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The metabolic equivalents of one-mile walking by older adults; implications for health promotion

Mandy Lucinda Gault, Mark Elisabeth Theodorus Willems • Health Promotion Perspectives (2017)

Background: Instructions for older adults regarding the intensity of walking may not elicit an intensity to infer health gains. We recorded the metabolic equivalents (METs) during a 1-mile walk using constant and predicted values of resting...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.15171/hpp.2017.38

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

A History of Public Health

George Rosen • MD Publications eBooks (1958)

Since publication in 1958, George Rosen's classic book has been regarded as the essential international history of public health. Describing the development of public health in classical Greece, imperial Rome, England, Europe, the United St...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/11322-000

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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Baseline Characteristics, Risk Factors and Etiology of Heart Failure Among Patients Hospitalized at a Teaching Hospital in Somalia: Cross-Sectional Study

Farah Yusuf Mohamud M, Jeele MOO, Cetinkaya O, Goitom Sereke S et al. • Research Reports in Clinical Cardiology (2022)

Mohamed Farah Yusuf Mohamud,1 Mohamed Osman Omar Jeele,1 Osman Cetinkaya,1 Senai Goitom Sereke,2 Felix Bongomin,3 Mohamed AM Ahmed4– 6 1Mogadishu Somali Turkish Training and Research Hospital, Mogadishu, Somalia; 2School of Medicine, Colleg...

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Study of serum Total Immunoglobulin E in Egyptian patients with newly diagnosed colorectal carcinoma

Wessam Eid, Fawzia Abo Ali, Sara Taha, Sara Zaki et al. • Zagazig University Medical Journal (2022)

Total immunoglobulin E (IgE) has roles in allergy and anti-parasitic immunity. Recently IgE showed a major role in cancer immune surveillance; an increased risk of solid and blood malignancies has been associated with total IgE deficiency. ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.21608/zumj.2022.130517.2541

Cardiovascular and metabolic outcomes associated with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Suvijak Untaaveesup, MD, Thipsukon Amnartpanich, MD, Noraworn Jirattikanwong, MD, Anchaya Boonsom, MD et al. • World Allergy Organization Journal (2025)

Background: Chronic systemic inflammation in individuals with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis (AD) potentially predisposes them to metabolic and cardiovascular diseases. Nevertheless, evidence with regard to such association is limited...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.waojou.2025.101035

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

The Investigation of Impact of Complement Policy for Energy Price Policy Reform on Transport Sector in Iran by Computable General Equilibrium

Roholla Mahdavi • Pizhūhishnāmah-i Iqtiṣād-i Inirzhī-i Īrān (2014)

With regard to the ever-increasing need for energy in current societies to satisfy various requirements, scientists and researchers from different countries, such as Iran, have a basic approach in their agenda to achieve renewable energies،...

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<i>In-House</i> Innovative “Diamond Shaped” 3D Printed Microfluidic Devices for Lysozyme-Loaded Liposomes

Federica Sommonte, Edward Weaver, Essyrose Mathew, Nunzio Denora et al. • Pharmaceutics (2022)

Nanotechnology applications have emerged as one of the most actively researched areas in recent years. As a result, substantial study into nanoparticulate lipidic systems and liposomes (LPs) has been conducted. Regardless of the advantages,...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics14112484

Nano-enabled microbial bioinputs for sustainable agriculture: advances, mechanisms, applications, and future challenges

Isadora Camargo Pedrino, Isadora Camargo Pedrino, Paulo Teixeira Lacava, Paulo Teixeira Lacava • Frontiers in Plant Science (2026)

Microbial bioinputs have emerged as key components of sustainable agriculture owing to their ability to promote plant growth, improve nutrient acquisition, enhance tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses, and suppress phytopathogens. Despi...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2026.1925672

The significance of the Second Hague Peace conference in the development of the institution of peaceful settlement of international disputes

B.V. Nikolaev, N.A. Pavlova • Известия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион: Общественные науки (2025)

Background. Domestic diplomacy and international legal science played a leading role in the formation of the institution of peaceful resolution of international disputes. It was Russia that initiated two Hague Peace Conferences in 1899 and ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.21685/2072-3016-2025-2-7

Analytical solutions for time-dependent kinematic three-dimensional magnetic reconnection.

Yalan Chen, Yi Wang, Fengsi Wei, Xueshang Feng et al. • PLoS ONE (2023)

Magnetic reconnection is a process that can rapidly convert magnetic field energy into plasma thermal energy and kinetic energy, and it is also an important energy conversion mechanism in space physics, astrophysics and plasma physics. Rese...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0286138

Item analysis: basic concepts of physics students in geometric optics

Godelfridus Hadung Lamanepa, Rosenti Pasaribu, Claudia M.M. Maing • Gravity: Jurnal Ilmiah Penelitian dan Pembelajaran Fisika (2020)

The purpose of this study was to analyze students' items and abilities—the analysis for mapping test instruments and students' basic concepts regarding optics subjects before lectures are held. The test participants were 35 physics students...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.30870/gravity.v6i2.8506

Topical Pharmacological Treatment of Actinic Keratoses: Focus on Tirbanibulin 1% Ointment

Mario Valenti, Matteo Bianco, Alessandra Narcisi, Antonio Costanzo et al. • Dermatology Practical & Conceptual (2024)

Actinic keratosis (AK) is a frequent precancerous skin lesion that mostly affects chronically sun-exposed areas. Chronic sun damage leads to various mutations in onco-suppressor and oncogenic genes which cause an uncontrolled proliferation ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5826/dpc.1403S1a145S

Joint effects of ethnic enclave residence and ambient volatile organic compounds exposure on risk of gestational diabetes mellitus among Asian/Pacific Islander women in the United States

Andrew D. Williams, Sandie Ha, Edmond Shenassa, Lynne C. Messer et al. • Environmental Health (2021)

Abstract Background Asian/Pacific Islander (API) communities in the United States often reside in metropolitan areas with distinct social and environmental attributes. Residence in an ethnic enclave, a socially distinct area, is associated ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12940-021-00738-7