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  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,020 Views
17 Pages

A Systematic Review of Evidence-Based Video Modeling for Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

  • Soonhwa Seok,
  • Boaventura DaCosta,
  • Mikayla McHenry-Powell,
  • Linda S. Heitzman-Powell and
  • Katrina Ostmeyer

16 October 2018

This systematic review examined eight studies showing that video modeling (VM) can have a positive and significant effect for students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD). Building upon meta-analyses that sought evidence of video-based inte...

  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,841 Views
16 Pages

Evidence-Based Management of the Anzali Wetland System (Northern Iran) Based on Innovative Monitoring and Modeling Methods

  • Roghayeh Sadeghi Pasvisheh,
  • Marie Anne Eurie Forio,
  • Long Tuan Ho and
  • Peter L. M. Goethals

14 May 2021

As an “international aquatic ecosystem” in Northern Iran, the Anzali wetland is a nursery for fish and a breeding and wintering area for a wide variety of waterfowl. The wetland is threatened by human activities (deforestation, hunting, tourism, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,075 Views
34 Pages

Challenges toward Evidence-Based Policymaking Using Agent-Based Modeling for Federal Sports Grants: A Self-Reflection from a Transdisciplinary Project

  • Thomas J. Lampoltshammer,
  • Heidrun Maurer,
  • Nike Pulda,
  • Peter Klimek,
  • Jan Hurt and
  • Ursula Rosenbichler

4 February 2023

Despite their importance, federal grant systems often need more clarity regarding cost-effectiveness, lack of transparency, and slow feedback cycles. Sports funding systems aimed at improving child health and contributing to sustainable development g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,692 Views
28 Pages

Framing Evidence-Based Design and Planning: An Analytical, Multi-Scalar and Iterative Framework for Urban Design and Planning

  • Kayvan Karimi,
  • Sepehr Zhand,
  • Gareth Simons,
  • Walid Samir Abdeldayem,
  • Nadia Charalambous and
  • Iason Giraud

3 November 2025

The increasing complexity of urban environments has exposed the limitations of prescriptive approaches in urban design and planning, highlighting the need for more adaptive, data-informed, and methodologically rigorous processes. Evidence-Based Desig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
433 Views
19 Pages

Comparative Evidence-Based Model Choice: A Sketch of a Theory

  • Prasanta S. Bandyopadhyay,
  • Samidha Shetty and
  • Gordon Brittan

23 December 2025

An extensive literature on decision theory has been developed by both subjective Bayesians and Neyman–Pearson (NP) theorists, with more recent contributions to it from evidential decision theorists. The last-mentioned, however, have often been...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,642 Views
18 Pages

26 January 2023

The rapidly advancing knowledge of the interactions between people and their environment provides opportunities for designers to practice evidence-based landscape architecture (EBLA) in designing outdoor spaces. Recent studies have proposed some char...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,986 Views
30 Pages

SecuriDN: A Modeling Tool Supporting the Early Detection of Cyberattacks to Smart Energy Systems

  • Davide Cerotti,
  • Daniele Codetta Raiteri,
  • Giovanna Dondossola,
  • Lavinia Egidi,
  • Giuliana Franceschinis,
  • Luigi Portinale,
  • Davide Savarro and
  • Roberta Terruggia

6 August 2024

SecuriDN v. 0.1 is a tool for the representation of the assets composing the IT and the OT subsystems of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) control networks and the possible cyberattacks that can threaten them. It is part of a platform that allows t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,441 Views
17 Pages

How to Stop Victims’ Suffering? Indirect Effects of an Anti-Bullying Program on Internalizing Symptoms

  • Benedetta Emanuela Palladino,
  • Annalaura Nocentini and
  • Ersilia Menesini

Victims of bullying and cyberbullying present internalizing problems, such as anxiety, psychosomatic and depressive symptoms, and are at higher risk of considering or attempting suicide. Researchers have put great effort into developing interventions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
714 Views
29 Pages

A Multi-Factor Framework for Cold-Climate Campus Design and Student Health

  • Caili Li,
  • Sreetheran Maruthaveeran,
  • Mohd Fairuz Shahidan,
  • Zhongjun Tao and
  • Zhichen Wang

17 November 2025

This study explores how outdoor environments in cold-region university campuses influence students’ physical and mental health, addressing the lack of research on health-oriented campus design under cold climatic conditions. Drawing on Evidence...

