Christina Fitzmaurice, Degu Abate, Naghmeh Abbasi, Hedayat Abbastabar et al.
<h3>Importance</h3> Cancer and other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are now widely recognized as a threat to global development. The latest United Nations high-level meeting on NCDs reaffirmed this observation and also highlighted the slow progress in meeting the 2011 Political Declaration on the P...
Maozhi Chen, Avik Sinha, Kexiang Hu, Muhammad Ibrahim Shah
Despite the ongoing research on energy efficiency and innovation in the context of Industry 4.0, little is known on how degree of leakages in economy can impact the energy efficiency-innovation association. This issue has been addressed by the United Nations in their Sustainable Development Goals (S...
Solomon Prince Nathaniel, Ogochukwu Christiana Anyanwu, Muhammad Ibrahim Shah
The countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have the greatest potential for renewable energy consumption in the world and is likely to be the most vulnerable to the horrendous effects of climate change. Unfortunately, only a few of the countries have tapped into this potential, a...
Zahoor Ahmed, Mahmood Ahmad, Muntasir Murshed, Muhammad Ibrahim Shah et al.
Solomon Prince Nathaniel, Ozoemena Stanley Nwodo, Abdulrauf Adediran, Gagan Deep Sharma et al.
The study explores the relationship between ecological footprint, urbanization, and energy consumption by applying the ARDL estimation technique on data spanning 1965-2014 for South Africa. After applying the unit root test that accounts for a break in the data, the Bayer and Hanck (J Time Ser Anal ...
Gagan Deep Sharma, Muhammad Ibrahim Shah, Umer Shahzad, Mansi Jain et al.
Agriculture and the food system emit a considerable amount of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions in the atmosphere. Hence, current researchers, policymakers, and other stakeholders are calling for improving the environmental performance of agriculture. This study utilizes the countries of The Bay of Ben...
Rebecca Milton, David Gillespie, Calie Dyer, Khadijeh Taiyari et al.
BACKGROUND: Neonatal sepsis is a primary cause of neonatal mortality and is an urgent global health concern, especially within low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), where 99% of global neonatal mortality occurs. The aims of this study were to determine the incidence and associations with n...
Waliu Olawale Shittu, Festus Fatai Adedoyin, Muhammad Ibrahim Shah, Hammed Oluwaseyi Musibau
Chen Wang, Syed Ali Raza, Tomiwa Sunday Adebayo, Yi Sun et al.
Spencer L James, Chris D Castle, Zachary V Dingels, Jack T Fox et al.
BACKGROUND: Past research in population health trends has shown that injuries form a substantial burden of population health loss. Regular updates to injury burden assessments are critical. We report Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2017 Study estimates on morbidity and mortality for all injuries. MET...
Solomon Prince Nathaniel, Ozoemena Stanley Nwodo, Gagan Deep Sharma, Muhammad Ibrahim Shah
Emerging economies are mostly plague by a massive consumption of non-renewable energy amidst an ever inceasing urbanization rate with little or no attention to the quality of the environmental. As such, this paper investigates the relationship between renewable energy, urbanization, economic growth,...
Md. Mahadi Hasan, Nadiyah M. Alabdallah, Basmah M. Alharbi, Muhammad Waseem et al.
γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is a non-protein amino acid involved in various physiological processes; it aids in the protection of plants against abiotic stresses, such as drought, heavy metals, and salinity. GABA tends to have a protective effect against drought stress in plants by increasing osmolyt...
Fengsheng Chien, Ching‐Chi Hsu, Zubaria Andlib, Muhammad Ibrahim Shah et al.
Abstract In the past decade, researchers have shifted their interests to explore different ways to mitigate environmental degradation. In that context, the present study explores the role of solar energy and eco-innovation in reducing environmental degradation in China. The study utilized data for t...
Tomiwa Sunday Adebayo, Hauwah K. K. AbdulKareem, Boubellouta Bilal, Derviş Kırıkkaleli et al.
The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic since the end of 2019 has forced an unprecedented lockdown worldwide, and environmental quality was significantly affected by the pandemic and its induced lockdown. The objective of this study is to examine the role of renewable energy, non-renewable energy and CO...
Md. Mahadi Hasan, Md Atikur Rahman, Milan Skalický, Nadiyah M. Alabdallah et al.
Ozone (O3) is a gaseous environmental pollutant that can enter leaves through stomatal pores and cause damage to foliage. It can induce oxidative stress through the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) like hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) that can actively participate in stomatal closing or opening ...