Social robots provide new opportunities to support general child healthcare programs. However, it is still unclear how social robots could be used in this context and how corresponding behaviours should be designed. To ...

Social innovation is gaining attention as a pivotal dimension of socio-technical transitions with renewable energy prosumerism as a prominent example. However, this example also highlights that social innovation evokes ...

Background: While the term reproducibility crisis mainly reflects reproducibility of experiments between laboratories, reproducibility between species also remains problematic. We previously summarised the published ...

With increasing forest devolution globally, community forest enterprises (CFEs) are emerging as potential options for local development based on forest resources. CFEs trade to meet their economic, social, and environmental ...

In Nurse Rostering problems the goal is to assign nurses to shifts, subject to a number of constraints. In this paper we consider the computational complexity of such problems. We review the major complexity results obtained ...

Background: Recovery after the death of a loved one involves decreasing sadness and grief, but also involves maintaining and strengthening satisfaction with life (SWL). Greater SWL may buffer the development of emotional ...

BACKGROUND: The intestine of children with severe malnutrition (SM) shows structural and functional changes that are linked to increased infection and mortality. SM dysregulates the tryptophan-kynurenine pathway, which may ...

Low back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide, but current therapeutic interventions are palliative or surgical in nature. Loss of notochordal cells (NCs) and degradation of the healthy matrix in the nucleus ...

Streets comprise over 80% of all urban public space, while previous studies associated street network attributes with traffic and transport model choice, they did not examine network design in conjunction with symptoms of ...