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Radiative cooling, as a renewable cooling technology, is expected to mitigate growing global warming. However, the barrier when promoting radiative cooling from the laboratory to practice is still a blind spot and needs ...

Abstract Community-academic partnerships are essential for addressing health inequities and ensuring public health research reflects the values and priorities of communities. This study presents reflections from communit...

Introduction Access to safe, high quality, acceptable and sustainable general practice (GP) and primary care services is essential to improved health outcomes and quality of life for people living in residential aged car...

IntroductionAssisted reproductive technology (ART) practice varies widely across centers and evolves rapidly, often outpacing the generation of randomized evidence. OPERA (Observational ProjEct for a Research database fo...

Abstract Background Adaptive designs (ADs) are increasingly used, whereby outcome data accumulated during the trial may inform a trial’s course in accordance with pre-specified rules at interim analyses. The benefits h...

Abstract The near-disappearance of single-author publications in scientific literature represents one of the most dramatic shifts in academic publishing over the past two decades. While this trend is often attributed to ...

This article shares an interdisciplinary artistic experience that weaves ecosomatic practices and dance as ways to cultivate attention, attunement, and care in our relationship with the Earth. The research is grounded in...

Electronic Flight Bags (EFBs) are now standard in the commercial aviation industry. Air carriers must implement and maintain EFB training and policies according to FAA regulations. Pilots are also using EFBs at collegiat...

Abstract Background The European Reference Network for rare Inherited and Congenital Anomalies (ERNICA) aims to improve care for patients with rare and complex digestive and gastrointestinal diseases across Europe throug...

Background: Along with the development of sociolinguistic studies and language education, the orientation of research and learning practices is shifting from a monolingual approach to a more inclusive multilingual framew...

Background: The midwife specialists (MS) are trained midwifery professionals with advanced knowledge and skills to perform interventions to respond to complicated maternal and neonatal conditions. A midwife specialist i...

Context and background A typical character of land tenure or property systems in sub-Saharan Africa is that the systems exclude women (implicitly and explicitly) (Chigbu, 2019). Over the past twenty years, several Af...

This practice report argues that, in a higher education system where publication is a key performance metric, existing resources, such as textbooks, can be used and modified to make engaging and valuable professional dev...

Changes in the conceptions of extension and rural innovation, as well as the persistence of diffusionist extension approaches, require rethinking training strategies for rural extensionists. Drawing upon conceptual insig...

Background Living Labs have proven to be valuable environments for fostering innovation through user-centred approaches. However, many researchers and companies still face challenges in implementing these methodologies s...

Jinling Yang,1 Minghui Yi,1 Fei Wu,1 Menghui Hu,1 Qinxi Yao,2 Hangdi Zhou,2 Ying Xiao,2 Yao Zhang,3 Yun Wu,3 Bin Zheng3 1Medical Integration and Practice Center, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, S...

This Campbell systematic review examines the effects of input subsidies on agricultural productivity, beneficiary incomes and welfare, consumer welfare and wider economic growth. The review summarizes evidence from 15 ex...

Abstract Background Sub-Saharan Africa carries a disproportionate burden of under-five child deaths in the world and appropriate breastfeeding practices can support efforts to reduce child mortality rates. Health facilit...

In a changing educational landscape, student engagement remains a prominent issue in research and practice. This study explores engagement from the student’s perspective across multiple disciplines, year levels and de...

Abstract Background Quarantine and isolation (Q&I) are interrelated but not mutually exclusive public health practices for disease control, which may face public resistance in the context of health emergencies due to ass...

Background Research has revealed persistent disparities in meeting the needs of racially minoritized youth identified with suicide risk in schools. An evidence-based trauma-informed suicide prevention practice, such as S...

This study examines the economic security of business entities by conducting a systematic bibliometric analysis of academic research indexed in the Scopus database. Due to digital transformation, growing technological de...

Preeclampsia (PE) complicates 2 % to 8 % of pregnancies and remains the leading cause of perinatal maternal and neonatal mortality worldwide. Early identification of high-risk pregnancies allows for the reduction of comp...

Welcome to the first issue for 2019.  In previous editorials we have stressed the role of the Journal as continuing the dissemination of current research and innovative good practice about students’ tertiary learning ...