201 results match your criteria: "School of Interdisciplinary Studies[Affiliation]"
Sci Rep
April 2023
National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Pathum Thani, 12120, Thailand.
Arbuscular mycorrhizal ecosystem provides sustainability to plant integrity under drought situations. However, host plants that survive in drought frequently lose yield. The potential of Funneliformis mosseae (F), Claroideoglomus etunicatum (C), and Acaulospora fovaeta (A) was assessed to evaluate in indica rice cv.
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March 2023
Te Ārai Research Group - Palliative Care & End of Life, School of Nursing, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Background: International palliative care policy often views home as the most desirable location for end-of-life care. However, people living in more deprived areas can worry about dying in poor material circumstances and report more benefits from hospital admission at the end of life. There is increasing recognition of inequities in the experience of palliative care, particularly for people living in more deprived areas.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Adolesc
July 2023
Department of Psychology, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China.
Introduction: Although a few research have tried to explore the relationship between problematic smartphone use (PSU) and school engagement, most of them are limited to relatively simple correlation, and the mechanism needs to be further explored. This research focused on the relationship between PSU and school engagement/disengagement, and intended to verify two mediation paths.
Methods: We conducted two studies in 2019 at a middle school in China.
BMC Geriatr
April 2023
Department of Social Work and Social Policy, School of Sociology and Population Studies, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China.
Background: Many studies have found that engaging in activities, including physical exercise, social interaction, and cognitive training, is beneficial for preventing cognitive decline among older adults; however, the demographic differences in the association between activity engagement and cognitive functions remain understudied. This study investigates: (a) the influence of activity engagement on cognitive functions among Chinese older adults, and (b) the moderating roles of age and gender in these associations .
Methods: The data were derived from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study in 2018, which included 9803 participants aged 60 or older.
Arch Environ Contam Toxicol
October 2023
VNU Key Laboratory of Geoenvironment and Climate Change Response, University of Science, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, 334 Nguyen Trai, Thanh Xuan, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Stable isotope signatures (δC, δN) and trace elements (TEs) were analyzed from invertebrates and fish to assess food web structure and the biomagnification or biodilution of Cu, Pb, Cd, Zn, Mn, Cr, Hg and As in coastal waters of Ha Tinh Province, Central Vietnam. δC and δN values of purported food sources (sediments, phytoplankton, macroalgae, and zooplankton) ranged from -21.24 ± 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Environ Res Public Health
March 2023
Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
After reconstruction, the return to full competition rate of athletes is low, while the re-injury rate remains high despite the completion of a rehabilitation programme. Primary ACL prevention programmes are well developed, yet few research papers focus on secondary ACL injury prevention. The aim of current review is to determine if current ACL secondary prevention training has a positive influence on the re-injury rate, the clinical or functional outcomes, or the risk of re-injury in athletes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Intellect Disabil
June 2024
The Usual Place/Inspired Community Enterprise Trust Ltd (ICET), Dumfries, UK Inspired Community Enterprise Trust Ltd (ICET).
The need to foster resilience amongst young people with intellectual disabilities is increasingly recognised within policy. Critically, understanding of the actual means by which this aspiration might be most sensitively and effectively met is considered weak. This paper reports on an exploratory case-study of a social enterprise community café - - that through the promotion of employability, seeks to promote resilience amongst its young 'trainees' with intellectual disabilities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOman Med J
January 2023
Department of Medical Sciences, School of Medical and Life Sciences, Sunway University, Selangor, Malaysia.
Objectives: From early 2020, Malaysia had to implement nationwide lockdowns, quarantines, and other social distancing practices to contain the spread of COVID-19 virus, leading to symptoms of psychosocial burnout among the people. The aim of the present research is to develop and validate a Malay language version of the COVID-19 Burnout Scale (M-COVID-19-BS).
Methods: This three-phase study was conducted among Malaysian population.
Palliat Care Soc Pract
March 2023
School of Nursing, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada.
