This study explores how theatre activities can stimulate the social engagement of adolescents based on data collected in a survey carried out within the ForesTEEN project. Drawing on the responses of 144 participants (i.e., adolescents, theatre profe...
4 August 2022
Workers’ health surveillance is considered essential for employees’ health and protection against hazardous working conditions. It is one part of occupational health care and thus one of four pillars of holistic workplace health managemen...
Throughout the last two decades the timber building sector has experienced a steady growth in multi-storey construction. Although there has been a growing number of research focused on trends, benefits, and disadvantages in timber construction from v...
Effectively training deep learning models relies heavily on large datasets, as insufficient instances can hinder model generalization. A simple yet effective way to address this is by applying modern deep learning augmentation methods, as they synthe...
Background: Physical activity (PA) in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has many potential favourable outcomes including anti-inflammatory effects, improvement in quality of life and improvements in patient body composition. It is recognised that pati...
The current state of tourism development in a water conservation area of Taiwan was investigated from the perspective of different stakeholders. An analytical framework was constructed using grounded theory, whereas data collection was performed thro...
29 September 2024
Radon is, after tobacco, the most frequent cause of lung cancer. Communicating about its risks with a didactic perspective so that citizens become aware and take action to avoid radon remains a challenge. This research is framed in Spain, where 17% o...
1 January 2024
Aims: The presented article summarizes the topics and recommendations of a large-scale mixed-methods study on behalf of the Swiss Federal Office of Justice. The mandate was to eval uate the implementation of involuntary admission (Fürsorgerische Unte...
20 March 2024
Interest in catering for public sector schools is increasing due to its potential role in addressing the prevailing problems of malnutrition, food insecurity and non-sustainable food habits. Based on the case of secondary schools in Berlin, this stud...
This article develops a multi-perspective view on motivations and methods for tobamovirus purification through the ages and presents a novel, efficient, easy-to-use approach that can be well-adapted to different species of native and functionalized v...
The rapid growth of multi-source, multi-perspective data in healthcare, finance, and social media has increased the need for unsupervised learning methods that integrate diverse views while preserving data privacy and locality. Federated learning (FL...
Thermal comfort in urban commercial spaces significantly impacts both business performance and public well-being. Traditional evaluation methods relying on field surveys and expert assessments are often time-consuming and labor-intensive. This study...
In recent decades, multi-robot region coverage has played an important role in the fields of environmental sensing, target searching, etc., and it has received widespread attention worldwide. Due to the effectiveness in segmenting nearest regions, Vo...
This theory-oriented, methodological and conceptual survey explores the application of Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) methods in vehicle routing, transportation and robot navigation. Multi-criteria decision aid brings significant added value i...
Three-dimensional human pose estimation has made significant advancements through the integration of deep learning techniques. This survey provides a comprehensive review of recent 3D human pose estimation methods, with a focus on monocular images, v...
This study explores how collaboration and communication in drama education enhance students’ critical thinking skills, guided by the core literacy framework (5Cs): collaboration, communication, critical thinking, creativity and cultural awarene...
6 August 2022
Background: The digitalization and integration of data are increasingly relevant for hospitals. Several methods exist to assess and structurally develop digital maturity. However, it is notable that German hospitals lag behind the European average wi...
Background/Objectives: Despite promising evidence for the influence of in-store supermarket initiatives to improve the healthiness of retail food environments, both retailer and consumer perspectives have not been examined simultaneously. The objecti...
Developmental theories posit that social perspective-taking, the social-cognitive process of adopting another person’s viewpoint to understand the person’s thoughts and feelings, is important for youths’ successful functioning in cl...
The air quality index (AQI) forecast in big cities is an exciting study area in smart cities and healthcare on the Internet of Things. In recent years, a large number of empirical, academic, and review papers using machine learning (ML) for air quali...
With the strengthening of regional and urban–rural interactions, farmers’ livelihood activities are becoming increasingly complex, and environmental factors that influence farmers’ livelihoods have multi-spatial effects. Consequentl...
As the population ages, the living environment for the elderly is receiving more attention. “Multi-Purpose Residential Architecture” is transforming the traditional ways of building horizontally to meet a person’s daily activity and...
Multi-label text classification is a fundamental and important task in natural language processing, with widespread applications in specialized domains such as sentiment analysis, legal document classification, and medical coding. However, real-world...
In the dynamic field of robotics engineering, nanorobot technology has witnessed rapid advancements. Developing a technology roadmap is essential for quickly identifying the trends and key technological aspects of nanorobotics from an array of multi-...
Recent Vision–Language–Action (VLA) models have rapidly emerged as general-purpose robotic policies that integrate language understanding, visual perception, and robot control. However, prior studies and surveys have primarily emphasized...
