Elizabeth A. Ashley, Mehul Dhorda, Rick M. Fairhurst, Chanaki Amaratunga et al.
BACKGROUND: Artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum has emerged in Southeast Asia and now poses a threat to the control and elimination of malaria. Mapping the geographic extent of resistance is essential for planning containment and elimination strategies. METHODS: Between May 2011 and Apri...
Yifen Shang, Md. Kamrul Hasan, Golam Jalal Ahammed, Mengqi Li et al.
In the era of climate change, global agricultural systems are facing numerous, unprecedented challenges. In order to achieve food security, advanced nano-engineering is a handy tool for boosting crop production and assuring sustainability. Nanotechnology helps to improve agricultural production by i...
Lianlin Li, Tie Jun Cui, Wei Ji, Shuo Liu et al.
Metasurfaces have enabled a plethora of emerging functions within an ultrathin dimension, paving way towards flat and highly integrated photonic devices. Despite the rapid progress in this area, simultaneous realization of reconfigurability, high efficiency, and full control over the phase and ampli...
Katherine L. O’Brien, Henry C. Baggett, W. Abdullah Brooks, Daniel R. Feikin et al.
BACKGROUND: Pneumonia is the leading cause of death among children younger than 5 years. In this study, we estimated causes of pneumonia in young African and Asian children, using novel analytical methods applied to clinical and microbiological findings. METHODS: We did a multi-site, international c...
Global Burden of Disease Long COVID Collaborators, Sarah Wulf Hanson, Cristiana Abbafati, Joachim G.J.V. Aerts et al.
Importance: Some individuals experience persistent symptoms after initial symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection (often referred to as Long COVID). Objective: To estimate the proportion of males and females with COVID-19, younger or older than 20 years of age, who had Long COVID symptoms in 2020 and 2021 ...
Jiajun Mao, James Iocozzia, Jianying Huang, Kai Meng et al.
Concerns over air quality reduction and energy crisis resulting from rapid consumption of limited fossil fuels have driven the development of clean and renewable energy sources.
Akram Pourshams, Sadaf G Sepanlou, Kevin S Ikuta, Catherine Bisignano et al.
BACKGROUND: Worldwide, both the incidence and death rates of pancreatic cancer are increasing. Evaluation of pancreatic cancer burden and its global, regional, and national patterns is crucial to policy making and better resource allocation for controlling pancreatic cancer risk factors, developing ...
Olivo Miotto, Roberto Amato, Elizabeth A. Ashley, Bronwyn MacInnis et al.
We report a large multicenter genome-wide association study of Plasmodium falciparum resistance to artemisinin, the frontline antimalarial drug. Across 15 locations in Southeast Asia, we identified at least 20 mutations in kelch13 (PF3D7_1343700) affecting the encoded propeller and BTB/POZ domains, ...
Jing Meng, Zhifu Mi, Dabo Guan, Jiashuo Li et al.
Abstract Economic globalization and concomitant growth in international trade since the late 1990s have profoundly reorganized global production activities and related CO 2 emissions. Here we show trade among developing nations (i.e., South–South trade) has more than doubled between 2004 and 2011, w...
Yu Chen, J. H. Graziano, F. Parvez, Mengling Liu et al.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association between arsenic exposure and mortality from cardiovascular disease and to assess whether cigarette smoking influences the association. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study with arsenic exposure measured in drinking water from wells and urine. SETTING: General popul...
David Dollar, Mary Hallward‐Driemeier, Taye Mengistae
Drawing on recently completed firm‐level surveys in Bangladesh, China, India, and Pakistan, this article investigates the relationship between the investment climate and firm performance. These standardized surveys of large, random samples of firms in common sectors reveal that objective measures of...
Ziqian Xue, Xia Li, Qinglin Liu, Mengke Cai et al.
Abstract Interface engineering has been recognized as one of the most promising strategies for regulating the physical and chemical properties of materials. However, constructing well‐defined nanointerfaces with efficient oxygen evolution reaction (OER) still remains a challenge. Herein, cross colum...
Marco Meloni, Jianguo Cai, Qian Zhang, Daniel Sang‐Hoon Lee et al.
Abstract Origami‐based designs refer to the application of the ancient art of origami to solve engineering problems of different nature. Despite being implemented at dimensions that range from the nano to the meter scale, origami‐based designs are always defined by the laws that govern their geometr...
Wenjing Ma, Yichun Ding, Mengjie Zhang, Shuting Gao et al.
Fabrication of environmental-friendly, low-cost, and free-standing superhydrophobic nanofibrous membranes with additional functionalities such as self-cleaning and UV-shielding properties is highly demanded for oil-water separation. Herein, we describe the preparation of multifunctional superhydroph...
Xiaoguang Meng, George P. Korfiatis, Christos Christodoulatos, Sunbaek Bang
Laboratory and field tests were conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of a household filtration process and investigate the effects of phosphate and silicate on the removal of arsenic from Bangladesh groundwater by ferric hydroxides. Fe/As ratios of greater than 40 (mg/mg) were required to reduce ...
Patrick Munk, Christian Brinch, Frederik Duus Møller, Thomas Nordahl Petersen et al.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat to global health. Understanding the emergence, evolution, and transmission of individual antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) is essential to develop sustainable strategies combatting this threat. Here, we use metagenomic sequencing to analyse ARGs in 7...
Jiajun Mao, Mingzheng Ge, Jianying Huang, Yuekun Lai et al.
We first time report a general strategy for one-step fabrication of a ZIF-8 MOF/RGO hydrogel, with the synergistic effects of chemical reduction and cross-linking by metal ions.
Yuan Zhang, Rongrong Huang, Mengjing Cheng, Lirui Wang et al.
BACKGROUND: Inflammasomes have been found to interact with the gut microbiota, and this effect is associated with depression, but the mechanisms underlying this interaction have not been elucidated in detail. RESULTS: The locomotor activity of NLRP3 KO mice was significantly greater than that of the...
Mengyun Zheng, Hui Jin, Naiyang Shi, Chunxiao Duan et al.
BACKGROUND: Low health literacy often has an association with poor health outcomes such as low levels of self-efficacy, increased mortality, poor health status and reduced quality of life (QOL). The aim of the study was to quantitatively evaluate the relationship between health literacy (HL) and QOL...
Anupam Khajuria, Vella A. Atienza, Suchana Chavanich, Wilts Henning et al.
Circular economy seems a vital enabler for sustainable use of natural resources which is also important for achieving the 2030 agenda for sustainable development goals. Therefore, a special session addressing issues of “sustainable solutions and remarkable practices in circular economy focusing mate...