Since the discovery of two-dimensional (2D) transition metal carbides and nitrides, known as MXenes, research on these wonder 2D inorganic compounds has become increasingly intensified with their members quickly expanding. MXenes' state-of-the-art applications are heavily dependent processing strategies manufacturing methods. Nevertheless, solution MXenes not been comprehensively reviewed. This...

Socio-economic inequalities in academic achievement emerge early in life and are observed across the globe. Cognitive ability and "non-cognitive" attributes (such as self-regulation) are the focus of many early years' interventions. Despite this, little research has compared the contributions of early cognitive and self-regulation abilities as separate pathways to inequalities in academic achie...

BACKGROUND There is a welter of evidence for an inverse relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and mental health. The relationship is grossly under researched in the developing countries. OBJECTIVE To ascertain rates of gross psychiatric morbidity and some demographic correlations in two communities with different socio-economic standards. DESIGN A cross-sectional community based ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate socio-economic differences in children's diet, activity and inactivity and changes in these differences over 4 years during which new policies on food in schools were introduced. DESIGN Two cross-sectional surveys in which diet was assessed by FFQ and physical activity and inactivity were assessed by interviewer-administered questionnaire. Socio-economic status was as...

Image and Video Processing are hot topics in the field of research and development. Image processing is any form of signal processing for which the input is an image, such as photographs or frames of video; the output of image processing can be either an image or a set of characteristics or parameters related to the image. Most image-processing techniques involve treating the image as a two-dim...