Currently, Voice Activated Virtual Assistants and Artificial Intelligence technologies are not just about performance or the functionalities they can carry out, it is also about the associated ...

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The growing literature on Islamophobia is dominated by empirical studies, the analysis of media representations and socio-psychological approaches, while many of these studies have been valuable in ...

Methods: We analyzed the incidence, distribution, and laboratory testing of human rabies in mainland China using statutory surveillance data from 2015-2021. Based on a literature review, the study ...

Student evaluations of teaching (SET) are widely used in academic personnel decisions as a measure of teaching effectiveness. We show: SET are biased against female instructors by an amount that is ...

Magnetic soft continuum robots have received interest in diverse fields, because of their active steering and remote control capabilities. However, a more challenging task is the development of ...

Background: With distal transradial access (dTRA), the postoperative compression time remains significantly longer than the recommended range via in practice. This study investigated whether ...

The concept of food and medicine homology (FMH) is deeply embedded in traditional Chinese medicine and carries historical importance. The recent rigorous definition of FMH pertains to substances that ...

In past decades, numerous emerging infectious diseases have markedly affected global health and social-economic development. Consequently, the concept of “disease X” has been developed, and lists of ...

Pre-intervention hemodynamics and the acuity of patient presentation are strong predictors of adverse outcomes of HRPCI. Patients with acute coronary syndrome, reduced left ventricular systolic ...

Prostate cancer (PCa) screening with PSA (prostate-specific antigen) remains controversial. PSA is specific to the organ but not to cancer, and different benign conditions can influence the value, ...

This Handbook is about the past, present, and future of systems thinking. It captures the history of systems thinking over its first three ‘waves,’ which are thought of as significant paradigmatic ...