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A Probabilistic Fatigue Strength Assessment in AlSi-Cast Material by a Layer-Based Approach

Matthias Oberreiter, Stefan Fladischer, Michael Stoschka, Martin Leitner • Metals (2022)

An advanced lightweight design in cast aluminium alloys features complexly shaped geometries with strongly varying local casting process conditions. This affects the local microstructure in terms of porosity grade and secondary dendrite arm...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/met12050784

THE USE OF RASCH MEASUREMENT MODEL IN ENGLISH TESTING

Siti Eshah Mokshein, Haliza Ishak, Hishamuddin Ahmad • Cakrawala Pendidikan: Jurnal Ilmiah Pendidikan (2019)

This study aimed at determining the quality of the English Paper 1 (EP1) items of UPSR trial examination for six graders in terms of its reliability, validity and items characteristics. It also sought to determine the difficulty levels of 4...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.21831/cp.v38i1.22750

Learning Statistics by Doing Statistics

Gary Smith • Journal of Statistics Education (1998)

To help students develop statistical reasoning, a traditional introductory statistics course was modified to incorporate a semester-long sequence of projects, with written and oral reports of the results. Student test scores improved dramat...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10691898.1998.11910623

Exploring Surgeons' Perceptions of the Role of Simulation in Surgical Education: A Needs Assessment

Marcia Clark, Jonathan White, Sharla King, Mike Carbonaro • Canadian Medical Education Journal (2011)

Introduction: The last two decades have seen the adoption of simulation-based surgical education in various disciplines. The current study’s goal was to perform a needs assessment using the results to inform future curricular planning and n...

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Patient and Attendant Satisfaction With Services at Medical College Hospital in Bangladesh: A Cross-Sectional Survey

Amit Bhowmick, Sumaiya Tohfa Afindi, Suchandana Rani • Health Services Insights (2026)

Background Patient satisfaction is a key indicator of healthcare quality, particularly in resource-constrained public health systems. Despite growing evidence on healthcare service quality in Bangladesh, comprehensive assessments incorporat...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1177/11786329261477455

Natural Dyes Product Design Using Green Quality Function Deployment II Method To Support Batik Sustainable Production

Ika Rinawati Dyah, Puspita Sari Diana, Pujotomo Darminto, Handayani Kasih Puji • E3S Web of Conferences (2018)

Using synthetic dyes causes bad impact on the environment. But using natural dyes has several problems such as fade, slight colour variations and takes longer time. In order to solve that problems, it is needed to develop instant natural dy...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1051/e3sconf/20187304014

¡Salvemos a Freud!: Juan Marín, Pablo Neruda, la Alianza de Intelectuales y las vicisitudes de un intento de asilo político al creador del psicoanálisis en Chile (1938)

Mariano Ruperthuz Honorato • Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2014)

This paper recovers the efforts made by the Alliance of Intellectuals for the Defense of Culture (A.I. CH) and the Medical Society of Valparaiso to offer political asylum in Chile to Sigmund Freud. These groups leds by Pablo Neruda and Juan...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.4000/nuevomundo.67241

An Investigation of Potential Health Risks from Zoonotic Bacterial Pathogens Associated with Farm Rats

Lorina Badger-Emeka, Yasmeen Al-Mulhim, Fatimah Al-Muyidi, Maram Busuhail et al. • Environmental Health Insights (2020)

Background: The 21st century has seen a wide range of diseases resulting from zoonotic infections, of which bacterial infections have led to outbreaks of food-borne diseases. Aim: The study looks at bacterial pathogen carriage by farm rats ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1177/1178630220942240

Geographies of Touch/Touched by Geography

Deborah P. Dixon, Elizabeth Straughan • Geography Compass (2010)

Abstract Considerable attention within geography has been paid to the physiologies, knowledges and practices that give substance and import to the senses – sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch – and the manner in which these work alone, o...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2009.00299.x

The Geography of Development

Klaus Desmet, Dávid Krisztián Nagy, Esteban Rossi‐Hansberg • Journal of Political Economy (2018)

We develop a dynamic spatial growth theory with realistic geography. We characterize the model and its balanced-growth path and propose a methodology to analyze equilibria with different levels of migration frictions. Different migration sc...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/697084

Bankruptcy Prediction, Financial Distress and Corporate Life Cycle: Case Study of Central European Enterprises

Lucia Michalkova, Olga Ponisciakova • Administrative Sciences (2025)

Businesses are influenced by the cyclical nature of economic development and distinct stages in the corporate life cycle. Accurate early-warning mechanisms are crucial to mitigating bankruptcy risk, enabling timely rescue measures. This art...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/admsci15020063

The political science of risk perception

Sheila Jasanoff • Reliability Engineering & System Safety (1998)

Psychometric research on risk perception has frequently been invoked as evidence for a distinction between ‘actual’ risk as measured by experts and ‘perceived’ risk as experienced by laypersons. According to this view, perceived risk repres...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc-nd DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0951-8320(97)00129-4

Experimentation in Political Science

James N. Druckman, DONALD PHILIP GREEN, James H. Kuklinski, Arthur Lupia • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2011)

In his 1909 American Political Science Association presidential address, A. Lawrence Lowell (1910) advised the fledgling discipline against following the model of the natural sciences: “We are limited by the impossibility of experiment. Pol...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511921452.001

Total factor productivity growth and spatial–temporal evolution of China’s health system: a three-stage DEA-Malmquist approach

Yutong Yan, Pengcheng Wang, Yurui Guo • Frontiers in Public Health (2026)

In recent years, the deepening of healthcare reform in China has raised high demands for the accurate measurement of hospital total factor productivity (TFP), where existing systems often overstate performance by neglecting social welfare. ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1818765

Artificial intelligence for pediatric height prediction using large-scale longitudinal body composition data

Dohyun Chun, Hae Woon Jung, Jongho Kang, Woo Young Jang et al. • Digital Health (2025)

Objective We developed a precise, reliable artificial intelligence (AI) model for predicting the future height of children and adolescents based on anthropometric and body composition data. Materials and Methods We used an extensive longitu...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1177/20552076251395975

Tirzepatide versus GLP-1 receptor agonists and stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation and type 2 diabetes

Chih-Lang Lin, Kuan-Chou Lin, Jung-Min Yu, Chia-Lun Chang et al. • Nature Communications (2026)

Abstract Patients with atrial fibrillation and type 2 diabetes remain at high risk of stroke despite anticoagulation and glucose-lowering treatment. We examined whether tirzepatide was associated with lower cerebrovascular risk than establi...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-77047-5