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This paper establishes some new inequalities of Hermite–Hadamard–Mercer type for s-convex functions in the framework of q-calculus and classical calculus. Some new q-midpoint-Mercer type inequalities for the q-differentiable s-convex functions are also proved. Moreover, the computational analysis of newly established inequalities for convex and s-convex functions are given to prove that the bounds of this paper are better than those of the existing ones. It is also shown with mathematical examples that the newly established inequalities are valid for s-convex functions in q-calculus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In numerical analysis, the quadrature formulas serve as a pivotal tool for approximating definite integrals. In this paper, we introduce a family of quadrature formulas and analyze their associated error bounds for convex functions. The main advantage of these new error bounds is that from these error bounds, we can find the error bounds of different quadrature formulas. This work extends the traditional quadrature formulas such as the midpoint formula, trapezoidal formula, Simpson's formula, and Boole's formula. We also use the power mean and Hölder's integral inequalities to find more general and sharp bounds. Furthermore, we give numerical example and applications to quadrature formulas of the newly established inequalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Integral inequalities are very useful in finding the error bounds for numerical integration formulas. In this paper, we prove some multiplicative integral inequalities for first-time differentiable s-convex functions. These new inequalities help in finding the error bounds for different numerical integration formulas in multiplicative calculus. The use of s-convex function extends the results for convex functions and covers a large class of functions, which is the main motivation for using s-convexity. To prove the inequalities, we derive two different integral identities for multiplicative differentiable functions in the setting of multiplicative calculus. Then, with the help of these integral identities, we prove some integral inequalities of the Simpson and Ostrowski types for multiplicative generalized convex functions. Moreover, we provide some numerical examples and computational analysis of these newly established inequalities, to show the validity of the results for multiplicative s-convex functions. We also give some applications to quadrature formula and special means of real numbers within the framework of multiplicative calculus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study used household income and expenditure, parental perception, believes in tribal norms and voice of mother in the decision making as independent variable to their impact on child's schooling decision compared with its alternate available activities. In this study we used a unique data set collected from various districts of Pakistan for a child labor and education project. The observed relation between income inequality and parental education and the schooling of their children is calculated through a simultaneous equation model. The results reveal that along with the income and education of parents their perception and the role of the mother in decision making have a positive impact on the offspring's schooling. However, belief in tribal norms has a negative significant influence on the schooling of the offspring. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Environmental devaluation is a major concern for European countries as they seek to scrutinize strategies for development anthropology. Germany holds diversified ties with the socioeconomic and environmental development of the region. In accordance with global obligations, Germany's research on environmental issues, protection laws and actions, and universities and scientific research institutions in the field of environmental protection are progressing toward the development of a sustainable future securing the development anthropology. However, Germany's research on environmental issues is unclear to the rest of the world. Chinese scholars also lack effective countermeasures and suggestions for implementing environmental protection cooperation between China and Germany under the Belt and Road Initiative to draw a sustainable global drain. Understanding the current situation and frontier trend of environmental research in German academic circles is essential and irreplaceable for relying on research results data and quantitative analysis theory to carry out the research process. The methodology of this paper established a quantitative analysis based on "institutions," "scholars," "research objects," and "frequency of keywords" among the research results on environmental issues in Germany. It constructs a digital portrait of the field of environmental research in Germany. Knowledge mapping is extensively used in this study as the primary research tool to show the development of environmental research in Germany. The standard deviation of social science research has roughly doubled in that time. CiteSpace, a visual tool for document statistical analysis, is used to analyze the research results on environmental protection published by German scholars from 2008 to 2018. The study results include Web of Science Network, and finally, a visual map is drawn. This study analyzes the status quo, research institutions, keywords, research hotspots, and research trends of international cooperation in environmental research in Germany. The findings are in supportive position of environment study that is the key to human existence and societal development. Leading to this Germans are in concern of human anthropology being reflected in scholarly published work. In response to practical challenges, "global warming" and "sustainable development" became the most frequently used keywords. It provides sustainable thoughts and countermeasures to strengthen Sino-German environmental protection exchange and cooperation further. