Search
Search Results
-
Detecting the Impact of Academics Self-Citations: Fi-Score
The academic landscape has witnessed significant transformations in recent years, primarily attributed to advancements in IT tools, which have...
-
Association of personality traits and socio-environmental factors with COVID-19 pandemic-related conspiratorial thinking in the D-A-CH region
Misinformation, lack of trust, and uncertainty during the COVID-19 pandemic have fostered the emergence of new conspiracy theories. In August 2021,...
-
Prediction of sonic log and correlation of lithology by comparing geophysical well log data using machine learning principles
The well logging technique is used to determine the petrophysical properties like porosity, permeability and fluid saturations of subsurface...
-
Socio-ecological factors influencing vulnerability to trachoma disease: a new tool applied in five pre-saharan provinces, Morocco
This study intentions to appraise the relative vulnerability of the trachoma disease in some provinces of the pre-Sahara of Morocco. In this region,...
-
Multisectoral intervention on food security in complex emergencies: a discourse on regional resilience praxis in Northeast Nigeria
Sustainable livelihood as an enabler of food security can be constrained by climate variability and violent conflicts, with dire consequences in...
-
Putting spatial crime patterns in their social contexts through a contextualized colocation analysis
This study proposes a novel contextualized colocation analysis to examine spatial crime patterns within their social contexts. The sample includes...
-
Self-Compassion Scale for Youth: Turkish Adaptation and Exploration of the Relationship with Resilience, Depression, and Well-being
Self-compassion refers to being kind, understanding, and accepting toward oneself in times of failure, frustration, or negative feelings. Since...
-
Measuring Transition Smoothness into European Labour Market(s)
High levels of unemployment and labour market mobility characterise the school-to-work (STW) transition process. At empirical level, there are... -
Health literacy across personality traits among older adults: cross-sectional evidence from Switzerland
This research aims to better understand the association of personality traits (PT)—Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion,...
-
An Individual-Specific Approach to Multidimensional Child Poverty in India: a Study of Regional Disparities
Child poverty has recently been deemed a crucial component of poverty by development economists and policymakers. The global multidimensional poverty...
-
Exhibiting the Changes in Nutritional Status of Children in India: An Empirical Insight from the Human Opportunity Index
Enhancing the nutritional status is essential for fostering human resource development and attaining sustainable development. The objective of...
-
The Welfare State as an Independent Variable: Debates, Pitfalls, Potentials
This chapter examines the first main research question: how comparable are the results that emerge from different approaches to operationalising the... -
Does Self-Transcendent Wisdom Mediate the Relation between Spirituality and Well-Being? A Test Across Six Nations
Objectives: The purpose of the study was to examine whether self-transcendent wisdom mediates the positive relation of spirituality on general...
-
Social Cohesion in International Comparison: A Review of Key Measures and Findings
Although social integration has always been a central sociological issue, there has never been a consensus how to approach the topic empirically. In...
-
Multidimensional Poverty Among the Elderly in India
Using unit data from 42,762 elderly from 75th round of National Sample Survey, this paper estimates the extent of multidimensional poverty among... -
Overlap Senescence/Chronic Disease
Aging and disease are intertwined. This chapter is the center field of geriatrics, and we throw the bridge between (accelerated) senescence and... -
How Adolescents in Residential Care Perceive their Skills and Satisfaction with Life: Do Adolescents and Youth Workers Agree?
Adolescents in residential care display a self-perception of their own skills that may differ from how their youth workers perceive them. This...
-
Re-examining the Multidimensional Poverty Index of South Africa
The persistently high level of poverty remains one of the main socio-economic issues in South Africa since the democratic transition in 1994. Many...
-
Buddy or burden? Patterns, perceptions, and experiences of pet ownership among older adults in Switzerland
While interactions with pets may yield significant emotional, social, and physical benefits, taking care of them can also be demanding and...
-
Are Informal Older Workers Utilizing Less Healthcare Services? Evidence from the Longitudinal Ageing Study in India, Wave-1
India’s informal sector employs many workers without social security benefits, such as pension support and health insurance. Many older workers...