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  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,266 Views
16 Pages

21 June 2024

Based on the traditional Chinese cultural belief of “male breadwinner, female homemaker”, as well as the systemic and interactive characteristics of families, this study aims to explore the relationship between maternal gatekeeping behavi...

(This article belongs to the Section Developmental Psychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,108 Views
17 Pages

12 December 2021

In the digital content industry, the emerging multi-channel networks (MCNs) have dramatically changed the ways of content production and distribution in sustainable social media. As a result, it also brings an unprecedented impact and challenge to th...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Engineering and Science)
  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,280 Views
10 Pages

As early as 1978, the World Health Organization set primary healthcare as the basis on which health systems should be built worldwide. However, the health systems of the different countries show considerable variations in terms of the implementation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
791 Views
15 Pages

Feedback Structures Generating Policy Exposure, Gatekeeping, and Care Disruption in Transgender and Gender Expansive Healthcare

  • Braveheart Gillani,
  • Rem Martin,
  • Augustus Klein,
  • Meagan Ray-Novak,
  • Alyssa Roberts,
  • Dana Prince,
  • Laura Mintz and
  • Scott Emory Moore

21 January 2026

Transgender and gender-expansive (TGE) communities face persistent health inequities that are reproduced through everyday administrative and clinical encounters across care systems. A feedback-focused lens can clarify how those inequities are generat...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Practice in Social Science)
  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
18,413 Views
19 Pages

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how news is produced, curated, and consumed, challenging traditional gatekeeping theories rooted in human editorial control. We develop a robust theoretical framework to reconceptualize gatekeeping in the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Technologies in Communication: Best Practices and Theoretical Frameworks for Professional Success)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,000 Views
14 Pages

24 March 2021

This article explores the efficiency in the administration of social grants for adult persons with disabilities (PWDs) in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. The focus, in particular, is on explaining why, despite a gatekeeping element, adult...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Transformation and Innovation in Organization Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,127 Views
19 Pages

24 November 2023

According to Murray Bowen’s family systems theory, the family is an emotional unit where members influence each other. Family strength, in that members care for, respect, and communicate with each other sincerely and freely and overcome difficu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,137 Views
26 Pages

23 December 2020

The advantage of using the Network Address Translation device is that the internal IP address, which makes the IP address space of Internet of Things (IoT) devices expanded, is invisible from the outside and safe from external attacks. However, the u...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,244 Views
15 Pages

30 January 2023

The literature on ethnic groups that were formed following migration reveals how symbolic and socioeconomic boundaries are manipulated by veteran groups to keep out the unwanted immigrants. It shows how these boundaries are to maintain and preserve t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research of Jewish Communities in Africa and in Their Diaspora)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,347 Views
16 Pages

Teachers as Gatekeepers in Adolescent Suicide Prevention: The Role of Suicide-Related Knowledge, Empathy, and Collaborative Self-Efficacy

  • Federica Graziano,
  • Chiara Davico,
  • Irene Giordano,
  • Elena Lonardelli,
  • Daniele Marcotulli and
  • Emanuela Calandri

11 March 2026

Teachers play a key role as gatekeepers in adolescent suicide prevention, and knowledge about suicidality is a well-established predictor of teachers’ gatekeeper self-efficacy. However, little attention has been paid to other potential predicto...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
16,367 Views
16 Pages

This study investigates people’s attitudes towards news media’s role as gatekeepers during the coronavirus pandemic. Specifically, this concerns news media’s quality control and the selection of the most important news about the pan...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Impact of Crisis and Opportunity Discourses on Digital Journalism Practice and Research)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,513 Views
13 Pages

Control of CCR5 Cell-Surface Targeting by the PRAF2 Gatekeeper

  • Elisa Da Silva,
  • Mark G. H. Scott,
  • Hervé Enslen and
  • Stefano Marullo

13 December 2023

The cell-surface targeting of neo-synthesized G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) involves the recruitment of receptors into COPII vesicles budding at endoplasmic reticulum exit sites (ERESs). This process is regulated for some GPCRs by escort protei...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue G Protein-Coupled Receptors: Signaling, Regulation and Therapeutic Opportunities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,128 Views
19 Pages

