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  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,717 Views
11 Pages

This study aimed to develop and implement an educational simulation program based on the Korean Triage and Acuity Scale (KTAS) for nurses in emergency medical centers who completed the KTAS training, and assess its effects. We examined the educationa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,890 Views
13 Pages

It is common practice in the educational system to foster high mathematical abilities in schools as well as in specific promotional programs. Still, little is known about the construct of mathematical giftedness itself. In line with intellectual inve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue A Century beyond Terman, 50 Years after Marland: Knowns and Unknowns about Cognitive Excellence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,703 Views
16 Pages

27 August 2023

With the increasing prevalence and significance of computer programming, a crucial challenge that lies ahead of teachers and parents is to identify students adept at computer programming and direct them to relevant programming fields. As most studies...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Education Technologies in Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Era)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,126 Views
10 Pages

Enabling patient ability to work was a key rationale for enacting the United States (US) Medicare program that provides financial entitlement to renal replacement therapy for persons with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD). However, fewer than half of w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Socio-Economic Impact of End Stage Kidney Disease)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,021 Views
15 Pages

23 September 2021

This study aimed to examine sports programs at multicultural family support centers located throughout the country and present the possibility of social integration through the sports programs. The multicultural sports program showed that it affected...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,467 Views
11 Pages

10 April 2020

Computer basic teaching is an essential basic learning content in higher education teaching. In order to encourage students and enable them to practice and improve their programming ability, the online judge system has been introduced into the progra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
9,082 Views
33 Pages

17 September 2020

This article presents and describes an extracurricular enrichment intervention program to promote the development of resilience factors, aimed at teenagers with high abilities from vulnerable social contexts. In addition, its effects on aspects relat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High Abilities, Talent and Creativity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
12,463 Views
32 Pages

Challenges to Student Interdisciplinary Learning Effectiveness: An Empirical Case Study

  • Cong Xu,
  • Chih-Fu Wu,
  • Dan-Dan Xu,
  • Wen-Qian Lu and
  • Kai-Yi Wang

In order to meet industrial demands, some colleges and universities have offered interdisciplinary programs that integrate design, engineering, and business. However, how many changes these programs have brought to students, and whether students part...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Creativity, Intelligence, and Collaboration in 21st Century Education: An Interdisciplinary Challenge)
  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
6 Citations
14,231 Views
10 Pages

Perceived Workplace Support for Employee Participation in Workplace Wellness Programs: A Brief Report

  • Jennifer Altman,
  • Casey Mace Firebaugh,
  • Stephanie M. Morgan and
  • Michael Epstein

20 July 2023

Workplace wellness programs have the potential to help improve employee well-being and manage the growing costs associated with poor employee health. Low participation rates stunt the benefits to employee health and limit organizations from maximizin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,574 Views
17 Pages

Towards a Thriving Workplace: A Feasibility Study on Mindfulness and the Mediterranean Lifestyle for Corporate Wellness

  • Efstratios Christodoulou,
  • Eleni Poutli,
  • Demetriana Andreou,
  • Sotiria Laoutari and ,
  • Fani Athanasiou,
  • Yiannis Kourkoutas and
  • Antonios E. Koutelidakis
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Background/Objectives: This study explores the potential of integrating mindfulness and the Mediterranean lifestyle into corporate wellness programs to enhance workplace well-being. Methods: A survey of 485 employees from Greece and Cyprus examined h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,037 Views
15 Pages

29 August 2022

MetaEmotions at Schools is a SEL program that aims at promoting the culture of emotional and metaemotional intelligence in schools, and at improving emotional awareness both among teachers and students. It is a train-the-trainers program that unfolds...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social and Emotional Education in Schools)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,384 Views
13 Pages

A virtual-reality-simulation-based nursing education program incorporating an information processing model helps nursing students develop their learned knowledge as nursing behavior and develop their ability to cope with complex clinical challenges....

