As of the end of 2024, there are only about 781 electric vehicles (EV) on the streets of Kuwait, ranking it at about the 0.03 percentile of the total car population and as the country with the lowest EVitization worldwide. In this study, we explore t...
Kuwait had one of the lowest EV adoption rates in the world in March 2023, with only 400 electric vehicles (EVs) on its roads, or 0 [...]
This study investigated the trait preferences for cassava in the context of climate change and conflict stressors among value-chain actors in Nigeria to strengthen social inclusion and the community-resilience outcomes from breeding programs. Multi-s...
Background and Objectives: Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) is a safe, minimally invasive method preferred for long-term enteral nutrition. While most procedural complications are minor and occur in the early period, there are also major com...
7 April 2020
Active play is regarded as physical activity during early childhood. Physical activity has many benefits for children’s physical and psychosocial health and wellbeing, as well as for their cognitive development. The aim of this study was to inv...
Background/Objectives: Fertility-sparing surgery (FSS) is a standard practice for managing early stage cervical cancer, yet significant variation exists in clinical approaches worldwide. Our objective was to ascertain current practices and preference...
Background: Evidence comparing the Direct Anterior Approach (DAA) for total hip arthroplasty (THA) to other approaches is conflicting, particularly regarding patient-reported outcomes. This study aimed to compare the outcomes and preferences of the D...
Sorghum is an important food crop for people in drought-prone areas of the world. The production in Tanzania has been ≤1 t ha−1 for a decade. The study was conducted in Iramba, Ikungi, and Kongwa districts to identify factors influencing the...
Infant formula milk powder (IFMP) is an excellent substitute for breast milk. It is known that the composition of maternal food during pregnancy and lactation and exposure level to food during infancy highly influence taste development in early infan...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 87% of Asian Americans had received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine as of July 2023. The purpose of this study is to identify the sources of information, preferred vac...
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common malignant tumors in China, accounting for the majority of primary liver cancer cases. Liver resection is the preferred curative method for early-stage HCC. However, up to 80–85% of patien...
Rehabilitation after rotator cuff repair is crucial for functional recovery and for minimizing the risk of retear. There are two rehabilitation protocols (early and traditional) and the debate about which is the best is open. This umbrella review aim...
Background: Adherence to current clinical guidelines is crucial for ensuring optimal therapy in patients with heart failure (HF). This study aims to explore how cardiologists, as specialists in heart failure, approach the clinical scenarios encounter...
As a neurodegenerative disease, Parkinson’s disease (PD) is hard to identify at the early stage, while using speech data to build a machine learning diagnosis model has proved effective in its early diagnosis. However, speech data show high deg...
7 November 2024
Hands-on gardening is linked with healthy eating behaviors, increased outdoor activities, and overall well-being, all contributing factors to preventing obesity. Although these positive associations are widely established for adults and school-aged c...
Lung, breast, colorectal, and prostate cancers are the most incident worldwide. Optimal population-based cancer screening methods remain an unmet need, since cancer detection at early stages increases the prospects of successful and curative treatmen...
Cardiac death is the second most common cause of death among patients with acute ischemic stroke (IS), following neurological death resulting directly from acute IS. Risk prediction models and screening tools including electrocardiograms can assess t...
Codling moth, Cydia pomonella L., is a major pest of pome fruits and walnuts worldwide. Screening the susceptibility of apple varieties to C. pomonella infestation is an important step to develop a sustainable management program against this pest. Th...
Surgical desexing of cats is typically carried out after six months of age (Mature Age Desexing, MAD); between 4–6 months (Traditional Age Desexing, TAD); or before four months (Early Age Desexing, EAD). We complemented existing surveys of vete...
Background: Many people want to die at home, but it is often not possible because they do not share their wishes with family members. This study was conducted to find out the extent to which patients with advanced urological malignancies had wishes r...
Background/Objectives: Individuals with diabetes often experience discrimination and barriers at work and are confronted with the challenge of deciding whether to disclose their health status in their workplace. This study explores the disclosure of...
Background: Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is being used earlier than was previously the case in the disease progression in people with Parkinson’s disease (PD). To explore preferences about the timing of DBS, we asked PD patients with DBS whethe...
Acceptance of any new approach by the organizations depends upon the users’ needs. Currently, reducing the cost and time invested in maintenance is a major challenge for the practitioners. Moreover, symmetrical and optimal maintenance is the ne...
In surgical patients, malnutrition is an important risk factor for post-operative complications. In undernourished patients undergoing major gastrointestinal procedures, preoperative enteral nutrition (EN) should be preferred whenever feasible. It ma...
This paper examines interlinkages and hedging opportunities between nine major cryptocurrencies from 30 September 2015 to 4 June 2020, a period which notably includes the COVID-19 outbreak lasting from early 2020 to the end of the sample period. Esti...
Predation is a major factor driving prey trait diversification and promoting ecological speciation. Consequently, antipredator traits are widely studied among prey species. However, comparative studies that examine how different predators shape the o...
