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Extensive attention has been given to children’s play spaces in public environments. Still, there exists a research need to devise a more comprehensive and structured design framework for space design addressing more comprehensive and structure...

Design thinking as a mindset and as a process for design and business innovation receives a lot of attention. Thus, concrete and structured methods for design thinking need to be devised, and design thinking competencies should be fostered proactivel...

This article presents a causal modeling approach for analyzing the processes of an academic institution. Academic processes consist of activities that are considered self-managed systems and are defined as management transactions (MTs). The purpose o...

Numerous studies are currently being carried out on personalized services based on data analysis to find and provide valuable information about information overload. Furthermore, the number of studies on data analysis of teaching-learning activities...

Activity recognition is fundamental to many applications envisaged in pervasive computing, especially in smart environments where the resident’s data collected from sensors will be mapped to human activities. Previous research usually focuses o...

The antimicrobial activity of plants, algae, and derived extracts has been a subject of interest for the scientific community. Algae extracts have demonstrated their potential as a source of natural antimicrobial agents. Because of their antibacteria...

A significant number of recent scientific papers have raised awareness of changes in the biological world of bees, problems with their extinction, and, as a consequence, their impact on humans and the environment. This work relies on precision beekee...

Sunscreen products are predominantly regulated as over-the-counter (OTC) drugs by the US FDA. The “active” ingredients function as ultraviolet filters. Once a sunscreen product is generally recognized as safe and effective (GRASE) via an OTC drug rev...

Metro-bikeshare integration is considered a green and efficient travel model. To better understand bikeshare as a feeder mode to the metro, this study explored the factors that influence the activity spaces of bikeshare around metro stations. First,...

Polymerizable quaternary ammonium salts (PQASs) were synthesized in a previous work and some of them were used as surfactants in the antimicrobial coating of commercial membranes. Herein, the electrostatic charges, maximum length, and aspect ratio of...

The article presents a model for simulating changes in the activity concentration of radon and thoron as well as their progeny in closed or poorly ventilated systems. A system can be considered closed when a stream of radon and thoron flows into a sp...

This study aims to identify the causal relationship between travel and activity times using the dataset collected from the 2019 Time Use Survey in Korea. As a statistical solution, a structural equation model (SEM) was developed. A total number of 31...

The effects of temperature, time, and solvent concentration on the yield of bioactive compounds (BCs) with cytotoxic activity against three cell lines (Hep2c, RD, and L2OB) from Erica carnea L., as well as their influence on kinetic and thermodynamic...

Voice Activity Detection (VAD) and Personal Voice Activity Detection (PVAD) are fundamental components in modern voice-based human–machine interaction systems. While VAD distinguishes speech from non-speech segments, PVAD further identifies whe...

This paper investigates the outdoor non-work activity allocation behaviors of commuters in Xiaoshan District of Hangzhou, China, as well as the underlying relationship among different types of outdoor non-work activities. As per their commute and wor...

The travel demand prediction of an activity-based travel demand model (ABM) is based on a hierarchical structure of multiple choices related to an individual’s activity scheduling. This structure has, however, not been investigated for motorcyc...

Following the relative success of mixed models in the Large Eddy Simulation of complex turbulent flow configurations, an alternative formulation is suggested here which incorporates the concept of a local subgrid activity sensor. The general idea of...

Polypharmacy increasingly has become a topic of public health concern, particularly as the U.S. population ages. Drug labels often contain insufficient information to enable the clinician to safely use multiple drugs. Because many of the drugs are bi...

Background/Objective: This study aimed to develop a predictive model to classify and rank highly active compounds that inhibit HIV-1 integrase (IN). Methods: A total of 2271 potential HIV-1 inhibitors were selected from the ChEMBL database. The most...

As society advances and various technologies like AI and LLMs are further developed, the proportion of human labor contributing to the productivity of nations and societies is gradually decreasing. This has led to increased attention to the quality o...

In an ongoing research program for the development of new anti-tuberculosis drugs, we synthesized three series (A, B, and C) of 7-chloro-4-aminoquinolines, which were evaluated in vitro against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). Now, we report the ant...

Although physical activity has been widely recognized as an important influential factor in determining the risk of obesity, the results in the existing literature empirically examining such issue are mixed. Especially for China, relevant studies are...

Previous studies on the effects of greenspace exposure on health are largely based on static contextual units, such as residential neighborhoods, and other administrative units. They tend to ignore the spatiotemporal dynamics of individual daily gree...

This research is devoted to the determination of hidden dependencies between the flow of particles that come from the Sun and precipitation-induced floods in the United Kingdom (UK). The analysis covers 20 flood events during the period from October...

This study aims to examine the longitudinal influence of physical activity (PA) on obesity among normal-weight adolescents in South Korea. A total of 1347 data samples from the Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey from 2011 to 2014 were used. Laten...

