The purpose of this case study is to examine how a therapy dog intervention can be integrated into a Tier 3 intervention classroom and how therapy dog interventions influence mental health components of well-being, social, emotional, and behavioral f...
To further improve air quality in China, especially ozone and fine particulate matter (PM2.5), additional reductions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are needed. Evaporative emissions from internal combustion engines (ICE) and hybrid vehicles are...
A specific method for the estimation of the induced power at the tip by an active implantable medical device (AIMD) during an MRI scan is not defined in ISO/TS 10974:2018 for the cases of devices with multiple leads or the presence of abandoned and r...
Tropical peatlands store vast volumes of carbon belowground. Human land uses have led to their degradation, reducing their carbon storage services. Clearing and drainage make peatlands susceptible to surface and belowground fires. Satellites do not r...
Scope 3 emissions constitute a significant portion of the total product carbon footprint, particularly within globalized supply chains involving cross-border transportation [...]
In order to boost the electromechanical coupling factor and decrease the characteristic impedance, a 1-3 piezoelectric composite with a 3-tier polymer structure was designed and fabricated, in which epoxy resin constitutes the middle layer and silico...
The 2014 Health Canada’s Surveillance Tool, Tier System (HCST) is a nutrient profiling model developed to evaluate adherence of food choices to dietary recommendations. With the recent release of the nationally representative Canadian Community...
Many countries, including South Korea, decided to suspend the inclusion of harvested wood products in their Nationally Determined Contributions, as part of the carbon inventory, in 2016. The inclusion of harvested wood products in the national greenh...
The net energy requirement for lactation (NEL) equals the milk energy, which is the sum of the energy content from the energy-yielding nutrients in milk. The specific nutrients and their calories, however, vary depending on the feeding system. The ob...
Canadians’ food purchases consist largely of packaged processed and ultra-processed products, which typically fall outside the “core” foods recommended by Canada’s Food Guide (CFG). Almost half of packaged products in Canada c...
The present study aimed to analyze swimmers’ in-water kinetic and kinematic behaviors according to different swimming performance tiers within the same age group. An amount of 53 highly trained swimmers (girls and boys: 12.40 ± 0.74 year...
Estimates of historical enteric methane emissions by US beef cattle using various methodologies recommended by IPCC were compared, then translated using two expressions of carbon dioxide equivalence. Three existing methodologies (Tier 1, Tier 2, and...
Tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) are prescribed for chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and some other cancers. The objective was to predict and rank TKI-related adverse events (AEs), including under-reported or preclinical AEs, using novel text mining....
This study focuses on identifying key factors that companies should prioritize to prevent chemical accidents from an ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) perspective. ESG provides insight into corporate sustainability by comprehensively consid...
Background: The STRATified CANcer Surveillance (STRATCANS) model risk-stratifies patients with prostate cancer (PC) on active surveillance (AS) into three tiers based on their risk of disease progression. We applied STRATCANS to the Michigan Urologic...
Antimicrobials are among the most prescribed medications in Canada, with over 90% of antibiotics prescribed in outpatient settings. Seniors prescribed antimicrobials are particularly vulnerable to adverse drug events and antimicrobial resistance. The...
The impact of high-speed rail (the following text is written as HSR) on regional economy has become an important research hotspot in the world. Using the Difference in Differences (DID) method, this paper analyzes the influence of HSR opening in 223...
Forests and the forest-based sector play important roles in mitigating climate change through carbon sequestration and storage in living biomass and soil. In Europe, the forest sector is the only sector that positively affects atmospheric carbon bala...
The 2022 FIFA World Cup brings Qatar great challenges in terms of minimizing the cooling energy consumption and providing thermal comfort for both spectators and players. This paper presents comparisons among the results of thermal and wind environme...
18 September 2019
Air pollution epidemiology studies of ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ozone (O3) often use outdoor concentrations as exposure surrogates. Failure to account for the variability of the indoor infiltration of ambient PM2.5 and O3, and time...
The 2014 Health Canada Surveillance Tool (HCST) was developed to assess adherence of dietary intakes with Canada’s Food Guide. HCST classifies foods into one of four Tiers based on thresholds for sodium, total fat, saturated fat and sugar, with Tier...
Theory and practice show that second-tier cities can play an important role in linking the urban and the rural. Second-tier cities are the middle ground of the urban system. The smaller spatial scale of second-tier cities, and their often-stronger co...
Non-volatile organic acids (NVOAs) are essential to the flavor profile of Baijiu. However, the low levels and diversity of NVOAs in Baijiu make their isolation, annotation, and quantification challenging. In this study, a well-established pipeline co...
In this study, we explore the evolution and formation mechanism of urban housing investment resilience from three perspectives: theoretical analysis, model construction, and empirical testing. Based on the three-element theory of investment decision...
Air pollution epidemiological studies often use outdoor concentrations from central-site monitors as exposure surrogates, which can induce measurement error. The goal of this study was to improve exposure assessments of ambient fine particulate matte...
