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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,414 Views
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The Chengdu–Chongqing Economic Circle (CCEC) represents a key regional development initiative in China. University research collaboration plays a vital role in advancing its innovation ecosystem and supporting sustainable growth. This study exa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,599 Views
12 Pages

This study explores patients’ opportunities for collective participation in an institution for people with substance use disorder. Patients and staff from the treatment institution cooperated with researchers to make changes in the treatment practice...

(This article belongs to the Section Mental Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
390 Views
23 Pages

Indigenous peoples in Canada continue to experience mental health inequities shaped by colonization, and hospitals are increasingly creating Traditional Healing Spaces (THS) in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Call to Actio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Community-Informed Health Promotion Interventions with Indigenous Communities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,001 Views
19 Pages

25 August 2022

Building resilient cities is the foundation and guarantee for the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle to achieve high-quality and sustainable development. This research uses the entropy TOPSIS method to evaluate the urban resilience level of the Chengd...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue A Diversified Approach to Mitigate Crises in Urbanized Areas)
  • Review
  • Open Access
111 Citations
20,975 Views
19 Pages

Research Progress on Rolling Circle Amplification (RCA)-Based Biomedical Sensing

  • Lide Gu,
  • Wanli Yan,
  • Le Liu,
  • Shujun Wang and ,
  • Xu Zhang and
  • Mingsheng Lyu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Enhancing the limit of detection (LOD) is significant for crucial diseases. Cancer development could take more than 10 years, from one mutant cell to a visible tumor. Early diagnosis facilitates more effective treatment and leads to higher survival r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Aptamer-Based Diagnostics and Therapeutics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,659 Views
18 Pages

With population ageing being a notable demographic phenomenon, aging in place is an efficient model to accommodate the mounting aging needs. Based on the community scale, this study takes the 15-min community-life circle as the basic research unit to...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,407 Views
21 Pages

Understanding the Wicked Problem of Providing Accessible Housing for the Ageing Population in Sweden

  • Oskar Jonsson,
  • Joakim Frögren,
  • Maria Haak,
  • Björn Slaug and
  • Susanne Iwarsson

While accessible housing is known as important to promote healthy ageing, the societal issue of providing accessible housing for the ageing population bears the characteristics of a “wicked problem”. The aim of this study was to gain a be...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Housing and Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,661 Views
24 Pages

7 July 2022

A circular economy (CE) transforms the linear system into a resource flow model based on reusing products and materials and increasing lifetime periods. This academic work aims to review the current CE research status from business, economic, and man...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue From Global to Glocal: Digital Transformation for Reshoring More Agile, Resilient and Sustainable Supply Chains)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,042 Views
25 Pages

Healthy Community-Life Circle Planning Combining Objective Measurement and Subjective Evaluation: Theoretical and Empirical Research

  • Jiangjun Wan,
  • Yutong Zhao,
  • Kaili Zhang,
  • Chunchi Ma and ,
  • Haiying Sun,
  • Ziming Wang,
  • Hongyu Wu,
  • Mingjie Li,
  • Lingqing Zhang and
  • Jinxiu Yang
  • + 8 authors+ 3 authors

Background: The world faces vast health challenges, and urban residents living in high-density areas have even greater demand for healthy lifestyles. Methods: Based on the data of points of interest, a field survey, and an interview, we explored the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,867 Views
19 Pages

29 January 2023

The construction of the Sichuan–Chongqing double-city economic circle represents a critical measure for high-quality development in China. The coordinated development of industry and economy is conducive to high-quality regional economic growth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,623 Views
19 Pages

13 May 2023

Innovation is the engine for the sustainable development of cities and regions, and an innovation perspective is used to study the collaborative innovation relationship between regional cities and the evolution mechanism of regional innovation networ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,031 Views
12 Pages

Research on the Method of Determining the Loosening Circle and Sealing Depth of High-Gas Coal Bed Roadway Based on Direct Current Method

  • Chunguang Wang,
  • Qiang Liu,
  • Liming Qiu,
  • Hairui Liu and ,
  • Zhenlei Li,
  • Jintao Dang and
  • Jun Wang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

1 June 2025

Gas extraction is the main method to reduce the gas content of a coal seam and prevent coal and gas outburst. The sealing depth is one of the key parameters affecting the sealing effect. The principle of the high-density direct current method is to l...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,004 Views
16 Pages

Exploring Urban Green Space Optimization of the Urban Walking Life Circle in Fuzhou, China