(This article belongs to the Section Nursing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,785 Views
11 Pages

Physical Activity and Physical Competence in Overweight and Obese Children: An Intervention Study

  • Milena Morano,
  • Claudio Robazza,
  • Laura Bortoli,
  • Irene Rutigliano and ,
  • Montse C. Ruiz and
  • Angelo Campanozzi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

With the current obesity epidemic and the decline of fitness among school-aged children, the importance of obesity interventions to promote physical activity and healthy habits has become indisputable. The purpose of this study was to assess the effi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Physical and Sport Activity for Wellbeing, Lifestyle, Health Promotion and Chronic Diseases Prevention)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,810 Views
19 Pages

3 November 2023

For a lot of beginners, learning to program is challenging; similarly, for teachers, it is difficult to draw on students’ prior knowledge to help the process because it is not quite obvious which abilities are significant for developing program...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence in Online Higher Educational Data Mining)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
19,204 Views
13 Pages

This study compared the effect of a resistance training (RT) program with machines, free weights, or a combination of both on changes in anthropometrics, strength, and functional ability in novice adult males. Thirty-six male novices in RT (18–...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Resistance Exercise/Training to Improve Physical Fitness and Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,238 Views
23 Pages

Creating Digital Twins of Robotic Stations Using a Laser Tracker

  • Dariusz Szybicki,
  • Magdalena Muszyńska,
  • Paulina Pietruś,
  • Andrzej Burghardt and
  • Krzysztof Kurc

31 October 2024

This article deals with the design and creation of digital twins of robotic stations. A literature review of digital twins, robot programming methods and laser tracker applications is presented. This paper shows that the construction of digital twins...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Automation, Operation and Maintenance of Control and Communication Systems, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,275 Views
19 Pages

This study aimed to develop and implement an emergency coping education program using a case-based small-group learning method and verify its effect on care workers’ emergency coping abilities. The study was conducted with 72 care workers in older ad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,248 Views
12 Pages

The Effect of Integrative Training Program on Youth Soccer Players’ Power Indexes

  • Yiannis Michailidis,
  • Thodoris Kyzerakos and
  • Thomas I. Metaxas

31 December 2023

Integrative neuromuscular training (INT) is commonly employed for preventing injuries, yet there is a scarcity of studies examining its impact on the physical capabilities of young athletes. This study sought to explore the influence of a brief, in-s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,147 Views
14 Pages

Motor and Cognitive Trajectories in Infants and Toddlers with and at Risk of Cerebral Palsy Following a Community-Based Intervention

  • Kanishka Baduni,
  • Allison McIntyre,
  • Caitlin P. Kjeldsen,
  • Larken R. Marra and ,
  • William C. Kjeldsen,
  • Melissa M. Murphy,
  • Owais A. Khan,
  • Zhulin He,
  • Kristin Limpose and
  • Nathalie L. Maitre
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

24 October 2024

Background: Early motor development is fundamental in driving cognitive skill acquisition. Motor delays in children with cerebral palsy (CP) often limit exploratory behaviors, decreasing opportunities or the quality of cognitive development, emphasiz...

(This article belongs to the Section Pediatric Neurology & Neurodevelopmental Disorders)
  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
1 Views
8 Pages

18 September 2012

Children with a spatial processing disorder (SPD) require a more favorable signal-to-noise ratio in the classroom because they have difficulty perceiving sound source location cues. Previous research has shown that a novel training program - LiSN &am...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,290 Views
10 Pages

The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak had a negative impact on kindergarten activities. These young children, who had been compelled to stay home during lockdowns, suffered a lack of movement and loss of mobility, resulting in deteriorated physical motor sk...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Monitoring and Promoting Physical Activity, Physical Fitness and Motor Competence in Children)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,613 Views
17 Pages

Combining Ability of Maize Landraces for Yield and Basic Chemical Composition of Grain

  • Aleksandar Popović,
  • Vojka Babić,
  • Zoran Čamdžija,
  • Srboljub Živanov and ,
  • Dragana Branković-Radojčić,
  • Jelena Golijan Pantović and
  • Vesna Perić
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

23 April 2025

The launch of a successful quality-oriented breeding program requires both mining the residual diversity in grain quality parameters contained in the elite, high-yielding breeding material with good agronomic performance and introgression of new germ...

