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  • Open Access
9 Citations
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7 September 2020

Creating social connections and fostering engagement in communities is a growing challenge for community work. Planners, social workers, and community activists are starting to look towards the arts and storytelling as a way to promote community capa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,358 Views
17 Pages

Capacity Building in Community Stakeholder Groups for Increasing Physical Activity: Results of a Qualitative Study in Two German Communities

  • Julika Loss,
  • Nicola Brew-Sam,
  • Boris Metz,
  • Helmut Strobl,
  • Alexandra Sauter and
  • Susanne Tittlbach

Community capacity building is an essential approach for health promotion, combining a participatory approach with the view to community ownership. Little research focuses on practical capacity building strategies and monitoring. Our paper looks into...

  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,707 Views
16 Pages

Community Capacity Building for Physical Activity Promotion among Older Adults—A Literature Review

  • Tobias Ubert,
  • Sarah Forberger,
  • Dirk Gansefort,
  • Hajo Zeeb and
  • Tilman Brand

Community-based interventions to promote physical activity (PA) among older adults are of high interest in health promotion since they promise to be effective strategies to reach this population group. Community capacity building, that is, the local...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,240 Views
21 Pages

Community Training Institute for Health Disparities: Outcomes of a Formal Opportunity for Community Capacity Building to Increase Health Equity in Southern Puerto Rico

  • Julio Jiménez-Chávez,
  • Fernando J. Rosario-Maldonado,
  • David A. Vélez-Maldonado,
  • Dorimar Rodríguez-Torruella,
  • Jeannie M. Aguirre-Hernández,
  • Eida Castro-Figueroa,
  • Gloria Asencio-Toro,
  • Elizabeth Rivera-Mateo,
  • Luisa Morales-Torres and
  • Melissa Marzán-Rodríguez
  • + 3 authors

Integration of the community into health research through community-engaged research has proven to be an essential strategy for reducing health inequities. It brings significant benefits by addressing community health concerns and promoting active co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,412 Views
21 Pages

Empathy can be a powerful catalyst for caring action toward wildlife and nature more broadly. Given the critical developmental period of early childhood, interventions that build the capacity of educators to support empathy development in young child...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,354 Views
10 Pages

Merchants in the traditional marketplace are exposed to poor working conditions, such as long working hours, musculoskeletal stress, lack of physical activity, irregular meal times, and nutritional imbalance. This study aimed to develop a community c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,590 Views
21 Pages

17 January 2019

Community contextual factors including community perceptions and institutional capacity are among the key determinants in community-based water resource management. The Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework proposed by Ostrom is comm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,265 Views
17 Pages

28 May 2020

Conservation of natural protected areas (NPA), including national parks (NP) in socio-ecological contexts, as spaces essential to the conservation of ecosystems can be closely linked to the adaptive capacity and resilience of the communities associat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,004 Views
8 Pages

Skeletal Muscle Mass and Higher-Level Functional Capacity in Female Community-Dwelling Older Adults

  • Shuichi Wakayama,
  • Yoshihiko Fujita,
  • Keisuke Fujii,
  • Takeshi Sasaki,
  • Hiroshi Yuine and
  • Kazushi Hotta

Purpose: In this study, our purpose was to examine the relationship between skeletal muscle mass and higher-level functional capacity in female community-dwelling older adults. Participant(s) and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, we targeted 55...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,248 Views
21 Pages

15 June 2022

Primary forests are essential ecosystems that can play a key role in mitigating climate change. REDD+ is designed to help countries and communities secure benefits for avoiding deforestation but has faced significant implementation challenges. There...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,728 Views
19 Pages

Development of Community-Level Capacity of Resilience to Natural Hazards for Environmental- and Social-Justice-Challenged Communities: 1. Approach, Concepts, and Assessment of Existing Information

  • J. Kevin Summers,
  • Rachelle Sanderson,
  • Rachelle Trahan,
  • Kendra Hendricks,
  • Mia Ruffin,
  • Adam Williams,
  • Andrea Lamper,
  • Mason Lowery and
  • Linda C. Harwell

23 January 2024

Impoverished and under-served communities are often exposed to the worst environmental and climate hazards. Identifying these communities and building their resilience capacity to withstand such hazards is a vital justice aspect of environmental mana...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,386 Views
22 Pages

Communities are the first line of defense in responding to major public health events. Taking the community-based prevention and control cases of COVID-19 in China as samples, this paper constructs an analytical framework for the generation of commun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,502 Views
17 Pages

