably when systems suffer false data...
Foodborne bacterial hazards remain a major challenge for animal-derived food chains, whereas evidence for antiparasitic effects of bacteriocins is much smaller and mechanistically heterogeneous. This systematic review, reported in accordance with PRI...
The rise in carbapenem resistance is well documented, but a less conspicuous trend has received far less attention: the gradual upward shift in minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values among isolates that remain phenotypically “susceptible...
Construction is a major source of carbon emissions. Moreover, it faces various other sustainability challenges, such as construction waste, construction noise, vehicular traffic near construction sites, dust and other air and water pollutants, and sa...
The MIC value definition faithfully reflects antimicrobial sensitivity, profoundly impacting the infection's clinical outcome. Our study aimed to evaluate the Accelerate PhenoTM System in defining the importance of fast phenotypic susceptibility data...
In light of the growth in demand for multiband antennas for medical applications, this research proposes a MICS/ISM meander-line microstrip antenna encapsulated in an oblong-shaped pod for use in diagnoses of the gastrointestinal tract. The proposed...
Background: Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) infection causes serious diseases in immunocompromised patients and causes congenital toxoplasmosis in infants. T. gondii microneme protein 8 (MIC8) and apical membrane antigen 1 (AMA1) are essential pro...
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) represents one of the most urgent global health threats, significantly impacting patient outcomes, healthcare systems, and economic sustainability. Rapid and accurate antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) are essen...
Pyrrole and its polysubstituted derivatives are important five-membered heterocyclic compounds, which exist alone or as a core framework in many pharmaceutical and natural product structures, some of which have good biological activities. The Van Leu...
Antifungal susceptibility testing is important in guiding patient therapy due to an increasing number of resistant Candida isolates. In the clinical strain collection of the Austrian resistance report (AURES), a high number of micafungin-resistant C....
In recent years, the performance of free-and-open-source software (FOSS) for image processing has significantly increased. This trend, as well as technological advancements in the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) industry, have opened blue skies for bot...
Cutaneous fungal infections represent a significant burden worldwide with a high impact on public health. Accurate identification of dermatophyte species causing these infections is vital for an appropriate treatment. Terbinafine is the primary agent...
The frequency of invasive fungal infections shows a rising trend as well as a high morbidity and mortality. Among the causative agents, a shift toward the non-albicans Candida species including Candida glabrata species complex is being observed in se...
Aminoglycosides remain important components of combination therapy for complicated Klebsiella pneumoniae infections in Vietnam; however, gene-level evidence linking aminoglycoside-modifying enzymes (AMEs) with minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs)...
Accurate quality prediction can find and eliminate quality hazards. It is difficult to construct an accurate quality mathematical model for the production of small samples with high dimensionality due to the influence of quality characteristics and t...
Microplastics (MPs) pollution has become a persisting problem over the last decades and is a critical issue for environmental protection and human health. In this context, scientific data able to reveal MPs presence and improve the characterization a...
This paper explores an application of 3D printing technology on the food industry. Since its inception in the 1980s, 3D printing has experienced a huge rise in popularity. This study uses cost-effective, flexible, and sustainable components that enab...
We derived a closed-form expression of the maximum power transfer efficiency (MPTE) between a transmitting antenna inside the brain and a receiving antenna outside the head using spherical wave expansion. The derived expression was validated using a...
Effective feature selection can help improve the classification performance in bearing fault diagnosis. This paper proposes a novel feature selection method based on bearing fault diagnosis called Feature-to-Feature and Feature-to-Category- Maximum I...
This study proposes a data-driven framework with post hoc interpretability analysis for one-step-ahead crystal diameter prediction in the Czochralski (CZ) silicon single-crystal growth process. To address the strong multivariable coupling, nonlinear...
The minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) is conventionally used to define in vitro levels of susceptibility or resistance of a specific bacterial strain to an antibiotic and to predict its clinical efficacy. Along with MIC, other measures of bacter...
Background/Objectives: Oritavancin therapy for complex infections remains challenging due to the lack of well-established dosing regimens. The objective of this work was to apply PK/PD modeling and Monte Carlo simulation considering different PK/PD t...
A major problem of our time is the ever-increasing resistance to antimicrobial agents in bacterial populations. One of the most effective ways to prevent these problems is to target antibacterial therapies for specific diseases. In this study, we inv...
Background: Candida albicans infects most reproductive-aged women, causing a prevalent infection known as Vulvovaginal Candida. As there has been an increase in resistance to widely used antifungal agents, particularly fluconazole, used in infec...
The microneme organelles of Toxoplasma gondii tachyzoites release protein complexes (MICs), including one composed of the transmembrane protein MIC6 plus MIC1 and MIC4. In this complex, carbohydrate recognition domains of MIC1 and MIC4 are exposed an...
Background: Neospora caninum, is the etiological agent of neosporosis, an infection that causes abortions in cattle and nervous system dysfunction in dogs. Invasion and egress are the key steps of the pathogenesis of N. caninum infection. Microneme p...
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Parental interactions through play contributes significantly to child development of cognitive and executive functioning skills. In Thailand, there is little evidence of factors contributing to parental–child interactions. In response to SDG ta...
Introduction: Micafungin is a recommended echinocandin antifungal agent for candidemia treatment and prophylaxis. However, overuse of echinocandin antifungals may cause resistance. There is currently no information available regarding the low suscept...
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