National debt management and business sustainability in Africa's largest economy: A focus on the private sector.

In many developing economies, high and increasing public debt profile constitutes an essential means of financial risk. An appropriate debt management is germane for survival of business and good international reputation though its effect on private sector credit mobilization had been seldomly investigated. This study seeks to know whether strategic debt management approach exacts a significant effect on the Nigerian private sector and Africa at large resulting to higher credit availability for sustainable enterprise establishment.

Platelet Indices Are the Promising Biomarkers in Monitoring Disease Activities in Patients with Syphilis.

Objectives: To uncover the role of the platelet indices in patients with syphilis.

Methods: A total of 2061 patients with syphilis and 528 healthy controls were enrolled in this retrospective cohort study. The data of platelet count (PLT), mean platelet volume (MPV), platelet distribution width (PDW), and indicators of syphilis activities were collected.

Reduced Virulence and Enhanced Host Adaption during Antibiotics Therapy: a Story of a Within-Host Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Sequence Type 11 Evolution in a Patient with a Serious Scrotal Abscess.

Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP) has disseminated globally and threatened human life. The sequence type (ST) 11 CRKP is a dominant clone in Asia, but how this clone evolves then adapts to the host and facilitates dissemination remains largely unknown. Here, the genomic dynamics of 4 ST11-CRKP isolates, which were sequentially collected from the urine of a patient with initial serious scrotal abscess and finally recovered without effective medication, were analyzed.

A New Specimen for Syphilis Diagnosis: Evidence by High Loads of Treponema pallidum DNA in Saliva.

Background: DNA from many pathogens can be detected in saliva. However, the presence and quantity of Treponema pallidum DNA in patients with syphilis in saliva is unknown.

Methods: 234 patients with syphilis with different stages and 30 volunteers were enrolled.

Genetic Regulation of GA Metabolism during Vernalization, Floral Bud Initiation and Development in Pak Choi ( ssp. Makino).

Pak choi ( ssp. Makino) is a representative seed vernalization vegetable and premature bolting in spring can cause significant economic loss. Thus, it is critical to elucidate the mechanism of molecular regulation of vernalization and floral bud initiation to prevent premature bolting.

Heat collection and supply of interconnected netlike graphene/polyethyleneglycol composites for thermoelectric devices.

The key challenges in thermoelectric power conversion are creating a significant temperature difference and obtaining more heat energy through a thermoelectric device. Herein, graphene/polyethyleneglycol composites (G-PEGs) were proposed as a heat supply for thermoelectric devices. The G-PEGs not only afford a lot of conductive pathways for heat transfer but also act as highly thermally conductive reservoirs to hold phase-change materials for thermal energy collection, storage and release.