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  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,143 Views
14 Pages

The present study set out to explore the locus of the poorly understood but frequently reported and comparatively large practice effect in sustained attention tests. Drawing on a recently proposed process model of sustained attention tests, several c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
20,399 Views
28 Pages

3 June 2025

There is extensive evidence that distributed practice produces superior learning to massed practice, predominantly from laboratory studies often featuring decontextualized learning. A systematic review of applied research was undertaken to assess the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Educational Applications of Cognitive Psychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,708 Views
11 Pages

This study examined the moderating effect of nursing practice environment on the relationship between clinical nurses’ sleep quality and wellness. The wellness of clinical nurses is a direct outcome of individual-level health behaviors and orga...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Health Effects and Management of Shift Work)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,596 Views
13 Pages

13 November 2025

The present study aimed to investigate individual differences in practice effects during progressive matrices based on Carpenter et al.’s taxonomy of abstract rules. To this end, data from a non-verbal reasoning test, the Abstract Reasoning Tes...

  • Study Protocol
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,111 Views
14 Pages

Evaluation of General Practice Pharmacists: Study Protocol to Assess Interprofessional Collaboration and Team Effectiveness

  • Thilini Sudeshika,
  • Mark Naunton,
  • Gregory M. Peterson,
  • Louise S. Deeks and ,
  • Jackson Thomas and
  • Sam Kosari
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The inclusion of pharmacists into general practices has expanded in Australia. However, there is a paucity of research examining interprofessional collaboration and team effectiveness after including a pharmacist into the general practice team in pri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Chronic Disease Prevention and Management in Primary Health Care)
  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
16,692 Views
20 Pages

17 January 2022

In recent years, increasing attention has been paid to digital human resource management (HRM) practices. Nonetheless, the impact of digital HRM practices is not yet fully understood by practitioners and researchers. Drawing from adaptive structurati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,631 Views
19 Pages

The organizational effectiveness of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) has received considerable attention from the scientific research community and society. Nonprofit scholars call for more empirical research that tests existing theories and develops m...

(This article belongs to the Section Strategic Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,820 Views
11 Pages

Interprofessional Collaboration and Team Effectiveness of Pharmacists in General Practice: A Cross-National Survey

  • Thilini Sudeshika,
  • Mark Naunton,
  • Gregory M. Peterson,
  • Louise S. Deeks and ,
  • Line Guénette,
  • Ravi Sharma,
  • Christopher Freeman,
  • Theo Niyonsenga and
  • Sam Kosari
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

As team-based care continues to evolve, pharmacists have been included in general practice teams in many countries, to varying extents, to improve medication use and patient safety. However, evidence on interprofessional collaboration and team effect...

(This article belongs to the Section Health Care Sciences & Services)
  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
12,376 Views
16 Pages

Teaching Mathematics with Technology: TPACK and Effective Teaching Practices

  • Christopher R. Rakes,
  • Michele L. Stites,
  • Robert N. Ronau,
  • Sarah B. Bush and ,
  • Molly H. Fisher,
  • Farshid Safi,
  • Siddhi Desai,
  • Ashley Schmidt,
  • Janet B. Andreasen and
  • Julian Viera
  • + 8 authors+ 3 authors

18 February 2022

This paper examines how 17 secondary mathematics teacher candidates (TCs) in four university teacher preparation programs implemented technology in their classrooms to teach for conceptual understanding in online, hybrid, and face to face classes dur...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Using Technology in Teaching Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,136 Views
25 Pages

22 January 2024

Sustainable agricultural development has been the policy priority for countries with limited natural resources. New farmers’ emergence and growth have not only helped to address the labor crisis in agriculture to some extent, but they have also...