Background: Significant structural and normative pressures privilege the ideal of dying at home in Canada. At the same time, the social complexities and meanings associated with dying in particular locations remain critically unexamined.
Objective: The aim of this study is to explore how diverse community members, including health and social care stakeholders, talk about preferences for locations of dying, with a particular focus on meanings of dying at home.
Environ Manage
August 2023
School of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia.
Soil carbon sequestration programmes are a way of offsetting GHG emissions, however, it requires agricultural landholders to be engaged in such initiatives for carbon offsets to occur. Farmer engagement is low in market-based programmes for soil carbon credits in Australia. We interviewed long-term practitioners (n = 25) of rotational grazing in high-rainfall lands of New South Wales, Australia to understand their current social-ecological system (SES) of soil carbon management (SCM).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEnviron Res
May 2023
National Institute of Education, Earth Observatory of Singapore and Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
This research assesses the adaptive capacity of farmers in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta's floodplains (VMD) with respect to hydrological changes. Currently, climate change and socio-economic developments induce extreme- and diminishing floods, which in turn increase farmers' vulnerability. This research assesses farmers' adaptive capacity to hydrological changes using two prevalent farming systems: high dykes featuring triple-crop rice farming and low dykes where fields are left fallow during the flood season.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBMC Health Serv Res
January 2023
Department of Nursing and Health Promotion, Faculty of Health Sciences, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway.
Background: The population of Europe is ageing and becoming more ethnically diverse due to migration. Finding suitable long-term caring arrangements for older immigrants in Europe has been one of healthcare policymakers' concerns in the last decade. However, relatively few older people with an immigrant background live in long-term care facilities, and many prefer to be cared for by their family members.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSci Total Environ
April 2023
The National Water and Energy Center, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.
The intensive agricultural expansion and rapid urban development in Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates (UAE) have resulted in a major decline in local and regional groundwater levels. By using the latest release (RL06) of Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite measurements and Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS) products, the groundwater storage change was computed and compared with the time series of in-situ monitoring wells over the period of 2010-2016. The RL06 GRACE products from Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), University of Texas Center for Space Research (CSR), German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ), and JPL mass concentrations (MASCON) were assessed and have shown satisfactory agreements with the monitoring wells.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Environ Manage
April 2023
Institute of Interdisciplinary Mountain Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innrain 25, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria.
Nature-based solutions (NbS) can be beneficial to help human communities build resilience to climate change by managing and mitigating related hydro-meteorological hazards (HMHs). Substantial research has been carried out in the past on the detection and assessment of HMHs and their derived risks. Yet, knowledge on the performance and functioning of NbS to address these hazards is severely lacking.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEnviron Monit Assess
January 2023
School of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
Citizen science (CS), as an enabler of open science (OS) practices, is a low-cost and accessible method for data collection in biodiversity monitoring, which can empower and educate the public both on scientific research priorities and on environmental change. Where OS increases research transparency and scientific democratisation; if properly implemented, CS should do the same. Here, we present the findings of a systematic review exploring "openness" of CS in biodiversity monitoring.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnn Dyslexia
July 2023
Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive (UMR7290), CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France.
This study had three goals: to examine the stability of deficits in the phonological and lexical routes in dyslexia (group study), to determine the prevalence of dyslexia profiles (multiple-case study), and to identify the prediction of phonemic segmentation and discrimination skills before reading acquisition on future reading level. Among a group of 373 non-readers seen at age 5, 38 students were subsequently diagnosed as either consistent dyslexic readers (18 DYS) or consistent typical readers (20 TR). Their phonological and lexical reading skills were assessed at ages 10 and 17 and their phonemic segmentation and discrimination skills at age 5.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPalliat Med
April 2023
School of Nursing, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Background: Visual methods have been used extensively in social research to explore people's experiences of structural disadvantage. This indicates that they may provide a useful research approach to understanding equity-related concerns within palliative care. However, little has been published regarding the use of visual methods with people at the end of life.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Travel Res
January 2023
School of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
Tzu Chi Med J
June 2022
Department of Medical Sciences, School of Medical and Life Sciences, Sunway University, Selangor, Malaysia.
