Early-career health researchers who choose to pursue an academic position are expected to develop and implement a sustained, translational research program that contributes knowledge to their disciplines. Planning this research trajectory can seem da...
Convection-permitting models (CPMs) are receiving growing scientific interest for their capability to accurately simulate extreme weather events at a kilometer-scale spatial resolution, offering valuable information for local climate change adaptatio...
The increasing social, ethical and regulatory pressure on the use of vertebrates in bioscience research has promoted the development of alternative models. The use of invertebrate models is very common in basic research, where insects are used in man...
Background: Research model selection decisions in basic and preclinical biomedical research have not yet been the subject of an ethical investigation. Therefore, this paper aims, (1) to identify a spectrum of reasons for choosing between animal and a...
Heart disease is a major contributor to mortality and disability on a global scale. Hence, there is a need for research to improve non-invasive diagnostic techniques. Diseases in dogs with characteristics very similar to those of human pathologies ho...
Responsible research and innovation (RRI) is an approach to research and innovation governance aiming to ensure that research purpose, process and outcomes are acceptable, sustainable and even desirable. In order to achieve this ambitious aim, RRI mu...
The chicken embryo has emerged as a valuable model for preclinical studies due to its unique combination of accessibility, affordability, and relevance to human biology. Its rapid development, external growth environment, and clear structural visibil...
Currently, over 100 nuclear power units globally have been in operation for more than 40 years. Hindered by the limitations of computer technology at the time, these nuclear facilities lack detailed electronic drawings. Activities such as equipment r...
Robot-assisted surgery is now well established in clinical practice and has become a key technology for modern minimally invasive procedures. The da Vinci Surgical System plays an important role in this area and, through the da Vinci Research Kit (dV...
Equestrian sport has various welfare issues and educational needs. To address these complex interactions, we propose an integrated approach called the Triple-E Model, which focuses on the equine, equestrian, and environmental triad. A literature revi...
Background/Problem: Sarcopenic obesity (SO) is characterized by significant muscle loss combined with obesity, and it is mostly prevalent among older adults. Consequences include a heightened incidence of falls and a greater susceptibility to non-com...
Doctoral research monitoring in technical universities can be conceptualized as a socio-technical system in which research trajectories, supervisory practices, institutional rules, digital infrastructures, and assessment norms interact within a broad...
Rotator cuff tears are among the most common tendon disorders and a major cause of shoulder pain and functional impairment. Increasing evidence indicates that rotator cuff pathology is a complex biological disease involving inflammation, oxidative st...
To improve the forecast accuracy of heavy precipitation, re-forecasts are conducted for the Henan 21.7 rainstorm. The Intermediate Complexity Atmospheric Research Model (ICAR) and the Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF) with a 1 km horizonta...
This study investigates the institutional transformations within Indonesia’s research ecosystem, focusing on the impacts of the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) establishment and the subsequent Work From Office (WFO) policy on the...
COPD and asthma are lung diseases that cause considerable burden to more than 800 million people worldwide. As both lung diseases are so far incurable, it is mandatory to understand the mechanisms underlying disease development and progression for de...
29 October 2021
This participatory action research study was conducted to confirm the implementation process and effect of developing and applying a preceptor education program based on the One-Minute Preceptor Model to foster the competence of preceptor clinical nu...
In the face of 21st-century environmental challenges, including climate change, migration pressures, and waste disposal issues, certain healthcare sectors, notably dentistry, pose a significant global environmental footprint with concerns about carbo...
Translational research for new drugs, medical devices, and diagnostics encompasses aspects of both basic science and clinical research, requiring multidisciplinary skills and resources that are not all readily available in either a basic laboratory o...
Background/Objectives: Wound healing is a complex biological process involving coordinated interactions among inflammatory cells, growth factors, extracellular matrix components, and resident tissue cells. Despite significant advances in experimental...
17 October 2026
Large language models have moved from passive text generators to autonomous agents that plan, use tools, and act across the scientific research process. A fast-growing body of work now targets every stage of that process, from literature search and h...
The significant progress in scientific research and innovation has led to the need for a new paradigm to legitimise the innovation process in society and politics. The European Union, with the Horizon 2020 framework program and Horizon Europe, instit...
Understanding soil infiltration at the watershed level is crucial to hydrological studies, as it significantly influences surface runoff, groundwater replenishment, and ecosystem sustainability. Research in this area—particularly employing the...
Background/Objectives: Experimental animal models are fundamental to developing and translating strategies for preventing postoperative mediastinal adhesions. Rabbits are widely used in adhesion research; however, the anatomical and technical suitabi...
Introduction: This study aimed to develop a service model for daycare centers for the elderly through community participation using participatory action research methods. The objectives were threefold: (1) to investigate the current situation of the...
