Sewage systems may be the preferred pathways for plastic debris from urban areas to the natural environment during wet weather. Some local authorities are trying to prevent this leakage into the environment by equipping combined sewer (mixed of stormwater and wastewater) or stormwater outfalls (separate sewer systems) with nets. More than a curativ...
First predation of a Nile Monitor by a Central African Rock Python in Cameroon, with emphasis on local abandoned fishing-nets and their potential threats.
Published in Frontiers in Marine Science
Production of sugar kelp, Saccharina latissima, has the potential of extracting nutrients and carbon from the seawater and returning it to land as a bioresource. The production thereby acts as an emission capture and utilization instrument contributing to mitigation of eutrophication and climate change. To achieve higher biomass yields improving th...
Published in Cureus
Vaccination is the principal tool aimed at curbing the COVID-19 pandemic that has, so far, affected tens of millions of individuals in the United States. The two available mRNA vaccines developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna possess high efficacy in preventing infection and illness severity. However, there are multiple side effects associated wit...
Published in Physical Sciences Reviews
In this chapter an overview is given in which way framework-like crystalline compounds can be regarded as nets, how a net is derived out of a particular crystal structure, what nets actually are, how they can be appropriately described, what the characteristics of nets are, and how this topological approach helps to categorize framework compounds. ...
Published in Platelets
Bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein (BPI) exhibits a number of important characteristics. RNA-seq analysis revealed that the BPI expression was increased in platelets of (non)ST-elevated myocardial infarction (NSTEMI/STEMI) patients. Activated platelets can induce NETosis which may be accompanied by the release of myeloperoxidase-DNA (MPO-...
Published in Cureus
Since the start of the global pandemic caused by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), there have been numerous reports of autoimmune and rheumatological disorders developing after infection with SARS-CoV-2. To date, there has been only one reported case of systemic sclerosis (SSc) developing after SARS-CoV-2 infection. Here, we present another case...
Published in Journal of infection in developing countries
Living conditions in most rural African communities favour malaria transmission and threaten global eradication. Prevention strategies and interventions such as the use of bed nets have reduced the prevalence of malaria. This study described the various methods employed to prevent malaria and their effects on malaria parasite prevalence among child...
Published in Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
Background: Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) play an important role in the occurrence, metastasis and immune escape of cancers. This study aimed to investigate NET-related genes, their clinical prognostic value and their correlation with immunotherapy and anticancer drugs in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). Methods:...
Over a decade ago, it was shown that every edge unfolding of the Platonic solids was without self-overlap, yielding a valid net. Recent work has extended this property to their higher-dimensional analogs: the 4-cube, 4-simplex, and 4-orthoplex. We present an interactive visualization that allows the user to unfold these polytopes by drawing on thei...
