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GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES OF ATOPIC DERMATITIS INCIDENCE IN THE CHILD POPULATION OF THE GRODNO REGION

Khokha R. N. • Žurnal Grodnenskogo Gosudarstvennogo Medicinskogo Universiteta (2018)

Research objective. To estimate a geographical variation of the indicator of the incidence of atopic dermatitis among the child population of the Grodno region. Material and methods. The data of the official statistical reports of the G...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.25298/2221-8785-2018-16-1-51-56

A Probabilistic Fatigue Strength Assessment in AlSi-Cast Material by a Layer-Based Approach

Matthias Oberreiter, Stefan Fladischer, Michael Stoschka, Martin Leitner • Metals (2022)

An advanced lightweight design in cast aluminium alloys features complexly shaped geometries with strongly varying local casting process conditions. This affects the local microstructure in terms of porosity grade and secondary dendrite arm...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/met12050784

Geography of Innovation

Maryann P. Feldman • Economics of science, technology and innovation (1994)

The geography of innovation refers to the spatial clustering of innovative activity and the advantages conferred by co-location. Economic actors realize gains when located to places with abundant resources, well-developed social networks an...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3333-5

Investigating Spatial Effects through Machine Learning and Leveraging Explainable AI for Child Malnutrition in Pakistan

Xiaoyi Zhang, Muhammad Usman, Ateeq ur Rehman Irshad, Mudassar Rashid et al. • ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (2024)

While socioeconomic gradients in regional health inequalities are firmly established, the synergistic interactions between socioeconomic deprivation and climate vulnerability within convenient proximity and neighbourhood locations with heal...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/ijgi13090330

Recurring Construction Risk Categories in Makkah’s Complex Urban Environment: A Colaizzi-Informed Thematic Analysis of Project Managers’ Accounts

Amir A. Hasanain, Khalid Abolkhair, Zahyah H. Alharbi, Abdulrahman A. Altassan • Buildings (2026)

While identifying risks is the first step toward developing response plans, project managers often respond to risks spontaneously. This study aimed to identify recurring construction risk categories reported by project managers in Makkah, e...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/buildings16193774

New femoral evidence from the Afar reveal the early evolution of habitual squatting behaviors in the genus Theropithecus

Laurent Pallas, Laurent Pallas, Laurent Pallas, Masato Nakatsukasa et al. • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (2025)

IntroductionThe femoral anatomy of fossil Theropithecus is poorly known, although it provides critical data for inferring squatting behaviors, a characteristic trait of extant Theropithecus gelada.MethodsHere, we describe and provide functi...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2025.1593646

Quantum Computing in Transportation Engineering: A Survey

Shriyank Somvanshi, Md Monzurul Islam, Sazzad Bin Bashar Polock, Gaurab Chhetri et al. • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (2026)

Quantum computing introduces new computational methods that address complex optimization and machine learning challenges in transportation engineering. This literature survey reviews fundamental quantum principles, including qubits, superpo...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/tits.2026.3662626

Reputation assessment mechanism for carpooling applications based on clustering user travel preferences

Athanasios Salamanis, Dionysios D. Kehagias, Dimitrios Tsoukalas, Dimitrios Tzovaras • International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology (2019)

One way to ensure sustainable and environmental friendly mobility is the use of less vehicles for carrying more passengers, and carpooling is a means to achieve this goal. One major concern in carpooling services is related to trust, as car...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.ijtst.2018.08.002

Fractals in Geology and Geophysics

Donald L. Turcotte • Birkhäuser Basel eBooks (1989)

The definition of a fractal distribution is that the number of objects N with a characteristic size greater than r scales with the relation N ~ r −D . The frequency-size distributions for islands, earthquakes, fragments, ore deposits, and o...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-6389-6_10

Soil mycobiome structure across central and peripherial zones in a pecan nut agroecosystem [Carya illinoinensis (Wangenh.) K. Koch]

Sánchez-Ledesma Judith A., Águila Bernardo, Garibay-Orijel Roberto, Peña Cristina García-De la et al. • Folia Oecologica (2025)

