Accessibility in the built environment is crucial for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to promote equity, inclusion, and sustainable urban development. This study examines how the quantity and content of research on the accessibilit...
With the steady increase in the number of data sources to be stored and processed by higher education and research institutions, it has become necessary to develop Research Information Systems, which will store this research information in the long t...
This systematic review synthesised existing research papers that explore the available metadata standards to enable researchers to preserve, discover, and reuse research data in repositories. This review provides a broad overview of certain aspects t...
Extensive research is currently being conducted on nanotechnologies worldwide, and the applications of nanomaterials are continuously expanding. Given their unique intrinsic characteristics, such as their small size and increased reactivity, nanomate...
The principles of Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability (FAIR) have been put forward to guide optimal sharing of data. The potential for industrial and social innovation is vast. Domain-specific metadata standards are crucial...
Despite the surge in energy policy research, the absence of a standardized vocabulary for analytical factors hinders the comparability of studies and, therefore, the effectiveness of policy design. This study addresses this gap by developing a compre...
Increased survival after spinal cord injury (SCI) worldwide has enhanced the need for quality data that can be compared and shared between centers, countries, as well as across research studies, to better understand how best to prevent and treat SCI....
In the era of the digital economy, with the digital and intelligent transformation of the industry, technical complexity, and higher demand for the inter-operability of Industrial Internet platforms, standardization work faces challenges of timelines...
It has long been argued that the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) data model standard is the key to unlocking the potential of interoperable Building Information Modeling (BIM). Despite a wealth of published research literature incorporating IFC, th...
Information management is an important development direction in the field of tunnel engineering, and BIM technology provides an important approach for the realization of it. However, standardization is the first step of the implementation of BIM tech...
Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the most significant challenges to global public health. Vaccine development is a critical strategy for the prevention and control of TB. However, evaluating the protective efficacy of TB vaccines faces numerous chall...
Single joint isometric assessments of force production using force plates have become popular in research and practice; however, there are currently no standardization recommendations. The purpose of the present review was to explore and discuss the...
Everybody, regardless of their role, is aware that biomedical research is rapidly evolving, and the demand for reproducibility is increasing together with the amount of novel information. “Before reproducibility must come pre-producibility&rdqu...
12 August 2021
Standardization, based on scientific and technological development, provides solutions for optimal level of order in a wide range of industrial, societal and environmental fields. Analogically to the process of open innovation, the development of sta...
Preclinical imaging is a critical component in translational research with significant complexities in workflow and site differences in deployment. Importantly, the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) precision medicine initiative emphasizes the...
The rapid evolution of generative artificial intelligence (AI) is substantially changing archival research methodologies in social sciences. Yet, more structured guidance of methodological protocols informing AI use is needed to mitigate emergent thr...
Intelligent design has been the direction pursued by international electric vehicle (EV) research and development (R&D) teams in recent years. This paper analyzes the problems of unsustainable development in the current product design of EVs in C...
Functional antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) represents a fundamental and context-dependent characteristic of antiviral antibody responses, reflecting the dual capacity of antibodies to mediate both the neutralization and Fc receptor-dependent enh...
30 July 2024
Globally, the demand for qualitative research has risen, driven by the health sector’s need for in-depth investigation of complex issues behind any phenomenon that may be inadequately comprehended and that other research methods cannot explore,...
The growing use of bibliometric methods in literature reviews has intensified concerns about methodological transparency and consistency. This study compares English-language reviews authored by China-affiliated and non-China-affiliated researchers b...
Despite the significant volume of empirical research found in student-authored academic theses—particularly in the social sciences—these works are often poorly documented and difficult to discover within institutional repositories. A key...
Organisations that manage wildfires are expected to deliver scientifically defensible decisions. However, the limited availability of high quality data restricts the rate at which research can advance. The nature of wildfires contributes to this: the...
A priority must be made on making cities more resilient against crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic to help plan for an uncertain future. However, due to the insufficient transfer of knowledge from, among others, research projects to cities, they ar...
Concerns around healthy and sustainable food, particularly regarding the standardization of production, cost control, and revenue maximization, are issues challenging food and beverages researchers and professionals. There are some available models t...
The railway industry—traditionally a conservative industry with low adaption speed for innovation—is currently entering its digitization phase. The sector faces a challenge in integrating new technologies and approaches into the employed&...
Smartgrid technologies necessitate the use of information technologies (IT) and communication in power system networks. There are different ways of integrating power system equipment in the communication layer for successful information exchange. IEC...
