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  • Review
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1 Citations
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Brazilian National School Feeding Program: A Review with Content Analysis of Social Documents Using MaxQda® Software

  • Ygraine Hartmann,
  • Denise Bomtempo Birche de Carvalho,
  • Renata Puppin Zandonadi,
  • Raquel B. A. Botelho and
  • Rita de Cassia Coelho de Almeida Akutsu

31 October 2025

Background: Food and Nutrition Security (FNS) policies in Brazil aim to ensure a broad spectrum of rights and were formulated based on the complex relationship among the State, Society, and Market in the capitalist order. The human right to adequate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,694 Views
11 Pages

Social Representations of Trans People in the Workplace

  • José Baptista,
  • Dália Costa and
  • Sónia P. Gonçalves

9 August 2023

Organizations show tendencies to discriminate against trans people, making them significantly more likely to face barriers in the professional context, where the highest rates of discrimination against trans people are reported. This study intends to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,512 Views
17 Pages

Increasing the Personal Development of White-Collar Employees for Sustainable Employability

  • Burcu Mucan Özcan,
  • Suleyman Emre Ozcan,
  • Umut Burak Geyikci,
  • Asena Gülova and
  • Fatih Mehmet Sancak

7 October 2023

This qualitative study evaluated a training intervention aimed at increasing the personal development curves of the ABC company’s white-collar employees and developing presentation preparation techniques. The participants prepared presentations...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,642 Views
11 Pages

24 July 2024

The need to understand the integration processes of trans individuals in the labor market is confirmed by the literature review in this paper, which supports the scarce existence of studies focused on their life experiences outside of pathological co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,048 Views
26 Pages

20 March 2025

This paper investigates the localization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the context of an interconnected, multi-scale world. As global challenges intensify, policy frameworks must navigate the complex intersection of social, economic,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,389 Views
21 Pages

Hidden Actors of Urban Sustainability: Waste Pickers in Istanbul

  • Pınar Geçkili Karaman and
  • Mehmet Emin Şalgamcıoğlu

8 July 2025

Unbalanced population growth, especially in developing countries, has exacerbated the waste problem. This issue is alleviated by waste pickers who play a vital role in recycling, the city’s circular economy, and sustainability strategies. The a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
9,600 Views
19 Pages

Reconceptualizing Customer Perceived Value in Hotel Management in Turbulent Times: A Case Study of Isfahan Metropolis Five-Star Hotels during the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Amir Ghorbani,
  • Hossein Mousazadeh,
  • Farahnaz Akbarzadeh Almani,
  • Masoud Lajevardi,
  • Mohammad Reza Hamidizadeh,
  • Mehrdad Orouei,
  • Kai Zhu and
  • Lóránt Dénes Dávid

21 April 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the tourism and hospitality industry. This study aims to reconceptualize the concept of customer perceived value (CPV) in Isfahan’s five-star hotels during the pandemic using the grounded theory...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,337 Views
16 Pages

Village-Owned Enterprises Perspectives Towards Challenges and Opportunities in Rural Entrepreneurship: A Qualitative Study with Maxqda Tools

  • Imam Radianto Anwar Setia Putra,
  • Radna Andi Wibowo,
  • Purwadi,
  • Tania Andari,
  • Asrori,
  • Nisa Novia Avien Christy,
  • Catur Wibowo Budi Santoso,
  • Herman Yaarozatulo Harefa and
  • Edy Suryawardana

24 February 2025

The Village Fund program was started by the Indonesian government in 2015 and had a budget of USD 19.14 billion for the years 2015–2019. This research aims to provide novel insights into the importance of village-owned enterprises (BUMDes) in p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,501 Views
29 Pages

28 March 2025

In recent years, rapidly advancing technology has reshaped our world, holding the potential to transform social and economic structures. The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a comprehensive roadmap that promotes not...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,309 Views
19 Pages

