Autonomous in-space assembly using a free-flying robot can lead to residual vibrations and positioning errors of the target modules during the grasping process. This places stringent demands on end-effectors, which must tolerate large misalignments w...
Significant inelastic deformations induced in structural systems lead to structures possibly possessing some degree of permanent lateral deformation following major seismic events. These permanent deformations have led to considerable research being...
An innovative, simplified, and accurate model is proposed and developed to enable simplified yet realistic time history analysis of multi-storey buildings with moment resisting connections using friction energy dissipaters in the commonly used struct...
Many buildings erected before modern seismic provisions remain prone to brittle failure, excessive drift and residual deformation, with loss of use often continuing long after the shaking stops. We reviewed recent structural design and retrofit techn...
Background/Objectives: Enhancing delirium nursing performance in trauma intensive care units (TICUs), where the prevalence of delirium is high, causes early detection of delirium and improves the quality of nursing care. TICU nurses experience variou...
Although smart device use among children is increasing, most interventions overlook their cognitive and emotional development or rely too heavily on external control. Such approaches often overlook the developmental needs of children for emotional re...
The drive for a more person-centred approach in the broader field of clinical medicine is also gaining traction in chronic pain treatment. Despite current advances, a further departure from ‘business as usual’ is required to ensure that t...
15 October 2019
Many professionals have limited knowledge of how to address health literacy; they need a wider range of health literacy competencies to enhance empowerment and person-centred prevention. We evaluated whether: (1) a comprehensive health literacy train...
The student-centred approach emphasises active learning, where students take responsibility for their own learning process, in which they are actively involved and integrate new information into their existing knowledge framework. Combining this appr...
The broader aim of this research is to examine how Learning Analytics (LA) can become ethically sound, pedagogically actionable, and realistically adopted in educational practice. To address this overarching challenge, the study investigates three in...
The provision of supported self-management (SSM) is recommended in contemporary guidelines to address the longer-term needs and outcomes of stroke survivors and their families, yet its implementation across stroke pathways has been inconsistent. This...
20 December 2019
Comprehensible communication by itself is not sufficient to overcome health literacy related problems. Future doctors need a larger scope of capacities in order to strengthen a patient’s autonomy, participation, and self-management abilities. T...
In an experimental evaluation of an introductory Arka Dhyana (Intuitive Meditation) course, HeartMath (HM) Inner Balance or emWave2 electronic technology showed highly significant increases in both coherence and achievement in six participants who le...
Dementia affects approximately 55 million people worldwide, yet the psychological experience of diagnosis and the determinants of post-diagnostic well-being remain underexplored relative to biomedical research priorities. The existing literature has...
Pentecostalism has experienced massive growth and evolution, both within Africa and beyond, as is evident through the emergence of dynamic neo-Pentecostal movements, including independent, prophetic, and charismatic churches. However, all its establi...
Several retrospective studies have identified hospital sinks as reservoirs of Gram-negative bacteria. The aim of this study was to prospectively investigate the bacterial transmission from sinks to patients and if self-disinfecting sinks could reduce...
Body image and self-perception are highly related to psychological health and social well-being throughout the lifespan. Body image problems can lead to pathologies affecting the quality of life. Thus, it is essential to analyse perceived self-image...
Perfectionism is common among gifted students, but how its dimensions relate to academic well-being remains unclear. In this cross-sectional, single-site study, 234 adolescents attending Science and Art Centres in Turkiye (aged 14 to 18; 122 girls, 1...
The importance of connections in steel structures is paramount, not only because it greatly influences the cost of construction and provides room for innovations, but also due to the connections’ impact on global structural behaviour. Therefore...
16 November 2022
Early life conditions are associated with lung function and the development of respiratory and non-respiratory illnesses. The relationship with birthweight (BW), however, is conflicting. We examined associations of self-reported BW with lung function...
Objectives: To evaluate the effect of in-hospital medication self-management (SelfMED) on medication adherence two months post-discharge in polymedicated oncology patients. Methods: A prospective, exploratory, single-centre non-randomised pre–p...
Contemporary medical education is shifting from traditional, teacher-centred anatomy instruction toward interactive, student-centred, and clinically integrated approaches. The Jigsaw Method aligns with this shift by fostering collective competence, w...
26 December 2025
Given the scarcity of specific instruments to assess parental education in pediatric physiotherapy, this study developed the Parental Education in Physiotherapy Scale (Spanish acronym, EPF) and calculated its preliminary psychometric properties, acce...
Asthma control can be achieved with effective and safe medication use; however, many patients are not controlled. Patients’ perceptions of asthma, asthma treatment, and pharmacist roles can impact patient outcomes. The purpose of this study was...
Based on classroom management fostering autonomy support and intrinsic motivation, this study examines effects of reciprocal peer-monitoring of learning behaviours on cognitive and affective outcomes. Within our study, 470 German secondary school stu...
