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  • Specific plasma microRNAs are associated with CD4+ T-cell recovery during suppressive antiretroviral therapy for HIV-1 
    Kroeze, Stefanie; Kootstra, Neeltje; Van Nuenen, Ad C.; Rossouw, Theresa M.; Kityo, Cissy M.; Siwale, Margaret; Akanmu, Sulaimon; Mandaliya, Kishor; De Jager, Marleen; Ondoa, Pascale; Wit, Ferdinand W.; Reiss, Peter; Rinke de Wit, Tobias F.; Hamers, Raph L. (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2024-05)
    OBJECTIVE: This study investigated the association of plasma microRNAs before and during antiretroviral therapy (ART) with poor CD4þ T-cell recovery during the first year of ART. DESIGN: MicroRNAs were retrospectively ...
  • Bimodal impact strength distribution in HDPE composites : formulational effects and bayesian inference 
    Viljoen, David; Labuschagné, Johan; Kuehnert, Ines (KeAi Communications Co., 2024-04)
    A bimodal impact strength distribution was found in notched impact specimens of HDPE composites with calcium carbonate, carbon black, SEBS and stabilisers. The bimodal distribution was only found at moderate-to-high ...
  • Ordered magnetic fields around the 3C 84 central black hole 
    Paraschos, Georgios Filippos; Kim, J.-Y.; Wielgus, Maciek; Röder, J.; Krichbaum, Thomas P.; Ros, Eduardo; Agudo, Iván; Myserlis, Ioannis; Moscibrodzka, Monika; Traianou, Efthalia; Zensus, J. Anton; Blackburn, Lindy; Chan, Chi-kwan; Issaoun, Sara; Janssen, Michael; Johnson, M.D.; Fish, Vincent L.; Akiyama, Kazunori; Alberdi, A.; Alef, Walter; Algaba, Juan Carlos; Anantua, Richard; Asada, Keiichi; Azulay, Rebecca; Bach, Uwe; Baczko, Anne-Kathrin; Ball, David; Baloković, Mislav; Barrett, J.; Bauböck, Michi; Benson, Bradford A.; Bintley, Dan; Blundell, R.; Bouman, Katherine L.; Bower, Geoffrey C.; Boyce, Hope; Bremer, Michael; Brinkerink, Christiaan D.; Brissenden, Roger; Britzen, Silke; Broderick, Avery E.; Broguiere, Dominique; Bronzwaer, Thomas; Bustamante, Sandra; Byun, Do-Young; Carlstrom, John E.; Ceccobello, Chiara; Chael, A.; Chang, Dominic O.; Chatterjee, K.; Chatterjee, Shami; Chen, Ming-Tang; Chen, Y.; Cheng, Xiaopeng; Cho, I.; Christian, P.; Conroy, Nicholas S.; Conway, John E.; Cordes, James M.; Crawford, Thomas M.; Crew, Geoffrey B.; Cruz-Osorio, Alejandro; Cui, Y.; Dahale, Rohan; Davelaar, Jordy; De Laurentis, Mariafelicia; Deane, Roger; Dempsey, Jessica; Desvignes, Gregory; Dexter, Jason; Dhruv, Vedant; Doeleman, Sheperd S.; Dougal, Sean; Dzib, Sergio A.; Eatough, Ralph P.; Emami, Razieh; Falcke, Heino; Farah, Joseph; Fomalont, Ed; Ford, H. Alyson; Foschi, Marianna; Fraga-Encinas, Raquel; Freeman, William T.; Friberg, Per; Fromm, Christian M.; Fuentes, Antonio; Galison, Peter; Gammie, Charles F.; García, R.; Gentaz, Olivier; Georgiev, Boris; Goddi, Ciriaco; Gold, R.; Gomez-Ruiz, Arturo I.; Gomez, Jose L.; Gu (顾敏峰), Minfeng; Gurwell, Mark; Hada, Kazuhiro; Haggard, Daryl; Haworth, Kari; Hecht, Michael H.; Hesper, Ronald; Heumann, Dirk; Ho (何子山), Luis C.; Ho, Paul; Honma, Mareki; Huang, Chih-Wei L.; Huang (黄磊), Lei; Hughes, David H.; Ikeda, Shiro; Impellizzeri, C. M. Violette; Inoue, Makoto; James, D. J.; Jannuzi, Buell T.; Jeter, Britton; Jaing, W.; Jimenez-Rosales, Alejandra; Jorstad, Svetlana; Joshi, Jayneel A.; Jung, Taehyun; Karami, Mansour; Karuppusamy, Ramesh; Kawashima, Tomohisa; Keating, Garrett K.; Kettenis, Mark; Kim, D.