Mitochondria-Targeting and Oxygen Self-Supplying Eccentric Hollow Nanoplatform for Enhanced Breast Cancer Photodynamic Therapy by Jing Li, Yu Wang, Jun Tao, Xiaodan Su, Feipeng Zhu, Wei Lu, Xiaolin Han, Meng Dang, Lixing Weng

“…Hemolytic assays and in vitro toxicity experiments show that the EHMONs-Ce6-CTPP possesses very good biocompatibility and can target mitochondria of triple-negative breast cancer, thus increasing the accumulation of photosensitizers Ce6 at mitochondria after entering cancer cells. …”
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Assessment of farmers' knowledge, attitudes and control practices (KAP) to mitigate acaricide resistance and tick-borne diseases by Sunita Jamra, Mukesh Shakya, Anant K. Jayraw, Vivek Agrawal, Mamta Singh, Anil Kumar Sharma, Gajendra N. Bhangale, Gaya P. Jatav, Nirmala Jamra, Ala Tabor

“…Based on our scoring criteria, results indicated only 25% (19.16–31.60) respondents possessing basic knowledge of TTBDs while 75% (68.40–80.84) respondents were not aware of TBDs. …”
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Keep Your Mentee Disappointed by Gil Eyal

“…Commenting on a Talmudic expression, that exhorts one to “make for thyself a Rabbi”, I suggest that the mentoring relationship involves the student making an emotional investment and constructing an (often distorted) image of their mentor as possessing superior mastery. I argue that this process cannot be understood with our model of liberal education, because being mentored as a sociologist involves learning a craft, and is akin to the ancient cultural model of apprenticeship. …”
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A Note on Generalized Approximation Property by Antara Bhar, Manjul Gupta

“…We introduce a notion of generalized approximation property, which we refer to as --AP possessed by a Banach space , corresponding to an arbitrary Banach sequence space and a convex subset of , the class of bounded linear operators on . …”
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Robust Exponential Synchronization of a Class of Chaotic Systems with Variable Convergence Rates via the Saturation Control by Meichun Huang, Runzi Luo, Jiaojiao Fu, Haipeng Su

“…By using the Lyapunov stability theory, a novel sufficient condition which possesses the exponential convergence rate λ is presented. …”
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New Insights into Artesunate as a Pleiotropic Regulator of Innate and Adaptive Immune Cells by Lixian Lin, Zengqi Tang, Zhenrui Shi, Qing Guo, Hui Xiong

“…Of interest, emerging evidences suggest that artesunate also possesses an immunomodulatory effect during innate and adaptive immune responses in cell types and context-dependent manner. …”
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Determination of Metastable Zone Width, Induction Period and Interfacial Energy of a Ferroelectric Crystal - Potassium Ferrocyanide Trihydrate (KFCT) by R. Kanagadurai, R. Durairajan, R. Sankar, G. Sivanesan, S. P. Elangovan, r. jayavel

“…Bulk crystal of potassium ferrocyanide trihydrate was grown with the optimized growth parameters. The grown crystal possesses good optical transmission in the entire UV-Visible region…”
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Soil Characteristics and Management Practices for Urban Residential Landscapes by Brian J. Pearson

“…Newly constructed urban residential landscape soils sampled within Central Florida are dominated by large sand particles and possess low soil moisture retention. Therefore, irrigation and fertilizer applications should be managed to match site conditions and prevent overapplication of water and nutrient leaching. …”
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Keeping a Household Inventory and Protecting Valuable Records by Carol Fountain, Michael T. Olexa, Jana Caracciolo, Lauren Grant

“… A disaster strikes. Your home and possessions are destroyed. Will you be able to pick up the pieces? …”
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Diplomacia visual na Baixa Idade Média portuguesa: os oficiais de armas by Duarte Maria Monteiro de Babo Marinho

“…This study aims to discuss the officers of arms and Portuguese heraldry as an aggregate of science, art and technique, that is, possessing symbolic meaning reflected through colours, figures and their organization in a coat of arms – according to heraldic rules. …”
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Polycythaemia Secondary to Hormone Replacement Therapy with Tibolone by Laura Staples, Tamara Milder, Philip Young-Ill Choi

“…In our 65-year-old postmenopausal patient who initially presented with haemoglobin 203 g/L [115–160] and haematocrit 0.63 [0.32–0.47], the cessation of tibolone, a synthetic hormone replacement therapy, led to a dramatic and sustained resolution of this patient’s polycythaemia to normal haematological values. Tibolone possesses oestrogenic, androgenic, and progestogenic properties. …”
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Writing Instructional Objectives by R. Kirby Barrick, Andrew C. Thoron

“…Instructional objectives identify the knowledge, skills, and abilities that students will possess upon successfully learning the material. This 4-page fact sheet outlines the three types of objectives (cognitive, psychomotor, and affective) as well as the different components of objectives (condition, performance, criterion). …”
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Aniridia in Two Related Tennessee Walking Horses by Karen A. McCormick, Daniel Ward, Kimberly M. Newkirk

“…In addition to aniridia, these 2 horses possessed additional ocular abnormalities including cataracts and dermoid lesions. …”
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Semiconservative Systems of Integral Equations with Two Kernels by N. B. Yengibaryan, A. G. Barseghyan

“…It is shown that in certain conditions the nonhomogeneous equation simultaneously with the corresponding homogeneous one possesses positive solutions.…”
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Keeping a Household Inventory and Protecting Valuable Records by Carol Fountain, Michael T. Olexa, Jana Caracciolo, Lauren Grant

“… A disaster strikes. Your home and possessions are destroyed. Will you be able to pick up the pieces? …”
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On obtaining the coupled-mode theory using a model of coupled plane waves for symmetric resonant diffraction gratings by D.A. Bykov, E.A. Bezus, L.L. Doskolovich

“…We consider two analytical models describing resonant scattering of light by resonant diffraction gratings possessing a horizontal symmetry plane. For the case of oblique incidence, a multiple interference model is formulated, on the basis of which, a new approach for deriving the coupled-mode theory for the considered structures is proposed. …”
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Study of Point Scanning Detection Mechanisms for Vibration Signals with Wavefront Sensors by Quan Luo, Hongsheng Luo, Yiyou Fan, Guihan Wu, Haoming Chen, Yun Pan, Wei Jiang, Jinshan Su

“…The experiments validate that each microlens of the wavefront sensor possesses autonomous detecting capabilities, enabling the sensor to scan and identify points of vibrational signals. …”
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A Conjugate Gradient Method with Global Convergence for Large-Scale Unconstrained Optimization Problems by Shengwei Yao, Xiwen Lu, Zengxin Wei

“…This paper proposes a conjugate gradient method which is similar to Dai-Liao conjugate gradient method (Dai and Liao, 2001) but has stronger convergence properties. The given method possesses the sufficient descent condition, and is globally convergent under strong Wolfe-Powell (SWP) line search for general function. …”
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THE COLLECTION OF <i> MALUS ORIENTALS </i> (UGLITZ.) JUZ. AS A SOURCE OF VALUABLE FORMS FOR BREEDING by O. N. Barsukova

“…A brief description of selected accessions possessing a set of valuable traits for breeding is presented.…”
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Recent Strategies in Preparation of Cellulose Nanocrystals and Cellulose Nanofibrils Derived from Raw Cellulose Materials by Hongxiang Xie, Haishun Du, Xianghao Yang, Chuanling Si

“…CNCs and CNFs are two types of nanocelluloses (NCs), and they possess various superior properties, such as large specific surface area, high tensile strength and stiffness, low density, and low thermal expansion coefficient. …”
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