Epistemology is the main branch of philosophy that studies the nature of knowledge, but how is new knowledge created? In this perspective article, I introduce a novel method of knowledge discovery that synthesizes online findings from current and pri...
Building fire-adaptive communities and fostering fire-resilient landscapes have become two of the main research strands of wildfire science that go beyond strictly biophysical viewpoints and call for the integration of complementary visions of landsc...
The paper introduces a method for adaptive deductive synthesis of state models, of complex objects, with multilevel variable structures. The method makes it possible to predict the state of objects using the data coming from them. The data from the o...
The first publication on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in pediatrics dates back to 1984. Since then, research on AI in pediatrics has become much more popular, and the number of publications has largely increased. Consequently, a need for a...
With the increasing application of deep-learning-based generative models for de novo molecule design, the quantitative estimation of molecular synthetic accessibility (SA) has become a crucial factor for prioritizing the structures generated from gen...
Artificial intelligence (AI) has witnessed an exponential increase in use in various applications. Recently, the academic community started to research and inject new AI-based approaches to provide solutions to traditional software-engineering proble...
Background: Evolutionary game theory (EGT), originating from Darwinian competition studies, offers a powerful framework for understanding complex healthcare interactions where multiple stakeholders with conflicting interests evolve strategies over ti...
Background/Objectives: Children now spend a substantial part of daily life in digital environments, and their digital, media, and information literacies shape their online safety, social-emotional development, and mental health, making these competen...
Land is a natural resource that humans have utilized for life and various activities. Land use/land cover change (LULCC) has been of great concern to many countries over the years. Some of the main reasons behind LULCC are rapid population growth, mi...
Pedagogical content knowledge is central to teacher professional knowledge, yet existing models and reviews provide limited insight into the generalist work of primary teachers. This systematic review examined how this construct in primary education...
Background: Physiotherapy and chronic low back pain (CLBP) form a broad and quickly developing research area. The aim of this article was to holistically, thematically and chronologically analyze and synthesize the literature production in this resea...
Automated food safety inspection systems rely heavily on the visual detection of contamination, spoilage, and foreign objects in food products. Current approaches typically require extensive labeled training data for each specific hazard type, limiti...
Peatland research has expanded rapidly in the last two decades encompassing a diverse, multi-disciplinary evidence base, as countries seek to manage this resource sustainably along with meeting climate and biodiversity targets. There is growing globa...
Salient findings and interpretations from the canimpact clinical cancer research study are visually represented in two synthesis maps for the purpose of communicating an integrated presentation of the study to clinical cancer researchers and policyma...
This conceptual paper provides a meta-theoretical synthesis describing knowledge production processes in the sociological discipline. The first part of this paper gives an overview of recent studies exploring the sociological knowledge space with an...
This comprehensive review paper describes how stressful environmental conditions affect the amounts and types of secondary metabolites synthetized by plants, with particular emphasis on plants that spontaneously grow on post-mining sites. Secondary m...
Despite being a prominent and influential figure in the German and Jewish Enlightenment, Salomon Maimon’s skeptical standpoint seems to veer towards radical and unsustainable assertions, denying the validity of any knowledge—including nat...
Obesity is a complex disease that, like COVID-19, has reached pandemic proportions. Consequently, it has become a rapidly growing scientific field, represented by an extensive body of research publications. Therefore, the aim of this study was to pre...
Students with learning disabilities (LD) often struggle to develop deep, transferable conceptual understanding in mathematics due to cognitive and processing challenges, underscoring the relevance of instruction grounded in strong teacher pedagogical...
Traditional object detectors require extensive instance-level annotations for training. Conversely, few-shot object detectors, which are generally fine-tuned using limited data from unknown classes, tend to show biases toward base categories and are...
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Tobacco taxation is an essential component of a comprehensive tobacco control strategy. However, to fully realize the benefits it is vital to understand the impact of increased taxes among high-risk subpopulations. Are they influenced to the same ext...
The potential of inland valleys to enhance food security and improve agricultural resilience to climate change in Africa is constrained by a limited understanding of their hydrological functioning and inadequate water management. In order to synthesi...
This study maps the intellectual structure and thematic evolution of buy now, pay later (BNPL) research published between 2010 and 2025, with particular attention to how impulsive buying and post-purchase regret are positioned within the broader BNPL...
This study investigates data-driven business model innovation (DDBMI) for incumbent manufacturers, underscoring its importance in various strategic and managerial contexts. Employing topic modeling, the study identifies nine key topics of DDBMI. Thro...
Diplostomidae includes ecologically important digenean parasites with complex life cycles involving freshwater snails and vertebrate hosts. We present the first comprehensive synthesis of freshwater Diplostomidae in Argentina, based on 118 studies pu...