-J.; Kim, J.; Kino, Motoki; Koay, Jun Yi; Kocherlakota, Prashant; Kofuji, Yutaro; Koch, Patrick M.; Koyama, Shoko; Kramer, Carsten; Kramer, J.A.; Kramer, Michael; Kuo, Cheng-Yu; La Bella, Noemi; Lauer, Tod R.; Lee, Daeyoung; Lee, S.-S.; Leung, Po Kin; Levis, Aviad; Li, Z.; Lico, Rocco; Lindahl, Greg; Lindqvist, Michael; Lisakov, Mikhail; Liu, J.; Liu, Kuo; Liuzzo, Elisabetta; Lo, Wen-Ping; Lobanov, Andrei P.; Loinard, Laurent; Lonsdale, Colin J.; Lowitz, A.E.; Lu, Ru-Sen; MacDonald, Nicholas R.; Mao, Jirong; Marchili, Nicola; Markoff, Sera; Marrone, Daniel P.; Marscher, Alan P.; Marti-Vidal, Ivan; Matsushita, Satoki; Matthews, Lynn D.; Medeiros, Lia; Menten, Karl M.; Michalik, Daniel; Mizuno, Izumi; Mizuno, Yosuke; Moran, James M.; Moriyama, Kotaro; Mulaudzi, Wanga; Müller, C.; Müller, H.; Mus, Alejandro; Musoke, Gibwa; Nadolski, Andrew; Nagai, Hiroshi; Nagar, Neil M.; Nakamura, Masanori; Narayanan, Gopal; Natarajan, Iniyan; Nathanail, Antonios; Navarro Fuentes, Santiago; Neilsen, Joey; Neri, Roberto; Ni, Chunchong; Noutsos, Aristeidis; Nowak, Michael A.; Oh, Junghwan; Okino, Hiroki; Olivares, Hector; Ortiz-Leon, Gisela N.; Oyama, Tomoaki; Ozel, Feryal; Palumbo, Daniel C. M.; Park, Jongho; Parsons, Harriet; Patel, Nimesh; Pen, Ue-Li; Pietu, Vincent; Plambeck, Richard; PopStefanija, Aleksandar; Porth, Oliver; Pötzl, Felix M.; Prather, Ben; Preciado-Lopez, Jorge A.; Psaltis, Dimitrios; Pu, Hung-Yi; Ramakrishnan, Venkatessh; Rao, Ramprasad; Rawlings, Mark G.; Raymond, Alexander W.; Rezzolla, Luciano; Ricarte, Angelo; Ripperda, Bart; Roelofs, Freek; Rogers, Alan; Romero-Cañizales, Cristina; Roshanineshat, Arash; Rottmann, Helge; Roy, Alan L.; Ruiz, Ignacio; Ruszczyk, Chet; Rygl, Kazi L. J.; Sanchez, Salvador; Sanchez-Arguelles, David; Sanchez-Portal, Miguel; Sasada, Mahito; Satapathy, Kaushik; Savolainen, Tuomas; Schloerb, F. Peter; Schonfeld, Jonathan; Schuster, Karl-Friedrich; Shao, Lijing; Shen, Zhiqiang; Small, Des; Sohn, Bong Won; SooHoo, Jason; Sosapanta Salas, León David; Souccar, Kamal; Sun, He; Tazaki, Fumie; Tetarenko, Alexandra J.; Tiede, Paul; Tilanus, Remo P. J; Titus, Michael; Torne, Pablo; Toscano, T.; Trent, Tyler; Trippe, Sascha; Turk, Matthew; Van Bemmel, Ilse; van Langevelde, Huib Jan; Van Rossum, Daniel R.; Vos, Jesse; Wagner, Jan; Ward-Thompson, Derek; Wardle, John; Washington, J.E.; Weintroub, Jonathan; Wharton, Robert; Wiik, Kaj; Witzel, Gunther; Wondrak, Michael F.; Wong, George N.; Wu, Qingwen; Yadlapalli, N.; Yamaguchi, Paul; Yfantis, Aristomenis Ilias; Yoon, Doosoo; Young, Andre; Young, K.; Younsi, Ziri; Yu, W.; Yuan, Feng; Yuan, Ye-Fei; Zhang, Shuo; Zhao, Guang-Yao; Zhao, Shan-Shan (EDP Sciences, 2024-02)
    Please read abstract in article.
  • A humidity-resistant and room temperature carbon soot@ZIF-67 composite sensor for acetone vapour detection 
    Malepe, Lesego; Ndinteh, Tantoh Derek; Ndungu, Patrick; Mamo, Messai Adenew (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2023-02)
    Zeolitic imidazolate framework-67 (ZIF-67), carbon nanoparticles (CNPs), and the CNPs@ZIF-67 composite were prepared and used to fabricate sensors for the detection of acetone vapour. The prepared materials were characterized ...
