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Associations between occupational performance and quality of life, well-being, and instrumental activities of daily living in older adults

Emi Miki, Risa Kawabata • Cadernos Brasileiros de Terapia Ocupacional (2020)

This study aimed to investigate the associations between occupational performance and quality of life, well-being, and instrumental activities of daily living in older Japanese adults by examining the correlations between the Canadian Occup...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.4322/2526-8910.ctoAO2096

Uncovering the Tradeoffs and Synergies of Ecosystem Services in Mining Landscapes: Spatiotemporal and Factor Detection Perspective

Jiao Pan, Tao Chen, Antonio Plaza • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (2025)

Revealing the spatial-temporal evolution and interactions of ecosystem services (ESs) in mining area is critical for sustainable environmental management. The temporal and spatial characteristics and changing trends of six ESs in Yuzhong mi...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2025.3586637

Geochemical balance of the mineral fraction and statistical analyzes of the Ebolowa municipal lake’s sediments (central Africa): Implication for early diagenesis process

Akono Daniel Florent, Bokanda Ekoko Eric, Bisse Salomon Bertrant, Belinga Belinga Cedric et al. • Heliyon (2023)

The Ebolowa Municipal Lake (EML) (South Cameroon) in order to identify the early diagenesis processes taking place in the lake and the factors influencing them. To this end, 21 samples were collected. In situ, hydrogen potential, redox pote...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e17617

Underground Gas Storage Process Optimisation with Respect to Reservoir Parameters and Production Equipment

Vladislav Brkić, Ivan Zelenika, Petar Mijić, Igor Medved • Energies (2021)

The storage of natural gas in geological structures such as depleted fields, aquifers and salt caverns plays an important role in a gas supply system as it balances the fluctuation of gas demand and price. Hydraulic loss due to fluid flow t...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/en14144324

Analytical solutions of steady-state temperature field for large-section freezing with rectangular layout of single-ring holes

HONG Zequn 1, SHI Rongjian 1, YUE Fengtian 1, HAN Lei 2 • Yantu gongcheng xuebao (2023)

The temperature field is the basis for assessing the mechanical state and water-sealing performance of the frozen wall, which is an important research direction of the artificial freezing theory. For the freezing pipes in the form of a clos...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.11779/CJGE20220700

Morphological Changes of the Lower Ping and Chao Phraya Rivers, North and Central Thailand: Flood and Coastal Equilibrium Analyses

Chaiwongsaen Nikhom, Nimnate Parisa, Choowong Montri • Open Geosciences (2019)

The Chao Phraya River flows in the largest river basin of Thailand and represents one of the important agricultural and industrial areas in Southeast Asia. The Ping River is one major upstream branch flowing down slope southwardly, joining ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1515/geo-2019-0013

Divergent biological consequences of APOE isoforms across industrialized and non-industrial environments.

Marina M Watowich, Rachel M Petersen, Layla Brassington, Audrey M Arner et al. • PLoS Genetics (2026)

The apolipoprotein ε4 (APOE ε4) isoform directly alters cholesterol and immune biology and is associated with an increased risk of neurodegenerative and cardiometabolic disease in industrialized settings; nevertheless, APOE ε4-which is ance...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1012285

Assessing the natural durability of different tropical timbers in soil-bed tests

Serafín Colín-Urieta, Artemio Carrillo-Parra, José Guadalupe Rutiaga-Quiñones, Pablo López-Albarran et al. • Maderas: Ciencia y Tecnología (2019)

Ground contact speeds up timber decay because of the large number of microorganisms in soil. This study, we assessed the natural durability of seven tropical species using the European standard EN 807 (2001). We embedded samples of Dalbergi...

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Lipofuscin: Wear Pigment or Alarm Signal for Cardiac AlloGraft Vasculopathy?

Anca Otilia Farcas, Mihai Ciprian Stoica, Septimiu Voidazan, Carmen Corina Radu et al. • Diagnostics (2026)

Background: CAV (cardiac allograft vasculopathy) is considered the leading cause of late post-transplant mortality and affects approximately 50% of transplant patients at 10 years post-transplant. Its etiopathogenetic mechanism is considere...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics16152432

Hospitalisations for physical abuse in infants and children less than 5 years, 2013‒2021: a multinational cohort study using administrative data from five European countries

Catherine Quantin, Jonathan Cottenet, Colleen Chambers, Natasha Kennedy et al. • International Journal of Population Data Science (2025)

Objectives Child physical abuse (CPA) is a global public health problem associated with lifelong negative consequences, yet reliable epidemiologic data are lacking. We did a multinational cohort study to analyse trends in CPA hospitalisatio...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.23889/ijpds.v10i3.3028

Negative emissions technologies and practices could challenge global resource supply and environmental limits

Selene Cobo, Ángel Galán-Martín, Gonzalo Guillén-Gosálbez • Communications Earth & Environment (2026)

Abstract Meeting climate goals will most likely require large-scale carbon dioxide removal, yet its sustainability implications remain poorly understood. Here, we conduct a prospective life cycle assessment of multiple negative emissions te...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s43247-026-03348-8

Electrochemical Sensor for Simple and Sensitive Determination of Hydroquinone in Water Samples Using Modified Glassy Carbon Electrode

Parisa Karami-Kolmoti, Hadi Beitollahi, Sina Modiri • Biomedicines (2023)

This study addressed the use of manganese dioxide nanorods/graphene oxide nanocomposite (MnO2 NRs/GO) for modifying a glassy carbon electrode (GCE). The modified electrode (MnO2 NRs/GO/GCE) was used as an electrochemical sensor for the dete...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines11071869

Permanent demand excess as business strategy: an analysis of the Brazilian higher-education market

Rodrigo Menon Simões Moita, Carlos Eduardo Lobo e Silva, Eduardo de Carvalho Andrade • RAUSP: Revista de Administração da Universidade de São Paulo (2015)

Many Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) establish tuition below the equilibrium price to generate permanent demand excess. This paper first adapts Becker’s (1991) theory to understand why the HEIs price in this way. The fact that students...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5700/rausp1181

A fast three-step second-order explicit numerical approach to investigating and forecasting the dynamic of corruption and poverty in Cameroon

Eric Ngondiep • Heliyon (2024)

This paper constructs a three-step second-order numerical approach for solving a mathematical model on the dynamic of corruption and poverty. The stability and error estimates of the proposed technique are analyzed using the L2-norm. The de...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e38236

Solvability of fractional multi-point boundary-value problems with p-Laplacian operator at resonance

Tengfei Shen, Wenbin Liu, Taiyong Chen, Xiaohui Shen • Electronic Journal of Differential Equations (2014)

In this article, we consider the multi-point boundary-value problem for nonlinear fractional differential equations with $p$-Laplacian operator: $$\displaylines{ D_{0^+}^\beta \varphi_p (D_{0^+}^\alpha u(t)) = f(t,u(t),D_{0^+}^{\alp...

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