Background/Objective: Mobility Opportunities Via Education (MOVE) is a structured intervention to enhance independent mobility skills in individuals who are non-ambulatory. This study aims at identifying and mapping the literature related to the MOVE...
This study aims to assess the potential benefits and barriers of Move to Flow (MtF), a nature-based physical activity (PA) programme structured in two levels that include movements related to the animal, vegetal, and inert nature. A questionnaire was...
31 May 2024
Adolescents in resource-constrained environments face increasing sedentary lifestyles and obesity rates, necessitating effective interventions for promoting physical activity and combating non-communicable diseases. This study evaluates the impact of...
The roles of physical activity and the reduction in sedentary activities in the healthy physical, psychosocial and mental development of children and adolescents are undisputed. This is where the concept of Moving School comes in, which has been expa...
Despite evidence that exercise improves treatment outcomes, most people living with and beyond cancer (PLWBC) are insufficiently physically active. To address this challenge the Onco-Move Improvement of psychophysical fitness in adult cancer survivor...
Background/Objectives: Population ageing and the need for hospitalisation due to acute or chronic illness have contributed to increased physical frailty among older adults, with implications for their quality of life and healthcare. This study aims t...
23 September 2021
Physical activity (PA) can improve physical, mental, and social health, leading to quality of life (QoL). However, some are unable to participate independently due to age-related impairments or disabilities. This study protocol presents the design, m...
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic brought unprecedented challenges for the population. The advent of national COVID-19 vaccination programmes was therefore welcome as a key control strategy for the COVID-19 pandemic, as evidence has shown that vaccinatio...
In recent years, primary school physical education and sports have been acknowledged as crucial for children’s comprehensive development and skill enhancement. Consequently, there is a demand for validated instruments to evaluate both intervent...
Almost three decades ago, a paradigm change in funding policies for rural regions became effective in Europe and Germany, involving a move towards cooperative, actor-oriented regional development. However, little research has been published on the ex...
Background: This paper aims to conduct an umbrella review of the effects of physical activity programmes for older adults (aged 70 and above). Methods: Comprehensive literature searches were conducted in MEDLINE, PubMed, EMBASE, PsychINFO, and Cochra...
Personal exercise programmes have long been used and prescribed for weight loss and the improvement of quality of life in obese patients. While individualised programmes are usually the preferred option, they can be more costly and challenging to del...
In this work we present an experimental proof of concept of a programmable optical zoom lens system with no moving parts that can form images with both positive and negative magnifications. Our system uses two programmable liquid crystal spatial ligh...
Teacher motivation plays a critical role in the successful implementation of curriculum enrichment programmes, yet it remains underexplored in many educational initiatives. The study contributes insights into teacher motivation in early childhood edu...
This article juxtaposes mentoring with an extended concept of time, arguing against the idea of mentoring as a unilaterally forward-moving progression. We discuss how time and temporality unfold in mentoring in the teaching profession. We further exp...
European sport policies and programmes have increasingly focused on promoting social cohesion. Often presented as a multi-dimensional concept, social cohesion is considered the ‘glue’ that holds societies together and is seen as essential...
The process of moving away from faith in God has taken place in Europe with varying dynamics in individual countries at least since the end of the Second World War. In Poland, secularisation slowed down significantly during the Communist period; howe...
On-satellite information processing enables all-weather target tracking. The background of videos from satellite sensors exhibits an affine transformation due to their motion relative to the Earth. In complex moving backgrounds, moving vehicles have...
Increasingly, educators committed to the vision of Islamic schooling are expressing sentiments of moral dissonance. On the one hand, they choose Islamic schools because they aspire to affect hearts, nurture whole human beings, and grow spiritually wh...
Embedding sustainability into pedagogical approaches is a key priority in higher education. Equipping students with knowledge, understanding, and skills, and developing the next generation of innovators and leaders, can potentially provide the change...
Machine vision can prevent additional stress on yarn caused by contact measurement, as well as the risk of hairiness and breakage. However, the speed of the machine vision system is limited by image processing, and the tension detection method based...
Achieving sustainability is a major objective of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030. This study investigates one Ministry of Education initiative to achieve sustainability through the establishment of its Optimum Utilisation of Teaching Staff Programme...
Quantitative evidence is beginning to document the successful outcomes achieved from holistic interventions that include a spiritual element as an approach to self-manage obesity in the community. However, qualitative research, which helps us underst...
This paper presents a complete implementation of the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) algorithm in Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) devices applied to high rate background segmentation of images. The classical sequential execution of different...
This study designs and implements a wheeled bipedal robot (WBR) that combines the mobility of wheeled robots and the dexterity of legged robots. The designed WBR has extra knee joints to maintain body balance when encountering uneven terrain. Because...