(This article belongs to the Section Crop Breeding and Genetics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,534 Views
18 Pages

Efficiency of an Alternative Physical Education Program for the Lower Grades of Elementary School Children

  • Jovan Marković,
  • Saša Bubanj,
  • Goran Šekeljić,
  • Slobodan Pavlović and ,
  • Marko Radenković,
  • Dušan Stanković,
  • Emilija Petković,
  • Nikola Aksović,
  • Oliver Radenković and
  • Milena Tomović
  • + 9 authors+ 4 authors

6 October 2023

(1) Introduction: This research was conducted with the aim of assessing whether an alternative physical education (PE) program could effectively substitute for the traditional PE curriculum and aid in accomplishing the essential goals and objectives...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Physical Education and Exercise Promotion and Intervention in Children and Adolescents for Health and Wellbeing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,881 Views
18 Pages

The Impact of an Enrichment Program on the Emirati Verbally Gifted Children

  • Hala Elhoweris,
  • Najwa Alhosani,
  • Negmeldin Alsheikh,
  • Rhoda-Myra Garces Bacsal and
  • Eleni Bonti

Most researchers agree that verbally gifted learners should be provided with differentiated curriculum experiences that will allow them to reach their full potential. However, research is scarce in the field. The present study examined the impact of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Psycho-Educational Assessments: Theory and Practice)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,978 Views
19 Pages

23 December 2022

Through programming tasks, the skills and abilities used to solve mathematical problems are developed and improved. In this article we present a programming teaching trajectory using the solutions presented throughout the history of the “hundre...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Models and Tools for Math Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,427 Views
12 Pages

Improving Nutrition Knowledge and Skills by the Innovative Education Program MaestraNatura in Middle School Students of Italy

  • Rosaria Varì,
  • Antonio d’Amore,
  • Annalisa Silenzi,
  • Flavia Chiarotti and ,
  • Sara Del Papa,
  • Claudio Giovannini,
  • Beatrice Scazzocchio and
  • Roberta Masella
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

12 May 2022

Promoting a healthy diet, mainly in youths, is the most effective action to prevent and fight dietary excesses and nutritional imbalance in the population. MaestraNatura (MN) is an innovative nutritional education program aimed at promoting a healthy...

(This article belongs to the Section Nutritional Epidemiology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,822 Views
12 Pages

Developing Youth Environmental Health Literacy and Civic Leadership through Community Air Monitoring in Imperial County, California

  • Daniel Madrigal,
  • Mariana Claustro,
  • Michelle Wong,
  • Esther Bejarano and ,
  • Luis Olmedo and
  • Paul English
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

With a rapidly changing climate, new leaders must be trained to understand and act on emerging environmental threats. In California’s Imperial Valley, a collaborative of community members, researchers, and scientists developed a community air m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Community-Engaged Research to Promote Environmental Health, Sustainability, and Community Resiliency)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,306 Views
14 Pages

22 November 2023

Critical neuropsychological capabilities such as working memory, cognitive flexibility, and processing speed are foundational to many daily activities. For children, such skills are essential for school success. Thus, children who demonstrate weaknes...

(This article belongs to the Section Neuropsychology)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2,656 Views
20 Pages

9 December 2022

Entirely grouted cable tendons are commonly used in mining engineering. They have superior working ability in reinforcing the excavated rocks and soils. During the working process of cable tendons, the force-transferring ability and the corresponding...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable and Responsible Development of Minerals, Safety-Driven Mining Operations, Digital Mining, Critical Minerals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,702 Views
10 Pages

MaestraNatura Reveals Its Effectiveness in Acquiring Nutritional Knowledge and Skills: Bridging the Gap between Girls and Boys from Primary School

  • Rosaria Varì,
  • Annalisa Silenzi,
  • Antonio d’Amore,
  • Alice Catena and ,
  • Roberta Masella and
  • Beatrice Scazzocchio
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 March 2023

MaestraNatura (MN) is a nutrition education program developed to both enhance awareness about the importance of healthy eating behaviour and skills on food and nutrition in primary school students. The level of knowledge about food and nutritional is...