  • Article
  • Open Access
383 Views
17 Pages

20 February 2026

Background: Vascular anomalies (VAs), including hemangiomas and vascular malformations, present a significant diagnostic challenge due to their high prevalence, complex classification (nearly 100 subtypes), and visual mimicry. Current Multimodal Larg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,532 Views
16 Pages

Predicting Abusive Behaviours in Spanish Adolescents’ Relationships: Insights from the Reasoned Action Approach

  • Ainara Nardi-Rodríguez,
  • María Ángeles Pastor-Mira,
  • Sofía López-Roig,
  • Lidia Pamies-Aubalat,
  • Fermín Martínez-Zaragoza and
  • Victoria A. Ferrer-Pérez

(1) Background: Partner violence prevention programmes do not produce the expected behavioural changes. Accordingly, experts suggest applying evidence-based behavioural models to identify the determinants of abusive behaviours. In this research, we a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
865 Views
29 Pages

Evidence-Based Optimization of Urban Block Morphology for Enhanced Photovoltaic Potential

  • Jie Zheng,
  • Yihan Ma,
  • Wei Zhang,
  • Yan Jiao,
  • Tiantian Du,
  • Jizhe Han and
  • Yukun Zhang

17 September 2025

Urban morphology is a critical determinant of photovoltaic (PV) potential in cities, yet current design practices rarely incorporate this relationship systematically. Existing studies often struggle to balance analytical precision with computational...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,188 Views
29 Pages

Green Infrastructure: Opinion Mining and Construction Material Reuse Optimization Portal

  • Arturas Kaklauskas,
  • Elisabete Teixeira,
  • Yiannis Xenidis,
  • Anastasia Tzioutziou,
  • Lorcan Connolly,
  • Sarunas Skuodis,
  • Kestutis Dauksys,
  • Natalija Lepkova,
  • Laura Tupenaite and
  • Saulius Naimavicius
  • + 4 authors

More and more sustainability data are being generated from green buildings and from urban and civil infrastructures. For decades, various systems have been developed, and their data have been collected and stored. More detailed, real-time, and cost-e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
11,533 Views
23 Pages

20 November 2023

This article presents an argument for the enhanced utilisation of urban morphology in urban design, drawing inspiration from space syntax theory and methodologies, advocating for the integration of social, economic, and cultural considerations alongs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,393 Views
18 Pages

16 May 2023

In this study, we present a novel simulation model and case study to explore the long-term dynamics of early detection of disease, also known as routine population screening. We introduce a realistic and portable modeling framework that can be used f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
819 Views
25 Pages

3 December 2025

The notion of heritage assessment has evolved from valuing monuments in isolation to recognizing heritage as complex socio-economic cultural systems. While the early approaches emphasized tangibility, later shifting to tourism potential, and economic...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
932 Views
19 Pages

10 December 2025

Over the past decade, the mathematical performance of at-risk students has not improved and has, in fact, declined since 2020. Conceptual Model-Based Problem-Solving (COMPS) strategies have been studied by researchers in and outside of the U.S. To da...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,737 Views
18 Pages

6 November 2021

Data-driven modeling, action, and strategies have become popular, and the education community has witnessed increased interest in data-driven decision-making (DDDM). DDDM values and prioritizes decisions supported by high-quality, verifiable data tha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,787 Views
16 Pages

Integration of Gestalt Therapy with Evidence-Based Interventions for Borderline Personality Disorder—Theoretical Framework and Clinical Model

  • Enrico Moretto,
  • Roberta Stanzione,
  • Chiara Scognamiglio,
  • Valeria Cioffi,
  • Lucia Luciana Mosca,
  • Francesco Marino,
  • Ottavio Ragozzino,
  • Enrica Tortora and
  • Raffaele Sperandeo

