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Welcome to Volume 3 Issue 5 of the Journal of Disability Research (JDR). Let us start by emphasizing our continuing intention to publish innovative, high impact, insightful work open access, the ...

Magnetic soft continuum robots have received interest in diverse fields, because of their active steering and remote control capabilities. However, a more challenging task is the development of ...

Postural tachycardia syndrome (POTS) is a chronic autonomic disorder characterized by excessive heart rate elevation upon standing or head-up tilt, in the absence of orthostatic hypotension. This ...

Background: With distal transradial access (dTRA), the postoperative compression time remains significantly longer than the recommended range via in practice. This study investigated whether ...

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Background: Ovarian cancer (OV) is the fifth leading cause of cancer death among women. Growing evidence supports a key role of the tumor microenvironment in the growth, progression, and metastasis of ...

In the analysis of the sustainability of knowledge work environments, the intensification of work has emerged as probably the single most important contradiction. We argue that the process of ...

Prostate cancer (PCa) screening with PSA (prostate-specific antigen) remains controversial. PSA is specific to the organ but not to cancer, and different benign conditions can influence the value, ...

This Handbook is about the past, present, and future of systems thinking. It captures the history of systems thinking over its first three ‘waves,’ which are thought of as significant paradigmatic ...

This paper investigates digitalisation in labour activities within the Spanish population, with the aim of examining its extent and characteristics in relation to the digital divide at work, focusing ...

Public-health emergencies may transcend national boundaries and greatly affect the political, economic and social stability of countries worldwide [2]. Globally, vaccines have become a major means of ...