Chronic wounds (CW), including diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) and venous leg (VLU) represent a major clinical challenge worldwide urgently needing better therapeutic solutions. The current paradigm describes chronic as “stuck in inflammatory phase” which acute progresses through other phases of healing. This was based on studies comparing human CW to intact skin from animal models that poorly resem...

This paper reviews some of the key influences that wetlands have had on development human society together with history wetland use, conservation and management in context changing interactions from prehistoric to modern times. It documents origins Ramsar Convention changes criteria for defining international importance an emphasis migratory birds those wider functional contributing community w...

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have drawn significant attention due to their capability of controlling the radio environment and improving system performance. In this paper, we study performance an RIS-assisted single-input single-output over Rayleigh fading channels. Differently from previous works that assume a constant reflection amplitude, consider model accounts for intertwinem...

Climate change predictions indicate global changes in salinity with negative implications for plankton food webs; an important baseline functioning of marine ecosystems. Current understanding how will impact communities is mostly limited to the salinization freshwater environments, little known about effects changing systems. In this study, we investigate effect on zooplankton under different s...