This study investigates and compares archaeological site management practices across diverse cultural contexts, focusing on how cultural factors influence preservation, stakeholder involvement, and management strategies. Employing a mixed-methods com...
Since 2015 and the Paris Agreements, several countries have committed to sustainable development (SD) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have an important role to play in providing education and support...
Background/Objectives: Comparator selection can change disproportionality findings when multidrug therapies are represented by report-level listings rather than verified treatment histories. We evaluated a proxy-comparator framework for cardiometabol...
Background/Objectives: School-based vaccination is a major strategy for improving human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination coverage, but implementation varies across countries. This study aimed to identify common organisational components of internatio...
The transition to a circular economy (CE) is central to achieving SDG 12, yet institutional transformation varies significantly across countries. This study conducts a comparative institutional analysis of CE transitions in China and Russia to quanti...
Komagataeibacter strains are important bacterial cellulose producers, yet closely related isolates can differ in cellulose yield, pellicle properties, and genetic stability during propagation. Such variability suggests that lineage structure and mobi...
Drawing on the five-fold revision of the concept of “worldview” offered by the issue editors, I investigate whether some nonreligious modes of cultural production might be profitably investigated using such a typology. In my comparative s...
The present study set out to compare the performance of honeybees maintained in urban and agricultural environments across various regions in Poland. A range of measurements and observations were used to assess overwintering, development, strength, s...
The stimulation of regional competitiveness is a difficult and complex process that leads to the achievement of a competitive position against other regions covered in the comparison. The study includes a comparative analysis taking into account the...
This article presents a comparative analysis of machine learning models for business failure prediction. Bankruptcy prediction is crucial in assessing financial risks and making informed decisions for investors and regulatory bodies. Since machine le...
In recent years, corporate perceptions of environmental sustainability have shifted from viewing it as a compliance burden to recognizing it as a strategic driver of innovation and competitive advantage, prompting a demand for effective sustainable d...
The study examines judicial practice regarding claims for damages and non-pecuniary damages (hereinafter: NPDs) arising from violations of the duty to inform in healthcare by comparing two periods (2008–2010 and 2018–2020) in the context...
The outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has resulted in increased rates of anxiety and depression worldwide. Objective. To comparatively evaluate factors associated with the psychological impact of Coronavirus disease between 2019 and the pandemic year 2...
AI is currently shaping how people are being entrepreneurial by allowing the establishment of AI-native ventures. The creation of these new types of businesses builds off an infrastructure of data, computing power, and research that typically accompa...
True-Context (TContext) is a gamified VR platform for fire hazard recognition; empirical evidence shows it outperforms non-contextual VR delivery, but its theoretical positioning relative to established learning frameworks remains unarticulated. This...
This work addresses brain network analysis considering different clinical severity stages of cognitive dysfunction, based on resting-state electroencephalography (EEG). We use a cohort acquired in real-life clinical conditions, which contains EEG dat...
The pursuit of disabled students’ inclusion in higher education remains a significant global concern, particularly in developing nations where systemic and institutional barriers persist. Despite progressive legislative and policy frameworks pr...
This study examines sector-specific patterns of remarketing implementation in manufacturing and service industries and evaluates their effectiveness during digital transformation from a sustainability perspective. Using a mixed-method approach, the r...
The purpose of this article was to identify the characteristics of HRM (Human Resources Management) portals that can contribute to building a smart, sustainable society in two countries: Poland and Türkiye. The analyzed countries were selected d...
The relationship between ESG performance and firm value is contested and appears to depend on context. This study asks whether that relationship differs between the United States and the European Union, two mature markets that differ primarily in the...
In recent years, corporate involvement in CSR has become increasingly important and appreciated in the context of the ideas and assumptions regarding sustainable development. Due to the specificity of the energy sector, its particular impact on the e...
Occupational safety and health (OSH) training plays a crucial role in preventing workplace accidents, ensuring compliance with legislation, and fostering a safety-oriented culture across all sectors. This article compares traditional OSH training met...
Rapid urbanization entails complex problems not only in cities, but also within urban agglomerations. In modern landscape science, the greatest problems are primarily related to the ecological state of urban ecosystems. In this context, the most impo...
Research on watershed ecological protection and restoration within the framework of territorial spatial planning serves as a critical approach to ensuring national ecological security and plays a vital role in enhancing ecosystem stability. In recent...
The Siret River crosses northeastern (NE) Romania from the north to the south, and it discharges into the Danube, near the city of Galati. Between 17 June and 10 July 2010, significant amounts of precipitations in the mountainous basin of Siret were...
