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The Evolution of Phytochemical and Medicinal Plant Research in Chile: Status, Opportunities, and Challenges

Gonzalo Fuentes-Barros, Sebastián Castro-Saavedra, Nicolás Montalva, Alejandro Vega-Muñoz et al. • Plants (2026)

Background: The global use of herbal medicines and research on plant bioactive compounds have steadily increased. In Chile, this growth is linked to ethnobotanical knowledge and advances in phytochemistry, although gaps persist in its evolu...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/plants15142135

Uses of Electronic Health Records for Public Health Surveillance to Advance Public Health

Guthrie S. Birkhead, Michael Klompas, Nirav R. Shah • Annual Review of Public Health (2015)

Public health surveillance conducted by health departments in the United States has improved in completeness and timeliness owing to electronic laboratory reporting. However, the collection of detailed clinical information about reported ca...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031914-122747

Physical Education's Role in Public Health

James F. Sallis, Thomas L. McKenzie, Michael W. Beets, Aaron E. Beighle et al. • Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport (2012)

The 1991 paper, "Physical education's role in public health" described the importance of physical education in addressing public health problems. On its 20th anniversary, this article reviews accomplishments in improving the health impact o...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02701367.2012.10599842 PMC: 6036633

Evidence-Based Public Health: A Fundamental Concept for Public Health Practice

Ross C. Brownson, Jonathan E. Fielding, Christopher Maylahn • Annual Review of Public Health (2009)

Despite the many accomplishments of public health, a greater attention to evidence-based approaches is warranted. This article reviews the concepts of evidence-based public health (EBPH), on which formal discourse originated about a decade ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.publhealth.031308.100134

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

Rawlance Ndejjo, Paineto Masengere, Fred Nuwaha, Isaac Ddumba et al. • Open Research Europe (2023)

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...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.13286.2

Trauma is a public health issue

Kathryn Marley Magruder, Katie A. McLaughlin, Diane L. Elmore • European Journal of Psychotraumatology (2017)

Exposure to trauma is pervasive in societies worldwide and is associated with substantial costs to the individual and society, making it a significant global public health concern. We present evidence for trauma as a public health issue by ...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/20008198.2017.1375338 PMC: 5800738

LASIK Surgery

Megan Yu • Voices in Bioethics (2020)

Photo by Scott Van Daalen on Unsplash INTRODUCTION LASIK surgery, one of the most common elective procedures worldwide, aims to decrease or eliminate the need to wear glasses or contact lenses by reshaping the cornea’s curvature to re...

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Non-state actor perceptions of legitimacy and meaningful participation in international climate governance

Lisa Dellmuth, Maria-Therese Gustafsson, Suanne Mistel Segovia-Tzompa • npj Climate Action (2025)

Abstract There is a lively debate about the legitimacy of the international climate regime, as represented by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the quality of non-state actor participation in the regime. This co...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s44168-025-00214-9

Extracellular vesicles as circulating cancer biomarkers: opportunities and challenges

R. E. Lane, D. Korbie, M. M. Hill, M. Trau • Clinical and Translational Medicine (2018)

Abstract Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are small, lipid-bound particles containing nucleic acid and protein cargo which are excreted from cells under a variety of normal and pathological conditions. EVs have garnered substantial research int...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s40169-018-0192-7

Nuclear genomic signals of the ‘microturbellarian’ roots of platyhelminth evolutionary innovation

Christopher E Laumer, Andreas Hejnol, Gonzalo Giribet • eLife (2015)

Flatworms number among the most diverse invertebrate phyla and represent the most biomedically significant branch of the major bilaterian clade Spiralia, but to date, deep evolutionary relationships within this group have been studied using...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.7554/eLife.05503

Interacting roles of gut microbiota and T cells in the development of autoimmune hepatitis

Qingwei Wu, Zhifa Ge, Chengyu Lv, Qifeng He • Frontiers in Immunology (2025)

Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is a progressive liver inflammatory disease mediated by an autoimmune response, with an increasing incidence rate. In severe cases, AIH will rapidly progress to liver cirrhosis and liver failure and even lead to d...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2025.1584001

Views of generation Z nurse candidates on their willingness to work in featured services in hospitals: A qualitative study

Yasin Cetin, Asli Tok Ozen, Mumin Savas • Medicine Science (2024)

The aim of this study is to identify the willingness of generation Z nursing students to work in the specialized units, as well as their views about these units, and to find answers to issues such as which units they want to work in and why...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5455/medscience.2023.08.154

Advancements in natural language processing: Implications, challenges, and future directions

Supriyono Supriyono, Aji Prasetya Wibawa, Suyono Suyono, Fachrul Kurniawan • Telematics and Informatics Reports (2024)

This research delves into the latest advancements in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and their broader implications, challenges, and future directions. With the ever-increasing volume of text data generated daily from diverse sources, ext...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.teler.2024.100173

Applications of natural language processing and large language models in materials discovery

Xue Feng Jiang, Weiren Wang, Shaohan Tian, Hao Wang et al. • npj Computational Materials (2025)

The transformative impact of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies on materials science has revolutionized the study of materials problems. By leveraging well-characterized datasets derived from the scientific literature, AI-powered too...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc-nd DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41524-025-01554-0

A systematic review of natural language processing applied to radiology reports

Arlene Casey, Emma Davidson, Michael Poon, Hang Dong et al. • BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making (2021)

BACKGROUND: Natural language processing (NLP) has a significant role in advancing healthcare and has been found to be key in extracting structured information from radiology reports. Understanding recent developments in NLP application to r...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-021-01533-7 PMC: 8176715

Data-driven materials research enabled by natural language processing and information extraction

Elsa Olivetti, Jacqueline M. Cole, Edward Kim, Olga Kononova et al. • Applied Physics Reviews (2020)

Given the emergence of data science and machine learning throughout all aspects of society, but particularly in the scientific domain, there is increased importance placed on obtaining data. Data in materials science are particularly hetero...

OPENALEX other-oa DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0021106

Location factors and ecosystem embedding of sustainability-engaged blockchain companies in the US. A web-based analysis

Jan Kinne, Robert Dehghan, Sebastian Schmidt, David Lenz et al. • International Journal of Information Management Data Insights (2024)

While many digital technologies provide opportunities for creating business models that impact sustainability, some technologies, especially blockchain applications, are often criticized for harming the environment, e.g. due to high energy ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.jjimei.2024.100287

Few-shot learning for automated content analysis: Efficient coding of arguments and claims in the debate on arms deliveries to Ukraine

Jonas Rieger, Kostiantyn Yanchenko, Mattes Ruckdeschel, Gerret von Nordheim et al. • Studies in Communication, Media (2024)

Pre-trained language models (PLM) based on transformer neural networks developed in the field of natural language processing (NLP) offer great opportunities to improve automatic content analysis in communication science, especially for the ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5771/2192-4007-2024-1-72