Globally, health education reform is directing efforts to strengthen the health system through collaboration between health education and health services. However, collaborative efforts vary between developed and developing countries as the health ne...
This study investigated how consumers’ food consumption needs and perceptions influence their attitudes and behavioral intentions toward food truck dining. Drawing on the stimulus–organism–response (SOR) framework, perceived risks a...
Visual programming using blocks and diagrams facilitates understanding of fundamental programming concepts, which is particularly important for children with special educational needs because it reduces their cognitive load and encourages interactive...
Walkability measurement has expanded from a small set of generic neighbourhood-level proxies into a heterogeneous field of indices, scored audits, perceived-environment scales, route-based instruments, and context-specific assessment instruments. Thi...
28 March 2014
eHealth has been identified as a useful approach to disseminate HIV/AIDS information. Together with Consumer Health Informatics (CHI), the Web-to-Public Knowledge Transfer Model (WPKTM) has been applied as a theoretical framework to identify consumer...
In recent decades, there has been a growing interest in the application of GIS to community empowerment or new policy development through participatory design, information gathering and implementation. This study, therefore, aims to apply a multi-lev...
Industrial heritage plays a pivotal role in preserving local culture and preventing urban homogenization. Although the reuse of industrial heritage sites has been underway in China for nearly 30 years, designers often focus on heritage value itself w...
The maritime supply chain is a colossal ecosystem and the interface of the intercontinental trade market. Within this ecosystem, freight transportation is considered a fundamental component of all supply chain systems. As a matter of its demanding mu...
12 August 2022
This article provides a framework for conceptualizing climate action needs grounded in the nationally determined contributions (NDCs) of the least developed party countries (LDPCs) of the Paris Agreement (PA). It examines the NDCs of 35 LDPCs recorde...
Customer needs and user contexts play an important role in generating ideas for new products or new functions. This study proposes a novel framework for identifying customers’ unmet needs on online social media using the Context Tree through th...
Background: A significant body of research has identified ongoing unmet needs among cancer survivors. However, there is limited information about the survivorship experiences of patients in low- and middle-income countries. This study examined the ex...
The potential risks of climate change on the built environment involve large uncertainties. This poses an intricate problem to designers and challenges a long-standing tradition of built infrastructure design. More specifically, designers are faced w...
Spatial conservation prioritization does not necessarily lead to effective conservation plans, and good plans do not necessarily lead to action. These “science-action” gaps are pernicious and need to be narrowed, especially if the interna...
The residential buildings in Bahrain represent approximately 76% of the total buildings and account for 50% of the nation’s overall energy consumption. Air conditioners account for over 70% of the electricity used in a typical Bahraini house. T...
People with special needs, such as frail older adults and people living with Parkinson’s disease (PD), heart-rhythm disorders or dementia, are often alone when a critical event happens. We present IoT-CARES, a four-layer Internet of Things (IoT...
Traditional garment accessory design often relies on designers’ subjective experience and emphasizes basic functionality while insufficiently addressing consumers’ affective needs. As emotional and aesthetic expectations for apparel conti...
Child interviewing in sensitive judicial procedures requires environments and systems that accommodate communication (COM), ergonomic (ERG), sensory/environmental (SEN), safety/privacy (SPR), and functional needs. However, child-sensitive recommendat...
Background/Objectives: Person-centred psychosocial and rehabilitation interventions are increasingly relevant in long-term care (LTC) for older people with multimorbidity. Existing classifications describe the technical nature of these interventions...
21 February 2023
Utilizing resources effectively is becoming more critical, especially with the ever-increasing healthcare cost. Little is known about the current practices used by healthcare organizations for the procurement, allocation, and utilization of medical r...
4 September 2025
Introduction: Market access, pricing, and reimbursement of digital health technologies (DHTs) in Europe are significantly challenged by regulatory fragmentation and various assessment methodologies. Understanding the challenges and priorities of tech...
In many cases, the purpose of reusing old industrial buildings is to serve the public. Converting a building that had a particular function and is unfamiliar to the public to a civic building is a great challenge. Significantly, the public’s cu...
With the intensification of global population aging, attention to the emotional health of the elderly continues to grow. Traditional interior architectural design primarily focuses on optimizing physical functionality; however, this approach is no lo...
Adaptation is a critical option to cope with climate change, as it alleviates the residual climate damages not avoided by emission reduction measures. However, adaptive actions can consume extra amounts of energy. This paper introduces a framework to...
Preventive and Planned Conservation (PPC) of architectural heritage requires coordination between multidisciplinary needs and digital implementation. This study develops a requirement-driven framework to reduce misinterpretation and unsupported indiv...
Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) is a systematically interconnected network of natural and semi-natural spaces. By integrating blue hydrological systems—such as rivers, wetlands, and retention ponds—with green vegetation ecosystems includi...
