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Children in All Policies (CAP) 2030 Citizen Science for Climate Change Resilience: a cross-sectional pilot study engaging adolescents to study climate hazards, biodiversity and nutrition in rural Nepal [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]

Aishworya Shrestha, Katarina Hoernke, Thomas Timberlake, Bhawak Pokhrel et al. • Wellcome Open Research (2023)

Background Young people will suffer most from climate change yet are rarely engaged in dialogue about it. Citizen science offers a method for collecting policy-relevant data, whilst promoting awareness and capacity building. We tested the f...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.18591.1

Tissue-specific responses of antioxidant pathways to poor hygiene conditions in growing pigs divergently selected for feed efficiency

K. Sierżant, M-H. Perruchot, E. Merlot, N. Le Floc’h et al. • BMC Veterinary Research (2019)

Abstract Background Poor hygiene of housing induces a systemic inflammatory response. Because inflammation and oxidative stress are processes that can sustain each other, the ways pigs are able to activate their antioxidant defenses are cri...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12917-019-2107-2

Injectable mesoporous bioactive glass/sodium alginate hydrogel loaded with melatonin for intervertebral disc regeneration

Ruibang Wu, Leizhen Huang, Qinghong Xia, Zheng Liu et al. • Materials Today Bio (2023)

Intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD) is a major contributing factor to both lower back and neck pain. As IDD progresses, the intervertebral disc (IVD) loses its ability to maintain its disc height when subjected to axial loading. This fai...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.mtbio.2023.100731

A Rechargeable Zinc–Copper Voltaic Battery Built from Cost-Effective Electrodes and Electrolytes

Jose Fernando Florez Gomez, Songyang Chang, Irfan Ullah, Juan C. Velez Reyes et al. • Batteries (2026)

The zinc–copper (Zn-Cu) voltaic battery is the first battery made in human history, but the Cu2+ dissolution issue leads to the reaction’s irreversibility. To tackle this challenge, solid-state electrolytes, ion exchange membranes, and func...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/batteries12060215

Investigation of particle exhaust from EAST divertor

B. Cao, L. Wang, Y.W. Yu, G.Z. Zuo et al. • Nuclear Materials and Energy (2022)

Particle control is one of the key issues for steady-state tokamak operation. The density decay time is used to evaluate the capability of the divertor to exhaust particle with all fueling turn off. Experiments of the EAST divertor's abilit...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.nme.2022.101291

Innovative Entrepreneurship: a Source of Economic Growth in the Region

Elena Leonidovna Andreeva, Hermann Simon, Dmitry Andreyevich Karkh, Pavel Leonidovich Glukhikh • Экономика региона (2016)

This article presents the findings of the study on the role of innovative entrepreneurship in the regional economy. The analysis is based on the methodology developed by Hermann Simon, a German scientist who has coined the term ”hidden cham...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.17059/2016-3-24

Lab-scale coin-cell supercapattery assembled with nickel cobaltite/rGO nanocomposite electrodes for hybrid energy storage

B. Raghavendra Babu, R. Sasikumar, K. Visagavel, R. Baskar • Next Nanotechnology (2026)

Hybrid energy storage devices that bridge the gap between batteries and supercapacitors are critical for next-generation portable and high-power applications. In this work, a lab-scale coin cell asymmetric supercapattery device is fabricate...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.nxnano.2026.100892

Chitosan nanoparticles as next-generation carriers for veterinary DNA vaccines: Mechanisms, immune responses, and translational prospects

Miguel González-Lozano, José Alberto Cano-Buendía • Veterinary World (2025)

Background and Aim: Chitosan-based DNA nanoparticles have emerged as a promising next-generation platform for veterinary vaccines, addressing several limitations of conventional attenuated, inactivated, and recombinant formulations. Chitosa...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.14202/vetworld.2025.3826-3838

Beneficial Effects of Pomegranate Peel Extract and Probiotics on Pre-adipocyte Differentiation

Valeria Sorrenti, Cinzia Lucia Randazzo, Cinzia Caggia, Gabriele Ballistreri et al. • Frontiers in Microbiology (2019)

The beneficial effects of pomegranate are due to the ellagitannins and anthocyanins content, which are protective toward a wide variety of diseases including inflammatory diseases. Many investigators have reported that pomegranate waste (pe...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00660

Adaptation of SIVmac to baboon primary cells results in complete absence of in vivo baboon infectivity

Veronica Obregon-Perko, Amanda Mannino, Jason T. Ladner, Vida Hodara et al. • Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology (2024)

While simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infection is non-pathogenic in naturally infected African nonhuman primate hosts, experimental or accidental infection in rhesus macaques often leads to AIDS. Baboons, widely distributed throughout ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2024.1408245

Incubation of semen with human follicular fluid improves the antioxidant status and quality of spermatozoa after freezing–thawing

Monireh Mahmoodi, Elham Shojafar, Maryam Dastjani-Farahani • Reproduction and Fertility (2025)

The sperm freezing–thawing procedure is the most commonly used technique in clinics to preserve male fertility before any pathological destruction of the testis. Therefore, most studies are currently focused on optimizing this method to ach...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1530/RAF-24-0056

Evaluation of polybenzimidazole-based polymers for the removal of uranium, thorium and palladium from aqueous medium

V. Vijaya Kumar, C. Ramesh Kumar, A. Suresh, S. Jayalakshmi et al. • Royal Society Open Science (2018)

Four types of polybenzimidazole (PBI)-based polymers (m-PBI, p-PBI, pyridine-based m-PBI and alkylated m-PBI) have been prepared and characterized. Extraction behaviour of heavy metal ions, viz. U(VI), Th(IV) and Pd(II), with these polymers...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1098/rsos.171701

Evaluating Load-Conditional Convergence in Lithium-Ion Battery Degradation: A Matched-Group Statistical Framework

Nnamdi C. Aronwora, Chibuzo Nwabufo Okwuosa, Jang-Wook Hur • IEEE Access (2026)

The rate of capacity fade in a lithium-ion battery following a transition to a new discharge current is widely assumed to equal that of a battery that has always operated at the destination current, an implicit premise referred to here as l...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2026.3732470

Transcriptomes Suggest That Pinniped and Cetacean Brains Have a High Capacity for Aerobic Metabolism While Reducing Energy-Intensive Processes Such as Synaptic Transmission

Cornelia Geßner, Alena Krüger, Lars P. Folkow, Wilfrid Fehrle et al. • Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience (2022)

The mammalian brain is characterized by high energy expenditure and small energy reserves, making it dependent on continuous vascular oxygen and nutritional supply. The brain is therefore extremely vulnerable to hypoxia. While neurons of mo...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2022.877349

Can resistant coral-Symbiodinium associations enable coral communities to survive climate change? A study of a site exposed to long-term hot water input

Shashank Keshavmurthy, Pei-Jie Meng, Jih-Terng Wang, Chao-Yang Kuo et al. • PeerJ (2014)

Climate change has led to a decline in the health of corals and coral reefs around the world. Studies have shown that, while some corals can cope with natural and anthropogenic stressors either through resistance mechanisms of coral hosts o...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.7717/peerj.327