South Africa has recently been rated as one of the countries with the highest hypertension prevalence rates, with alcohol abuse being one of the most…
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“Sign on the dotted line.” We practice signatures for a variety of day-to-day activities. We sign receipts to approve a transfer of funds; greeting cards…
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Electricity markets need to keep the balance between energy generation and energy consumption. Utility companies increasingly have to deal with peak demands in constrained networks,…
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Treatments for cancer vary and depend on many individual factors. However, there is one universal recommendation for cancer patients: avoid inactivity (1). Several national and…
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Neuropathic pain has much in common with chronic pain that may occur in several bodily areas. This may also include the responsible genes. There are…
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Porous carbon materials (PCMs) hold great scientific and technological importance due to their ability to allow gases and liquids to penetrate their entire bulk.(1) They…
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Traditionally, most nucleic acid amplification-based molecular diagnostic tests are done in centralized settings. In recent years, point-of-care (POC) tests have been commercialized for use in…
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Lignocellulosic biomass feedstocks are available on a scale that other solid or liquid renewable resources cannot match. The United States has enough domestic feedstocks to…
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Platelet-derived microparticles (PMP) are nano-sized fragments (100-1000 nm) released from platelets under various physiological and pathological conditions (Nieuwland and Sturk 2002). Many diseases have now…
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In the mathematical community, it is a well-known fact, that you cannot comb a hedgehog without leaving some bald spots. Remarkably, this rather trivial insight…
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Quantum mechanics famously enables certain cryptographic tasks that would be classically impossible, among them, distributing a string of bits between two or more players unconditionally…
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