UNEXPECTED ENHANCEMENT OF ANTIMICROBIAL POLYMER ACTIVITY AGAINST STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS IN THE PRESENCE OF FETAL BOVINE SERUM

Unexpected Enhancement of Antimicrobial Polymer Activity against Staphylococcus aureus in the Presence of Fetal Bovine Serum

Cationic and amphiphilic polymers are known to exert broad-spectrum antibacterial activity by a putative mechanism of membrane disruption.Typically, nonspecific binding to hydrophobic components of the complex biological milieu, such as globular proteins, is considered a deterrent to the successful application of such Button polymers.To evaluate th

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Combining Photography and Duoethnography for Creating a Trioethnography Approach to Reflect Upon Educational Issues Amidst the COVID-19 Global Pandemic

This study proposes a new research design, combining duoethnography and photography into a trioethnography that opens an artful lens through which educational changes, emerging and unfixed problems, and unexplored/unseen values and hopes were examined.Central to this trioethnography was voices of three Vietnamese doctoral students with transnationa

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Prediction of blasting mean fragment size using support vector regression combined with five optimization algorithms

The main purpose of blasting operation is to produce desired and optimum mean size rock fragments.Smaller or fine fragments cause the loss of ore during loading and transportation, whereas large or coarser fragments need to be further processed, which enhances production cost.Therefore, accurate prediction of rock fragmentation is crucial in blasti

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