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  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,689 Views
20 Pages

Valuation of the Vocationality of Cultural Heritage: The Vesuvian Villas

  • Fabiana Forte,
  • Vincenzo Del Giudice,
  • Pierfrancesco De Paola and
  • Federica Troisi

28 January 2020

The Vesuvian Villas are a system of architectural assets that, due to important artistic, historical and typological characteristics, have relevance that is not only local. However, due to ineffective management policies and insufficient financial re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Enhancement of Public Real-estate Assets and Cultural Heritage: Management Plans and Models, Innovative Practices and Tools in Supporting the Local Sustainable Development)
  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,384 Views
14 Pages

Apprenticeships as a Unique Shaping Field for the Development of an Individual Future-Oriented “Vocationality”

  • Bernd-Joachim Ertelt,
  • Andreas Frey,
  • Melanie Hochmuth,
  • Jean-Jacques Ruppert and
  • Silke Seyffer

20 February 2021

With the labor market and work environments becoming increasingly dynamic, the question of how young people can find their way to a sustainable professional future becomes ever more complex. This paper looks from different perspectives at apprentices...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Vocational Design for a Sustainable and Inclusive Future: The Role of Career Adaptability, Self-Determination, and Other Positive Dimensions)
  • Erratum
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,177 Views
1 Page

7 March 2020

The authors would like to make the following corrections to the published paper [...]

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Enhancement of Public Real-estate Assets and Cultural Heritage: Management Plans and Models, Innovative Practices and Tools in Supporting the Local Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,325 Views
22 Pages

7 April 2023

A considerable and growing body of literature has engaged in a critical reading of the nature and substance of shifts in not only the business practices, but the conditions for the very raison d’ėtre or telic identifiability of universitie...

(This article belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,934 Views
14 Pages

31 August 2020

The author makes a strategic argument for the liberal arts grounded in realpolitik (that is, the “realistic” manipulation of the levers of power). In a time of neoliberal university governance, it is useful for fields of study to base app...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Relevance of The Humanities in the Twenty-First Century: Past and Present)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,364 Views
13 Pages

This paper explores the practices of higher education tutors in blended learning contexts. Significantly, the influence of their perceptions on practice was considered by investigating previous teaching and learning experiences, and their views of th...

(This article belongs to the Section Higher Education)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,145 Views
23 Pages

Voluntary HIV Testing and Counselling Initiatives in Occupational Settings: A Scoping Review

  • Holly Blake,
  • Mehmet Yildirim,
  • Stephanie J. Lax and
  • Catrin Evans

Voluntary HIV testing and counselling (VCT) in the workplace could reach population groups who may be at risk for HIV but may not readily seek out testing from other services. We conducted a scoping review to understand (a) the nature of evidence rel...

(This article belongs to the Section Infectious Diseases, Chronic Diseases, and Disease Prevention)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,230 Views
10 Pages

24 December 2021

Recently, Japanese medical students are expected to acquire a high degree of English proficiency with the tacit understanding that it will feature in their future profession through interactions with non-Japanese patients and/or engagement with medic...

(This article belongs to the Section Higher Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
8,875 Views
24 Pages

17 October 2023

As the COVID-19 pandemic recedes, its legacy has been to disrupt universities across the world, most immediately in developing online adjuncts to face-to-face teaching. Behind these problems lie those of assessment, particularly traditional summative...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of New Technologies for Assessment in Higher Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,454 Views
16 Pages

23 June 2025

This article reflects on a capacity-building project co-designed with two universities in northern Mozambique to strengthen partnerships in the educational sector in addressing local issues of youth unemployment and food insecurity. The project focus...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Rethinking the Education-to-Work Transition for Young People)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,183 Views
22 Pages

Engineering Design and Evaluation of the Process Evaluation Method of Auto Repair Professional Training in Virtual Reality Environment

  • Qifeng Xiang,
  • Feiyue Qiu,
  • Jiayue Wang,
  • Jingran Zhang and ,
  • Junyi Zhu,
  • Lijia Zhu and
  • Guodao Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

29 November 2022

The rapid development of information technology and Internet technology has a far-reaching impact on vocational education. It is possible to accurately and objectively evaluate the training of learners by recording the process data of learners’...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Soft Computing Application to Engineering Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,402 Views
10 Pages

6 December 2023

For non-English-speaking nations such as Japan, proficiency in English has emerged as an indispensable skill, particularly in scientific fields like medicine. This research paper extends prior investigations into the motivations of Japanese medical s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,258 Views
13 Pages

4 August 2022

Productivity has posed issues for global countries in terms of promoting older employment due to an emergence of questions regarding production efficiency. Individual characteristics result in varying production efficiencies, which in turn provide di...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Personality, Individual Differences and Psychological Health at Work)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,531 Views
19 Pages

Background: Public health and health promotion rely on many different interventions, which range from health education and communication, through community mobilisation and changes to environmental conditions, to legal and fiscal actions. The introdu...

(This article belongs to the Section Health Behavior, Chronic Disease and Health Promotion)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,926 Views
12 Pages

A Benefit-Cost Analysis of BackTrack, a Multi-Component, Community-Based Intervention for High-Risk Young People in a Rural Australian Setting

  • Simon Deeming,
  • Kim Edmunds,
  • Alice Knight,
  • Andrew Searles and ,
  • Anthony P. Shakeshaft and
  • Christopher M. Doran
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

BackTrack is a multi-component, community-based program designed to build capacity amongst high-risk young people. The aim of this study was to conduct a benefit-cost analysis of BackTrack, which was implemented in Armidale, a rural town in New South...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
9,026 Views
24 Pages

31 January 2023

Given the impact of unsustainable practices, work, and living patterns, it has become increasingly important to raise global citizens as stewards of the earth’s life support system. Thus, developing sustainability literacy has become very cruci...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Technology Enhanced Learning and Resilience in Higher Education Institutions during COVID-19 and Beyond: Challenges and Opportunities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,772 Views
13 Pages

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a considerable increase in the use of e-health applications. Shortly after confirmation of the first case of COVID-19 in Poland, the Ministry of Health allowed for the general use of remote physician’s visits (...

(This article belongs to the Section Digital Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
413 Views
16 Pages

31 August 2026

Sustainable development depends on whether emerging economies can convert foreign direct investment (FDI) into durable, knowledge-based capabilities rather than transient, low-skill employment. This paper asks how FDI catalyzes sustainable human-capi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
114 Views

Leaving the sheltered workshop

  • J. Modestin and
  • M. Lieb

Occupational activity is an important part of the psychosocial adjustment even in those mental patients who cannot be fully rehabilitated and integrated into the competitive labour market. Yet some patients do not adhere to the occupational programme...