(This article belongs to the Section Water, Energy, Land and Food (WELF) Nexus)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
11,403 Views
23 Pages

This systematic review explores key characteristics of effective vocational education and training (VET) teachers’ professional development and the transfer of its results into educational practice. Through thematic analysis of 24 journal artic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Supporting Teaching Staff Development for Professional Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,687 Views
24 Pages

This study aims to investigate how sustainable innovation (SI) influences the relationship between internal audit effectiveness (IAE) and sustainability auditing (SA) practices in Libya’s public sector, providing valuable insights into its impl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,937 Views
12 Pages

Study of the Effects of Different Agronomic Practices on Inorganic Carbon in the Plough Layer of Dryland Field: A Meta-Analysis

  • Xin Niu,
  • Yanni Yu,
  • Jingyi Dong,
  • Yuanzhang Ma and ,
  • Lingyan Wang,
  • Wei Dai and
  • Yaning Luan
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

28 February 2023

Soil inorganic carbon (SIC) is an essential component of the soil carbon pool and plays a vital role in the global carbon cycle and climate change. However, few studies have examined the effects of different agronomic practices on the SIC content. Th...

(This article belongs to the Section Agroecology Innovation: Achieving System Resilience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
10,159 Views
16 Pages

18 March 2015

Background: There is currently a resurgence of interest in interprofessional education and collaborative practice (IPECP) and its potential to positively impact health outcomes at both the patient level and population level, healthcare delivery, and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovations in Measuring and Improving Patient Care Experiences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,782 Views
12 Pages

22 June 2019

This study ascertains the predictive relationship that sustainable organisational practices have with organisational effectiveness and the mediating role of organisational identification and organisation-based self-esteem in this relationship. One-hu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,778 Views
18 Pages

12 November 2025

Digital flashcards are widely used in foreign language vocabulary learning. Research attributes their effectiveness to retrieval practice, where learners actively recall target information, thereby enhancing learning performance. The superiority of r...

(This article belongs to the Section Educational Psychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
427 Views
18 Pages

30 April 2026

Traditional cognitive practices in the Engineering Management Major (EMM) are often constrained by safety risks, high costs, and geographical limitations. This study proposes a novel Virtual Cognitive Practice (VCP) mode that integrates ubiquitous le...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,935 Views
15 Pages

Practice Effects, Test–Retest Reliability, and Minimal Detectable Change of the Ruff 2 and 7 Selective Attention Test in Patients with Schizophrenia

  • Posen Lee,
  • Ping-Chia Li,
  • Chin-Hsuan Liu,
  • Hung-Yu Lin and ,
  • Chien-Yu Huang and
  • Ching-Lin Hsieh
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Background: The Ruff 2 and 7 Selective Attention Test (RSAT) is designed to measure selective attention. It tests automatic detection speed (ADS), automatic detection errors (ADE), automatic detection accuracy (ADA), controlled search speed (CSS), co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Clinimetric Assessment of Instruments for the Measurement of Functional Health Status in Special Populations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,157 Views
9 Pages

The Effectiveness of Advanced Practice Nurses with Respect to Complex Chronic Wounds in the Management of Venous Ulcers

  • Juan Francisco Jiménez-García,
  • Gabriel Aguilera-Manrique,
  • Josefina Arboledas-Bellón,
  • María Gutiérrez-García and ,
  • Francisco González-Jiménez,
  • Nieves Lafuente-Robles,
  • Laura Parra-Anguita and
  • Francisco Pedro García-Fernández
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of advanced practice nurses with respect to complex chronic wounds (APN-CCWs) in the care of patients with venous ulcers. A multicentric, quasi-experimental pre-post study was conducted without a control...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,008 Views
17 Pages

5 January 2026

Irrigation effects on processing tomato have been comprehensively studied, whereas the integrated effects of irrigation and agronomic measures lack systematic investigations. This study employed a two-year field experiment to investigate the interact...

(This article belongs to the Section Water, Agriculture and Aquaculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,728 Views
17 Pages

Effectivity and Efficiency of Best Management Practices Based on a Survey and SWAPP Model of the Xiangxi River Basin

  • Ruimin Liu,
  • Yuexi Miao,
  • Qingrui Wang,
  • Lijun Jiao and ,
  • Yifan Wang,
  • Lin Li and
  • Leiping Cao
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

3 April 2021

A questionnaire survey was conducted among farmers in the Xiangxi River Basin to investigate the local livestock situation and the farmers’ understanding of and attitude towards pollution. The results showed that local farmers lacked environmental aw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
10,926 Views
14 Pages

