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Cheol-Hee Son, Jong-In Baek, Yong-Un Ban and Sung-Ryong Ha
This study analyzed the characteristics of flood damages and the effects of structural and non-structural flood damage mitigation measures in Korea. First, a theoretical discussion of the structural and non-structural measures to mitigate flood damages w...
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Sabrina Rovelli, Andrea Cattaneo, Camilla P. Nuzzi, Andrea Spinazzè, Silvia Piazza, Paolo Carrer and Domenico M. Cavallo
Indoor size-fractioned particulate matter (PM) was measured in seven schools in Milan, to characterize their concentration levels in classrooms, compare the measured concentrations with the recommended guideline values, and provide a preliminary assessme...
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Ana María Contardo Ayala, Jo Salmon, Anna Timperio, Bronwyn Sudholz, Nicola D. Ridgers, Parneet Sethi and David W. Dunstan
During school hours, children can sit for prolonged and unbroken periods of time. This study investigated the impact of an 8-month classroom-based intervention focusing on reducing and breaking-up sitting time on children?s cardio-metabolic risk factors ...
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Agata Glapa, Joanna Grzesiak, Ida Laudanska-Krzeminska, Ming-Kai Chin, Christopher R. Edginton, Magdalena Mo Ching Mok and Michal Bronikowski
The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of the Brain Breaks® Physical Activity Solutions in changing attitudes toward physical activity of school children in a community in Poland. In 2015, a sample of 326 pupils aged 9?11 years old fr...
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Jiansong Wu, Zhuqiang Hu, Jinyue Chen and Zheng Li
Subway station fires often have serious consequences because of the high density of people and limited number of exits in a relatively enclosed space. In this study, a comprehensive model based on Bayesian network (BN) and the Delphi method is establishe...
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Vasileios Thomopoulos and Kostas Tsichlas
In this research, we present the first steps toward developing a data-driven agent-based model (ABM) specifically designed for simulating infectious disease dynamics in Greece. Amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2, this research hold...
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Mohd Azzuan Ahmad, Devinder Kaur Ajit Singh, Nor Azlin Mohd Nordin, Khor Hooi Nee and Norliza Ibrahim
Virtual reality (VR) games has the potential to improve patient outcomes in stroke rehabilitation. However, there is limited information on VR games as an adjunct to standard physiotherapy in improving upper limb function. This study involved 36 particip...
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Hongwu Wang, Raghuveer Chandrashekhar, Josiah Rippetoe and Mustafa Ghazi
This review summarized the focal muscle vibration devices, parameters, and protocols that have been used for stroke rehabilitation. The review discussed the application of wearable focal muscle vibration technology for sustainable stroke rehabilitation a...
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Giuliana Cardani and Paola Belluco
The presence of the largest part of World Heritage sites in a seismically-prone area, like Italy, demands always greater measures to protect the most important built heritage, as well as the minor architecture. This requires a constant improvement of the...
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Angélica Monteiro, Cláudia Sousa and Rita Barros
The conditions for safe Internet access and the development of skills enabling full participation in online environments are recognized in the Council of Europe?s strategy for child rights, from 2022. The guarantee of this right has implications for expe...
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Katarina Bensa and Klemen ?irok
Workplace health promotion programmes (WHPPs) are among the most important measures to improve the health and motivation of the ageing workforce. However, they are accompanied with certain challenges, such as low participation rates and higher participat...
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José Brás, Ruben Pereira and Sérgio Moro
Robotic process automation and intelligent process automation have gained a foothold in the automation of business processes, using blocks of software (bots). These agents interact with systems through interfaces, replacing human intervention with the ai...
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Jo-Lâm Vuong, Johanna Heil, Nina Breuer, Matthaios Theodoropoulos, Nicola Volk, Antonia Edel and Alexander Ferrauti
This study examined the effects of combined change of direction (CoD) and plyometric training on sand in basketball players? jump, sprint, and CoD performances. In total, twenty-five male professional basketball players (age, 24.1 ± 4.2 years; height, 19...
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Juan Carlos Martínez Serra and Enrique Fernández-Vivancos González
Historical centers are structural elements in contemporary cities which preserve identity and collective memory. Despite being lubricants of social cohesion, intense processes of urban growth, fragmentation, and degradation put these city centers at grea...
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Anteneh Afework Mekonnen, Tibor Sipos and Nóra Krizsik
Identifying and prioritizing hazardous road traffic crash locations is an efficient way to mitigate road traffic crashes, treat point locations, and introduce regulations for area-wide changes. A sound method to identify blackspots (BS) and area-wide hot...
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Márcia Lima, Carlos Coelho and Filipa Jesus
Wave overtopping, mainly caused by growing coastal erosion processes, directly affects populations, causing coastal flooding and potential damages. This work aims to develop the relationship between overtopping phenomena and their impact costs through an...
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Florina Popa
Ensuring the convergence in the process of the Romanian economic and social environment adaptation, to the requirements of internal market of European Union, but also the alignment of public policies with good practices of European Union, led to the emer...
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He Jin and Yongmei Lu
The retail food environment draws much attention from scholars because it can shape individuals? eating behaviors and health outcomes. Although much progress has been made, current retail food environment assessments mainly use simple food accessibility ...
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Marta C. Diaz-Saez, Gonzalo Navarro-Fernández, Josué Fernandez-Carnero, Miriam Garrigós-Pedrón, Juan Pablo Romero Muñoz and Hector Beltran-Alacreu
Mixed reality presents itself as a potential technological tool for the management of people with musculoskeletal disorders, without having as many adverse side effects as immersive virtual reality. The objective of this study was to explore the possibil...
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Carlos Coelho, Márcia Lima and Margarida Ferreira
Worldwide, artificial nourishments are being considered as one of the main coastal erosion mitigation measures. However, this solution is not permanent, since the natural removal of sediments that occurs after the sand deposition leads to the need of re-...
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