This article proposes a novel method for managing usage counters within an anonymous credential system, addressing the limitation of traditional anonymous credentials in tracking repeated use. The method takes advantage of blockchain technology throu...
Despite ongoing screening efforts, colorectal cancer (CRC) remains a leading cause of death in Canada. The aim of this study was to better understand the experiences of Canadian CRC patients with their family practitioners (FPs) during and after thei...
26 November 2021
This article describes a user-centred approach taken by a group of five procurers to set specifications for the procurement of value-based research and development services for IT-supported integrated hypertension management. The approach considered...
11 June 2026
Population ageing presents growing challenges for health and social care systems, particularly in supporting older adults to remain independent and involved in decisions concerning their own health and wellbeing. The EMPOWERing individuals and commun...
Background: Instruments measuring autism-related knowledge, attitudes and self-efficacy are widely used with health professionals, but their measurement properties remain unclear when individual scores are considered separately. Methods: We mapped in...
Introduction: Stair descent is a major cause of falls in older adults, accounting for significant morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs. Handrails are widely recommended for enhancing stair safety, mainly because they can be used to arrest a fal...
This paper presents a decoupled bearingless cross-flow fan (CFF) that operates at a supercritical speed, thereby increasing the maximum achievable rotational speed and fluid dynamic power. In magnetically levitated CFF rotors, the rotational speed an...
Background/Objectives: Multimorbidity renders self-efficacy a continuing partnership between older people, families, and healthcare and social care services. We examined whether nine domain-specific self-efficacy indicators were best understood as on...
Inter-modular connections (IMCs) govern the structural performance, safety, seismic resilience, and reusability of steel modular buildings, yet the existing literature on advanced IMC systems remains fragmented and connection-specific. This paper pre...
Two zinc(II) hexaborate(2−) complexes, [Zn{κ3O-B6O7(OH)6}(κ3N-dien)]·0.5H2O (dien = NH(CH2CH2NH2)2) (1) and (NH4)2[Zn{κ2O-B6O7(OH)6}2(H2O)2]·2H2O (2), and a zinc(II) dodecaborate(6−) complex, (1,3-pnH2)3[(&...
1 January 2000
At present literature shows growing interest in the clinical process and the clinician’s participation as variable in the self-termination of treatment in child psychiatry centres. Most authors agree that socio-demographic factors centred on the chil...
Professionals of different disciplines, including chemists and chemical engineers, engage in water research, even though they might not have been extensively trained in it during their studies. We describe a project-centred master level subject “Wate...
Background: The management of chronic pain is inherently multidisciplinary, requiring collaboration across health and care professions because pain is multidimensional, involving psychological, social, biomedical, cultural, and environmental factors....
Background. Despite robust evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) demonstrating clinical and patient-reported benefits of integrated oncology and palliative care, the tumour-centred focus is predominant. This single–centre process evaluati...
14 October 2020
Dietary non-adherence is pervasive in the hemodialysis (HD) population. Health literacy is a plausible predictor of dietary adherence in HD patients, but its putative mechanism is scarcely studied. Thus, this study aimed to establish the causal model...
Background: Current treatments for people with obesity emphasise the need for person-centred approaches that consider complex biopsychosocial factors and value the lived experience of people when attempting to lose weight. Methods: Narrative intervie...
4 May 2021
The physical environment of a treatment centre may impact the well-being of patients and their perceptions of care. Outpatients with haematological cancer may be in contact with the treatment centre over long periods and could be particularly affecte...
In this new era of precision medicine and patient-centred care, the advent of self-sampling in cervical cancer screening is among the most disruptive innovations in cancer control and prevention[...]
Background and objectives: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) care depends on sustained self-management behaviour and psychological wellbeing. This study examined diabetes self-management behaviour, depressive symptom burden, and associated demographic...
Death is a reality of life. Despite this inevitability, death today remains unwelcome and has been sequestered into the enclaves of medical practice as a means of quelling the rising tide of fear it provokes. Medical practice currently maintains powe...
The synthesis and structural characterization of a new liquid crystalline coordination complex based on pentacoordinated Zn(II) metal centre with the coordination fulfilled by the tridentate chelating N^N^N 2,2′;6′,2″-terpyridine li...
1 January 2005
Autoscopic phenomena are reduplicative experiences during which the subject has the impression of seeing a double in extracorporeal space either from an embodied or disembodied visuo-spatial perspective. Autoscopic phenomena include outof- body exper...
Michel Foucault’s work traces shifting techniques in the governance of humans, from the production of ‘docile bodies’ subjected to the knowledge formations of the human sciences (disciplinary power), to the facilitation of self-governing agents direc...
We study geodesic motion near the throats of asymptotically flat, static, spherically symmetric traversable wormholes supported by a self-gravitating minimally coupled phantom scalar field with an arbitrary self-interaction potential. We assume that...
Educational centres face new challenges in adapting to digital transformation. While the majority of scientific studies have focused on the individual perspective, fewer have examined it from an organisational perspective. This research addresses thi...
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