IntroductionIn several European countries, offenders with decreased or abolished responsibility and high risk of recidivism due to long-lasting mental disorders are compulsory admitted for court-ordered treatments (COT) that take place in high and medium-security hospitals.As a rule, length of stay in these structures is very long implying major re
This paper discusses the development of a Symbiotic Organisms Search Algorithm (SOS) variant, called Adaptive Fuzzy SOS ORG COCONUT NECTAR (FSOS).Like SOS, FSOS exploits three types of symbiosis operators namely mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism in order to undertake the search process.Unlike SOS, FSOS is able to adaptively select a single or
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide.Aberrant splicing has been implicated in lung tumorigenesis.However, the functional links between splicing regulation and lung cancer are not well understood.Here we identify the RNA-binding protein QKI as a key regulator of alternative splicing in lung cancer.We show that QKI is fr
Introduction: An increase of the COVID-19 global statistics in late 2019 prompted the swift manufacturing of vaccines to protect people, especially older adults, from the debilitating effects of the disease.This study aimed to determine the socio-demographic correlates of older adults and their relationship with COVID-19 vaccine BALSAM FIR acceptan