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Substance Abuse
Dana Rubenstein, Lauren R. Pacek, F. Joseph McClernon
Summary: This study evaluates and summarizes the complex factors affecting the use of multiple tobacco products, revealing that substitution and complementarity are important factors in explaining patterns of multiple tobacco product use. Furthermore, market factors and socioenvironmental factors also influence product use.
NICOTINE & TOBACCO RESEARCH
(2022)
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Obstetrics & Gynecology
Blair J. Wylie, Marissa Hauptman, Michele R. Hacker, Summer S. Hawkins
Summary: Vaping involves inhaling aerosol generated by heating a liquid in an e-cigarette, which is believed by many to be a safer alternative to conventional smoking. However, the long-term health impacts of vaping remain uncertain, while short-term negative effects on cardiovascular and respiratory systems have been demonstrated. The use of e-cigarettes in the US has seen a rapid increase, especially among youths, while traditional cigarette use has decreased significantly.
OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Jacob Guinot, Zina Barghouti, Ricardo Chiva
Summary: In recent years, sustainability and green innovation have gained special importance due to the growing emergence of environmental problems. This study provides a theoretical framework by summarizing the main principles and roots of green innovation. It also offers academic proposals to further advance the study of this concept.
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Education & Educational Research
En Fu, Qiufeng Gao, Chuqian Wei, Qianyi Chen, Yijun Liu
Summary: This study found that college students' smartphone use in learning settings can be explained using theories of consumerism, self-efficacy, and addictive behaviors, and is also influenced by their motivation, behavioral control, and other personal characteristics.
JOURNAL OF COMPUTER ASSISTED LEARNING
(2021)
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Business
Bharath Rajan, Uday Salunkhe, V. Kumar
Summary: This study applies the customer engagement concept to family firms and proposes a conceptual framework that explores the creation of positive family firm experiences and its influence on customer engagement. By integrating relevant concepts from family business research, the study identifies firm-related factors, such as adaptive marketing capabilities, regenerative capability, and moderators like vision disharmony, role overlap, and ethnicity, that affect the relationship between firm-related factors and family firm experience. The study also suggests that family firm experience, influenced by spillover in family firm conflict, ultimately leads to customer engagement.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2023)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Bilge Gencoglu, Michelle Helms-Lorenz, Ridwan Maulana, Ellen P. W. A. Jansen
Summary: Student perceptions of teaching quality can vary within a class and between countries, with individual and cultural factors potentially playing a role. Further insights are needed to understand the mechanisms underlying these variations and to enhance the development of teaching quality for better education outcomes.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
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Ecology
Ricarda Winkelmann, Jonathan F. Donges, E. Keith Smith, Manjana Milkoreit, Christina Eder, Jobst Heitzig, Alexia Katsanidou, Marc Wiedermann, Nico Wunderling, Timothy M. Lenton
Summary: Societal transformations are crucial for addressing critical global challenges, and social tipping processes, with their strong self-amplifying mechanisms, have been identified as key drivers for facilitating social change. These processes differ from widely studied climate and ecological tipping dynamics, with human agency, social-institutional network structures, different spatial and temporal scales, and increased complexity being key distinctive features underlying social tipping processes. A conceptual framework for social tipping processes can illuminate mechanisms for transformative climate change mitigation policies and actions.
