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Voluntary HIV Counselling and Testing Services: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Correlates of Utilisation among Young People in the Tema Metropolis, Ghana

Emmanuel Anongeba Anaba, Zita Buabeng, Grace Adjei Okai • Youth (2022)

Voluntary HIV counselling and testing (VHCT) is a successful intervention for fostering early HIV detection, which is essential for the management of the disease. This study sought to determine the prevalence and factors that influence the ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/youth2040034

The Roles of Foreign Language in Business Administration

Thavorn Thitthongkam, John Christopher Walsh, Chanchai Banchapattanasakda • Journal of Management Research (2010)

This paper explores the roles of foreign language in business administration, investigates the manager perspectives, studies the problems of foreign language usages in communication, to discover modes of developing employee’s foreign langua...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.5296/jmr.v3i1.509

A Trust-Boundary Reference Architecture for Secure Cyber-Physical Agriculture: Design and Software-Based Proof-of-Concept for Smart Irrigation

Alvertos Ioannis Mourikis, Iosif Polenakis, Christos Sarantidis, Romanos Kalamatianos et al. • Sensors (2026)

Smart irrigation is an operational technology (OT) problem as much as an Internet of Things (IoT) one: software decisions act directly on valves, pumps, pressure and water delivery, so a spoofed reading or a replayed command has physical co...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/s26206545

From intra- to extra-uterine: early phase design of a transfer to extra-uterine life support through medical simulation

J. S. van Haren, J. S. van Haren, F. L. M. Delbressine, M. Monincx et al. • Frontiers in Medical Technology (2024)

IntroductionExtra-uterine life support technology could provide a more physiologic alternative for the treatment of extremely premature infants, as it allows further fetal growth and development ex utero. Animal studies have been carried ou...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fmedt.2024.1371447

Verifying the X for design framework capabilities in improving user experience evaluation activities

Stefano Filippi, Daniela Barattin • Cogent Engineering (2019)

The literature offers methods and tools for user experience (UX) evaluation. Among them, the irMMs-based method exploits mental models related to specific situations of interaction. The literature also proposes frameworks and models to desc...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1080/23311916.2019.1576318

Innovative Industrial Design

Sharad Chandra Srivastava, Rohit Raja, Sanjiv Kumar Tiwari, Ritesh Kumar Singh • Directory of Open access Books (OAPEN Foundation) (2026)

Innovative Industrial Design – Principles and Practices provides a comprehensive and contemporary overview of industrial design, emphasizing the intersection of creativity, technology, and user-centered methodologies. This edited volume exp...

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Innovative Industrial Design

Tao Wu • Advances in computer science research (2016)

With the informationization development of the 21st century knowledge economy, e-commerce has more and more close relationship with our study, work and life.Objective: It is necessary to explore the evolution direction of industrial design ...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc DOI: https://doi.org/10.2991/emcs-16.2016.441

Industrial Design in Britain

Noel Carrington • Routledge eBooks (2025)

Industrial Design in Britain (1976) describes the industrial design movement in Britain from its origins, when it broke away from the Arts and Crafts in 1915, until 1945 when its vital importance to industry was officially recognised, and t...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003613008

Circular Economy in Industrial Design Research: A Review

Kirsten van Dam, Luca Simeone, Duygu Keskin, Brian Baldassarre et al. • Sustainability (2020)

In the past decades, industrial design practice and research have focused extensively on how to optimize production and consumption, as a way to prevent negative environmental impacts, such as resource depletion, pollution, and excessive wa...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su122410279

Discharge preparation experiences of intergenerational caregivers for premature infants in China’s NICU: a qualitative study

Yan Zhang, Ling Jiang, Jinyu Zhu, Sijia Shen et al. • BMJ Paediatrics Open (2026)

Background Proper discharge preparation by family caregivers is essential for improving the growth and development of preterm infants and lowering their readmission rates. Within China’s unique family cultural context, intergenerational car...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1136/bmjpo-2026-004695 PMC: PMC13691880

The interplay of risk factors for future falls and fall-related injuries among community-dwelling older adults: a Bayesian network analysis

Yan Cai, Wei Zhu, Chenshu Wu, Yan Jiang • BMC Public Health (2026)

Abstract Background Falls are a leading global cause of injury and mortality in older adults, necessitating understanding risk factor interplay for prevention. This study aims to investigate complex interactions among risk factors associate...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12889-026-27192-9

Watching Out for Older Drivers

Samuel Durso • MedEdPORTAL (2006)

Abstract Motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of injury-related deaths among adults age 65 to 74. This risk for traffic fatalities may triple as the numbers of older drivers increases in the coming years. It is the ethical opinion ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.15766/mep_2374-8265.194

Categorias de autocuidado entre pessoas idosas com diabetes: estudo sociopoético [Categories of self-care among older adults with diabetes: a sociopoetic study]

Iraci dos Santos, Renata Gomes Machado Guerra, Leandro Andrade da Silva • Revista Enfermagem UERJ (2015)

Teve-se como objetivo identificar as categorias de autocuidado apresentadas por pessoas idosas com diabetes, considerando suas dimensões física, mental e espiritual. Método sociopoético, aplicando as fases do grupo-pesquisador formado por 1...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.12957/reuerj.2015.16498

The Gerontological Imagination: Social Influences on the Development of Gerontology, 1945-Present

Carroll L. Estes, Elizabeth A. Binney, Richard Culbertson • The International Journal of Aging and Human Development (1992)

This article presents a framework for the analysis of the development of gerontology since 1945. Three distinct historical periods and several forces that have shaped the field are examined. These forces reside in the political, economic, s...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.2190/ywl3-wx80-um2u-yeun

Gerontology

L. K. Frank • Journal of Gerontology (1946)

With millions of men and women growing older, baffled by changes in themselves and in the world around them, the country has a definite need for not only large scale provisions for their care but also for a specific and individual service f...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/geronj/1.1_part_1.1

The Challenge of Cultural Gerontology

Julia Twigg, Wendy E. Martin • The Gerontologist (2014)

Over the last decade, Cultural Gerontology has emerged as one of the most vibrant elements of writing about age (Twigg, J., & Martin, W. (Eds.) (2015). The Routledge handbook of cultural gerontology. London: Routledge). Reflecting the wider...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnu061

Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology

Julia Twigg • Routledge eBooks (2015)

Later years are changing under the impact of demographic, social and cultural shifts. No longer confined to the sphere of social welfare, they are now studied within a wider cultural framework that encompasses new experiences and new modes ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203097090