The paper presents comprehensive and complementary studies of the thermophysical properties of functional composite structures. The term functional in this case means the study of the structure while maintaining its post-production imperfections, as...
Accredited sensory certification is increasingly central to the credibility of EU Geographical Indications (GIs), particularly for wine, where typicity and regional identity complicate harmonization. In the absence of shared descriptors, reference st...
How to effectively leverage the agency of smallholder farmers to boost rural incomes and achieve common prosperity is a core issue in agricultural development and transformation. Taking the flower industry in four regions of Yunnan Province as a case...
14 May 2024
Textual emotion recognition (TER) has significant commercial potential since it can be used as an excellent tool to monitor a brand/business reputation, understand customer satisfaction, and personalize recommendations. It is considered a natural lan...
Improving industrial green total factor productivity (GTFP) is essential for achieving high-quality industrial development in China. To explore this perspective, we examined 30 provinces as case samples and applied a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative...
Intercultural education in Mapuche contexts is shaped by persistent tensions between dominant school knowledge and Indigenous educational practices. However, there is limited comparative empirical evidence on how these tensions are distributed across...
The modernist architecture of the twentieth century, often referred to as the International Style, exhibited diverse forms and urban layouts shaped by local cultural, economic, and political factors. To comprehensively understand the architectural he...
(1) Introduction. To improve access times and provide effective treatment to the growing patient population with acute stroke due to large vessel occlusion (LVO), thrombectomy-capable stroke centers (TCSCs) should be made an integral part of hospital...
Examining the knowledge transfer process in sustainable contexts, we identified various gaps, which we analyzed in this study. First, we compare the temporal context of firms with eco-innovation strategies before and after the financial crisis of the...
The mashrabiya is a key element that characterizes Islamic architecture, and in recent years it has been reintroduced into public building designs, partially due to its strong symbolic significance. Focusing on the application of mashrabiyas in histo...
This research explores how architectural design strategies can effectively contribute to women’s empowerment. In development contexts, women’s needs vary, ranging from relief and healthcare to education and economic income generation, eac...
Understanding the built environment is essential for explaining road safety outcomes, particularly through individuals’ perceptions of their surroundings, which are linked to perceived travel risk and play an important role in pedestrian decisi...
A bibliometric study on mapping the rice cropping systems in VMD is crucial for understanding the trend of EO-based rice mapping and how remote sensing technologies are essential to address the food security issue in the region. This article presents...
This article examines the multidimensional problem of energy poverty, focusing on its connections to climate change and its manifestation at rural and urban scales across selected European countries and Israel. The study examined 31 locations in eigh...
This study aimed to compare in-match physical and technical requirements of cerebral palsy (CP) football players across different national and international competitive contexts. A total of 79 male outfield players participated in 62 official matches...
17 November 2025
Globally, poverty remains a major obstacle to health parity, compromising well-being. This policy analysis aims to examine how poverty affects health inequities and healthcare access in two contexts: Canada, a high-income nation, and Pakistan, a low-...
Renewable Energy Communities (RECs) represent a key instrument for enabling decentralized energy systems and enhancing local renewable energy utilization. Preliminary assessment of REC performance relies on simulation tools that differ in computation...
This contribution introduces the novel concept of Eco-Salute Infrastructure in the Built Environment (ESI) as a framework for urban planning that focuses on promoting environmental health and improving human well-being. The ESI framework expands on p...
This paper presents a comparative analysis of unconventional roundabouts, commonly referred to as third-generation roundabouts, based on case studies from the United States and Europe, specifically Croatia and Italy. These intersection designs deviat...
Recent works have shown that sentiment analysis on social media can be improved by fusing text with social context information. Social context is information such as relationships between users and interactions of users with content. Although existin...
Here, we present a new unsupervised method aimed at obtaining a partition of a complex urban system in homogenous urban areas, called urban contexts. Our model integrates spatial analysis processes and a fuzzy rule-based system applied to manage the...
Governance, and specifically local management and institutional systems, is among the key factors affecting the management of World Heritage (WH) properties in urban contexts. The adoption of the 2011 UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic Urban Lands...
Design thinking is a set of cognitive, strategic, and practical procedures used in innovation. This article argues that this approach varies across disciplines. The contexts for this study are two higher educational frameworks where language and tech...
Null model generation for formal contexts is an important task in the realm of formal concept analysis. These random models are in particular useful for, but not limited to, comparing the performance of algorithms. Nonetheless, a thorough investigati...
Background/Objectives: The Adaptive Control Hypothesis posits varying control demands across language contexts in production, but its role in comprehension is underexplored. We investigated if trilinguals, who manage three dual-language contexts (L1&...
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