May 23, 1865

C2lc21146g 1865..1873

Mechanotransduction is known as the cellular mechanism converting insoluble biophysical signals in the local cellular microenvironment (e.g. matrix rigidity, external mechanical forces, and fluid shear) into intracellular signalling to regulate cellular behaviours. While microfluidic technologies support a precise and independent control of soluble factors in the cellular microenvironment (e.g....

Analytics for Cybersecurity and Online Safety 23 May 2016

Online social platforms are beset with hateful speech content that expresses hatred for a person or group of people. Such content can frighten, intimidate, or silence platform users, and some of it can inspire other users to commit violence. Despite widespread recognition of the problems posed by such content, reliable solutions even for detecting hateful speech are lacking. In the present work...

Measles — United States, January 1–May 23, 2014

Measles is a highly contagious, acute viral illness that can lead to serious complications and death. Although measles elimination (i.e., interruption of year-round endemic transmission) was declared in the United States in 2000, importations of measles cases from endemic areas of the world continue to occur, leading to secondary measles cases and outbreaks in the United States, primarily among...

Hans Grüneberg: 26 May 1907-23 October 1982.

Yellow fever in South Wales, 1865.

The only known occasion on which yellow fever was transmitted within the British Isles was during an epidemic in Swansea in September/October 1865. The only other similar epidemic in Northern Europe was in St Nazaire in 1861.1 These appear to have been rare instances of mosquito-borne epidemics in which all the mosquitoes carrying the virus, and involved in transmission, were released from a si...