30 May 2018
Background: Earthquakes causing significant damage have occurred frequently in China, producing enormous health losses, damage to the environment and public health issues. Timely public health response is crucial to reduce mortality and morbidity and...
Emotion recognition is a key capability of social robots operating in real-world human-centered environments, especially when interacting with users with special needs. Such users may express emotions in atypical, subtle, or strongly context-dependen...
Under the IMO net-zero framework, a GHG carbon-pricing mechanism must not only generate an effective price signal for emission reduction, but also address the fair distribution of carbon revenues among different types of member states. In view of the...
Background/Objectives: Despite high breastfeeding initiation rates nationwide, disparities in breastfeeding continuation among Black mothers remain a public health issue. The BreastFeed Iowa Black Immigrant Project aimed to improve breastfeeding rate...
With the significant increase in demand for artificial intelligence, environmental map reconstruction has become a research hotspot for obstacle avoidance navigation, unmanned operations, and virtual reality. The quality of the map plays a vital role...
Transformative sustainability education often uses disruption to unsettle learners’ assumptions, but the claim that disruption fails when “demands exceed resources” gives teachers little guidance. This conceptual paper introduces re...
Significant progress has been achieved in human health in the European Union in recent years. New medicines, vaccines, and treatments have been developed to tackle some of the leading causes of disease and life-threatening illnesses. It is clear that...
Analysing big data job posts in Saudi cyberspace to describe the future market need for sustainable skills, this study used the power of artificial intelligence, deep learning, and big data technologies. The study targeted three main stakeholders: st...
Land use conflicts are intensifying due to the rapid urbanization and accelerated transformation of social and economic development. Accurate identification of land use conflicts is an important prerequisite for resolving land use conflicts and optim...
Integrated processes for design and fabrication have guided mass customization of architectural systems and components. Providing affordable and accessible housing, a vital segment of the building industry, is a multifaceted process that witnessed va...
Global disasters due to earthquakes have become more frequent and intense. Consequently, post-disaster recovery and reconstruction has become the new normal in the social process. Through post-disaster reconstruction, risks can be effectively reduced...
Wild Oryza species are being targeted for commercial cultivation due to their high nutritional grain profile, and their association with Aboriginal people in many regions. Australian wild Oryza species have potential as high-value, low-volume, cultur...
Public toilets are an integral part of sustainable urban sanitation infrastructure, public health protection, and inclusive public space. SDG 6.2 calls for adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all, with particular attention to women, gir...
How do we know which energy technologies or resources are worth pursuing and which aren’t? One way to answer that question is to compare the energy return of a certain technology—i.e., how much energy is remaining after accounting for the amount of e...
Effective design is becoming increasingly necessary to shorten product development times to meet evolving user demands. Thus, it is essential that designers uncover user requirements and translate them into tangible product specifications, but with t...
Background/Objectives: Pediatric trauma resuscitation requires rapid, coordinated interdisciplinary teamwork; however, communication and organizational challenges frequently impede effective performance. This study aimed to characterize cross-discipl...
Maintaining minimum shared learning outcomes in practice-based basic science education is challenging when institutions differ in academic staffing, student cohort size, and laboratory resources. Using practical biophysics education as a disciplinary...
Cancer is the second leading cause of mortality in EU countries, and the needs to tackle cancer are obvious. New scientific understanding, techniques and methodologies are opening up horizons for significant improvements in diagnosis and care. Howeve...
As Europe and the world continue to battle against COVID, the customary complacency of society over future threats is clearly on display. Just 30 months ago, such a massive disruption to global lives, livelihoods and quality of life seemed unimaginab...
This paper analyzes the theme of the knowledge project as an element guide of the restoration project. In view of the constant evolution of technologies related to diagnostics (in the laboratory and in situ), the research exposes the importance of a...
Previous studies on residential satisfaction factors (RSFs) overlooked residents’ psychological needs. To bridge this gap, we linked RSFs to the Modified Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human Needs (MMHN) through a three-step qualitative and quanti...
Contemporary software is inherently distributed. The principles guiding the design of such software have been mainly manifested by the service-oriented architecture (SOA) concept. In a SOA, applications are orchestrated by software services generally...
Long maintenance outages require advance planning. This article presents a sequential hybrid framework for the paired phenolic joint seals of 50 generating units at the Santo Antônio Hydropower Plant, Brazil. A unit-specific long short-term mem...
The article presents an approach for choosing alternative transport routes in a multimodal transport system. This approach includes (1) the transportation needs hierarchy method and (2) the Evaluation of Petri Nets (E-nets) as a modeling tool. The pu...
Aerospace systems are connected with the operational environment and other systems in general. The focus in aerospace product development is consequently shifting from a singular system perspective to a System-of-Systems (SoS) perspective. This incre...
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