Using ITS1-based metabarcoding, we investigated the structure of the soil fungal communities in the central and peripheral zones of a 25-hectare pecan nut (Carya illinoinensis) orchard located in the arid region of Coahuila, Mexico. While e...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2478/foecol-2025-0015

Multivariate analysis for agronomic, physiological, macro, and micronutrient traits of exotic vegetable amaranth genotypes

Mirza Abrar, Tanveer Ahmad, Shahid Iqbal, Rana Naveed Ur Rehman et al. • BMC Plant Biology (2024)

Abstract The genus amaranth is comprised of 60–70 species. This climate hardy plant is grown as a vegetable as well as cereal crop in many areas of the world. Current study multivariate analysis was used to characterize the exotic vegetable...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12870-024-05862-3

Molecular Taxonomy of Conogethes punctiferalis and Conogethes pinicolalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) Based on Mitochondrial DNA Sequences

Jing WANG, Tian-tao ZHANG, Zhen-ying WANG, Kang-lai HE et al. • Journal of Integrative Agriculture (2014)

Conogethes punctiferalis (Guenée) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) was originally considered as one species with fruit-feeding type (FFT) and pinaceae-feeding type (PFT), but it has subsequently been divided into two different species of Conogethes...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/S2095-3119(13)60678-4

Native and Introduced Plants in a Managed Campus Landscape: Habitat Associations, Functional Overlap, and Taxonomic Patterns

Santosh K. Rana, Gary L. Davenport, Serene Awad, Donald J. Webb et al. • Ecology and Evolution (2026)

ABSTRACT Managed landscapes support diverse vascular plant assemblages, with composition shaped by both regional species pools and human planting and maintenance. This study assessed floristic composition, habitat associations, growth forms...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1002/ece3.74348

MiRNA Profiles in Lymphoblastoid Cell Lines of Finnish Prostate Cancer Families.

Daniel Fischer, Tiina Wahlfors, Henna Mattila, Hannu Oja et al. • PLoS ONE (2015)

BACKGROUND:Heritable factors are evidently involved in prostate cancer (PrCa) carcinogenesis, but currently, genetic markers are not routinely used in screening or diagnostics of the disease. More precise information is needed for making tr...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0127427

Psychological Components of Disease Stigma Across Illnesses: Associations with Cultural and Personal Factors

Shiming Yao, Jiajia Zhu, Yan Mu • Behavioral Sciences (2026)

Understanding public stigma against patients (also known as disease stigma)—negative attitudes or discriminatory responses toward individuals with a disease—is essential for improving health outcomes and fostering inclusive communities. In ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/bs16020295

Revisiting Hyaluronan Catabolism in Bacteroides: Pathway Conservation, Overlooked Proteins, and Predictive Accuracy

Martin Sindelar, Anna Kocurkova, Matej Simek, Pavel Roudnicky et al. • MicrobiologyOpen (2026)

ABSTRACT The ability of gut microbes to degrade host‐ and diet‐derived glycans is central to microbiome ecology and host interactions, yet predicting these functions in silico remains challenging. Hyaluronan (HA), a glycosaminoglycan (GAG) ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1002/mbo3.70227

Comparative Analysis of Tools and Approaches for Source Tracking Listeria monocytogenes in a Food Facility Using Whole-Genome Sequence Data

Balamurugan Jagadeesan, Leen Baert, Martin Wiedmann, Renato H. Orsi • Frontiers in Microbiology (2019)

As WGS is increasingly used by food industry to characterize pathogen isolates, users are challenged by the variety of analysis approaches available, ranging from methods that require extensive bioinformatics expertise to commercial softwar...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00947

Comprehensive analyses of m6A regulators and interactive coding and non-coding RNAs across 32 cancer types

Sipeng Shen, Ruyang Zhang, Yue Jiang, Yi Li et al. • Molecular Cancer (2021)

Abstract N6-Methyladenosine (m6A) is an RNA modification that interacts with numerous coding and non-coding RNAs and plays important roles in the development of cancers. Nonetheless, the clinical impacts of m6A interactive genes on these ca...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12943-021-01362-2