Casadevall, Arturo Gow, Neil A R
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Cell surface (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
•The outer surfaces of fungi and bacteria are highly dynamic, flexible, regulated and adaptable structures.•The term "cell wall" is conceptually limiting and insufficient to adequately describe the outer surface of bacteria and fungi.•The Greek term plégma or in Latin word "reticulum" better capture the nature of the cell wall. © 2022 The Authors.
Lishchynskyi, Ostap Shymborska, Yana Stetsyshyn, Yurij Raczkowska, Joanna Skirtach, Andre G Peretiatko, Taras Budkowski, Andrzej
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Chemical engineering journal (Lausanne, Switzerland : 1996)
Viruses pose a serious threat to human health and society in general, as virus infections are one of the main causes of morbidity and mortality. Till May 2022, over 513 million people around the world have been confirmed to be infected and more than 6.2 million have died due to SARS-CoV-2. Although the COVID-19 pandemic will be defeated in the near...
Chambers, Erin Wolf Lazarus, Francis de Mesmay, Arnaud Parsa, Salman
In this paper we prove that the problem of deciding contractibility of an arbitrary closed curve on the boundary of a 3-manifold is in NP. We emphasize that the manifold and the curve are both inputs to the problem. Moreover, our algorithm also works if the curve is given as a compressed word. Previously, such an algorithm was known for simple (non...
Michikami, Tatsuhiro Hagermann, Axel Morota, Tomokatsu Yokota, Yasuhiro Urakawa, Seitaro Okamura, Hiroyuki Tanabe, Naoya Yumoto, Koki Ebihara, Tatsuki Cho, Yuichiro
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Over a broad size range, the shapes of impact fragments from catastrophic disruptions are distributed around the mean axial ratio 2: √2: 1, irrespective of experimental conditions and target materials. Although most blocks on asteroids are likely to be impact fragments, there is not enough quantitative data for reliable statistics on their three-ax...
Zhou, Michael Bhatt, Kshama Campbell, Gossett Travis, Eric Skrdla, Pete
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Journal of pharmaceutical sciences
The loss of active substance, both small and large molecules, from sterile liquid drug products after contact with an administration kit has been extensively reported in the literature. This loss has been reported to be caused by incompatibility of the active substances with the contact surfaces of the administration kit and adsorption or sticking ...
Van Bever, J Strijckmans, K Depla, D
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Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
When process parameters such as the reactive gas partial pressure or the discharge voltage are studied as a function of the reactive gas flow during reactive magnetron sputtering, the obtained curve has an S-shape. A direct consequence of this behaviour is that process control based on the reactive gas flow exhibits hysteresis. Under specific condi...
Wolff, Alexander Günther, Taras Johne, Reimar
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Food and environmental virology
The hepatitis E virus (HEV) causes acute and chronic hepatitis in humans. The zoonotic HEV genotype 3 is mainly transmitted by consumption of contaminated food produced from infected animals. However, transmission via contaminated surfaces has also to be considered. Here, the genotype 3c strain 47832c was dried on steel, wood, plastics and ceramics...
Premcheska, Simona Lederer, Mirijam Kaczmarek, Anna M
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Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)
Theranostics combines diagnostics and therapy in a single multifunctional system. Multifunctional upconversion luminescent lanthanide-doped nanothermometers for theranostic purposes offer non-invasive and sensitive multimodal performance in the biomedical field over traditional temperature measurement methods. Despite existing challenges, various s...
Caschera, Alexander G; McAuley, Julie; Kim, Youry; Purcell, Damian; Rymenants, Jasper; 84979; Foucher, Daniel A;
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on global health and the world's economies. Proliferation of virulent and deadly SARS-CoV-2 variants require effective transmission mitigation strategies. Under reasonable environmental conditions, culturable and infectious SARS-CoV-2 can survive on contaminated fomites from hours to...
Valsamatzi-Panagiotou, Aikaterini Penchovsky, Robert
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Environmental chemistry letters
The coronavirus 2019 pandemic, induced by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has strongly altered healthcare systems and the economy worldwide. The lack of knowledge on this virus has led to the implementation of uncertain strategies and measures to fight the pandemic. Here, we review environmental factors that contro...