Clinically available antifungal drugs have therapeutic limitations due to toxicity, narrow spectrum of activity, and intrinsic or acquired drug resistance. Thus, there is an urgent need for new broad-spectrum antifungal agents with low toxicity and a novel mechanism of action. In this context,...

Using data from a randomised experiment in Kenya, we estimate the causal effect of social networks on technology adoption. In this experiment, farmers were invited to information sessions about the use of Tissue Culture Banana (TCB), an in vitro banana cultivation technology. We find that an...

Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) is an important water quality indicator that needs in-time detection to evaluate organic pollution degrees of wastewater and improve wastewater treatment process parameters. However, present BOD detections were time-consuming (over 5 d) or only able to detect in...