Broadly speaking, natural systems thinking is defined as a way of thinking that endeavors to conceptualize the functioning of living organisms as dependent on predictable forces at work within and around them. Systems concepts help to bring the funct...
Based on cluster system theory and the Markov process, a performance prediction method utilizing time-dependent subsystem transfers between family systems is proposed in this paper. The family system is divided via the mean clustering method, with th...
The aim of this research is to analyze the mediating role of the use of management control systems (MCS) and the achievement of technological innovation (TI) in the relationship between family management and firm performance in family small and mediu...
19 March 2020
Tobacco use treatment is an essential component of cancer care. Family members play a significant role in smoking behavior, but more research is needed regarding the development, implementation, and impact of family-based interventions in cancer care...
The aim of this paper is to investigate how the integration of new forms of sustainable control systems (SCSs) and traditional management control systems (MCSs), and the use of these control systems affect the integration of sustainability within org...
30 April 2020
Violence towards animals and violence towards people are often interconnected problems, and as such, this phenomenon has been termed the Link. Violence towards animals is a strong predictor that the abuser may inflict violence on people. However, it...
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This paper presents an agricultural management service system that aims to meet the needs of Internet of Things (IoT) information upgrades in China’s family farms. The proposed agricultural management service system consists of Near Field Commu...
The performance of water heating systems must be evaluated considering energy consumption and efficiency in storing and distributing hot water, together with building and climate characteristics. This work aims to analyse the performance of different...
This article examines the cartographic design of nano-scale productive systems led by women nano-entrepreneurs, understood as family-based productive arrangements embedded in everyday domestic spaces. In rural contexts, many women-led ventures operat...
The article presents the results of a study aiming to select the optimal source of heat for a newly designed single-family home. Commercial software was used to compare heating and ventilation systems involving a bituminous coal boiler, a condensing...
Fractional differential equations and fractional-order chaotic systems are attractive for secure communications, but the nonlocal memory of the Caputo derivative makes their digital implementation costly, so iterative methods are preferred for develo...
Research is increasingly pointing to the importance of extending the focus of childhood obesity intervention to include fathers, fathering figures, and other members of a child’s primary parenting network. Advances in communication technology are now...
Attachment security and dependency play a decisive role for children’s mental health. From a family systems perspective, reciprocal effects of dyadic attachment to each parent within the same family on child symptomatology may well offer additi...
Though perinatal mental health has been frequently examined in the context of maternal depression, research has minimally explored the degree to which a partner’s perinatal mental diagnosis influences perinatal mood and anxiety disorder inciden...
This study presents a comparative analysis of the housing indicators used by the single-family housing rating systems (SHRSs), in which the residential urban environment (RUE) influences buildings’ certification scores, emphasizing the relationships...
The production of heterologous proteins is an important procedure for biologists in basic and applied sciences. A variety of cell-based and cell-free protein expression systems are available to achieve this. The expression system must be selected car...
Decarbonizing the building sector requires integrating on-site renewable generation with systematic energy management. Among the most widely adopted alternatives are photovoltaic (PV) systems in buildings; however, they are often implemented as a sta...
Native Mexican turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo gallopavo) are an important genetic resource in family-based production systems exposed to marked regional and seasonal environmental variation. This study evaluated the associations between environmental g...
Achieving the European Union’s (EU) climate neutrality targets requires residential buildings to reduce operational carbon emissions, while increasing on-site renewable generation. However, the relative contributions of rooftop photovoltaic (PV...
Members of the interleukin 12 (IL-12) family have been known to be inflammatory factors since their discovery. The IL-12 family consists of IL-12, IL-23, IL-27, IL-35, and a new member, IL-39, which has recently been identified and has not yet been s...
Background/Objectives: Stress experienced by families of individuals with illnesses or disabilities is shaped through the interaction of multiple complex influencing factors. This study aimed to elucidate the factors influencing stress in families of...
Family members of intensive care unit patients are often experience high anxiety and require more information about the patients. However, most Taiwanese healthcare institutions currently face manpower shortages due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefor...
In this paper, we construct a family of Hamilton–Poisson jerk systems. We show that such a system has infinitely many Hamilton–Poisson realizations. In addition, we discuss the stability and we prove the existence of periodic orbits aroun...
(1) Background: Family factors play an important role in the management of diabetes, establishing a relationship between conflicts and non-adherence to therapy. High values of HbA1c are involved in specific complications of the disease (retinopathy,...
28 October 2016
The construction industry is a demanding work environment where employees’ work-family conflict is particularly prominent. This conflict has a significant impact on job and family satisfaction and performance of employees. In order to analyze the dyn...
