Coworking space has flourished in the past decade. Unlike traditional shared services organizations, coworking spaces put a much greater emphasis on ‘sharing’. Members not only can share the physical office space, but also the virtual soc...
This study examines the processes of technology adoption and appropriation among older adults participating in two community-based digital inclusion workshops (LAB65+) in Madrid, exploring how digital technologies are appropriated within community le...
Background: Population ageing has increased the importance of maintaining the quality of life (QOL) of community-dwelling older adults. Resilience and social participation are considered important determinants of well-being in later life. However, li...
The COVID-19 pandemic is questioning the achievement of main challenges we face as a society, for instance, to ensure a free, equitable, and good quality compulsory education for all children or to reduce social inequality. During the spring lockdown...
16 March 2021
This study aims to examine the mechanism of how supportive interaction and facilitator input variety in mutual aid groups impact treatment adherence of young people with chronic health conditions, with consideration of time effects, which have been r...
This paper introduces a two-phase decision support system based on information theory and financial practices to assist investors in solving cardinality-constrained portfolio optimization problems. Firstly, the approach employs a stock-picking proced...
8 August 2024
Substance use self-stigma is a barrier to treatment and can negatively impact individuals’ well-being and treatment engagement. Given the mixed findings in previous research and the limited specific investigation into the concept of self-stigma...
6 April 2021
To minimize the damage caused by large earthquakes, mutual assistance activities between residents and rescue victims (i.e., to support residents who cannot evacuate individually) are important. To enhance these activities, the technologies and metho...
This paper is a review of research undertaken, and subsequent policy change enacted, in the years 2018 to 2022 regarding the integration of cooking loads and needs into modern energy planning. Building on an earlier paper which described how the domi...
18 November 2021
While it is well-established that mutual aid groups are effective in the psychological rehabilitation of vulnerable individuals, few studies have thoroughly investigated the dynamic mechanism of how psychological well-being improves through mutual ai...
As an important method for uncertainty modeling, Dempster–Shafer (DS) evidence theory has been widely used in practical applications. However, the results turned out to be almost counter-intuitive when fusing the different sources of highly con...
Subsurface engineering projects with high socio-environmental impacts raise strong controversies among stakeholders, which often affects the projects’ implementation. These controversies originate from a loss of public confidence in the decisio...
The objective of this study was to uncover the elements of successful medical interviews so that they can be easily shared with health educators, learners, and practitioners. The medical interview is still considered the most effective diagnostic too...
In analog circuit, the component parameters have tolerances and the fault component parameters present a wide distribution, which brings obstacle to classification diagnosis. To tackle this problem, this article proposes a soft fault diagnosis method...
When LGBTQ+ people get married, they enter into a union that promises mutual reliance and caregiving, such as in the event of financial need or health care crisis. This mixed-methods study explores how 484 married LGBTQ+ individuals in the United Sta...
The optimal parameters of polarimetric scattering decomposition are critical to classify the pixels in polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) images by utilizing the method of machine learning. Therefore, span-based mutual information (Sp-MI)...
Providing accurate load forecast to electric utility corporations is essential in order to reduce their operational costs and increase profits. Hence, training set selection is an important preprocessing step which has to be considered in practice in...
6 October 2021
Recently, many airline companies have trialed introducing team systems to manage crew members and enhance competitiveness systematically through the efficiency of manpower operation. Cabin crew members share in a sense of unity when spending time wit...
Frontal alpha asymmetry (FAA), a pattern of brain activity that reflects the difference in alpha wave power between the left and right frontal areas of the brain, is considered a stable marker for an individual’s tendency to experience either m...
Driving drowsiness is a major cause of traffic accidents worldwide and has drawn the attention of researchers in recent decades. This paper presents an application for in-vehicle non-intrusive mobile-device-based automatic detection of driver sleep-...
The increasing uncertainty of distributed energy resources (DERs) challenges the secure and resilient operation of low-voltage distribution networks (LVDNs). Flexible interconnection via power-electronic devices enables controllable links among LVDAs...
Family involvement plays a key role in diabetes management. Challenges related to type 2 diabetes (T2D) often affect the whole family, and relatives are at increased risk of developing diabetes themselves. Creating family involvement in families livi...
The process of modern drug design would not exist in the current form without computational methods. They are part of every stage of the drug design pipeline, supporting the search and optimization of new bioactive substances. Nevertheless, despite t...
This study explored 17 dyads of academically successful people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and individuals who they identified as supportive. Qualitative methods, including in-depth interviews, participant observations, and document analysis,...
Background: This study aimed to investigate the mediating effects of social support on the relationship between uncertainty and quality of life (QOL) in patients with chronic low back pain (LBP). Methods: From 1 July 2019 to 25 March 2020, data were...
