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  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,027 Views
16 Pages

The progress of new media has promoted the development of online health consultations. Previous research has investigated the impact of media richness on user satisfaction; however, little attention has been given to the mixed effects of the nesting...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,284 Views
15 Pages

Effects of Cemented Porous Media on Temporal Mixing Behavior of Conservative Solute Transport

  • Zhi Dou,
  • Xueyi Zhang,
  • Zhou Chen,
  • Yun Yang,
  • Chao Zhuang and
  • Chenxi Wang

9 June 2019

The cementation of porous media leads to the variation of the pore space and heterogeneity of the porous media. In this study, four porous media (PM1, PM2, PM3, and PM4) with the different radii of solid grains were generated to represent the differe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,101 Views
20 Pages

Upscaling Mixing in Highly Heterogeneous Porous Media via a Spatial Markov Model

  • Elise E. Wright,
  • Nicole L. Sund,
  • David H. Richter,
  • Giovanni M. Porta and
  • Diogo Bolster

29 December 2018

In this work, we develop a novel Lagrangian model able to predict solute mixing in heterogeneous porous media. The Spatial Markov model has previously been used to predict effective mean conservative transport in flows through heterogeneous porous me...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,673 Views
17 Pages

20 December 2018

Transverse dispersive mixing plays an important role in controlling natural attenuation of contaminant plumes and the performance of engineered remediation strategies. The extent of transverse mixing can be significantly affected by porous media hete...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,541 Views
19 Pages

12 February 2025

Immiscible displacement in porous media is a crucial microscale flow phenomenon in many fields, necessitating an understanding of the flow mechanisms under dynamic injection velocity and mixing wettability to predict and affect this flow accurately....

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
8,417 Views
22 Pages

Removal of Heavy Metals from Urban Stormwater Runoff Using Bioretention Media Mix

  • Jianlong Wang,
  • Yuanling Zhao,
  • Liqiong Yang,
  • Nannan Tu,
  • Guangpeng Xi and
  • Xing Fang

3 November 2017

Heavy metals from urban stormwater runoff are important sources of surface water pollutants. Sand, zeolite, sandy loam, and quartz-sand were separately mixed with lignin to form four bioretention media mixes for experimental study using synthetic sto...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,615 Views
23 Pages

A Mixed Methods Exploration of Social Media Use for Health Information in Under-Resourced Communities

  • Nishita Matangi,
  • Maud Joachim-Célestin,
  • Cristie Granillo,
  • Valeria Rodarte,
  • Beverly Buckles,
  • Theresa Ashby,
  • Nikhil Thiruvengadam and
  • Susanne Montgomery

Social media (SM) use and the burden on healthcare systems have concurrently increased, with the latter resulting in longer wait times and higher costs. As a result, more people seem to use social media to access health information (HI). This study e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,141 Views
27 Pages

A Novel PBM for Nanomilling of Drugs in a Recirculating Wet Stirred Media Mill: Impacts of Batch Size, Flow Rate, and Back-Mixing

  • Hamidreza Heidari,
  • Nontawat Muanpaopong,
  • Gulenay Guner,
  • Helen F. Yao,
  • Donald J. Clancy and
  • Ecevit Bilgili

We examined the evolution of fenofibrate (FNB, drug) particle size distribution (PSD) during the production of nanosuspensions via wet stirred media milling (WSMM) with a cell-based population balance model (PBM). Our objective was to elucidate the p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,389 Views
13 Pages

Mixed Generalized Multiscale Finite Element Method for Darcy-Forchheimer Model

  • Denis Spiridonov,
  • Jian Huang,
  • Maria Vasilyeva,
  • Yunqing Huang and
  • Eric T. Chung

10 December 2019

In this paper, the solution of the Darcy-Forchheimer model in high contrast heterogeneous media is studied. This problem is solved by a mixed finite element method (MFEM) on a fine grid (the reference solution), where the pressure is approximated by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,428 Views
16 Pages

Social Media Analysis to Understand the Expected Benefits by Plant-Based Meat Alternatives Consumers

  • Mirian Natali Blézins Moreira,
  • Cássia Rita Pereira da Veiga,
  • Zhaohui Su,
  • Germano Glufke Reis,
  • Lucilaine Maria Pascuci and
  • Claudimar Pereira da Veiga

18 December 2021

The plant-based alternative meat products market has attracted attention in recent years, as the demand for these products has grown worldwide. To meet the needs of this promising market, marketers must pay attention to the expected benefits of consu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,682 Views
30 Pages

Review of the Near-Water Effect of Rotors in Cross-Media Vehicles

  • Xingzhi Bai,
  • Mingqing Lu,
  • Qi Zhan,
  • Yu Wang,
  • Daixian Zhang,
  • Xiao Wang and
  • Wenhua Wu

