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Improving Waste Management at Construction Sites—Evidence from a Comparative Study in Poland and Slovakia

Ewelina Mitera-Kiełbasa, Marcela Spišáková, Krzysztof Zima • Buildings (2026)

Construction waste management remains a critical challenge for improving project efficiency and sustainability. Despite extensive research, there is still a lack of comparative and up-to-date empirical studies addressing both material and n...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/buildings16071418

Participatory Research for Adaptive Water Management in a Transition Country - a Case Study from Uzbekistan

Darya Hirsch, Geraldine Abrami, Raffaele Giordano, Stefan Liersch et al. • Ecology and Society (2010)

Participatory research has in recent years become a popular approach for problem-oriented scientific research that aims to tackle complex problems in a real management context. Within the European Union project NeWater, stakeholder processe...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5751/ES-03549-150323

Satisfaction Rate from the Communication Skills of Family Physicians in Rural Health Centers at Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences

Rezaali Bagheri, Seyed Ahmad Mohammadikia, Mehraneh Kazemian, Batuol Kazemi et al. • آموزش پزشکی (2014)

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Since that one of the basic points in the competences of physicians, is the communication skill to carry out their professional duties properly, several studies suggest that manyphysicians can not communicate to th...

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Barriers faced by people with disabilities in mainstream sports: a systematic review

Pablo Elipe-Lorenzo, Pablo Elipe-Lorenzo, Pelayo Diez-Fernández, Pelayo Diez-Fernández et al. • Frontiers in Sports and Active Living (2025)

IntroductionDespite advances in inclusive policies and social awareness, the participation of people with disabilities (PwD) in mainstream sports remains limited due to numerous barriers. This systematic review seeks to identify and critica...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fspor.2025.1520962

Student views of instructor-student rapport in the college classroom

Nathan Webb, Laura Obrycki Barrett • Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (2014)

Building upon past research on the positive learning outcomes associated with rapport building in the classroom, this study examines the specific behaviors instructors utilize in college classrooms to build rapport with undergraduate studen...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.14434/josotl.v14i2.4259

Extracellular vesicles: A dive into their role in the tumor microenvironment and cancer progression

Kassandra Lopez, Seigmund Wai Tsuen Lai, Edwin De Jesus Lopez Gonzalez, Raúl G. Dávila et al. • Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology (2023)

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) encompass a diverse set of membrane-derived particles released from cells and are found in numerous biological matrices and the extracellular space. Specific classes of EVs include apoptotic bodies, exosomes, an...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2023.1154576

Transmission of β-lactamases in the pork food chain: A public health concern

Martina Rega, Laura Andriani, Antonio Poeta, Chiara Casadio et al. • One Health (2023)

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a risk for public health that requires management in a One Health perspective, including humans, animals, and the environment. The food production chain has been identified as a possible route of transmissi...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.onehlt.2023.100632

Psychological and Pedagogical Support for Parents of Children with Special Educational Needs

Zauresh Issabayeva, Aizhan Sapargaliyeva, Galiya Shubayeva, Kuanysh Shalabayeva et al. • Continuity in Education (2024)

This study primarily aimed to develop a program that aids parents of children with Special Educational Needs (SEN), placing emphasis on the challenges encountered in communication and understanding. The Eidemiller and Justizkis’s (2008) Fam...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5334/cie.103

The Communication Studies Researcher and the Communication Studies Indexes

David C. Tyler, Signe O. Boudreau, Susan M. Leach • Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian (2005)

The existence of widely available large, multi-subject, online databases calls into question the necessity for small, discipline-specific indexes to support research. This study attempts to determine whether the online Communication Studies...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1300/j103v23n02_02

Decolonization and Globalization in Communication Studies

Sinfree Bullock Makoni, Katherine A. Masters • Oxford University Press eBooks (2021)

Abstract Decolonial scholars are guided by alternative ways of thinking about language and communication that have existed for millennia but have gone unnoticed in scholarship. An approach to communication underwritten by the decolonial app...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.1152

THE EMERGENCE OF COMMUNICATION STUDIES

Jay G. Blumler • Journal of Educational Television (1977)

This article charts the vast multiplicity of phenomena that can be brought under the ‘communication’ umbrella. The author denies that these can be integrated within a framework of communication regarded as a discipline in its own right. He ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1358165770030102

Advanced Combination Localization Algorithm Based on Trilateration for Dynamic Cluster Network

Xiantao Zeng, Baoguo Yu, Lifang Liu, Xiaogang Qi et al. • IEEE Access (2019)

Dynamic cluster network localization requires taking the following factors into consideration: 1) the localization time of network nodes; 2) the communication load among all cluster nodes, and; 3) the presence of the abnormal distance measu...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2921364

A Mark-Release-Recapture Study to Estimate Field Performance of Imported Radio-Sterilized Male Aedes albopictus in Albania

Enkelejda Velo, Fabrizio Balestrino, Fabrizio Balestrino, Përparim Kadriaj et al. • Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology (2022)

The pathogen transmitting Aedes albopictus mosquito is spreading rapidly in Europe, putting millions of humans and animals at risk. This species is well-established in Albania since its first detection in 1979. The sterile insect technique ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2022.833698

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

Political Science

Hubert Tworzecki, Holli A. Semetko • Wiley eBooks (2016)

Abstract This entry provides an overview of how political science approaches the study of communication. Starting with the premise that for most people politics is a mediated experience, political science asks: mediated how, by whom, and wi...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118766804.wbiect247