Abstract— Sleep disturbance can cause mental illnesses such as depression, hypertension, metabolic syndrome, and cognitive impairment. To date, various methods have been proposed as intervention measures for sleep disturbance, including taking a short mid-day nap. Falling asleep depends on several external factors, such as the ambience, temperatu

Background: Wound healing is a complicated process of a strictly regulated mechanism which will restore the tissue back to near normal structure. However, healed wounds tend to be weaker than normal tissue and that is why methods are searched to improve the strength and thickness of the healed tissue. Eurycoma longifolia jack (EL) root extract is k

Understanding the determinants of COVID-19 vaccine uptake is important to inform policy decisions and plan vaccination campaigns. The aims of this research were to: (1) explore the individual- and countrylevel determinants of intentions to be vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2, and (2) examine worldwide variation in vaccination intentions. This cross-se

Introduction: COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected higher education due to the sudden need to shift to an online mode of teaching and learning which is new to the students and lecturers. Dental students are impacted by this type of teaching and learning as a considerable portion of their curriculum requires clinical training on real patients.

OBJECTIVE: A treat-to-target therapy in IBD by the early initiation of biologic therapy may impact disease progression and avoidance of surgical-related events. This study aims to identify differences in surgical rates between patients who received early versus late biologic therapy. METHODOLOGY: This was a retrospective study from the UMMC IBD dat

This paper reviews the applications of focused ion beam (FIB) sputtering for micro/nano fabrication. Basic principles of FIB were briefly discussed, and then empirical and fundamental models for sputtering yield, material removal rate, and surface roughness were presented and compared. The empirical models were more useful for application compared

Moulds growth in indoor environments has been of concern in the built environments,particularly in the hospital environment. Several studies have shown direct correlation between the exposure to moulds growth and copious adverse health effects. The Air-Conditioning systems in the hospital environments are tasked to provide comfortable environmental

Fiber and free-space practical decoy state quantum key distribution has been simulated for both BB84 and SARG04 protocols. The numerical simulation has shown that the fiber based QKD and free space QKD systems using the proposed method for BB84 are able to achieve both a higher secret key rate and greater secure distance than that of SARG04Eur. Phy

This paper discusses the comparison of micro machining process using conventional and micro wire electrical discharge machining (WEDM) for fabrication of miniaturized components. Seventeen toothed miniaturized spur gear of 3.5 and 1.2 mm outside diameter were fabricated by conventional and micro WEDM respectively. The process parameters for both co

Biodegradable poly(butylene succinate)/carbon nanotubes nanocomposites were prepared by melt mixing process and the influence of carbon nanotubes on the properties of the nanocomposites was investigated. Differential scanning calorimetry showed that crystallization temperature (Tc) increase with increasing carbon nanotube content. Improvement of te