Generating Trust in Participatory Research on Plasmodium knowlesi Malaria: A Study with Rural Community Gatekeepers during the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Nurul Athirah Naserrudin,
  • Richard Culleton,
  • Pauline Yong Pau Lin,
  • Sara Elizabeth Baumann,
  • Rozita Hod,
  • Mohammad Saffree Jeffree,
  • Kamruddin Ahmed and
  • Mohd Rohaizat Hassan

Background: Plasmodium knowlesi malaria is a zoonotic infection that affects rural communities in South East Asia. Although the epidemiology of the disease has been extensively researched, the voices of individuals within affected communities often g...

(This article belongs to the Section Health Care Sciences & Services)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,010 Views
15 Pages

Preventing Adolescent Suicide: Feasibility and Preliminary Outcome Evaluation of a Theatre-Based Gatekeeper Training for Teachers

  • Chiara Davico,
  • Federica Graziano,
  • Alessandra Rossi Ghiglione,
  • Federico Amianto,
  • Tatiana Begotti,
  • Emanuela Calandri,
  • Giorgia Copetto,
  • Francesca Di Franco,
  • Elena Lonardelli and
  • Benedetto Vitiello
  • + 3 authors

Improving teachers’ knowledge and skills in dealing with adolescent suicidality may be important for prevention. We evaluated the feasibility and acceptability of a theatre-based gatekeeper teacher training for adolescent suicide prevention (SP...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Depression and Suicide: Current Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,540 Views
13 Pages

The gatekeeper training of parents is a promising approach for suicide prevention in young people, but little research has addressed the effectiveness of such training, especially using online delivery. This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy and a...

(This article belongs to the Section Global Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,103 Views
9 Pages

Gatekeeper™ Prostheses Implants in the Anal Canal for Gas Incontinence and Soiling: Long-Term Follow-Up

  • Jaume Tur-Martinez,
  • Laura Lagares-Tena,
  • Juan Hinojosa-Fano,
  • Antonio Arroyo,
  • Albert Navarro-Luna and
  • Arantxa Muñoz-Duyos

16 October 2024

Introduction: Although several treatments for faecal incontinence are available, gas incontinence (GI) and soiling are difficult to manage. The aim of this study is to evaluate Gatekeeper™ for this subtype of faecal incontinence. Methods: Prosp...

(This article belongs to the Section General Surgery)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,576 Views
25 Pages

9 April 2025

Dutch farmers are turning to YouTube for insights into the nitrogen crisis. While the platform provides access to diverse information, its algorithmic structure—driven largely by economic interests—personalizes content delivery. This stud...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Ecology and Sustainability)
  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,897 Views
18 Pages

29 August 2024

This review starts off with the first germline homozygous variants of the Nucleoporin 98 gene (NUP98) in siblings whose clinical presentation recalls Rothmund–Thomson (RTS) and Werner (WS) syndromes. The progeroid phenotype caused by a gene ass...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Genetics and Genomics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,908 Views
15 Pages

After the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in March 2011, residents perceived a radiation exposure risk. To address the concerns about radiation exposure and the subsequent effects on their health, we developed the gatekeeper training p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Disaster Mental Health Risk Reduction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
297 Views
19 Pages

10 June 2026

Background: Psychosocial assessment is central to lung transplant evaluation. Structured tools such as the Stanford Integrated Psychosocial Assessment for Transplantation (SIPAT) can be used either to support exclusionary decisions or to guide psycho...

