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Understanding Design Tradeoffs for Health Technologies

Katie O’Leary, Jordan Eschler, Logan Kendall, Lisa M. Vizer et al. • CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2015)

We introduce a mixed-methods approach for determining how people weigh tradeoffs in values related to health and technologies for health self-management. Our approach combines interviews with Q-methodology, a method from psychology uniquely...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702576 PMC: 5554065

Psychosocial Risk Factors on Mining Workers Processing Copper and Gold Minerals during Covid-19 Pandemic

Khaerani Suci Lestari, Aditya Fadilah Muhamad, Arif Susanto, Edi Karyono Putro et al. • The Indonesian Journal of Occupational Safety and Health (2021)

Introduction: In the era of the Covid-19 pandemic, psychosocial issues as part of health and safety have become a popular mental health issue, particularly among gold and copper miners. This situation has led some companies to fire their un...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.20473/ijosh.v10i3.2021.309-315

Semi-enclosed experimental system for coal spontaneous combustion for determining regional distribution of high-temperature zone of coal fire

Jingyu Zhao, Hanqi Ming, Tao Guo, Yuxuan Zhang et al. • International Journal of Coal Science & Technology (2022)

Abstract Temperature variation and gas generation at different depths and positions in the coal combustion process were studied to determine the propagation and evolution of high temperature regions in the process of coal spontaneous combus...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1007/s40789-022-00535-8

Human cardiac innervation-on-a-chip platform recapitulates neurocardiac interactions and supports future disease modeling

Emma Pesu, Elias Kuusela, Anna-Mari Moilanen, Andrey Vinogradov et al. • Scientific Reports (2026)

Abstract The cardiac autonomic nervous system regulates cardiac function through innervation, and dysfunction of the neuronal and cardiovascular crosstalk has been linked to various pathologies. Here, we present a cardiac innervation-on-a-c...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-026-62182-2

HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT IN CANADA

Devidas Menon, Leigh-Ann Topfer • International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care (2000)

OBJECTIVES: Since 1988, four government-funded health technology assessment (HTA) agencies have been established in Canada. This paper is a descriptive review of reports issued by these organizations during the period from 1988 to 1998. MET...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266462300102168

Semaphorin 3A causes immune suppression by inducing cytoskeletal paralysis in tumour-specific CD8+ T cells

Mike B. Barnkob, Yale S. Michaels, Violaine André, Philip S. Macklin et al. • Nature Communications (2024)

Abstract Semaphorin-3A (SEMA3A) functions as a chemorepulsive signal during development and can affect T cells by altering their filamentous actin (F-actin) cytoskeleton. The exact extent of these effects on tumour-specific T cells are not ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-47424-z

Understanding rice preferences and awareness of brown rice among persons with diabetes: A mixed methods study from South India

Rani Mohanraj, Shuba Kumar, Sylvia Jayakumar, Shanmugam Shobana et al. • Social Sciences and Humanities Open (2026)

Polished white rice (WR), high in refined carbohydrates, the main staple in South India is associated with enhanced risk of diabetes. Brown Rice (BR), with lower glycemic load, high fibre content and micronutrients, is a healthier choice. T...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.ssaho.2025.102385

Health Technology Development and Use

Sampsa Hyysalo • Routledge eBooks (2010)

How do development and use of new technology relate? How can users contribute to innovation? This volume is the first to study these questions by following particular technologies over several product launches in detail. It examines the eme...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203849156

Semi-rational design and modification of phosphoketolase to improve the yield of tyrosol in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Na Song, Huili Xia, Yaoru Xie, Shuaikang Guo et al. • Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology (2025)

Tyrosol is an important component of pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, and cosmetics, and their biosynthetic pathways are currently a hot research topic. d-Erythrose 4-phosphate is a key precursor for the biosynthesis of tyrosol in Saccharom...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.synbio.2024.11.007

The Downregulation of eIF3a Contributes to Vemurafenib Resistance in Melanoma by Activating ERK via PPP2R1B

Shi-Long Jiang, Shi-Long Jiang, Zhi-Bin Wang, Zhi-Bin Wang et al. • Frontiers in Pharmacology (2021)

Vemurafenib, a BRAF V600E inhibitor, provides therapeutic benefits for patients with melanoma, but the frequent emergence of drug resistance remains a challenge. An understanding of the mechanisms underlying vemurafenib resistance may gener...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2021.720619

Use of qualitative and mixed methods research in diagnostic technology evaluation and implementation: insights from a systematic review

Caity Roleston, Umasha Ukwatte, Nia Roberts, Gail N. Hayward et al. • Diagnostic and Prognostic Research (2026)

Abstract Background Development of new diagnostic health technologies is increasing, alongside interest in how they can be implemented into health services. Evaluation of new diagnostic tests has typically consisted of technical and diagnos...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s41512-026-00240-z

SNPPhenA: a corpus for extracting ranked associations of single-nucleotide polymorphisms and phenotypes from literature

Behrouz Bokharaeian, Alberto Diaz, Nasrin Taghizadeh, Hamidreza Chitsaz et al. • Journal of Biomedical Semantics (2017)

Abstract Background Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) are among the most important types of genetic variations influencing common diseases and phenotypes. Recently, some corpora and methods have been developed with the purpose of extra...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13326-017-0116-2

Examining the characteristic features of lipedema and the usefulness of BMI and WHtR in clinical evaluation

Monika Czerwińska, Marcin Gruszecki, Jacek Rumiński, Rita Hansdorfer-Korzon • BMC Women's Health (2025)

Abstract Background Lipedema is an adipose tissue disorder involving mostly women. One of the most characteristic lipedema symptoms is painful accumulation of adipose tissue in lower and upper extremities leading to disproportion. Due to th...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12905-025-03834-9

Medical and Health-Related Misinformation on Social Media: Bibliometric Study of the Scientific Literature

Andy Wai Kan Yeung, Anela Tosevska, Elisabeth Klager, Fabian Eibensteiner et al. • Journal of Medical Internet Research (2022)

BackgroundSocial media has been extensively used for the communication of health-related information and consecutively for the potential spread of medical misinformation. Conventional systematic reviews have been published on this topic to ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/28152

Data Mining Techniques in Medical Informatics

U. Rajendra Acharya, Wenwei Yu • The Open Medical Informatics Journal (2010)

The advent of high-performance computing has benefited various disciplines in finding practical solutions to their problems, and our health care is no exception to this.Signal processing, image processing, and data mining tools have been de...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc DOI: https://doi.org/10.2174/1874431101004010021 PMC: 2916206

Examining Rural and Urban Sentiment Difference in COVID-19–Related Topics on Twitter: Word Embedding–Based Retrospective Study

Yongtai Liu, Zhijun Yin, Congning Ni, Chao Yan et al. • Journal of Medical Internet Research (2023)

BackgroundBy the end of 2022, more than 100 million people were infected with COVID-19 in the United States, and the cumulative death rate in rural areas (383.5/100,000) was much higher than in urban areas (280.1/100,000). As the pandemic s...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/42985

Uncertainty and Decisions in Medical Informatics

Peter Szolovits • Methods of Information in Medicine (1995)

This paper presents a tutorial introduction to the handling of uncertainty and decision-making in medical reasoning systems. It focuses on the central role of uncertainty in all of medicine and identifies the major themes that arise in rese...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1634594