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The accomplishment of sustainable competitive advantages allied to the management and flourishing organizational systems fusing technologies and business strategies. Our study investigated the association of idealized influence and inspirational motivation leadership with sustainable competitive advantages under the lens of contingency theory. Specifically, emphasizing on the mediating role of IT-business strategic alignment in connection to strategic leadership and sustainable competitive advantages. In this paper business and computer graduates were utilized for pre-testing of study model. Followed by final survey of manufacturing sector of Yunnan, China to test hypothesized model based on executives' response. The study findings reported significant association and came with a conclusion that leaders' idealized influence and inspirational motivation behavior are significant predictor of sustainable competitive advantages. Moreover, IT-business strategic alignment significantly mediated the relationship of idealized and inspirational leadership reaching towards sustainable competitive advantages. Firstly, this paper comprehends to the field of strategic management by emphasizing on neutralization of threats and exploitation of market opportunities. Secondly this paper reported empirical evidence that structured a guideline for the executives working in manufacturing sector to come up with ideal fit for attaining competitive position in the market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Healthcare disparities in multiethnic medical data is a major challenge; the main reason lies in the unequal data distribution of ethnic groups among data cohorts. Biomedical data collected from different cancer genome research projects may consist of mainly one ethnic group, such as people with European ancestry. In contrast, the data distribution of other ethnic races such as African, Asian, Hispanic, and Native Americans can be less visible than the counterpart. Data inequality in the biomedical field is an important research problem, resulting in the diverse performance of machine learning models while creating healthcare disparities. Previous researches have reduced the healthcare disparities only using limited data distributions. In our study, we work on fine-tuning of deep learning and transfer learning models with different multiethnic data distributions for the prognosis of 33 cancer types. In previous studies, to reduce the healthcare disparities, only a single ethnic cohort was used as the target domain with one major source domain. In contrast, we focused on multiple ethnic cohorts as the target domain in transfer learning using the TCGA and MMRF CoMMpass study datasets. After performance comparison for experiments with new data distributions, our proposed model shows promising performance for transfer learning schemes compared to the baseline approach for old and new data distributation experiments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study was conducted to evaluate the role of Unani herbal drugs Pepsil and Safoof-e-katira on the gastro esophageal reflux disease (GERD). This was multicentre randomized case control study conducted at Matab Hakeem Muhammad Noor-ud-din, Burewala; Aziz Muhammad din Medical and Surgical Centre, Burewala and Shifa-ul-mulk Memorial Hospital, Hamdard University Karachi. The patients were selected according to inclusion and exclusion criteria. In test group-1 the male female ratio was 40%, 60%; test group-2 was 42%, 58% and in control group was 44%, 56% respectively. The observed symptoms in the study were increased appetite (TG-1-95%, TG-2-95% and CG-89%), difficulty in swallowing (TG-1-93%, TG-2-96% and TC-94%), belching/burping (TG-1-97%, TG-2-97% and CG-95%), vomiting (TG-1-90%, TG-2-96% and CG-89%), heart bum (TG-1-100%, TG-2-100% and CG-98%), palpitation (TG-1-100%, TG-2-100% and CG-97%), epigastric pain (TG-1-97%, TG-2-97% and CG-90%), abdominal cramps (TG-1-97%, TG-2-98% and CG-95%), tenesmus (TG-1-100%, TG-2-100% and CG-97%), flatulence (TG-1-100%, TG-2-75% and CG-95%), wakeup during sleep (TG-1-94%, TG-2-87% and CG-94%). The p-value of the results of the symptoms was 0.000 except flatulence where the value was 0.001. The statistical results of the study prescribed that all the drugs studied (Pepsil, Safoof-e-katira and Omeprazole) are highly significant. The herbal coded drug Pepsil showed no side effects and unani herbal drug safoof-e-katira showed minimum result of 75% in the patients while Omeprazole resulted with some side effects. In the result it can be concluded that the herbal coded drug Pepsil is a potent herbal drag for gastro esophageal reflux disease. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]