All Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have a multi-payer healthcare system that comprises governmental health coverage (GHC), funded by the government, and private health insurance (PHI), mainly sponsored by employers and purchased by individuals. Both are expected to influence healthcare ...

Studies on sports event management have focused on how host residents perceive the event and its impacts, but very little is still known about how such experiences can facilitate organizational learning (OL) in host sports organizations. The study explores the potential of major sp...

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The UK government is planning to make it significantly harder for migrants to obtain permanent residence. If the proposals go ahead, the UK would become more restrictive than most other high-income democracies. In the case of refugees it would create a situation that is arguab...

Background: The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) faces a “triple burden” of public health threats which includes climate change, protracted armed conflict, and the under-recognized spread of arboviral diseases. Arboviruses, such as dengue, chikungunya, Zika, and yellow fever, are transmi...

An innovative and superior coarsening/creep resistant Al-based ternary short-range order (SRO,0–2nm)/cluster(2–10nm) at critically high temperature and stress of 300°C/50MPa was proposed and verified in Mg, and a highly heat-resistant die-cast Mg alloy was thus successfully developed with the...

The formation of halos was investigated for hypoeutectic, eutectic and hypereutectic Zn-Al alloys under conventional and under convection solidification. It was found that the Zn-rich halos occurred in the surroundings of the Al-rich primary phase for the hypereutectic Zn-Al alloys at Al>...

In the present paper, we introduced the development of integrated structural castings with digital twin technology for the rear structure of high-end E-sports cars. The topological optimisation, casting structural design, materials verification, melt flow and solidification, mechanical property prediction&...

In this paper, we propose an optimisation framework for deployment of multiple reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) to meet the wireless coverage demands for smart warehouses. Specifically, we are the first to formulate a unified network optimisation task that jointly considers RIS pla...