The slow hardening process of carbonate-activated slag limits its application as a construction material. This paper aims to provide an acceleration method for the early age hydration of carbonate-activated slag by applying calcium silicate hydrate (...
Ever since the discovery of oil in 1938, the State of Kuwait has increasingly sought out international brands in the car market due to the high purchasing power of Kuwaiti nationals. However, the makers of electric vehicles (EVs) have not been able t...
Codon usage bias (CUB) in mitochondrial genomes reflects evolutionary forces such as mutation, selection, and genetic drift, yet its dynamics in early-diverging fungal lineages like Conidiobolus (Zoopagomycota) remain unclear. This study systematical...
Despite growing evidence of the environmental and public health threats posed by today’s intensive animal production, consumers in the west remain largely attached to meat. Cultivated meat offers a way to grow meat directly from cells, circumventing...
Cancer metastasis is the lethal developmental step in cancer, responsible for the majority of cancer deaths. To metastasise, cancer cells must acquire the ability to disseminate systemically and to escape an activated immune response. Here, we endeav...
Hyper-reactivity to sensory inputs is a common and debilitating symptom of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but the underlying neural abnormalities remain unclear. Two of three patients in our clinical cohort screen harboring de novo SHANK2 mutations...
7 March 2023
(1) Background: Myopia is one of the leading causes of visual impairment. Visual work and usage of electronic devices are known risk factors of myopia. Many education systems were forced to apply online and hybrid teaching methods, to reduce the numb...
Rhegmatogenous retinal detachment, a severe eye condition, presents anatomic separation of the neurosensory retina from its outermost layer—the retinal pigment epithelium. Early recognition of this relatively common finding and proper referral...
Background/Objectives: Erectile dysfunction (ED) is a prevalent condition worldwide that significantly affects men’s sexual health and overall quality of life. ED is often associated with both psychological and organic factors and may serve as...
Background: Due to the remarkable growth in online retail sales in New Zealand, a large number of parcels are needed to be delivered to consumers’ doorsteps. Home deliveries in major New Zealand cities (e.g., Christchurch) typically occur betwe...
This paper deals with word order in complex verb phrases consisting of auxiliaries and infinitive complements in heritage Polish. In Polish, infinitive complements normally follow auxiliaries, but discontinuous structures occur if required by the inf...
Mandibular Distraction Osteogenesis (MDO) is now the preferred procedure to alleviate airway obstruction in infants with severe Robin Sequence (RS). However, there have been very few studies investigating complications related to MDO surgery performe...
11 October 2022
Black women have a slightly lower breast cancer incidence rate than White women, but breast cancer mortality is approximately 40% higher among Black women than among White women. Early detection by mammography may improve survival outcomes. Outlets p...
E-commerce systems experience poor quality of performance when the number of records in the customer database increases due to the gradual growth of customers and products. Applying implicit hidden features into the recommender system (RS) plays an i...
Infectious spleen and kidney necrosis virus (ISKNV) has caused serious economic losses in the cultured mandarin fish (Siniperca chuatsi) industry in China. Host metabolism alteration induced by disease infection may be the core problem of pathogenesi...
Complex microbial communities have been reported to be involved in endodontic infections. The microorganisms invade the dental pulp leading to pulpitis and initiating pulp inflammation. Fusobacterium nucleatum is a dominant bacterium implicated in bo...
The optimal treatment approach in very-early and early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is not precisely defined, and there is ambiguity in the literature around the comparative efficacy of surgical resection versus ablation as curative therapies...
A comprehensive compilation of long-term data records about the dynamics of nutrient migration and availability in the Kinneret epilimnion was statistically evaluated. A replacement of Peridinium spp. domination by cyanobacteria in Lake Kinneret (Isr...
Over the last several decades, plants have been developed as a platform for the production of useful recombinant proteins due to a number of advantages, including rapid production and scalability, the ability to produce unique glycoforms, and the int...
We evaluate the impact of timing on decision outcomes when both the timing and the relevant decision are chosen under uncertainty. Sports betting provides the testing ground, as we exploit an original dataset containing more than one million online b...
The major abiotic and biotic stresses that adversely affect yield of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) include drought, heat, fusarium wilt, ascochyta blight and pod borer. Excellent progress has been made in developing short-duration varieties with high...
The adoption of innovations, such as alternative crop establishment systems, can have significant impacts on farming systems and sustainability. The recent increased adoption of non-inversion establishment systems in Ireland allowed for an evaluation...
Early medical traditions include those of ancient Babylonia, China, Egypt, and India. The roots of modern Western medicine, however, go back to ancient Greece. During the Renaissance, physicians increasingly relied on observation and experimentation...
Background: Acute aortic valve infective endocarditis (IE) presents a critical surgical timing dilemma. This study investigates whether early surgical intervention (within seven days of targeted antibiotic therapy initiation) affects mortality and cl...
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