The treatment of obesity is currently presented as a public health problem, since if left untreated, the natural history of the disease leads to predisposition and development of uncontrolled chronic degenerative diseases. Therefore, bariatric surgery has gained strength over the years, being proposed as the most effective treatment for severe obesity as well as its comorbidities. This systematic review compares the clinical efficacy and postoperative safety of two available surgical techniques:...

Gastroenterology & Hepatology 

The contemporary hair extension market has developed faster than the methodological standards that should guide professional choice. In practice, extension technology is still selected too often based on trend visibility, price, or the client’s immediate aesthetic request, while the structural compatibility of natural hair is evaluated inconsistently. This creates a clinically and cosmetologically relevant problem, because the same desired result may be achieved by methods that differ grea...

Biological Materials  Fundamentals of Material Science 

The contemporary market for hair extensions has expanded more rapidly than the methodological standards that should govern the procedure in professional practice. Clients typically request longer, fuller, and visually seamless hair, yet the actual quality of the result depends on a more complex interaction among the structure of natural hair, scalp tolerance, donor load, maintenance behavior, and the optical coherence of the final design. The purpose of this article is to formulate an adaptive h...

Biophysics  Applied Biology 

Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered personalization is reshaping how consumers in emerging digital economies encounter, evaluate, and commit to market offerings, yet prevailing scholarship continues to treat personalization as a uniformly trust-enhancing stimulus. This study challenges that assumption by advancing a capability-trust contingency model in which the effect of AI-powered personalization on purchase intention is neither direct nor uniform but routed through two analytically distinct...

Marketing 

Night shift work is essential in healthcare but disrupts circadian rhythms, leading to fatigue, reduced cognitive performance, and increased risk of errors among staff. In Cameroon, night shift efficacy is affected by economic constraints such as low and inconsistent financial incentives and limited motivation. Social challenges like work-family imbalance, social isolation, and burnout further reduce performance and teamwork among night shift healthcare workers. Environmental issues including po...

Consumer Behavior  Health Policy 

The DNA Model of grief by Verthriest & Maes in 2017, a Dutch-language framework almost unknown in English, denies grief an endpoint as a stated first principle: mourning has a beginning but no end for as long as the bereaved person lives. This article provides the first sustained English-language exposition of the model. It first distinguishes bereavement after a death from ongoing loss before death—progressive illness, dementia caregiving, lifelong disability—and defends extending t...

Psychology  Pedagogy 

Insecurity in pastoral areas has remained an ongoing problem and has continued to affect lives through loss of cattle, limited movement, and limited access to basic resources in Baragoi Sub-County, Kenya. This study investigated the link between insecurity as a result of cattle rustling and livelihood outcomes of the communities. It focused on fear of attacks, limited movement, and perceived safety dimensions on herd sizes and access to resources and livelihoods. Anchored on Risk and Uncertainty...

Art 

This study presents a critical examination of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching policies and practices in developing countries, with a specific focus on Benin. Through a qualitative case study approach, this research investigates the complex interplay between policy, practice, and context in Benin’s EFL classrooms, revealing the disjuncture between espoused policies and actual practices, and highlighting the challenges of implementing Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in a c...

Pedagogy 

Even though community-based organizations programs have been introduced in order to empower women economically in Montserrado County, there are still worries as far as the role of regulation in the management of the said programs is concerned. This study focuses on the role of regulatory authorities in empowerment of women. Descriptive-correlational mixed-method approach was used. The population of interest was made up of 42,990 beneficiary women from CBO projects. A total of 384 sample size was...

Business Management 

This study aimed to evaluate the effect of two fruit-fattening biostimulant formulations on tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) growth, fruit quality, and yield under greenhouse conditions. The experiment was conducted in a gable-type greenhouse at the Technological University of Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico. Two fruit-fattening biostimulants (A and B) were evaluated together with an untreated control. The evaluated variables included leaf greenness (SPAD index), fruit firmness (PSI...

Agricultural Science