Abstract Cancer is a significant disease that poses a major threat to human health. Image-guided cancer therapy refers to a series of medical procedures that use imaging technology to precisely locate ...

Piracy attacks have been a major security concern in the Nigerian maritime domain in the last two decades. In fact, the 2013 judgements of the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) identified Nigeria’s ...

By focusing on the erosion of the democratic traditions within the unions after apartheid the author of this important book raises serious questions about such a reading of the South African ...

Introduction For non-native English speakers, a lack of command of the English language may hinder publishing scientific or academic articles, particularly among individuals from monolingual countries ...

Abstract Diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disorder characterized by elevated blood glucose levels resulting from impaired insulin secretion or insulin resistance. Diabetes poses a major global ...

Abstract CD24, also known as heat-stable protein, is a highly glycosylated glycosylphosphatidylinositol junction membrane protein. CD24 specifically binds sialic-acid-binding Ig-like lectin 10 ...

In the human gastrointestinal tract, more than 100 trillion microorganisms, termed the gut microbiota, symbiotically evolved together with the host [1, 2]. Substantial evidence has demonstrated that ...

Medical imaging enables objective evaluation of brain structure and function. Among the various imaging modalities, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is notable for its ability to detect early ...

Abstract Endocrine therapy that blocks estrogen receptor signaling has been effective for decades as a primary treatment choice for breast cancer patients expressing the estrogen receptor. However, ...

Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal (SBP), founded in 1973, publishes papers on all aspects of social, personality, and developmental psychology. In the past 50 years SBP has ...

Main article text Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), a safe and effective minimally invasive therapy, has become a first-line treatment for older patients with aortic stenosis (AS) [1, 2].

Abstract We present evidence that Tall el-Hammam, a fortified Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley, was destroyed by an extraordinary high-energy event in approximately 1650 BCE. Excavations ...