One way to prioritize public transport over private vehicle mobility, is implement curbside rather than layby bus stop designs. There is, however, uncertainty about the consequences of implementing stops for traffic collision risks. To begin investigating this issue, we describe an exploratory analysis in which national data describing stops, road properties, collisions and built-up areas were ...

The digitalization of exports is becoming increasingly important in today's globalized economy, particularly the automotive industry. This study identified legal barriers to digitization electric vehicle (EV) from Kazakhstan, a country that has recently started producing and exporting EVs. Using Delphi method explorative factor analysis, electronic signature laws, intellectual property protecti...

Objective: Metacognition is a multi-component psychological construct, characterised by the ability to identify and describe one’s own mental states and those of others. Evidence has been found for an association between deficits in metacognitive abilities and poor social functioning, low quality of life, psychopathology, and symptoms in personality disorders (pds). However, to date, there are ...

As one of the approaches to scenario analysis, cross-impact methods provide a structured approach building scenarios as combinations outcomes for selected uncertainty factors. Although they vary in their details, are similar that synthesize expert judgments about probabilistic or causal dependencies between pairs factors and seek focus attention on can be deemed consistent. Still, most do not a...

Abstract Background Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is classified into five clinical diagnostic groups, including group 1 (idiopathic pulmonary arterial (IPAH) and connective tissue disease-associated PAH (CTD-aPAH)) 4 (chronic thromboembolic (CTEPH)). PH a progressive, life-threatening, incurable disease. The pathological mechanisms underlying remain elusive; recent evidence has revealed that abno...

Introduction. Information literacy research is characterised by a multitude of interests, research approaches and theoretical starting-points. Challenges lie in the relevance of research to professional fields where information literacy is a concern, and the need to build a strong theoretical base for the research area. We aim to lay a foundation for a discussion on how researchers may approach...