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Spatiotemporal changes in microtubule dynamics during dendritic morphogenesis.
Published in Fly
Dendritic morphogenesis requires dynamic microtubules (MTs) to form a coordinated cytoskeletal network during development. Dynamic MTs are characterized by their number, polarity and speed of polymerization. Previous studies described a correlation between anterograde MT growth and terminal branch extension in Drosophila dendritic arborization (da)...
Mathematical modeling of Notch dynamics in Drosophila neural development.
Published in Fly
Notch signalling is a well-conserved signalling pathway that regulates cell fate through cell-cell communication. A typical feature of Notch signalling is 'lateral inhibition', whereby two neighbouring cells of equivalent state of differentiation acquire different cell fates. Recently, mathematical and computational approaches have addressed the No...
The effectiveness and safety of complementary health approaches to managing postpartum pain: A systematic review and met...
Published in Integrative medicine research
Women experience pain from a number of causes during the postpartum period. Although pharmacological pain relief has shown to be effective, the efficacy of non-pharmacological methods of pain relief will be of interest to breastfeeding women. The aim of this systematic review was to examine the efficacy and safety of complementary approaches to man...
Transition from saliva droplets to solid aerosols in the context of COVID-19 spreading
Published in Environmental Research
To control the evolution of a pandemic such as COVID-19, knowing the conditions under which the pathogen is being transmitted represents a critical issue, especially when implementing protection strategies such as social distancing and wearing face masks. For viruses and bacteria that spread via airborne and/or droplet pathways, this requires under...
Forecasting COVID-19 Chile' second outbreak by a generalized SIR model with constant time delays and a fitted positivity...
Published in Mathematics and computers in simulation
The COVID-19 disease has forced countries to make a considerable collaborative effort between scientists and governments to provide indicators to suitable follow-up the pandemic's consequences. Mathematical modeling plays a crucial role in quantifying indicators describing diverse aspects of the pandemic. Consequently, this work aims to develop a c...
Historical perspectives on using sham acupuncture in acupuncture clinical trials.
Published in Integrative medicine research
Trials of acupuncture in the West began before textbooks about acupuncture were generally available. This placed trials at risk of possible faulty assumptions about the practice of acupuncture and adoption of problematic research assumptions and methods. Further, this lack of information has had an influence on the theories of developing a valid an...
Is the mechanism of COVID-19 coagulopathy still a rabbit's hole?
Published in Journal of cell communication and signaling
The pathophysiology of COVID-19 is an enigma with its severity often determined by the extent of coagulopathy. Several regulatory pathways targeted by the SARS-CoV-2 include the renin-angiotensin system, von Willebrand Factor, and most importantly, the complement pathway. This article discusses these pathways to help design potential future therapi...
Design and characterization of a package-less hybrid PDMS-CMOS-FR4 contact-imaging system for microfluidic integration
Published in Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS
We demonstrate a hybrid “package-less” polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)–complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS)-FR4 system for contact imaging. The system embeds the CMOS image sensor directly in a PDMS layer instead of the standard chip package to support microfluidic structures much larger and more complex than those in prior art. The CMOS/PDMS...
Integration of fuzzy-weighted zero-inconsistency and fuzzy decision by opinion score methods under a q-rung orthopair en...
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Published in Computer standards & interfaces
Owing to the limitations of Pythagorean fuzzy and intuitionistic fuzzy sets, scientists have developed a distinct and successive fuzzy set called the q-rung orthopair fuzzy set (q-ROFS), which eliminates restrictions encountered by decision-makers in multicriteria decision making (MCDM) methods and facilitates the representation of complex uncertai...
