Context: Despite rising awareness of the risks associated with sports participation, overuse
injuries continue to increase in youth athlete populations. Physeal injuries are one type of …

Mixed methods studies in social sciences are predominantly employed to explore broad,
complex, and multifaceted issues and to evaluate policies and interventions. The integration …

Critical realism, a philosophical framework originally developed by Roy Bhaskar in the
1970s, represents a relatively new approach to research generally and to nursing research …

Realist evaluation submits that theories and models of how, why, for whom and under what
circumstances programs work could be formulated by conceptualizing the relational links …

Many research problems in social science involve multilevel phenomena. However,
discussions about multilevel research designs are limited in the mixed methods (MM) …

Introduction: Transcendental realism, the philosophical perspective dealing with the
existence of causal powers governed by universal laws of nature, provides a useful …

Corporate accelerators are organizational devices designed to bring together innovative
new ventures and startups with specialist knowledge and creativity with the experience and …

Purpose Blockchain technology has encouraged more transparent transactions process
through decentralized protocols and has identified multi-dimensional benefits. However …

Realist evaluation (RE) is a research design increasingly used in program evaluation, that
aims to explore and understand the influence of context and underlying mechanisms on …

Background Poor retention in care and suboptimal adherence to antiretroviral treatment
(ART) undermine its successful rollout in South Africa. The adherence club intervention was …