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Accessible City for Everyone

Engineering Proceedings
One of the key goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is to create inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable cities. A fundamental aspect of this goal is ensuring barrier-free mobility and access to public spaces, particularly for people ...
Renata Zdařilová, Jana Tichá Blahutová   +1 more
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The outer frontier: the importance of lipid metabolism in the skin

Journal of Lipid Research, 2009
The skin serves the vital function of providing a barrier between the hostile external environment and the host. While the skin has many important barrier functions, the two that are absolutely essential for survival are the barrier to the movement of ...
Kenneth R. Feingold
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Conformational Change of H64 and Substrate Transportation: Insight Into a Full Picture of Enzymatic Hydration of CO2 by Carbonic Anhydrase

Frontiers in Chemistry, 2021
The enzymatic hydration of CO2 into HCO3− by carbonic anhydrase (CA) is highly efficient and environment-friendly measure for CO2 sequestration. Here extensive MM MD and QM/MM MD simulations were used to explore the whole enzymatic process, and a full ...
Yuzhuang Fu, Fangfang Fan, Yuwei Zhang, Binju Wang, Zexing Cao   +4 more
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Cobalt-Porphyrin Catalyzed Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide in Water II: Mechanism from First Principles

, 2010
We apply first principles computational techniques to analyze the two-electron, multi-step, electrochemical reduction of CO2 to CO in water using cobalt porphyrin as a catalyst.
Leung, Kevin, Medforth, Craig J., Nielsen, Ida M. B., Sai, Na, Shelnutt, J. A.   +4 more
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Intravitreal GD2‐Specific Chimeric Antigen Receptor T‐Cell Therapy for Refractory Retinoblastoma

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Effective treatments for advanced, treatment‐resistant retinoblastoma (RB) remain limited. GD2‐specific chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells show potent antitumor activity with minimal toxicity but have not previously been evaluated in RB.
Subongkoch Subhadhirasakul, Jatuporn Sujjitjoon, Pa‐thai Yenchitsomanus, Kridtin Jarutatsanangkoon, Ng Wei Loon, Kleebsabai Sanpakit, Jassada Buaboonnam, Chayamon Takpradit, Pornpimon Yuti, Nunghathai Sawasdee, Piriya Luangwattananun, Siripakorn Sangkitporn, Arnan Limmahachai, La‐ongsri Atchaneeyasakul   +13 more
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Micro- and nano-environment dual-modulated anti-tendon adhesion barrier membranes

Materials & Design, 2022
Despite promise in preventing peritendinous adhesion, electrospun membranes face many challenges related to their complex fabrication process, untargeted/uncontrolled drug delivery and consequently low therapeutical effect.
Qiang Zhang, Kui Ma, Chun-Hei Lam, Ho-Pan Bei, Yu Liu, Xing Yang, Xin Zhao   +6 more
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The influence of preconceptions on perceived sound reduction by environmental noise barriers [PDF]

, 2010
The paper presents research that answers three main questions: (1) Do preconceptions held about the constituent materials of an environmental noise barrier affect how people perceive the barrier will perform at attenuating noise?
Aylor, Bailey, Cohn, Cohn, Cohn, Dénes, European Parliament, Golding, Hall, Holm, Jennifer L.R. Joynt, Jian Kang, Kragh, Kryter, Meredith, Mulligan, Nilson, Nilson, Orsman, Pallant, Pendakur, Perfater, Stevens, Verbruggen, Viollon, Viollon, Walsgrove, Warren, Watts, Watts   +29 more
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Pediatric Oncology Nursing Competencies in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Scoping Review to Inform Practice, Education, and Research

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Nurses are central to cancer care for children and adolescents, yet no comprehensive synthesis has defined essential core competencies for pediatric oncology nursing (PON) practice internationally, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
Luís Carlos Lopes‐Júnior, Edmara Bazoni Soares Maia, Soad Fuentes‐Alabí, Courtney E. Sullivan, Monnie Abraham, Mauricio Maza, Liliana Vásquez Ponce, Regina Aparecida Garcia Lima   +7 more
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A social innovation for combating discrimination against persons with disabilities in the built environment [PDF]

Urbani Izziv, 2014
The rights of persons with disabilities to barrier-free access and equal opportunities are guaranteed by numerous documents at the international and national levels, but various studies and daily experience show that these legal provisions have not ...
Richard Sendi
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Computational science and re-discovery: open-source implementations of ellipsoidal harmonics for problems in potential theory

, 2012
We present two open-source (BSD) implementations of ellipsoidal harmonic expansions for solving problems of potential theory using separation of variables.
Ambia-Garrido J, Ammari H, Bowman J J, Byerly W E, Dassios G, Heine E, Hobson E W, Hobson E W, Jansen G, Jaydeep P Bardhan, Kang H, Knepley M G Bardhan J P, Matthew G Knepley, Morse P M, Ritter S   +14 more
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