  • Perspectives on musical care throughout the life course : introducing the musical care international network 
    Spiro, Neta; Sanfilippo, Katie Rose M.; McConnell, Bonnie B.; Pike-Rowney, Georgia; Baraldi, Filippo Bonini; Brabec, Bernd; Van Buren, Kathleen; Camlin, Dave; Cardoso, Tanya Marques; Cifdaloz, Burcin Ucaner; Cross, Ian; Dumbauld, Ben; Ettenberger, Mark; Falkenberg, Kjetil; Fouche, Sunelle; Frid, Emma; Gosine, Jane; Graham-jackson, April l.; Grahn, Jessica A.; Harrison, Klisala; Ilari, Beatriz; Mollison, Sally; Morrison, Steven J.; Perez-Acosta, Gabriela; Perkins, Rosie; Pitt, Jessica; Rabinowitch, Tal-Chen; Robledo, Juan-Pablo; Roginsky, Efrat; Shaughnessy, Caitlin; Sunderland, Naomi; Talmage, Alison; Tsiris, Giorgos; De Wi, Krista (Sage, 2023)
    In this paper we report on the inaugural meetings of the Musical Care International Network held online in 2022. The term “musical care” is defined by Spiro and Sanfilippo (2022) as “the role of music—music listening as ...
  • CrAssphage may be viable markers of contamination in pristine and contaminated river water 
    Mafumo, Nyasha; Bezuidt, Keoagile Ignatius Oliver; Le Roux, Wouter Jacobus; Makhalanyane, Thulani Peter (American Society for Microbiology, 2023-01)
    Viruses are the most biologically abundant entities and may be ideal indicators of fecal pollutants in water. Anthropogenic activities have triggered drastic ecosystem changes in rivers, leading to substantial shifts in ...
  • Bacteria and archaea regulate particulate organic matter export in suspended and sinking marine particle fractions 
    Dithugoe, Choaro D.; Bezuidt, Keoagile Ignatius Oliver; Cavan, Emma L.; Froneman, William P.; Thomalla, Sandy J.; Makhalanyane, Thulani P. (American Society for Microbiology, 2023-05)
    The biological carbon pump (BCP) in the Southern Ocean is driven by phytoplankton productivity and is a significant organic matter sink. However, the role of particle-attached (PA) and free-living (FL) prokaryotes (bacteria ...
  • Investigation of network microstructure of TiB/Ti6Al4V-ELI composite manufactured with laser metal deposition 
    Lekoadi, Paul; Tlotleng, Monnamme; Siyasiya, Charles Witness; Masina, Bathusile N. (Springer, 2023-08)
    This work presents the microstructural investigation of an in situ synthesized TiB/Ti6Al4V-ELI composite that was manufactured with additive manufacturing (AM) technique known as laser metal deposition (LMD). A single-track ...
  • SPARCS-North Wide-field VLBI survey : exploring the resolved mu Jy extragalactic radio source population with EVN plus e-MERLIN 
    Njeri, Ann; Beswick, Robert J.; Radcliffe, Jack Frederick; Thomson, A.P.; Wrigley, N.; Muxlow, T.W.B.; Garrett, M.A.; Deane, Roger. P.; Moldon, Javier; Norris, Ray P.; Kothes, Roland (Oxford University Press, 2023-02)
    The SKA PAthfinder Radio Continuum Surveys (SPARCS) are pro viding deep-field imaging of the faint (sub-mJy) extragalactic radio source populations through a series of reference surveys. One of the key science goals for ...
  • An interferometric SETI observation of Kepler-111 b 
    Wandia, Kelvin; Garrett, Michael A.; Radcliffe, Jack Frederick; Garrington, Simon T.; Fawcett, James; Gajjar, Vishal; MacMahon, David H.E.; Varenius, Eskil; Campbell, Robert M.; Paragi, Zsolt; Siemion, Andrew P.V. (Oxford University Press, 2023-05)
    The application of very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has been limited to date, despite the technique offering many advantages o v er traditional single-dish ...
  • Synthesis and assessment of antimicrobial composites of Ag nanoparticles or AgNO3 and egg shell membranes 
    Aina, Samuel Tomi; Kyomuhimbo, Hilda Dinah; Ramjee, Shatish; Du Plessis, Barend Jacobus; Mjimba, Vuyo; Maged, Ali; Haneklaus, Nils; Brink, Hendrik Gideon (MDPI, 2023-06-08)
    Engineering research has been expanded by the advent of material fusion, which has led to the development of composites that are more reliable and cost-effective. This investigation aims to utilise this concept to promote ...
