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  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
9,649 Views
22 Pages

2 March 2023

To promote a resilient user-product relationship for sustainable fashion, design methods for emotional durability are required. Digitally transformable fashion design can be seen as a practical approach that enables dynamic, sensory, experiential, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,984 Views
13 Pages

27 December 2021

Given the potentially significant environmental impacts of fashion design, various design approaches are required to extend product lifespan. Digital design methods may play an essential role in reducing the environmental impact of products and produ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
82 Citations
24,109 Views
19 Pages

Emotional Durability Design Nine—A Tool for Product Longevity

  • Merryn Haines-Gadd,
  • Jonathan Chapman,
  • Peter Lloyd,
  • Jon Mason and
  • Dzmitry Aliakseyeu

11 June 2018

How can we develop products that consumers want to use for longer? The lifetime of electrical products is an ongoing concern in discussions about the circular economy. It is an issue that begins at an industry level, but that directly influences the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,310 Views
17 Pages

24 September 2025

The fashion industry faces a critical sustainability crisis, contributing up to 10% of global carbon emissions and generating 92 million tons of textile waste annually. The study highlights the complex interplay of material flows, business models, po...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,557 Views
18 Pages

1 September 2025

In the evolving discourse of affective urbanism, emotions are increasingly recognized as fundamental, systemic drivers shaping the social, perceptual, and symbolic dimensions of urban space. Meanwhile, advances in visual technologies and media aesthe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
16,677 Views
23 Pages

13 April 2022

Lately, most studies on sustainable design from the perspective of emotional durability focus on product design, particularly on exploring how do product functions direct consumers’ emotional changes after the product is used, but overlook the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,396 Views
14 Pages

3 July 2018

Transnational migration scholarship has discussed parents’ economic and emotional sacrifice for their children as a justification for separation. However, the researchers have overlooked addressing how the parents’ sacrifice is culturally...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,511 Views
21 Pages

17 December 2020

The aim of this paper is to explore the generation of consumers’ responses to sustainability design strategies by considering the principles of affective design. A conceptual model of consumers’ response, in which a distinction is made be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,482 Views
19 Pages

Role of Design for Disassembly in Educating Consumers for Circular Behavior

  • Muhammad Babar Ramzan,
  • Muhammad Salman Habib,
  • Muhammad Omair,
  • Jawad Naeem,
  • Hajra Mustafa,
  • Muhammad Waqas Iqbal and
  • Asif Iqbal Malik

31 October 2023

Promotion of durable materials and products is a common approach to enhance sustainability. However, the effectiveness of such efforts lies on shifts in user behavior and consumption patterns, and these patterns are influenced not only by material as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,121 Views
18 Pages

Enhancing Students’ Interest in Physics Concepts with a Low-Cost STEM Tool Focused on Motivation in Rural Areas of Developing Countries

  • René Flores-Godínez,
  • Antonio Alarcón-Paredes,
  • Iris Paola Guzmán-Guzmán,
  • Yanik Ixchel Maldonado-Astudillo and
  • Gustavo Adolfo Alonso-Silverio

5 August 2025

Physics concepts are considered an essential component of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education and fundamental for economic and technological development in the world. However, there can be student academic underperforma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,518 Views
12 Pages

The Impact of Brand Equity on Employee’s Opportunistic Behavior: A Case Study on Enterprises in Vietnam

  • Quang Bach Tran,
  • Quoc Hoi Le,
  • Hoai Nam Nguyen,
  • Dieu Linh Tran,
  • Thi Thuy Quynh Nguyen and
  • Thi Thanh Thuy Tran

Brand is considered a valuable asset that a business wants to create and maintain growth throughout its business cycle. This paper examines the impact of corporate brand equity on employees’ opportunistic behavior. The paper uses quantitative researc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,258 Views
20 Pages

3 August 2025

This study adopts a dynamic Expectancy–Disconfirmation framework to investigate the evolving nature of user satisfaction across three product categories: durable goods, fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), and digital products. A 25-day longitudi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,265 Views
15 Pages

28 February 2023

The knowledge of the sources of the sustainability of the subjective perception of households’ material wellbeing is essential in designing a country’s effective socio-economic policy to increase citizens’ satisfaction. The empirica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,693 Views
9 Pages

Time-Restricted Eating Improves Quality of Life Measures in Overweight Humans

  • Ainslee Crose,
  • Alison Alvear,
  • Stephanie Singroy,
  • Qi Wang,
  • Emily Manoogian,
  • Satchidananda Panda,
  • Douglas G. Mashek and
  • Lisa S. Chow