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
(2022)
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Business
Kevin Giang Barrera, Denish Shah
Summary: This study proposes a definition and framework for the emerging 'metaverse' by integrating findings from literature review and expert viewpoints. The potential of the metaverse is being accelerated by consumer engagement and transactions in virtual spaces, as well as significant investments by firms. However, the current understanding of the metaverse and its implications for marketing practice and research is lacking.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2023)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Paul Dolan, Kate Laffan, Laura Kudrna
Summary: The Welleye framework highlights the importance of attention in linking objective circumstances to daily feelings, providing policymakers with a tool to design interventions.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Business
Derrick Boakye, David Sarpong, Chima Mordi
Summary: The study delves into the impact of regulatory review on new product innovation, highlighting concerns such as speed, safety, cost, and routines. It presents eight propositions and points to rich opportunities for future research in this area.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2022)
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Environmental Sciences
Seokhwan Kim, Kyuhee Jo
Summary: This study examines the use of multiple tobacco products and smoking behaviors among adolescents with asthma, finding that these individuals have higher smoking rates, particularly with combustible cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and heated tobacco products. The study also highlights the increasing trend of new tobacco smoking among adolescents with asthma.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
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Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Patrick Haynes, Sheng Yang
Summary: Digital twins are digital replicas of physical entities that capture historical and real-time data. They are expected to be essential tools in industry 4.0 as they collect massive amounts of real-world data for various purposes. This paper proposes three types of digital twins - similar-product DT, mock-up prototype DT, and Supersystem DT - and presents a systematic framework that integrates Supersystem DT with the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving for early design activities.
ADVANCED ENGINEERING INFORMATICS
(2023)
Editorial Material
Environmental Studies
Tamara Krawchenko, John Tomaney
Summary: How land is used is connected to important issues such as sustainable development, economic development, territorial inequalities, and the rights of future generations. Various policies and factors beyond land use and environmental planning systems shape land use and management, leading to adverse outcomes. This paper introduces a conceptual framework that promotes the governance of land use by considering incentives, disincentives, and complementarities across different policies and practices.
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Tanja Mittag, Rohit Pappu
Summary: Macromolecular phase separation plays an important role in the spatial organization within cells. By understanding the synergy between networking and density transitions, we can explain the process of phase separation coupled to percolation (PSCP). This process forms viscoelastic network fluids with specific internal network structures, allowing for time-dependent interactions between viscous and elastic properties. PSCP provides insights into the role of macromolecular phase separation in biology by connecting different observations and addressing related challenges.
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Medicine, General & Internal
John Erhabor, Ellen Boakye, Olufunmilayo Obisesan, Albert D. Osei, Erfan Tasdighi, Hassan Mirbolouk, Andrew P. DeFilippis, Andrew C. Stokes, Glenn A. Hirsch, Emelia J. Benjamin, Carlos J. Rodriguez, Omar El Shahawy, Rose Marie Robertson, Aruni Bhatnagar, Michael J. Blaha
Summary: This study examined recent patterns of e-cigarette use among US adults in 2021 using data from the BRFSS database. The findings suggest that e-cigarette use remained common during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly among young adults aged 18 to 24 years.
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Toxicology
Richard C. Kevin, Alexander L. Kovach, Timothy W. Lefever, Thomas F. Gamage, Jenny L. Wiley, Iain S. McGregor, Brian F. Thomas
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(2019)
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Thuy Nguyen, Thomas F. Gamage, Ann M. Decker, Nadezhda German, Tiffany L. Langston, Charlotte E. Farquhar, Terry P. Kenakin, Jenny L. Wiley, Brian F. Thomas, Yanan Zhang
ACS CHEMICAL NEUROSCIENCE
(2019)
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Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Stevie C. Britch, Alan G. Goodman, Jenny L. Wiley, Abby M. Pondelick, Rebecca M. Craft
JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL THERAPEUTICS
(2020)
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Behavioral Sciences
Thomas F. Gamage, Daniel G. Barrus, Richard C. Kevin, David B. Finlay, Timothy W. Lefever, Purvi R. Patel, Megan A. Grabenauer, Michelle Glass, Iain S. McGregor, Jenny L. Wiley, Brian F. Thomas
PHARMACOLOGY BIOCHEMISTRY AND BEHAVIOR
(2020)
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Clinical Neurology
Jenny L. Wiley, Daniel G. Barrus, Charlotte E. Farquhar, Timothy W. Lefever, Thomas F. Gamage
Summary: The study investigated the effects of age, sex, and rodent species on the psychoactive impact of intraperitoneal THC and its metabolite 11-OH-THC. The results show that 11-OH-THC exhibited higher potency in some aspects compared to THC, suggesting that species is a crucial design consideration in preclinical studies of phytocannabinoids.