  • Immunomodulatory gene-splicing dysregulation in tumorigenesis : unmasking the complexity 
    Maebele, Lorraine Tshegofatso; Mulaudzi, Thanyani Victor; Yasasve, Madhavan; Dlamini, Zodwa; Damane, Botle Precious (MDPI, 2023-08-10)
    Cancer is a global health concern with rising incidence, morbidity, and mortality. The interaction between the tumor and immune cells within the tumor microenvironment is facilitated by signaling pathways driven by ...
  • Beyond the genomes of Fulvia fulva (syn. Cladosporium fulvum) and Dothistroma septosporum : new insights into how these fungal pathogens interact with their host plants 
    Mesarich, Carl H.; Barnes, Irene; Bradley, Ellie L.; De la Rosa, Silvia; De Wit, Pierre J.G.M.; Guo, Yanan; Griffiths, Scott A.; Hamelin, Richard C.; Joosten, Matthieu H.A.J.; Lu, Mengmeng; McCarthy, Hannah M.; Schol, Christiaan R.; Stergiopoulos, Ioannis; Tarallo, Mariana; Zaccaron, Alex Z.; Bradshaw, Rosie E. (Wiley, 2023-05)
    Fulvia fulva and Dothistroma septosporum are closely related apoplastic pathogens with similar lifestyles but different hosts: F. fulva is a pathogen of tomato, whilst D. septosporum is a pathogen of pine trees. In 2012, ...
  • Advances in phytonanotechnology : a plant-mediated green synthesis of metal nanoparticles using phyllanthus plant extracts and their antimicrobial and anticancer applications 
    Thatyana, Maxwell; Dube, Nondumiso P.; Kemboi, Douglas; Manicum, Amanda-Lee E.; Mokgalaka, Ntebogeng; Tembu, Jacqueline V. (MDPI, 2023-09-22)
    Nanoparticles and nanotechnology developments continue to advance the livelihood of humankind. However, health challenges due to microorganisms and cancerous cells continue to threaten many people’s lives globally. ...
  • Thermal conductivity enhancement of metal oxide nanofluids : a critical review 
    Yasmin, Humaira; Giwa, Solomon O.; Noor, Saima; Sharifpur, Mohsen (MDPI, 2023-02)
    Advancements in technology related to energy systems, such as heat exchangers, electronics, and batteries, are associated with the generation of high heat fluxes which requires appropriate thermal management. Presently, ...
  • Stability and thermophysical properties of GNP-Fe2O3 hybrid nanofluid : effect of volume fraction and temperature 
    Borode, Adeola; Tshephe, Thato; Olubambi, Peter; Sharifpur, Mohsen; Meyer, Josua P. (MDPI, 2023-04)
    The study focused on the impact of concentration and temperature on the electrical conductivity, viscosity, and thermal conductivity of GNP/Fe2O3 hybrid nanofluids. The study found that nanofluids have better electrical ...
  • Experimental exploration of hybrid nanofluids as energy-efficient fluids in solar and thermal energy storage applications 
    Yasmin, Humaira; Giwa, Solomon O.; Noor, Saima; Sharifpur, Mohsen (MDPI, 2023-01-09)
    In response to the issues of environment, climate, and human health coupled with the growing demand for energy due to increasing population and technological advancement, the concept of sustainable and renewable energy ...
  • Hybrid vigor in Eucalyptus increases resistance against Phytophthora root rot 
    Bose, Tanay; Hammerbacher, Almuth; Jones, Wayne; Roux, Jolanda; Slippers, Bernard; Wingfield, Michael J. (Springer, 2023-04)
    Eucalyptus nitens is a cold-tolerant eucalypt that is native to Eastern Australia. Pure E. nitens as well as its hybrids, such as Eucalyptus grandis × Eucalyptus nitens, is propagated commercially in various regions of ...
  • Phytophthora : an underestimated threat to agriculture, forestry, and natural ecosystems in sub-Saharan Africa 
    Bose, Tanay; Spies3, Christoffel F.J.; Hammerbacher, Almuth; Coutinho, Teresa A. (Springer, 2023-11-19)
    Phytophthora species are highly destructive plant pathogens and pose a significant threat to plants in various ecosystems, including agriculture, forest plantations, and natural environments. In sub-Saharan Africa, a total ...
  • Oomycete composition in Proteaceae orchards and natural stands on three continents 
    Migliorini, Duccio; Vivas, Maria; Wingfield, Michael J.; Shaw, Christopher; Burgess, Treena I. (Springer, 2023-10-13)
    The Proteaceae, a diverse family of woody flowering plants in the Southern Hemisphere, contains many species known to be susceptible to Phytophthora cinnamomi, both in the natural environment and in cut-flower orchards. ...