Salmonella enterica, serovar Gallinarum, biovar Pullorum, is an avian-specific pathogen which has caused considerable economic losses to the poultry industry worldwide. Two-component systems (TCSs) play an essential role in obtaining nutrients, detec...
This study explores the experiences of Latinx parents in rural Oregon from the perspectives of Latinx parents, Latinx students, and community practitioners to understand the barriers Latinx families encounter and how they leverage their community cul...
Low Earth Orbit (LEO)-based positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) systems have attracted growing interest owing to their strong transmission power and rapid Precise Point Positioning (PPP) convergence. A key challenge in realizing such systems is...
6 January 2023
(1) Background: The main research aim of this paper is to investigate the commonly stocked medicines in Chinese households. Firstly, a large number of questionnaires were collected to uncover the problem: most Chinese families have the habit of stock...
Background: Child hospitalisation can have emotional, practical, financial, and social sequalae for the family. By understanding the impact and challenges involved, this research can inform clinical practice and interventions to help mitigate the imp...
Background: A positive family history of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) reflects the substantial genetic contribution to disease susceptibility; however, it remains unclear whether patients with a family history of SLE represent a distinct clinic...
In this study, the assembly behavior for two injected components made by a family mold system were investigated. Specifically, a feasible method was proposed to evaluate the characteristic length of two components within a family mold system using nu...
Variation in the linguistic use of handshapes exists across sign languages, but it is unclear how these iconic handshape preferences arise and become conventionalized. In order to understand the factors that shape such handshape preferences in the ea...
Low-income families, especially those who reside in food deserts, face significant systemic barriers regarding their ability to access affordable and nutritious food. The food behaviors exhibited by low-income families are a reflection of the shortco...
In this paper, we introduce and analyze a family of exponential polynomial discrete dynamical systems that can be considered as functional perturbations of a linear dynamical system. The stability analysis of equilibria of this family is performed by...
The parpAD1 locus was the first type I toxin–antitoxin (TA) system described in Gram-positive bacteria and was later determined to be the founding member of a widely distributed family of plasmid- and chromosomally encoded TA systems. Indeed, h...
9 December 2019
Communication through social media characterizes modern lifestyles and relationships, including family interactions. The present study aims at deepening the role that parents’ perceptions about social media effects on family systems can exert w...
I examine whether undue power and privilege allow families in India to use force to incarcerate their wives, daughters or other family members who may deviate from the “norm”. Using my own personal experience, I examine the intersectional...
Integrated photovoltaic-fuel cell (IPVFC) systems have the potential to contribute to sustainable energy production for grid and off-grid applications. While there are studies focusing on fundamental science and designs for IPVFC systems, there are f...
Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the associations among cytokines of the IL-12 family in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) and to evaluate their relationships with the pro-inflammatory cytokines TNF-α and IL-6, the latent form o...
This research critically explores deficiencies in the palliative care system, focusing on evaluation and treatment aspects for both adult and paediatric patients. Using a qualitative methodology, the study engages healthcare professionals and family...
C57BL/6NTac (Bl6) and 129S6/SvEvTac (129Sv) mice display different coping strategies in stressful conditions. Our aim was to evaluate biomarkers related to different adaptation strategies in the brain of male 129Sv and Bl6 mice. We focused on signali...
This study deals with small investors’ demands on thermal insulation systems when choosing the most suitable solution for a family house. By 2050, seventy percent of current buildings, including residential buildings, are still expected to be in oper...
9 November 2022
Many children referred to mental health services have neurodevelopmental problems, which are not always recognized because the resulting emotional and behavioral problems dominate diagnosis and treatment. BOAM (Basic needs, Order, Autonomy and Meanin...
Chaotic systems with hidden attractors, infinite number of equilibrium points and different closed curve equilibrium have received much attention in the past six years. In this work, we introduce a new family of chaotic systems with different closed...
This article synthesizes the impact of parental financial socialization on an individual’s financial behavior. To better understand the role of parental financial socialization, 219 peer-reviewed articles from the Scopus database were analysed....
A new family of iterative methods for solving systems of nonlinear equations is introduced, extending and unifying several existing approaches within a general framework. In the single-variable case, Newton’s method was accelerated using Pad&ea...
In the recent literature, very few high-order Jacobian-free methods with memory for solving nonlinear systems appear. In this paper, we introduce a new variant of King’s family with order four to solve nonlinear systems along with its convergen...
7 September 2023
(1) Background: Family systems theories include assertations that both personal and environmental factors are determinants of parents’ psychological health, well-being, and parenting quality. Applied family systems theories focus on determinant...
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