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Identification and structural analysis of the interactional effect of the change drivers on the field of education

Zohre Rahsepar, Keyvan Salehi, Mitra Ezati, Mohammad Mehdi Zolfaghar Zade Kermani • فصلنامه نوآوری‌های آموزشی (2019)

Due to its wide range and importance, the education system has very important and complex elements that if we neglect to monitor their future variations, it can lead to undeniable and profound damages to the results that are expected to be ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.22034/jei.2019.92888

Comparison of Neighborhood-Scale, Residential Property Flood-Loss Assessment Methodologies

Rubayet Bin Mostafiz, Carol J. Friedland, Md Asif Rahman, Robert V. Rohli et al. • Frontiers in Environmental Science (2021)

Leading flood loss estimation models include Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA’s) Hazus, FEMA’s Flood Assessment Structure Tool (FAST), and (U.S.) Hydrologic Engineering Center’s Flood Impact Analysis (HEC-FIA), with each requirin...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2021.734294

Spatially Constrained Discontinuity Trace Extraction from 3D Point Clouds by Intersecting Boundaries Segmented

Jingsong Sima, Qiang Xu, Xiujun Dong, Haoliang Li et al. • Remote Sensing (2025)

Discontinuity trace provides critical geological data for engineering design and construction optimization. However, current extraction methods relying on discontinuity intersection fitting are highly sensitive to the segmentation accuracy ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/rs17213566

A survey of controlled experiments in software engineering

D.I.K. Sjoeberg, Jo Erskine Hannay, O. Hansen, Vigdis By Kampenes et al. • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (2005)

The classical method for identifying cause-effect relationships is to conduct controlled experiments. This paper reports upon the present state of how controlled experiments in software engineering are conducted and the extent to which rele...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.2005.97

Alterations in Hip and Knee Joint Contact Force Waveforms and Orientation Induced by Gait Modifications: A Case Study

Laura Rathmair, Willi Koller, Clara Egner, Kevin Kitir et al. • Current Issues in Sport Science (2026)

Introduction & Purpose Idiopathic torsional deformities of lower limb bones can affect a patient’s gait pattern and joint health, while their cause remains unidentified (Koller et al., 2026). Abnormal joint loadings and the progression of ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.36950/2026.5ciss011

Post-Fire Abundance Trajectories of Bird Species and Functional Groups Within an Atlantic–Mediterranean Ecotone

Fernando García-Fernández, Jesús Domínguez, Alberto Gil-Carrera, Luis Tapia et al. • Fire (2026)

The Atlantic–Mediterranean ecotone of northwestern Iberia is one of the most fire-prone regions in Europe, yet post-fire avian dynamics there remain poorly documented. To characterise short- to mid-term post-fire avian trajectories in this ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/fire9090400

Incorporating genetic selection into individual‐based models of malaria and other infectious diseases

Ian M. Hastings, Diggory Hardy, Katherine Kay, Raman Sharma • Evolutionary Applications (2020)

Abstract Introduction Control strategies for human infections are often investigated using individual‐based models (IBMs) to quantify their impact in terms of mortality, morbidity and impact on transmission. Genetic selection can be incorpo...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1111/eva.13077

Causal relationship between genetic-predicted uric acid and cervical cancer risk: evidence for nutritional intervention on cervical cancer prevention

Chunge Cao, Dajun Cai, Hao Liu, Xia Zhang et al. • Frontiers in Nutrition (2024)

IntroductionThe relationship between serum uric acid (SUA) and cervical cancer is inconclusive. This study aims to investigate the causal relationship between SUA levels and cervical cancer incidence, and to evaluate the potential role of n...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2024.1464046

Functional annotation of the human retinal pigment epithelium transcriptome

Gorgels Theo GMF, van der Spek Peter J, Verkerk Annemieke JMH, Essing Anke HW et al. • BMC Genomics (2009)

Abstract Background To determine level, variability and functional annotation of gene expression of the human retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), the key tissue involved in retinal diseases like age-related macular degeneration and retinitis ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-164

Genetics of MDS

Seishi Ogawa • Blood (2019)

Our knowledge about the genetics of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and related myeloid disorders has been dramatically improved during the past decade, in which revolutionized sequencing technologies have played a major role. Through inten...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2018-10-844621 PMC: 6587668

Families, kinship and genetics

Martin Richards • Cambridge University Press eBooks (1996)

I am the family face; Flesh perishes, I live on, Projecting trait and trace Through time to times anon, And leaping from place to place Over oblivion. Thomas Hardy , 1840–1928: Heredity. Introduction Genetics concerns families and kinship. ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511570049.014

Introduction to Quantitative Genetics

S. P.B. • Poultry Science (1963)

Falconer, D. S., Introduction to Quantitative Genetics , The Ronald Press Company, New York. 364 pp. $6.00. The author’s aim is, “to provide an introductory textbook of quantitative genetics, with emphasis on general principles rather than ...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc-nd DOI: https://doi.org/10.3382/ps.0420547

Landscape Genetics

Rolf Holderegger, Helene H. Wagner • BioScience (2008)

Landscape genetics is a rapidly evolving interdisciplinary field that integrates approaches from population genetics and landscape ecology. In the context of habitat fragmentation, the current focus of landscape genetics is on assessing the...

OPENALEX other-oa DOI: https://doi.org/10.1641/b580306

The Anthropologies of Illness and Sickness

A Young • Annual Review of Anthropology (1982)

ion. [In this connection, see analogous arguments by Navarro (126) and Assennato & Navarro (7, pp. 224--30) on the social production of knowledge of occupational medicine, and Latour & Woolgar (102) on the social production of biomedical kn...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.an.11.100182.001353

Anthropological Linguistics

William A. Foley • Wiley eBooks (2020)

Anthropological linguistics is the study of language within the wider context of culture. It is concerned with how humans employ communicative culturally meaningful, or semiotic practices, as resources to forge large and small, transient or...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0031.pub2

An Anthropology of Knowledge

Fredrik Barth • Current Anthropology (2002)

Whereas previous Sidney Mintz lectures have celebrated Mintzs work on inequality, racism, and ethnicity, I have chosen to speak to the broadest scope of his research and teaching in anthropology. A comparative perspective on human knowledge...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/324131

Health and beyond...strategies for a better India: using the "prison window" to reach disadvantaged groups in primary care

Soumyadeep Bhaumik, Rebecca J Mathew • Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care (2015)

As of 2013, the latest statistics available, more than 400,000 individuals are lodged in Indian prisons. Prisoners represent a heterogeneous population, belonging to socially diverse and economically disadvantaged sections of society with l...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.4103/2249-4863.161304