Sepsis is a major cause of neonatal mortality and children born in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are at greater risk of severe neonatal infections than those in higher-income countries. Despite this disparity, there...
The second half of the 20th century represented a major rise in new ethical concerns, including, in the 1970s, the moral status of animals. Until then, analgesia was never used in veterinary medicine, even though many modalities...
Though various ranking methods in the data envelopment analysis (DEA) context have emerged since the conventional DEA was introduced, none of them has not been accepted as a universal or a superior method for ranking...
Due to the high failure rate of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, implementation issues have been highly addressed in the literature. Two major directions were followed in the literature focusing on technology adoption...
Quality teaching in higher education (HE) is gaining increasing international attention and pedagogical innovation is seen as an important construct of quality teaching. The drivers for pedagogical innovation include the need...
Fly ash is considered one of the major hazardous pollutants around the globe. Every year a million tonnes of fly ash is disposed of into the fly ash ponds which are major sites of pollution. The major fractions of fly ash are...
Unprecedented difficulties caused by COVID-19 are affecting people's lifestyle choices all over the world. COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impression on the Indian population's diet and lifestyle choices.
This paper addresses the problem of automatic recognition of out-of-topic documents from a small set of similar documents that are expected to be on some common topic. The objective is to remove documents of noise from a set. A...
Universities use learning management systems (LMS) to support teaching practices and add value to the educational system. A leading university in the gulf region (XYZ) provides support for faculty members (FMs) through its...
Higher education systems (HES) have become increasingly absorbed in applying big data analytics due to competition as well as economic pressures. Many studies have been conducted that applied big data analytics in HES; however...
This study provides the first systematic review of the different marketing strategies used for promoting SMEs in Pacific Island Countries (PICs). Literature published in high-ranked management journals was reviewed in this area...
This article analyses the language of two SABC 1 isiNdebele TV Adverts with English translations. The indigenous languages adverts are analysed using a critical discourse approach (hereafter CDA). Adverts the world over, it has...
Pollution is one of the major threats for the environment as well as society. It causes severe problems for the living organisms and can gives birth of various unknown issues. Different sources like cars, industrial belts...
BACKGROUND: Robot-assisted distal pancreatectomy (RDP) is increasingly used as an alternative to laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy (LDP) in patients with resectable pancreatic cancer but comparative multicenter studies...
An Internet-based Electronic Health Record (EHR) system allows patients to access their medical history whenever they need it. Access to patient records and transactions related to diagnosis is helpful to patients and the health...
As the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) spread rapidly across the globe, most educational institutions tried to address major challenges of engaging students in a productive way and disseminating knowledge through online learning....
The marketplace is changing rapidly and is different from what it used to be previously. Today's marketplace has access to more information, is more competitive, and customers are more empowered. The change has happened because...
Crop disease is a major issue now days; as it drastically reduces food production rate. Tomato is cultivated in major part of the world. The most common diseases that affect tomato crops are bacterial spot, early blight...
The discourse around online summative assessment has become one of the major issues in open distance learning (ODL) worldwide. There is a lack of major research in online summative assessment in environmental education (EE)...
In the promotion of global peace and security, police cooperation is considered one of the major pillars. This exploratory qualitative study focuses on the possibilities and challenges that should be overcome in the quest to...
This research evaluated the Performance of major Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) in Nigeria using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The DEA method that is based on Input-oriented Constant Return to Scale (CRS) model is...
Open access (OA) journals have transformed the academic publication to a different realm, which was unfathomable years ago. The early 1990s witnessed OA journals founded by individual scholars which are now in the hands of major...