Microwave nondestructive testing (NDT) offers promising application prospects due to its advantages of non-contact inspection in detecting defects in non-metallic composites. However, the detection sensitivity of this technology is generally affected...
Investigating parental involvement has moved to the foreground of research in the past two decades, and research results focusing on family engagement claim its positive impact on children’s academic and non-academic achievement. However, less...
This article analyses the role of the Spanish university system in promoting fair Trade (FT) and the sustainable development goals (SDGs), with a particular focus on the Universities for Fair Trade (UxFT) programme. A mixed methodology combining qual...
Disability Certification is an instrument that can contribute to the identification of persons with disabilities who are potential beneficiaries of social protection programmes. In Colombia, the disability certification process was changed in 2020 to...
In this article, a method for microparts parallel manipulation with electrostatic forces, applied by conductive electrodes embedded on a Programmable “Smart Platform”, is introduced. The design of the platform and the layout of the electr...
The growing dropout and low permanence of rural students in higher education has become a central problem in the education system, both affecting the quality conditions of training programmes and preventing the materialisation of the benefits that ac...
Aiming at examining the problems of the low cache hit ratio and high-average routing hops in named data networking (NDN), this paper proposes a cache-optimization strategy based on dynamic popularity and replacement value. When the requested content...
This article is aimed at defining the impact of the direction and velocity of waves of rainfall as they pass over interconnected stormwater detention tank systems. The simulations were conducted for a real urban catchment area as part of the Storm Wa...
In software-defined networking (SDN), the control layers are moved away from the forwarding switching layers. SDN gives more programmability and flexibility to the controllers. OpenFlow is a protocol that gives access to the forwarding plane of a net...
Network monitoring is becoming increasingly challenging as networks grow in scale, speed, and complexity. The evolution of monitoring approaches reflects a shift from device-centric, localized techniques toward network-wide observability enabled by m...
Noise radar has become attractive owing to progress in hardware technology. Aside from the low probability of exploitation, the use of noise waveform is likely to grow due to its low interference features, especially in circumstances where multiple r...
In aging societies worldwide, spouses take on great responsibility for care when their partner continues to live at home. Nursing home placement occurs when the partner becomes too frail due to multimorbidity, and this will cause a change in the spou...
COVID-19 is reshaping education. UNESCO estimates that at the peak in April 2020 COVID-19 disrupted the education of 1.5 billion enrolled learners in schools and universities in 190 countries. This period of unparalleled educational interruption has...
Conventional winnowing machines rely on manual operation and adjust their parameter settings based on experience. These problems have led to poor wind sorting results. In order to improve the sorting accuracy and efficiency of the tea winnowing machi...
Active pumps are often used in microfluidic devices for programmable fluid flowrate in a microchannel. Active pumps have some drawbacks due to their large size and requirement of external power. To overcome them, a new class of passive pumps based on...
The academic and professional community has recently started to develop the concept of 6G networks. The scientists have defined key performance indicators and pursued large-scale automation, ambient sensing intelligence, and pervasive artificial inte...
The static nature of many of currently used network systems has multiple practical benefits, including cost optimization and ease of deployment, but it makes them vulnerable to attackers who can observe from the shadows to gain insight before launchi...
Adventure Therapy (AT) is a therapeutic intervention utilizing the natural environment and adventure activities as tools for psychotherapeutic interventions. It has been demonstrated to be appropriate for the intervention of patients with borderline...
Hybrid electric propulsion systems are interesting solutions to increase the energy efficiency of the road transportation technology. In this paper, several series hybrid propulsion system topologies are analysed in the Vehicle Simulation Programme (...
Cities are dependent on their hinterlands for their function and survival. They provide resources such as people, materials, water, food and energy, as well as areas for waste disposal. Over the last 50 years, commerce and trade has become increasing...
As one of the most popular research hotspot of lab-on-chip, digital microfluidic (DMF) technology based on the principle of electrowetting has unique advantages of high-precision, low cost and programmable control. However, due to the limitation of e...
This paper addresses the challenges faced by planning and design education programmes when focusing on more sustainable ways of dealing with global changes. While the dominant discourse addresses the fact that planning programmes discuss the Global S...
While Horizon Europe is expected to turn the European Union’s Mission-Oriented Innovation Policy (MOIP) into concrete actions, little is known about how coherently its funding calls translate high-level ambitions into effective guidance. To add...
Several lepidopterans are pests in horticulture and pose biosecurity risks to trading countries worldwide. Efficient species-specific semiochemical lures are available for some of these pests, facilitating the implementation of surveillance programme...
Microfluidics offer many advantages to Point of Care (POC) devices through lower reagent use and smaller size. Additionally, POC devices offer the unique potential to conduct tests outside of the laboratory. In particular, Electro-wetting on Dielectr...
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