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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Herein, an RBC membrane‐derived nanoparticle (CMN‐ICG) is engineered to efficiently deliver a sonosensitizing agent, indocyanine green (ICG), for sonotherapy of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). CMN‐ICG exhibits excellent cytocompatibility, significantly enhances hepatocyte uptake, and produces excessive reactive oxygen species (ROS) upon ultrasound ...
Alap Ali Zahid +6 more
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Sleep Quantity and the Perception of Weight-Stigma Threat [PDF]
, 2017 This study investigated the interaction between the perception of weight stigma, sleep quantity, and BMI/self-perceived body weight. We hypothesized that participants with higher BMIs and individuals who perceived themselves as overweight would be more ...
Speck, Megan E
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Metachromatic Butterfly Bile Pigments for Multi‐Level Optical Security Films
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Bio‐derived optical security materials are manufactured by embedding butterfly‐based pigments in polymer films. Tunable color and fluorescence responses arise from concentration‐controlled metachromasy, enabling spatially encoded patterns with distinct visible, UV‐active, and spectral signatures.
Limin Wang, Bodo D. Wilts
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Combating the Stigmatization of Leprosy: How the first decade of The Star’s publication made the case for romantic relationships and the preservation of domestic life in the Carville Leprosarium [PDF]
, 2013 The stigmatization of leprosy has long been acknowledged as one of the primary obstacles to not only effectively treating leprous patients on a physical level, but also achieving their integration and acceptance into society.
Reed, Gabriela
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Skin‐Interfaced Therapeutic Patches for Wound Fluid Management and Transdermal Drug Delivery
Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.This study presents an integrated skin‐interfaced device combining microfluidics, hydrogel film technology, flexible electronics, and iontophoresis‐based transdermal delivery of PDRN to enhance wound healing. The device effectively manages wound fluid, maintains optimal moisture, and non‐invasively delivers therapeutic drugs.
Dongjun Han +5 more
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Clothing as a symbol of charity and soul salvation in late Medieval Kotor (Cattaro) [PDF]
Balcanica, 2008 Religious practices in late medieval Kotor included charitable acts of donating clothes to the poor as a form of imitatio Christi. The model of charity for the faithful to follow was set in the vitae of widely-favoured saints such as Sts Martin of ...
Živković Valentina
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Experiences of diagnosis, stigma, culpability, and disclosure in male patients with hepatitis C virus: an interpretative phenomenological analysis [PDF]
, 2019 The current study aimed to explore the lived experience of patients with hepatitis C virus infection. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven male participants living with hepatitis C virus and were analysed using interpretative ...
Adele Dickson +11 more
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Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.A superhydrophobic 3D cell culture platform enables rapid and consistent formation of heterotypic tumor–stroma clusters, and reveals how physiological shear conditions influence metastatic signaling. Mechanical stimulation of cancer‐associated fibroblasts promotes sustained cytokine secretion and survival‐promoting pathways, showing how multicellular ...
Alexandria T. Carter +5 more
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HIV/AIDS: Ayurvedic Medicine\u27s Impact on India\u27s Social Stigma [PDF]
, 2012 Ayurvedic medicine is an ancient form of treatment that has existed in India through scriptures and generations for thousands of years. It is practiced by “indigenous medical practitioners” or natural medical practitioners that assume the role of healers
Francis, Shawn
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Anti‐Slip Material‐Based Strategies and Approaches
Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.This review highlights the principle mechanisms of slipping at the microscale, linking contact mechanics with a friction behavior model for surface interfaces. Main strategies to develop anti‐slip properties to the surfaces are discussed alongside standardized testing approaches.
Sogand Abbaspoor‐Zanjani +3 more
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