Air pollution and human health risks: mechanisms and clinical manifestations of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases
...Published in Toxin Reviews
Improving instruction and sexual health literacy with serious games and gamification interventions: an outlook to studen...
Published in Interactive Learning Environments
This study evaluates the effect of game mechanics by employing serious games and gamification for improving learning outcomes. This is done by considering the performances of the students in terms of the test scores. In the quasi-experimental set-up, which consists of 108 students in their intact three classes attended a series of lessons on sexual...
Labour migration and tourism mobilities: Time to bring sustainability into the debate
Published in Tourism Geographies
Migration and tourism are interconnected forms of human mobility, similar but different. It is impossible to draw neat boundaries around the two because they constantly intersect, sometimes within one and the same individual. Tourism and migration often fuel each other, thereby raising two interesting questions that are rarely asked, namely ‘What w...
Public reactions to the disaster COVID-19: a comparative study in Italy, Lebanon, Portugal, and Serbia
Published in Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk
A new coronavirus emerged in December 2019 and quickly spread globally, causing unprecedented social, psychological, and economic damage. This study aimed to investigate people’s emotional reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic. The dataset for this study consisted of 2,013 adults (962 males and 1,053 females) in four countries (Italy, Lebanon, Portuga...
Consensus against all odds: explaining the persistence of EU sanctions on Russia
Published in Journal of European Integration
In response to Russia’s actions in Ukraine in 2014, the EU introduced sanctions on Moscow. Despite increasing polarisation among member states after imposition, the sanctions package was consistently renewed. How can sanctions persistence be explained? While scholarly accounts highlight German leadership, commitment to norms, and policymakers’ enga...
Tracking natural and human impact on sediment dynamics using radiometric approach in Oualidia lagoon (Morocco)
Published in International Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry
Chemical analysis, grain size distribution and short-lived radionuclides (210Pb and 137Cs) were combined to investigate the sedimentary processes in the Oualidia lagoon. Grain size and major elements profiles indicate an unexpected change in the layers characterising 1978 and 1986. Sediment accumulation rates (SAR) depth profiles exhibited the same...
Extraction of Polyphenols from Apple and Pomegranate Peels Employing Different Extraction Techniques for the Development...
...Published in International Journal of Fruit Science
Visions of travel and tourism after the global COVID-19 transformation of 2020
Published in Tourism Geographies
This special issue is a reflection by tourism scholars on the initial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world, with travel and tourism being among the most significant areas to bear those impacts. However, instead of an analysis of the impacts of COVID-19 on tourism places and sectors, as is the emphasis for many other journal special issues ...
Reflections and discussions: tourism matters in the new normal post COVID-19
...Published in Tourism Geographies
The large number of commentaries in this special issue reflect the need that so many people have to express themselves as a way of releasing the anxieties and integrating the hopes that the COVID-19 pandemic has engendered in individuals and groups around the world. The guest editors of this special issue provide the following comments in reflectin...
An evaluating of the relationship between body image, body satisfaction, depression, marital quality, and self-esteem in...
Published in Psychology, Health & Medicine