15 October 2025

Background/Objectives: Gestalt therapy traditionally opposes categorical diagnostic labelling due to its fundamental inconsistency with phenomenological and process-oriented ontology. However, this epistemological rigour can limit integration with st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,675 Views
19 Pages

20 September 2023

Predictive models play a crucial role in RBMs to analyze performance indicator results to manage unexpected events and make timely decisions to resolve them. Their use in Mexico is deficient, and monitoring and evaluation are among the weakest pillar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,920 Views
11 Pages

While securing personal data from privacy violations, the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) explicitly challenges policymakers to exploit evidence from social data-mining in order to build better policies. Against this backdrop, two issue...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,632 Views
19 Pages

Supporting Innovative Person-Centred Care in Financially Constrained Environments: The WE CARE Exploratory Health Laboratory Evaluation Strategy

  • Helen M. Lloyd,
  • Inger Ekman,
  • Heather L. Rogers,
  • Vítor Raposo,
  • Paulo Melo,
  • Valentina D. Marinkovic,
  • Sandra C. Buttigieg,
  • Einav Srulovici,
  • Roman Andrzej Lewandowski and
  • Nicky Britten

The COST CARES project aims to support healthcare cost containment and improve healthcare quality across Europe by developing the research and development necessary for person-centred care (PCC) and health promotion. This paper presents an overview e...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,579 Views
20 Pages

From Neuroimaging to Computational Modeling of Burnout: The Traditional versus the Fuzzy Approach—A Review

  • Emilia Mikołajewska,
  • Piotr Prokopowicz,
  • YeeKong Chow,
  • Jolanta Masiak,
  • Dariusz Mikołajewski,
  • Grzegorz Marcin Wójcik,
  • Brian Wallace,
  • Andy R. Eugene and
  • Marcin Olajossy

13 November 2022

Occupational burnout, manifested by emotional exhaustion, lack of a sense of personal achievement, and depersonalization, is not a new phenomenon, but thusfar, there is no clear definition or diagnostic guidelines. The aim of this article wasto summa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,200 Views
17 Pages

8 September 2021

Education 4.0 promotes visualizing how teachers’ traditional digital competencies adopt innovative practices. The present research analyzes the relationship between the perceived digital information competencies (DICs) of university teachers and the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,006 Views
20 Pages

The Temporal Evolution of Large Language Model Performance: A Comparative Analysis of Past and Current Outputs in Scientific and Medical Research

  • Ishith Seth,
  • Gianluca Marcaccini,
  • Bryan Lim,
  • Jennifer Novo,
  • Stephen Bacchi,
  • Roberto Cuomo,
  • Richard J. Ross and
  • Warren M. Rozen

Background: Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT have evolved rapidly, with notable improvements in coherence, factual accuracy, and contextual relevance. However, their academic and clinical applicability remains under scrutiny. This study e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,277 Views
12 Pages

Decision making using evidence-based practice (EBP) is generally universally accepted by nurses. Such acceptance may affect the personnel’s behaviour towards patients, which is also demonstrated by taking into consideration the patient’s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
9,587 Views
12 Pages

Applying Evidence-Based Medicine in Telehealth: An Interactive Pattern Recognition Approximation

  • Carlos Fernández-Llatas,
  • Teresa Meneu,
  • Vicente Traver and
  • José-Miguel Benedi

Born in the early nineteen nineties, evidence-based medicine (EBM) is a paradigm intended to promote the integration of biomedical evidence into the physicians daily practice. This paradigm requires the continuous study of diseases to provide the bes...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
9,235 Views
26 Pages

Background: Over the past few years, clinical studies have utilized machine learning in telehealth and smart care for disease management, self-management, and managing health issues like pulmonary diseases, heart failure, diabetes screening, and intr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,732 Views
28 Pages

24 November 2024

As an important data source, the Building Information Model (BIM) plays an important role in modern building safety management. Numerous studies have closely examined automatic compliance inspections for building safety and the safety management of d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,117 Views
20 Pages

14 November 2022

Urban design has been valuable in bringing the principles of transit-oriented development (TOD) into reality. However, a majority of recommendations summarized by scholars for promoting TODs through urban design have failed to promote the progress of...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
11,571 Views
16 Pages