Italian Wild Rocket [Diplotaxis Tenuifolia (L.) DC.]: Influence of Agricultural Practices on Antioxidant Molecules and on Cytotoxicity and Antiproliferative Effects

  • Alessandra Durazzo,
  • Elena Azzini,
  • Maria Claudia Lazzè,
  • Anna Raguzzini and ,
  • Roberto Pizzala and
  • Giuseppe Maiani
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Wild rocket [Diplotaxis tenuifolia (L.) DC.] belongs to the Brassicaceae family and has its origin in the Mediterranean region. The effect of conventional and integrated cultivation practices on the nutritional properties and benefits of wild rocket...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,953 Views
20 Pages

14 June 2019

Agricultural nonpoint source pollution has been a major influential factor on the deterioration of water quality in the Liao River source area. Best management practices (BMPs), as a comprehensive pollution prevention system designed to reduce the im...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Land–Water System Management: Simulations, Socio-Economic Analyses and Artificial Intelligence Techniques)
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
13,882 Views
14 Pages

Shisha Smoking Practices, Use Reasons, Attitudes, Health Effects and Intentions to Quit among Shisha Smokers in Malaysia

  • Li Ping Wong,
  • Haridah Alias,
  • Nasrin Aghamohammadi,
  • Sima Aghazadeh and
  • Victor Chee Wai Hoe

Despite its popularity, shisha smoking practices, reasons for its use, attitudes, detrimental health effects and intention to quit among shisha users in Malaysia have never been investigated. A total of 503 shisha users responded to a cross-sectional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
13,871 Views
9 Pages

The purpose of this study was to meta-analyze the effects of yoga intervention on physical fitness in the elderly. The following databases were systematically searched in 25 March 2021: Cochrane, PubMed and Embase. A total of 656 papers was identifie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,562 Views
13 Pages

Effect of Counseling Service on Breastfeeding Practice among Saudi Mothers

  • Alaa AlQurashi,
  • Tariq Wani,
  • Nouf Alateeq and
  • Humariya Heena

Objective: To assess the knowledge and practice of breastfeeding and the effects of lactation counseling, as a health promotion intervention, on breastfeeding duration and exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) among Saudi women. Methods: In this quasi-experi...

(This article belongs to the Section Perinatal and Neonatal Medicine)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,985 Views
12 Pages

Modelling the Effect of Keyline Practice on Soil Erosion Control

  • Yamuna Giambastiani,
  • Gherardo Biancofiore,
  • Matteo Mancini,
  • Antonio Di Giorgio and ,
  • Riccardo Giusti,
  • Stefano Cecchi,
  • Lorenzo Gardin and
  • Alessandro Errico
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

28 December 2022

The global agricultural sector needs to implement good soil management practices, in particular to prevent erosion and to improve water-retention capacity. The introduction of tillage techniques along particular theoretical lines, called keylines, ca...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantification of Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport in Basins)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
155 Views

Cognitive Bias in Postoperative Opioid-Prescribing Practice: A Novel Effect

  • Bradley M. Brooks,
  • Chia-Ding Shih,
  • Reed W. R. Bratches,
  • Allison S. Arp and ,
  • Gerard J. Coughlin,
  • Kristina B. Wolff and
  • Brandon M. Brooks
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Background: Given that excess opioid prescriptions contribute to the US opioid epidemic and there are few national opioid-prescribing guidelines for the management of acute pain, it is pertinent to determine whether prescribers can sufficiently asses...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,139 Views
20 Pages

18 October 2021

The number of dementia patients in Korea is increasing with the increase in the elderly population. Accordingly, the importance of the role of the caregivers, who are the main care worker other than the family, is increasing. Therefore, in this study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,591 Views
12 Pages

Despite a rapid increase in the work force over the last decade, the social work labor force is still suffering through high amounts of stress and burnout that could negatively affect work engagement and job performance in China. A potential solution...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Working Conditions and Wellbeing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,387 Views
34 Pages

23 September 2025

Although general growth mindset interventions have been found to improve learning outcomes, relatively little research focused on effects of specific growth mindset interventions. However, domain-specific growth mindset beliefs may be a more accurate...