(This article belongs to the Section Respiratory Medicine)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,531 Views
18 Pages

20 September 2023

Community leaders in culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities in Australia, particularly Afghan migrant communities, may play an important role in understanding and responding to family violence. This paper explores the role and persp...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
1,419 Views
16 Pages

Nitrogen-Controlled Host Gatekeeping: Regulatory Chokepoints Across Four Windows for Diazotroph Access

  • Cassio Carlette Thiengo,
  • Maria Julia Brossi,
  • Carlos Alcides Villalba Algarin,
  • João Vitor Leonel,
  • Lucas William Mendes,
  • Fernando Shintate Galindo and
  • José Lavres

Although diazotrophy is compatible with low-carbon agriculture and aligned with sustainability goals, its benefits could be expanded by better leveraging associative plant–diazotroph partnerships. Host control, however, remains underemphasized...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Plant Sciences)
  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
10,161 Views
12 Pages

This review provided a comprehensive examination of various theories that attempt to explain hypnosis, focusing on the interplay between conscious and unconscious processes. We conducted a thorough analysis of key theories, from historical origins to...

(This article belongs to the Section Cognitive, Social and Affective Neuroscience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
18,262 Views
14 Pages

30 July 2021

How do social-media platforms such as TikTok function as a neutralising factor in the gatekeeping process in times of COVID-19 restrictions? How does TikTok change the experience culture in arts, and how does this impact how artists frame their worki...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Global Art Market in the Aftermath of COVID-19)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,052 Views
10 Pages

Youth suicide risks have been on the rise or persistently elevated for decades, and Native American communities are especially vulnerable. This study provides a promising framework for suicide prevention among underserved populations in the U.S., esp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,302 Views
10 Pages

Suicide is a major public health issue. In Japan, local governments are responsible for suicide prevention, and local government officers are therefore expected to act as gatekeepers for suicide prevention. In this study, through a questionnaire surv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Suicide Prevention and Public Health)
  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,756 Views
18 Pages

27 October 2023

The aim of the study is to present the online processes related to religious phenomena appearing on digital platforms, primarily the practice of content filtering (gatekeeping, echo chamber, filter bubble), and a critical review of the scientific lit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Religious Filter Bubbles? The Influence of Religion on Mediated Public Sphere)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,112 Views
29 Pages

23 July 2026

Digital gatekeeping is increasingly performed by adaptive systems that rank, sequence, package, moderate, and sometimes generate news across repeated interactions. This conceptual analysis asks two questions: how should researchers analyze these syst...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 1st International Online Conference on Social Sciences (2026))
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,142 Views
18 Pages

This study explores how institutional- and ideological-level pressures affect both the gatekeeping role and mental well-being of journalists reporting on traumatic incidents, particularly war, conflict, and crime in Pakistan. Using a qualitative rese...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mental Health in the Headlines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,357 Views
15 Pages

18 November 2021

Women without a partner can become single mothers by choice through the use of fertility treatments. In Belgium, the decision to accept a candidate single mother by choice rests with the fertility clinic’s multidisciplinary team of fertility practiti...

(This article belongs to the Section Family Studies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,437 Views
15 Pages

Embodying Transgender: An Analysis of Trans Women in Online Forums

  • Pranee Liamputtong,
  • Kyja Noack-Lundberg,
  • Tinashe Dune,
  • Brahmaputra Marjadi,
  • Virginia Schmied,
  • Jane Ussher,
  • Janette Perz,
  • Alexandra Hawkey,
  • Jessica Sekar and
  • Eloise Brook

This paper discusses the way that trans women embody their transgender identity, focusing on identity questioning, gender dysphoria, clinical gatekeeping and medicalized narratives. Situated within the hermeneutics methodological approach, we adopted...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Addressing Public Health and Health Inequities in Marginalized and Hidden Populations)
  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,655 Views
22 Pages

Performing Arts in Suicide Prevention Strategies: A Scoping Review

  • Chiara Davico,
  • Alessandra Rossi Ghiglione,
  • Elena Lonardelli,
  • Francesca Di Franco,
  • Federica Ricci,
  • Daniele Marcotulli,
  • Federica Graziano,
  • Tatiana Begotti,
  • Federico Amianto and
  • Emanuele Caroppo
  • + 6 authors

Suicide is a leading cause of death all over the world. Suicide prevention is possible and should be pursued through a variety of strategies. The importance of the arts for positive health outcomes has been increasingly evidenced. This scoping review...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mental Health, Social and Cultural Welfare in the Post COVID-19 Era: Challenges, Opportunities, and Paradigm Shift)
  • Article
  • Open Access
945 Views
16 Pages