The aim of this study was to examine the impact of a mountain honeysuckle (Lonicerae flos) extract on the fermentation characteristics, antioxidant capacity and microbial community of silage composed of a mixture of alfalfa, soybean meal and distille...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,468 Views
13 Pages

Background: The benefits of patient-focused pharmaceutical care in improving clinical outcomes and reducing health expenditure have been well documented. However, these services are not fully implemented in many developing countries like China, espec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,989 Views
16 Pages

Building Capacity for Community-Academia Research Partnerships by Establishing a Physical Infrastructure for Community Engagement: Morgan CARES

  • Payam Sheikhattari,
  • Emma Shaffer,
  • Rifath Ara Alam Barsha,
  • Gillian Beth Silver,
  • Bethtrice Elliott,
  • Christina Delgado,
  • Paula Purviance,
  • Valerie Odero-Marah and
  • Yvonne Bronner

Research partnerships between universities and communities following the principles of community-based participatory research (CBPR) have the potential to eliminate cycles of health disparities. The purpose of this article is to describe the process...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,502 Views
20 Pages

Capacity Region of a New Bus Communication Model

  • Bin Dai,
  • A. J. Han Vinck,
  • Yuan Luo and
  • Zhuojun Zhuang

18 February 2013

In this paper, we study a new bus communication model, where two transmitters wish to send their corresponding private messages and a common message to a destination, while they also wish to send the common message to another receiver connected to th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,410 Views
16 Pages

Effects of the Oat Hay Feeding Method and Compound Probiotic Supplementation on the Growth, Antioxidant Capacity, Immunity, and Rumen Bacteria Community of Dairy Calves

  • Yong-Qing Guo,
  • Ya-Ru Hu,
  • Su-Ran Liu,
  • Meng Wang,
  • Zhen-Yu Xian,
  • De-Wu Liu,
  • Bao-Li Sun,
  • Yao-Kun Li,
  • Guang-Bin Liu and
  • Qing-Shen Liu
  • + 2 authors

12 October 2023

This study aimed to investigate the effects of the oat hay feeding method and compound probiotics (CMP) on the growth, health, serum antioxidant and immune indicators, rumen fermentation, and bacteria community of dairy calves from 3 to 5 months of a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
774 Views
22 Pages

14 September 2025

Understanding the regulatory mechanisms of water–nitrogen coupling effects on soil–plant–microbe systems in arid regions is crucial for sustainable agricultural development. This study systematically investigated the interactive eff...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,201 Views
21 Pages

25 June 2023

Preparing communities around mines to face the impacts of mine closures is crucial in order to reduce disruptions to their livelihoods. Building the adaptive capacity of these communities will alleviate the burden on governments or mining companies i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
10,926 Views
23 Pages

20 October 2020

Capacity and resilience are two closely aligned concepts in human development. They both contribute to increasing the ability of societies to cope with and adapt to challenging and adverse perturbations that may affect systems the societies depend up...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,732 Views
25 Pages

Secrecy Capacity Enhancement in Active IRS-Assisted UAV Communication System

  • Jiansong Miao,
  • Tongjie Li,
  • Shanling Bai,
  • Shi Yan and
  • Yan Zhao

28 April 2023

As a new technology for reconstructing communication environments, intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) can be applied to UAV communication systems. However, some challenges exist in IRS-assisted UAV communication system design, such as physical la...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,450 Views
14 Pages

Electromechanical Coupling and Application of High-Frequency Communication Antenna Channel Capacity

  • Yuefei Yan,
  • Yan Wang,
  • Baoqing Han,
  • Xinlan Hu,
  • Peiyuan Lian,
  • Zhihai Wang,
  • Kunpeng Yu,
  • Meng Wang,
  • Yang Wu and
  • Congsi Wang
  • + 1 author

The next-generation communication base station antennas represented by phased array antennas are towards high frequency, high gain, high density, and high pointing accuracy. The influence of mechanical structure factors on communication system channe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,109 Views
13 Pages

Asymptotic Ergodic Capacity Analysis for FSO Communication between Mobile Platforms in Maritime Environments

  • Jae Eun Han,
  • Sung Sik Nam,
  • Changseok Yoon,
  • Duck Dong Hwang and
  • Mohamed-Slim Alouini

9 June 2023

With the rapid development of wireless communication technologies, free-space optical (FSO) communication has gained much attention in recent years. The FSO technology, which is usually used for communication in terrestrial environments, is expanding...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
27,706 Views
14 Pages

An increasing number of college students are experiencing social anxiety in an era of prevalent social networking. College students’ social anxiety may be related to their social media use. However, this relationship has not been confirmed. Thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,828 Views
9 Pages