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impacts of employees’ creative self-efficacy (CSE) and creative self-identity (CSI) on their innovative work behaviour (IWB), with the indirect effects of creative process engagement (CPE) and cre...
Hybrid stimuli-responsive soft robots have been extensively developed by incorporating multi-functional materials, such as carbon-based nanoparticles, nanowires, low-dimensional materials, and liquid crystals. In addition to the general functions of...
In this study, we examined how supervisor developmental feedback influences employees’ innovative behavior. A multi-time survey method was used in this study to collect data from 310 employees in Chinese enterprises. The research results show that su...
The European Landscape Convention (ELC) acknowledges that the landscape is an important part of the quality of life for people everywhere, in urban areas and the countryside, in degraded areas as well as higher quality areas and recognized as being o...
In recent years, the application of artificial intelligence has been revolutionizing the manufacturing industry, becoming one of the key pillars of what has been called Industry 4.0. In this context, we focus on the job shop scheduling problem (JSP),...
Urban parks play a key role in mitigating heat stress and improving outdoor thermal comfort, especially in tropical and subtropical cities. This study evaluates thermal comfort in Nuevo Bosque Park (Montería, Colombia) through a multiperspecti...
District heating and cooling systems represent a great pillar of European cities aiming to achieve climate neutrality. This study investigates stakeholders’ perspectives on district heating and cooling to analyze the challenges, barriers, and p...
This contribution proposes an inter-scalar and multi-polar analysis evaluation model of the territory of the Enna district, aimed at providing a robust axiological representation of the salient aspects of the general issue of internal areas, and ther...
8 December 2022
This article addresses citizens’ psychological health disparities in pandemic-stricken Japan from the perspective of positive psychology with a collective/political perspective. Our analysis of three internet surveys in 2020 and 2021 in Japan i...
The reform of rural land supply market has a profound impact on the rural management and agricultural development. In this article, we want to explore risk perception of multi-subject land supply reform in China. The perception of potential risks fro...
Background and Methods: A primary survey of a multi-national sample of higher institutional educators has been conducted to investigate the determinants of the adoption of management simulation games. The research model is developed based on the tech...
Limited studies focus on educational equity from the spatial accessibility perspective. This study combines survey data and big data and proposes a multi-mode Huff two-step floating catchment area (MMH2SFCA) method to calculate accessibility while co...
This study develops an integrated methodology to incorporate public perspectives into the establishment and development of public transportation infrastructure systems. The approach involves surveying citizens to collect data, performing demographic...
Background/Objectives: Education on antibiotic use has the potential to positively shape the practices and perspectives of future professionals. Assessing awareness levels of antibiotic resistance among university students is, therefore, critical, as...
In this paper, we examine the effects of EU policy schemes that support innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises. Since the effectiveness of innovation schemes can be expected to differ across Europe as entrepreneurship and innovation tend to...
Background/Objectives: Multi-gene, multi-cancer, hereditary cancer risk screenings may be useful in cancer prevention and treatment, not only for cancer patients but also for patients’ family members. If genetic cancer screening is to have the...
As the Coronavirus (COVID-19) expands its impact from China, expanding its catchment into surrounding regions and other countries, increased national and international measures are being taken to contain the outbreak. The placing of entire cities in...
The development of micro- and nano-fabrication technologies has greatly advanced single-cell and spatial omics technologies. With the advantages of integration and compartmentalization, microfluidic chips are capable of generating high-throughput par...
Educational systems increasingly function as complex social environments in which schools, families, and communities interact across institutional boundaries. Within these interconnected systems, teachers frequently operate at the boundary between sc...
Employees are often encouraged to use artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace, and industry experts tend to promote the idea that AI is here to stay. Extravagant events are consistently held to showcase the magic of AI, yet companies seem to ha...
With the rapid development of a new generation of information technology and data systems, there are more and more modern logistics park projects appearing in China. However, in the process of the construction and operation of a logistics park projec...
Terrestrial laser scanning can provide high-quality, detailed point clouds, with state-of-the-art research reporting the potential for sub-centimeter accuracy. However, state-of-the-art research may not represent real-world practices reliably. This s...
Objectives: The objective of this study is to quantify healthcare resource utilization, economic burden, and the multi-level medical security system for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) patients in Shaanxi Province, China, from a societal perspective us...
Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) are among the key enabling technologies driving intelligent logistics and industrial automation. Despite their widespread adoption and rapid technological evolution, the literature...
Whether and how multi-membership in online communities might relate to life satisfaction within the Chinese population remain unclear. This study adopts a gendered perspective to explore the mediating role of voluntary participation in the relationsh...
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