25 September 2022

The purpose of the study is to provide empirical evidence about the under-researched area of university–government relations in building a culture of entrepreneurial initiatives inside the triple helix model in a rural region. The study deploys...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,599 Views
17 Pages

Advanced Security Framework for Internet of Things (IoT)

  • Abid Ali,
  • Abdul Mateen,
  • Abdul Hanan and
  • Farhan Amin

The stimulus to carry out this research was to identify and propose a secure framework for the Internet of Things (IoT). Due to the massive accessibility and interconnection of IoT devices, systems are at risk of being exploited by hackers. Therefore...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6,054 Views
23 Pages

Talk About Crime Among Young People in Northern Mexico: The Impact of Drug Trafficking in the Neighborhood

  • Ariagor Manuel Almanza Avendaño,
  • Martha Romero-Mendoza and
  • Anel Hortensia Gómez San Luis

17 January 2025

This study seeks to understand, through their talk about crime, the meaning that young people in northern Mexico give to the presence of drug trafficking in their communities, its interrelation with other crimes, and the psychosocial impact on their...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,202 Views
12 Pages

2 October 2025

Artificial intelligence tools are quickly being applied in many areas of science, including learning sciences. Learning requires various types of thinking, sustained by distinct sets of neural networks in the brain. Labelling these systems gives us t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,591 Views
21 Pages

Qualitative Study to Identify the Training and Resource Needs of Secondary School Teachers in Responding to Students with SEN and SENS

  • María del Carmen Rodríguez-Jiménez,
  • Irene Puerta-Araña and
  • Miriam Catalina González-Afonso

24 October 2024

The purpose of this article is to provide an analysis of secondary school teacher training in order to identify existing needs and the resources currently available to respond to SENS and SEN students. A qualitative and descriptive research method wa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,899 Views
18 Pages

28 November 2021

Clarifying the current constraints facing the development of yachting tourism in China is key to ensuring the healthy development of this niche industry. This study uses grounded theory as a theoretical basis to conduct qualitative research and appli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,411 Views
15 Pages

The aim of this study was to explore the role that healthcare professionals, such as pediatricians, psychologists, psychiatrists and sexologists, play in supporting trans children and adolescents in their transition processes. To this end, 22 life st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,797 Views
18 Pages

An Empirical Study on Pointing Gestures Used in Communication in Household Settings

  • Tymon Kukier,
  • Alicja Wróbel,
  • Barbara Sienkiewicz,
  • Julia Klimecka,
  • Antonio Galiza Cerdeira Gonzalez,
  • Paweł Gajewski and
  • Bipin Indurkhya

Gestures play an integral role in human communication. Our research aims to develop a gesture understanding system that allows for better interpretation of human instructions in household robotics settings. We conducted an experiment with 34 particip...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,300 Views
13 Pages

Analysis of Quality of Life of Autistic Students on the Canary Islands during the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Educational Response Offered

  • María del Carmen Rodríguez-Jiménez,
  • Irene Puerta-Araña,
  • Ana Isabel González-Herrera and
  • Miriam Catalina González-Afonso

21 January 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic caused the closure of educational centers, forcing the teaching–learning process to become virtual at all levels of the educational system. The main objective of this study was to describe and analyze how students with aut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,316 Views
17 Pages

21 August 2025

The objective of this paper is to analyze the European Union’s response to school bullying and cyberbullying through its educational policies. For this purpose, a search of European policies was carried out in EUR-Lex, including all dates, to g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,639 Views
21 Pages

26 May 2021

Who could have imagined that the COVID-19 crisis would affect the whole world? This means that all aspects of society, in general, have felt the consequences of the measures imposed to reduce contagion. Firms, businesses, and their management had to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,268 Views
17 Pages

Smartphones as a Platform for Tourism Management Dynamics during Pandemics: A Case Study of the Shiraz Metropolis, Iran