A Conceptual Framework for Integration of Evidence-Based Design with Lighting Simulation Tools

  • Anahita Davoodi,
  • Peter Johansson,
  • Maria Henricson and
  • Myriam Aries

22 September 2017

The use of lighting simulation tools has been growing over the past years which has improved lighting analysis. While computer simulations have proven to be a viable tool for analyzing lighting in physical environments, they have difficulty in assess...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,709 Views
17 Pages

Towards an Evidence-Based Model of Workplace Postvention

  • Alison Clements,
  • Angela Nicholas,
  • Karen E Martin and
  • Susan Young

This instrumental case study explored what suicide postvention might offer workplaces using the example of a large metropolitan funeral company. A mixed methods approach was utilized to examine staff experiences with suicide bereavement funerals and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,330 Views
19 Pages

On the Necessity of a Geriatric Oral Health Care Transition Model: Towards an Inclusive and Resource-Oriented Transition Process

  • Ina Nitschke,
  • Siri Nitschke,
  • Cornelius Haffner,
  • Bernhard A. J. Sobotta and
  • Julia Jockusch

People in need of care also require support within the framework of structured dental care in their different life situations. Nowadays, deteriorations in oral health tend to be noticed by chance, usually when complaints or pain are present. Informat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,497 Views
18 Pages

Exposure to a Vitamin D Best Practices Toolkit, Model, and E-Tools Increases Knowledge, Confidence, and the Translation of Research to Public Health and Practice

  • Beth S. Sanford,
  • Jennifer L. Aliano,
  • Courtney S. Omary,
  • Sharon L. McDonnell,
  • Samantha M. Kimball and
  • William B. Grant

24 May 2023

Preventable vitamin D deficiency (VDD) is a global health concern. The prevention, early detection, and treatment of vitamin D deficiency aligning with serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration recommendations of 40–60 ng/mL (100–150 nmol/L...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
8 Citations
9,213 Views
3 Pages

20 August 2017

Health promotion has a key role to play in preventing disease and promoting healthy lifestyles. Health promotion work is part science and part art. The science emerges from research and theory and the art emerges from our professional intuition and e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,454 Views
32 Pages

This paper combines Christopher Alexander’s pattern language with generative AI into a hybrid design framework. The result is a narrative synthesis that can be useful for informed project design. Advanced large language models (LLMs) enable the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,592 Views
14 Pages

The Effect of Preoperative Anemia on Blood Transfusion Outcomes in Major Head and Neck Cancer Surgery

  • Munib Ali,
  • Steven C. Nakoneshny,
  • Joseph C. Dort,
  • Khara M. Sauro,
  • Thomas Wayne Matthews,
  • Shamir P. Chandarana,
  • Todd A. Wilson,
  • David C. McKenzie,
  • Christiaan Schrag and
  • Robert D. Hart
  • + 1 author

25 June 2025

Background/objectives: Major head and neck oncologic surgeries requiring microvascular reconstruction frequently result in complications such as perioperative blood transfusion (PBT). Not only are blood products overutilized and associated with risks...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,415 Views
20 Pages

Risk of Bias Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies Using QUADAS 2 by Large Language Models

  • Daniel-Corneliu Leucuța,
  • Andrada Elena Urda-Cîmpean,
  • Dan Istrate and
  • Tudor Drugan

Background/Objectives: Diagnostic accuracy studies are essential for the evaluation of the performance of medical tests. The risk of bias (RoB) for these studies is commonly assessed using the Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies (QUADAS...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,550 Views
19 Pages

Significant efforts in the past decades to teach evidence-based practice (EBP) implementation has emphasized increasing knowledge of EBP and developing interventions to support adoption to practice. These efforts have resulted in only limited sustain...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,913 Views
10 Pages

10 November 2024

This study evaluated the usability of Large Language Models (LLMs), specifically ChatGPT, in assessing the completeness of reporting in orthodontic research abstracts. We focused on two key areas: randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and systematic re...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
10,950 Views
16 Pages

