Apocalypse and Sensibility: The Role of Sympathy in Jeff Lemire’s Sweet Tooth by André Cabral de Almeida Cardoso

“…In Jeff Lemire’s graphic narrative Sweet Tooth, the reader is faced with a world in dissolution. The cause for world-wide disaster, a deadly disease, is a traditional element of dystopian fiction. …”
Get full text

Fast Antinoise RFID-Aided Medical Care System by Ming-Hour Yang, Jia-Ning Luo

“…During the medicine round, even though their RFID reader is offline, our method can generate multiple proofs for each patient and help the medical caretakers follow the five-right policy to correctly administer the drugs to their patients. …”
Get full text

Font Design in Visual Communication Design of Genetic Algorithm by Yue Wang, Won-jun Chung

“…This makes the text boring taste, causing the reader’s visual fatigue, which is not conducive to readers absorbing information through books. …”
Get full text

‘Only Brooks of Sheffield’: Conversation, Crossover Writing, and Child and Adult Perspectives in David Copperfield and Its Juvenile Adaptations by Hannah Field

“…Nonetheless, other conversations show sensitive adults mitigating power differentials between child and adult, and present the child David as unusually perspicacious (in line with his overall characterization). …”
Get full text

CircRNF13 enhances IGF2BP1 phase separation-mediated ITGB1 mRNA stabilization in an m6A-dependent manner to promote oral cancer cisplatin chemoresistance by Xuemeng Xu, Qiu Peng, Zongyao Ren, Yaqian Han, Xianjie Jiang, Zhu Wu, Shiming Tan, Wenjuan Yang, Linda Oyang, Xia Luo, Jinguan Lin, Longzheng Xia, Mingjing Peng, Nayiyuan Wu, Yanyan Tang, Hao Tian, Yujuan Zhou, Qianjin Liao

“…Results from both in vitro and in vivo experiments indicated that circRNF13 enhances cancer cell proliferation and tumor growth, while concurrently diminishing tumor sensitivity to cisplatin. Mechanistically, circRNF13 interacts with the m6A “reader” protein IGF2BP1, inhibiting its ubiquitin-mediated degradation and promoting its phase separation formation. …”
Get full text

Similarity and quality metrics for MR image-to-image translation by Melanie Dohmen, Mark A. Klemens, Ivo M. Baltruschat, Tuan Truong, Matthias Lenga

“…To ensure patient safety, these methods should be validated by human readers, which requires a considerable amount of time and costs. …”
Get full text

Strategic Review: The CZTS Thin-Film Using Tandem and Multi-Junction Solar Cell by Saif Adnan Muhamad, Methaq Hadi Lafta

“…This review is tried to cover all the contents with a simple expression and at the same time so that the reader with any scientific level of this research field can have a good understanding of the research field and the importance of solar cells. …”
Get full text

超高效液相色谱-三重四极杆串联质谱法同时 测定植物油中4种维生素E异构体Simultaneous determination of four vitamin E isomers in vegetable oil by ultra-high performance liquid chromatography- triple quadrupole... by 李彩玲1，张见1,2，刘元法1,3，王晓超1，梅东旭1 LI Cailing1, ZHANG Jian1,2, LIU Yuanfa1,3, WANG Xiaochao1, MEI Dongxu1

Get full text

Quantitative fluorescent nanoparticle tracking analysis and nano‐flow cytometry enable advanced characterization of single extracellular vesicles by Danilo Mladenović, Joseph Brealey, Ben Peacock, Kairi Koort, Nataša Zarovni

“…Abstract Current state‐of‐the‐art tools for analysing extracellular vesicles (EVs) offer either highly sensitive but unidimensional bulk measurements of EV components, or high‐resolution multiparametric single‐particle analyses which lack standardization and appropriate reference materials. …”
Get full text

The Worm and the Ecologist: Experiencing Planetarity with Frank Herbert’s Dune by Pierre-Louis Patoine

“…In the novel, these motifs assemble to form thick situations, in which immersed, empathic readers can experience aspects of planetary ecology, thanks to embodied cognition and its sensory and motor simulations.…”
Get full text

Cytokine and Chemokine Profile in Patients with Multiple Myeloma Treated with Bortezomib by Paweł Robak, Edyta Węgłowska, Izabela Dróżdż, Damian Mikulski, Dariusz Jarych, Magdalena Ferlińska, Ewa Wawrzyniak, Małgorzata Misiewicz, Piotr Smolewski, Wojciech Fendler, Janusz Szemraj, Tadeusz Robak

