Coastal and island destinations increasingly rely on data-driven governance to manage seasonality, resource scarcity, overtourism, and climate risk. This article analyzes 30 official documents issued between 2017 and 2025 by nine Spanish and Portugue...
Despite a significant commitment to tackling childhood overweight and obesity, questions remain about the progress the Thai Government has made in implementing childhood obesity prevention policies and actions. This study aimed to review and assess t...
The integration of Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile computing in education offers new avenues to address complex health behaviors that affect cognitive performance. While traditional health education relies on passive information delivery, emergin...
Understanding the governance pattern between civil society and market actors in allocation, access to, and use of land for low-income housing is important in managing the informal settlement. In this study, the concept of “action space” i...
TRIZ, the theory of inventive problem solving, can be used to solve contradictions in high-level problems in inventions and patents. Contradictions arise when two contradictory requirements or conditions cannot be satisfied simultaneously and resolvi...
This paper critically reviews ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) approaches for food security under climate change, specifically for the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) comprising the Africa, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean and South China Sea (AIMS)...
20 March 2025
Some experiences of integrating mental health into primary care settings, testing the feasibility of the World Health Organization’s mental health Gap Action Programme, have been launched in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to address treat...
24 March 2022
The intention-behaviour gap has been a barrier to health behavioural change. A total of 85 participants (aged 18–56 years) were recruited for a study that examined how two types of planning (Action and Coping) could bridge the intention-behavio...
(1) In an era where sustainable behavior is increasingly crucial, understanding the discrepancy between individuals’ sustainability-oriented values and their actual behaviors, known as the inner–outer gap, is vital. This systematic litera...
Against the backdrop of an escalating global environmental crisis, bridging the “knowledge–action gap” in the pro-environmental behavior (PEB) of university students has become a key challenge for sustainable development education,...
Ecological connectivity is a key element in biodiversity conservation and the spatial organization of protected areas. In response to environmental disasters, policy frameworks such as the European Biodiversity Strategy 2030, the European Green Deal,...
As sustainability becomes more critical to corporate strategy and performance, firms, investors, and researchers must continue to refine methods for measuring and addressing the gap between rhetoric and reality. Closing this gap is crucial to ensurin...
A gender gap in mobility, although with different levels, exists everywhere. Several factors are linked to this gap, such as females’ daily schedules and duties, economic aspects, or preferences. Women’s personal risk perception and its c...
The realization of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development requires local governments globally to integrate Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into their policy and practice. In the case of the Hunter Valley Region of Australia, a key sustainab...
Environmental literacy plays a crucial role in promoting sustainable behavior and increasing public participation in environmental protection. This study investigates the environmental literacy of the general public in Chiayi County, Taiwan, focusing...
Aerial human action recognition is an emerging topic in drone applications. Commercial drone platforms capable of detecting basic human actions such as hand gestures have been developed. However, a limited number of aerial video datasets are availabl...
Ontology plays a significant role in AI (Artificial Intelligence) and robotics by providing structured data, reasoning, action understanding, context awareness, knowledge transfer, and semantic learning. The structured framework created by the ontolo...
Human rabies is preventable but almost always fatal once symptoms appear, causing 59,000 global deaths each year. Limited awareness and inconsistent access to post-exposure prophylaxis hinder prevention efforts. To identify gaps and opportunities for...
This study was intended to investigate the online behavior of Taiwan’s Net Generation (born between 1977 and 1997) based on Dentsu’s AISAS (Attention-Interest-Search-Action-Share) model. A conceptual framework and several hypotheses were developed an...
There is a growing interest in the literature to understand how actions taken by occupants and facility managers can affect building performance. However, user-centric building energy research: (1) remains understudied compared to design-focused rese...
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a pivotal role in advancing sustainability, yet many struggle to translate voluntary sustainability practices into structured, strategic business models. This study examines how this gap can be bridged b...
With the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the global community has set itself an ambitious development agenda. Current analytical and quantitative modeling capabilities fall short of being able to capture all 17 SDGs and their targets. Even high...
It has been suggested that GAP-43 (growth-associated protein) binds to various proteins in growing neurons as part of its mechanism of action. To test this hypothesis in vivo, differentiated N1E-115 neuroblastoma cells were labeled with [35S]-amino a...
This study analyzed the collaborative problem solving (CPS) behavioral transition patterns of 53,859 Taiwanese students in science at age 15 by using an online Taiwanese CPS assessment that was designed according to the Programme for International St...
Climate change adaptation is a critical response to the challenges posed by climate change and is important for building resilience. Progress in adaptation efforts has been made globally, nationally, and locally through international agreements, nati...
