Enterprise resilience is a key capacity to guarantee enterprises’ long-term continuity. This paper proposes the enterprise resilience Conceptual Reference Framework to characterize enterprise resilience capacity. The framework is composed of 71...
Rice is an essential crop in Ghana. Several aspects of rice have been studied to increase its production; however, the environmental aspects, including impact on climate change, have not been studied well. There is therefore a gap in knowledge, and h...
Glioblastoma (GBM) remains one of the most therapy-resistant human malignancies, yet the physiological limits of mitochondrial stress adaptation against which its remarkable resilience might be interpreted remain poorly defined. This opinion article...
The internet of things, digital twins of smart connected products, and thereby enabled smart services are topics of great interest and have been gaining traction for many years. However, many questions concerning the application-oriented usage of dig...
The lack of a conceptual framework that can be utilized to manage rape survivors diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders presents a challenge in the North-West province. The study aims to provide a conceptual framework for managing rape surviv...
Sustainable employability refers to individuals’ long-term abilities to work and remain employed. Despite its societal importance in the light of aging populations and rapidly changing skill demands, sustainable employability still requires fur...
This conceptual paper proposes Math-CEFR, a reference framework for describing postsecondary mathematical readiness in the context of remedial and gateway placement. Single-score placement tests frequently misclassify students and offer little guidan...
Using innovation building technology in South Africa as case subjects, this study aims to explore the practices and techniques that are used in or as a part of the framework in innovation in house construction. This study explored the existing litera...
Research sustainability and research impact are closely related concepts, both referring to the importance of extending research projects’ outcomes, changes or benefits beyond their period of implementation. However, the prominence assigned to...
Background/Objectives: Traditional biomechanical models describe human locomotion as an articulated chain of rigid segments with constrained degrees of freedom, primarily focusing on kinematic descriptions of movement. While this approach facilitates...
This article develops a methodology to empirically study and cope with deep uncertainty and dynamic complexity when the actors in a traditional supply chain make a transition toward more mature closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) management. The methodol...
Digitainability is increasingly invoked at the intersection of sustainability and digital transformation. In education, however, the two discourses are still often negotiated separately. This conceptual paper addresses that gap by focusing on educati...
This study explored the mediating role of general self-efficacy between dispositional optimism, a construct within the domains of positive emotions and entrepreneurial self-efficacy. Using a sample of 484 Greek business administration students from p...
Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) is a new but promising field of information security, with many organizations investing in the development of proper tools and services and the integration of CTI related information. However, as a new field, there is...
This paper explores walking and walkability in the smart city and makes a case for their centrality in the debate on the resilience and sustainability of smart cities, as outlined in the United Nations’ (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)...
Recently, the identification and detection of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has become an essential issue under ASD intervention services. The high percentage of ASD among children requires preschool teachers to recognizse children&rsq...
16 February 2023
Due to advancements in research, the concept of oral health literacy (OHL) has become rich in connotations, with over 250 definitions present in the literature and government and organizational reports. The diversity of OHL definitions and connotatio...
11 December 2019
Existing definitions of food literacy (FL) and nutrition literacy (NL) in particular refer to individual knowledge, motivation, competences, and awareness, which determine the relationship between individuals and food, the food system, and nutrition...
A sketch is offered of a framework that would abandon the familiar notion of a language and the accompanying question of whether it has changed under contact. The framework would focus instead on speakers and on the linguistic consequences of people...
Climate change poses one of the most urgent challenges for cities today, creating unprecedented risks for individuals, communities, and various types of infrastructure—social, spatial, and physical. In response, many cities have begun developin...
This article develops a conceptual interdisciplinary model for research evaluation in the Social Sciences based on three core categories: Subject, Society, and Culture. It argues that conventional evaluation systems rely too heavily on quantitative m...
This paper proposes a reversal of perspective in the evaluation of Regeneration projects. Until now, attention has been mainly focused on project “internal effectiveness”, in reference to the environment and life quality improvement of th...
As cyberspace emerges as the fourth fundamental space of human existence, conventional paradigms based solely on physical, social, and thinking spaces prove inadequate for addressing the complexities of the digital era. In response, this paper propos...
The International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) do not make explicit provisions, in terms of a specifically dedicated standard, for the accounting treatment of cryptocurrencies. This creates uncertainty, and guidance is therefore required in t...
The value of cultural heritage is a constantly evolving and debated issue in heritage theory. While primarily the focus was on tangible qualities, intangible values gained more importance in the twenty-first century. However, in some cases, it can be...
