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Urban Geography

Michael J. Pacione • Routledge eBooks (2009)

Today, for the first time in the history of Humankind urban dwellers outnumber rural residents. Urban places, towns and cities, are of fundamental importance – for the distribution of population within countries; in the organization of econ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203881927

Political Theory and Political Science

Gabriel Abraham Almond • American Political Science Review (1966)

Like Rachel, Jacob's beloved but still childless bride, who asked herself and the Lord each morning, “Am I?,” or “Can I?,” so presidents of this Association on these annual occasions intermittently ask, “Are we a science?,” or “Can we becom...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/1953762

Exploring Asymmetric Nexus Between CO2 Emissions, Environmental Pollution, and Household Health Expenditure in China

Zeeshan M, Han J, Rehman A, Ullah I et al. • Risk Management and Healthcare Policy (2021)

Muhammad Zeeshan,1 Jiabin Han,1 Alam Rehman,2 Irfan Ullah,3 Fakhr E Alam Afridi4 1College of Business Administration, Liaoning Technical University, Xingcheng, Liaoning Province, 125105, People’s Republic of China; 2Faculty of Managem...

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Destination Management and Marketing Organizations as Enablers of Entrepreneurial Resilience: Co-Creating Organizational Structures and Human Resource Capacity Through Participatory Governance and Emerging Technologies

Georgios Tsoupros, Sotirios Varelas, Ioannis E. Anastasopoulos • Merits (2026)

Destination Management and Marketing Organizations (DMMOs) shape the human resource and technological conditions under which tourism enterprises, including digital ventures, pursue resilience and growth, yet their structures are often desig...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/merits6030026

Digital Co-Creation in Socially Sustainable Smart City Projects: Lessons From the European Union and Canada

Daniela Popescul, Lily Murariu, Laura-Diana Radu, Mircea-Radu Georgescu • IEEE Access (2024)

Utilizing readily accessible information and communication technologies (ICTs), such as mobile devices, applications, and simple Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, and harnessing their potential through Experimentation as a Service (EaaS), c...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3399016

Linking Spiritual and Religious Coping With the Quality of Life of Community-Dwelling Older Adults and Nursing Home Residents

Luciano Magalhães Vitorino BSN, MSc, Gail Low RN, BSN, MA, PhD, Lucila Amaral Carneiro Vianna PhD • Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine (2016)

Objective: This study examined the effect of Positive and Negative Spiritual and Religious Coping (SRC) upon older Brazilian’s quality of life (QOL). Method: A secondary analysis of data collected from 77 nursing home residents (NHRs; M age...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1177/2333721416658140

Impact of age-friendly living environment and intrinsic capacity on functional ability in older adults: a cross-sectional study

Yi-Shan Jiang, Hong Shi, Yu-Ting Kang, Ji Shen et al. • BMC Geriatrics (2023)

Abstract Background The World Health Organization (WHO) has proposed healthy aging framework, supposing that intrinsic capacity (IC), environment and their interaction may have influence on functional ability (FA). It was still unclear how ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12877-023-04089-5

Charlson comorbidity index has no incremental value for mortality risk prediction in nursing home residents with COVID-19 disease

Anum Zahra, Maarten van Smeden, Petra J. M. Elders, Jan Festen et al. • BMC Geriatrics (2025)

Abstract Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, nursing home (NH) residents faced the highest risk of severe COVID-19 disease and mortality. Due to their frailty status, comorbidity burden can serve as a useful predictive indicator of vul...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12877-025-05721-2

Agent Banking, Mobile Money Operation and Financial Inclusion in Nigeria: Supply Side Perspective

Yusuf Olamilekan Quadri, Ayorinde Olutimi Akinwumi, Kudirat Mopelola Malik-Abdulmajeed, Ifedolapo Oluwasolape Omotosho • TIJAB (The International Journal of Applied Business) (2024)

Background: The inability to achieve optimum financial inclusion in Nigeria has necessitated the review of various policies and instruments meant to reduce the level of financial exclusion. Objective: Hence this study investigates the imp...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.20473/tijab.v8.I1.2024.43814

The Impacts of the Multiscale Built Environment on Commuting Mode Choice: Spatial Heterogeneity, Moderating Effects, and Implications for Demand Estimation