Mortise and tenon are very important parts of gas turbine dealing operation safety. Additionally, the temperature distribution of the turbine blade and disk is affected by the heat transfer characteristics in its gap. Then, the S-shaped mortise and t...
To improve the reliability of mechanical parts that have failed in the field, a reliability methodology for parametric accelerated life testing (ALT) is proposed. It consists of: (1) a parametric ALT plan, (2) a load analysis, (3) a tailored series o...
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) can support and strengthen responses to the environmental challenges faced today. However, the sustainability knowledge–action gap remains mostly unbridged. This article examines communication...
People with sensory disabilities constitute a significant portion of society whose accessibility needs must be prioritized in the design of the built environment. Sensory disabilities cause a gap in the environmental information received, most common...
Background: Although global immunization coverage has increased substantially, significant inequalities persist. Despite the availability of disaggregated data, inequality evidence is rarely translated into equity-oriented policy action. This gap ref...
In Canada, Indigenous populations are disproportionately threatened by wildfire smoke and the associated adverse health impacts. This paper presents the results of a narrative review of 51 academic and related resources which explored protective acti...
This study evaluates the innovation capacity of Egypt’s governorates to identify their potential for developing smart cities as innovation hubs. Smart cities represent essential instruments for tackling complicated urban issues like environment...
Dental replacements are placed between the abutment teeth. The exceptions are two-unit bridges, as they are supported by a single tooth prepared only on one side of the missing tooth. The presented study deals with an analysis of a pressure force act...
Academic literature has begun to be interested in the informational gaps between what companies say and do in relation to their financial performance and their commitment to society and the environment, identifying the use of self-protection and self...
With intensifying demands for sustainability in higher education—particularly tied to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—universities remain central to fostering responsible consumption and climate action. Howe...
Entropy-based soft-min operators and Gibbs policies are widely used in reinforcement learning to smooth greedy decisions and regulate stochastic action selection. Their behavior depends critically on an inverse temperature parameter, which is often c...
Spatial conservation prioritization does not necessarily lead to effective conservation plans, and good plans do not necessarily lead to action. These “science-action” gaps are pernicious and need to be narrowed, especially if the interna...
Appropriate technologies (ATs) refer to technologies that are controlled by the communities that benefit from their implementation. Technologies have become a fundamental element in projects aiming to solve problems related to poverty and access to b...
Action quality assessment (AQA) plays a pivotal role in intelligent sports analysis, aiding athlete training and refereeing decisions. However, existing datasets and methods are limited to short-term actions, lacking comprehensive spatiotemporal mode...
Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs) are adult multipotent cells able to increase sensory neuron survival: direct co-culture of MSCs with neurons is pivotal to observe a neuronal survival increase. Despite the identification of some mechanisms of action, li...
A global poly-crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, dwindling natural resources, geopolitical instability, among other complex challenges, is on the rise. Societal transformations are therefore imminent, whether intended or unintended. The key...
Although smart-city benchmarking has produced many indices and rankings, cities still lack a practical way to assess whether successful initiatives can be transferred across institutional contexts and converted into implementable urban roadmaps. In t...
To ensure sustainable development, there is not only a need to re-think how the economic playing field is structured, but also the regulatory system that governs it. Business and finance law reforms will represent a crucial element of such a transiti...
The Protecting European Biodiversity from Invasive Alien Species (INVALIS) project objective is to improve policies for protecting biodiversity from invasive alien species (IAS), by bringing together seven partners from seven countries and supporting...
Near-real-time disturbance detection within the remotely sensed time series has become a crucial task in many environmental applications that can help policymakers and responsible authorities to make rapid decisions and proper actions. Although there...
Green supply chain management (GSCM) can be defined as the integration of environmental concerns into the inter-organizational practices of supply chain management (SCM). This paper analyzes the role of seaports in the greening of supply chains in tw...
Research on recycling and waste governance has produced extensive knowledge about the factors influencing environmentally responsible behavior. Studies examine strategies—including feedback systems, incentives, social norms, gamification, and c...
This study aims to identify and analyze existing gaps in the integration of immersive approaches for collaborative processes with Building Information Modeling (BIM) in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) sector. Using a systematic...
This study aimed to evaluate and quantify the environmental impacts generated by anthropogenic actions on coastal dunes globally using bibliometric data, while concurrently identifying human impacts in a local context on the Brazilian semi-arid coast...
Lippia alba (Verbenaceae) is popularly known as lemon balm or false melissa and is one of the most widely used plants in traditional medicine in the Amazon region. In this study, we conducted a comprehensive bibliometric analysis, with conventional m...
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