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Effect of social and behavioral change interventions on minimum dietary diversity among pregnant women and associated socio-economic inequality in Rajasthan, India

open access: yesBMC Nutrition
Background Maternal dietary diversity is a key to improving the birth and child health outcomes. Besides socio-economic factors, the nutrition specific program- Social and Behavioural Change Communication (SBCC) interventions aimed to improve maternal ...
Anshita Sharma   +8 more
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A Native Perspective: Food Is More Than Consumption

open access: yesJournal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016
Effectively engaging in food work with and among Native American people toward food sovereignty requires cultural competency, historical knowledge, and a more complex understanding of how food informs community well-being.
Rachel V. Vernon
doaj   +1 more source

Empowerment for Continuous Agent-Environment Systems

open access: yes, 2011
This paper develops generalizations of empowerment to continuous states. Empowerment is a recently introduced information-theoretic quantity motivated by hypotheses about the efficiency of the sensorimotor loop in biological organisms, but also from ...
Anthony, T.   +21 more
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Nurses’ Experiences Empowering Hospitalized Patients [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Four focus groups were conducted to explore acute care nurses’ experiences empowering patients and the facilitators and barriers they encountered during the process.
Bull, Margaret J., Jerofke-Owen, Teresa
core   +2 more sources

Nanotherapies for Atherosclerosis: Targeting, Catalysis, and Energy Transduction

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Atherosclerosis management is hindered by poor drug targeting and plaque heterogeneity. Nanotechnology overcomes these barriers via three core strategies: (1) target‐engineered nanocarriers that achieve lesion‐specific precision via ligand modification, biomimetic camouflage, stimuli‐responsive release, and self‐propelling nanomotors; (2) catalytic ...
Yuqi Yang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Empowerment as a metric for Optimization in HCI [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
We propose a novel metric for optimizing human-computer interfaces, based on the information-theoretic capacity of empowerment, a task-independent universal utility measure. Empowerment measures, for agent-environment systems with stochastic transitions,
Murray-Smith, Roderick   +2 more
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Effects of Anticipation in Individually Motivated Behaviour on Control and Survival in a Multi-Agent Scenario with Resource Constraints [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License CC BY 3.0 which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Self-organization and survival ...
Guckelsberger, Christian, Polani, D.
core   +2 more sources

Artificial Intelligence‐Assisted Workflow for Transmission Electron Microscopy: From Data Analysis Automation to Materials Knowledge Unveiling

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
AI‐Assisted Workflow for (Scanning) Transmission Electron Microscopy: From Data Analysis Automation to Materials Knowledge Unveiling. Abstract (Scanning) transmission electron microscopy ((S)TEM) has significantly advanced materials science but faces challenges in correlating precise atomic structure information with the functional properties of ...
Marc Botifoll   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Devotion to Family: Coping Strategy to Reduce Burden of Caregiving Stroke Patients

open access: yesOccupational Therapy International
Conclusion: Devotion as a coping strategy for stroke informal caregivers in the community plays a crucial role in maintaining the continuity of care. It involves pride, sincerity, resigned, destiny, responsibility, ability, and spirit.
null Khomarun   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Measuring citizen frames and their integration in the international policy process: a hybrid BERTopic modelling approach

open access: yesFrontiers in Political Science
Governments and international organizations are exploring new ways of engaging citizens in the policy design process, however scalable ways to test whether citizen frames appear in resulting policies documents remain limited. We present a hybrid BERTopic
Victoria Ustenko   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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