DNA methylation is an important biochemical process, and it has a close connection with many types of cancer. Research about DNA methylation can help us to understand the regulation mechanism and epigenetic reprogramming. Therefore, it becomes very i...
Solar energy generated from PhotoVoltaic (PV) systems is one of the most promising types of renewable energy. However, it is highly variable as it depends on the solar irradiance and other meteorological factors. This variability creates difficulties...
Background/Objectives: Accurate classification in cancer research is vital for devising effective treatment strategies. Precise cancer classification depends significantly on selecting the most informative genes from high-dimensional datasets, a task...
Mutualism can facilitate the colonization, establishment, and spread of invasive species. By modifying interactions with third parties, mutualisms can have cascading community-wide effects. Both native and invasive ants are capable of forming mutuali...
With the development of urban population aging in China, enhancing the quality of community living environments for the elderly has become crucial. Traditional residential planning focused on functionality, neglecting the elderly’s active parti...
31 March 2009
Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 Latino/a residents of a mutual help residential recovery program (Oxford House) in order to elicit their experiences of the program’s therapeutic elements. A model of recovery emerged from the analysi...
Agriculture faces climate change, price volatility, and policy uncertainty. Because traditional agricultural insurance instruments often prove insufficient to address these risks, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has introduced additional risk-ma...
Background/Objectives: Multiple chronic conditions (MCCs) are highly prevalent among older adults and require effective collaboration between the patient and caregiver. Mutuality, reflecting the quality of the dyadic relationship, is associated with...
Background: Twelve-step treatment for substance use problems is a commonly employed intervention in both international and Swedish contexts. An advantage of twelve-step treatment is the possibility of continuing support for the recovery process throu...
Social isolation is a growing concern worldwide, particularly within aging populations. This study elucidates the specific attitudes, strategies, and approaches of community social workers (CSWs) in Japan as they work toward alleviating social isolat...
The work described in this paper develops a formal method for modeling and exhaustive verification of mutual exclusion algorithms. The process is based on timed automata and the Uppaal model checker. The technique was successfully applied to several...
Objectives: To explore the experiences of ex-smokers acting as peer supporters delivering chat-based instant messaging smoking cessation support in a post- randomized controlled trial qualitative study. Methods: We used purposive sampling to recruit...
In Sweden, persons with intellectual disability have a legal right to support in everyday life, including housing with support and participation in daily activities, but government reports show that many do not receive the support they need or would...
2 March 2021
Background: Although caregivers are a crucial support in the recovery of patients with schizophrenia, little is known about how mutuality is related to health-related quality of life within the dyadic (patient and caregiver) context. This study aimed...
Forty-two Jupiter Mass Binary Objects (JuMBOs) have been discovered in the Trapezium Cluster: either brown dwarf stars or planets mutually orbiting in pairs. Here it is shown that, just as in galaxies and wide binaries, the mutual orbits of the objec...
Given that sustainable investing constitutes a major force across global financial markets, in 2016 Morningstar began reporting Morningstar Sustainability scores. We used the 2016, 2017 and 2018 scores to study the effects of socially responsible inv...
In this paper, I study the impact of market competition on mutual fund marketing expenses. In a sample of US domestic equity mutual funds, I find that marketing expenses decrease with the competition. This effect is stronger for top-performing funds....
22 June 2022
The effectiveness of peer support in improving mental health and well-being has been well documented for vulnerable populations. However, how peer support is delivered to migrant domestic workers (MDWs) to support their mental health is still unknown...
Information transmission plays a crucial role across various fields, including physics, engineering, biology, and society. The efficiency of this transmission is quantified by mutual information and its associated information capacity. While studies...
The identification of load and mutual inductance parameters of a wireless power transfer system can make the mathematical model of the system more accurate, which can effectively avoid system errors due to parameter uncertainties in the implementatio...
We propose an extended scheme for selecting related stocks for themed mutual funds. This scheme was designed to support fund managers who are building themed mutual funds. In our preliminary experiments, building a themed mutual fund was found to be...
The bearing fault diagnosis of petrochemical rotating machinery faces the problems of large data volume, weak fault feature signal strength and susceptibility to noise interference. To solve these problems, current research presents a combined ICEEMD...
Background/Objectives: The rising prevalence of dementia presents significant emotional, psychological, and economic challenges for families. Dementia-friendly communities (DFCs) aim to alleviate these burdens by fostering social inclusion and mutual...
Metropolitan areas are highly complex systems where a transition towards food security encompasses a systematic change in the whole food chain. Existing decision support tools that have been developed to inform policy-makers are mostly data-driven bu...
In this study, we examined the factors that contribute to successful aging in place in the town of Shimogo, a depopulated mountainous area in Japan, focusing on the interplay between household support types, the performance of daily activities, and t...
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