Since its inauguration, the Economic Community of West African States has stressed its desire to advance regional integration through the establishment of a common single currency (the Dryer Fan Belt Eco).This policy has been considered advantageous given the economic benefits derived from the existence of one of the oldest sub-regional monetary un

Since 2003 Korea has experienced the highest suicide rate among OECD countries.One of the societal risk factors that triggers suicide is the contagious nature of suicide.This paper empirically examines the effect of celebrity suicide reports on subsequent copycat suicides, using daily suicide data and information of highly publicized suicide storie

Abstract Background There is limited data on the use of digital technologies in outpatient care in Switzerland.Our objectives were therefore to determine which digital technologies are used and whether they had an impact on loneliness and social isolation in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.Methods A cross-sectional survey design was used with a c

Vestibular signals are strongly integrated with information from several other sensory modalities.For example, vestibular stimulation was reported to improve tactile detection.However, this improvement could reflect either a multimodal interaction or an indirect interaction driven by vestibular effects on spatial attention and orienting.Here we inv

The application of hyperthermia to cancer treatment is studied using a novel model arising from the fundamental principles of flow, mass and heat transport in biological tissues.The model is defined at the scale of the tumour microenvironment and an advanced computational scheme called the embedded multiscale method is adopted to solve the governin