  • Huili Xie,
  • Xinke Wang,
  • Xiaoting Hu,
  • Zhiyong Shi and ,
  • Hong Lin,
  • Xiangqun Xie,
  • Lingxiu Chen,
  • Hongxia Dai,
  • Jiao Zhang and
  • Xingzhao Liu
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

The spatial distribution of urban green spaces (UGS) is closely related to the health of residents and the ecological pattern of cities. Exploring the equity of UGSs plays an important role in urban planning and also provides guidance for urban devel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Greening Urban Spaces: A Healthy Community Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,422 Views
23 Pages

Rejection of review invitations due to time constraints is putting pressure on the peer review system, showing that less time-consuming ways of reviewing are needed. This paper presents the results of a field experiment with a new format for grant pe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
923 Views
55 Pages

29 May 2026

This essay examines the painting known as Portrait of Elizaveta Iakovleva, which has long been attributed to Kazimir Malevich, using close analysis of the painting materials and techniques, as well as newly discovered archival evidence. It reconstruc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The European Avant-Garde(s) and Technologies: Unfinished Modernity and the Idea of Tékhnē—the One Hundred Years’ Revolution, 1850–1950)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
8,006 Views
10 Pages

Tagging Users’ Social Circles via Multiple Linear Regression

  • Hailong Qin,
  • Jing Liu,
  • Chin-Yew Lin and
  • Ting Liu

A social circle is a category of strong social relationships, such as families, classmates and good friends and so on. The information diffusion among members of online social circles is frequent and credible. The research of users’ online social cir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,042 Views
14 Pages

The Relationship between Accelerometry, Global Navigation Satellite System, and Known Distance: A Correlational Design Study

  • Abdulmalek K. Bursais,
  • Caleb D. Bazyler,
  • Andrew R. Dotterweich,
  • Adam L. Sayers and ,
  • Mohammed S. Alibrahim,
  • Anwar A. Alnuaim,
  • Majed M. Alhumaid,
  • Abdulrahman I. Alaqil,
  • Ghareeb O. Alshuwaier and
  • Jeremy A. Gentles
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

27 April 2022

Background: Previous research has explored associations between accelerometry and Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) derived loads. However, to our knowledge, no study has investigated the relationship between these measures and a known distan...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor Technology for Enhancing Training and Performance in Sport)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,550 Views
16 Pages

Formation Mechanism and Control Technology of an Excavation Damage Zone in Tunnel-Surrounding Rock

  • Hongxian Fu,
  • Xiaoming Guan,
  • Chun Chen,
  • Jianchun Wu and ,
  • Qiqiang Nie,
  • Ning Yang,
  • Yanchun Liu and
  • Junwei Liu
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

11 January 2023

Loosened rock circle is formed around the tunnel when the tunnel is constructed by the drilling and blasting method. The size of the loosened rock circle around the tunnel and the degree of internal rock fragmentation has an important influence on th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Experimental Investigation and Numerical Modeling of Rock Brittle Failure Behavior under High Stress Conditions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,822 Views
15 Pages

5 October 2024

Urban business circles are important locations for economic and social activities. Improving the vitality of urban business circles is conducive to stimulating the potential of the consumer market and promoting sustainable economic development. Howev...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Strategic Planning for Urban Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,408 Views
27 Pages

12 December 2023

A significant number of new metered parking systems have been introduced in recent years by the local authorities of various spa towns in Poland in connection with home zone conversion projects. The traffic signs posted in these locations were limite...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Traffic Calming Measures as an Instrument for Revitalizing the Urban Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
81 Citations
18,902 Views
15 Pages

3 January 2020

Welfare states are highly dependent on the economic growth paradigm. Especially in social democratic welfare states, growth dependence has historically been accompanied by the notion of a virtuous circle, which ensures that social policy measures do...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Welfare beyond Growth)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,658 Views
17 Pages

10 November 2022

Information visualization refers to the practice of representing data in a meaningful, visual way that users can interpret and easily comprehend. Geometric or visual encoding shapes such as circles, rectangles, and bars have grown in popularity in da...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Science, Statistics and Visualization)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,663 Views
13 Pages

Circle of Willis Configuration and Thrombus Localization Impact on Ischemic Stroke Patient Outcomes: A Systematic Review

  • Audrius Širvinskas,
  • Givi Lengvenis,
  • Giedrius Ledas,
  • Valerija Mosenko and
  • Saulius Lukoševičius

3 December 2023

Background and Objectives: The published literature highlights the fact that the integrity of the Circle of Willis has a direct impact on stroke outcome, especially in cases of distal internal carotid T occlusion. The aim of this study was to review...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Stroke: Diagnostic Approaches and Therapies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,213 Views
7 Pages

