COVID-19 or coronavirus has thrilled the entire world population with uncertainty over their survival and well-being. The impact this pathogen caused globe been profound due to its unique transmission features; that urges for contact-less strategies interact treat infected. impending 5G mobile technology is immersing applications enable provisioning of medical healthcare services in a manner. e...

Lithium–sulfur battery (LSB) technology has tremendous prospects to substitute lithium-ion (LIB) due its high energy density. However, the escaping of polysulfide intermediates (produced during redox reaction process) from cathode structure is primary reason for rapid capacity fading. Suppressing shuttle (PSS) a viable solution this move closer commercialization and supersede established LIB te...

Municipal Solid Waste Management (MSWM) has become the greatest problem facing many urban and semi-urban areas in Nigeria, although to varying degrees. This study suggests the various steps and approaches to combat the menace in Akure in the southwest zone of Nigeria. Such approaches include creation of special agencies for the collection, recycling and conversion of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW)...

Abstract How can institutional corruption be combatted? While recent years have seen a growth in anti-corruption literature, examples of countries rooting out systemic remain few. The lack success stories has sparked an academic debate about the theoretical foundations frameworks: primarily between proponents principal-agent framework and those seeing as result collective-action problems. Throu...

Hutchinson et al offer a compelling argument for greater attention to and work in corruption in healthcare. We indeed need to talk about corruption, to understand and to grasp how to prevent and address it. This paper lays out some of the rationale for how to define the research questions, how best to address corruption – arguing that governance rather than corruption may offer a preferred star...

Agency theory has had little to say about the control of bureaucratic corruption, perhaps the greatest agency problem that exists. I consider the role of incentive contracting for reducing corruption through the use of independent investigations, a common way to monitor corruption. In simple settings, bureaucratic corruption can be suppressed by rewarding and penalizing bureaucrats on the nding...

Studying small effects or subtle neuroanatomical variation requires large-scale sample size data. As a result, combining neuroimaging data from multiple datasets is necessary. Variation in acquisition protocols, magnetic field strength, scanner build, and many other non-biologically related factors can introduce undesirable bias into studies. Hence, harmonization required to remove the bias-ind...