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A narrative review of vascular conduits for coronary artery bypass grafting
Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) involves creating new conduits to restore blood flow to the heart. Using autologous vascular grafts presents challenges, including infection risk after vein harvesting, and scarcity ...
De Novo Design of Peptide Masks Enables Rapid Generation of Conditionally-Active Miniprotein Binders
The widespread expression of therapeutic targets in both diseased and healthy tissues poses a major challenge for protein-based therapeutics, often leading to dose-limiting side effects. One promising strategy to enhance ...
Breaking barriers: assessing the influence of female directors on financial performance beyond the boardroom
The persistent under representation of women in executive committees continues to challenge gender equality in corporate leadership. Legislative interventions promoting gender quotas have led to improvements in boardroom ...
Reimagining Tourism Education for a Sustainable and Regenerative Future
This chapter reports findings from ERASMUS+ EcoHarmony (Ecoharmony project, 2024), a multinational initiative co-funded by the European Union that advances a comprehensive strategy to embed sustainable—and explicitly ...
Navigating the Nexus: Blockchain technology, social Innovation, and complementary digital currencies
This paper explores the tensions between democratic and technocratic forms of social innovation in the context of complementary digital currencies. Through an in-depth ethnographic case study of Moneda PAR, a blockchain-based ...
B–N axis as a facilitating agent for the synthesis of 3D structures: the paradigmatic case of BN-[4.4.4]propellane
Flat aromatic compounds containing a boron–nitrogen (BN) fragment have gained significant attention in the field of organic optoelectronics. Unsurprisingly, therefore, an increasing number of synthetic methodology groups ...
Quantitative and qualitative comparison of mRNA loading techniques into extracellular vesicles
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are increasingly recognized as natural therapeutic delivery systems (DDS). A critical challenge in realizing this potential is the loading of nucleic acids, particularly mRNA, a high molecular ...
Analysis of the relationship between ESG and labor costs: the moderating effect of the legal tradition
This study examines the relationship between Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) scores and labor costs per employee (LCE) in firms operating under different legal traditions, specifically comparing civil law ...
Exploring How Artificial Intelligence (AI) Can Enable Sustainability in the Hospitality Industry
The hospitality industry, encompassing operations from hotels and resorts to restaurants and event venues, faces increasing pressure to integrate sustainability into its core business practices. The rapid proliferation of ...
Highly potent dipeptidyl peptidase 8/9 (DPP8/9) inhibitors designed via relative binding free energy calculations
Dipeptidyl peptidases (DPP) 8 and 9 are emerging enzymatic drug targets with suggested applications in acute myeloid leukaemia and HIV infection, among others. In this work, we optimised a well-known reference DPP8/9 ...
Programmable Shape-Directed Optical Binding of Plasmonic Nanoparticles
Controlling the organization of plasmonic nanoparticles with optical forces is essential for designing reconfigurable light-responsive materials. However, the role of particle shape in determining optical binding geometries ...
Credit cycles as predictors of labor market slack: Evidence from the U․S․
This paper empirically studies the relationship between credit and unemployment fluctuations in the U.S. economy for the period 1955–2023. Drawing on the business cycle literature that focuses on changes in output, we model ...
The validity of subjective assessments of deprivation: Can it be true that poor people are happier than those who are well off?
This paper examines the validity of subjective information in assessing well-being under conditions of deprivation. It does so by comparing two mutually exclusive assumptions across disciplines. From one perspective, ...
Mapping innovation tools and financial inclusion: a bibliometric analysis
This study employs bibliometric and visualisation techniques to analyse global trends in financial inclusion and the innovative tools that promote it. By examining a multi-database compilation of 4202 documents sourced ...
Structure of a barrel-stave pore formed by magainin-2 reveals anion selectivity and zipper-mediated assembly
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are ubiquitous weapons of all higher organisms to suppress antimicrobial growth. Despite intensive research, the killing mechanism of these peptides after interaction with the bacterial cell ...
Functionalised gold nanoparticles using abietane diterpenoids from Plectranthus grandidentatus Gürke for cancer therapy
Nanoparticles (NPs) are very small particles with distinct properties stemming from their nanometric size and large surface area, setting them apart from bulk materials. NPs provide many benefits, such as high drug loading ...
Non-thermal plasma CO2 conversion enhanced by CeO2-doped BaTiO3 and internal electrode cooling
This work investigates the combined impact of using cerium oxide (CeO2) as a catalyst and internal electrode cooling on CO2 conversion into CO in a non-thermal plasma reactor packed with barium titanate (BaTiO3). BaTiO3 ...
Neurodevelopmental Outcomes of Mycotoxins Exposure and Effect on Brain Development in Infants and Young Children
This comprehensive literature review was conducted to identify relevant studies on mycotoxins and brain development in children. Existing studies suggest that mycotoxin exposure during critical periods of brain development ...
Non-Destructive Classification of Sweetness and Firmness in Oranges Using ANFIS and a Novel CCI–GLCM Image Descriptor
This study introduces a non-destructive computer vision method for estimating postharvest quality parameters of oranges, including maturity index, soluble solid content (expressed in degrees Brix), and firmness. A novel ...
A simple AI-driven process intensification protocol for active pharmaceutical ingredients synthesis
The synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) traditionally relies on batch reactors, which often exhibit challenges in terms of both selectivity and heat transfer control. This study investigated the Aza-Michael ...
