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Bioengineered 3D hPSC‐Cholangiocyte Ducts With Physiological Signals for Biliary Disease Modeling

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Tian and colleagues generated a bioengineered bile duct from human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC)‐derived intrahepatic cholangiocytes within a high‐throughput, 384‐well platform to systematically examine the influence of biliary physiological signals including fluid flow, stromal cells and bile acids, and models intrahepatic biliary disease progression ...
Britney Tian, Mina Ogawa, Manami Kondo, Gabrielle Langeveld, Ling Jun Huan, Feng Zhang, Andrew Hollinger, Sara Deir, Christine Bear, Boyang Zhang, Shinichiro Ogawa   +10 more
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Return-volatility linkages in the international equity and currency markets [PDF]

This paper, which is motivated by the literature on international asset pricing and recent work on exchange rate determination, investigates dynamic relationshiops between major currency and equity markets.
Bill B. Francis, Delroy M. Hunter, Iftekhar Hasan   +2 more
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Assessing the experiences of teenage mothers in accessing healthcare in Rwanda

BMC Public Health
Teen mothers are more susceptible to the negative consequences of pregnancy, due to system-wide and socio-cultural barriers to accessing needed services, posing higher pregnancy complications and health risks to the babies and mothers.
Delphine Mizero, Marie Immaculee Dusingize, Axel Shimwa, Alima Uwimana, Tsion Yohannes Waka, Rex Wong   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Experience of South and Southeast Asian minority women in Hong Kong during COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2023
Background Hong Kong has a relatively low incidence rate of COVID-19 across the globe. Nevertheless, ethnic minorities in Hong Kong, especially South Asians (SAs) and Southeast Asians (SEAs), face numerous physical, mental, social, economic, cultural and
Roger Yat-Nork Chung, Tobey Tsz-Yan Lee, Siu-Ming Chan, Gary Ka-Ki Chung, Yat-Hang Chan, Samuel Yeung-Shan Wong, Eric Lai, Hung Wong, Eng Kiong Yeoh, Michael Marmot, Jean Woo   +10 more
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Plant‐Produced Viral Nanoparticles Decorated with Nanobodies Against HER2 Improve Retention and Recruitment of Immune Cells in Solid Tumors

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Potato virus X is a filamentous RNA plant virus that can be engineered into a molecular tool for cancer therapy. We produced genetically‐encoded virus‐derived nanoparticles decorated with nanobodies targeting cancer cell receptors, epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and human epidermal growth factor 2 (HER2).
Enrique Lozano‐Sanchez, Miguel A. Moreno‐Gonzalez, Fernando Merwaiss, Nicole F. Steinmetz, José‐Antonio Daròs   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the lived socioeconomic experiences of teen mothers in Rwanda

Reproductive Health
Teenage pregnancy is one of the major public health problems worldwide, with the issue more severe in low-and middle-income countries. While poverty is a main risk factor, the negative consequences of teenage pregnancy further perpetuate the cycle of ...
Delphine Mizero, Axel Shimwa, Marie Immaculee Dusingize, Alima Uwimana, Tsion Yohannes, Rex Wong   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Trust without Equity [PDF]

International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 2000
This chapter examines an English peculiarity logically detachable from the trust: the distinction between the legal and the equitable estate. According to the Hague Convention on the Recognition of Trusts, ‘the trust, as developed in courts of equity in common law jurisdictions and adopted with some modifications in other jurisdictions, is a unique ...
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Unlocking the Full Potential of Zinc Oxide/Cerium Oxide Composite Nanoparticles for Removal of Mixed Pharmaceutical and Dye Pollutants in Water

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
ZnO/CeO2 composite nanoparticles synthesized via a facile hydrothermal method simultaneously degrade ciprofloxacin, tetracycline, methylene blue, and methyl orange in a four‐component mixture under UV irradiation. The Ce3+/Ce4+ redox cycling and oxygen vacancies at the ZnO/CeO2 interface suppress charge recombination and enhance reactive species ...
Aditya Rianjanu, Rima Nurfitria, Eka Nurfani, Rizky Aflaha, Kuwat Triyana, Tarmizi Taher, Agustina Sus Andreani, Noto Susanto Gultom, Januar Widakdo, Dian Ahmad Hapidin, Erwin Peiner, Hutomo Suryo Wasisto   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring drivers and prevention strategies for sexual violence among adolescent girls and young women in Kicukiro, Rwanda

Frontiers in Reproductive Health
IntroductionSexual violence against adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) is a pervasive issue globally, with particularly high prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa.
Wongani Patricia Kawonga, Sam M. Livingstone, Augustine Ndaimani, Jean Pierre Sibomana, Tsion Yohannes Waka, Maxwell Mhlanga, Andrew Mclellan   +6 more
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Equity's Different Talks [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
This paper investigates the fundamental ambiguity that lays at the roots of Equity - both as a word and as a set of ideas - so to explain and justify its wandering soul, its hybrid nature and genealogy. Moving from a kind of foucaultian archeology, the Author comes to highlight the peculiarities of English Legal System, where the original complexities ...
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