Wenliang Jian, Xiaoxiao Liu, Hao Liu, Yongshi Hu et al. • Journal of Advanced Transportation (2023)

Promoting the usage of sustainable commuting modes requires in-depth understanding about residents’ commuting mode choice behavior. This study presents an empirical study to investigate the relationship between the built environment and com...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1155/2023/9346631

The structural characteristics and influential factors of psychological stress of urban residents in Jiangxi province during the COVID-19 pandemic: cross sectional study

Zewen Huang, Lejun Zhang, Junyu Wang, Lu Xu et al. • Heliyon (2021)

Aims: To explore the structural characteristics and influential factors of psychological stress of urban residents in Jiangxi province during the COVID-19 pandemic through a survey of psychological stress, personality traits, family functio...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e07829

Active querying approach to epidemic source detection on contact networks

Martin Sterchi, Lorenz Hilfiker, Rolf Grütter, Abraham Bernstein • Scientific Reports (2023)

Abstract The problem of identifying the source of an epidemic (also called patient zero) given a network of contacts and a set of infected individuals has attracted interest from a broad range of research communities. The successful and tim...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-38282-8

Analyzing the Influence of Place Attachment on Citizens' Environmental Protection Behaviors: A Case Study of Rasht City

Aliakbar Salaripour, Arman Hamidi, Alieh Faridi Foshtomi,, Amir Hosein Nourbakhsh • برنامه‌ریزی توسعه شهری و منطقه‌ای (2024)

Nowadays, a significant aspect of citizens' environmental conduct is intertwined with their connection and emotional bond to the city. This attachment to the urban environment is regarded as a critical element in fostering environmentally c...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.22054/urdp.2024.76342.1597

Point of Care Ultrasonographic Life Support in Emergency (PULSE)—a quasi-experimental study

Noman Ali, Abdul Ahad Chhotani, Sannia Perwaiz Iqbal, Salman Muhammad Soomar et al. • International Journal of Emergency Medicine (2023)

Abstract Background Many physicians use point-of-care ultrasound (PoCUS) in their clinical practice to improve their diagnostic capabilities, accuracy, and timeliness. Over the last two decades, the use of PoCUS in the emergency room has dr...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12245-023-00525-w

Intersecting inequalities in experiences of violence among Brazilian adults: a multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (MAIHDA) of the 2019 National Health Survey

Wilson H. Hammett, James Macinko • International Journal for Equity in Health (2026)

Abstract Introduction Existing quantitative studies of violence victimization in Brazil often examine individual demographic and socioeconomic risk factors, limiting insight into how identities can intersect to co-produce vulnerability or r...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12939-026-02818-x

Detection of Toxoplasmosis in Association with Autoimmune Thyroid Disease During Pregnancy in Duhok, Iraq

Manal Adil Murad, Souzan Hussain Eassa • Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology (2023)

Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan parasite that is widely distributed in the human population and is responsible for corresponding global morbidity. Specifically, T. gondii causes toxoplasmosis, leading to miscarriage, stillbirth, and neural...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: https://doi.org/10.22207/JPAM.17.2.05

Differences analysis of community residents' e⁃Health literacy level and influencing factors between urban and rural

ZUO Qiantao, CHENG Jingxia, PENG Weixue, ZHU Longling et al. • Huli yanjiu (2022)

ObjectiveTo explore the urban-rural differences and influencing factors of the e⁃Health literacy level of community residents.MethodsA total of 452 rural community residents and 464 urban community' residents in Chengdu were enrolled in thi...

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It’s the Social Interaction That Matters: Exploring Residents’ Motivation to Invest in the Community-Shared Charging Post Co-Construction Project

Junchao Yang, Ziyang Peng • World Electric Vehicle Journal (2025)

Countries worldwide are increasingly focused on addressing the imbalance between the supply and demand for EV charging infrastructure, with the community-shared charging post (CSCP) co-construction project emerging as a promising solution. ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/wevj16010054

Branding cities, regions and countries: the roadmap of place brand equity

Fabiana Gondim Mariutti, Janaina de Moura Engracia Giraldi • RAUSP Management Journal (2021)

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is two-fold: to expand the understanding of brand equity for places (e.g. countries, regions or cities) and propose two frameworks to increase its value. Design/methodology/approach – By interviewing inte...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1108/RAUSP-06-2020-0131