Purpose: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic presents health care challenges to asylum seekers living in congregate encampments, including those along the U.S.-Mexico border.It is necessary to understand the impact of the pandemic among this population to address health care needs, reduce transmission, and diminish COVID-19-related mor
Water breaks through along fractures is a major concern in tight sandstone reservoirs with a bottom aquifer.Analytical models fail to handle the three-dimensional two-phase flow problem for partially penetrating inclined fractures, so time-consuming numerical simulation are often used for this problem.This paper presents an efficient semianalytical
Chitosan is a naturally-occurring alkaline polysaccharide with excellent biocompatibility, biodegradability, low toxicity, and easy preparation.It has been widely used in the construction of delivery systems for various nutrients and bioactive substances.The chitosan-based nutrient delivery systems are mainly constructed by cross-linking, drying, l
Abstract Tri-level optimization problems are optimization problems with three nested hierarchical structures, where in most cases conflicting objectives are set at each level of hierarchy.Such problems are common in management, engineering Madera designs and in decision making situations in general, and are known to be strongly NP-hard.Existing sol
Background: The findings of many studies confirm that obesity includes social stigma.Stigma involves several stereotypes that have RESCUE REMEDY KIDS negative psychosocial effects.The goal of this study was to evaluate the experience of social stigma in obese women with emphasis on their coping strategies.Methods: After the interview was done in th