(This article belongs to the Section Education and Psychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,376 Views
11 Pages

8 February 2025

Background/Objectives: New nurses often face challenges in adapting to clinical environments, particularly in mastering electronic medical record (EMR) systems, which are critical for effective patient care and communication. This study aimed to eval...

(This article belongs to the Section Nursing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,244 Views
18 Pages

This study examines short-term improvement of music performances and oculomotor behaviour during four successive executions of a brief musical piece composed by Bartók, “Slovak Boys’ Dance”. Pianists (n = 22) were allowed to practice for two minutes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,243 Views
8 Pages

Mediation Effect of Perceived Fitness on the Relationship between Self-Efficacy and Sport Practice in Spanish Adolescents

  • Silvia Arribas-Galarraga,
  • Izaskun Luis-de Cos,
  • Gurutze Luis-de Cos and
  • Saioa Urrutia-Gutierrez

There has been a decrease in sports practices among the adolescent population, and several authors have tried to identify variables that can explain this decrease by analyzing psychosocial aspects such as perceived fitness and self-efficacy. Therefor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Motor Competence and Physical Fitness in the Promotion of an Active and Healthy Lifestyle in Children and Adolescents)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,607 Views
17 Pages

The Effect of Vinyasa Yoga Practice on the Well-Being of Breast-Cancer Patients during COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Agnieszka Zok,
  • Monika Matecka,
  • Joanna Zapala,
  • Dariusz Izycki and
  • Ewa Baum

Background: Vinyasa yoga practice improves body fitness and potentially positively affects practitioners’ well-being and health. Due to the diverse intensity of practice and positions customized to the practitioner’s needs, it can also su...

(This article belongs to the Section Health Behavior, Chronic Disease and Health Promotion)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,927 Views
8 Pages

The Effect of Community Nurse Practice for Medical Students Who Rotate in Emergency Medicine

  • Yoshiaki Iwashita,
  • Haruka Saigusa,
  • Moe Fusayama,
  • Hiroshi Miyamoto and ,
  • Rie Sato,
  • Nobuhiro Kodani,
  • Noriaki Yamada,
  • Tetsuya Makiishi and
  • Akiko Yata
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

Background: Emergency medicine in Japan traditionally emphasizes critically ill patients, but recent trends show an increase in minor illness cases influenced by social factors. This study assessed integrating community nurse (CN) training into an em...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
27 Citations
15,930 Views
13 Pages

Immediate Effect of a Yoga Breathing Practice on Attention and Anxiety in Pre-Teen Children

  • Shirley Telles,
  • Ram Kumar Gupta,
  • Kumar Gandharva,
  • Babita Vishwakarma and ,
  • Niranjan Kala and
  • Acharya Balkrishna
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Pre-teen children face stressors related to their transition from childhood to adolescence, with a simultaneous increase in academic pressure. The present study compared the immediate effects of 18 min of (i) high frequency yoga breathing with (ii) y...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
49 Citations
6,271 Views
24 Pages

Background: Supporting the provision of clinical placement (CP) experiences in rural areas is a strategy used worldwide to promote the rural health workforce. While there is international evidence for this intervention in medicine, there is limited u...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Rural and Remote Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,721 Views
12 Pages

The Effect of Practice toward Do-Not-Resuscitate among Taiwanese Nursing Staff Using Path Modeling

  • Li-Fen Wu,
  • Li-Fang Chang,
  • Yu-Chun Hung,
  • Chin Lin and ,
  • Shiow-Jyu Tzou,
  • Lin-Ju Chou and
  • Hsueh-Hsing Pan
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

This study aimed to elucidate the predictors and the effects of path modeling on the knowledge, attitude, and practice toward do-not-resuscitate (DNR) among the Taiwanese nursing staff. This study was a cross-sectional, descriptive design using strat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nursing and Palliative Care)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,565 Views
10 Pages

9 August 2020

Background: To examine the effect of Tai Chi Chuan (TCC) practice on glucose and lipid metabolism and related hormones in TCC practitioners. Methods: Twenty-one TCC practitioners and nineteen healthy controls were included in this study. Classical Ya...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exercise Biomechanics and Physiology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,964 Views
24 Pages

26 May 2023

The concepts of Stakeholders’ Pressure (SP), Environmental Performance (EP), and Corporate Social Performance (CSP) are well established in the business of progressive firms. However, firms are yet to examine the effects of Stakeholders’...