Background: Edible insects constitute a highly nutritious, environmentally sustainable and culturally significant food resource with considerable potential to contribute to food system transformation within academic and broader societal contexts. Alt...
Background/Objectives: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) drug development continues to suffer from high late-stage attrition and narrow mechanistic diversity, which makes the systematic repurposing of approved compounds an urgent priority. Existing comp...
Background: Artificial intelligence and machine learning are playing crucial roles in digital transformation, aiming to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, equity, and responsiveness of primary health systems and their services. Method: Using synt...
This is the first morphological description of the mature larva (L2) of the genus Pseudomedon, belonging to the tribe Lathrobiini and subtribe Medonina. Detailed illustrations of its structural features are provided. Based on earlier published and ne...
Numerous prediction models of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic were proposed in the past. Unknown parameters of these models are often estimated based on observational data. However, lag in case-reporting, changing testing policy or incompleteness of data lead to...
In this review, we discuss currently available studies on the synthesis and properties of MQ copolymers. The data on methods of producing hydrolytic and heterofunctional polycondensation of functional organosilanes as well as the obtaining MQ copolym...
Chitosan, a chitin-derivative polysaccharide, known for its non-toxicity, biocompatibility and biodegradability, presents limited applications due to its low solubility in neutral or basic pH medium. Quaternization stands out as an alternative to mod...
Indigenous understanding of sustainability is embedded in close relations to land and environment, Indigenous Knowledge systems, Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies, and Indigenous languages. However, the sustainability of Indigenous peoples&rsq...
Creating new insecticide lead compounds based on the design and modification of natural products is a novel process, of which chlorfenapyr is a typical successful example. Chlorfenapyr is an arylpyrrole derivative that has high biological activity, a...
Opportunistic salpingectomy (OS) for the primary prevention of ovarian cancer is performed by gynecologists. Advocates have suggested expanding its use to other surgical specialties. General surgeons are the other group to routinely perform intraperi...
A Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) approach is widely used as a key element for intelligent assistants. However, the knowledge extraction stage from technical text corpora is fraught with difficulties due to the presence of highly specialized ter...
Interconnected computers and software systems have become an indispensable part of people’s lives in the period of digital transformation. Consequently, software quality research is becoming more and more critical. There have been multiple atte...
The awareness and the engagement of various stakeholders play a crucial role in the successful implementation of climate policy and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SDG 13, which refers to climate action, has three targets for combating climate...
The use of plants for therapeutic purposes is an ancestral practice that dates back to the earliest times in the history of mankind. Even today the exploitation of plants for medicinal purposes plays a big role for the communities, especially in Afri...
Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) have emerged as a cornerstone of sustainable urban and
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Ticks are haematophagous ectoparasites and vectors of a diverse range of pathogens, exerting substantial impacts on wildlife, domestic animals and public health. In Australia, despite the country’s rich and unique biodiversity, a comprehensive...
Endocrine disruptors are a group of chemical compounds that, even in low concentrations, cause a hormonal imbalance in the body, contributing to the development of various harmful health disorders. Many industry compounds, due to their important comm...
Forest management planning requires the specification of measurable objectives as desired future conditions at spatial extents ranging from stands to landscapes and temporal extents ranging from a single growing season to several centuries. Effective...
This article places the question of the presence of the Averroist philosopher Siger of Brabant in Dante’s Paradiso within the debate concerning Dante’s relationship with Averroistic philosophy throughout his works, particularly in the Com...
The development and use of oral anticancer agents (OAAs) continue to grow, and supporting individuals on OAAs is now a priority as they find themselves taking these drugs at home with little professional guidance. This mapping review provides an over...
Introduction: Up to 50% of community-dwelling older adults report living with some chronic pain that interferes with their daily functioning and leads to disabilities. Hence, it is crucial to provide these individuals with strategies to effectively m...
Background/Objectives: Epidemiological modeling is a vital tool for managing pandemics, including SARS-CoV-2. Advances in the understanding of epidemiological dynamics and access to new data sources necessitate ongoing adjustments to modeling techniq...
Industrial image anomaly detection plays a critical role in intelligent manufacturing by automatically identifying defective products through visual inspection. While unsupervised approaches eliminate dependency on annotated anomaly samples, current...
As part of crystal growth experiments on transition metal oxidotellurates using chemical vapor transport reactions or hydrothermal conditions, single crystals of NiIITeVIO4 and CuIITeIV2O5 were obtained for the first time in the form of new modificat...
Building information modeling (BIM)-based interior design automation remains constrained by a semantic mismatch: engineering constraints are explicit and categorical, whereas aesthetic style is implicit, contextual, and difficult to formalize. As a r...
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