7 March 2025

Cross-media vehicles, which combine the advantages of airplanes and submarines, are capable of performing complex tasks in different media and have attracted significant interest in recent years. In practice, however, cross-media rotorcrafts face num...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
6,738 Views
8 Pages

Broad Frequency Shift of Parametric Processes in Epsilon-Near-Zero Time-Varying Media

  • Vincenzo Bruno,
  • Stefano Vezzoli,
  • Clayton DeVault,
  • Enrico Carnemolla,
  • Marcello Ferrera,
  • Alexandra Boltasseva,
  • Vladimir M. Shalaev,
  • Daniele Faccio and
  • Matteo Clerici

15 February 2020

The ultrafast changes of material properties induced by short laser pulses can lead to a frequency shift of reflected and transmitted radiation. Recent reports highlight how such a frequency shift is enhanced in spectral regions where the material fe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,651 Views
29 Pages

This research explores how RC columns respond to blast-induced dynamic effects, with a novel focus on partially submerged scenarios, bridging a gap between air blast and underwater explosion (UNDEX) research. Using advanced finite element modeling in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,989 Views
17 Pages

This study addresses the underrepresentation of radon gas within the media discourse, particularly in Portugal. Employing a comprehensive mixed-methods approach, this paper examines how major Portuguese digital newspapers have covered radon gas, aimi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,674 Views
18 Pages

15 January 2018

Natural gas exists in considerable quantities in tight reservoirs. Tight formations are rocks with very tiny or poorly connected pors that make flow through them very difficult, i.e., the permeability is very low. The mixed finite element method (MFE...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
26,347 Views
20 Pages

22 August 2018

Video-sharing sites like YouTube and streaming services like Amazon Prime Video and Netflix, along with unlawful platforms such as Anitube, are environments of consumption enabled by increasing transnational consumption that are pushing for transform...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
2,116 Views
9 Pages

21 July 2025

Background: Sudden-onset bilateral mixed hearing loss in adults is an extremely rare condition but challenging to diagnose and treat. Conductive hearing loss is associated with otitis media, while the simultaneous presence of a sensorineural componen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
19,440 Views
26 Pages

The Impact of Virtual Reality (VR) Tour Experience on Tourists’ Intention to Visit

  • Chourouk Ouerghemmi,
  • Myriam Ertz,
  • Néji Bouslama and
  • Urvashi Tandon

5 October 2023

Drawing on media richness theory, this study investigates the effect of rich media, such as virtual reality (VR), on visit intentions for a specific destination. Specifically, this research employs a mixed-method approach, using abductive theorizatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,714 Views
23 Pages

RUDA-2025: Depression Severity Detection Using Pre-Trained Transformers on Social Media Data

  • Muhammad Ahmad,
  • Pierpaolo Basile,
  • Fida Ullah,
  • Ildar Batyrshin and
  • Grigori Sidorov

18 August 2025

Depression is a serious mental health disorder affecting cognition, emotions, and behavior. It impacts over 300 million people globally, with mental health care costs exceeding $1 trillion annually. Traditional diagnostic methods are often expensive,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
2,669 Views
18 Pages

31 August 2020

The current framework tackles the buoyancy flow via a slender revolution bodies comprising Molybdenum-Disulfide Graphene Oxide generalized hybrid nanofluid embedded in a porous medium. The impact of radiation is also provoked. The outcomes are presen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,901 Views
24 Pages

Issues related to Catalan secessionism are central to current debates on European integration, nationalism, and territorial politics, and the Catalan independence movement has become famous for its large annual demonstrations on Catalan national day,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,832 Views
19 Pages

Fluid Dynamics of Interacting Rotor Wake with a Water Surface

  • Xing-Zhi Bai,
  • Zhe Zhang,
  • Wen-Hua Wu,
  • Xiao Wang,
  • Qi Zhan,
  • Dai-Xian Zhang and
  • Lei Yu

9 September 2024

Rotor-type cross-media vehicles always induce considerably complex mixed air–water flows when approaching the water surface, resulting in relative thrust loss and structural damage on rotor. The interactions between a water surface and rotor wa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,388 Views
21 Pages

14 August 2018

Density-driven convective mixing in porous media can be influenced by the spatial heterogeneity of the medium. Previous studies using two-dimensional models have shown that while the initial flow regimes are sensitive to local permeability variation,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,482 Views
17 Pages

26 September 2022

The attitudes of the public play a critical role in the acceptance, purchase, utilization, and research and development of autonomous vehicles (AVs). Currently, the attitudes of the public toward AVs have been mostly estimated through traditional sur...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,714 Views
25 Pages

