Hypothesis: The main objective of this project was the development of a new method for converting natural polymers into hybrid hydrogels.The hybrid hydrogels are usually prepared through grafting of acrylic monomers onto pure polysaccharides, and this study was performed using rice husk to prepare semi-synthetic hybrid hydrogels.Methods: Rice husk
Abstract Since many lateral flow assays (LFA) are tested daily, the improvement in accuracy can greatly impact individual patient care and public health.However, current self-testing for COVID-19 detection suffers from low accuracy, mainly due to the LFA sensitivity and reading ambiguities.Here, we present deep learning-assisted smartphone-based LF
Approximately half of all bee species use vibrations to remove pollen from plants with diverse floral morphologies.In many Oven Door Hinge Set buzz-pollinated flowers, these mechanical vibrations generated by bees are transmitted through floral tissues, principally pollen-containing anthers, causing pollen to be ejected from small openings (pores o
BACKGROUND: DFR (different region) analysis has been developed for typing Yesinia pestis in our previous study, and in this study, we extended this method by using 23 Womens Pants DFRs to investigate 909 Chinese Y.pestis strains for validating DFR-based genotyping method and better understanding adaptive microevolution of Y.pestis.METHODOLOGY/PRINC
This paper measures migration flows and determinants in two slum settlements in Nairobi City between 2003 Western Pony Pad and 2007.The results confirm the high intensity of migration with a quarter of the total slum population and a third of those aged 15-30 being renewed annually.A circular migration system is at play whereby the majority of slum