Bamboo fibers (BF) were mixed in polylactic acid (PLA) to improve its mechanical properties:
impact strength and heat resistance. Three different types of BF were extracted from raw …

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a growing burden worldwide, and there is no reliable biomarker
used in clinical routines to date. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is routinely collected in patients …

VHB 4910 is an important polymeric material that has potential use as electro-active polymer
in producing actuators. Such polymer, a member of the acrylic polymer group, is a very soft …

Exosomes are nano-scale and closed membrane vesicles which are promising for therapeutic
applications due to exosome-enclosed therapeutic molecules such as DNA, small RNAs, …

Hedgehog (Hh) signaling plays an important role in several malignancies but its clinical
significance in breast cancer is unclear. In a cohort of 279 patients with invasive ductal …

In practice, pavements or slabs are subjected to wide range of length changes during their
service life. In case of cement-based materials, their length changes due to shrinkage and/or …

We first present a new service network design model for freight consolidation carriers, one
that selects services and routes both commodities and resources needed to support the …

Several large scale studies on the Maven, NPM, and Android ecosystems point out that many
developers do not often update their vulnerable software libraries thus exposing the user …

The in vivo studies of myocardial infarct using c-kit + /Lin − cardiac stem cells (CSCs) are
still in the early stage with margin or no beneficial effects for cardiac function. One of the …

A preconditioned Navier–Stokes (NS) method is developed for multiphase flow with
application to the water entry problem of moving bodies. The method employs a dual time-…