17 December 2025

This study delves into the necessity for gender-affirming practices, particularly focusing on the underrepresented transgender and non-binary communities in California’s Central Valley. Despite the recognized standards by the World Professional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,724 Views
27 Pages

2 July 2025

Infections with cytomegalovirus (CMV) can result in increased morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised patients. The pUL97 kinase is a critical enzyme in the regulation of CMV replication. Although it does not phosphorylate deoxynucleosides, this...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mechanisms of Herpesvirus Resistance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,605 Views
25 Pages

CesL Regulates Type III Secretion Substrate Specificity of the Enteropathogenic E. coli Injectisome

  • Miguel Díaz-Guerrero,
  • Meztlli O. Gaytán,
  • Eduardo Soto,
  • Norma Espinosa,
  • Elizabeth García-Gómez,
  • Arely Marcos-Vilchis,
  • Angel Andrade and
  • Bertha González-Pedrajo

The type III secretion system (T3SS) is a complex molecular device used by several pathogenic bacteria to translocate effector proteins directly into eukaryotic host cells. One remarkable feature of the T3SS is its ability to secrete different catego...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Microbiology and Immunology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
902 Views
23 Pages

8 February 2026

The protein kinase N family belongs to the AGC kinase group and contains three isozymes: PKN1, PKN2, and PKN3. Catalytic domains of PKNs share high sequence similarity, yet the proteins differ in tissue distribution, functions, and involvement in pat...

(This article belongs to the Section Bioorganic Chemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,058 Views
15 Pages

28 February 2019

This essay maps out a constellation of early modern English feminine gatekeeper tropes that represent female sexual consent and imagine a gendered Cartesian dualism. This trope’s inherent mind–body divide grants the female subject’s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Regulation and Resistance: Gender and Coercive Power in Early Modern Literature)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,326 Views
18 Pages

Thermosensitive Hydrogel-Functionalized Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles for Parenteral Application of Chemotherapeutics

  • Christina Voycheva,
  • Marta Slavkova,
  • Teodora Popova,
  • Diana Tzankova,
  • Denitsa Stefanova,
  • Virginia Tzankova,
  • Ivelina Ivanova,
  • Stanislav Tzankov,
  • Ivanka Spassova and
  • Borislav Tzankov
  • + 1 author

21 September 2023

Hydrogels can offer many opportunities for drug delivery strategies. They can be used on their own, or their benefits can be further exploited in combination with other nanocarriers. Intelligent hydrogels that react to changes in the surrounding envi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hydrogelated Matrices: Structural, Functional and Applicative Aspects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
403 Views
31 Pages

After major disasters, news media selectively construct the public record of what has been lost. This study examines that pattern by comparing an independently derived satellite-based inventory of damaged cultural heritage in Hatay, Türkiye, wit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Revisiting Agenda-Setting Across Media Systems and Regime Types: Foundations, Network Dynamics, and Need for Orientation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
758 Views
20 Pages

South African universities remain shaped by unresolved colonial inheritances and a deepening neoliberal turn that privileges measurable outputs, competition, and narrow definitions of merit. Within this landscape, Black academics and students often e...

(This article belongs to the Topic Constructing and (Re)constructing Social Identities in Educational Contexts: Power, Norms, and Resistance)
  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
9,435 Views
24 Pages

A New Strategy to Control and Eradicate “Undruggable” Oncogenic K-RAS-Driven Pancreatic Cancer: Molecular Insights and Core Principles Learned from Developmental and Evolutionary Biology

  • Robert E. Van Sciver,
  • Michael P. Lee,
  • Caroline Dasom Lee,
  • Alex C. Lafever,
  • Elizaveta Svyatova,
  • Kevin Kanda,
  • Amber L. Collier,
  • Lauren L. Siewertsz van Reesema,
  • Angela M. Tang-Tan and
  • Amy H. Tang
  • + 6 authors