I will briefly discuss the history of research-related projects that Mark Burgin and I worked on together. I will then discuss our joint research related to the circle of sense and nonsense. One paper was entitled In a search for deeper meanings: nav...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Special Issue in Memory of Professor Mark Burgin)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,464 Views
20 Pages

Coevolution of Economic and Industrial Linkages within the Land-Sea Industrial Structure of China

  • Xue Jin,
  • Shiwei Zhou,
  • Ussif Rashid Sumaila,
  • Kedong Yin and
  • Xinman Lv

5 December 2021

The joint development of continental and marine economies has become an important driving force for the upgrading of industrial structures. However, because of the differences in resource endowment and development potential, developing industrial str...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Marine Economic Development and Conservation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,401 Views
11 Pages

Study Circles as a Possible Arena to Support Self-Care—A Swedish Pilot Study

  • Birgitta Kerstis,
  • Jorgen Herlofson and
  • Lena Wiklund Gustin

Today, issues related to people’s mental health and well-being have been described as a challenge for society, globally as well as in Sweden. This calls for new approaches to mental health promotion. The aim was to evaluate the adequacy of its...

(This article belongs to the Section Behavioral and Mental Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,657 Views
17 Pages

21 January 2023

The metropolitan area is the inevitable trend of urbanization towards an advanced form. The pattern of urban radiation is the key to building a metro area and promoting high-quality regional development. In order to effectively promote the rationaliz...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,034 Views
16 Pages

18 January 2023

This study includes China and 197 countries from 1995 to 2019 as the research subjects. It considers trade in cultural products and inbound tourism as proxy variables of cultural communication and the visitor economy to analyze cultural communication...

(This article belongs to the Section Tourism, Culture, and Heritage)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
2,966 Views
25 Pages

1 October 2025

In recent years, chrono-urbanism has ushered in the x-minute city concept. Effectively combined with the life unit concept, it introduced a new perspective—the neighborhood life circle. This emerging urban decision-making and planning paradigm...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,543 Views
20 Pages

10 June 2021

The paper presents the genesis of village borders’ shape formed in the Middle Ages and presents rules according to which demarcations were made. The hypothesis that the borders formed in the Middle Ages had a shape similar to a circle or segment of a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,313 Views
12 Pages

28 January 2023

Stoma bag filter-related issues, such as ballooning (the bag filling with gas), remain highly prevalent among users. The full-circle filter was purposely designed to reduce ballooning through the inclusion of a unique, full-circle pre-filter. Two sim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,290 Views
12 Pages

6 September 2024

The Prague Circle, under the leadership of Max Brod (1884–1968), was a prominent literary group that flourished from 1900 to 1939. This era witnessed a struggle between emancipation and assimilation for German-speaking Jews within the Habsburg...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Prague German Circle(s): Stable Values in Turbulent Times?)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,715 Views
18 Pages

How Can We Find Out What Indigenous Children and Their Families Need to Manage Weight? Lessons from Formative Nutrition Intervention Research with First Australians

  • Lauren T. Williams,
  • Mari Somerville,
  • Fiona Wright,
  • Heidi Atkins and ,
  • Ayala Rogany,
  • Kristie L. Bell and
  • Lisa Vincze
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

1 December 2023

In Australia, Indigenous children have rates of overweight and obesity 1.5 times those of non-Indigenous children. Culturally safe and effective nutrition interventions are needed for this group. This paper aims to describe a Community-based Particip...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nutritional Strategies to Prevent Weight Gain and Obesity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,972 Views
16 Pages

27 September 2020

Thus far, the Universal Law of Gravitation has found application in many issues related to pattern classification. Its popularity results from its clear theoretical foundations and the competitive effectiveness of the classifiers based on it. Both Mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,773 Views
18 Pages

27 December 2022

Public health problems, such as the spread of COVID-19 and chronic diseases, are mainly caused by the daily life activities of community residents. Therefore, there is a need to build a healthy and safe community living circle through the evaluation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Behavioral and Psychological Intervention for Long Term Health Conditions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,995 Views
15 Pages

29 June 2021

With the development of science and technology, inspection robots have attracted more and more attention, and research on the automatic reading of pointer instruments through inspection robots has become particularly valuable. Aiming at the problems...