(This article belongs to the Section Nutritional Policies and Education for Health Promotion)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,081 Views
16 Pages

21 October 2022

Background: This study aimed to investigate whether home exercise programs informed by wearable activity monitors improved walking ability of patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD). Methods: A systematic literature search was performed to iden...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Body Worn Sensors and Wearables)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,327 Views
6 Pages

Cancer Nutrition Rehabilitation Program: The Role of Social Work

  • Diane Townsend,
  • C. Accurso–Massana,
  • C. Lechman,
  • S. Duder and
  • M. Chasen

1 November 2010

The Cancer Nutrition Rehabilitation (CNR) program at the McGill University Health Centre is an interdisciplinary 8-week treatment program offering patients information, education, treatment, and support in areas such as diet, exercise, and rehabilita...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,584 Views
16 Pages

Metabolic syndrome (MS) and anxiety disorders are common problems among hemodialysis patients (HD). However, there have been no studies defining the role of physical activity in reducing anxiety in HD patients with MS. This study was aimed to determi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
9,702 Views
14 Pages

Background: Pressure injuries in nursing homes remain a consistent problem. Unfortunately, despite the variety of pressure injury education offered in nursing homes, the knowledge learned cannot be applied in practice, and as a result, the prevalence...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue To Be Healthy for the Elderly: Long Term Care Issues around the World)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,633 Views
17 Pages

Metacognition plays an important role in young children’s learning and daily life activities. Based on Anji Play, we designed a metacognition enhancement program named Circling Curriculum for Metacognition Training (CCMT). With a quasi-experime...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Second Edition of Child and Adolescent Well-Being: Perspectives from Research and Clinical Practice)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,418 Views
13 Pages

23 September 2020

The ability to maintain postural stability is essential in our daily lives. Relatedly, hemiparetic stroke patients have a very high risk of falls. This study aimed to improve the traditional rehabilitation treatment for stroke patients with hemipares...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
2,296 Views
9 Pages

A Prospective Evaluation of an Interdisciplinary Nutrition–Rehabilitation Program for Patients with Advanced Cancer

  • B. Gagnon,
  • J. Murphy,
  • M. Eades,
  • J. Lemoignan and ,
  • M. Jelowicki,
  • S. Carney,
  • S. Amdouni,
  • P. Di Dio,
  • M. Chasen and
  • N. MacDonald
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

1 December 2013

Background: Cancer can affect many dimensions of a patient’s life, and in turn, it should be targeted using a multimodal approach. We tested the extent to which an interdisciplinary nutrition–rehabilitation program can improve the well-being of patie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,704 Views
12 Pages

29 October 2023

During the process of recovering functional ability after damage caused by a stroke, it is important to restore cognitive function via cognitive rehabilitation. To achieve successful rehabilitation, it is important for patients to have a sense of eff...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,040 Views
14 Pages

28 May 2022

In the digital age, robotics education has gained much attention for cultivating learners’ design thinking, creative thinking, critical thinking, and cooperative abilities. In particular, critical thinking as one of the key competencies in Educ...

