BackgroundEvidence regarding the presence and persistence of ethnic inequalities in mental healthcare is well established.The reasons for these inequalities and lack of progress in diminishing them are less understood.This meta-ethnography aims to provide a new conceptual understanding of how ethnic inequalities are created and sustained; this is e
In helping consumers to make a wise decision in purchasing a personal computer (PC), the use of multi-criteria decision analysis methods is a way to provide ranking of the attributes of PCs and to knob creek apparel construct the computer preference index (CPI).This paper employs the Rank Ordered Centroid (ROC) method to do the ranking.The findings
Scarlet eggplant (Solanum aethiopicum [L.]) is an indigenous, underutilized fruit vegetable in Africa.Preference for fruit shape and size is high among growers and consumers.Fruit metric traits are important for yield improvement.Fruit metric descriptors are important contributors to car mackwell variation, phenotypic and genotypic variation, and h
Abstract Background Duplicated genes frequently experience asymmetric rates of sequence evolution.Relaxed selective constraints and positive selection have both been invoked to explain the observation that one paralog within a gene-duplicate pair exhibits an accelerated rate of sequence evolution.In the majority of studies where asymmetric divergen
Cultural ecosystem services (CES), which encompass recreational and aesthetic values, contribute to human well-being and yet are often underrepresented in forest management planning due to challenges in quantifying these services.This study introduces the Recreational and Aesthetic Values of Forested Landscapes (RAFL) index, a novel framework combi