New Bounds on Capacity Region of Multiple Access Channels in Visible Light Communications

  • Ruixin Yang,
  • Bing Li,
  • Shuai Ma,
  • Youlong Wu,
  • Zongyan Li and
  • Shiyin Li

2 September 2022

In this paper, we propose new inner and outer bounds of the capacity region for multiple access channels in visible light communication (VLC) networks under both peak and average optical power constraints. Specifically, the proposed inner bounds are...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,906 Views
25 Pages

On the Capacity of Amplitude Modulated Soliton Communication over Long Haul Fibers

  • Yu Chen,
  • Iman Tavakkolnia,
  • Alex Alvarado and
  • Majid Safari

15 August 2020

The capacity limits of fiber-optic communication systems in the nonlinear regime are not yet well understood. In this paper, we study the capacity of amplitude modulated first-order soliton transmission, defined as the maximum of the so-called time-s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
7,978 Views
28 Pages

Knowledge-Based Economy Capacity Building for Developing Countries: A Panel Analysis in Southern African Development Community

  • Koketso Phale,
  • Fanglin Li,
  • Isaac Adjei Mensah,
  • Akoto Yaw Omari-Sasu and
  • Mohammed Musah

7 March 2021

The Southern African Development Community is lagging behind in terms of knowledge economy relative to other regions worldwide. This dramatically reduces the chances of keeping up with their economically established counterparts in terms of sustainab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,103 Views
8 Pages

4 December 2020

This paper focuses on the effect of the receiver’s tilted angle on the capacity of a clear ocean water Underwater Wireless Optical Communication (UWOC) system. To achieve this goal, the relationship between the channel capacity and the receiver...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,358 Views
21 Pages

30 October 2023

In this paper, we study the enhancement of channel transmission information by expanding the transmission channel in the frequency-hopping rate dimension in a communication system. This is achieved using the frequency-hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,638 Views
13 Pages

This paper investigates the employment of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) to improve the asymptotic capacity of the multiple-input single-output (MISO) visible light communication (VLC) system in the case of high signal-to-noise (SNR). For...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,893 Views
12 Pages

4 March 2021

A partial receiving scheme based on limited angular aperture multi-beam receiving and demultiplexing can solve the difficulty caused by the divergence of the vortex beam in the conventional whole beam receiving scheme and realize the long-distance tr...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
59 Citations
6,806 Views
14 Pages

15 May 2021

The propagation performance of a free-space optical (FSO) communication system in an atmospheric environment is restricted and degraded due to the influence of atmospheric turbulence. In this paper, both the lognormal and Gamma–Gamma channel models a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,048 Views
37 Pages

29 August 2022

New-born infants communicate from the first minute they come to life. This non-linguistic and non-verbal capacity to interact from the first day they come to life enables them to express their needs and evidence their typical development. This capaci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,398 Views
12 Pages

31 December 2022

As an emerging technology, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has attracted increasing attention due to the ability to configure the wireless propagation environment. Parallel multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) visible light communication (V...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,524 Views
13 Pages

27 January 2023

Combined with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), visible light communications (VLCs) can increase the communication performance to a great degree. However, the research into RIS-aided VLC systems has mainly focused on mirror array-based RISs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
278 Views
26 Pages

31 December 2025

Under the “dual carbon” goals, enhancing the energy supply for communication base stations is crucial for energy conservation and emission reduction. An individual base station with wind/photovoltaic (PV)/storage system exhibits limited s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,972 Views
20 Pages

23 November 2022

Future energy markets are foreseen to integrate multiple entities located mainly at the distribution level of the grid so that consumers can participate in energy trading while acting as individual prosumers or by forming energy communities. To ensur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,837 Views
15 Pages

Dynamic Analysis of the Bacterial Community and Determination of Antioxidant Capacity during the Fermentation of Sour Tea

  • Shuming Zhang,
  • Chunyuan Shi,
  • Chenjian Liu,
  • Xingyuan Zou,
  • Fuming Gong and
  • Xiaoran Li

The imbalance of the redox state caused by extra reactive oxygen species is closely related to many diseases. Therefore, it is necessary for people to ingest antioxidants through food. The safety of some synthetic antioxidants has been questioned. In...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,323 Views
17 Pages

The Role of Livelihood Assets in Affecting Community Adaptive Capacity in Facing Shocks in Karangrejo Village, Indonesia

