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Tourism SMMEs Recovery from COVID-19: A Case of SMMEs in the City of Polokwane, Limpopo province, South Africa

Takalani Ramukumba • African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure (2023)

The tourism industry is dependent on travel and factors that inhibits travel, including pandemics such as COVID-19, may have a profound impact on the industry. Although the precise scope and long-term effects of COVID-19 have not yet been...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: https://doi.org/10.46222/ajhtl.19770720.456

Temperature orchestrates phytoplankton community and environment in mountain stream for enhancing resource use efficiency

Li Ji, Huayong Zhang, Huayong Zhang, Zhongyu Wang et al. • Frontiers in Marine Science (2025)

Warming is a key factor influencing the function of the structure and function of phytoplankton communities. However, the impacts of temperature on phytoplankton resource use efficiency (RUE) in mountain rivers remain poorly understood. Her...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2025.1565858

Anti-ceramide antibody and sphingosine-1-phosphate as potential biomarkers of unresectable non-small cell lung cancer

Lilla Bűdi, Dániel Hammer, Rita Varga, Veronika Müller et al. • Pathology and Oncology Research (2025)

ObjectivesSpingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) and ceramides are bioactive sphingolipids that influence cancer cell fate. Anti-ceramide antibodies might inhibit the effects of ceramide. The aim of this study was to assess the potential role of circ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/pore.2024.1611929

Alpha-Band EEG Modulation as a Potential Aged-Related Biomarker for Biofeedback-Driven Motor–Cognitive Adaptability

Swapno Aditya, Adam Clarke, Lucy Armitage, Wing-Kai Lam et al. • Sensors (2026)

Background: Age-related changes in motor–cognitive function are associated with altered neural adaptability, particularly during tasks requiring integration of cognitive and motor processes. Dual-task paradigms are commonly used to assess s...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/s26144575

Social Support, Social Participation, and Life Accomplishment of Older Adult Residents of Assisted Living Facilities and Their Adjoining Communities

Christopher Olusanjo Akosile PhD, Chisom Onyekwuluje BMR, Ukamaka Gloria Mgbeojedo PhD, Emmanuel Chiebuka Okoye PhD et al. • Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine (2023)

Objectives: To assess and compare levels of social support (SS), social participation (SP) and life accomplishment (LA) among older adults in some assisted-living facilities (ALFs) and their community-dwelling (CD) peers. Methods: One hundr...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1177/23337214231218797

Effective analysis of neurotoxicity and mechanisms of dioctyl terephthalate using network toxicology

Hao Tang, Ting Qin, Zhiwen Yan, Changqing Li et al. • Frontiers in Neuroscience (2026)

ObjectiveDioctyl terephthalate (DOTP), a widely used plasticizer in food packaging and environmental materials, has raised concerns regarding its potential impact on human health. This study aims to investigate the neurotoxicity-related mec...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2026.1783807

Local, collaborative, stepped, and personalized care management for older people with chronic diseases – results from the randomized controlled LoChro-trial

Gloria Metzner, Lukas Maximilian Horstmeier, Jürgen Bengel, Eva Maria Bitzer et al. • BMC Geriatrics (2023)

Abstract Background In the aging population of Western societies, an increasing number of older adults have multiple chronic diseases. As multifaceted health problems imply the involvement of several healthcare professionals, multimorbid ol...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12877-023-03797-2

Types of Skin Afferent Fibers and Spinal Opioid Receptors that Contribute to Touch-Induced Inhibition of Heart Rate Changes Evoked by Noxious Cutaneous Heat Stimulation

Nobuhiro Watanabe, Mathieu Piché, Harumi Hotta • Molecular Pain (2015)

Background In anesthetized rats and conscious humans, a gentle touch using a soft disc covered with microcones (with a texture similar to that of a finger), but not with a flat disc, inhibits nociceptive somatocardiac reflexes. Such an inhi...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12990-015-0001-x

Nutritional status, literacy, and risk factors of malnutrition in the population over 50 years of age - findings from the SHARE project

Tereza Vágnerová, Olga Dvořáčková, Eva Topinková • Clinical Nutrition Open Science (2024)

Summary: Background & Aims: The transition from middle age to old age (from adults aged 50–55 years to older seniors aged 75–80 years) represents a critical period in terms of changes in body composition, i.e., increase in body fat per...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.nutos.2024.01.006

<i>Sechium edule</i> var. <i>nigrum spinosum</i> (Chayote) Increases the mRNA Expression of Genes Encoding Sirtuins in Older Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Graciela Gavia-García, David Hernández-Álvarez, Taide Laurita Arista-Ugalde, Itzen Aguiñiga-Sánchez et al. • Molecules (2026)

Consumption of Sechium edule var. nigrum spinosum has antioxidant and hypoglycemic effects. Regarding the former, certain signaling pathways that influence these effects have already been proposed; however, the underlying molecular mechanis...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/molecules31071182

Uncovering the Tradeoffs and Synergies of Ecosystem Services in Mining Landscapes: Spatiotemporal and Factor Detection Perspective

Jiao Pan, Tao Chen, Antonio Plaza • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (2025)

Revealing the spatial-temporal evolution and interactions of ecosystem services (ESs) in mining area is critical for sustainable environmental management. The temporal and spatial characteristics and changing trends of six ESs in Yuzhong mi...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2025.3586637

Jianghan plain, the locale of China’s Great Flood four thousand years ago

Li-Xin Guo, Meng-Long Hsieh, Olga Gorodetskaya, Zi-Hao Fan et al. • Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (2023)

Abstract The Yellow River Plain (YRP), being regarded as the cradle of Chinese civilization, is traditionally thought to be the locale of the Great Flood, a hazardous flood (or floods) tamed by Yu who started China’s first “dynasty”, Xia, i...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1007/s44195-023-00044-4

Multimodel GCM-RCM Ensemble-Based Projections of Temperature and Precipitation over West Africa for the Early 21st Century

I. Diallo, M. B. Sylla, F. Giorgi, A. T. Gaye et al. • International Journal of Geophysics (2012)

Reliable climate change scenarios are critical for West Africa, whose economy relies mostly on agriculture and, in this regard, multimodel ensembles are believed to provide the most robust climate change information. Toward this end, we ana...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1155/2012/972896

Snow Depth Retrieval Using Detrended SNR From GNSS-R With Bidirectional GRU

Wei Liu, Zihui Lin, Yuan Hu, Aodong Tian et al. • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (2024)

Snow depth monitoring is crucial for hydrology, climate research, and avalanche prediction. While traditional global navigation satellite system (GNSS) reflectometer methods offer cost-effective snow thickness retrieval, they suffer from po...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2024.3470222

Structural Properties of Syngenetic Ice-Rich Permafrost, as Revealed by Archaeological Investigation of the Yana Site Complex (Arctic East Siberia, Russia): Implications for Quaternary Science

Vladimir V. Pitulko, Elena Y. Pavlova • Frontiers in Earth Science (2022)

Ice-rich syncryogenic (termed “Ice Complex”) deposits are common in northern East Siberia and constitute the most important feature of the Quaternary geology of the region. The Ice Complex formed throughout the Late Pleistocene and not only...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/feart.2021.744775

Analytical solutions of steady-state temperature field for large-section freezing with rectangular layout of single-ring holes

HONG Zequn 1, SHI Rongjian 1, YUE Fengtian 1, HAN Lei 2 • Yantu gongcheng xuebao (2023)

The temperature field is the basis for assessing the mechanical state and water-sealing performance of the frozen wall, which is an important research direction of the artificial freezing theory. For the freezing pipes in the form of a clos...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.11779/CJGE20220700