  • Article
  • Open Access
109 Citations
11,724 Views
16 Pages

26 August 2019

Studies that examine green banking practice from the relationship marketing perspective are limited. Bearing in mind the importance of loyalty to managers in the banking industry, and the increase in the call for greater sustainability performance fr...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,564 Views
18 Pages

4 April 2023

Since Voas and Crockett (2005), a consensus has emerged in the sociology of religions on the fact that secularization is largely due to a cohort effect. That is, each birth cohort is less religious than the previous one. We use data from the Swiss Ho...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Religion, Quo Vadis? Secularization in the Modern World)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,707 Views
15 Pages

Judgments of Learning Following Retrieval Practice Produce Minimal Reactivity Effect on Learning of Education-Related Materials

  • Wenbo Zhao,
  • Muzi Xu,
  • Chenyuqi Xu,
  • Baike Li and ,
  • Xiao Hu,
  • Chunliang Yang and
  • Liang Luo
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

29 September 2023

Testing (i.e., retrieval practice) is one of the most powerful strategies to boost learning. A recent study observed an incidental finding that making judgments of learning (JOLs) following retrieval practice further enhanced learning of education-re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Metacognition, Learning, and Reactivity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,125 Views
28 Pages

8 February 2023

This paper focuses on the so-called “flange effect” in unreinforced masonry buildings when the connection among walls is good, thus forming a 3D assembly of intersecting piers (with L-, C-, T-, or I-shaped cross-sections). Given the direc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Modeling Strategies for Seismic Assessment of Unreinforced, Reinforced, and Confined Masonry Structures)
  • Review
  • Open Access
264 Citations
17,430 Views
29 Pages

Linking Soil Microbial Diversity to Modern Agriculture Practices: A Review

  • Amrita Gupta,
  • Udai B. Singh,
  • Pramod K. Sahu,
  • Surinder Paul and ,
  • Adarsh Kumar,
  • Deepti Malviya,
  • Shailendra Singh,
  • Pandiyan Kuppusamy,
  • Prakash Singh and
  • Anil K. Saxena
  • + 11 authors+ 6 authors

Agriculture is a multifarious interface between plants and associated microorganisms. In contemporary agriculture, emphasis is being given to environmentally friendly approaches, particularly in developing countries, to enhance sustainability of the...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Microbiology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,179 Views
11 Pages

On the Rainfall Intensity–Duration–Frequency Curves, Partial-Area Effect and the Rational Method: Theory and the Engineering Practice

  • José Nilson B. Campos,
  • Ticiana Marinho de Carvalho Studart,
  • Francisco de Assis de Souza Filho and
  • Victor Costa Porto

30 September 2020

This research evaluates the partial-area effect and its relationship with the rainfall intensity–duration–frequency (IDF) equations. In the Rational Method, if the critical rainfall duration is shorter than the time of concentration, the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Rainwater and Flood Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
6,893 Views
12 Pages

Psychophysiological stress can affect the cognitive response and effective learning of students during medical simulation practices. This study aimed to explore the effect of psychophysiological stress and socio-emotional competencies on clinical per...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,635 Views
13 Pages

11 January 2023

A major concern voiced by motor behavior scientists is to find useful practice techniques that can be effective in improving motor learning and performance. Neurofeedback and self-controlled practice are among the techniques that have recently drawn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
92 Citations
16,405 Views
10 Pages

Effect of Taekwondo Practice on Cognitive Function in Adolescents with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

  • Abdelmotaleb Kadri,
  • Maamer Slimani,
  • Nicola Luigi Bragazzi,
  • David Tod and
  • Fairouz Azaiez

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common neuro-developmental/behavioral disorders among adolescents. Sport and physical activity seem to play a major role in the development of cognition, memory, selective attention a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Effect of Sport Activity on Health Promotion)

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