Introduction In Western countries, there is an ongoing trend toward plant-based diets, which tend to favor plant protein for replacing animal sources for sustainability reasons, including health and environmental impacts…

Introduction A well-known textbook by Samuelson and Nordhaus (2010, p. 4) states that economics is “the study of how societies use scarce resources to produce valuable goods and services and…

Introduction IgA nephropathy (IgAN) is the most common primary glomerular disease, with an incidence of about 25 patients per 1 million people in the population and the highest incidence in…

Introduction Free-ranging cetaceans, including large whales and dolphins, are considered sentinels for the marine ecosystem’s health. Their long-life span, migratory habits, and role on the top of the trophic chain,…

Introduction Uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma (UCEC) is one of the three major malignancies of the female reproductive system (Bray et al., 2018). Although most patients are diagnosed at an early…

1 Introduction Spatial stochastic models have been widely accepted in the literature as mathematical models for the analysis of wireless communication networks, where irregular locations of wireless nodes, such as…

Introduction Pentameric ligand-gated ion channels (PLGICs) form a large family of integral membrane proteins with a central role in signal transduction from prokaryotes to eukaryotes (Dacosta and Baenziger, 2013; Changeux,…

Introduction During labor, the myometrium undergoes a series of sustained and powerful contractions to deliver the baby, a process that produces biochemical and structural changes in the myometrium. The first…

Introduction The emergency medical service (EMS) is essential social system around the world. However, unnecessary ambulance use and frequent ambulance request are problems of public health in many countries (1–3).…

Introduction Stomach adenocarcinoma (STAD) is one of the leading malignancies contributing to the health burden as well as being the third leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide (Bray et al.,…