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C no more: a prospective single-arm study to evaluate the effectiveness of a nurse and peer-led mobile model of hepatitis C testing and treatment at community corrections offices

Samara Griffin, Timothy Papaluca, Jacinta A Holmes, Bridget Reid et al. • Health & Justice (2026)

Abstract Background The community corrections population in Australia shares similar risk factors for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection with people incarcerated in prisons, but without access to prison-based testing and treatment. While hep...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s40352-026-00411-6

Postmodernism and Rethinking the Concept of Crime

Bagher Shamloo, Mahdi Kazemi Jouybari • Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i Kiyfarī (2015)

Defining the concept of crime is the starting point in the criminal thought. Basically, any view taken on the concept of crime formulates the other fundamental criminological concepts (such as the criminal and etiology) as well as basic con...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.22054/jclr.2015.1781

Mini-AFTERc: a controlled pilot trial of a nurse-led psychological intervention for fear of breast cancer recurrence

Calum McHale, Susanne Cruickshank, Tamara Brown, Claire Torrens et al. • Pilot and Feasibility Studies (2024)

Abstract Objectives To determine the feasibility and acceptability of implementing the Mini-AFTERc intervention. Design Non-randomised cluster-controlled pilot trial. Setting Four NHS out-patient breast cancer centres in Scotland. Participa...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s40814-023-01431-x

Recent Applications of Electrospun Nanofibrous Scaffold in Tissue Engineering

Hamza Abu Owida, Jamal I. Al-Nabulsi, Feras Alnaimat, Muhammad Al-Ayyad et al. • Applied Bionics and Biomechanics (2022)

Tissue engineering is a relatively new area of research that combines medical, biological, and engineering fundamentals to create tissue-engineered constructs that regenerate, preserve, or slightly increase the functions of tissues. To crea...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1155/2022/1953861

Łacińskie lōrum w świetle etymologii

Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak • LingVaria (2017)

Latin lōrum in the Light of Etymology The traditional etymology of Lat. lōrum n. ‘strap, girdle, rein’, according to which it is related to Arm. lar ‘strick, rope, band’ and Greek (Homeric) εὔληρα, Doric αὔληρα n. pl. ‘reins’, should be rej...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.12797/LV.12.2017.24.12

Uses, benefits, comparisons

Adam F. Kola, Marcin Wołk • Litteraria Copernicana (2015)

In this introduction to the volume “Benefits from comparison”, its editors, starting with the etymological meaning of ‘culture’ as ‘cultivation’, the apicultural metaphors of bee pastures and hive products, and both legal and everyday meani...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.12775/LC.2015.014

Use of the DoctorVox Device for Basic Vocal Exercises Contribution to Performance

Seta Kürkçüoğlu, Nesibe Özgül Turgay, M. Akif Kılıç, M. Güney Özelkan • Konservatoryum (2023)

In this study, a preliminary comparative study was conducted for the first time using the DoctorVox device by instructor–performer participants using two different formant patterns in Turkish and Western music. The participants used the Doc...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.26650/CONS2023-1365545

PUBLIC INTEREST IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT

Vitaly V. Kikavets • RUDN Journal of Law (2020)

The basis of legal relations in public procurement are private and public interests. The purpose of the study is a substantive assessment of the authors hypothesis that the purpose of legal regulation and financial support of public procure...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.22363/2313-2337-2020-24-4-1039-1062

AI for identifying social norm violation

Yair Neuman, Yochai Cohen • Scientific Reports (2023)

Abstract Identifying social norms and their violation is a challenge facing several projects in computational science. This paper presents a novel approach to identifying social norm violations. We used GPT-3, zero-shot classification, and ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-35350-x

Early life climate and adulthood mental health: how birth seasonality influences depressive symptoms in adults

Hao Zhou, Danni Peng-Li, Juan Chen, Dong Sun et al. • BMC Public Health (2023)

Abstract Background Early life in-utero can have long-term influence on the mental health status of individuals in adulthood, such as depression. Age, gender, socio-economic status, education, and geography are demographic factors shown to ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12889-023-15145-5

Optimal exercise type and dose to improve sleep quality in older adults: a systematic review and network meta-analysis

Zhiyu Xiong, Yuan Yuan, Bopeng Qiu, Yong Yang et al. • BMC Geriatrics (2025)

Abstract Background Sleep quality decreased can result in a major health issue in older people with age. While not all sleep changes are pathological in older people’s life, severe disturbances may lead to depression, cognitive impairments,...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12877-025-06607-z

Construction and confirmatory factor analysis of the core cognitive ability index system of ship C2 system operators.

Ning Li, Jincai Huang, Yanghe Feng • PLoS ONE (2020)

BackgroundCognitive ability refers to the ability to receive, process, store, and extract information. It is the most important psychological condition for people to successfully complete activities. Previous studies have shown that the des...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0237339

Vertex-wise multivariate genome-wide association study identifies 780 unique genetic loci associated with cortical morphology

Alexey A. Shadrin, Tobias Kaufmann, Dennis van der Meer, Clare E. Palmer et al. • NeuroImage (2021)

Brain morphology has been shown to be highly heritable, yet only a small portion of the heritability is explained by the genetic variants discovered so far. Here we extended the Multivariate Omnibus Statistical Test (MOSTest) and applied it...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118603

Brain plasticity in response to artistic and non-artistic training aimed at promoting creativity: How can we enhance creativity and capture the process in neuroscience?

Anna Arkhipova, Pavel Hok, Pavel Hok, Petr Janata et al. • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (2026)

Creativity has been consensually defined as an ability to produce novel and original ideas/works, a definition shared both by the general public and among scholars. Since creativity is one of the most important and unique cognitive construc...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2026.1632331

Association of inflammation and cognition in the elderly: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Sofia Leonardo, Felipe Fregni • Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience (2023)

BackgroundThe development of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) may be associated with an inflammatory process. Inflammatory cytokines may be a surrogate for systemic inflammation leading to worsening neurological ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2023.1069439