The COVID-19 pandemic is expected to have a severe socio-economic impact with significant losses of GDP and high unemployment rates.As a result, governments worldwide are attempting to mitigate these impacts through government intervention.One major method of alleviating the socio-economic impact has been to reschedule or defer loan and mortgage pa

Abstract To gain more insight into the physiological function of shade and how shade affects leaf size, we investigated the growth, leaf anatomical structure, hormones and genes expressions in soybean.Soybean seeds were sown in plastic pots and were allowed to germinate and grow for 30 days under shade or full sunlight conditions.Shade treated plan

Objectives Sources of bias, such as the examiners, domains and stations, can influence the student marks in objective structured clinical examination (OSCE).This study describes the extent to which the facets modelled in an OSCE can Toy Boats contribute to scoring variance and how they fit into a Many-Facet Rasch Model (MFRM) of OSCE performance.A

Tobacco smoking is strongly linked to vascular damage contributing to the development of hypertension, atherosclerosis, as well as increasing the risk for neurodegeneration.Still, the involvement of the innate immune system in the development of vascular damage upon chronic tobacco use before the onset of clinical symptoms is not fully characterize

In reliability analysis for the practical engineering problems with the time-consuming model, it has become an important challenge that how to obtain accurate reliability assessment with a minimum number of calls.In order to reduce the computational cost, this paper develops a new sequential surrogate method combining adaptive kriging and Markov ch