Cities are increasingly expected to address digital transformation and sustainability challenges at the same time. However, existing urban indices generally approach smart city and sustainable city perspectives separately, which limits their ability...
A Cross-Country Fault (CCF) is the simultaneous occurrence of a couple of Line-to-Ground Faults (LGFs), affecting different phases of same feeder or of two distinct ones, at different fault locations. CCFs are not uncommon in medium voltage (MV) publ...
Amino acid (AA) metabolism and the adaptation of muscles to increased physical performance are interdependent. This field study examined changes in plasma amino acid (PAA) concentrations and two metabolites (ammonia and urea) before and after cross-c...
Microfinance institutions (MFIs) have attracted great attention, due to their significant role in poverty reduction. Given the features of MFIs, this paper proposes a novel hybrid model of soft set theory, and an improved order preference by similari...
This study analyzes the impact of social, ecological, and economic components on achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in seven selected countries for the period 2000–2022 (Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the...
Aerodynamic drag plays an important role in high-speed skiing. The wind-induced thrust or resistance of athletes, the sliding speed, and the work to overcome the aerodynamic drag are greatly affected by wind; therefore, reducing wind-induced drag is...
21 May 2021
Cross-country mountain biking is an Olympic sport discipline with high popularity among elite and amateur cyclists. However, there is a scarcity of data regarding the key determinants of performance, particularly in young cross-country cyclists. The...
22 February 2023
Changing medical classification into the functional one in disabled cross-country skiing means that the athlete’s predispositions and performance abilities most of all determine the final result in cross-country skiing. Thus, exercise tests hav...
Horses competing in cross-country tests are subjected to high physical demands. Within the scope of this prospective longitudinal study, blood values of 20 elite eventing horses were examined before and after two- to four-star cross-country rides. Th...
The Arabian horse is a generally reliable sport horse, and continues to be a remarkable endurance horse, so the relevance of the expected value of the proportion of Arabian genes (EV%AG) in horses participating in eventing could be a relevant factor....
This study aims to develop and validate an automated system for identifying skating-style cross-country subtechniques using inertial sensors. In the first experiment, the performance of a male cross-country skier was used to develop an automated iden...
Purpose: This study investigated the changes in the blood indices, specific athletic abilities, and physical fitness of outstanding cross-country skiers, trained in the subalpine; Methods: Twenty-eight athletes (twenty males and eight females) from t...
Background and Objectives: A sustained mismatch between energy intake (EI) and exercise energy expenditure (EEE) can lead to Low Energy Availability (LEA), as well as health and performance impairments characteristic of Relative Energy Deficiency in...
Current soil and surface data are not detailed enough to obtain accurate analyses of cross-country movement. The reason for the research presented in this article was the absence of a methodology for the synthetic assessment of the influence of the t...
9 August 2022
(1) Background: The World Health Organization (WHO)-5 Well-Being Index has been used in many epidemiological studies to assess adolescent mental well-being. However, cross-country comparisons of this instrument among adolescents are scarce and, so fa...
16 March 2022
Improving the efficiency of mental healthcare service delivery by learning from international best-practice examples requires valid data, including robust unit costs, which currently often lack cross-country comparability. The European ProgrammE in C...
The aim of this current work is to identify three different gears of cross-country skiing utilizing embedded inertial measurement units and a suitable deep learning model. The cross-country style studied was the skating style during the uphill, which...
Understanding how Bitcoin mining is distributed across countries is important for evaluating both the sustainability and resilience of the network. In this study, we examine the evolution of total Bitcoin electricity consumption alongside the geograp...
Tomato production is a strategic horticultural sector in Europe, yet it is increasingly exposed to climate variability, input-price volatility, and structural heterogeneity among national production models. This study provides a macro-level, cross-co...
Background and Objectives: Double poling is an important fundamental skill required for cross-country skiing in able-bodied athletes and in those with physical disabilities. Meanwhile, the performance improvement and injury prevention related to doub...
Background: Identifying factors affecting heart health in amateur athletes can significantly impact their health and help them achieve high performance. The current knowledge of these predictors is insufficient. The purpose of this study was to ident...
Recognising the urgency of addressing climate change and the imperative to mitigate its effects, the European Union (EU) has embarked on a transformative journey to reshape its energy landscape, with a pronounced emphasis on harnessing renewable ener...
Exercise-induced immune perturbations have been proposed to increase susceptibility to viral infections. We investigated the replication of persisting viruses as indicators of immune function in elite cross-country skiers after ten months of sustaine...
This study’s scope is to collect and analyze all the needed information related to the residential building stocks in Mediterranean countries, especially those that participated in the framework of the HAPPEN project (Greece, Croatia, Cyprus, I...
