In recent years several review articles and books have been published on the use of
porphyrin-based compounds in photodynamic therapy (PDT). This critical review is focused on (i) …

We have witnessed great interest and a wealth of promise in content-based image retrieval
as an emerging technology. While the last decade laid foundation to such promise, it also …

Gastric cancer is not a top‐10 malignancy in the United States but represents one of the most
common causes of cancer death worldwide. Biological differences between tumors from …

Graphene-based materials can have well-defined nanometer pores and can exhibit low
frictional water flow inside them, making their properties of interest for filtration and separation. …

The nutritional medium requirement for biosurfactant production by Bacillus licheniformis
K51 was optimized. The important medium components, identified by the initial screening …

Language model pretraining has led to significant performance gains but careful comparison
between different approaches is challenging. Training is computationally expensive, often …

We report the draft genome of the black cottonwood tree, Populus trichocarpa. Integration of
shotgun sequence assembly with genetic mapping enabled chromosome-scale …

Soybean (Glycine max) is one of the most important crop plants for seed protein and oil
content, and for its capacity to fix atmospheric nitrogen through symbioses with soil-borne …

Likert scale is applied as one of the most fundamental and frequently used psychometric tools
in educational and social sciences research. Simultaneously, it is also subjected to a lot of …

The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.1 variant emerged in 2021 1 and has multiple mutations in its
spike protein 2 . Here we show that the spike protein of Omicron has a higher affinity for …