by Yoko Kawamura

Received: 15 May 2025;  Published: 30 October 2025;  doi: 10.21926/obm.geriatr.2504329

In Japan, a super-aging society, the development of Ikigai is considered the key to extending healthy longevity in national policy. Thus, activities provided by local governments are designed to encourage Ikigai. At this point, Ikigai has developed its conceptual understanding, which includes its distinctiveness from life purposes and other closely related concepts. Empirical studies using developed measurements have shown that Ikigai has an impact on the mental and physical health of older adults across countries [...]

by Laxminarayan Sahoo  , Payal Murmu  , Mohan Krishna Ghanta  and LVKS Bhaskar

Received: 28 June 2025;  Published: 30 October 2025;  doi: 10.21926/obm.genet.2504314

Ebstein's anomaly (EA) is a rare form of congenital heart disease (CHD), characterized by abnormal cardiac anatomy involving a defective tricuspid valve (TV), resulting in tricuspid regurgitation (TR) and cyanosis. EA is represented in different case scenarios with varying degrees of complexity across various age groups. It usually affects 0.2-0.7 out of 10,000 live births and accounts for 0.3%-0.6% of all CHD cases. While its occurrence is mainly sporadic, evidence from multiple studies suggests that EA can be ass [...]

by Marcus A. Henning  , Philippa Miskelly  , Marta Gil-Lacruz  , Gary Cheung  , Frederick Sundram  and Ruth Teh

Received: 11 June 2025;  Published: 29 October 2025;  doi: 10.21926/obm.icm.2504047

Across the globe, countries are facing an ageing boom, with the proportion of the older adult population growing compared to younger age groups because of increased life expectancy and declining birth rates. Along with the ageing boom, there is increased interest in the wellbeing of older adults. Healthy ageing and social frailty are two constructs that have emerged in studying older adults and their quality of life. In this paper, we critically review salient literature defining and describing healthy ageing and s [...]

by Angelina Lamberti  , Sinan Haddad  , Stefan Wagenpfeil  , Thomas Vogt  and Jörg Reichrath

Received: 13 September 2024;  Published: 29 October 2025;  doi: 10.21926/rpn.2504024

Recommendations for vitamin D supplementation are essential for the prevention and therapy of vitamin D deficiency. However, reliable data remain lacking for children, as most intake recommendations are based on individual studies. This work aimed to obtain reliable data that allow health authorities to re-evaluate recommendations for oral vitamin D uptake in children. We conducted a systematic literature search in MEDLINE/PubMed on vitamin D supplementation in children. All randomized controlled trials (RCTs) publ [...]

by Buket Kılıç  and Dilek Ünal

Received: 31 May 2025;  Published: 27 October 2025;  doi: 10.21926/obm.neurobiol.2504307

Although anxiety and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are common co-morbidities, the relationship between autistic traits and anxiety disorders/symptoms has been increasingly researched in recent years. This review aims to compile the studies conducted on this topic and enhance our understanding of it. All publications up to September 1, 2024, on PubMed that contained the terms ‘anxiety’, ‘autistic traits’, ‘autism feature’, ‘autism-like symptoms’, and ‘ASD-like symptoms’, in their titles or abstracts were reviewed. [...]

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Received: 26 October 2025;  Published: 27 October 2025;  doi: 10.21926/aeer.2504030

by Liana Spytska

Received: 04 April 2025;  Published: 27 October 2025;  doi: 10.21926/obm.neurobiol.2504306

World socio-political growth is shaped by globalization, integration, and multiculturalism, which also impact individual self-perception. Understanding personal development requires studying self-awareness, self-identification, and influence to identify internal requirements and external influences. The study examined self-awareness, self-identification, influence, and their relationships, as well as psychological interventions for self-assessment and self-realization. To attain the research goal, analysis, synthes [...]

by Antonella Sansone  , Peta Stapleton  , Alan Patching  and Zoe Lawrence

Received: 21 May 2025;  Published: 26 October 2025;  doi: 10.21926/obm.icm.2504046

Pregnancy and the postpartum period are times of significant transition for women, with changes in maternal physical and mental health. The relationship between a mother and her infant has been recognised as laying the foundation for later child development. There is considerable evidence that this early relationship is influenced by a woman’s wellbeing during pregnancy and in the early post-partum period. Mindfulness has been found to have positive health outcomes, primarily in reducing maternal stress, anxiety, a [...]

by Félix Neto  and Joana Neto

Received: 10 July 2025;  Published: 24 October 2025;  doi: 10.21926/obm.icm.2504045

International students represent a significant sojourner group. Increasing international student numbers makes it ever more relevant to understand the determinants of their psychological adaptation. This research investigates the question of how perceived cultural distance (PCD) impacts acculturation variables (social contact with host nationals and host national identity) and outcomes such as saudade and life satisfaction among African international students. The sample comprised 422 college students (195 from Ang [...]

by Junesh Gautam  , Praneel Acharya  and Zhong Hu

Received: 15 July 2025;  Published: 24 October 2025;  doi: 10.21926/rpm.2504016

This paper investigates data-driven strain energy prediction for heterogeneous elastic materials using the Mechanical MNIST benchmark dataset (60,000 28 × 28 stiffness maps by precomputed finite-element results). The results by classical regression models (linear regression, random forest, and gradient boosting) using hand-crafted features were compared with the results by the deep learning models (Convolutional neural network (CNN) and residual network (ResNet)) trained end-to-end on images. In held-out tests, CNN [...]