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What types of tobacco control public service advertisements work for Chinese adolescents? A mixed-methods study

Yu Chen<sup>*+</sup>, Haoyi Liu<sup>*+</sup>, Shiyu Liu<sup>*+</sup>, Yujiang Cai et al. • Tobacco Induced Diseases (2025)

Introduction Adolescent tobacco use has become a serious global public health problem, and effective tobacco control public service advertisements (PSAs) are crucial for reducing adolescent smoking rates. The study aims to employ a mixedmet...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.18332/tid/211650

Analysis of groundwater and surface water quality using modelled water index and multivariate statistics in Kampala and Mbarara Districts, Uganda

Idris O. Sanusi, Godwin O. Olutona, Ibrahim G. Wawata, Hope Onohuean • Discover Environment (2024)

Abstract The demand for domestic, public and industrial use of water increases with population growth. However, activities from humans and natural environment have resulted into decline in water quality. The aim of this study was to evaluat...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1007/s44274-024-00157-8

The Effect of Ageism and Willingness of Older Adult Care On Caring Behaviors Among New Graduate Nurses: A Descriptive, Correlational Study

Merve Tarhan, Pınar Doğan • Journal of Nursology (2026)

Objective: Despite the increasing ageing population, caring for older adults is not a highly preferred field of nursing in Türkiye and the world; studies examining the attitudes and behaviors of new graduate nurses towards older adult care ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.17049/jnursology.1509812

Machine Learning–Based Prediction of Organic Solar Cell Performance Using Molecular Descriptors

Mohammed Saleh Alshaikh • International Journal of Emerging Research in Engineering, Science, and Management (2025)

The performance of Organic Solar Cells (OSCs) is intrinsically linked to the molecular, electronic, and structural properties of donor and acceptor materials. This study employs various machine learning techniques, namely the Generalized Re...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.58482/ijeresm.v4i4.4

Designing Functional Carriage of High-Speed Medical Train – Systematic Analysis and Evaluation of Tasks, Functions and Flow Routes

Yi Zhao, Yongmeng Wu, DiDi Yan, Zerui Xiang et al. • Promet (Zagreb) (2023)

This paper proposes a functional carriage design and an evaluation index system to improve the operational efficiency of high-speed medical trains. Hierarchical task analysis and human-machine-environment analysis were applied to model the ...

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Roots to roofs: Farmers' perceived socio-ecological impacts of converting mango orchards to urban areas in Multan, Pakistan

Zamam Hassan, Fawad Z.A. Khan, Adel S. Aldosary, Baqer Al-Ramadan et al. • Environmental Challenges (2024)

The process of urban growth often results in the conversion of agricultural spaces, including orchards. In Pakistan, Multan - widely known as the city of Mangoes - has seen exponential urban growth in the past couple of decades, resulting i...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.envc.2024.100935

Investigating the Dimensions of Victimization in Sixth-Grade Male Students and Its Association with Subjective Well-Being in School and School Bonding

Borzoo Amirpour, Fatemeh Takallou, Danesh Valadbeigi • International Journal of School Health (2024)

Background: Victimization in schools has become one of the most prevalent problems in the worldwide education system. This study explored the dimensions of victimization in sixth-grade male students in Kermanshah City, Iran and its associat...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.30476/intjsh.2023.100110.1347

Scrolling and Self: How Self-Esteem and Physical Activity Shape the Effects of Intagram Use on Eating Behavior in Universitary Students

Annalisa Belli, Erica Gobbi, Stefano Amatori, Antonio Preti et al. • Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health (2025)

Introduction The use of Social Networking Sites (SNS) has been continuously increasing in recent years [1], contributing to the rise of significant behavioral and psychological issues, especially when SNS are used as a coping mechanism f...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.54103/2282-0930/29193

The structural characteristics and influential factors of psychological stress of urban residents in Jiangxi province during the COVID-19 pandemic: cross sectional study

Zewen Huang, Lejun Zhang, Junyu Wang, Lu Xu et al. • Heliyon (2021)

Aims: To explore the structural characteristics and influential factors of psychological stress of urban residents in Jiangxi province during the COVID-19 pandemic through a survey of psychological stress, personality traits, family functio...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e07829

