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Complex Abdominal Wall Hernias: Structured Use of Adjuvant Therapies

Joana Marques‐Antunes, Egon Rodrigues, Marta Guimarães, Marta Guimarães et al. • Journal of Abdominal Wall Surgery (2025)

PurposeRepairing complex abdominal wall hernias is challenging, often requiring component separation techniques (CST) for tension-free closure. Adjuvant therapies, such as botulinum toxin type A (BTA), preoperative progressive pneumoperiton...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/jaws.2025.14515

Prevalence, associated factors and consequence of problematic smartphone use among adolescents and young adults in Bangladesh: A cross-sectional study.

Md Rabiul Islam, Archok Arigan Mondol, Ripa Kundu, Juliana Aditi Baroi et al. • PLoS ONE (2024)

BackgroundProblematic smartphone use (PSU) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children, adolescents, and young adults are of major concern to parents. However, the prevalence and associated factors related to these issue...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0308621

Developing the level of adoption survey to inform collaborative discussion regarding educational innovation

Doug Orr, Rick Mrazek • Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology (2010)

Learning organizations rely on collaborative information and understanding to support and sustain professional growth and development. A collaborative self-assessment instrument can provide clear articulation and characterization of the lev...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.21432/T2588B

Energy, transport network and financial issues: PR perspectives for economic development in time of Euro-Med area change

Amanda Jane Succi • Academicus International Scientific Journal (2012)

The social sciences have inherited a not so clear relationship with the social politics throughout the history. At the first moment the concept of social sciences came into use in the 19th century the first organizations that were promoting...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.7336/academicus.2012.05.07

Sociodemographic Factors and Depression in Patients With Breast Cancer: A Multicenter, Cross-sectional Study in Georgia

Tamar Kakhniashvili, Nino Okribelashvili, Ivane Kiladze • Breast Cancer: Basic and Clinical Research (2025)

Background: Depression commonly occurs in patients with breast cancer (BC), affecting their quality of life. Objectives: The relationships between depression and different sociodemographic characteristics in patients with BC are under-resea...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1177/11782234251323775

Development of an Android-based Computer Based Test (CBT) In Middle School

Nurhikmah H., Hamsu Abdul Gani, Muh. Putra Pratama, Hengki Wijaya • Journal of Education Technology (2021)

Teachers still use a semi-conventional evaluation process. Namely, the exam process is carried out by utilizing social media to send students' exam results manually on paper. This kind of evaluation process is less effective and efficient, ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.23887/jet.v5i2.33527

Integrating clinical and public health knowledge in support of joint medical practice

Jean-Pierre Unger, Ingrid Morales, Pierre De Paepe, Michel Roland • BMC Health Services Research (2020)

Abstract Background Strong relations between medicine and public health have long been advocated. Today, professional medical practice assumes joint clinical/public health objectives: GPs are expected to practice community medicine; Hospita...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12913-020-05886-z

ZOTMPo–INAR(1) Process: Entropy and Modeling of Epidemiological Count Time Series Data

Manik Awale, Shrirang Pund, Hassan S. Bakouch, Aishwarya Ghodake et al. • Entropy (2026)

In this article, we propose a first-order integer-valued autoregressive (INAR(1)) model based on binomial thinning, in which the innovation sequence follows a zero–one–two-modified Poisson (ZOTMPo) distribution. The proposed model accommoda...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/e28080889

Epigenetic Mechanisms and Nephrotic Syndrome: A Systematic Review

Samantha Hayward, Kevon Parmesar, Gavin I. Welsh, Matthew Suderman et al. • Biomedicines (2023)

A small subset of people with nephrotic syndrome (NS) have genetically driven disease. However, the disease mechanisms for the remaining majority are unknown. Epigenetic marks are reversible but stable regulators of gene expression with uti...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines11020514

A systematic review of worldwide epidemiology of psoriasis

Irmina Maria Michałek, Belinda Loring, Swen Malte John • Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (2016)

To inform the WHO Global report on psoriasis, a new comprehensive worldwide systematic review of the epidemiology of psoriasis was undertaken. The aim of this study was to systematically review the worldwide literature regarding the epidemi...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jdv.13854

Factors affecting final functional outcomes in open‐globe injuries and use of ocular trauma score as a predictive tool in Nepalese population

Saurav M. Shrestha, Casey L. Anthony, Grant A. Justin, Madhu Thapa et al. • BMC Ophthalmology (2021)

Abstract Background Open globe injury (OGI) is one of the most devastating form of ocular trauma. The aim of the study is to identify the epidemiology and predict visual outcomes in traumatic open globe injuries using ocular trauma score (O...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12886-021-01819-4

Allodynia is more frequent in the individuals with more intense attacks of headache and in women

Gêssyca Adryene de Menezes Silva, Simone de Siqueira Bringel, Hugo André de Lima Martins, Rosana Christine Cavalcanti Ximenes et al. • Headache Medicine (2012)

Objective: Identifying the presence of allodynia in students with primary headache in a college. Method: It was evaluated 378 students (273 women) aged between 18 and 45 years (22 ± 5 years). A questionnaire was used on the clinical charact...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.48208/HeadacheMed.2012.17

Nurse-coordinated home-based cardiac rehabilitation for patients with heart failure: A scoping review

Tiantian Ruan, Mengqi Xu, Lingyan Zhu, Yuan Ding • International Journal of Nursing Sciences (2023)

Objectives: This study aimed to review and summarize the studies of nurse-coordinated home-based cardiac rehabilitation for patients with heart failure. Methods: The review was performed using Arksey and O’Malley’s scoping review framework....

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnss.2023.09.022

Exploring a Novel Material and Approach in 3D-Printed Wrist-Hand Orthoses

Diana Popescu, Mariana Cristiana Iacob, Cristian Tarbă, Dan Lăptoiu et al. • Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing (2024)

This article proposes the integration of two novel aspects into the production of 3D-printed customized wrist-hand orthoses. One aspect involves the material, particularly Colorfabb varioShore thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) filament with ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/jmmp8010029

Real-time obstacle avoidance of mobile robots using state-dependent Riccati equation approach

Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Rostami, Arun Kumar Sangaiah, Jin Wang, Hye-jin Kim • EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing (2018)

Abstract In this paper, state-dependent Riccati equation (SDRE) method-based optimal control technique is applied to a robot. In recent years, issues associated with the robotics have become one of the developing fields of research. Accordi...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13640-018-0319-1

Evolutionary Robotics

Stefano Nolfi, Dario Floreano • The MIT Press eBooks (2000)

Evolutionary robotics is a new technique for the automatic creation of autonomous robots. Inspired by the Darwinian principle of selective reproduction of the fittest, it views robots as autonomous artificial organisms that develop their ow...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/2889.001.0001

Quantum Computing: Fundamentals, Implementations and Applications

Hilal Ahmad Bhat, Farooq Ahmad Khanday, Brajesh Kumar Kaushik, Faisal I. Bashir et al. • IEEE Open Journal of Nanotechnology (2022)

Quantum Computing is a technology, which promises to overcome the drawbacks of conventional CMOS technology for high density and high performance applications. Its potential to revolutionize today's computing world is attracting more and mo...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ojnano.2022.3178545

Optimal Control of Spatially Distributed Systems

Nader Motee, Ali Jadbabaie • IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2008)

In this paper, we study the structural properties of optimal control of spatially distributed systems. Such systems consist of an infinite collection of possibly heterogeneous linear control systems that are spatially interconnected via cer...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/tac.2008.929366