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Cross-national validation of the MHQoL: psychometric evaluation and open-source tools for assessing mental health quality of life

Beatriz Olaya, Christina Maria van der Feltz-Cornelis, Leona Hakkaart-van Roijen, Frederick W Thielen et al. • BMJ Open (2026)

Objectives To validate the cross-national psychometric properties of the Mental Health Quality of Life questionnaire (MHQoL) and to develop an open-source toolbox for its scoring, transformation and presentation.Design Secondary analysis of...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-108598

HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT EVIDENCE ON E-HEALTH/M-HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES: EVALUATING THE TRANSPARENCY AND THOROUGHNESS

Vladimir Vuković, Carlo Favaretti, Walter Ricciardi, Chiara de Waure • International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care (2018)

OBJECTIVES: Evaluation is crucial for integration of e-Health/m-Health into healthcare systems and health technology assessment (HTA) could offer sound methodological basis for these evaluations. Aim of this study was to look for HTA report...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266462317004512

Effects of an infant formula containing a whey protein concentrate on feeding tolerance and markers of intestinal immune defense in Chinese infants

Ying Wang, Min Liu, Shaillay Kumar Dogra, Karine Vidal et al. • BMC Nutrition (2026)

Abstract Background Human milk (HM) bioactive components can have immune modulatory functions, impact the gut microbiome, and may result in functional benefits when added to infant formula (IF). In this single-arm, prospective, intervention...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s40795-026-01395-0

Molecular Informatics, Chemometrics, and Sensory Omics for Constructing an Umami Peptide Cluster Library Across the Entire Lager Beer Brewing Process

Yashuai Wu, Ruiyang Yin, Wenjing Tian, Wanqiu Zhao et al. • Foods (2026)

Umami taste in lager beer not only determined body fullness and the backbone of aftertaste, but also affected the controllability and interpretability of flavor expression across the entire brewing process. Based on stage-wise sampling, pep...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/foods15040641

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

Evaluation of the Quality of Life in Adult Cancer Survivors (QLACS) scale for long-term cancer survivors in a sample of breast cancer survivors

Foley Kristie, Ip Edward, Avis Nancy E • Health and Quality of Life Outcomes (2006)

Abstract Background This paper evaluates psychometric properties of a recently developed measure focusing on the health-related quality of life (HRQL) of long-term cancer survivors, the Quality of Life in Adult Survivors scale (QLACS), in a...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-4-92

Is a prostate cancer screening anxiety measure invariant across two different samples of age-appropriate men?

Linder Suzanne K, Swank Paul R, Vernon Sally W, Morgan Robert O et al. • BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making (2012)

Abstract Background In order to explore the influence of anxiety on decision–making processes, valid anxiety measures are needed. We evaluated a prostate cancer screening (PCS) anxiety scale that measures anxiety related to the prostate–spe...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-12-52

Growing functional modules from a seed protein via integration of protein interaction and gene expression data

Dimitrakopoulou Konstantina, Maraziotis Ioannis A, Bezerianos Anastasios • BMC Bioinformatics (2007)

Abstract Background Nowadays modern biology aims at unravelling the strands of complex biological structures such as the protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks. A key concept in the organization of PPI networks is the existence of dense...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-8-408

LocateP: Genome-scale subcellular-location predictor for bacterial proteins

Zhou Miaomiao, Boekhorst Jos, Francke Christof, Siezen Roland J • BMC Bioinformatics (2008)

Abstract Background In the past decades, various protein subcellular-location (SCL) predictors have been developed. Most of these predictors, like TMHMM 2.0, SignalP 3.0, PrediSi and Phobius, aim at the identification of one or a few SCLs, ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-9-173

Designing and Evaluation of Reliability and Validity of Visual Cue-Induced Craving Assessment Task for Methamphetamine Smokers

Hamed Ekhtiari, Zahra Alam-Mehrjerdi, Mehri Nouri, Sanju George et al. • Basic and Clinical Neuroscience (2010)

A B S T R A C TIntroduction: Craving to methamphetamine is a significant health concern and exposure to methamphetamine cues in laboratory can induce craving. In this study, a task designing procedure for evaluating methamphetamine cue-indu...

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Monitoring development from 0–6 years: an online system, standardized for Dutch children

Anneloes Van Baar, Marjolein Verhoeven, David Hessen, Liesbeth de Paauw-Telman et al. • Frontiers in Developmental Psychology (2025)

BackgroundMonitoring and screening children's development from infancy into early childhood is important for prevention purposes, as potential delay may best be addressed as soon as possible. For an efficient monitoring system, standardized...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fdpys.2025.1727158

The effect of Ethical leadership on life Satisfaction and well-being by Mediation of job Satisfaction: The case of Private Hospitals in Mashhad city

Mohammad Reza Ahanchian, Parvane Yazdani, Samane Sadeghian • پژوهش‌های مدیریت عمومی (2018)

Abstract In recent years, organizations have shown a growing interest in creating and promoting ethical leadership and leader’s effectiveness (Elci et al, 2012: 291). The reason for the recent time increasing importance of ethical leadershi...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.22111/jmr.2018.3721

Pierre Bourdieu and International Relations

Antonin Cohen • Oxford University Press eBooks (2018)

Over time, Pierre Bourdieu became an emergent reference in international relations—quite paradoxically, given that Bourdieu himself did not pay much attention to international relations as such. This chapter exhaustively reviews the works o...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199357192.013.9

Constructivism in International Relations

Maja Zehfuss • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2002)

Maja Zehfuss' book offers a fundamental critique of constructivism, focusing on the work of Wendt, Onuf and Kratochwil. Using Germany's shift towards participation in international military operations as an illustration, she demonstrates wh...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511491795

Kebijakan Kriminalisasi LGBT Malawi Di Tengah Pengaruh Kelompok Kepentingan dan Politik Bantuan Luar Negeri

Puguh Toko Arisanto, Tiffany Setyo Pratiwi • Jurnal Ilmiah Hubungan Internasional (2020)

Issues of LGBT boomed in Malawi in 2009 after an arrest of homosexual couple who held a wedding party. The criminalization was based on the Malawi’s Penal Code. In 2010, Malawian government also added an article on the Penal Code to crimina...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.26593/jihi.v16i1.3297.69-86

Drivers of respiratory health care demand in Acre state, Brazilian Amazon: a cross-sectional study

Thiago Morello, Aldo Santos Lima, Rubicleis Gomes da Silva • BMC Public Health (2022)

Abstract Background The scarce knowledge about the drivers of demand for respiratory health care in the Brazilian Amazon, where the gap of human and physical health care resources is wide, is expanded with two surveys conducted in the west ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12889-022-14171-z

Long-term relationship of crude palm oil commodity pricing under structural break

Monsurat Ayojimi Salami, Razali Haron • Journal of Capital Markets Studies (2018)

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the pricing efficiency of the Malaysian crude palm oil (CPO) market before and after the structural break. This study uses the daily closing price of CPO and CPO futures (CPO-F) for the peri...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1108/JCMS-09-2018-0032