Article
Environmental Sciences
Eloi Laurent, Alessandro Galli, Fabio Battaglia, Giorgia Dalla Libera Marchiori, Lorenzo Fioramonti
Summary: The commentary highlights that although the Rome Declaration introduces a new health philosophy, it lacks criticism of current growth-driven economic systems. To enhance this vision, it is crucial to place human and natural well-being at the core of development models and shift towards recognizing the "co-benefits" between health, environment, and economy.
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Nancy Harris, Douglas Sheil, Marc Palahi, Gherardo Chirici, Manuel Boissiere, Chip Fay, Johannes Reiche, Ruben Valbuena
Summary: Open sharing of data is crucial for monitoring the progress of the Glasgow Declaration on Forests. Three actions are necessary for the success of this declaration.
NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE
(2022)
Editorial Material
Business, Finance
Robert Faff
Summary: This editorial piece emphasizes the three core elements of responsible science - credible research, relevant research, and independent research, which are crucial for the future publishing ambitions of the Pacific-Basin Finance Journal.
PACIFIC-BASIN FINANCE JOURNAL
(2021)
Editorial Material
Medicine, General & Internal
Jennifer B. Nuzzo, Luciana L. Borio, Lawrence O. Gostin
Summary: This article examines the ongoing monkeypox outbreak and the recent decision by the director-general of the World Health Organization to declare it a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Eligijus Sakalauskas, Antanas Bendoraitis, Dale Luksaite, Gintaras Butkus, Daiva Vitkute-Adzgauskiene
Summary: The article presents a tax declaration scheme using blockchain confidential transactions based on the modified ElGamal encryption. The scheme allows for effective representation and operation of digital asset in e-wallets, with various actors involved in the process. The scheme ensures transaction amount confidentiality and verifiability, and provides security analysis with measures against coalition attacks.
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Davide Bacciu, Davide Morelli, Vlad Pandelea
Summary: Neural point processes provide the flexibility to handle heterogeneous time series and have significant applications in real data analysis. This study proposes a neural point process approach for health and behavioral data, and empirically validates its effectiveness in an uncontrolled environment, showing promising results.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS AND LEARNING SYSTEMS
(2023)
Article
Management
Tomasz Wachowicz, Ewa Roszkowska
Summary: This paper analyses the problem of determining a negotiation offer scoring system using an alternative approach to the classic direct rating (DR). The study examines the effectiveness of prenegotiation preference elicitation based on holistic judgments and the utility of a software decision support tool. The results show that the UTA-based approach works in a technical sense, but empirically its performance is worse than DR unless the set of example offers is predefined. The enhanced algorithm produced a better scoring system, but users' subjective evaluations were mixed.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Celia Landmann Szwarcwald, Ana Roberta Pati Pascom, Paulo Roberto Borges de Souza Junior, Giseli Nogueira Damacena, Euclides Ayres Castilho
Summary: By comparing the data from two surveys, it was found that the self-declared sexual orientation underestimated the prevalence of MSM and WSW, indicating that sexual minorities face difficulties in disclosing their sexuality and emphasizing the importance of developing public health interventions to change population attitudes and promote sexual orientation disclosure. Moreover, the low condom use rate in both surveys highlights the need for public policies to expand prevention strategies for HIV infection and other STIs.
Article
Environmental Studies
Raffaele Filieri, Dorothy A. Yen, Qionglei Yu
Summary: Travelers increasingly use a combination of photographs, texts and hashtags to express their attitude towards tourism destinations on social media, particularly on Instagram. This study explores how destination brand love is expressed on Instagram and how emotional support is provided by users during crises in the destination. Different stakeholders are shown to co-create the emotional capital of tourism destinations.
TOURISM MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Juan Moreno-Gutierrez, Vanessa Duran-Grados
Summary: The emissions from maritime transportation in the Strait of Gibraltar can be significantly reduced by declaring it an Emission Control Area (ECA). Using the SENEM1 emissions model, this study compared the current situation with a simulation of the Strait as an ECA, showing a potential reduction of up to 75.8% in NOx, 73.4% in PM2.5, and 94% in SOx emissions. This calls for a recommendation to designate the Strait of Gibraltar as an ECA by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and responsible governments.
MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
David Adzrago, Saanie Sulley, Ishmael Tagoe, Emmanuel Odame, Lohuwa Mamudu, Faustine Williams
Summary: This study examines the prevalence of depression/anxiety symptoms among U.S. adults before and after the COVID-19 pandemic declaration, and finds that young adults, non-Hispanic Whites, and those with fair/poor general health have a higher risk of experiencing these symptoms after the declaration. Developing psychological support strategies to promote well-being during the pandemic may help reduce psychological distress, particularly among at-risk populations.
Article
Biophysics
Marian B. Sides, Smith L. Johnston, Adam Sirek, Peter H. Lee, Rebecca S. Blue, Eric L. Antonsen, Mathias Basner, Grace L. Douglas, Ari Epstein, Erin E. Flynn-Evans, Michael B. Gallagher, Judith Hayes, Stuart M. C. Lee, Steven W. Lockley, Brent Monseur, Nicolas G. Nelson, Ashot Sargsyan, Scott M. Smith, Michael B. Stenger, Jan Stepanek, Sara R. Zwart
Summary: The research team at the Bellagio II Summit identified the space medicine research and mature science with the highest probability of translation to future terrestrial applications. They developed a roadmap for the application of these space medicine-derived countermeasures on Earth. Through detailed analysis of space medicine research findings, the team identified evidence-based countermeasures that are most significant for terrestrial clinical practice.
AEROSPACE MEDICINE AND HUMAN PERFORMANCE
(2021)
Article
Fisheries
G. T. Davies, C. M. Finlayson, D. E. Pritchard, N. C. Davidson, R. C. Gardner, W. R. Moomaw, E. Okuno, J. C. Whitacre
Summary: The concept of the rights of Nature, including wetlands, is being promoted by various organizations to support ecosystem services essential for human well-being and to slow climate destabilization and biodiversity declines. A proposed Universal Declaration of the Rights of Wetlands outlines the rights of wetlands, such as the right to exist, ecological location, sustainable hydrological regimes, and freedom from pollution and degradation, as essential steps in efforts to protect and sustain wetlands.
MARINE AND FRESHWATER RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Veterinary Sciences
Vanessa Ashall, David Morton, Eddie Clutton
Summary: This article explores the ethical principles of the Declaration of Helsinki as a framework for human medical research and suggests its potential application in defining ethical best practices in clinical veterinary research (CVR). It discusses the specific ethical responsibilities of clinicians in protecting patient interests and translates them to the veterinary setting. The article identifies the ethical risks in CVR through examining issues such as risk and harm, unproven interventions, vulnerability, and informed consent.
VETERINARY ANAESTHESIA AND ANALGESIA
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Vimal Mishra, Amar Deep Tiwari, Rohini Kumar
Summary: The current approach to declaring the normal summer monsoon overlooks the spatiotemporal variability of rainfall, which has significant implications for agricultural activities. A new framework is proposed to account for rainfall variability in order to explain the impact of extreme events on agriculture and water management.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Alex M. Doherty, Allison M. Lacko, Barry M. Popkin
Summary: A study based on NHANES data found differences in non-sugar-sweetened beverage diet quality among adolescents and young adults of different ages and ethnicities. The majority of individuals had low non-SSB HEI scores, indicating a need for improvement in overall diet quality. Reducing SSB consumption alone may not be enough to improve overall dietary quality in adolescents and young adults.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION
(2021)
Editorial Material
Medicine, General & Internal
Barry M. Popkin, Shu Wen Ng
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Elizabeth K. Dunford, Barry Popkin, Shu Wen Ng
Summary: This study examined the consumption of energy, sodium, sugar, and saturated fat from junk food sources in US adults using Chilean criteria. The findings showed that nearly half of the energy and important nutrients consumed by US adults came from junk food, with a particular emphasis on reducing the intake of sugar-sweetened beverages for better cardiometabolic health outcomes.
JOURNAL OF NUTRITION
(2022)
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Elizabeth K. Dunford, Donna R. Miles, Barry Popkin, Shu Wen Ng
Summary: The study found that US households are purchasing a significantly higher proportion of packaged food products containing refined grain ingredients than whole grain ingredients. Lower income households and households with children purchase a significantly higher proportion of products containing refined grain ingredients, with no nutritionally meaningful racial or ethnic differences observed.