  • Hadigheh Morabi Jouybari,
  • Amir Ghorbani,
  • Hossein Mousazadeh,
  • Azadeh Golafshan,
  • Farahnaz Akbarzadeh Almani,
  • Dávid Lóránt Dénes and
  • Ritter Krisztián

23 February 2023

During the past three years and with the spread of the pandemic, smartphones were the most important communication bridge between tourists and organizations; now more than ever, they are intertwined with the lives of tourists and destination manageme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
6,536 Views
12 Pages

Methodological Strategies of Faculty Members: Moving toward Inclusive Pedagogy in Higher Education

  • Almudena Cotán,
  • Arecia Aguirre,
  • Beatriz Morgado and
  • Noelia Melero

10 March 2021

This study presents findings that can pose an advancement in the development of inclusive teaching practices in the university scope. The aim of this work was to understand the methodological strategies that inclusive faculty members use in their cla...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,474 Views
22 Pages

Travel to Mars-like Places on Earth: A New Branch of Sustainable Ecotourism in Lut Desert World Heritage Site, Iran

  • Amir Ghorbani,
  • Ali Zangiabadi,
  • Hossein Mousazadeh,
  • Farahnaz Akbarzadeh Almani,
  • Kai Zhu and
  • Lóránt Dénes Dávid

16 June 2023

Traveling to space and walking on other planets has always been a great dream for many tourists. Given that space tourism is not available to everyone, adventurers have always been looking for special and strange places that evoke the feeling of trav...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,939 Views
16 Pages

To investigate the impact of Appreciative Inquiry (AI) on learning and developing together for improving the quality of care in a nursing home, and to explore experiences following the four phases of the AI cycle, an AI was performed as part of parti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
8,905 Views
14 Pages

There are many problems with the waste management systems (WMSs) in developing countries. In order to provide applicable strategies for improving the WMSs in these countries, there is a need to identify the barriers and challenges at the community le...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
53 Citations
30,302 Views
20 Pages

Can Holistic Education Solve the World’s Problems: A Systematic Literature Review

  • Brigita Miseliunaite,
  • Irina Kliziene and
  • Gintautas Cibulskas

8 August 2022

UNESCO argues that having a holistic approach to education is essential to address global development challenges. However, what empirical evidence do we have about holistic education practices? This study aims to review empirical research on holistic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,727 Views
16 Pages

Youth Perception of Public Spaces in the City

  • Jurgita Jurkevičienė and
  • Paulina Budrytė

23 January 2025

For any urban development, the opinion of the final stakeholders is essential. However, the uncensored youth perception regarding the urban environment is rarely included in the decision-making process. Here, we present the youth’s perception o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
377 Views
20 Pages

Sexuality in the Elderly in Chile

  • Jhonny Acevedo Ayala,
  • Constanza Bartolucci Konga,
  • Francisca Molero Rodríguez,
  • Marcelo Vásquez León and
  • Eliana Espinoza Alarcón

29 January 2026

Population aging is a reality in Chile that affects the course of life, quality of life, and sexuality of older adults. The objective of this study is to identify the dimensions, characteristics, and underlying contents of sexuality in older adults p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,714 Views
13 Pages

The Experiences of Midwives Who Attend Births by Women with Life-Limiting Fetal Conditions (LLFC): A Phenomenological Research Study

  • Urszula Tataj-Puzyna,
  • Krystyna Heland-Kurzak,
  • Dorota Sys,
  • Beata Szlendak,
  • Maria Ryś,
  • Magdalena Krauze and
  • Barbara Baranowska

Providing care to a woman after a Life-Limiting Fetal Conditions (LLFC) diagnosis is a difficult experience for midwives. This study’s aim is to describe the experience of midwives assisting in births following an LLFC diagnosis. It is a qualit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
12,665 Views
18 Pages

21 August 2019

The objective of higher education institutions is to integrate reflective learning that contributes to the development of a greater awareness among individuals of the importance of facing the 21st century’s sustainability challenges. This paper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,390 Views
10 Pages

