PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY COMBINED WITH ANTIBIOTICS OR ANTIFUNGALS AGAINST MICROORGANISMS THAT CAUSE SKIN AND SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS: A PLANKTONIC AND BIOFILM APPROACH TO OVERCOME RESISTANCES

The present review covers combination approaches of antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) plus antibiotics or antifungals to attack bacteria and fungi in vitro (both planktonic and biofilm forms) focused on those microorganisms that cause infections in skin and soft tissues.The combination can prevent failure in the fight against these microorg

In this paper, a distributed, autonomous, cooperative mission-planning (DACMP) approach was proposed to focus on the problem of the real-time cooperative searching and surveillance of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (multi-UAVs) with threats in uncertain and highly dynamic environments.To deal with this problem, a time-varying probabilistic alumi

Restoring historic buildings is a challenging task in an environment where any insensitive or unprofessional intervention can cause irreparable damage.Among the most important demands currently placed on the construction industry are the protection of structural details, materials and technologies, and the extension of the life of these historic bu

Network meta-analysis synthesizes direct and indirect evidence in a network of trials that compare multiple interventions and has the potential to rank the competing treatments according to the studied outcome.Despite its usefulness network meta-analysis is often criticized for its complexity and for being accessible only to researchers with jilung