Hearing loss (HL) affects more than 1.5 billion people worldwide and remains a leading cause of disability across the lifespan. While genetic predispositions, otitis media (OM), and cholesteatoma are well-recognized contributors, Eustachian tube dysf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,143 Views
18 Pages

The Multi-Advective Water Mixing Approach for Transport through Heterogeneous Media

  • Joaquim Soler-Sagarra,
  • Vivien Hakoun,
  • Marco Dentz and
  • Jesus Carrera

12 October 2021

Finding a numerical method to model solute transport in porous media with high heterogeneity is crucial, especially when chemical reactions are involved. The phase space formulation termed the multi-advective water mixing approach (MAWMA) was propose...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
11,202 Views
20 Pages

Is Social Media a New Type of Social Support? Social Media Use in Spain during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed Methods Study

  • Aviana O. Rosen,
  • Ashley L. Holmes,
  • Nekane Balluerka,
  • Maria Dolores Hidalgo,
  • Arantxa Gorostiaga,
  • Juana Gómez-Benito and
  • Tania B. Huedo-Medina

This study examines Spanish adults’ social media use during the COVID-19 pandemic using mixed-methods to assess and understand frequency, context, and changes in social media use during two critical time points in Spain. We conducted semi-struc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,826 Views
22 Pages

4 September 2025

Background/Objectives: Social Media Use has become an integral part of contemporary motherhood, with potential effects on maternal mental health and breastfeeding behaviors. This study aimed to examine the relationship between problematic social medi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,795 Views
13 Pages

15 March 2023

The relationship between trust and media consumption has been a subject continually studied in communication sciences. There are various studies that indicate that the greater the confidence in a certain medium, the greater the consumption. However,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,013 Views
16 Pages

Previous studies have mainly focused on the impact of social media self-presentation on individuals’ happiness and mental health, whereas few have attended to its potential influence on consumer behavior. A mixed-method empirical study with an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,020 Views
16 Pages

Deciphering Latent Health Information in Social Media Using a Mixed-Methods Design

  • George Shaw,
  • Margaret Zimmerman,
  • Ligia Vasquez-Huot and
  • Amir Karami

19 November 2022

Natural language processing techniques have increased the volume and variety of text data that can be analyzed. The aim of this study was to identify the positive and negative topical sentiments among diet, diabetes, exercise, and obesity tweets. Usi...

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

Comparing Mixed-Media and Conventional Slow-Sand Filters for Arsenic Removal from Groundwater

  • Karolina M. Śmiech,
  • Aize Tolsma,
  • Tímea Kovács,
  • Vlade Dalbosco,
  • Kamuran Yasadi,
  • Leo Groendijk and
  • Luewton L. F. Agostinho

29 January 2018

Arsenic contamination of groundwater is a major public health concern worldwide. The problem has been reported mainly in southern Asia and, especially, in Bangladesh. Slow-sand filters (SSF) augmented with iron were proven to be a simple, low-cost an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,686 Views
12 Pages

10 May 2024

Aim: The COVID-19 pandemic leads to a significant digital transformation in higher education and healthcare practices. This study aimed to investigate the level of digital competence, views and experiences, social media usage, and perceived barriers...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,399 Views
17 Pages

Nanoneedles of Mixed Transition Metal Phosphides as Bifunctional Catalysts for Electrocatalytic Water Splitting in Alkaline Media

  • Davide Salvò,
  • Dario Mosconi,
  • Alevtina Neyman,
  • Maya Bar-Sadan,
  • Laura Calvillo,
  • Gaetano Granozzi,
  • Mattia Cattelan and
  • Stefano Agnoli

9 February 2023

In this work, mixed Ni/Co and Ni/Fe metal phosphides with different metal ratios were synthesized through the phosphidization of high-surface-area hydroxides grown hydrothermally on carbon cloth. The materials were characterized by means of X-ray pho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,252 Views
22 Pages

14 May 2019

Built in the second to early-first century BCE, the House of Leda at Soluntum, a city on the northwest coast of Sicily, was renovated in the first century CE. The most prominent change to the residence was the inclusion of figural Fourth-Style wall p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
156 Citations
16,580 Views
13 Pages

Gaming is widespread among adolescents and has typically been viewed as an activity for boys. There are however a growing number of female gamers and we need to learn more about how gender affects gaming. The aim of this study is to both quantify gam...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,581 Views
13 Pages

Lessons Learned from a Mixed-Method Pilot of a Norms-Shifting Social Media Intervention to Reduce Teacher-Perpetrated School-Related Gender-Based Violence in Uganda