PROGRESS IN NEURO-PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
(2021)
Article
Substance Abuse
L. Jenny Wiley, I. Shanequa Taylor, A. Julie Marusich
Summary: The study examined the effects of THC administered through different routes on rats. Results showed varying effects of THC across different routes of administration, providing empirical evidence for choosing the route of administration for mechanistic investigation of THC's pharmacology. Animal models using translationally relevant routes of administration may lead to more accurate predictions of THC effects in humans.
DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Analytical
Alexander L. Kovach, Randi R. Carter, Jonathan W. Thornburg, Robert Wiethe, Timothy R. Fennell, Jenny L. Wiley
Summary: Studies have found that vitamin E acetate undergoes thermal degradation in electronic vaping devices and is considered a major contributor to e-cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injuries. By analyzing the degradation products of vitamin E acetate, researchers have identified two major compounds and suggested their potential as biomarkers for exposure and toxicity assessment.
JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL TOXICOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Pharmacology & Pharmacy
David B. Finlay, Thuy Nguyen, Thomas F. Gamage, Shuli Chen, Daniel G. Barrus, Purvi R. Patel, Brian F. Thomas, Jenny L. Wiley, Yanan Zhang, Michelle Glass
Summary: This study compared the synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonist EG-018 and its analogues with existing putative neutral antagonists of CB1 receptor. The results showed highly variable signaling outcomes for EG-018 analogues, with some compounds demonstrating potential as neutral antagonists. These findings provide important insights for the development of CB1 neutral antagonists.
PHARMACOLOGY RESEARCH & PERSPECTIVES
(2022)
Article
Substance Abuse
S. O. Vanegas, A. M. Reck, C. E. Rodriguez, J. A. Marusich, O. Yassin, G. Sotzing, J. L. Wiley, S. G. Kinsey
Summary: This study evaluates the effects of acute and repeated exposure to delta(8)-THC and finds that it produces similar effects to delta(9)-THC, including risk of drug dependence and abuse liability.
DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Julie A. Marusich, Thomas F. Gamage, Yanan Zhang, Luli R. Akinfiresoye, Jenny L. Wiley
Summary: Synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonists (SCRAs) are a novel class of psychoactive substances that bind to and activate CB1 receptors in the brain.
PHARMACOLOGY BIOCHEMISTRY AND BEHAVIOR
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
David B. Finlay, Warwick Mackie, Hunter D. J. Webb, Lucy R. Thomsen, Mhairi Nimick, Rhonda J. Rosengren, Julie A. Marusich, Michelle Glass, Jenny L. Wiley
Summary: AMB-FUBINACA is a synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonist associated with abuse and health harm. The study aimed to investigate the interactions between AMB-FUBINACA and pFPP in rats and mice. The results suggest that pFPP may attenuate some physiological effects of AMB-FUBINACA in rats, but there is little evidence of direct receptor interactions. Overall, combining pFPP and AMB-FUBINACA is unlikely to result in increased harm/toxicity.
PHARMACOLOGY BIOCHEMISTRY AND BEHAVIOR
(2023)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Lucas T. Laudermilk, Julie A. Marusich, Jenny L. Wiley
Summary: This study investigates the effects of sex and route of administration on THC-induced changes in cardiopulmonary phenotypes in mice. The results demonstrate that THC alters respiratory minute volume and heart rate across different administration routes, with varying effects in duration and direction.
CARDIOVASCULAR TOXICOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Antony D. Abraham, Jenny L. Wiley, Julie A. Marusich
Summary: This study found that THC has an impact on nicotine intake in rat models, decreasing self-administration of nicotine and altering the dose-effect curve. Unlike nicotine, THC does not affect the response to sucrose.
PHARMACOLOGY BIOCHEMISTRY AND BEHAVIOR
(2023)
Article
Substance Abuse
Julie A. Marusich, Jenny L. Wiley
Summary: This study examined the effect of different routes of administration on the potency and time course of THC's discriminative stimulus properties. The results showed that THC administered through various routes produced similar stimulus effects. These findings have implications for predicting THC's effects in humans.
DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE REPORTS
(2023)