Abstract Background The microbiome has emerged as an environmental factor contributing to obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2D).Increasing evidence suggests links between circulating bacterial components (i.e., bacterial DNA), cardiometabolic disease, and blunted response to metabolic interventions.In this aspect, thorough next-generation sequencing-ba
The objective of this paper is to assess the service quality of management advisory services offered by accounting firms in Malaysia.The SERVQUAL technique is used to identify the gap between the expectations and perceptions of customers on the actual service received.The Walkie Talkie quality function deployment technique is then used to identify
ABSTRACT Typically, human noroviruses cause symptoms of acute gastroenteritis for 2 to 4 days.Often, the virions are shed in stool for several days after the symptoms recede, which in turn can lead to further contamination and transmission.Moreover, a number of reports have considered that chronic norovirus infections, i.e., lasting months and year
Abstract Background Soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH) and schistosomiasis are parasitic infections prevalent in tropical and subtropical countries, Security Upgrade Kit such as the Philippines.The prevalence of these infections remain high in certain Philippine provinces, despite established mass drug administration (MDA) programs in endemic com
Unsupervised band selection plays an increasingly important role in a hyperspectral image (HSI) classification because of inadequate labeling samples.However, how to select more representative, less redundant, and informative band is an open problem.Recently, a fast density-peak-based clustering (FDPC) algorithm has been proposed.The FDPC chooses t