Academic Articles & Research Papers

Adaptation of the scale of effects of social media on eating behavior in Hungarian university students

Background. People live in a technological world, where social media is used very commonly. Social media has effects on eating behaviors, as in other aspects. For this reason, it is important to measure social media effect. Objective. This...

Risk Communication and Public Health

Abstract Controversies about risks to public health regularly hit the news, whether about food safety, environmental issues, medical interventions, or ‘lifestyle’ risks such as drinking. To those trying to manage or regulate risks, public r...

Hypertension and diabetes patients’ perspective of challenges and their coping mechanisms in Mukono and Buikwe districts in Uganda – a qualitative study

Background: In sub-Saharan Africa, the burden of non-communicable diseases is steadily rising amidst a high prevalence of communicable diseases stretching the healthcare system. This study explored hypertension and diabetes patients’ perspe...

From Two-Phase to Three-Phase: The New Electrochemical Interface by Oxide Electrocatalysts

Abstract Electrochemical reactions typically occur at the interface between a solid electrode and a liquid electrolyte. The charge exchange behaviour between these two phases determines the kinetics of electrochemical reactions. In the past...

Modelling Potassium Properties in East African Soils Using Infrared Spectroscopy

Potassium (K) is an essential plant nutrient and is often in short supply in the highly weathered soils of East Africa. The development of effective and sustainable fertilisation strategies could be helped by developing rapid and relatively...

Improving Muscle Function Through a Multimodal Behavioural Intervention for Knee Osteoarthritis and Obesity: The POMELO Trial

ABSTRACT Background Treatments aimed at improving physical function and body composition, including reducing fat mass (FM) and increasing muscle mass, may benefit individuals with advanced knee osteoarthritis (OA) and obesity. We investigat...

The microwave-absorption properties and mechanism of phenyl silicone rubber/CIPs/graphene composites after thermal-aging in an elevated temperature

Abstract Recently, the application and development of flexible microwave-absorption composites based on silicone rubber have gradually become a research hot spot. In this study, methyl vinyl phenyl silicone rubber (MPVQ)/carbonyl iron parti...

Manufacturing of Hierarchical (Nano-)Composite Structures: Numerical and Experimental Perspectives

Thermoset polymer nanocomposites have considerable potential to improve the functionality and optimise the performance of composite structures. Such a nanocomposite generally consists of a modified polymer matrix (continuous phase) containi...

A qualitative study of developing beliefs about health, illness and healthcare in migrant African women with gestational diabetes living in Sweden

Abstract Background Gestational diabetes (GDM) is associated with health risks for both mother and child, and is particularly relevant to migrant women and women of African origin. With today’s extensive global migration, contact with the n...

Family and community resilience: a Photovoice study

Abstract Background Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), in combination with adverse community environments, can result in traumatic stress reactions, increasing a person’s risk for chronic physical and mental health conditions. Family res...

Understanding Customers' Opinion using Web Scraping and Natural Language Processing

The web offers large volumes of data that is unstructured and fails to be further processed if not extracted and organized into local variables or into databases. In this paper, we aim to extract data from the Internet using web scraping ...

Digital footprints as a tool to evaluate the spatiotemporal environmental impacts of grocery shopping across Great Britain

Introduction & Background Climate change represents one of the most pressing challenges of our time. Within this context, the food sector is a critical domain for intervention, accounting for approximately one-third of global greenhouse gas...

The Problem of Choosing the Language of Communication: Ukrainian Realities

The article analyses the situational change in the language behaviour (code switching) of representatives from different regions of Ukraine based on the data of a statistically significant mass survey of the adult population of different re...

Enhancing adult lifelong learning through data fusion algorithms and quality assurance

Abstract This study presents a Data Fusion + Random Forest (RF) framework to predict adult learners’ educational outcomes, such as dropout risk and course completion. Adult lifelong learning is crucial for personal and professional growth, ...

Thermophysical properties and thermal cycling behaviour of RT54 HC nanocomposite phase change materials containing samarium oxide.

Computer vision for behaviour-based safety in construction: A review and future directions

Real-Time Fire Detection From Video Surveillance Cameras: Where Are We Now?

Automatic fire detection in video surveillance is a critical capability for safeguarding industrial sites, public infrastructures, and natural environments. Although recent advances in deep learning have substantially improved early fire de...

Pathophysiology of REM sleep behaviour disorder.

Shear banding and flow instabilities in wormlike micelles: Modelling and mechanisms – A review

Worm-like micelles (WLMs) are dynamic, self-assembling supramolecular structures that exhibit complex viscoelastic behaviour due to their ability to undergo reversible scission, fusion, branching, and sequence rearrangement. This review pro...

Predicting process behaviour using deep learning