31 August 2022
The lack of consistent presentation of results in published studies on the association between a quantitative explanatory variable and a quantitative dependent variable has been a long-term issue in evaluating the reported findings. Studies are analy...
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a multidimensional psychiatric disorder that is estimated to affect around 350 million people worldwide. Generating valid and effective animal models of depression is critical and has been challenging for neuroscien...
Risks related to climate change and natural hazards increasingly affect urban areas such as historic towns, old urban quarters, villages, and hamlets. These, as well as historic landscapes, make up a significant part of an urban area’s identity and c...
Background: Dental insurance claims data are vital for research in oral health, epidemiology, and policy. However, issues like data quality, coding standards, validity, interoperability, and analytical approaches hinder their use. This review outline...
The development of guidelines and standards for telemedicine is an important and valuable process to help insure effective and safe delivery of quality healthcare. Some organizations, such as the American Telemedicine Association (ATA), have made the...
A great challenge in the use of standardized cancer registry data is deriving reliable, evidence-based results from large amounts of data. A solution could be its mapping to a common data model such as OMOP, which represents knowledge in a unified se...
Work–life balance (WLB), which has become a central issue in workers’ everyday lives, is a global issue with a growing body of investigation into its meaning and the construction of suitable measurement scales, but varying meanings for WL...
The cost of recovery after a cybersecurity attack is likely to be high and may result in the loss of business at the extremes. Evaluating the acquired cybersecurity capabilities and evolving them to a desired state in consideration of risks are inevi...
We present the multidisciplinary approach toward the diagnostic and treatment of patients with cognitive complaints adopted within the Leenaards Memory Centre at the University Hospital of Lausanne in Switzerland. Our strategy combines clinical evalu...
The health monitoring of laboratory rodents is essential for ensuring animal health and standardization in biomedical research. Progress in housing, gnotobiotic derivation, and hygienic monitoring programs led to enormous improvement of the microbiol...
Background/Objectives: The NANDA International, Inc., (NANDA-I) diagnostic classification is the most widely used standardized nursing language internationally. The EVALUAN-I tool was developed to evaluate the NANDA-I diagnostic classification. The a...
Prosthetic joint infection (PJI) is a major complication following total arthroplasty. Rising antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to antibiotics will further increase therapeutic insufficiency. New antibacterial technologies are being developed to prevent...
Parkinson’s disease (PD), a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, imposes growing clinical and socioeconomic burdens worldwide. Despite landmark discoveries in dopamine biology and α-synuclein pathology, translating mechanistic insights...
This article explores how people with intellectual disabilities can be more involved in evaluating and regulating the services they use and the quality of their lives. Traditionally, these evaluations have been performed by professionals, but we argu...
16 December 2022
The dramatic increase in electromagnetic fields (EMFs) in the environment has led to public health concerns around the world. Based on over 70 years of research in this field, the World Health Organization (WHO) has concluded that scientific knowledg...
Conducting quantitative research involving adolescents demands a thoughtful approach to the question of supervision, given that each option comes with its distinct set of implications. This study reviews these implications and empirically tests wheth...
Several international organizations such as the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), United Nations (UN), and World Bank recommend that policymakers implement an environmental tax to reduce climate change, protect the enviro...
The design of IT services—including the architectural design—is considered a core activity to obtain a cost-effective IT service. Consequently, the main extant IT service frameworks and standards—rigorous and lightweight-agile types...
The significant burden of polypharmacy in clinical settings contrasts sharply with the narrow research focus on drug–drug interactions (DDIs), revealing an important gap in understanding the complexity of real-world multi-drug regimens. The pre...
Background: The management of healthcare supply chains (HSCs) involves complex logistical challenges across storage, transportation, and distribution. Methods: This study proposes a mixed-methods research framework to assess healthcare logistics mana...
This study presents a rigorous experimental investigation of in-cabin acoustic comfort across a heterogeneous set of road and special-purpose vehicles. Interior noise measurements were conducted on a total of 35 vehicles, comprising five vehicles fro...
A car-roof photovoltaic has enormous potential to change our society. With this technology, 70% of a car can run on the solar energy collected by the solar panel on its roof. Unfortunately, it is not a simple extension of conventional photovoltaic te...
Since electronic noses are used more and more for air quality monitoring purposes, and in some countries are starting to have a legal value, there is a need for standardization and programs for the quality verification of instruments. Such quality pr...
Drought is expected to intensify under climate change, posing significant risks to Mediterranean agroecosystems. This study provides long-term projections of drought and wetness conditions for three representative Mediterranean regions—Eastern...
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