Multi-drug resistant (MDR) Acinetobacter baumannii accounts for high mortality rates in hospital-acquired infections. Colistin is the last resort treatment despite nephrotoxic effects and the emergence of colistin resistant A. baumannii.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF: Sports injury prevention programs (SIPPs) are crucial for mitigating sports injuries and enhancing athletes' performance. In Saudi Arabia, the sports sector is growing, and the awareness and implementation of sports injury prevention programs (SIPPs) among physical therapists require examination. This study aims to evaluate physiotherapists' awareness of and the implementation of sports injury prevention programs (SIPPs) in the Saudi Arabian region with findings that could enhance rehabilitation and sports injury prevention practices.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCancer is a condition in which cells in the body grow uncontrollably, often forming tumours and potentially spreading to various areas of the body. Cancer is a hazardous medical case in medical history analysis. Every year, many people die of cancer at an early stage.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe widespread adoption of electronic devices has enhanced living standards but has also led to a surge in electronic waste (e-waste), creating serious environmental and health challenges. Although various methods exist to recover valuable metals from e-waste, each has notable drawbacks. Among these, chemical leaching with aqua regia is widely used but is both highly corrosive and hazardous.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To improve the accuracy and explainability of skin lesion detection and classification, particularly for several types of skin cancers, through a novel approach based on the convolutional neural networks with attention-integrated customized ResNet variants (CRVs) and an optimized ensemble learning (EL) strategy.
Methods: Our approach utilizes all ResNet variants combined with three attention mechanisms: channel attention, soft attention, and squeeze-excitation attention. These attention-integrated ResNet variants are aggregated through a unique multi-level EL strategy.