Article
Immunology
Fan Zhang, Saifu Yin, Yu Fan, Turun Song, Zhongli Huang, Jiayu Liang, Jiapei Wu, Youmin Yang, Tao Lin, Xianding Wang
Summary: This study found that the secretor status of both donors and recipients may have an impact on the outcomes of ABO incompatibility kidney transplantation. Recipients with weak secretor status may have better post-transplant renal function, while recipients from secretor donors had a lower incidence of graft rejection in the first year after transplantation.
FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Showmitra Kumar Sarkar, Md Manjur Morshed
Summary: This study proposes a spatial priority-based vaccine rollout strategy for Bangladesh, considering demographic, economic, vulnerability, and spatial connectivity factors to determine the spatial priority. Findings suggest that demographic and economic factors are key to the spatial priority, with spatial connectivity also playing an essential role. This proposed strategy offers an alternative against limited vaccine supply, focusing on high and medium-priority districts to curb COVID-19 transmission and keep the economy moving.
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Yufeng Zhou, Tiange Zou, Changshi Liu, Hongxia Yu, Liangyong Chen, Jiafu Su
Summary: This paper investigates the dynamic decision-making problem of blood supply chain under blood shortage conditions, proposing a blood collection decision-making method based on the EWA strategy. Models for blood transshipment and allocation planning are established, and a DESS framework is designed for simulation experiments. The results show that safety stock, target stock level, and demand fluctuation range have significant impacts on the control effect of blood inventory.
APPLIED SOFT COMPUTING
(2021)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Narges Hadjesfandiari, Mona Khorshidfar, Dana V. Devine
Summary: This review article examines the molecular differences impacting the quality of blood components, with a focus on factors affecting the quality of red blood cells and platelets, and emphasizes the importance of donor individual molecular and genetic profile in improving blood component quality.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2021)
Review
Biology
C. Ruth Archer, Maria Paniw, Regina Vega-Trejo, Irem Sepil
Summary: Life-history strategies exhibit diversity, but there is a bias towards females in life-history data, particularly in age-dependent reproductive investment. This bias has not been quantified, and its impact on our understanding of evolutionary ecology has not been extensively discussed. This review examines the reasons why sexes can evolve different life-history strategies, quantifies the scale of the sex skew, and discusses its consequences for evolutionary and ecological research. The bias hinders our ability to test core evolutionary theories and develop effective conservation strategies, and may obscure or drive trends in data.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Economics
Geoffrey A. Chua, Juan Ramon L. Senga
Summary: In this study, the researchers analyze three types of blood supply interventions during disasters and propose optimal strategies for different donation rates. They also examine the equivalence of interventions in non-steady state situations and design three strategies for blood bank management. Simulation studies validate the effectiveness of these strategies.
SOCIO-ECONOMIC PLANNING SCIENCES
(2022)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Saleh Y. Alghamdi
Summary: The management and supply of blood are critical yet challenging within the healthcare industry. A comparative study of blood delivery systems in crowded cities can help identify the most effective and responsive system, aiding stakeholders in making timely decisions.
Article
Demography
Leigh Senderowicz, Nicole Maloney
Summary: The unmet need for contraception metric is crucial for global family planning, but often misinterpreted as lack of access. Disaggregating unmet need into demand-side and supply-side components can provide a more person-centered understanding. Studies in sub-Saharan African countries show that demand-side unmet need far exceeds supply-side unmet need in all scenarios.
POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW
(2022)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Yeqing Xia, Weifeng Zhang, Shuai Yang, Liping Wang, Gui Yu
Summary: Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are new organic porous materials with pre-designable topology, adjustable pore size, and abundant active sites. Donor-acceptor (D-A) type COFs, synthesized by introducing D and A units into the COFs backbone, combine the advantages of D-A type polymers with the unique features of COFs. This review outlines the synthetic strategies of D-A type COFs, summarizes their applications in catalytic reactions, photothermal therapy, and electronic materials, and presents the current challenges and new directions for their development.
ADVANCED MATERIALS
(2023)
Article
Business
Oscar Holmes, Kaifeng Jiang, Derek R. Avery, Patrick F. McKay, In-Sue Oh, C. Justice Tillman
Summary: The meta-analysis on diversity climate reveals that climate measure type, outcome type, demographic diversity, and other factors moderate the relationship between diversity climate and outcomes.
JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Review
Management
Panniphat Atcha, Ilias Vlachos, Satish Kumar
Summary: Ineffective management of medical product inventory can have severe consequences for hospitals and clinics, such as surgery delays. Inventory sharing in the healthcare supply chain is a potential solution, but there is limited research in this area. This study conducts a literature review of 39 studies and identifies product supply chains, benefits, barriers, and future research opportunities.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Liane Pinho Santos, Joao F. Proenca
Summary: The purpose of this study is to investigate the challenges and solutions to developing return supply chain policies in the automotive industry. The research findings suggest that climate change concerns and governmental guidelines drive the adoption of sustainable organizational culture. However, total product recycling poses difficulties in business interaction. To overcome this barrier, innovation strategies, strategic alliances, and governmental policies are presented as enhancers to the development of return supply chain policies.
Article
Business
Tonya Williams Bradford
Summary: Nonprofit organizations depend on resources to fulfill their missions, with marketing literature focusing on leveraging donors. In addition to traditional methods, donor activism can also positively impact supply for nonprofits.
JOURNAL OF THE ACADEMY OF MARKETING SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Denisse Best, Kevin Burrage, Pamela Burrage, Diane Donovan, Shamila Ginige, Tanya Powley, Bevan Thompson, James Daly
Summary: In the last decade, Australia has seen a decline in red cell demand, but a greater need for phenotyped matched red cells. A probabilistic model has been developed to determine the percentage of the donor panel requiring extended antigen typing to meet this demand, along with the estimated timeline to achieve the necessary phenotyped (genotyped) panel. Mathematical modelling based on Multinomial distributions has provided guidance on the percentage of typed donor panel needed, taking into account recent blood request data and the current donor panel size.
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Michael Chasse, Dean A. Fergusson, Alan Tinmouth, Jason P. Acker, Iris Perelman, Angie Tuttle, Shane W. English, Steven Hawken, Alan J. Forster, Nadine Shehata, Kednapa Thavorn, Kumanan Wilson, Nancy Cober, Heather Maddison, Melanie Tokessy
Summary: This multicenter, double-blind trial randomly assigned patients undergoing red-cell transfusion to receive units of red cells from either male donors or female donors. The study found no significant difference in survival between the two groups.
NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
(2023)