30 September 2021

This study aimed to analyze the concept of the “feelings of entrapment” during the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic using a systematic review. We included literature based on content and outcomes related to feelings of entrapment, such as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,936 Views
25 Pages

Active Ageing in Italy: An Evidence-Based Model to Provide Recommendations for Policy Making and Policy Implementation

  • Davide Lucantoni,
  • Andrea Principi,
  • Marco Socci,
  • Marina Zannella and
  • Francesco Barbabella

In ageing societies, active ageing (AA) has been recognized as a useful conceptual tool due to its holistic approach to social issues and recognised benefits from it at multiple levels (micro, meso and macro) for addressing demographic challenges. Ho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
326 Views
18 Pages

26 January 2026

This study formulates and verifies a network-based evaluation methodology for appraising the sustainable competitiveness of community enterprises. Based on Social Capital Theory, the Resource-Based View (RBV), and Network Theory, the model defines hi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
12,202 Views
25 Pages

Social Experience of Captive Livingstone’s Fruit Bats (Pteropus livingstonii)

  • Morgan J. Welch,
  • Tessa Smith,
  • Charlotte Hosie,
  • Dominic Wormell,
  • Eluned Price and
  • Christina R. Stanley

30 July 2020

Social network analysis has been highlighted as a powerful tool to enhance the evidence-based management of captive-housed species through its ability to quantify the social experience of individuals. We apply this technique to explore the social str...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,126 Views
19 Pages

Uncertainty is widely present in target recognition, and it is particularly important to express and reason the uncertainty. Based on the advantage of the evidence network in uncertainty processing, this paper presents an evidence network reasoning r...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,576 Views
19 Pages

Using a Clinical Formulation to Understand Psychological Distress in People Affected by Huntington’s Disease: A Descriptive, Evidence-Based Model

  • Maria Dale,
  • Ashleigh Wood,
  • Nicolò Zarotti,
  • Fiona Eccles,
  • Sarah Gunn,
  • Reza Kiani,
  • Amanda Mobley,
  • Noelle Robertson and
  • Jane Simpson

27 July 2022

Huntington’s disease (HD) is an inherited, life-limiting neurodegenerative condition. People with HD experience changes in cognitive, motor and emotional functioning, and can also, mainly at later stages, exhibit behaviours that professionals a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,405 Views
30 Pages

The Mediterranean Diet as a Model of Sustainability: Evidence-Based Insights into Health, Environment, and Culture

  • Pasquale Perrone,
  • Loris Landriani,
  • Roberta Patalano,
  • Rosaria Meccariello and
  • Stefania D’Angelo

The Mediterranean Diet (MD) is globally recognized not only for its well-established benefits to human health but also for its potential as a sustainable dietary model from environmental perspectives. Primarily based on plant-based foods, olive oil,...

  • Guidelines
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,120 Views
16 Pages

Models of Follow-Up Care and Secondary Prevention Measures for Survivors of Colorectal Cancer: Evidence-Based Guidelines and Systematic Review

  • Jacqueline Galica,
  • Caroline Zwaal,
  • Erin Kennedy,
  • Tim Asmis,
  • Charles Cho,
  • Alexandra Ginty and
  • Anand Govindarajan

19 January 2022

Objective: To provide recommendations for preferred models of follow-up care for stage I-IV colorectal (CRC) cancer survivors in Ontario; to identify signs and symptoms of potential recurrence and when to investigate; and to evaluate patient informat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,683 Views
23 Pages

KG-EGV: A Framework for Question Answering with Integrated Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models

  • Kun Hou,
  • Jingyuan Li,
  • Yingying Liu,
  • Shiqi Sun,
  • Haoliang Zhang and
  • Haiyang Jiang

7 December 2024

Despite the remarkable progress of large language models (LLMs) in understanding and generating unstructured text, their application in structured data domains and their multi-role capabilities remain underexplored. In particular, utilizing LLMs to p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,967 Views
18 Pages

31 May 2025

Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related mortality worldwide, with growing evidence linking risk to lifestyle and dietary factors. However, nutrition-related exposures have rarely been integrated into ex...

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