14 May 2018

Oncogenic K-RAS mutations are found in virtually all pancreatic cancers, making K-RAS one of the most targeted oncoproteins for drug development in cancer therapies. Despite intense research efforts over the past three decades, oncogenic K-RAS has re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Latest Development in Pancreatic Cancer)
  • Article
  • Open Access
900 Views
42 Pages

Mutant-Selective Binding of Phyllanthus niruri Phytochemicals to EGFR T790M: A Quantum-Classical Mechanistic Study

  • William D. Lituma-González,
  • Diksha Dinesh Kumar,
  • Amogh V. Arunprasad,
  • Tanishque Verma,
  • Shrutika Pillai,
  • Fabian R. Jimenez,
  • Sasikumar J. Mahalingam and
  • Shanmugamurthy Lakshmanan

Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations drive hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) progression, and the T790M gatekeeper substitution is the predominant mechanism of acquired resistance to EGFR-targeted therapies. Herein, we present multiscale qu...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Endocrinology and Metabolism)
  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
14,771 Views
26 Pages

29 March 2023

This study aims to recognize the possible role of social media in forming xenophobia and hate speech against Syrian refugees and to understand the reinforcing causes and negative effects of that speech on the refugees, as well as the refugees’...

  • Article
  • Open Access
978 Views
16 Pages

Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) enables the automated generation of built environment map features, such as building outlines/footprints, on a global scale. However, the integration of these AI-generated datasets into Volunteered Geographi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
399 Views
21 Pages

The ROS Gatekeeper Hypothesis: A Conceptual Framework for Gasotransmitter Signaling in Pressure Ulcers

  • Ryosuke Shinkai,
  • Naru Tsukase,
  • Yusuke Nishizawa,
  • Ayae Nomura and
  • Takashi Tomita

18 August 2026

Pressure ulcers are a major clinical problem in patients with severe immobility; however, their pathophysiology extends beyond mechanical pressure and localized ischemia. Repetitive ischemia–reperfusion promotes sustained reactive oxygen specie...

(This article belongs to the Topic Cell Signaling and Redox Biology: From Molecular Mechanisms to Therapeutic Applications)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
668 Citations
69,346 Views
44 Pages

Zinc as a Gatekeeper of Immune Function

  • Inga Wessels,
  • Martina Maywald and
  • Lothar Rink

25 November 2017

After the discovery of zinc deficiency in the 1960s, it soon became clear that zinc is essential for the function of the immune system. Zinc ions are involved in regulating intracellular signaling pathways in innate and adaptive immune cells. Zinc ho...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Immunology: Nutrition, Exercise and Adiposity Relationships)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,013 Views
15 Pages

29 September 2020

Community Resource Management Areas (CREMAs) in Ghana combine conservation and development objectives and were introduced in the year 2000. In some cases, they have connected collectors of shea (Vitellaria paradoxa) nuts with certified organic world...

(This article belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)
  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,761 Views
27 Pages

10 October 2024

This review paper delves into the intricate relationship between the genital microbiome and fertility outcomes in livestock, with a specific focus on cattle. Drawing upon insights derived from culture-independent metagenomics studies, the paper metic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Reproductive Immunology: Cellular and Molecular Biology 3.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
399 Views
36 Pages

17 September 2026

Voice interfaces to anthropomorphic robotic arms are typically evaluated without a formal safety layer, or with safety as a post hoc filter trusting the transcript, leaving transcript corruption unaddressed. This paper presents the DAS3 Neuro-Voice C...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human-Inspired Grasp Control in Robotics 2026)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
14,601 Views
15 Pages

Ethical AI in Social Sciences Research: Are We Gatekeepers or Revolutionaries?

  • Remus Runcan,
  • Vasile Hațegan,
  • Ovidiu Toderici,
  • Gabriel Croitoru,
  • Mihaela Gavrila-Ardelean,
  • Lavinia Denisia Cuc,
  • Dana Rad,
  • Alina Costin and
  • Tiberiu Dughi

6 March 2025

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) in social sciences research introduces both transformative potential and critical ethical dilemmas. This study examines the role of researchers as either ethical gatekeepers or pioneers of AI-driven...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Interdisciplinary Social Research in Economics, Environment, Education, and Philosophy)

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