Policy Discourses: Shifting the Burden of Healthcare from the State to the Market in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia has modified from a predominantly free, public, and comprehensive system under a welfare model to more of a mixed-economy model of healthcare.The welfare state slowly moved to a liberal model, emphasizing market forces to dominate in the provision of healthcare and the private sector was trusted to provide a better provision diamond pa

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Stochastic heat engines beyond a unique definition of temperature

When Carnot and Stirling initially conceptualized heat engines, temperature unambiguously represented our everyday perception of cold and hot.However, as this energy scale is expanded to measure the strength of noise in general nonequilibrium heat baths, such as those consisting of bacteria or active particles, it takes on different definitions and

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Ion Channel Regulation by Sex Steroid Hormones and Vitamin D in Cancer: A Potential Opportunity for Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

Many ion channels are involved in tumor development, promoting cancer cell proliferation, migration, invasion, and survival.Accordingly, some of them have been suggested as tumor markers and novel targets for cancer therapy.Some sex steroid hormones (SSH), including estrogens and androgens, favor cancer progression.Meanwhile, other steroid hormones

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