JOURNAL OF NUTRITION
(2022)
Article
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Barry M. Popkin, Shu Wen Ng
Summary: The Nutrition Transition model shows variations in the nature and pace of change in key stages depending on location and subpopulations. Currently, many countries are facing a stage where nutrition-related noncommunicable diseases are dominating adult morbidity and mortality, while some populations still suffer from hunger and undernutrition. By committing to policies that have been shown to improve dietary choices and social norms around foods, countries can prevent or reverse the rapid shift towards diets high in ultra-processed foods and the increasing prevalence of nutrition-related noncommunicable diseases.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
M. Arantxa Colchero, Guillermo Paraje, Barry M. Popkin
Summary: The study simulated the impact of taxing food and beverages based on the cutoff's points for warning labels, showing that taxes on food and beverages high in added sugar, salt or saturated fat can generate significant revenues reaching hundreds of millions to billions of USD. The fiscal policy, combined with warning labels, can effectively reduce consumption of unhealthy ultra-processed foods and beverages.
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Guillermo Paraje, Daniela Montes de Oca, Juan Marcos Wlasiuk, Mario Canales, Barry M. M. Popkin
Summary: This study evaluates the impact of Chile's innovative law on Food Labeling and Advertising, and finds that although there were significant decreases in consumption in certain categories, the effects on employment and other economic outcomes were small.
Article
Pediatrics
Natalia Rebolledo, Marcela Reyes, Barry M. Popkin, Linda Adair, Christy L. Avery, Camila Corvalan, Shu Wen Ng, Lindsey Smith Taillie
Summary: After the implementation of the first phase of Chile's Law of Food Labelling and Advertising, there was an increase in NNS intake among preschoolers, particularly for sucralose, aspartame, acesulfame-K, and steviol glycosides. The sources of NNS also shifted, with industrial juices and dairy beverages becoming more relevant. No children exceeded the acceptable daily intake levels for any NNS.
Editorial Material
Nutrition & Dietetics
Barry M. Popkin
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION
(2022)
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
S. K. Singh, Lindsey Smith Taillie, Ashish Gupta, Maxime Bercholz, Barry Popkin, Nandita Murukutla
Summary: The study found that front-of-package labels (FOPLs) can help Indian consumers identify unhealthy foods and serve as effective warning signs.
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Yuan Li, Huijun Wang, Puhong Zhang, Barry M. Popkin, Daisy H. Coyle, Jingmin Ding, Le Dong, Jiguo Zhang, Wenwen Du, Simone Pettigrew
Summary: This study evaluated the nutritional quality of pre-packaged foods in China using various nutrient profile models. The findings revealed that the majority of processed foods and ultra-processed foods exceeded the threshold for at least one negative nutrient according to all three models. Food groups such as snack foods, meat and meat products, bread and bakery products, non-alcoholic beverages, confectionery, and convenience foods had higher proportions of products exceeding nutrient thresholds.
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Guillermo Paraje, Daniela Montes de Oca, Camila Corvalan, Barry Popkin
Summary: This study assesses the impact of Chile's stringent legislation on food and beverage labeling and advertising on household consumption patterns. The research finds that the implementation of these regulations has led to significant changes in the allocation of food and beverage budgets, as well as the purchasing behavior of households. These findings highlight the effectiveness of food policies in promoting healthier consumption choices.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
J. Lauren Butler, Penny Gordon-Larsen, Lyn M. Steffen, James M. Shikany, David R. R. Jacobs Jr, Barry M. Popkin, Jennifer M. Poti
Summary: This study aimed to examine the relationship between changes in alcohol intake and changes in waist circumference (WC) and body mass index (BMI). The study found that decreasing alcohol intake and stopping excessive drinking were associated with lower WC and BMI gains in men, while starting light/moderate drinking, increasing wine intake, and decreasing liquor/mixed drink intake were associated with lower WC and BMI gains in women.
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Francisco Reyes-Sanchez, Ana Basto-Abreu, Rossana Torres-Alvarez, Martha Carnalla-Cortes, Alan Reyes-Garcia, Boyd Swinburn, Rafael Meza, Juan A. A. Rivera, Barry Popkin, Tonatiuh Barientos-Gutierrez
Summary: This study aims to explore obesity goals for Mexico in 2030 and 2040, as well as estimate the required caloric reductions to achieve them. The projections show that obesity prevalence in Mexico will continue to increase, and high-intensity interventions will be needed to reach the obesity goals for 2030 and 2040.
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Francesca R. Dillman Carpentier, Fernanda Mediano Stoltze, Barry M. Popkin
Summary: The World Health Organization has released a new guideline to protect children from the harmful impact of food marketing. The guideline recommends the development of comprehensive laws to reduce children's exposure to unhealthy food marketing, expanding on previous recommendations.