  • Jasmine Uysal,
  • Pooja Chitle,
  • Marilyn Akinola,
  • Catherine Kennedy,
  • Rogers Tumusiime,
  • Pam McCarthy,
  • Leslie Gautsch and
  • Rebecka Lundgren

23 March 2023

Background: Violence against children (VAC) is a global epidemic rooted in gender norms. One of the most common forms of VAC is school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV). Research has shown the promise of social media to shift norms underlying abu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,396 Views
13 Pages

A new highly selective chemosensor, based on fluorescein-allyloxy benzene conjugate 1, was developed for the sequential detection of palladium and chromium oxyanions in a mixed aqueous media, and was studied by UV-visible and fluorescence spectroscop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,492 Views
19 Pages

9 February 2021

One of the practical efforts in the development of oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) catalysts applicable to fuel cells and metal-air batteries is focused on reducing the cost of the catalysts production. Herein, we have examined the ORR performance of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,382 Views
21 Pages

Project SoL—A Community-Based, Multi-Component Health Promotion Intervention to Improve Eating Habits and Physical Activity among Danish Families with Young Children. Part 1: Intervention Development and Implementation

  • Ulla Toft,
  • Paul Bloch,
  • Helene C. Reinbach,
  • Lise L. Winkler,
  • Tine Buch-Andersen,
  • Jens Aagaard-Hansen,
  • Bent Egberg Mikkelsen,
  • Bjarne Bruun Jensen and
  • Charlotte Glümer

Project SoL was implemented over a period of four years from 2012–2015 with the aim to promote healthy eating and physical activity among families with children aged 3–8 years, living in selected communities in two Danish municipalities....

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
76,063 Views
21 Pages

TikTok is the fastest growing short video application and immensely popular with younger generations to express their thoughts, ideas, and most relevant to this issue, their identities including mixed-race identity. This paper asks: How did young mix...

  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
12,916 Views
46 Pages

29 April 2010

We have reviewed the generation and amplification of wavelength-tunable multicolored femtosecond laser pulses using cascaded four-wave mixing (CFWM) in transparent bulk media, mainly concentrating on our recent work. Theoretical analysis and calculat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,164 Views
17 Pages

This study examines the correlation between Online Privacy Literacy (OPL) and privacy protection behaviour (PPB), including evidence of any correlation between the two. In addition, it considers whether factors of intention, attitude, perceived behav...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,254 Views
20 Pages

COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on Substance Misuse: A Social Media Listening, Mixed Method Analysis

  • Davide Arillotta,
  • Amira Guirguis,
  • John Martin Corkery,
  • Norbert Scherbaum and
  • Fabrizio Schifano

The restrictive measures adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic modified some previously consolidated drug use patterns. A focus on social networks allowed drug users to discuss, share opinions and provide advice during a worldwide emergency context. I...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
7,920 Views
22 Pages

Automatic Hate Speech Detection in English-Odia Code Mixed Social Media Data Using Machine Learning Techniques

  • Sudhir Kumar Mohapatra,
  • Srinivas Prasad,
  • Dwiti Krishna Bebarta,
  • Tapan Kumar Das,
  • Kathiravan Srinivasan and
  • Yuh-Chung Hu

15 September 2021

Hate speech on social media may spread quickly through online users and subsequently, may even escalate into local vile violence and heinous crimes. This paper proposes a hate speech detection model by means of machine learning and text mining featur...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
11,240 Views
34 Pages

Experience design, both in real and in virtual museums, is very complex to be planned, even more when digital contents are juxtaposed to real collections. Researchers in this field, curators, creatives and software developers must work together in or...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,846 Views
16 Pages

3 April 2021

Social media is increasingly becoming a significant source of information for parents, including about feeding young children. However, little attention has been given to the characteristics of recipes for infants and young children and how they inte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,181 Views
12 Pages

Hearing Outcome and Predictors after Implanting Bone Conduction or Middle Ear Implants in Ears with Refractory Otitis Media

  • Sho Kurihara,
  • Takeshi Nakamura,
  • Kan Kubuki,
  • Hiroyuki Koga,
  • Takashi Goto,
  • Shouken Shimoara,
  • Akira Ganaha,
  • Yuusuke Yamada,
  • Kuniyuki Takahashi and
  • Tetsuya Tono

16 June 2023

Bone conduction implants (BCIs) and middle ear implants (MEIs) are promising options for individuals with persistent chronic inflammation of the middle or outer ear. However, the structure of the middle ear is often altered in patients who undergo ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,446 Views
22 Pages

14 July 2024

This study aims to identify the influence of Generation X and Generation Y on green buying behavior in the Indian context. Based on social cognitive theory and the generational cohort theory, the authors test the impact of Perceived Environmental Res...

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