This paper examines the electricity–growth–CO2 nexus across six Dominican Republic–Central America–United States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) economies plus Panama over 1980–2023, with particular attention to cross-co...
This paper examines the extent of stock-returns’ co-movements among firms in different countries and explores how various measures of closeness affect those co-movements by estimating a spatial autoregressive (SAR) convex combination model that...
Ensuring effective governance of local budgets is critical for public service delivery and sustainable development. Public audit institutions—including internal auditors and independent supreme audit bodies—are hypothesized to enhance loc...
Objectives: This study investigated the efficacy of wheat peptide supplementation compared to regular proteins in elite cross-country skiers, providing insights into the metabolic and performance effects of these supplements in order to guide athlete...
This study applies the Belief Structure TOPSIS (B-TOPSIS) method to analyse cross-country attitudes toward AI-driven workplace practices across the EU27. The proposed approach preserves the full distribution of survey responses, explicitly incorporat...
The evaluation of crowdfunding campaigns varies from person to person; some investors are more interested in the project’s creativity, and others are more concerned with the profiles of entrepreneurs. The study investigated how entrepreneurs&rs...
This article examines the statistical relationships between ENUS, defined as per capita energy use, and Environmental, Social, and Governance variables, with particular emphasis on the Environmental dimension and its connections with national energy...
Over the past 40 years, the service sector has become the dominant area of market economies. The public sector and services financed from public financing represent a specific group within the services sector. This paper aims to evaluate the efficien...
Subjective wellbeing maximization is a possible goal of government or public policies, and it is often considered the goal of individual life. This paper proposes an estimation using the Wellbeing Valuation Approach (WVA) to estimate the monetized ef...
In an international setting of developing countries, applying advanced statistical estimation approaches such as the system generalized method of moments (GMM), two-stage least square (2SLS) regressions, and cluster analysis, this paper revisits the...
Over the last decade, FinTech companies, also referred to as neobanks, have started to crowd out traditional banks in an increasing number of financial services. This development has not been uniform across countries. Asian countries and the Baltics...
The global energy system is undergoing a structural transformation as countries pursue decarbonization while safeguarding energy security and economic resilience. However, renewable energy transition performance remains difficult to assess because ex...
Position–time tracking of athletes during a race can provide useful information about tactics and performance. However, carrier-phase differential global navigation satellite system (dGNSS)-based tracking, which is accurate to about 5 cm, might also...
This study examines whether circular economy practices (CE) reduce CO2 emissions in European countries, addressing the lack of long-term, cross-country empirical evidence. Using panel data from 2000 to 2022, it evaluates the effects of CE alongside g...
The cross-country convergence hypothesis is one of the central topics of long-run macroeconomics. This paper revisits this hypothesis in a context beyond GDP. It uses a novel welfare index that incorporates measures of consumption, leisure, life expe...
Background: Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) programs optimize the use of antimicrobials and reduce antimicrobial resistance (AMR). This study evaluated the implementation of AMS programs in Africa using a harmonized regional approach. Methods: This w...
21 August 2021
From a socio-ecological perspective, individuals are influenced by the interplay of individual, relational, and societal factors operating as a broader system. Thereby, to support youth adjustment during the critical adolescence period, the interplay...
This study evaluates the impact of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI), human well-being, and other macro indicators of the public sector on carbon footprint. Empirical analysis has been carried out for newly industrialized economies that span t...
Energy price shocks have been the main drivers of inflation in Europe during the last decade. This paper examines cross-country differences in the transmission and magnitude of energy supply shocks in the Visegrád Group countries (Poland, Czec...
This study introduces the LESG index, a composite analytical framework designed to assess the structural coherence of national development systems by integrating logistics capability, governance quality, and sustainability performance. Traditional de...
Research on climate change mitigation has increasingly considered carbon pricing, with these efforts concentrating on reductions in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Our comprehensive cross-country analysis extends this focus by quantitatively evaluati...
This systematic review examines research published between 2021 and 2025 on generative AI and chatbot use in secondary education across nine countries in Southern Europe and the Balkans: Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Malta, Serbia, Croatia, Bulgari...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major effect on both older people with dementia and families caring for them. This paper presents the results of an online survey carried out among Italian and Hungarian family carers of people with dementia during the...
(1) Background: Patients’ experiences and satisfaction with their treatment are becoming increasingly important in the context of quality assurance, but the measurement of these parameters is accompanied by several disadvantages such as poor cr...
Breed bias exists within many of the top disciplines of equestrian sport. Therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of breed on performance at the CCI5*-L level of eventing. To do so, the results of all CCI5*-L events from...
Cross-country sustainability assessment requires transparent integration of economic, social, and environmental information, yet composite measures are sensitive to normalization, weighting, and aggregation choices. This study developed and evaluated...
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