21 January 2021
The current study proposed to determine whether adolescent emotion regulation is predictive of the amount and type of crime committed by adolescent juvenile offenders. Despite evidence in the literature linking emotion regulation to behaviour problem...
20 December 2019
There is evidence of the effectiveness of implementing mental health literacy (MHL) programs. However, there are substantial limitations in the instruments available for measuring MHL. This study aimed to develop and validate the EspaiJove.net MHL te...
The occurrence of natural vegetation at a given time is determined by interplay of multiple drivers. The effects of several drivers, e.g., geomorphology, topography, climate variability, accessibility, demographic indicators, and changes in human act...
14 June 2021
Posture, a potentially modifiable injury risk factor, is considered important in injury screening/prevention in athletes, yet few studies investigate relationships between posture and injury. This prospective cohort study investigated whether static...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, university policies and public health measures resulted in university staff facing hazardous work environments and psychological health problems. This cross-sectional study aimed to analyze the association between sociod...
Amid the epoch of global overpopulation, the agroforestry system can intervene as a novel practice that can safeguard agricultural sustainability, provide a means of livelihood, yield ecological benefits, and contribute to household food security. Ho...
20 June 2022
University students frequently engage in unhealthy behaviors. However, there is a lack of studies examining a wide range of their lifestyle characteristics by sex and academic level of study. This cross-sectional survey of students enrolled in BSc, M...
8 June 2022
This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and sociodemographic characteristics of smokers in a private medical university in Malaysia and to examine whether there is an association between personality traits and various smoking types. There were...
The adversities of a changing climate in developing countries and the related impact on agriculture are directly dependent on the adaptive behavior of local farmers towards climate change events. The perception of farmers as basic executers of agricu...
13 June 2022
Introduction: Refugees resettled into the United States (US) face challenges in accessing adequate healthcare. Knowledge of demographic and social characteristics related to healthcare access among refugees is scarce. This study examines potential so...
The purpose of this study is to examine the risks of learning through digital technology and to design the individual and academic responsibilities. We propose answering the following research questions: Are higher education students and their famili...
Background: Children are at high risk of drug-related problems, increased risk of treatment failures, and high treatment costs. We aimed to evaluate the effect of pharmacist-led interventions on physicians’ prescribing for pediatric outpatients...
To eliminate onchocerciasis-associated morbidity, it is important to identify areas where there is still high ongoing Onchocerca volvulus transmission. Between 2015 and 2021, door-to-door surveys were conducted in onchocerciasis-endemic villages in C...
The problem of the optimal reactive power flow in transmission systems is addressed in this research from the point of view of combinatorial optimization. A discrete-continuous version of the Chu & Beasley genetic algorithm (CBGA) is proposed to...
All the traditional models of centralized residence based on “building a new socialist countryside” and “maintaining a balance between the increase and the decrease” are top-down in nature and require farmers to make responses...
Mosquito management programs in the urban environment of Italian cities mainly rely on larval control with conventional insecticides, primarily targeting the road drains that constitute the principal mosquito breeding sites encountered in public. The...
Background: Cognitive impairment, a significant problem in older adults, may be associated with diet. This study aims to examine the association between the dietary diversity score (DDS), dietary pattern (DP), and cognitive impairment in elderly Chin...
Youth participatory action research (YPAR) is a critical approach that engages youth as collaborative partners in research. It acknowledges the unique expertise that youth have on the adversities and assets that are present in their familiar systems,...
The information bottleneck (IB) framework formalises the essential requirement for efficient information processing systems to achieve an optimal balance between the complexity of their representation and the amount of information extracted about rel...
Background: Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear is a common medical condition that entails a stretch or sprain of the ACL, which is present in the knee joint. The incidence of ACL injury in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is estimated to be 31.4%. Prev...
Modern advances in cloud computing and machine-leaning algorithms are shifting the manner in which Earth-observation (EO) data are used for environmental monitoring, particularly as we settle into the era of free, open-access satellite data streams....
Brucellosis is an infectious disease caused by bacteria of the genus Brucella (B.), affecting both animals and humans, causing severe economic loses and severe illness, respectively. The objective of the present study was to determine the seroprevale...
The simulation of landscape pattern optimization allocation (LPOA) to achieve ecological security is an important issue when constructing regional ecological security patterns. In this study, an LPOA model was developed by integrating a binary logist...
2 September 2018
Background: Low knowledge about diabetes risk factors coupled with high disease prevalence is common in low-resource countries. This study evaluated diabetes-related knowledge, attitudes, and practices in the general population in Punjab (Pakistan)....
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have increasingly become integral to multi-access edge computing (MEC) due to their flexibility and cost-effectiveness, especially in the B5G and 6G eras. This paper aims to enhance the quality of experience (QoE) in l...
