Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Kristina Campbell
Summary: The article discusses how health-care professionals and public-health officials can collaborate to detect and prevent disease outbreaks.
Article
Ecology
Jakob Kapeller, Stuart Leitch, Rafael Wildauer
Summary: This paper analyses the European Commission's assessment of investment needs for green transition in the EU until 2050 and suggests that the official estimates are likely to underestimate the actual investment required. The study explores the potential of a European wealth tax to close this investment gap and provides a detailed estimate of the wealth distribution across EU member countries. By developing a microsimulation model, the authors find substantial revenue potential from wealth taxes that could significantly contribute to closing green investment gaps, highlighting the importance of compensating for the missing observations at the top of the wealth distribution.
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Cristina O'Cllaghan-Gordo, Jaime Rosales, Pilar Lizarraga, Frederica Barclay, Tami Okamoto, Diana M. Papoulias, Ana Espinosa, Marti Orta-Martinez, Manolis Kogevinas, John Astete
Summary: High blood lead levels were detected in indigenous populations living in communities in the northern Peruvian Amazon, largely attributed to oil extraction activities in the area. Factors associated with high BLL included older age, male gender, residing in specific river basins, and consumption of fish offal.
ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL
(2021)
Editorial Material
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Bernd Pulverer
Summary: The unprovoked war on Ukraine has shocked the global scientific community, including Russia. We need to persuade the Kremlin to return to a rules-based international order, while supporting Ukraine and Russian scientists facing sanctions.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Brendan Kwesiga, Regina Titi-Ofei, Juliet Nabyonga-Orem
Summary: There is a significant financial gap in Universal Health Coverage (UHC) resources, and even the available resources have been misused, exacerbating healthcare inequalities. To address this challenge, leveraging the private sector to close both the financing and access gaps is necessary. However, it is crucial to ensure that the mechanisms and instruments used align with country-specific evidence and the overall UHC aspirations.
JOURNAL OF GLOBAL HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Katharine C. Burke, Sarah do Nascimento-Emond, Catherine L. Hixson, Emily K. Miller-Cushon
Summary: This study investigates the effects of an experimental disease challenge on the social network position of group-housed Holstein bull dairy calves. The results show that the challenged calves had reduced centrality and connectedness compared to the control group.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Business, Finance
Morten Bennedsen, Elena Simintzi, Margarita Tsoutsoura, Daniel Wolfenzon
Summary: This study examines the impact of pay transparency on the gender pay gap and firm outcomes. Using a legislative change in Denmark in 2006, which mandated firms to provide gender-disaggregated wage statistics, the research finds that the law reduces the gender pay gap by slowing down wage growth for male employees. Although the overall wage bill decreases, the mandate does not affect firm profitability, potentially due to the offsetting effect of reduced firm productivity.
JOURNAL OF FINANCE
(2022)
Article
Infectious Diseases
Ben J. Marais, Sabine Verkuijl, Martina Casenghi, Rina Triasih, Anneke C. Hesseling, Anna M. Mandalakas, Olivier Marcy, James A. Seddon, Stephen M. Graham, Farhana Amanullah
Summary: Young children are at higher risk for developing severe forms of tuberculosis and are often not diagnosed or offered treatment. Improved access to TB preventive treatment requires increased household contact investigation. The global community may need to accept some over-treatment in order to close the persistent case detection gap in young children.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
(2021)
Article
Microbiology
Linda J. Kenney
Summary: Bacteria respond to physical forces by utilizing histidine kinases embedded in the inner membrane, which can sense membrane tension changes and translate various environmental stimuli into gene expression alterations through phosphorelay reactions. Our recent work linking the histidine kinase EnvZ to mechanical changes in the inner membrane is summarized in the context of other bacterial systems that also respond to mechanical stress.
FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Brett Shannon, Warren Jennings, Lee Friedman
Summary: Indigenous populations in the USA, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada continue to be marginalized, and there is a lack of comprehensive research on their occupational health outcomes. The existing studies have methodological and sample limitations, highlighting the need for improved study design and data collection.
OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Dajun Sang, Tong Shu, Christian F. Pantoja, Alain Ibanez de Opakua, Markus Zweckstetter, Liam J. Holt
Summary: Phase separation can concentrate biomolecules and accelerate reactions. By engineering phosphorylation reactions within synthetic condensates, this study found that phosphorylation dynamics are rapid within condensates and can drive cell localization changes. High client concentration and the availability of many excess client-binding sites are crucial for efficient phosphorylation within condensates, and macromolecular crowding also modulates phosphorylation. This study provides important insights into cellular signaling mechanisms.
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Hannah Wozniak, Lamyae Benzakour, Christophe Larpin, Sebastian Sgardello, Gregory Moullec, Sandrine Corbaz, Pauline Roos, Laure Vieux, Typhaine M. Juvet, Jean-Claude Suard, Rafael Weissbrodt, Jerome Pugin, Jacques A. Pralong, Sara Cereghetti
Summary: Healthcare workers experienced significant mental health issues during the COVID-19 pandemic, but supportive measures implemented by hospitals were found to be beneficial and helpful. The majority of HCWs utilized practical and mental health support measures, indicating their positive impact and importance in alleviating the suffering of healthcare professionals.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Huihan Zhao, Yu He, Fang Brister, Li Yang, Gaoye Li, Ying Ling, Yanping Ying
Summary: This study introduced an efficient response strategy for nurses in large-scale COVID-19 screening by establishing a leadership group, conducting nurse training, and implementing efficient sampling schemes, successfully collecting nucleic acid screening samples from 854,215 people.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Ruxandra Popovici, Andre G. de L. Moraes, Zhao Ma, Laura Zanotti, Keith A. Cherkauer, Anna E. Erwin, Katy E. Mazer, Edwin F. Bocardo Delgado, Jose P. Pinto Caceres, Pranay Ranjan, Linda S. Prokopy
Summary: Climate change has impacted the indigenous and local knowledge held by crop farmers in Peru's Colca Valley, making it less effective in guiding crop planting and irrigation practices in the face of uncertainty and changes. Addressing the changing and uncertain indigenous and local knowledge poses challenges for local resource users who require long-term institution building for adaptation strategies.
ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Katharina Ruettger, Stacy A. Clemes, Yu-Ling Chen, Charlotte L. Edwardson, Amber Guest, Nicholas D. Gilson, Laura J. Gray, Vicki Johnson, Nicola J. Paine, Aron P. Sherry, Mohsen Sayyah, Jacqui Troughton, Veronica Varela-Mato, Thomas Yates, James A. King
Summary: Physical inactivity and obesity are widespread among Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV) drivers. A bespoke structured lifestyle intervention called 'SHIFT' was evaluated for its effectiveness in addressing these issues. The study found that drivers with obesity who participated in the intervention showed positive changes in daily steps, sedentary time, body weight, and other anthropometric outcomes compared to obese drivers in the control group. However, the intervention had no effects on drivers without obesity and at the follow-up stage. These findings suggest that obesity classification plays a role in drivers' response to a multi-component health behavior change intervention.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)