The Family’s Contribution to Patient Safety

  • Tânia Correia,
  • Maria Manuela Martins,
  • Fernando Barroso,
  • Lara Pinho,
  • João Longo and
  • Olga Valentim

7 April 2023

Background: Person- and family-centered care is one of the recommendations to achieve quality of care and patient safety. However, many health professionals associate the family with insecurity in care. Objective: To analyze, based on nurses’ s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,386 Views
13 Pages

An Exploratory Study about the Effect of COVID-19 on the Intention to Adopt Virtual Reality in the Tourism Sector

  • Nuno Sousa,
  • Filipa Jorge,
  • Mário Sérgio Teixeira,
  • Nieves Losada,
  • Miguel Melo and
  • Maximino Bessa

29 May 2023

During the health crisis caused by COVID-19, virtual reality (VR) proved to be useful for the tourism industry, allowing this industry to continue working despite the restrictions imposed. However, it remains to be seen if the impact of this sanitary...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,909 Views
15 Pages

Experiences of Self-Stigma in People with Chronic Psychosis: A Qualitative Study

  • Tatiana Arboleya-Faedo,
  • Ana González-Menéndez,
  • David González-Pando,
  • Mercedes Paino and
  • Fernando Alonso-Pérez

We present the results of a phenomenological study understanding the personal meaning of self-stigma in people with chronic psychosis. Self-stigma is a frequent phenomenon in the lives of people with psychosis and their families and it functions as a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
9,494 Views
16 Pages

12 December 2017

This study aimed to elevate the experiences and voices of teachers who led the STEM informal education program summer series: National Federation of the Blind Engineering Quotient (NFB EQ). Through its integration with science, technology, engineerin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,053 Views
17 Pages

29 July 2025

This paper presents a conceptual and methodological framework for using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to “deep map” cultural heritage sites along Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way, with a focus on the 1588 Spanish Armada wrecks i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,635 Views
23 Pages

Wisdom: A Cultural Demand on Older Adults in Rural and Urban Areas

  • Angelica García-Mendez,
  • Samana Vergara-Lope,
  • Roberto Lagunes-Córdoba and
  • Sacramento Pinazo-Hernandis

3 June 2025

Culture encompasses, among other things, the ways of living, feeling, and thinking of a social group and is transmitted from one generation to the next. In part, this transmission is accomplished by older adults. Generative cultural demand refers to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,721 Views
16 Pages

The Use of Circular Economy in Horticulture Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

  • Emilio López,
  • Maria de Fátima Oliveira and
  • Pedro Reis

7 April 2025

This study explores the integration of circular economy (CE) concepts within horticultural research, assessing the reliability and depth of their application in scientific discourse. A bibliometric analysis was conducted on 221 articles published bet...

  • Review
  • Open Access
89 Citations
16,620 Views
24 Pages

4 November 2021

Achieving transition towards sustainable and resilient food systems is a critical issue on the current societal agenda. This study examined the potential contribution of digitalization of the food system to such transition by reviewing 76 relevant jo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
3,610 Views
16 Pages

The aim of this study was to reconstruct subjective constructions of experiences in PE and feelings of being valued within PE classes in Germany by students with visual impairment (VI). Two female and two male students (average age: 19.25 years) part...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,782 Views
13 Pages

BookTubers as Multimodal Reading Influencers: An Analysis of Subscriber Interactions

  • Rosabel Roig-Vila,
  • Héctor Romero-Guerra and
  • José Rovira-Collado

The objective of the study was to learn about the relationships between BookTubers and their subscribers by focusing on the comments left by viewers of the audio-visual literary reviews. We also examined whether viewer-BookTuber relationships resulte...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,857 Views
9 Pages

Achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs) changes many aspects of environmental, socio-cultural, and economic dimensions. Therefore, industry–government–university synergy is a mandatory action to accomplish the 2030 agenda, and, und...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,894 Views
11 Pages

Caregivers of Individuals with Cancer in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Phenomenological Study

