Understanding and improving web performance is essential for enhancing user experience, yet existing approaches remain largely correlation-based and lack causal interpretability. To address this limitation, we propose a causal-inference-driven framew...
Wicked problems defy simple solutions. From climate change to mass shootings, their causes are not singular but systemic, interconnected, and often politicized. Yet in both public discourse and policy design, one-cause and root-cause thinking continu...
This research aim is to extract causal pathways, particularly disease causal pathways, through cause-effect relation (CErel) extraction from web-board documents. The causal pathways benefit people with a comprehensible representation approach to dise...
Observational and experimental evidence has linked chronotype to both psychological and cardiometabolic traits. Recent Mendelian randomization (MR) studies have investigated direct links between chronotype and several of these traits, often in isolat...
Measuring the immediate impact of television advertisements (TV ads) on online traffic poses significant challenges in many aspects. Nonetheless, a comprehensive consideration is essential to fully grasp consumer reactions to TV ads. So far, the meas...
30 October 2022
The Circular Economy set a frame to govern sustainable growth. Laspias river basin (Thrace) is characterized by various land and water uses and pressures posed directly and/or indirectly on the riverine system which acts as a burdened receptor. The a...
The Internet of Things (IoT) is developing quickly, which has led to the development of new opportunities in many different fields. As the number of IoT devices continues to expand, particularly in transportation and healthcare, the need for efficien...
In the digital age, many sources of textual content are devoted to studying and expressing many sorts of relationships, including employer–employee, if–then, part–whole, product–producer, and cause–effect relations/causa...
Researchers have a long history in the conduct of evaluations of road safety countermeasures. However, despite the strengths of some evaluative road safety evaluations that align with previous and current thinking on program evaluation, few published...
There is increasing pressure on organisations and countries to manage the financial risks associated with climate change. This paper summarises research on climate change, credit risk and the associated losses, and specifically identifies methods tha...
A recently emerged sustainable information society has ceased to be only a consumer and has become a web-based information source. Society’s online behaviour is tracked, recorded, processed, aggregated, and monetised. As a society, we are becom...
Granger causality provides a framework that uses predictability to identify causation between time series variables. This is important to policymakers for effective policy management and recommendations. Granger causality is recognized as the primary...
Epistemology is the main branch of philosophy that studies the nature of knowledge, but how is new knowledge created? In this perspective article, I introduce a novel method of knowledge discovery that synthesizes online findings from current and pri...
In the digitally saturated hospitality environment, research on digital transformation remains dominated by macro-level adoption trends and user-generated content, while the potential of micro-level web-behavioural data remains largely untapped. Rece...
Considering the current prediction from the Food and Agriculture Organization, food production needs an increase of over 70 percent by 2050, and the agriculture sector requires a boost that is also obtained by integrating novelty technologies and met...
This paper predicts offered wage rates and job requirements in the logistics industry by utilizing data from online job postings collected through two methods: search tools and web scraping. We apply conventional estimation techniques, such as ordina...
1 February 2023
Background: In older people, dementia is a well-established risk factor for falls. However, the association and the causal relationship between falls and the earlier stages of cognitive impairment remains unclear. The purpose of the study was to revi...
Background/Objectives: Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) inform the epidemiologic statistical modeling confounders to determine close to true causal relationships in a study context. They inform the inclusion of the predictive model variables that affec...
Mendelian randomization (MR) is increasingly employed as a technique to assess the causation of a risk factor on an outcome using observational data. The two-stage least-squares (2SLS) procedure is commonly used to examine the causation using genetic...
Root cause fault diagnostic reasoning is critical for ensuring the safety and reliability of airborne systems, where timely and accurate fault isolation can significantly reduce downtime and maintenance costs. However, the inherent complexity of faul...
The aim of this research is to develop a preliminary causal loop diagram (PCLD) of the tacit knowledge (TK) provisioning in a firm, from the knowledge-based human resource management (KB-HRM) perspective, which facilitates understanding phenomenon dy...
This paper constructed a robust methodology to investigate the impact of news regarding macroeconomic policies on exchange rate fluctuations, and to examined the applicability of qualitative information alongside historical data to predict exchange r...
Milk intake has been associated with risk of neurodegenerative diseases in observational studies. Nevertheless, whether the association is causal remains unknown. We adopted Mendelian randomization design to evaluate the potential causal association...
One of the main barriers when implementing social innovation deemed to be significant is the agency barrier. The purpose of this research is to diagnose the structurally conditioned and awareness agency barriers that occur during the implementation o...
Different segments of society have shown interest in understanding the effects of human activities on ecosystems. To this end, the aim of this article is to analyze the scientific literature on the application of the Drivers-Pressures-State-Impact-Re...
