Unbundling the significance of cognitive robots and drones deployed to tackle COVID-19 pandemic: A rapid review to unpack emerging opportunities to improve healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa

The circuiteer ii blower emergence of COVID-19 brought unprecedented opportunities to deploy emerging digital technologies such as robotics and drones to provide contactless services.Robots and drones transformed initial approaches to tackle COVID-19 and have proven to be effective in curbing the risk of COVID-19 in developed countries.Despite the

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Efficient separation of strontium ions from aqueous solution by dibenzo-18-crown-6 functionalized resin: Static and dynamic adsorption studies with computational DFT insights

The separation and utilization of radiotoxic 90Sr from liquid nuclear waste streams generated in the nuclear fuel reprocessing is highly desirable and challenging.Herein, we studied dibenzo-18-cown-6 functionalized chloromethyl-polystyrene (CMPS-DB18C6) resin which displays an excellent affinity toward Sr2+ion adsorption from aqueous solution.Adsor

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Integrating urban resilience and resource efficiency into local green growth strategies: the case of fast-growing cities in Southeast Asia

This article aims to assess the links between urban resilience and resource efficiency challenges observed in the fast urbanisation contexts of Southeast Asian cities, taking Bandung (Indonesia), Iskandar Malaysia (Malaysia), Cebu (the Philippines), Bangkok (Thailand) and Hai Phong (Vietnam) as case studies.By showing that inefficient use of resour

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A pan-tumor-siRNA aptamer chimera to block nonsense-mediated mRNA decay inflames and suppresses tumor progression

Immune-checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy has changed the clinical outcome of many types of aggressive tumors, but there still remain many cancer patients that do not respond to these treatments.There is an unmet need to develop a feasible clinical therapeutic platform to increase the rate of response to ICB.Here we use a previously described clinic

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