Review
Parasitology
Ian M. Hastings, Ingrid Felger
Summary: Estimating drug efficacy for malaria requires genetic profiling, which is notoriously difficult in practice. The recent update to WHO guidelines provides a wider range of analyses for more accurate estimates of drug failure rates. However, due to better detection of treatment failures, estimated failure rates may double.
TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Business
Sumit Agarwal, Yanhao Ding, Weida Kuang, Xiao Zhu
Summary: This paper examines the impact of environmental punishments on housing prices through information disclosure and dissemination. The research finds that the transaction prices of houses near environmentally punished firms decrease on average by 1.84%, with multiple punishments amplifying the negative effects. The effects are particularly pronounced during heating seasons and national important events. Unfortunately, there is little evidence of environmental punishments in the rental housing market. The study identifies three mechanisms of the impact: information disclosure, information dissemination, and health concerns.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Business
Aaron M. Garvey, TaeWoo Kim, Adam Duhachek
Summary: This research explores the influence of artificial intelligence (AI) and human marketing agents on consumer responses to negative and positive offers. When faced with offers that are worse than expected, consumers are more willing to accept AI agents, whereas for offers that are better than expected, consumers prefer human agents. The study also found that marketers can anthropomorphize AI agents to strengthen consumer perception of their intentions and receive recognition for better offers while mitigating blame for worse offers.
JOURNAL OF MARKETING
(2023)
Article
Economics
Sandeep Kumar Rangaraju, Ana Maria Herrera
Summary: Research shows that the impact of tax news on the economy depends on the state of the economy, with news about future tax cuts being more contractionary during recessions. This nonlinearity is primarily due to the responses of durable consumption and, especially, nonresidential investment.
Article
Business
Giuliana Birindelli, Helen Chiappini
Summary: This study examines the impact of EU climate change policies on shareholder value from 2013 to 2018. It finds that negative effects were more common than positive effects, with company sector playing a central role in market reactions towards climate policies.
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Zelin Tong, Diyi Liu, Fang Ma, Xiaobing Xu
Summary: The study found that the positive information framework is more effective in motivating consumers to purchase green products when they are in closer psychological distances, while the negative information framework plays a better facilitating role in contexts with farther distances. Fear and hope are intrinsic causes of the positive framework effect, while shame and pride are the emotions responsible for the negative framework effect.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Oncology
Victoria Menendez, Jose L. Solorzano, Sara Fernandez, Carlos Montalban, Juan F. Garcia
Summary: This article reviews the important immune populations in the cHL tumor microenvironment, focusing on their integrative functional signatures. The cHL microenvironment plays a significant role in tumor cell survival. HRS cells promote their survival through intrinsic and extrinsic alterations, leading to immunosuppression. cHL is proving to be an ideal model for studying immune checkpoint blockade, with druggable key signaling pathways identified. Additionally, numerous biomarkers for predicting treatment response await further validation.
Article
Business, Finance
Jinsong Zhao, Boxu Zhou, Xinrui Li
Summary: This study analyzes multilateral climate finance flows from 2000 to 2018 and finds that climate finance has adverse effects on economic risks, with mitigation finance having a greater impact than adaptation finance. The adverse effects are less notable in countries with higher political stability.
FINANCE RESEARCH LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Peter T. Fretwell, Philip N. Trathan
Summary: The study identified eight new emperor penguin breeding locations and rediscovered three previously known sites, totaling 61 breeding sites. Most of the new colonies are small and may only increase the total population by 5-10%. The use of Sentinel2 satellite imagery facilitated the discoveries, with many colonies found in offshore habitats, indicating that population decreases for the species may be greater than previously thought under business-as-usual greenhouse gas emissions scenarios.
REMOTE SENSING IN ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION
(2021)
Article
Business
Shunyu Su, Yezhou Sha
Summary: We propose a closed-form solution that connects the probability of informed trading (PIN) to the parameter indicating whether the private information is good or bad. By estimating PIN using illegal insider trading data, we find that PIN is sensitive to the certainty of positive private information, providing a new explanation for the limitations of PIN in prior literature.
EMERGING MARKETS FINANCE AND TRADE
(2023)
Editorial Material
Neurosciences
Annabelle Santos Volgman, Erica Engelstein, Neelum T. Aggarwal
Summary: Sex plays a significant role in the risk of cognitive impairment after a stroke. A study found that, after adjusting for age, education, and stroke severity, men had a higher likelihood of screening positive for post-stroke cognitive impairment compared to women.
JOURNAL OF ALZHEIMERS DISEASE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Brittany Sears, Roger M. Dunn, Jeffrey M. Pisklak, Marcia L. Spetch, Margaret A. McDevitt
Summary: Pigeons tend to choose an alternative that leads to a lower probability of food but provides differential stimuli, rather than an alternative that leads to a higher probability of food but does not provide differential stimuli. Partial signaling of an alternative influences pigeon's preference, as they prefer good news over bad news and prefer 100% food over bad news.
LEARNING & BEHAVIOR
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Min Soo Kim, Raju Thota, Muhammad A. Abbas, Jin Ho Bang
Summary: Nanostructuring is crucial for synthesizing highly active electrocatalysts, but faces challenges in scalability and complexity. A thermal route utilizing hot H2S gas is demonstrated to transform poor oxide electrocatalysts into highly active ones, showing simplicity and scalability after only 10 minutes of treatment.
APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL
(2021)
Article
Economics
Jose Luis Miralles-Quiros, Maria Mar Miralles-Quiros
Summary: This study examines the over- and under-reaction effects on Bitcoin after price shocks and finds clear evidence of overreaction after negative shocks. The overreactions tend to increase as more hours pass after the event, with the period between 6 and 24 hours being particularly important. These results have important economic implications, suggesting that investors could develop profitable trading strategies by focusing on investing after negative shocks.
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECONOMICS
(2022)
Editorial Material
Hematology
Eirini Trompouki
Summary: The study shows that mutations in SRP54 gene act dominantly in affecting the function of wild-type SRP54, leading to neutropenia due to impaired XBP1 splicing.