The modeling of hydrogeological processes often involves a quantitative description of complex systems in which a limited dataset is available, bringing about the formulation of conceptual models able to describe them in a simplified framework. In or...
14 January 2022
(1) Background: Clinical reasoning is essential to the effective practice of autonomous health professionals and is, therefore, an essential capability to develop as students. This review aimed to systematically identify the tools available to health...
This article proposes a conceptual model for integrating and categorizing urban projects aimed at achieving carbon neutrality. This model comprises five interconnected levers: energy efficiency, renewable energy production and consumption, electrific...
Business intelligence (BI) refers to technologies, tools, and practices for collecting, integrating, analyzing, and presenting large volumes of information to enable improved decision-making. A modern BI architecture typically consists of a data ware...
Land-use allocations—such as housing density, parcel size, housing typologies, parks, and other green areas—constitute key spatial planning (zoning) parameters that significantly shape how resources and opportunities are distributed withi...
The paper aims to advocate the incorporating of the sustainability perspective into the management control system of healthcare organizations. The study is based on two main premises: (1) the evolution of business models towards a wide perspective of...
The changes and challenges that are tackling the forest sector in recent decades have prompted governments and foresters to work hard to find innovative solutions. Research in the forestry domain has focused on product and process innovation, and mor...
1 April 2011
In the European academic and institutional debate, interoperability is predominantly seen as a means to enable public administrations to collaborate within Members State and across borders. The article presents a conceptual framework for ICT-enabled...
This article proposes a conceptual framework for analysing spatial relationships between the photographic image and its surroundings, understood both as an exhibition context and as an element shaping the viewer’s experience. The analysis begin...
Eustachian tube dysfunction (ETD) and related pressure-mediated otologic disorders often present with fluctuating auditory, vestibular, and pressure-related symptoms that are difficult to explain using static structural or symptom-based diagnostic la...
The purpose of this literature review is to present the arguments in support of conceptualizing deaf children as ‘English Learners’, to explore the educational implications of such conceptualizations, and to suggest directions for future...
This qualitative study investigates teachers’ and students’ conceptualization of well-being at an Islamic higher education institution in Indonesia. Drawing on a constructivist research design, data for this study were collected via inter...
This study investigates how formal references are transformed into architectural form and meaning. While previous studies have acknowledged the diversity of source domains in architecture, they often remain fragmented and lack a systematic framework...
This work presents a literature review on interoperability in industrial robotics. The analysis of 45 selected studies reveals that existing approaches remain fragmented across communication, control abstraction, and semantic integration layers. The...
16 June 2022
Environmental health inequalities (EHI), understood as differences in environmental health factors and in health outcomes caused by environmental conditions, are studied by a wide range of disciplines. This results in challenges to both synthesizing...
It can be said that business ethics are integrated into companies through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), which cannot be defined in a single way, nor has its concept remained unchanged since its appearance in the business world. The contribut...
Aircraft conceptual design is an iterative process that seeks to obtain a feasible design that meets a series of mission and configuration requirements. Starting with several guesses regarding the initial sizing and aerodynamics of the future aircraf...
Ever since Marcel Duchamp introduced the readymade, the mass-produced object has played a key role in modern and contemporary art. As commodity culture became increasingly dominant in the decades following the second world war, artists turned to the...
Facial aging is a multifactorial process characterized by progressive structural and functional changes involving skin, soft tissues, muscles, and skeletal support. Current conceptual models primarily rely on static anatomical descriptions and region...
In the biosemiotic literature there is a tension between the naturalistic reference to biological processes and the category of ‘meaning’ which is central in the concept of semiosis. A crucial term bridging the two dimensions is ‘information’. I argu...
To review the present scenario of the research on the scheduling and control of the production process in the manufacturing industry, this comprehensive article has extensively examined this field’s hotspots, boundaries, and overall evolutionar...
This study examines pharmaceutical companies in the context of BMI. The purpose is to develop an SBM for the pharmaceutical industry and then to validate the causal relationships of the variables in such a business model. This study used purposive sa...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the hospitality industry at an unprecedented pace. However, existing hospitality research has overwhelmingly concentrated on customer-facing applications, including service robots, chatbots, personalization,...
The study aims to develop a conceptual model for immersive chemical hazard response training that explicitly addresses four core operational constraints: time pressure, uncertainty, teamwork, and procedural/psychomotor precision. The model responds t...
Cities, and the networked infrastructures that sustain urban life, are seen as crucial sites for creating more sustainable futures. Yet, although there are many plans, the realisation of sustainable urban infrastructures on the ground is uneven. To d...
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