The present work addresses the quantitative structure–antioxidant activity relationship in a series of 148 sulfur-containing alkylphenols, natural phenols, chromane, betulonic and betulinic acids, and 20-hydroxyecdysone using GUSAR2019 software...

This study explores the impact of water and nitrogen management on the dynamics of water, heat, and nitrogen in farmland soil. It also explores the correlations soil factors, enzyme activity, and crop yield. To achieve this, field experiments and HYD...

Electrical activity in neurons and other excitable cells is a result of complex interactions between the system of ion channels, involving both global coupling (e.g., via voltage or bulk cytosolic Ca²⁺ concentration) of the channels, and local coupli...

The proliferation of wearable technology enables the generation of vast amounts of sensor data, offering significant opportunities for advancements in health monitoring, activity recognition, and personalized medicine. However, the complexity and vol...

In the present study, an unknown fungal strain was isolated from the fruiting body of a local Dryad’s Saddle mushroom (Polyporaceae). The molecular identification of the isolate was performed by amplification of the ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 region and th...

Background: Social contact leads to an increased likelihood of engaging in physical activity (PA). However, the influence of social contact on PA would be different depending on the social contact source. This study aimed to identify the association...

This study investigated the structure–activity relationships between SePEPs (selenium-enriched peptides) and PEPs (selenium-free peptides) and compared the antioxidant activities of SePEPs and PEPs. The results showed that SePEPs exhibited high...

This paper presents computational modeling of response kinetics of bioelectroanalytical system based on solid supported lipase substrate and lipase interaction. The model assumes that lipase substrate is formed by dripping and drying a small amount o...

Isolation and characterization of new biologically active substances affecting cancer cells is an important issue of fundamental research in biomedicine. Trehalose lipid was isolated from Rhodococcus wratislaviensis strain and purified by liquid chro...

School-age children and being outdoors are intrinsically linked. Education and the outdoors offer unique opportunities to extend the learning potential of children at this age in a more engaging way. From the point of view of mathematics, this way of...

Online Chemical Modeling Environment (OCHEM) was used for QSAR analysis of a set of ionic liquids (ILs) tested against multi-drug resistant (MDR) clinical isolate Acinetobacter baumannii and Staphylococcus aureus strains. The predictive accuracy of r...

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in 2010 the transport sector was responsible for 23% of the total energy-related CO₂ emissions (6.7 GtCO₂) worldwide. Policy makers in Luxembourg are well-aware of the challenges and...

Four sets of diastereomeric C9-alkenyl 5-phenylmorphans, varying in the length of the C9-alkenyl chain, were designed to examine the effect of these spatially distinct ligands on opioid receptors. Functional activity was obtained by forskolin-induced...

TikTok, the most popular social media, brings various benefits to nowadays living. However, the problematic use of TikTok has also elicited a range of health problems, such as sleep problems. Physical activity (PA) appears to play a protective role i...

Background: Quality of life (QoL) among university students is an important indicator of overall health and academic success. Although these factors are interrelated, few studies have simultaneously examined their structural associations with QoL amo...

Background: Resilience is a critical psychological resource for university students to cope with stress and maintain mental health; however, students with physical weaknesses may be at greater risk due to physiological limitations. This study aimed t...

Automatic detection and analysis of human activities captured by various sensors (e.g., sequences of images captured by RGB camera) play an essential role in various research fields in order to understand the semantic content of a captured scene. The...

The adenosine monophosphate activated protein kinase (AMPK) is critical in the regulation of important cellular functions such as lipid, glucose, and protein metabolism; mitochondrial biogenesis and autophagy; and cellular growth. In many diseases—su...

Understanding how people spend time on daily activities is key to modeling travel behavior. However, accurately estimating the duration of these activities remains a significant challenge, especially when generating synthetic activity-travel data. Th...

Transportation planning plays an essential role in improving the transportation system. Therefore, planners should have the ability to forecast the response of transportation demand to changes in the characteristics of the travellers. This has led re...

Based on the extensive biological activities of thiazole derivatives against different types of diseases, we are interested in the effective part of many natural compounds, so we synthesized a new series of compounds containing di-, tri- and tetrathi...

Attenuation of mechanical vibrations is an ongoing field of research in engineering aiming at reducing damage and improving performance in the presence of dynamical forces. Different alternatives have been proposed over time; the active vibration abs...

The main goal of this study was to provide a critical analysis of the oil and fat sub-complex for deep walnut processing, to determine and compare the profitability of enterprises’ activities under different business models for implementation i...

In recent years, a plethora of algorithms have been devised for efficient human activity recognition. Most of these algorithms consider basic human activities and neglect postural transitions because of their subsidiary occurrence and short duration....

Adoption of wearable assistive technologies relies heavily on improvement of existing control system models. Knowing which models to use and how to improve them is difficult to determine due to the number of proposed solutions with relatively little...