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Nanotherapies for Atherosclerosis: Targeting, Catalysis, and Energy Transduction

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Atherosclerosis management is hindered by poor drug targeting and plaque heterogeneity. Nanotechnology overcomes these barriers via three core strategies: (1) target‐engineered nanocarriers that achieve lesion‐specific precision via ligand modification, biomimetic camouflage, stimuli‐responsive release, and self‐propelling nanomotors; (2) catalytic ...
Yuqi Yang, Jingguo Qu, Tonghuan Xiao, Xinyang Han, Michael Tin‐Cheung Ying   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transmission dynamics of the etiological agent of SARS in Hong Kong: impact of public health interventions.

, 2003
We present an analysis of the first 10 weeks of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic in Hong Kong. The epidemic to date has been characterized by two large clusters-initiated by two separate "super-spread" events (SSEs)-and by ongoing ...
Abu-Raddad, Laith J, Anderson, Roy M, Chan, King-Pan, Chau, Patsy, Donnelly, Christl A, Ferguson, Neil M, Fraser, Christophe, Ghani, Azra C, Hedley, Anthony J, Ho, Lai-Ming, Ho, William, Lam, Tai-Hing, Lau, Edith MC, Lee, Koon-Hung, Leung, Gabriel M, Leung, Pak-Yin, Lo, Su-Vui, Riley, Steven, Thach, Thuan Q, Tsang, Thomas   +19 more
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Limiting the spread of disease through altered migration patterns [PDF]

, 2015
We consider a model for an epidemic in a population that occupies geographically distinct locations. The disease is spread within subpopulations by contacts between infective and susceptible individuals, and is spread between subpopulations by the ...
McVinish, R., Pollett, P. K., Shausan, A.   +2 more
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Asymmetry of the Ferroelectric Phase Transition in BaTiO3

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Phase transitions are typically assumed to behave identically in forward and reverse. This work shows that in the ferroelectric material barium titanate this is not true: heating drives an abrupt, first‐order jump, while cooling gives a smooth, continuous change.
Asaf Hershkovitz, Elangovan Hemaprabha, Rajesh Mandal, Pravin Kavle, Jamil Tanus, Maya Barzilay, Ching‐Che Lin, David Spirito, Semën Gorfman, Bo Wang, Ignacio J. Villar‐García, Neus Domingo, Long‐Qing Chen, Lane W. Martin, Yachin Ivry   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why were so few randomized trials of public health and social measures conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic? The Norwegian experience

Trials
Background Few randomized trials of public health and social measures were carried out during the COVID-19 pandemic. We report on the major barriers we faced when we tried to run such trials.
Atle Fretheim, Petter Elstrøm, Cathinka Halle Julin, Unni Gopinathan, Ingeborg Hess Elgersma, Runar Barstad Solberg, Arnfinn Helleve   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Contextual Insights for Infectious Pathogen Surveillance Using the Epidemic Intelligence from Open Sources System

Annals of Global Health
Background: Surveillance systems with early warning alert and response (EWAR) objectives often integrate diverse data sources, including laboratory surveillance, community reports, and open-source information for robust public health intelligence.
Farah Kader, Raquel Medialdea Carrera, Carolyn Briody, Julie Fontaine, Yeon Kyeng Lee, Johannes Schnitzler, Philip AbdelMalik   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
wiley   +1 more source

Informed decisions about public health and social measures

Health Research Policy and Systems
Evidence, communication, critical thinking and participation are the cornerstones of informed decisions. In this article we discuss each of these in relation to decisions about public health and social measures (PHSM) during the coronavirus disease 2019 (
Andrew D. Oxman, Annlaug Selstø, Arnfinn Helleve, Atle Fretheim, Cathinka Halle Julin, Christine Holst, Christopher James Rose, Heather Munthe-Kaas, Ingeborg Hess Elgersma, Jenny Moberg, Mona Bjørbæk, Petter Elstrøm, Runar Barstad Solberg, Sarah E. Rosenbaum, Signe Flottorp, Tone Bruun, Unni Gopinathan   +16 more
doaj   +1 more source

Characteristics of 110 novel SARS-CoV-2 variant infections confirmed during February – May, 2023 in a district of Beijing

Zhongguo gonggong weisheng, 2023
ObjectiveTo describe clinical and epidemiological characteristics of cases infected with novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variant diagnosed during February – May, 2023 in a district of Beijing city for effective ...
Ruiqi HAO, Zhiyuan XU, Xiaofeng ZHANG, Jianrong CHEN, Meng ZHANG, Xiaohong JIANG, Xiao QI   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Optimal curing policy for epidemic spreading over a community network with heterogeneous population

, 2017
The design of an efficient curing policy, able to stem an epidemic process at an affordable cost, has to account for the structure of the population contact network supporting the contagious process.
Bonaccorsi, Stefano, De Pellegrini, Francesco, Ottaviano, Stefania, Van Mieghem, Piet   +3 more
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