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Dietary diversity among Sundarbans forest-dependent communities: Prevalence, determinants, and livelihood implications.

Md Tanvir Hossain, Tunvir Ahamed Shohel, Md Nasif Ahsan, Md Nazrul Islam • PLoS ONE (2026)

The resources of the Sundarbans mangrove forest have provided livelihoods for communities in Bangladesh and India that depend on it. However, the role of the Sundarbans in ensuring the household dietary diversity of Sundarbans mangrove fore...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0342800

Strategies for Supporting Child Development and Care amidst Financial Distress: A Scoping Review

Chiamaka Pamela Uchendu, Ezeda Patricia Kalu • International Journal of Home Economics, Hospitality and Allied Research (2025)

Recognizing the profound impact of economic hardship on children's well-being, this research used a scoping review approach to explore strategies for supporting child development and care amidst financial distress. An extensive search was p...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.57012/ijhhr.v4n1.018

A Graph Neural Networks-Based Learning Framework With Hyperbolic Embedding for Personalized Tag Recommendation

Chunmei Zhang, Aoran Zhang, Li Zhang, Yonghong Yu et al. • IEEE Access (2024)

Learning high-quality representations of users, items, and tags from historical interactive data is crucial for personalized tag recommendation (PTR) systems. Currently, most PTR models are committed to learning representations from first-o...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3347249

A framework-based systematic review of blue tourism literature: Current status and future research agenda

Valsaraj PAYINI, Giridhar KAMATH, Vasanth V.P. KAMATH, Jyothi MALLYA • Tourism and Hospitality Management (2025)

Purpose – With destinations facing ever-increasing challenges due to increasing tourism activities, understanding residents’ perspectives is critical for fostering a harmonious and sustainable coexistence. Therefore, this study systematical...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.20867/thm.31.4.10

Evaluation of nutrients in bread: a systematic review

Zahra Aghalari, Hans-Uwe Dahms, Mika Sillanpää • Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition (2022)

Abstract Background A balanced and optimized amount of nutrients in bread, which is the main food in many countries, is necessary to maintain human health. Considering the importance of nutritional values of bread in the food basket of Iran...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s41043-022-00329-3

Effect of falls prevention interventions on falls and the risk factors for falls among cancer survivors: protocol for a systematic review

Lynette Mackenzie, Amanda M. Clifford, Eleanor Fallon, Joanna M. Allardyce • BMJ Open (2026)

Introduction Falls are a significant health concern and associated with cancer survivorship. Falls can result in negative psychosocial consequences for cancer survivors and economic sequelae for healthcare delivery. There are cancer-specifi...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-110212

All Near Neighbor GraphWithout Searching

Edgar Chávez, Verónica Ludueña, Nora Reyes, Fernando Kasián • Journal of Computer Science and Technology (2018)

Given a collection of n objects equipped with a distance function d(·, ·), the Nearest Neighbor Graph (NNG) consists in finding the nearest neighbor of each object in the collection. Without an index the total cost of NNG is quadratic. Usin...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.24215/16666038.18.e07

Analysis of factors affecting the length of stay of patients using clustering and association rules (Case study: Amir al-Momenin Hospital, Maragheh)

Mahdi Yousefi Nejad, Karim Farajian, Hossein Jaleb • مدیریت مهندسی و رایانش نرم (2025)

One of the major indicators in evaluating the performance of hospitals and their managers is the average length of stay of patients; given the importance of this indicator, the present study has examined the factors affecting the length of ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.22091/jemsc.2025.11174.1195

Health Technologies as a Cost-Driver in Canada

Paul V. Grootendorst, Hai Thanh Nguyen, Alexandra Constant, Minsup Shim • TSpace (University of Toronto) (2011)

This report describes our estimation of the effects of technological change (TC) on health care (HC) expenditures in Canada during the period 1996-2008. We focus on the effect of TC on overall nominal expenditures, as well as the effects of...

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Development of WEFIT Screening Tool for Assessing Pre-exercise Fitness Level for Older Adults in Peninsular Malaysia

Divya Vanoh, Arimi Fitri Mat Ludin, Suzana Shahar, Shahrul Azman Mohd Noah et al. • Journal of Health Research (2022)

Background: Pre-exercise screening is important to identify the fitness level of older adults prior to performing exercise. This study aimed to develop a screening tool for identifying older adults with poor physical fitness prior to exerci...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.56808/2586-940x.1006

Digital health technology and diabetes management

Avivit Cahn, Amit Akirov, Itamar Raz • Journal of Diabetes (2017)

Diabetes care is largely dependent on patient self-management and empowerment, given that patients with diabetes must make numerous daily decisions as to what to eat, when to exercise, and determine their insulin dose and timing if required...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1753-0407.12606

Instruments measuring the quality of life among people living with type 2 diabetes mellitus in India: a systematic review protocol

Chetna Demla, Anns Thomas, Jomol Jose, Angela L Joshy et al. • BMJ Open (2021)

Introduction Type 2 diabetes mellitus affects an individual’s quality of life (QoL); and there are multiple instruments that can be used to measure QoL. The purpose of this systematic review is to identify the existing instruments that have...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-043831

Full-thickness skin graft versus split-thickness skin graft for radial forearm free flap donor site closure: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis

Jasper J.E. Moors, Zhibin Xu, Kunpeng Xie, Ashkan Rashad et al. • Systematic Reviews (2024)

Abstract Background The radial forearm free flap (RFFF) serves as a workhorse for a variety of reconstructions. Although there are a variety of surgical techniques for donor site closure after RFFF raising, the most common techniques are cl...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13643-024-02471-x

Assessing Acceptance and Intention to Use of Home Telemonitoring Among Patients with Liver Cirrhosis: Development and Initial Psychometric Validation of a TAM-Based Questionnaire

Ruxandra-Cristina Marin, Horia Păunescu, Călin Muntean, Daniel Vasile Balaban et al. • Diagnostics (2026)

Background/Objectives: Liver cirrhosis (LC) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality requiring continuous monitoring and early recognition of clinical deterioration. Home telemonitoring is increasingly considered a supportive strategy fo...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics16162635

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) for Interoperability in Health Research: Systematic Review

Carina Nina Vorisek, Moritz Lehne, Sophie Anne Ines Klopfenstein, Paula Josephine Mayer et al. • JMIR Medical Informatics (2022)

BackgroundThe standard Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is widely used in health information technology. However, its use as a standard for health research is still less prevalent. To use existing data sources more efficien...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/35724

Effectiveness and Related Factors of Narrative Messages in Correcting Health-Related Misinformation: Protocol for a Systematic Review

Tsuyoshi Okuhara, Hiroko Okada, Rie Yokota • JMIR Research Protocols (2025)

BackgroundThe internet and social media have become essential sources of health information for patients and citizens; however, they often disseminate misinformation that lacks scientific evidence. Health-related misinformation can undermin...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/69414

Penetration and familiarity of false belief on neuroscience among students and its modifiability

Takeshi Hatta, Taketoshi Hatta, Kazuhisa Todayama, Minoru Karasawa • Journal of Human Environmental Studies (2010)

In Study 1, the degrees of penetration and familiarity of false belief on neuroscience, especially brain imaging, among students were surveyed using a questionnaire technique. A total number of 485 students from medical school, school of nu...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.4189/shes.8.155