23 April 2021

Time-restricted eating (TRE) reduces weight in humans, but its effects on quality of life have not been well characterized. By performing a secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial, we examined the effects of TRE (12-week intervention, 8 h e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
249 Views
19 Pages

8 January 2026

Russia’s 2022 invasion precipitated one of Europe’s largest episodes of forced academic mobility, compelling universities to shift from emergency access to durable inclusion. This article investigates how Ukrainian students are integrated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
848 Views
13 Pages

18 September 2025

Background/Objectives: The rising prevalence of dementia presents significant emotional, psychological, and economic challenges for families. Dementia-friendly communities (DFCs) aim to alleviate these burdens by fostering social inclusion and mutual...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,570 Views
15 Pages

Mechanical Design Optimization of Prosthetic Hand’s Fingers: Novel Solutions towards Weight Reduction

  • Federica Buccino,
  • Alessandro Bunt,
  • Alex Lazell and
  • Laura Maria Vergani

26 March 2022

From the mechanical function of grabbing objects to the emotional aspect of gesturing, the functionality of human hands is fundamental for both physical and social survival. Therefore, the loss of one or both hands represents a devastating issue, exa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10,265 Views
20 Pages

The psychological reproduction of cocaine’s ability to increase happiness was studied. The first part of this study consisted of building and validating an instrument to measure the stable and transient aspects of happiness via the 10-item Happ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,235 Views
12 Pages

Non-Pharmacologic Intensive Interdisciplinary Pain Treatment in Pediatrics: Impact on Symptoms, Daily Functioning, and the Family Unit

  • Jessica Campanile,
  • Becky Wu,
  • Maitry Sonagra,
  • Mackenzie McGill,
  • Daneka Stryker,
  • Jamie Bradford,
  • Jennifer Sherker,
  • Tami Konieczny,
  • David D. Sherry and
  • Sabrina Gmuca

4 February 2024

Objectives: To assess non-pharmacologic treatment outcomes pertaining to health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in youth with chronic idiopathic pain and their families. Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of 115 youth with chronic idi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
9,250 Views
24 Pages

30 November 2019

In the face of a wide range of consumer electronic products, how can consumers take into account the sustainable development of the ecological environment during their purchase and consumption? This study established a new product aesthetics classifi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,589 Views
18 Pages

A New Longevity Design Methodology Based on Consumer-Oriented Quality for Fashion Products

  • Romain Benkirane,
  • Sébastien Thomassey,
  • Ludovic Koehl and
  • Anne Perwuelz

24 June 2022

Design for longevity is known as an eco-design opportunity and could help to reduce the environmental footprint of energy-free items. However, extending the lifespan of products is not always desirable and the focus should be on achieving an optimal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,444 Views
13 Pages

Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps is a Type 2 inflammatory disease associated with a significant burden on quality of life. While biological therapies have shown efficacy in randomized controlled trials, data on long-term real-world outcomes r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,023 Views
13 Pages

Eating Behaviour Predicts Weight Loss Six Months after Bariatric Surgery: A Longitudinal Study

  • Kavitha Subramaniam,
  • Wah-Yun Low,
  • Peng-Choong Lau,
  • Kin-Fah Chin,
  • Karuthan Chinna,
  • Nik Ritza Kosai,
  • Mustafa Mohammed Taher and
  • Reynu Rajan

2 November 2018

Bariatric surgery is currently the most durable weight loss solution for patients with morbid obesity. The extent of weight loss achieved, however, is subject to variation due to various factors, including patients’ behaviour. In this study, we...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2,121 Views
31 Pages

19 December 2025

Background: Obesity is a multifactorial chronic disease associated with increased risk of metabolic disorders, reduced quality of life, and rising healthcare costs. Although weight reduction is achievable through various dietary approaches, maintaini...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,996 Views
16 Pages

Promoting Women’s Mental Health and Resilience in Times of Health Crisis and Adversity via Personal Development Groups

  • Maria Moudatsou,
  • Areti Stavropoulou,
  • Michael Rovithis,
  • Dimitrios Mimarakis and
  • Sofia Koukouli

Background: Women carry out an array of demanding tasks due to their multiple roles as mothers, workers, spouses, and caregivers. Their responsibilities to the family and society are essential throughout life, but they become even more important at t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
485 Views
16 Pages

4 January 2026

This article offers a comparative study of two closely linked constellations of early Ṣūfī thought: the ascetic–mystical program of al-Fuḍayl ibn ʿIyāḍ (d. 187/803) and that of his renowned disciple Bishr a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,215 Views
32 Pages

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a severe psychiatric illness that disproportionately affects military personnel, veterans, and public safety personnel (PSP). Evidence demonstrates that PTSD is significantly associated with difficulties with...