ABSTRACTThe global population including Canada’s is aging, which demands planning for housing that will support older adults’ quality of life. This mixed-method study is the first Canadian study to examine the impact of cohousing on older adults’ quality of life and inv...

BACKGROUND: Older adults, both institutionalized and free-living are vulnerable to nutritional deficiencies and poor nutritional status, which affect morbidity and quality of life amongst them. Yet, little attention on nutritional needs is given to this vulnerable group...

Francis Agyemang Yeboah,1 Robert Amadu Ngala,1 Ahmed Tijani Bawah,2 Henry Asare-Anane,3 Huseini Alidu,2 Abdul-Wahab Mawuko Hamid,2 Joshua Dokurugu Kwame Wumbee4 1Department of Molecular Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, 2Department of...

Importance Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) causes significant morbidity and is an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease–related mortality. However, the burden of PAD in sub-Saharan Africa is poorly understood. Objective To assess epidemiological and clinica...

Abstract The accurate identification of gas–liquid flow regimes in pipes remains a challenge for the chemical process industries. This paper proposes a method for flow regime identification that combines responses from a nonintrusive optical sensor with linear discrimin...

Purpose To evaluate the ability of the 8th edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) Cancer Staging Manual to estimate metastatic and mortality rates for children with retinoblastoma (RB). Design International, multicenter, registry-based retrospective ca...

Abstract Pressure induced phase transitions in Lu2O3 at 298 K have been investigated using angular-dispersive X-ray diffraction (ADXRD), Raman spectroscopy and X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) techniques under quasi-hydrostatic high pressures up to 39.5, 31....

The blockchain is a decentralized distributed accounting system. With the development of the blockchain technology and its wide application, the core of the decentralization-consensus algorithm has attracted the attention of researchers. However, the previous POW mining...

With the rapid growth in the number of mobile subscribers and mobile devices, the demand high-speed Internet access is becoming a primary concern in our lives. Not long ago, the most stable and well known solution of IP-based mobility management is Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6). ...

Human filarial infections are vector-borne nematode infections, which include lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, loiasis, and mansonella filariasis. With a high prevalence in developing countries, filarial infections are responsible for some of the most debilitating ...