  • Leila Abou Salha,
  • Julio Cesar Souza Silva,
  • Cleusa Alves Martins,
  • Cristiane Soares da Costa Araújo,
  • Edinamar Aparecida Santos da Silva,
  • Angela Gilda Alves,
  • Cácia Régia de Paula,
  • Flavio Henrique Alves de Lima,
  • Veidma Siqueira de Moura and
  • Maria Alves Barbosa
  • + 2 authors

Caregivers of individuals with cancer in the COVID-19 pandemic are faced with the demands of cancer and the health needs produced by it, along with their own health and self-care needs, and the uncertainties of expectations and risks. A qualitative a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,465 Views
13 Pages

Restored Life of Elite Athletes after Spinal Cord Injury

  • Grzegorz Zurek,
  • Agata Goraczko,
  • Alina Żurek,
  • Maciej Lachowicz and
  • Katarzyna Kujawa

Spinal cord injury (SCI) affects every aspect of human life: medical, psychological, social, material. People with SCI face a variety of secondary conditions (e.g., chronic pain, urinary tract infections, cognitive impairment) that place a significan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,175 Views
25 Pages

Elderhood and the Sacrament of Communion: An Orthodox Theological Exploration of Gracefully Aging

  • Teofil Cristian Tia,
  • Smaranda Adina Cosma and
  • Horatiu Vasile Borza

29 February 2024

Investigating the later stages of life, this study aims to outline a specific personal context shaped during this phase, approached from various perspectives: theological, medical, psychological, and social, each highlighting distinct challenges. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,802 Views
16 Pages

26 April 2019

This paper examines how Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is transmitted in the context of geography education by investigating the extent to which geography textbooks in Vietnam promote ESD principles. At the same time, the paper helps cla...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,516 Views
19 Pages

Attributes of Organizational Health Literacy in Health Care Centers in Iran: A Qualitative Content Analysis Study

  • Elham Charoghchian Khorasani,
  • Seyedeh Belin Tavakoly Sany,
  • Mehrsadat Mahdizadeh,
  • Hassan Doosti,
  • Hadi Tehrani,
  • Mohammad Moghzi,
  • Alireza Jafari and
  • Nooshin Peyman

Organizational Health Literacy (OHL) is described as a new concept to remote health organizations to implement practices, policies, and systems that make it easier for patients to use, understand, and navigate health information to take care their ow...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,110 Views
17 Pages

“Feeling Trapped in Prison” Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perceptions and Practices among Healthcare Workers and Prison Staff from a Brazilian Maximum Security Unit

  • Wanessa Cristina Baccon,
  • Maria Aparecida Salci,
  • Lígia Carreira,
  • Adriana Martins Gallo,
  • Francielle Renata Danielli Martins Marques and
  • Carlos Laranjeira

1 September 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic had several repercussions on prison staff, but the currently available evidence has mainly ignored these effects. This qualitative study aimed to understand the impact of COVID-19 on the prison system through the narratives of h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
101 Citations
20,466 Views
18 Pages

8 January 2024

Artificial intelligence has been attracting the attention of educational researchers recently, especially ChatGPT as a generative artificial intelligence tool. The context of generative artificial intelligence could impact different aspects of studen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,597 Views
20 Pages

Moving (Reflexively within) Structures. The Governance of Education for Sustainable Development in Germany

  • Mandy Singer-Brodowski,
  • Janne von Seggern,
  • Anika Duveneck and
  • Nadine Etzkorn

1 April 2020

The educational governance discourse aims at capturing how different actors, participating in a specific political process, coordinate their actions while working together within multi-actor policy networks. In Germany, such multi-actor policy networ...

  • Review
  • Open Access
38 Citations
8,883 Views
32 Pages

6 February 2020

Corporate sustainability (CS) literature has gone through a period of intense development. The moment is favorable to gather these contributions to consistently advance the state-of-the-art in CS and, also, discuss them in application to real context...

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