7 November 2024
(1) Background: Quasi-experimental design has been widely used in causal inference for health policy impact evaluation. However, due to the non-randomized treatment used, there is great potential for bias in the assessment of the results, which can b...
Schistosomiasis elimination is increasingly constrained less by the technical efficacy of single interventions than by systemic dynamics in coupled human–animal–environment settings, including nonlinear feedback, spatial heterogeneity, an...
Despite positive associations between micronutrient intake, status, and health outcomes, many randomized controlled trials (RCT) of vitamins are null. Standards to establish causality in biological systems include the Bradford Hill criteria, the expe...
In this cross-disciplinary investigation, we uncover a suite of previously unexamined factors and their intricate interplay that hold causal relationships with the distribution of Trachurus japonicus in the northern reaches of the South China Sea, th...
Chromosome 6q deletion syndrome is a rare entity that has a highly variable clinical presentation and size of deletions. The most frequent manifestations of 6q terminal deletion are intellectual disability, facial dysmorphism, brain structural anomal...
13 October 2020
Background: To carry out a systematic review of scientific literature about the association between radon exposure and neurodegenerative diseases. Methods: We performed a bibliographic search in the following databases: Pub med (Medline), Cochrane, B...
Background/Objectives: The association between gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and extraesophageal malignancies remains unclear. This study aimed to systematically evaluate the relationship between GERD and these cancers. Methods: PubMed, Emba...
17 January 2014
Authors focus on ontology-based multidimensional data warehousing and mining methodologies, addressing various issues on organizing, reporting and documenting diabetic cases and their associated ailments, including causalities. Map and other diagnost...
24 September 2019
Background: Various health benefits from the ownership of companion dogs have been studied from a One Health perspective. However, the preventive effects on depression are unclear, with inconsistent results across studies. We hypothesized that hetero...
Background/Objectives: Migraine and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are both common chronic conditions that may share underlying pathophysiological mechanisms despite presenting with distinct clinical features. Understanding the associat...
Environmental pollution with micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) is an escalating global health concern. Despite growing evidence of MNPs’ presence in the human body, their impact on cerebrovascular diseases remains poorly understood. This study aim...
Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) remains a leading cause of global morbidity and mortality, prompting significant interest in individualized prevention and treatment strategies. This review synthesizes recent advances in genomic and pre...
Transcription factors (TFs) govern transcriptional gene regulation by specifically binding to short DNA motifs, known as transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs), in regulatory regions, such as promoters. Today, it is well known that single nucleot...
Insomnia in college students has a significant impact on academic performance and mental health (e.g., depression). Although the mechanisms underlying insomnia and chronic pain are becoming clearer, only a few studies on college students have examine...
Urban Sustainability and Smartness Understanding (USSU) can be defined by a group of sociopsychological determinants (such as awareness, perception, attitude and behavior) which shapes the relationship between human beings and the environment in whic...
Advanced digital data-driven applications have evolved and significantly impacted the transportation sector in recent years. This systematic review examines natural language processing (NLP) approaches applied to aviation safety-related domains. The...
As part of the risk management plan for human system risks at the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the NASA Human Systems Risk Board uses causal diagrams (in the form of directed, acyclic graphs, or DAGs) to communicate the co...
Hyperuricemia, defined as elevated serum uric acid (SUA) levels (>6.8 mg/dL), is traditionally linked to gout and nephrolithiasis but is increasingly implicated in insulin resistance (IR) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Epidemiological studie...
Background: Fibromyalgia is a complex multifaceted syndrome primarily characterised by chronic musculoskeletal pain, fatigue, and functional symptoms. Although FM is known to be associated with several comorbidities, the aim of this systematic review...
13 February 2023
The presence of female athletes has only increased in recent years, as has the incidence of injuries in female sports activities. These injuries are conditioned by multiple factors, including hormonal agents. It is estimated that the menstrual cycle...
The main purpose of this study was to conduct a bibliometric analysis of scientific knowledge and trends in modern finance. To this end, the analysis was based on the keywords: “finance”, “automation”, and “ESG”. T...
Aortic diseases, including abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA), aortic dissection (AD), and Takayasu arteritis (TAK), are characterized by vascular remodeling and chronic immune–inflammatory activation, with AD often...
Background/Objectives: Moral distress is commonly experienced by healthcare professionals (i.e., nurses) as ethical conflict. Previous literature suggests that moral distress contributes to emotional exhaustion in these professionals. We aimed to syn...
Japan has the highest number of cases of infertility treatment in the world. Studies have indicated that women undergoing infertility treatment feel stigmatized and suffer from psychological symptoms such as anxiety and depression. However, in Japan,...
This study maps how the scholarly literature examines government actions in relation to carbon emissions, rather than estimating the impact of specific policies. We conduct a bibliometric science-mapping using the Web of Science Core Collection (2010...
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