Heat stress induces phage tolerance in Enterobacteriaceae by Fan Zhang, Hao-Ze Chen, Bo Zheng, Liang Huang, Ye Xiang, Jing-Ren Zhang, Jia-Feng Liu

“…Antibiotic resistance and tolerance present significant challenges in global healthcare, necessitating alternative strategies such as phage therapy. …”
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Machine learning in modeling, analysis and control of electrochemical reactors: A tutorial review by Wenlong Wang, Zhe Wu, Dominic Peters, Berkay Citmaci, Carlos G. Morales-Guio, Panagiotis D. Christofides

“…The complexity of these systems – arising from coupled electrochemical reactions with mass, heat and charge transport phenomena – poses significant challenges in modeling, analysis, and control. …”
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Adaptive RFID Data Scheduling Using Proximal Policy Optimization for Reducing Data Processing Latency by Guowei Guo, Xinsen Yang, Ziwei Liang, Zeli Xi, Ximei Zhan, Peisong Li

“…However, efficiently offloading the large volume of data generated by RFID tags to readers poses significant challenges, particularly in dynamic environments where static or rule-based offloading methods fall short. …”
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Inflammatory breast cancer, best practice in the community setting by Yoko Takahashi, Nithya Sridhar, Toshiaki Iwase, Ashley Marumoto, Jami Fukui, Aiesha Pradhan, Yee Chung Cheng, Naoto T. Ueno

“…Despite advancements in treatment, IBC poses unique challenges, particularly in community healthcare settings, where implementation of current guidelines is often limited by disease complexity and evidence gaps. …”
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Neonatal pneumothorax management with Foley catheter in the low-resource settings: a case report by Bahtiar Ahmad, Nancy Margarita Rehatta, Arie Utariani, Kohar Hari Santoso, Taufik Saputra

“…Neonatal pneumothorax is a serious condition that occurs when air accumulates in the pleural space, posing a potential threat to life. Neonatal pneumothorax is particularly prevalent among newborns, especially within the first three days of life. …”
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Haspin kinase inhibition dampens pseudorabies virus infection in vitro by Lei Tan, Lei Tan, Lei Tan, Yong Yang, Xiaojiu Huang, Youqing Yuan, Kaixin Wang, Xiaoye Peng, Yiyan He, Yijin Wang, Lei Lei, Yingyi Chen, Deyong Duan, Naidong Wang, Yi Yang, Feiyan Dai, Cuiqing Huang, Aibing Wang

“…Pseudorabies virus (PRV) represents a considerable infectious threat to the swine industry in China and poses potential health risks to humans. However, there is a notable lack of specific antiviral agents aimed at combating PRV. …”
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Epileptological service in current Russia by V. A. Karlov, S. G. Burd, M. B. Mironov, N. V. Kukina, Yu. V. Rubleva

“…The questionnaire data are presented as diagrams and expressed as a percentage.Results. …”
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Death to bite: a case report of dead snake envenoming and treatment by Susmita Thakur, Surajit Giri, Gaurav Choudhary, Hemen Nath, Robin Doley

“…The victim recovered and was discharged after 43 h of hospitalization.ConclusionThese instances of envenoming by dead or decapitated snakes highlight the potential danger posed by venomous snakes even after death, emphasizing the necessity of extreme caution while handling them.…”
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A numerical method for designing topological superconductivity induced by s-wave pairing by Jingnan Hu, Aiyun Luo, Zhijun Wang, Jingyu Zou, Quansheng Wu, Gang Xu

“…However, a universal computational tool based on first-principles calculations for predicting topological superconductivity has not yet been fully developed, posing substantial challenges in identifying topological superconducting materials. …”
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Towards a Circular Solution for Healthcare Plastic Waste: Understanding the Legal, Operational, and Technological Landscape by Bharghav Ganesh, Sayyed Shoaib-ul-Hasan, Iliass Temsamani, Niloufar Salehi

