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The Effect of Health Literacy on a Brief Intervention to Improve Advance Directive Completion: A Randomized Controlled Study

Paige C. Barker, Neal P. Holland, Oliver Shore, Robert L. Cook et al. • Journal of Primary Care & Community Health (2021)

Objective Completion of an advance directive (AD) document is one component of advanced care planning. We evaluated a brief intervention to enhance AD completion and assess whether the intervention effect varied according to health literacy...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1177/21501327211000221

ABCD: advanced blockchain DSR algorithm for MANET to mitigate the different security threats

Sayan Majumder, Debika Bhattacharyya, Swati Chowdhuri • EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (2025)

Abstract Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) facilitate data communication across multiple nodes and hop stations, characterized by their dynamic topology. This inherent flexibility, however, makes MANETs vulnerable to various security threats,...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13638-025-02430-7

Objective Assessment of Maritime VHF Communication Competence Using a Real-Time Simulation Framework

Xuan Long Nguyen, Van Cuong Do, Manh Cuong Nguyen • TransNav (2026)

VHF radiotelephony remains a fundamental component of maritime safety and is mandated by the STCW Convention as an essential operational competency for seaferer. However, existing studies largely focus on basic button-level interaction and ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.12716/1001.20.02.22

Evaluating the social return on investment of dance movement for wellbeing in the prevention of burnout among healthcare staff: a study protocol

Mary Lynch, Carolyn Wallace, Teresa Filipponi • BMJ Open (2024)

Introduction Improvement in the National Health Service (NHS) employees’ mental well-being and staff retention are current key issues. Evidence indicates that dance movement therapy (DMT) has been effective in improving mental health and we...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-083287

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

Protocol for a mixed methods process evaluation for a randomised controlled trial to improve shared decision-making about, and uptake of, osteoporosis medicines: the iFraP study [version 3; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

Terence W O'Neill, Robert Horne, Clare Jinks, Christian D Mallen et al. • NIHR Open Research (2026)

Background High quality shared decision-making (SDM) conversations involve people with or at risk of osteoporosis and clinicians working together to decide, where appropriate, which evidence-based medicines best fit the person’s life, belie...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3310/nihropenres.13751.3

Prevalence of gastric varices in cirrhotic patients presenting with upper GI bleed at Shifa International hospital: an insidious threat

Talia Azad, Muhammad Umair, Shaheer Alam, Ayesha Ibrar et al. • The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine (2025)

Abstract Introduction Liver cirrhosis (LC) is a serious condition occurring as a result of chronic liver disease. Amongst its various complications, acute variceal bleeding is the most feared, which presents as esophageal, gastroesophageal,...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s43162-025-00573-z

Personal preventive protocols and travel patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic

Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani, Ali Jafari-Khounigh, Hamid Sharifi, Mahdi Rezaei et al. • Russian Open Medical Journal (2025)

Background — Travel restrictions and adhering to health protocols while traveling was among the key strategies to combat COVID-19 pandemic. Objective — The present study aims to measure and evaluate travel patterns and compliance with COVI...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.15275/rusomj.2025.0102

Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat/Cas12a Mediated Multiplexable and Portable Detection Platform for GII Genotype Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea Virus Rapid Diagnosis

Bingxu Qian, Bingxu Qian, Kai Liao, Dexin Zeng et al. • Frontiers in Microbiology (2022)

Porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus (PEDV) is a member of the genus Alphacoronavirus in the family Coronaviridae. It causes acute watery diarrhoea and vomiting in piglets with high a mortality rate. Currently, the GII genotype, PEDV, possesses...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.920801

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

Trends in cervical cancer incidence and mortality in the United States, 1975–2018: a population-based study

Xianying Cheng, Ping Wang, Li Cheng, Feng Zhao et al. • Frontiers in Medicine (2025)

BackgroundCervical cancer incidence and mortality rates in the United States have substantially declined over recent decades, primarily driven by reductions in squamous cell carcinoma cases. However, the trend in recent years remains unclea...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2025.1579446

SOCIAL SCIENCES AND MEDICINE

Addeane S. Caelleigh • Academic Medicine (2001)

Medicine, as both science and art, relies on a spectrum of knowledge to inform patient care and, by extension, to deliver that care and set health care policy. The research essential to create that knowledge comes from a wide range of scien...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/00001888-200109000-00005

Enhancing vocational training in corrections: A type 1 hybrid randomized controlled trial protocol for evaluating virtual reality job interview training among returning citizens preparing for community re-entry

Matthew J. Smith, Jamie A. Mitchell, Shannon Blajeski, Brittani Parham et al. • Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications (2020)

The Michigan Department of Corrections operates the Vocational Villages, which are skilled trades training programs set within prisons that include an immersive educational community using virtual reality, robotics, and other technologies t...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.conctc.2020.100604

A Deep Learning Harmonization of Multi-Vendor MRI for Robust Intervertebral Disc Segmentation

Chaewoo Kim, Sang-Min Park, Sanghoon Lee, Deukhee Lee • IEEE Access (2024)

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides enhanced soft tissue contrast and high spatial resolution. However, the relationship between intensity values among soft tissues in MRI is inconsistent, even when obtained under the same conditions ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3360272

Optimizing Post-Curing Protocols for 3D-Printed Dental Models: A Long-Term Evaluation of Mechanical and Physical Properties

Irina Besliu Bancescu, Roxana Gheorghita, Alexandru Nemtoi • Engineering Proceedings (2026)

This study evaluated the influence of post-polymerization duration and a 14-day aging period on the mechanical and physical properties of 3D-printed standard resin models. Methods: Specimens were printed using Anycubic resin (50 µm layers) ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/engproc2026148002

Innovations in repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation: a review of clinical evidence and patient-reported outcomes for ExoTMS

David Pánek, Václav Gerla, Michelle Dees, Yael Halaas et al. • Frontiers in Psychiatry (2026)

IntroductionTranscranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive neuromodulation technique with demonstrated efficacy in the treatment of multiple psychiatric and neurological disorders. ExoTMS represents an evolution in TMS system des...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2026.1850212

Robot-Aided Neurorehabilitation: A Robot for Wrist Rehabilitation

Hermano Igo Krebs, Bruce T. Volpe, Dustin Williams, James Celestino et al. • IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (2007)

In 1991, a novel robot, MIT-MANUS, was introduced to study the potential that robots might assist in and quantify the neuro-rehabilitation of motor function. MIT-MANUS proved an excellent tool for shoulder and elbow rehabilitation in stroke...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/tnsre.2007.903899 PMC: 2733849

Quantum Computing

Shruti Aggarwal, Vishal Bharti, Afroj Jahan Badhon • Advances in systems analysis, software engineering, and high performance computing book series (2024)

In this chapter, quantum computing concepts are discussed in detail. Discussion about qubit and allied terms is done in brief. Light is also thrown on quantum ambiguity, key distribution, quantum entanglement, quantum simulation, digital qu...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9522-0.ch001

Universal terminal for cloud quantum computing

Mohammadsadegh Khazali • Scientific Reports (2024)

Abstract To bring the quantum computing capacities to the personal edge devices, the optimum approach is to have simple non-error-corrected personal devices that offload the computational tasks to scalable quantum computers via edge servers...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-65899-0