Mine ventilation is crucial for ensuring safe production in mines, as it is integral to the entire underground mining process. This study addresses the issues of high energy consumption, regulation difficulties, and unreasonable regulation schemes in...
Flexi-grid technology has revolutionized optical networking by enabling Elastic Optical Networks (EONs) that offer greater flexibility and dynamism compared to traditional fixed-grid systems. As data traffic continues to grow exponentially, the need...
The aim of this research is to develop and compare single, hybrid, and stacking ensemble machine learning models under spatial and temporal climate variations in the Nile Delta regarding the estimation of the blue and green water footprint (BWFP and...
When analyzing road safety across cultural boundaries, driver behavior is a crucial component to consider. Given that driver behavior directly affects both the likelihood of accidents and the severity of their implications, it is crucial to comprehen...
School-based deworming program is implemented to control and eliminate Schistosoma mansoni infection in many endemic countries, including Ethiopia. However, pre-school-age children (pre-SAC) are not targeted to receive preventive chemotherapy against...
MDR bacteria are an emerging global threat to public health, and the role of dogs in the rise of antimicrobial resistance is under investigation. This study investigated the fecal shedding of extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-, AmpC- and carb...
Background: Dental pain is a significant public health issue globally and in Mexico, with substantial negative impacts on affected individuals. Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of dental pain and its association w...
Edge server placement (ESP) is a critical determinant of service quality in edge–cloud computing systems, yet existing solutions often neglect the inherent collaboration between edge and cloud, leading to suboptimal performance under dynamic wo...
Background: Dengue is a common mosquito-borne disease in Thailand and poses an increased risk of severe illness among adults. The TAK-003 quadrivalent dengue vaccine is newly introduced in Thailand and has demonstrated promising efficacy. This study...
23 March 2026
Background: Systemic arterial hypertension (SAH) shows a high prevalence among postmenopausal women and represents an important public health concern. Objective: To evaluate factors associated with SAH in postmenopausal women participating in a resis...
Hurricanes can cause massive power outages and pose significant disruptions to society. Accurately monitoring hurricane power outages will improve predictive models and guide disaster emergency management. However, many challenges exist in obtaining...
ET is used in camel reproduction to increase the reproductive potential of elite females selected for production and show. This retrospective study analyzed the association between factors related to embryo flushing (flushing fluid turbidity and debr...
Background/Objectives: The timely initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in persons living with HIV (PLWH) can improve clinical outcomes. However, ART commencement is often delayed. Portugal, despite having one of the highest new HIV diagnosis ra...
Background/Objectives: Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), a condition between normal aging and dementia, is characterized by cognitive changes that do not significantly affect instrumental activities of daily living. The Memory Support System (MSS), an...
A central challenge in reconfigurable photonics based on quasi bound states in the continuum (quasi-BICs) is to move beyond binary switching toward multistate and polarization-aware programmability. Here we propose a dual-phase-change material (PCM)...
This study examined the association between bullying and cyberbullying, both in victims and aggressors, and students’ perceived competence in English as a foreign language. A cross-sectional study was conducted with 444 Spanish students (50.00%...
This paper proposes a comprehensive framework for strategic power system decarbonization planning that integrates the William Newman method (diagnosis–options–forecast–decision) with a multi-objective Mixed-Integer Linear Programmin...
Background/Objectives: This study examined the reasons and sociodemographic drivers behind delays in seeking medical care among participants in the All of Us Research Program. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted using data collected betwee...
Data centers are becoming flexible prosumers in integrated electricity–heat systems (IEHSs) because of their large energy demand, workload flexibility, and waste-heat recovery potential. Coordinating these resources can improve energy utilizati...
Background: Seismic emergency response in densely populated megacities requires optimal relief shelter site selection and evacuee allocation under severe spatial scale constraints. Methods: Using empirical geostatistical data from the Metropolitan Ar...
Data centers have become essential infrastructure for digital services, while their rapidly growing electricity demand makes coordinated workload and power management an important optimization problem. This paper studies the multi-data-center operati...
Decarbonising municipal solid waste (MSW) is a defining algorithmic challenge for smart cities: waste-to-energy (WtE), composting and material-recovery investments must be committed years ahead under deep uncertainty about household source-separation...
Industrial consumers increasingly operate photovoltaic (PV) generation and battery energy storage systems (BESS) against volatile day-ahead electricity prices. This paper presents a simulation environment for a community of three heterogeneous indust...
20 March 2024
The SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis is a framework used to evaluate a company’s competitive position and to develop strategic planning. In the competitive dental sector, it can aid dentists in identifying and a...
Renewable-energy fluctuations and the conflicting economic objectives of independent stakeholders pose simultaneous physical and market challenges to the operation of flexible integrated energy systems (FIESs). To address these issues, this paper dev...
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