Diarrhoeal disease is the second leading cause of death in children under five years old. It accounted for 81 million disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for all-ages in 2017. A significant proportion of diarrhoeal disease can be prevented through safe drinking water and adequate sanitation...

Background: Development assistance for health (DAH) has been considerably affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, underscoring the importance of clarifying how donor countries select recipient countries and how DAH is distributed. We investigated DAH allocation according to disease burden and whether...

Latent heat storage based on phase-changing materials (PCMs) is a promising technology for thermal energy storage because of its large heating enthalpy and isothermal phase-transition temperature. However, the practical applications of PCMs is highly restricted because of their intrinsically low...