Minimum miscible pressure (MMP) is an essential design parameter of gas flooding for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) applications. Researchers have developed a number of methods for MMP computations, including the analytical methods, the slim-tube simula...
Deep high-temperature and high-pressure (HTHP) oil reservoirs have limited experimental MMP data, large differences between reservoir and saturation pressures, low gas–oil ratios, and pressure-sensitive CO2–oil phase behavior, which make...
Hydrogel microspheres are widely used in tissue engineering, such as 3D cell culture and injection therapy, and among which, heterogeneous microspheres are drawing much attention as a promising tool to carry multiple cell types in separated phases. H...
In the current study, a first attempt at using aluminum flakes for the manufacture of open-cell aluminum foams with the space holder method is presented. The method involves powder mixing, compaction, leaching, and sintering processes. Saccharose par...
Proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) produce electrical energy using hydrogen as an energy source, characterized by enhanced energy conversion efficiency and diminished emissions, contributing to the sustainable development of energy. The hyd...
Probabilistic genotyping (PG) and its associated software has greatly aided in forensic DNA mixture analysis, with it primarily being applied to mixed DNA profiles obtained from bulk cellular extracts. However, these software applications do not alwa...
When a minor DNA component to a binary mixture is present at a weight ratio of approximately 1:50 or less, the presence of this minor donor is undetectable (or barely detectable) by standard mixture deconvolution approaches. In an attempt to retrieve...
Methane (CH4) produced by methanogenic archaea during the rumen fermentation of feed carbohydrates leads to global warming and total energy loss. This study aims to compare the accuracy of multiple linear regression (MLR) models and backpropagation n...
The fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH)-based padlock probe and rolling circle amplification (RCA) method allows for the detection of point mutations. However, it requires multiple reaction steps and solution exchanges, making it costly, labor-...
With the increasing demand for fast, accurate, and reliable biological sensor systems, miniaturized systems have been aimed at droplet-based sensor systems and have been promising. A micro-electrode dot array (MEDA) biochip, which is one kind of the...
Supported lipid bilayers (SLBs) on quartz crystals are employed as versatile model systems for studying cell membrane behavior with the use of the highly sensitive technique of quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring (QCM-D). Since th...
Solvothermal synthesis of multiple dihydropyrimidinones at a time has been developed in inexpensive and green bio-based solvent lactic acid without any additional catalysts or additives. By this method, thirty new dihydropyrimidinone derivatives were...
Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is one of the most common types of cancers, accounting for 37% of B-cell tumor cases globally. DLBCL is known to be a heterogeneous disease, resulting in variable clinical presentations and the development of dru...
In this paper, a real-time scheduling problem of a dual-resource flexible job shop with robots is studied. Multiple independent robots and their supervised machine sets form their own work cells. First, a mixed integer programming model is establishe...
In the last two decades, many detailed full transcriptomic studies on complex biological samples have been published and included in large gene expression repositories. These studies primarily provide a bulk expression signal for each sample, includi...
Accurate identification of phage virion protein is not only a key step for understanding the function of the phage virion protein but also helpful for further understanding the lysis mechanism of the bacterial cell. Since traditional experimental met...
Background/Objectives: Cadherin-6 (CDH6), also known as K-cadherin, is a type II classic cadherin molecule that plays an important role in the embryonic development of the kidney but has very limited expression in adult tissues. It is overexpressed i...
Archaeosomes, composed of sulfated lactosyl archaeol (SLA) glycolipids, have been proven to be an effective vaccine adjuvant in multiple preclinical models of infectious disease or cancer. They have classically been prepared using a thin-film hydrati...
Background/Objectives: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains the most common cause of morbidity and mortality in adolescents and adults. Although numerous animal and human studies have demonstrated the beneficial effects of branched-chain amino acids...
For the development of an effective HIV-1 vaccine, evolutionarily conserved epitopes between feline and human immunodeficiency viruses (FIV and HIV-1) were determined by analyzing overlapping peptides from retroviral genomes that induced both anti-FI...
Engineered phage with properties optimised for the treatment of bacterial infections hold great promise, but require careful characterisation by a number of approaches. Phage–bacteria infection time courses, where populations of bacteriophage and bac...
As energy efficiency (EE) is a key performance indicator for the future wireless network, it has become a significant research field in communication networks. In this paper, we consider multi-cell multi-carrier non-orthogonal multiple access (MCMC-N...
Advances in 3D printing have enabled the use of this technology in a growing number of fields, and have started to spark the interest of biologists. Having the particularity of being cell friendly and allowing multimaterial deposition, extrusion-base...
To simultaneously satisfy the electricity and freshwater requirements, a superstructure of a solar-wind-diesel hybrid energy system (HES) with multiple types of storage devices driving a reverse osmosis desalination (ROD) process is established in th...
The hydrophilic nature of peptides and proteins renders them impermeable to cell membranes. Thus, in order to successfully deliver peptide and protein-based therapeutics across the plasma membrane or epithelial and endothelial barriers, a permeation...
