Currently, Voice Activated Virtual Assistants and Artificial Intelligence technologies are not just about performance or the functionalities they can carry out, it is also about the associated ...

Prometheus is published by Pluto Journals, an Open Access publisher. This means that everyone has free and unlimited access to the full-text of all articles from our international collection of social ...

A considerable part of everyday communication is online based nowadays. To imagine life without the daily (or even hourly) usage of WhatsApp seems impossible for many people. The present exploratory ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a popular invention in the universe, even in the fifth industrial revolution focusing on harmonious human-machine collaboration. This collaboration aims to ...

The growing literature on Islamophobia is dominated by empirical studies, the analysis of media representations and socio-psychological approaches, while many of these studies have been valuable in ...

Methods: We analyzed the incidence, distribution, and laboratory testing of human rabies in mainland China using statutory surveillance data from 2015-2021. Based on a literature review, the study ...

Student evaluations of teaching (SET) are widely used in academic personnel decisions as a measure of teaching effectiveness. We show: SET are biased against female instructors by an amount that is ...

Despite increasing use of minimally invasive techniques, limited literature has described minithoracotomy for removal of left atrial masses, such as myxomas. This study was aimed at addressing this ...

In past decades, numerous emerging infectious diseases have markedly affected global health and social-economic development. Consequently, the concept of “disease X” has been developed, and lists of ...

Prostate cancer (PCa) screening with PSA (prostate-specific antigen) remains controversial. PSA is specific to the organ but not to cancer, and different benign conditions can influence the value, ...

This Handbook is about the past, present, and future of systems thinking. It captures the history of systems thinking over its first three ‘waves,’ which are thought of as significant paradigmatic ...

Pre-intervention hemodynamics and the acuity of patient presentation are strong predictors of adverse outcomes of HRPCI. Patients with acute coronary syndrome, reduced left ventricular systolic ...