Complex decision-making often involves numerous alternatives and diverse criteria, making it difficult to set clear priorities under resource constraints. This study proposes a two-layer hierarchical decision model that structures the process into se...
This article develops a conceptual interdisciplinary model for research evaluation in the Social Sciences based on three core categories: Subject, Society, and Culture. It argues that conventional evaluation systems rely too heavily on quantitative m...
Over the past three decades, the Technology Acceptance model (TAM) has garnered considerable attention in higher education. COVID-19 boosted the development of TAM as multiple studies were rapidly undertaken during the pandemic. This, however, create...
This article is aimed at exploring the relationship between physical asset management (PAM) practices and sustainability performance. A framework of interrelated constructs was developed based on the existing literature and consequently tested throug...
The pandemic crisis has meant a challenge for SMEs and a factor that can change the way of doing business. The current paper analyses the correlations between financial resources, turnover, sustainability, and digital technologies and how these compo...
This paper aimed to evaluate the Portuguese scientific production within Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management (TLHM). To this end, 572 papers from 51 peer-reviewed Scopus journals were mapped through a mixed bibliometric analysis method. The r...
17 April 2023
Various basic occupational health services (BOHS) are provided, particularly in-plant BOHS; however, it might be necessary to start expanding BOHS. The current study focuses on BOHS model development using participatory action research (PAR) at a lar...
This research proposes a conditional diffusion-based workflow for early-stage floor plan design in university research buildings, addressing complex functional organization, strict boundary constraints, and quantitative area control. The method perfo...
Textile recycling promotes a circular economy, a system seeking to minimize waste and maximize the value of textiles by reusing them. Currently, mechanical recycling produces short, weak, and low-quality fibers that diminish the value of the textiles...
12 August 2026
Given the growing pressures on Switzerland’s healthcare system, developing innovative approaches that put humanism at the heart of care practices seems essential to respond to patients’ complex needs and to support healthcare professional...
Background: Organoid cultures have received much attention in recent years due to the promise of patient-derived organoid cultures for exploration of personalized cancer treatment strategies. Organoid cultures have been established from a variety of...
This study simulated the wind energy density distribution in the Jiaodong Peninsula region using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model. The impacts of different boundary-layer and near-surface parameterization schemes on the simulated wind...
Large language models (LLMs) show promise in enhancing medical research through domain-specific question answering. However, their clinical application is limited by hallucination risk, limited domain specialization, and privacy concerns. Public LLMs...
Facing the severe global wildfire challenge and the need for advanced prediction, this study analysed the evolving research in forest fire prediction using an LDA-BERT similarity model. Due to climate change, human activities, and natural factors, fo...
This paper re-examines the presence of the Sharpe–Treynor–Lintner–Mossin capital asset pricing model (CAPM) in the finance literature and is accompanied by a bibliometric summary analysis. The popular model is in its sixth decade; w...
28 August 2018
The Learning and Action in Community Health project was implemented to gather preliminary data needed to inform community-engaged educational approaches to increase clinical research participation among racial minorities. The Health Belief Model was...
The deposition of micron particles in gas pipelines has always been an important problem in ultra-clean ventilation technology in the modern laser fusion, precision electronics, aerospace, and biomedical fields. Combining the mathematical expression...
Survival analysis is a set of methods for statistical inference concerning the time until the occurrence of an event. One of the main objectives of survival analysis is to evaluate the effects of different covariates on event time. Although the propo...
The purpose of this study is to analyze the increase in the mathematical problem-solving (MPS), mathematical communication (MC), and self-proficiency (SPr) abilities of students by applying the team-assisted individualization type (TAI) of the cooper...
A significant debate is ongoing on the effectiveness of animal experimentation, due to the increasing reports of failure in the translation of results from preclinical animal experiments to human patients. Scientific, ethical, social and economic con...
The mathematical modeling of research-based output impacting new technology development is crucial for a developing country. However, the complexity of modern mathematical modeling research output makes it unclear over how it can impact the developme...
Two-objective optimization requires both reliable front approximation and explainable non-dominated extraction. This study develops a theoretical and computational method that maps sampled objective vectors to rasterized objective-space images and pr...
Background/Objectives: School-based nutrition education provides a platform that could help in the promotion of healthy eating habits among adolescents. Nonetheless, information about the factors influencing the success of these interventions in low-...
The eye is a complex sensory organ that enables visual perception of the world. The dysfunction of any of these tissues can impair vision. Conduction studies on laboratory animals are essential to ensure the safety of therapeutic products directly ap...
Considering the complexity of the current framework in oncology, the relevance of animal models in biomedical research is critical in light of the capacity to produce valuable data with clinical translation. The laboratory mouse is the most common an...
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