Call for a Special issue on “Psychosis and Occupation” in the journal ⋘Occupational Therapy in Mental Health⋙ by 1st June 2023.
This special issue focuses on international occupational therapy and occupational science scholars’ perspectives on psychosis and occupation that contribute to the broader critique of psychosis as solely or primarily a medical disorder.
Link: 🔗https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/occupational-therapy-mental-health/?_gl=1*1ulj3pm*_ga*MTY3MTA2MzcxMi4xNjUwNTUxMTU0*_ga_0HYE8YG0M6*MTY1NDY4MjYyOS45LjEuMTY1NDY4MjY0My4w🔗
Many GMO crops have been engineered to be resistant to many herbicides leading to serious problems such as Dicamba, which poses an elevated risk for liver and intrahepatic bile duct cancer.
Glyphosate consumption (from glyphosate-based herbicides such as Roundup) may impact the gut microbiome or the balance of bacteria that live in our digestive tract leading to impaired immune function and a cascade of other ill effects.
This study showed that exposure to low, environmentally relevant doses of glyphosate-based herbicides (e.g. Roundup) induced enhanced liver injury and notable biochemical changes in rats, which developed non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and liver dysfunction.
Call for a Special issue on “Vaccines’ present and future contribution to tackle antibiotic resistance spread and evolution in humans” in the journal ⋘Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics⋙ by 31st December 2022.
This special issue focuses on topics such as: the scientific rationale for vaccines and vaccinations counteracting AMR; available evidence and potential for existing vaccines to reduce antibiotic prescription; modeling the impact of present and future vaccines on AMR containment; economic and cost-effectiveness aspects of present and future vaccines for combating AMR; and new vaccines in development toward antibiotic-resistant bacterial species.
Link: 🔗https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/vaccines-present-future-contribution/?_gl=1*8luw33*_ga*MTY3MTA2MzcxMi4xNjUwNTUxMTU0*_ga_0HYE8YG0M6*MTY1MzUwOTY1Mi44LjEuMTY1MzUwOTY2Ni4w🔗
Call for a Special Issue on “Social Reproduction and Biopolitics” in the journal ⋘Forum for Social Economics⋙ by 31st August 2022 (Abstract) and 31st March 2023 (Manuscript).
This special issue focuses on topics such as social reproduction and violence, social reproduction and the economy, social reproduction and biopolitics, and social reproduction and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Link: 🔗https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/social-reproduction-biopolitics/?_gl=1*8luw33*_ga*MTY3MTA2MzcxMi4xNjUwNTUxMTU0*_ga_0HYE8YG0M6*MTY1MzUwOTY1Mi44LjEuMTY1MzUwOTY2Ni4w🔗
Call for a Special issue on “Multimodal Processing and Robotics for Dialogue Systems” in the journal ⋘Advanced Robotics⋙ by 31st January 2023.
This special issue focuses on topics such as spoken dialogue processing, multimodal processing, speech recognition, text-to-speech, emotion recognition, motion generation, facial expression generation, system architecture, natural language processing, knowledge representation, benchmarking, evaluation method, ethics, dialogue systems and robots for competition.
Link: 🔗https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/advanced-robotics-multimodal-processing/?_gl=1*i8gic7*_ga*MTY3MTA2MzcxMi4xNjUwNTUxMTU0*_ga_0HYE8YG0M6*MTY1MzUwOTY1Mi44LjAuMTY1MzUwOTY1Mi4w🔗
Call for a Special issue on “Promoting Sustainable Food Production: Challenges, Practices, Impacts, and Solutions” in the journal ⋘British Food Journal⋙ by 15th October 2022.
This special issue focuses on topics such as: Challenges of transitioning to sustainable food production; COVID-19 and sustainable food production; Practices (e.g., sustainable agricultural practices, climate-smart practices, conservation agriculture, resource-efficient practices, green practices, biological control, and organic agriculture) in sustainable food production; Pathways to reduce the environmental footprint of food production; Food safety and quality standards; Sustainable food production, climate change, and environmental health; Economics of sustainable food production; etc.
Link: 🔗https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-papers/promoting-sustainable-food-production-challenges-practices-impacts-and-solutions🔗
Call for a Special issue on “Multilatinas in the era of Uncertainties” in the journal ⋘European Business Review⋙ by 15th December 2022.
This special issue focuses on topics such as: the effect of the home country on the international development of Multilatinas; the limitations and challenges faced by Multilatinas in their internationalization; International entry mode and upmarket strategies; Multilationality-performance relationship; Business Models of internationalization; Multilatinas' legitimacy/reputation in a sustainable world.
Link: 🔗https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-papers/multilatinas-era-uncertainties🔗
Call for a Special issue on “Models of Digital Health Governance: Best Practices, Lessons Learned, and Future Priorities” in the journal ⋘International Journal of Health Governance⋙ by 31st October 2022.
This special issue focuses on topics such as: a survey of the state of digital health governance worldwide; an effective digital health governance practice; key challenges affecting the development of digital health; lessons from covid-19 for digital health; sustainable digital health systems in the post-pandemic era; data sharing ecosystem to ensure its long-term sustainability/openness in medical data and data repositories; etc.
Link: 🔗https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-papers/models-digital-health-governance-best-practices-lessons-learned-and-future🔗
This study used estimates of habitual meat intake in the general British population to investigate potential health and environmental benefits (decreased risks of diabetes, coronary heart disease, colorectal cancer, and greenhouse gas emissions) from reduced consumption of red and processed meat.
The results showed that decreased consumption of red and processed meat leads to multiple health and environmental benefits, such as a 3.2% decrease in diabetes risk, a 12.2% decrease in colorectal cancer risk, and a 3% decrease in greenhouse gas emission.
This study analyzed the greenhouse gas emission and the climate effect of dietary changes to a healthy and sustainable diet in Argentina, which is a high beef consumption country.
The results showed that beef production contributes to 71% of greenhouse gas emissions and that a 50% decrease in total meat intake would lead to a 28% decrease in greenhouse gas emissions.
This modeling study compared seven sustainable diets against ‘typical’ diets in 150 countries by analyzing regionally comparable food prices, estimates of food waste, and projections of food demand and prices up to 2050.
The results show that a vegan diet is the most affordable in high-income countries (up to a 34% decrease in shopping costs), a vegetarian diet is the second most affordable (up to 31% decrease in shopping costs), while a pescatarian diet is the least affordable diet (a 2% increase in shopping costs).
The adoption of sustainable and healthy diets can assist consumers in high-income and upper-middle-income countries to decrease costs and environmental impacts.
By quantifying possibilities for mitigation through shifting expenditure on furnishings, holidays, and food to less carbon-intensive products and services, this study discovered that these services and products account for 56-59% of the consumption-based greenhouse gas emissions and that less carbon-intensive alternatives can decrease the total greenhouse gas emissions by 36–38%.
Moreover, it showed that men’s spending habits cause 16% more emissions than women’s.
This study investigated the human diets of 212 participants (recorded drink and food intake over three 24-h periods) and emissions related to more than 3,200 specific foods.
The results show that animal products are a major emissions contributor: dairy claimed 14% and meat 31% of the average diet’s daily greenhouse gas emissions.
Moreover, the study demonstrates that men create 40% more harmful emissions than women due to higher consumption of animal products, and also that “optional” food and drink choices (e.g. sweet treats) contributed to 25% of diet-based emissions.
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