Advanced materials for cancer treatment and beyond

Conservative anti-cancer treatment represented by chemotherapy and surgery lacks tumor-specificity and could hardly resolve the problems associated with multidrug resistance (MDR) in cancers.Novel therapeutic materials in cancer treatment, such as those with anti-MDR or controllable treatment features, represent a significant trend due to their adv

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Fatigue performance of laser additive manufactured Ti-6Al-4V in very high cycle fatigue (VHCF) regime up to 10<sup>9</sup> cycles

Additive manufacturing technologies are in the process of establishing themselves as an alternative production technology to conventional manufacturing such as casting or milling.Especially laser additive manufacturing (LAM) enables the production of metallic parts with mechanical properties comparable to conventionally manufactured components.Due

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Time motion study using mixed methods to assess service delivery by frontline health workers from South India: methods

Abstract Background In India, amidst the increasing number of health programmes, there are concerns about the performance of frontline health workers (FLHW).We assessed the time utilisation and factors affecting the work of frontline health workers from South India.Methods This is a mixed methods study using time and motion (TAM) direct observation

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