Objectives: This systematic review aims to identify influencing factors of medication adherence behavior in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), with a special interest in patient-related factors based on the World Health Organization adherence model.
Materials And Methods: Primary electronic databases comprising PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Embase and Cochrane Library, as well as ProQuest (Health and Medical), ProQuest (Psychology), and EBSCOHost (APA PsychARTICLES) were used to search for literature on patient-related factors in medication adherence, from inception till August 31, 2021.
Results: 479 articles were identified and six articles meeting eligibility criteria were reviewed and remained in this systematic review.
Int J Biol Macromol
February 2023
Protein Assembly Laboratory, Department of Medical Entomology and Toxicology, School of Chemical and Life Sciences, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi 110062, India. Electronic address:
As the primary bioactive compound of glycyrrhiza rhizome, the triterpene glycoside conjugate Glycyrrhizic acid (GA) has demonstrated neuroprotective effects in vivo. This study evaluates the effectiveness of GA as an inhibitor of GuHCl-induced amyloid aggregation of hen egg white lysozyme (HEWL). Fibril formation as measured by Thioflavin-T fluorescence, 90 light scattering, and 8-Anilinonaphthalene-1-sulfonic acid (ANS) fluorescence illustrated ∼90 % prevention of fibrils at [GA]/[HEWL] ≥2:1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Environ Manage
January 2023
School of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Glasgow, Dumfries Campus, Rutherford/McCowan Building, Dumfries, DG1 4ZL, UK. Electronic address:
Due to increasing population pressure and urbanization, as well as global climate change impacts, many coastal river deltas are experiencing increased exposure, vulnerability and risks linked to natural hazards. Mapping the vulnerability and risk profiles of deltas is critical for developing preparedness, mitigation and adaptation policies and strategies. Current vulnerability and risk assessments focus predominantly on social factors, and typically, do not systematically incorporate a social-ecological systems perspective, which can lead to incomplete assessments.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Food Sci
December 2022
School of Food Technology, Institute of Agricultural Technology, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand.
Proteinase-producing halophilic archaea were isolated from Thai fish sauce collected from industrial fermentation tanks at various periods of fermentation. Five isolates namely, J-1-S4, J-1-S13, J-1-S22, 2 m-40-15-R2, and P-1-S8, were identified as Halobacterium salinarum with slightly different colony and morphological characteristics among isolates. Starters of five isolates were prepared and added to the anchovy mixed with 25% solar salt and fermented for 180 days at 30-35°C.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Mol Sci
October 2022
Department of Surgery, Transplant Research Institute, James D. Eason Transplant Institute, College of Medicine, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38103, USA.
Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is one of the most aggressive cancers diagnosed amongst women with a high rate of treatment failure and a poor prognosis. Mitochondria have been found to be key players in oncogenesis and tumor progression by mechanisms such as altered metabolism, reactive oxygen species (ROS) production and evasion of apoptosis. Therefore, mitochondrial infusion is an area of interest for cancer treatment.
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September 2022
VNU University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University, 144 Xuan Thuy Road, Hanoi 100000, Viet Nam.
Increasing lecturers' research productivity plays a crucial role in improving teaching quality and university prestige. This research aims to establish and test a model for evaluating management factors that affect the research productivity of Vietnamese university lecturers. Data were collected by surveying 398 lecturers and researchers at universities affiliated with the Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn
August 2023
Laboratoire d'Etude des Mecanismes Cognitifs (EMC), Universite Lumiere Lyon 2.
Individuals with dyslexia often present phonological difficulties, ultimately impacting their reading and writing. Nevertheless, an individual with dyslexia may circumvent these difficulties through a reliance on linguistic units with more consistent spellings, such as morphemes. The increased use of morphological information by individuals with dyslexia has been argued to be a form of compensation.
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