  • Review
  • Open Access
540 Citations
41,038 Views
15 Pages

15 March 2011

Periconceptional intake of folic acid is known to reduce a woman’s risk of having an infant affected by a neural tube birth defect (NTD). National programs to mandate fortification of food with folic acid have reduced the prevalence of NTDs worldwide...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Folate Metabolism and Nutrition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
13 Views

Fluctuations in Food and Fluid Intake During a 24-h World Championship: Analysis of the Deviation From Nutritional Programs

  • Keyne Charlot,
  • Chloé Lavoué,
  • Julien Siracusa,
  • Emeric Chalchat and ,
  • Pierre Hertert and
  • Cyprien Bourrilhon
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Background A food and fluid intake program is essential for ultraendurance athletes to maximize performance and avoid possible gastrointestinal symptoms (GIS). However, the ability to follow such a program during a race has been under-assessed. We th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,438 Views
11 Pages

It has become important for nurses to implement self-leadership and exercise critical thinking in problem-solving to address the health issues of patients. This has led to a need for nursing education programs in which nursing students learn to embra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 2nd Edition: Towards a Public Health Wellness: Psychosocial & Physical Health in Community)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3,301 Views
10 Pages

Mainstream sustainability education in India is at a nascent stage, with a small and gradually growing number of institutes offering it at a graduate level. There is a need for a community of educators skilled to teach sustainability and who have the...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 9th International Conference on Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
9,132 Views
13 Pages

15 September 2021

Early detection and repeated learning training of children with intellectual disabilities are important factors that are directly related to the quality of future life of such children. However, implementation of such programs is challenging, as the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,251 Views
10 Pages

Children’s Perspectives on Using Serious Games as a Complement to Promoting Their Social–Emotional Skills

  • Ana Xavier,
  • Paula Vagos,
  • Lara Palmeira,
  • Paulo Menezes and ,
  • Bruno Patrão,
  • Sónia Pereira,
  • Vanessa Rocha,
  • Sofia Mendes and
  • Marta Tavares
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

The use of serious games may be an appealing and complementary way to motivate curriculum-based social and emotional learning (SEL); still, investigation into this potential usefulness is scarce. This study aims to address the usefulness of serious g...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Schools as Contexts for Wellbeing and Mental Health in Childhood and Adolescence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,591 Views
16 Pages

Developing Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors in Early Age—An Intervention Study in Kindergartens

  • Ronit Jakobovich,
  • Elliot M. Berry,
  • Asia Levita and
  • Diane Levin-Zamir

2 June 2023

Childhood obesity prevention is a leading public health challenge requiring the adoption of healthy lifestyles at an early age. We examined how the kindergarten environment can promote eating sensibly, drinking water and becoming physically active. T...

(This article belongs to the Section Nutrition and Obesity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,193 Views
15 Pages

This study compares the Empathy Quotient (EQ) and Systemizing Quotient (SQ) scores of elementary school children with and without ADHD. The study also examined their brain types and, because sex plays a big role in empathy and systemizing ability, co...

(This article belongs to the Section Mental Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,200 Views
16 Pages

The study aimed to develop and evaluate a violence prevention program for nursing students to improve communication self-efficacy, problem-focused coping style, emotion-focused coping style, and the ability to cope with violence. Using an eight-sessi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,256 Views
15 Pages

Impact of the ARSET Program on Use of Remote-Sensing Data

  • Ana I. Prados,
  • Annelise Carleton-Hug,
  • Pawan Gupta,
  • Amita Mehta and ,
  • Brock Blevins,
  • Cynthia Schmidt,
  • David G. Barbato,
  • Amber Jean McCullum,
  • Elizabeth Hook and
  • Tom Kinsey
  • + 8 authors+ 3 authors

We show that training activities conducted through the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s Applied Remote-Sensing Training (ARSET) program led to a significant increase in remote-sensing data use for decision-making. Our find...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Education and Training in Applied Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
10,286 Views
14 Pages

Programmable Electrowetting with Channels and Droplets

  • Ananda Banerjee,
  • Joo Hyon Noh,
  • Yuguang Liu,
  • Philip D. Rack and
  • Ian Papautsky

22 January 2015

In this work, we demonstrate continuous and discrete functions in a digital microfluidic platform in a programmed manner. Digital microfluidics is gaining popularity in biological and biomedical applications due to its ability to manipulate discrete...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biomedical Microdevices)

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