(This article belongs to the Topic Applied Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,083 Views
11 Pages

Exploring the Term “Resilience” in Arctic Health and Well-Being Using a Sharing Circle as a Community-Centered Approach: Insights from a Conference Workshop

  • Gwen Healey Akearok,
  • Katie Cueva,
  • Jon Petter A. Stoor,
  • Christina V. L. Larsen and ,
  • Elizabeth Rink,
  • Nicole Kanayurak,
  • Anastasia Emelyanova and
  • Vanessa Y. Hiratsuka
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

2 February 2019

In the field of Arctic health, “resilience” is a term and concept used to describe capacity to recover from difficulties. While the term is widely used in Arctic policy contexts, there is debate at the community level on whether “re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Engaged Scholarship for Resilient Communities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,366 Views
15 Pages

21 August 2019

Employees’ spontaneous environmental citizenship behavior (ECB) is a key factor in facilitating the low-carbon transition of enterprises. However, little research has focused on the impact of interpersonal interactions on ECB. To explore how EC...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,827 Views
8 Pages

An Axiom of True Courses Calculation in Great Circle Navigation

  • Mate Baric,
  • David Brčić,
  • Mate Kosor and
  • Roko Jelic

Based on traditional expressions and spherical trigonometry, at present, great circle navigation is undertaken using various navigational software packages. Recent research has mainly focused on vector algebra. These problems are calculated numerical...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Marine Measurements: Theory, Methods and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
7,372 Views
17 Pages

18 December 2021

The activity of the urban night-time economy is one of the most important indicators reflecting the prosperity of an urban economy. The business circle is an important carrier of urban commercial activities and the core area of urban nightlife. This...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geospatial Understanding of Sustainable Urban Analytics Using Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,032 Views
18 Pages

23 January 2024

Green space resources, in the context of urbanisation, cannot meet the actual needs of residents well, and the study of the balance of green space resource allocation based on the relationship between supply and demand is an urgent problem to be solv...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sustainability and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4,819 Views
17 Pages

22 January 2025

This article presents findings from an ongoing project focused on teaching in Schools for Students with Intellectual Disabilities (SSIDs) in Sweden. Methodologically, the project employs professional development circles as a collaborative working met...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Teachers and Teaching in Inclusive Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,874 Views
13 Pages

On an Indefinite Metric on a Four-Dimensional Riemannian Manifold

  • Dimitar Razpopov,
  • Georgi Dzhelepov and
  • Iva Dokuzova

27 April 2023

Our research focuses on the tangent space of a point on a four-dimensional Riemannian manifold. Besides having a positive definite metric, the manifold is endowed with an additional tensor structure of type (1,1), whose fourth power is minus the iden...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Differential Geometry and Singularity Theory)
  • Abstract
  • Open Access
1,671 Views
1 Page

Modern monitoring scenarios of gases for industrial safety and productivity, medical diagnostics, environmental surveillance, and other Industrial Internet applications demand new high value sensing capabilities of better accuracy, lower power consum...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Sensor Science (I3S 2017))
  • Article
  • Open Access
65 Citations
18,759 Views
17 Pages

1 January 2018

This paper draws on the results of ethnographic research on ‘women’s circles’; women-only spaces that celebrate sisterhood and the ‘feminine’, including the increasingly globally popular ‘Red Tent’. Women’s circles are non-institutionalized, often mo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feminisms and the Study of “Religions”)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,947 Views
21 Pages

9 August 2024

With the increasing pressure of resource decline and environmental pollution faced by the green transformation of marine fisheries, marine fishery carbon sinks are an increasingly close link to national strategic interests and economic lifelines. It...

(This article belongs to the Section Fishery Economics, Policy, and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,488 Views
17 Pages

A Spatial Equilibrium Evaluation of Primary Education Services Based on Living Circle Models: A Case Study within the City of Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, China

  • An Huang,
  • Yueqing Xu,
  • Yibin Zhang,
  • Longhui Lu and ,
  • Chao Liu,
  • Piling Sun and
  • Qingguo Liu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

7 November 2022

Primary education services are a key component of public infrastructure. These services exert significant impacts on public activity, sustainability, and healthy socio-economic development. This research applies the concept of a ‘living circle&...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,335 Views
22 Pages

19 August 2025

Picosecond laser drilling offers high precision and quality, and compared to femtosecond lasers, it also balances processing efficiency, making it widely used across various fields. However, existing drilling processes still face issues such as round...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High-Energy Beam Machining of Metals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,600 Views
22 Pages

Determining the optimal planning scale for urban life circles and analyzing the associated built environment factors are crucial for comprehending and regulating residential differentiation. This study aims to bridge the current research void concern...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Geographical Information System in Urban Design, Management or Evaluation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,953 Views
26 Pages

10 January 2020

Companies nowadays strive to gain public recognition through corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities. However, what are consumers’ cognition and evaluations of these CSR efforts, and can they be explained by the concentric circle model...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Technology and Business Innovations: Decision-Making under Uncertainty and Information Asymmetry)

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