Pairwise Performance Comparison of Docking Scoring Functions: Computational Approach Using InterCriteria Analysis

Maria Angelova, Petko Alov, Ivanka Tsakovska, Dessislava Jereva et al. • Molecules (2025)

Scoring functions are key elements in docking protocols as they approximate the binding affinity of a ligand (usually a small bioactive molecule) by calculating its interaction energy with a biomacromolecule (usually a protein). In this stu...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/molecules30132777

Measuring bank efficiency: DEA application

Jelena Titko, Jelena Stankevičienė, Nataļja Lāce • Technological and Economic Development of Economy (2014)

The paper aims to improve the methodology of measuring efficiency of Latvian banks. Efficiency scores were calculated with application of non-parametric frontier technique Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Input-oriented DEA model under Vari...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3846/20294913.2014.984255

Hydrogeochemical Characterization and Appraisal of Groundwater Quality in Yisr River Catchment, Blue Nile River Basin, Ethiopia, by Using the GIS, WQI, and Statistical Techniques

Abebaw Demelash, Abunu Atlabachew, Muralitharan Jothimani, Abel Abebe • Journal of Chemistry (2023)

Groundwater is a primary drinking, agricultural, domestic, and nondomestic water source in Ethiopia’s Yisr River watershed of the Blue Nile River basin. There has been no systematic investigation of the hydrogeochemical properties of ground...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1155/2023/8199000

Social media connectivity and its effect on job stress among office employees in oil and gas sector Malaysia

Kanwal Noreen, Shahrul Nizam Isha Ahmad, Salleh Rohani bt • SHS Web of Conferences (2021)

The modern era with technological advancement removed physical activities. Most of the people seem busy in their androids. Especially, office workers perform duties online throughout the working hours, along with online work activities empl...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1051/shsconf/202112408006

Investigations of the impact of polluted natural waters on cardiovascular diseases and development of integrated prevention system

Vyacheslav Vishnevetskiy, Vladislav Popruzhniy • Przegląd Naukowy Inżynieria i Kształtowanie Środowiska (2019)

The aim of this study was to establish the correlation between natural water pollutions and the prevalence of heart diseases. We analyzed the data from the 2014 Federal Service Report on the state of sanitary and epidemiological welfare of ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.22630/PNIKS.2019.28.1.5

Discriminative efficacy and comparative analysis of functional performance tests for lower-limb injuries in Chinese elite female basketball athletes: a pilot cross-sectional study

Lu Zhang, Xingjian Xiong, Muxi Zhang, Enming Zhang • BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders (2025)

Abstract Background Elite female basketball players experience a high incidence of lower-limb injuries, yet evidence remains limited regarding the applicability of common functional performance tests in this population. This study aimed (1)...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12891-025-09398-x

Impact of prolonged obstructive sleep apnea syndrome disease course on retinal-choroidal microcirculation: a WF-SS-OCTA study

Chaomin Chen, Xinyi Chen, Lixia Qin, Mingming Zhao et al. • Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy (2026)

Purpose: This study used wide-field swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography (WF-SS-OCTA) to evaluate changes in macular vascular density in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) at different stages of disease d...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.pdpdt.2026.105582

Effects of different thermal processing methods on the flavor and precursor substances of the longissimus dorsi muscle in the “Duroc × Landrace × Yorkshire” ternary hybrid pigs

Xinran Yuan, Jialing Tang, Yulin Zhang, Zhengfeng Fang et al. • Food Chemistry: X (2026)

This study investigated the effects of boiling, frying, and roasting on flavor compounds and their precursors in the longissimus dorsi muscle of “Duroc × Landrace × Yorkshire” pigs. HS-SPME-GC–MS, electronic nose analysis, and multivariate ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.fochx.2026.103935

A Dynamic Discriminative Canonical Correlation Analysis via Adaptive Weight Scheme

Shuzhi Su, Penglian Gao, Yanmin Zhu, Xingzhu Liang et al. • IEEE Access (2021)

In multi-view learning, massive literature is devoted to exploring the intrinsic structure between cross-views. It is well known that canonical correlation analysis (CCA) is a conventional multi-view learning method, which considers the cor...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3118023