  • Gunawan Prayitno,
  • Aidha Auliah,
  • Achmad Efendi,
  • Ainul Hayat,
  • Aris Subagiyo and
  • Aulia Putri Salsabila

This study addresses a theoretical gap by examining how multiple livelihood assets collectively enhance rural communities’ adaptive capacity and contribute to rural resilience theory. Using structural equation modeling, data were collected from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
756 Views
28 Pages

Driving Sustainable Adaptation Through Community Engagement: A Social Adaptive Capacity Tool for Climate Policy

  • Monika Piotrkowska,
  • Katarzyna Rędzińska,
  • Monika Zgutka and
  • Małgorzata Płaszczyca

22 October 2025

Existing studies on adaptive capacity often focus on isolated theoretical aspects of the concept, without offering practical tools for climate policy. Moreover, gaps remain in integrating public participation into adaptation strategies and in extendi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,007 Views
10 Pages

Outcomes of a Decision-Making Capacity Assessment Model at the Grey Nuns Community Hospital

  • Lesley Charles,
  • Utkarsha Kothavade,
  • Suzette Brémault-Phillips,
  • Karenn Chan,
  • Bonnie Dobbs,
  • Peter George Jaminal Tian,
  • Sharna Polard and
  • Jasneet Parmar

BACKGROUND. With an increasing elderly population, the number of persons with dementia is expected to increase and, consequently, the number of persons needing decision-making capacity assessments (DMCA) is too. However, many healthcare professionals...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,120 Views
28 Pages

6 December 2019

Coordinated approaches to wildfire risk mitigation strategies that cross-ownership and management boundaries are found in many policies and programs worldwide. The “all lands” approach of the United States (US) National Cohesive Strategy,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,899 Views
19 Pages

Equity in accessible healthcare is crucial for measuring health equity in community care policy. The most important objective of such a policy in Taiwan is empowering people and communities by improving health literacy and increasing access to health...

  • Article
  • Open Access
398 Views
14 Pages

Associations Between Triglycerides and Walking Capacity in Community-Dwelling Older Adults with Metabolic Syndrome

  • Chiraphat Kloypan,
  • Tichanon Promsrisuk,
  • Boonsita Suwannakul,
  • Chonticha Kaewjoho and
  • Arunrat Srithawong

2 January 2026

Background and Objectives: Metabolic syndrome (MetS) has been associated with reduced physical function in older adults, but the relative contributions of metabolic components, physiological responses, and functional performance to walking capacity r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,745 Views
14 Pages

Assessment of Surfactant Removal Capacity and Microbial Community Diversity in a Greywater-Treating Constructed Wetland

  • Robelio Mascoli Junior,
  • Caique Morelo Passoni,
  • Filipe Martins Santos,
  • Fernando Silva Bernardes,
  • Fernando Jorge Correa. Magalhães Filho and
  • Paula Loureiro Paulo

Surfactants are among the main chemical contaminants in greywater (GW) and can cause severe health issues in humans and aquatic organisms. We assessed the performance of a multistage constructed wetland system (EvaTAC) for GW treatment and capacity o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,820 Views
26 Pages

26 July 2019

Over the past thirty years, externally-driven interventions for climate-change adaptation in rural Pacific Island contexts have largely failed to be effective or sustained. One reason is that traditional (culturally-grounded) autonomous community cop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
12,186 Views
18 Pages

18 September 2018

Over 85% of Uganda’s 34 million people depend on rural water supply systems and the current water and environment sector performance report (2017) reports an 84% functionality of rural water sources such as boreholes and shallow wells with a ha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,992 Views
10 Pages

Validation and Screening Capacity of the European Portuguese Version of the SUNFRAIL Tool for Community-Dwelling Older Adults

  • Ana Filipa Cardoso,
  • Elzbieta Bobrowicz-Campos,
  • Luísa Teixeira-Santos,
  • Daniela Cardoso,
  • Filipa Couto and
  • João Apóstolo

Early detection of frailty may prevent or delay adverse health outcomes in community-dwelling older adults. In Portugal, there are currently no valid multidimensional frailty screening tools. SUNFRAIL is a user-friendly multidimensional tool for frai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,096 Views
25 Pages

Health promotion empowers people, communities, and societies to take charge of their own health and quality of life. To strengthen community-based support, increase resource accessibility, and achieve the ideal of aging, this study targets the questi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,708 Views
29 Pages

2 August 2020

In the grid-tied micro-grid context, energy resilience can be defined as the time period that a local energy system can supply the critical loads during an unplanned upstream grid outage. While the role of renewable-based micro-grids in enhancing com...

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