Sorting particles or cells of specific sizes in complex systems has long been a focus of many researchers. Acoustic surface waves, which generate acoustic radiation forces on particles or cells and, thus, influence their motion, are commonly used for...
Background/Objectives: Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a malignant tumor and leads to high human malignancy and mortality. Because PDAC is highly drug-resistant and current treatments have adverse reactions, exploring novel approaches for...
A biofilm is a community of microbial cells which are enclosed in an external matrix and separated by a network of water channels attached to natural or artificial surfaces. Biofilms formed inside biliary stents consist of a mixed spectrum of bacteri...
This study suggested the design of type-variable electronic paper with multiple bottom electrode structures and experimentally investigated the process mechanism of the electrophoretic particle loading method (EPLM) as an electronic ink injection met...
The treatment for tuberculosis infection usually involves a prolonged regimen of multiple antibacterial drugs, which might lead to various secondary effects. For preventing drug resistance and side-effects of anti-tuberculosis drugs, new methods for...
Background/Objectives: Tuberculosis (TB) remains the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent worldwide. In line with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) goal to end TB by 2035, the rapid development and clinical implementation o...
In most developing countries, the composition of municipal solid waste (MSW) arriving at final disposal sites (FDSs) differs from that at the source due to informal segregation of potentially recyclable waste (PRW) during its management, as well as b...
Background and Objective: The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the added value of optical genome mapping (OGM) when integrated into the standard cytogenetic workup (SCGW) for hematological malignancies. Methods: The study cohort compris...
Paraneoplastic neurologic syndromes (PNSs) are a heterogeneous group of disorders caused by the remote effects of cancer with immune-mediated pathogenesis. Anti-Ma2 antibody was defined as one of the well-characterized onconeural antibodies that coul...
Monitoring bird activity at public roosts is essential for understanding stopover behavior during migration, assessing ecological change, and supporting conservation strategies. Existing weather radar-based roost detection methods primarily rely on h...
Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is characterized by white matter demyelinating plaques, which can be classified as active, chronic active, or chronic inactive based on the extent of demyelination, cellularity, and inflammation. Microglia and macr...
Directed evolution is a powerful technique for creating biomolecules such as proteins and nucleic acids with tailor-made properties for therapeutic and industrial applications by mimicking the natural evolution processes in the laboratory. Droplet mi...
Wireless networks beyond 5G will mostly be serving myriads of sensors and other machine-type communications (MTC), with each device having different requirements in respect to latency, error rate, energy consumption, spectral efficiency or other spec...
Background: Most bladder cancer cases present as non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC), with the course of multiple recurrences leading to stage progression to muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) in 10–20% of cases, which is associated w...
Understanding and developing habits in complex systems thinking using STEM-integrated perspectives is essential in addressing education and workforce needs in society. In this study, we investigated a learning intervention that incorporated multiple...
Background/Objective: Accurate quantification of RNA is critical for RNA-based experiments such as polysome profiling and RT-qPCR. These techniques often rely on control RNA to ensure consistency and reliability across experiments. Commonly used spik...
Hybrid Bermuda grasses (Cynodon dactylon × C. transvaalensis Burtt.-Davy) represent one of the greatest contributions to the growing quality of turfgrass in the warm season and transition zone areas of the world. Hybrid Bermuda grass production...
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Introduction: Long COVID (LC) is a global public health crisis affecting more than 70 million people. There is emerging evidence of different pathophysiological mechanisms driving the wide array of symptoms in LC. Understanding the relationships betw...
Background/Objectives: Sarcomatoid or rhabdoid renal cell carcinoma (sRCC) represents an aggressive dedifferentiated phenotype of RCC associated with high metastatic potential. The histologic composition of metastatic lesions arising from clear cell...
Importance: Sickle cell retinopathy and maculopathy are frequent but underdiagnosed complications of sickle cell disease that can lead to vision loss. Unfortunately, there is currently no ophthalmological follow-up protocol to best diagnose and treat...
Background: Immune effector cell-associated hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis-like syndrome (IEC-HS) is a rare, life-threatening complication following CAR T-cell therapy. Diagnosis is challenging due to overlap with severe CRS, sepsis and lack of s...
Overlapping optical cells create geometry-dependent inter-cell interference, while receiver-geometry and channel-estimation errors can reverse the effective non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) decoding order and increase successive interference can...
Background: Retinol, an important bioactive substance with multiple physiological functions such as promoting collagen synthesis, inhibiting matrix metalloproteinase activity, alleviating oxidative stress, regulating gene expression, and promoting ep...
In this paper, a method is described to perform ion concentration measurements on both sides of an inserted contact lens, without physical contact with the eye or the contact lens. The outer surface of an eye is covered with a tear film that has mult...
Two-dimensional acoustofluidic fields in an ultrasonic chamber actuated by segmented ring-shaped vibration sources with different excitation phases are simulated by COMSOL Multiphysics. Diverse acoustic streaming patterns, including aggregation and r...
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