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The Promise of Co‐Design for Public Policy

Emma Blomkamp • Australian Journal of Public Administration (2018)

Abstract As a novel method for creatively engaging citizens and stakeholders to find solutions to complex problems, co‐design holds great promise for policy makers. It has been vaunted as a way to generate more innovative ideas, ensure poli...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12310

The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy

• Oxford University Press eBooks (2008)

Abstract The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy mines all the traditions of public policy. Public policy is the business end of political science. It is where theory meets practice in the pursuit of the public good. Political scientists appro...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199548453.001.0001

Genetic algorithm–optimized support vector machine for real-time activity recognition in health smart home

Yan Hu, Bingce Wang, Yuyan Sun, Jing An et al. • International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (2020)

Health smart home, as a typical application of Internet of things, provides a new solution for remote medical treatment. It can effectively relieve pressure from shortage of medical resources caused by aging population and help elderly peop...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1177/1550147720971513

Postbiotics in Functional Foods: Preparation-Based Characterization, Gut–Brain Axis Interactions, and Translational Perspectives

Selin Elmas, Daniela Cîrțînă, Rodica Dîrnu, Ion Dorin Plută et al. • Foods (2026)

Postbiotics are defined as preparations of inanimate microorganisms and/or their components that confer a health benefit on the host. Although interest in postbiotics has increased substantially, their translational use in functional foods ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/foods15142457

Clinical Impact of Patient-Specific 3D Models in Neonatal Surgery: A Case-Based Review of Applications and Future Directions

Oscar Girón-Vallejo, Bernardo Garcia-Nuñez, Isidoro Narbona-Arias, Alexander Siles-Hinojosa et al. • Children (2025)

Three-dimensional (3D) modeling and printing technologies are increasingly used in pediatric surgery, offering improved anatomical visualization, surgical planning, and personalized approaches to complex conditions. Compared to standard ima...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/children12091202

Communicatively Constructing the Bright and Dark Sides of Hope: Family Caregivers’ Experiences during End of Life Cancer Care

Jody Koenig Kellas, Katherine M. Castle, Alexis Johnson, Marlene Z. Cohen • Behavioral Sciences (2017)

(1) Background: The communication of hope is complicated, particularly for family caregivers in the context of cancer who struggle to maintain hope for themselves and their loved ones in the face of terminality. In order to understand these...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/bs7020033

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

Public Scholarship in Communication Studies

• University of Illinois Press eBooks (2024)

Defined broadly as the engagement of scholars with nonacademic publics, public scholarship encompasses a variety of approaches to academic work. Each approach pushes academic work beyond the confines of the ivory tower and takes it into the...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252045691.001.0001

Predator-Prey Interactions and Eavesdropping in Vibrational Communication Networks

Meta Virant-Doberlet, Anka Kuhelj, Jernej Polajnar, Rok Šturm • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (2019)

Due to human perceptional bias in favor of air-borne sounds, substrate-borne vibrational signaling has been traditionally regarded as a highly specialized, inherently short-range and, consequently, a private communication channel, free from...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00203

Systematic Literature Review of the Use of Computational Intelligence in the Routing and Spectrum Assignment Problem in Elastic Optical Networks

Renan V. B. Carvalho, Henrique A. Dinarte, Raul C. Almeida Jr., Carmelo J. A. Bastos-Filho • Journal of Microwaves, Optoelectronics and Electromagnetic Applications (2025)

Abstract Elastic optical networks (EONs) have characteristics that meet the growing demand for current and future bandwidth, such as 5G and Internet of Things. In EONs, connections must have a route and a spectrum slice available between th...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1590/2179-10742025v24i1289308

Psychological and Pedagogical Support for Parents of Children with Special Educational Needs

Zauresh Issabayeva, Aizhan Sapargaliyeva, Galiya Shubayeva, Kuanysh Shalabayeva et al. • Continuity in Education (2024)

This study primarily aimed to develop a program that aids parents of children with Special Educational Needs (SEN), placing emphasis on the challenges encountered in communication and understanding. The Eidemiller and Justizkis’s (2008) Fam...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5334/cie.103

Decolonization and Globalization in Communication Studies

Sinfree Bullock Makoni, Katherine A. Masters • Oxford University Press eBooks (2021)

Abstract Decolonial scholars are guided by alternative ways of thinking about language and communication that have existed for millennia but have gone unnoticed in scholarship. An approach to communication underwritten by the decolonial app...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.1152

MAPPING RICE CROPPING SYSTEM IN THE LOWER GANGETIC PLAIN USING LANDASAT 8 (OLI) AND MODIS IMAGERY

A. Maiti, P. Acharya • The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences (2018)

The Indo-Gangetic basin is one of the productive rice growing areas in South-East Asia. Within this extensive flat fertile land, lower Gangetic basin, especially the south Bengal, is most intensively cultivated. In this study we map the ric...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-5-271-2018

Parallel imaging of Drosophila embryos for quantitative analysis of genetic perturbations of the Ras pathway

Yogesh Goyal, Thomas J. Levario, Henry H. Mattingly, Susan Holmes et al. • Disease Models & Mechanisms (2017)

The Ras pathway patterns the poles of the Drosophila embryo by downregulating the levels and activity of a DNA-binding transcriptional repressor Capicua (Cic). We demonstrate that the spatiotemporal pattern of Cic during this signaling even...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1242/dmm.030163

Assessment and analysis of the lifestyle indices in regard to the status of nutrition and physical activity in middle-aged people ( between 30 and 59 years of age) in Kurdistan by using the data of apple system

Tahreh Pashaie, Afshin Bahmani, Parvaneh Taymoori • مجله علمی دانشگاه علوم پزشکی کردستان (2019)

Bacground and Aim: Frequency rates of many non communicable diseases can be reduced by changing lifestyle. This study aimed to assess the status of lifestyle indices in relation to nutrition, physical activity and body mass index in middle-...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ)

The Architecture of an Automatic eHealth Platform With Mobile Client for Cerebrovascular Disease Detection

Wang, Xingce, Bie, Rongfang, Sun, Yunchuan, Wu, Zhongke et al. • JMIR mHealth and uHealth (2013)

BackgroundIn recent years, cerebrovascular disease has been the leading cause of death and adult disability in the world. This study describes an efficient approach to detect cerebrovascular disease. ObjectiveIn order to improve...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.2550