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Investigating Undergraduate Students’ Learning Styles and Preferences in English as a Second Language: The Case of a Public University in Ghana

Gifty Budu, Edward Owusu, Levina N. Abunya, Emma Sarah Eshun • E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (2025)

This study examines selected undergraduate students’ learning styles and preferences at a public university in Ghana. These participants were Level 100 students pursuing the Bachelor of Information Technology programme. The study sought to ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: https://doi.org/10.38159/ehass.2025653

Improving Waste Management at Construction Sites—Evidence from a Comparative Study in Poland and Slovakia

Ewelina Mitera-Kiełbasa, Marcela Spišáková, Krzysztof Zima • Buildings (2026)

Construction waste management remains a critical challenge for improving project efficiency and sustainability. Despite extensive research, there is still a lack of comparative and up-to-date empirical studies addressing both material and n...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/buildings16071418

Participatory Research for Adaptive Water Management in a Transition Country - a Case Study from Uzbekistan

Darya Hirsch, Geraldine Abrami, Raffaele Giordano, Stefan Liersch et al. • Ecology and Society (2010)

Participatory research has in recent years become a popular approach for problem-oriented scientific research that aims to tackle complex problems in a real management context. Within the European Union project NeWater, stakeholder processe...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5751/ES-03549-150323

Satisfaction Rate from the Communication Skills of Family Physicians in Rural Health Centers at Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences

Rezaali Bagheri, Seyed Ahmad Mohammadikia, Mehraneh Kazemian, Batuol Kazemi et al. • آموزش پزشکی (2014)

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Since that one of the basic points in the competences of physicians, is the communication skill to carry out their professional duties properly, several studies suggest that manyphysicians can not communicate to th...

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Barriers faced by people with disabilities in mainstream sports: a systematic review

Pablo Elipe-Lorenzo, Pablo Elipe-Lorenzo, Pelayo Diez-Fernández, Pelayo Diez-Fernández et al. • Frontiers in Sports and Active Living (2025)

IntroductionDespite advances in inclusive policies and social awareness, the participation of people with disabilities (PwD) in mainstream sports remains limited due to numerous barriers. This systematic review seeks to identify and critica...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fspor.2025.1520962

Student views of instructor-student rapport in the college classroom

Nathan Webb, Laura Obrycki Barrett • Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (2014)

Building upon past research on the positive learning outcomes associated with rapport building in the classroom, this study examines the specific behaviors instructors utilize in college classrooms to build rapport with undergraduate studen...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.14434/josotl.v14i2.4259

Extracellular vesicles: A dive into their role in the tumor microenvironment and cancer progression

Kassandra Lopez, Seigmund Wai Tsuen Lai, Edwin De Jesus Lopez Gonzalez, Raúl G. Dávila et al. • Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology (2023)

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) encompass a diverse set of membrane-derived particles released from cells and are found in numerous biological matrices and the extracellular space. Specific classes of EVs include apoptotic bodies, exosomes, an...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2023.1154576

Transmission of β-lactamases in the pork food chain: A public health concern

Martina Rega, Laura Andriani, Antonio Poeta, Chiara Casadio et al. • One Health (2023)

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a risk for public health that requires management in a One Health perspective, including humans, animals, and the environment. The food production chain has been identified as a possible route of transmissi...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.onehlt.2023.100632

TYPES OF COMPOUND WORD-FORMATION IN MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY (ON THE MATERIAL OF THE GERMAN LANGUAGE)

Marina I. Nosacheva, Nataliya I. Danilina • Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание (2019)

The aim of the study is to optimize the classification of the types of the compound word-building with components of Greek and Latin origin; the research is based on the sample of 2882 substantive compound terms of the German clinical ter...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.15688/jvolsu2.2019.4.11

Psychological and Pedagogical Support for Parents of Children with Special Educational Needs

Zauresh Issabayeva, Aizhan Sapargaliyeva, Galiya Shubayeva, Kuanysh Shalabayeva et al. • Continuity in Education (2024)

This study primarily aimed to develop a program that aids parents of children with Special Educational Needs (SEN), placing emphasis on the challenges encountered in communication and understanding. The Eidemiller and Justizkis’s (2008) Fam...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5334/cie.103

The Communication Studies Researcher and the Communication Studies Indexes

David C. Tyler, Signe O. Boudreau, Susan M. Leach • Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian (2005)

The existence of widely available large, multi-subject, online databases calls into question the necessity for small, discipline-specific indexes to support research. This study attempts to determine whether the online Communication Studies...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1300/j103v23n02_02

Decolonization and Globalization in Communication Studies

Sinfree Bullock Makoni, Katherine A. Masters • Oxford University Press eBooks (2021)

Abstract Decolonial scholars are guided by alternative ways of thinking about language and communication that have existed for millennia but have gone unnoticed in scholarship. An approach to communication underwritten by the decolonial app...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.1152

THE EMERGENCE OF COMMUNICATION STUDIES

Jay G. Blumler • Journal of Educational Television (1977)

This article charts the vast multiplicity of phenomena that can be brought under the ‘communication’ umbrella. The author denies that these can be integrated within a framework of communication regarded as a discipline in its own right. He ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1358165770030102

Spatio-temporal analysis of childhood vaccine uptake in Nigeria: a hierarchical Bayesian Zero-inflated Poisson approach

Temitayo Victor Lawal, Kehinde Adebola Atoloye, Ayo Stephen Adebowale, Adeniyi Francis Fagbamigbe • BMC Pediatrics (2023)

Abstract Background Globally, child mortality and morbidity remain a serious health challenge and infectious diseases are the leading causes. The use of count models together with spatial analysis of the number of doses of childhood vaccine...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12887-023-04300-x

The effect of cropping pattern on the profitability of liquid fertilizer usage in dry season vegetable production in the Southern Guinea savannah zone of Nigeria

Olaghere Ivie L., Omotesho Olubunmi A., Muhammad-Lawal Abdulazeez • Journal of Agricultural Sciences (Belgrade) (2018)

Liquid fertilizers in dry season vegetable production are applied using different cropping patterns with little or no empirical evidence on which pattern is the most profitable. This study, therefore, investigated the effect of cropping pat...

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