“…Plastic waste poses a critical challenge in the healthcare sector due to its predominant reliance on a linear “make-use-dispose” model, where plastics are typically incinerated or landfilled. …”
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Can Repetitive Small Magnitude-Induced Seismic Events Actually Cause Damage? by Oliver-Denzil S. Taylor, Alanna P. Lester, Theodore A. Lee, Mihan H. McKenna

“…While the overwhelming majority of induced seismic research has focused on the causality, the potential risk posed to critical federal infrastructure has escaped scrutiny. …”
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Challenges and Opportunities of the Dynamic Operation of PEM Water Electrolyzers by Balázs Endrődi, Cintia Alexandra Trapp, István Szén, Imre Bakos, Miklós Lukovics, Csaba Janáky

“…The intermittency of such sources, however, poses several technological challenges and financial questions. …”
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Evaluation of Different Range-Doppler Processing Techniques for OFDM-Based DVB-T2 Passive Radar by Stephen Paine, W. P. Francois Schonken, Daniel W. O'Hagan, Christof Schupbach, Jan Pidanic, Josef Jordan

“…One of the advantages of the DVB-T2 standard is the higher level of flexibility in transmission. This flexibility poses challenges to passive radar (PR) designers that needs to be addressed. …”
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Minutiae Matching with Privacy Protection Based on the Combination of Garbled Circuit and Homomorphic Encryption by Mengxing Li, Quan Feng, Jian Zhao, Mei Yang, Lijun Kang, Lili Wu

“…However, due to its openness, the Internet poses a great challenge to the security and privacy of biometric authentication. …”
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<i>M. avium Complex</i> Pulmonary Infections: Therapeutic Obstacles and Progress in Drug Development by Elise Si Ahmed Charrier, Alexandra Dassonville-Klimpt, Claire Andréjak, Pascal Sonnet

“…The aim of this review is to present an overview of the challenges posed by MAC infection such as side effects, reinfections and resistance mechanisms. …”
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Challenging infective endocarditis: A case of Pseudomonas aeruginosa with emergent antibiotic resistance by Marc Pedrosa Aragón, Armand Sellas Farres, Sonia Calzado Isbert, Mateu Espasa-Soley

“…This case report details a 76-year-old male who presented with fever and mild urinary symptoms following a recent bacteremia treated with ciprofloxacin. …”
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Advancing cryptococcal treatment: The role of nanoparticles in mitigating antifungal resistance by Rahul Harikumar Lathakumari, Leela Kakithakara Vajravelu, Abhishek Satheesan, Jayaprakash Thulukanam

“…The invasive nature of Cryptococcus presents significant challenges in treatment and management, as it mostly affects vulnerable populations, including HIV patients, organ transplant recipients, pregnant women, and elderly individuals. …”
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Reduced solid water storage over the Tibetan Plateau caused by black carbon by Junhua Yang, Shichang Kang, Deliang Chen, Keqin Duan, Ninglian Wang, Wentao Du, Lin Zhao, Haijun Deng, Rongjun Wang, Zhen Zhang, Robert R. Gillies

“…Combined, these effects drove 33.7% solid water storage decreases in the Himalayas. The excess ice-loss poses a critical threat to water resource for downstream population centers in Indus and Ganges-Brahmaputra exorheic basins, with reductions of approximately 18.9% and 25.7%, respectively. …”
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L’intégration des savoirs théoriques, pratiques et d’autorégulation chez les apprenants : analyse de l’activité d’enseignants en formation professionnelle et contribution à la form... by Anabelle Viau-Guay

“…However, this requirement presents a number of challenges for teachers. We thus posed the following research questions: 1) What are vocational education teachers concerned about when teaching? …”
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A robust scheme for securing relational data incremental watermarking by Maikel Lázaro Pérez Gort, Agostino Cortesi

“…Thus, we face the silent threats to security posed by opportunistic malicious operations in the absence of incremental watermarking.…”
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