The Lived Experiences of Mentoring Nurses in Malaysia

Background: Being a nursing mentor is not an entirely new concept in nursing.However, it is a new phenomenon in the nursing profession in Malaysia.The nursing administration and the senior nurses in Malaysia have claimed that they have started a mentorship program by having senior nurses shadow new graduate nurses for the past two to three years ag

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Agricultural insurance and risk management among poultry farmers in Ghana: An application of discrete choice experiment

Risks, risk management techniques and the willingness to insure poultry farms by poultry farmers in Ghana were explored.Random Parameter Logit (RPL) and Conditional Logit (CL) models were used for the analysis.Key risks identified were disease, marketing and financial risks.Primary insurance attributes of Dual Inlet Valve the premium period, risk c

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Computational methods for detecting cancer hotspots

Cancer mutations that are recurrently observed among patients are known as hotspots.Hotspots are highly relevant because they are, presumably, likely functional.Known hotspots in BRAF, PIK3CA, TP53, KRAS, IDH1 support this idea.However, hundreds of hotspots have never been validated experimentally.The detection of hotspots nevertheless is Adaptive

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