P(3HB-<i>co</i>-4HB) as high value polyhydroxyalkanoate: its development over recent decades and current advances

Recent Advances and Challenges towards Sustainable Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) Production

Sustainable biofuels, biomaterials, and fine chemicals production is a critical matter that research teams around the globe are focusing on nowadays. Polyhydroxyalkanoates represent one of the biomaterials of the future due to their physicochemical properties, biodegradability, and biocompatibility. Designing efficient and economic bioprocesses, combined with the respective social and environme...

Development of speech prostheses: current status and recent advances.

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have been developed over the past decade to restore communication to persons with severe paralysis. In the most severe cases of paralysis, known as locked-in syndrome, patients retain cognition and sensation, but are capable of only slight voluntary eye movements. For these patients, no standard communication method is available, although some can use BCIs to co...

The Capability Approach: Its Development, Critiques and Recent Advances

Value at Risk: Recent Advances

The Value-at-Risk (VAR) measurements are widely applied to estimate exposure to market risks. The traditional approaches to VAR computations the variance-covariance method, historical simulation, Monte Carlo simulation, and stress-testing do not provide satisfactory evaluation of possible losses. In this paper we review the recent advances in the VAR methodologies. The proposed improvements sti...

Subglottic Stenosis: Current Concepts and Recent Advances

Subglottic stenosis is considered one of the most complex and challenging aspects of pediatric otolaryngology, with the most common etiology being prolonged endotracheal intubation. The surgical treatment of SGS can be either endoscopic or open, but recent advances have pushed the limits of the endoscopic approach so that in practice an open laryngotracheal surgical approach is considered only ...