In order to realize the coordinated development of digitalization and low-carbon emissions, it is important to understand the carbon implications of the digitization of the high-carbon manufacturing (HCM) industry; therefore, this paper focuses on st...
Urban-rural equalized development (URED) is recognized as strongly contributing to the narrowing of societal, economic, life, and environmental gaps between urban and rural areas and is also an effective way to solve the “three rural issues” of rapid...
The authors applied one-dimensional (1-D) simulation and 3-D Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation to evaluate the potential of in-cylinder control methods on a low-speed 2-stroke marine engine to reach the International Maritime Organization...
The new urbanization city pilot policy is China’s most recent policy on urban urbanization. This paper uses new urbanization pilot policies as a quasi-natural experiment to empirically test the impact of new urbanization pilot policies on urban...
This study examined the willingness-to-pay (WTP) of consumers and the determinants of eco-labeling for the organic cocoa powder produced in the Dong Nai UNESCO Biosphere Reserve (DNBR), Southern Vietnam. Eco-labels are designed according to the tiers...
This empirical study contributes towards identifying the effect of both fake and real discounts in the Indian marketing environment. A common but unsustainable practice in India is to increase the selling price and then offer a discount on the produc...
Off-grid solar home systems (SHSs) currently constitute a major source of providing basic electricity needs in un(der)-electrified regions of the world, with around 73 million households having benefited from off-grid solar solutions by 2017. However...
Background: Realistic cancer treatment goals should be used by health care professionals and communicated to patients, families, and the public. The current nomenclature on this subject is outdated and has not been changed since the advent of modern...
School bullying is a pervasive issue with significant physical, mental, and social consequences for victims and bullies. Occupational therapy practitioners are uniquely positioned to address bullying due to their expertise in mental health, social pa...
The term “vaccine” has been broadly and inconsistently applied to a range of products with widely divergent immunological outcomes, leading to the erosion of public trust and confusion among both medical professionals and the public. Hist...
The quality and relevance of nanosafety studies constitute major challenges to ensure their key role as a supporting tool in sustainable innovation, and subsequent competitive economic advantage. However, the number of apparently contradictory and in...
18 December 2021
This paper proposes the “citizen-ecology-city” evaluation framework for urban ecological livability theoretically and studies the ecological livability of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) empirically. In addition, we a...
The Dutch Kooiker dog (het Nederlandse Kooikerhondje) is one of nine Dutch dog breeds. As of 1960, a number of heritable diseases have been noted in this breed. One is an inflammatory myopathy that emerged in 1972, with numbers of affected dogs gradu...
Concern about rising rates of obesity has prompted searches for obesity-related single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Identifying plausible regulatory SNPs is very difficult partially because of linkage dis...
30 December 2021
Medical wastewater originating from hospitals specializing in infectious diseases pose a major risk to human and environmental health during pandemics. However, there have been few systematic studies on the management of this type of wastewater manag...
Background: The impact of chemotherapy response score (CRS) on prognosis has varied among studies. We addressed the prognostic significance of CRS and the prognostic value of previously undescribed histologic features using a cohort of 245 patients....
A prevalence boundary (PB) marks the point in prevalence in which the false omission rate, RFO = FN/(TN + FN), exceeds the tolerance limit for missed diagnoses. The objectives were to mathematically analyze rapid antigen test (RAgT) performance, dete...
(1) Background: Developing strategies to identify significant liver fibrosis in people with HIV (PWH) is crucial to prevent complications of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). We aim to investigate if five simple serum biomarkers applied to P...
The management of Vocal Fold Leukoplakia (VFL) remains problematic. There is no consensus on the indications or the timing for surgery. The objective was to select the most accurate classification for predicting low- and high-risk VFL in White Light...
Cisco (Coregonus artedi) is the most common coldwater stenothermal fish in Minnesota lakes. Water temperature (T) and dissolved oxygen (DO) in lakes are important controls of fish growth and reproduction and likely change with future climate warming....
(1) Background: This study analyzed the effects of intervention programs conducted between 2021 and 2025 as part of the “Aula UCLM-FNCLM” initiative—a partnership between a regional swimming federation and the university—on ps...
The world is far from meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement of limiting the rise of global temperature to below 1.5 °C, with dire consequences for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in particular. If SIDS are to address their climate vulner...
Enjoyment of physical activity (PA) is positively correlated with PA engagement. The inclusion of peers has been found to increase the likelihood of PA enjoyment in youth. Peer-led strategies, incorporating peer networks in the intervention delivery,...
This review aims to elucidate the contemporary methods of measuring and estimating methane (CH4) emissions from ruminants. Six categories of methods for measuring and estimating CH4 emissions from ruminants are discussed. The widely used methods in m...
Marine acoustic sources are widely used for geophysical imaging, oceanographic sensing, and communicating with and tracking objects or robotic vehicles in the water column. Under the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act and similar regulations in severa...
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