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University of Ostrava
Recent research
- Health & Medicine
Constraint instead of empowerment: stigma-related strategies performed in the homeless association
The article is based on findings from an ongoing long-term ethnographic study conducted with people experiencing homelessness in Łódź (Poland). It aims to analyse stigma-related strategies applied by both homeless and housed actors engaged within a self-organized homeless associa...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Background/Objectives: This single-patient retrospective study evaluated the technical feasibility of serial infrared thermography (IRT) for intraoperative and postoperative surface-temperature documentation of free-flap skin islands and its descriptive concordance with clinical...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Classification of quaternionic skew-Hermitian symmetric spaces
Abstract We provide a complete classification of quaternionic skew-Hermitian symmetric spaces, namely symmetric spaces that admit a torsion-free $${{\,\mathrm{\textsf{SO}}\,}}^*(2n){{\,\mathrm{\textsf{Sp}}\,}}(1)$$ SO ∗ ( 2 n ) Sp ( 1 ) -structure for arbitrary $$n>1$$ n > 1 . Mo...
- Society & Economics
Abstract Correlational studies have shown that students who forgive themselves for procrastinating are less likely to engage in academic procrastination. This randomized controlled pilot study evaluated a self-forgiveness intervention to reduce academic procrastination and increa...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Combustion Potential of Raw and Torrefied Zoo Animals Faeces
Raw and torrefied faeces from four zoo animals (giraffe, deer, camel, reindeer) and a sample of zebra manure pellets were studied to assess their energy potential using combustion calorimetry and thermoanalytical (TG/DTA) methods. Marked differences (ca 12%) in the torrefaction y...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
To assess the prevalence of selected communicable diseases and cardiometabolic risk factors in adults from underserved inland and coastal communities in Madagascar. A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted in two underserved peripheral communities settings (inland an...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
NEXIOS: Evidence-Gated Verification Architecture
NEXIOS is an experimental research architecture for evidence-gated verification of computational claims and AI-assisted reasoning. The work explores how computational results can be subjected to predefined evidence requirements, independent verification, provenance tracking, adve...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
NEXIOS: Evidence-Gated Verification Architecture
NEXIOS is an experimental research architecture for evidence-gated verification of computational claims and AI-assisted reasoning. The work explores how computational results can be subjected to predefined evidence requirements, independent verification, provenance tracking, adve...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Abstract Metal-dielectric photonic crystals (MDPhCs) that support the excitation of Bloch-like surface waves (BLSWs) at the interface of an MDPhC and the adjacent medium (analyte) have emerged as a very promising alternative for sensing gaseous analytes with high sensitivity. In...
- BiologyOpen access
VEGFA gene expression levels in patients with Parkinson’s disease and first-degree relatives
Abstract Background: Vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGFA) contributes to angiogenesis and exerts neurotrophic and neuroprotective effects. Altered VEGFA expression has been implicated in neurodegenerative processes, including Parkinson´s disease (PD), yet findings from pe...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Parotid gland carcinomas are rare malignancies with marked histological and biological heterogeneity. Most published evidence is derived from single-center or selected institutional series, whereas comprehensive nationwide epidemiological data remain limited. The aim of this stud...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Due to the prevalence of online romance fraud, especially Sakawa in Ghana and Yahoo-Yahoo in Nigeria, scholars have become interested in studying active online romance fraudsters within their social settings. This article provides an autoethnographic reflection on the complexitie...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Repurposing Simple Educational Robots for Secondary Schools
Abstract This practice-oriented paper presents three classroom-ready mathematics activities that repurpose simple educational robots – Bee-Bot, Ozobot, and Dot – for older learners and pre-service teachers. Rather than arguing that simple robots are inherently better than more so...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Common pathways and outliers in glucose catabolism across Trypanosomatidae
Glucose catabolism in trypanosomatids differs significantly from that in most other eukaryotes. Here, the first few enzymes of the pathway are all located inside glycosomes, that is, the peroxisome‐like microbodies uniquely present in the Kinetoplastida and Diplonemida of the Eug...