“…Patients who demonstrated CR or PR after bortezomib-based therapies longer than six months after treatment discontinuation were designated bortezomib sensitive. Serum cytokine levels were assayed with Bio-Rad Bio-Plex Pro Human Cytokine 27-Plex Assay on the MAGPIX Multiplex Reader and the Bio-Plex® 200 System (Bio-Rad). …”
Get full text

No culture shock? Addressing the Achilles heel of modern Bible translations by S. J. Joubert

“… Modern Bible translations are often more sensitive to the needs of their intended readers than to the right of biblical texts to be heard on their own terms as religious artefacts from the ancient Mediterranean world. …”
Get full text

Staging of Primary Abdominal Lymphomas: Comparison of Whole-Body MRI with Diffusion-Weighted Imaging and 18F-FDG-PET/CT by Alessandro Stecco, Francesco Buemi, Martina Quagliozzi, Mariangela Lombardi, Alberto Santagostino, Gian Mauro Sacchetti, Alessandro Carriero

“…The sensitivity, specificity, and PPV and NPV of PET/CT were 95.9%, 100%, and 100% and 96.4%, respectively. …”
Get full text

External quality assurance of chest X-ray interpretation to strengthen diagnosis of childhood TB by B.F. Melingui, E. Leroy-Terquem, J.V. Taguebue, T.C. Eap, L. Borand, C. Khosa, R. Moh, J. Mwanga-Amumpaire, S. Beneteau, M.T. Eang, I. Manhiça, A. Mustapha, O. Marcy, E. Wobudeya, P.Y. Norval, M. Bonnet, on behalf of the TB-Speed study group

“…The performance was assessed by the proportion of discordant interpretations and the sensitivity and specificity of clinicians’ vs re-readers’ interpretations. …”
Get full text

Biological functions of 5-methylcytosine RNA-binding proteins and their potential mechanisms in human cancers by Tingting Zhao, Zhe Zhang, Zhuo Chen, Guozheng Xu, Yongxi Wang, Fang Wang

“…By affecting the proliferation, migration, invasion, and drug sensitivity of tumor cells, m5C methylation modification plays a vital part in the initiation and progression of tumors and is closely associated with the poor tumor prognosis. m5C-related proteins are categorized into three functional groups: m5C methyltransferases (m5C writers), m5C demethylases (m5C erasers), and m5C methyl-binding proteins (m5C readers). …”
Get full text

Optimisation of low and ultra-low dose scanning protocols for ultra-extended field of view PET in a real-world clinical setting by Johanna Ingbritsen, Jason Callahan, Hugh Morgan, Melissa Munro, Robert E. Ware, Rodney J. Hicks

“…These data were then reconstructed simulating progressively shorter acquisition times down to 30 s and 1 min, respectively and then reviewed by 2 experienced PET readers who selected the shortest optimal and minimal acquisition durations based on personal preferences. …”
Get full text

Site-selective photo-crosslinking for the characterisation of transient ubiquitin-like protein-protein interactions. by Zac Sandy, Zijuan Wang, Deepak Behera, Benjamin M Foster, Finlay A Martin, Kira Brüninghoff, Kathleen M Cain, Wolfgang Dörner, Maria Jose Cabello-Lobato, Josep V Forment, Matthew J Cliff, Igor Larrosa, Perdita Barran, Duncan L Smith, Henning D Mootz, Christine K Schmidt

“…This exquisite degree of sensitivity and specificity greatly improves upon previous screens aimed at identifying downstream non-covalent binders, or readers, of ISG15. …”
Get full text

Current Updates on Molecular Diagnostic Assays Used for Detection of <i>Candida auris</i>: A Systematic Review by River Chun-Wai Wong, Alfred Lok-Hang Lee, Ingrid Yu-Ying Cheung, Viola Chi-Ying Chow, Margaret Ip, Christopher Koon-Chi Lai

“…<b>Conclusions</b>: Here, we describe a useful summary to enlighten readers from clinical microbiology laboratories on the nucleic acid extraction protocols and performance of various molecular diagnostic assays used for the detection of <i>C. auris</i>.…”
Get full text

Fálétí’s Philosophical Sensibility by Adeshina Afolayan

“…They can, for instance, lead the reader to critical reflections on the type of leaders suitable for a given society and on the degree of civic consciousness exercised by the people in protecting their rights. …”
Get full text

De l’arbre au paysage d’arbres by Fabienne Cavaillé

“…The first album immerses the young readers (aged 6 to 10 approximately) in the world of trees, a reassuring living environment. …”
Get full text