Article
Geography
Edward Kasabov
Summary: The study challenges the common belief that value creation is limited to economic-financial ventures, and demonstrates the presence of nuanced ethical-moral, social, and sentimental value in rural entrepreneurial ventures. It highlights the co-generation of value with multiple parties in a cumulative, multi-contextual fashion, questioning the stark contrast often made between economic-financial value and other types of value.
JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Geological
T. Lansivaara, K. K. Phoon, J. Ching
Summary: The choice of characteristic values in civil and geotechnical engineering is crucial, requiring a balance between statistical, mechanistic, and practical considerations to avoid overly simplistic approaches leading to unsafe designs. Engineers need to increase the value of data in decision-making to push the industry towards a more digital economy.
GEORISK-ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF RISK FOR ENGINEERED SYSTEMS AND GEOHAZARDS
(2022)
Editorial Material
Biochemical Research Methods
Jimmy K. Guo, Mitchell Guttman
Summary: The number of annotated noncoding RNAs and RNA-binding proteins has significantly increased in recent years. While the wide range of RNA-binding proteins identified suggests a vast potential for RNA in cell biology, the functional importance of these interactions remains to be fully demonstrated, highlighting the need for further exploration and research.
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Andrea Barp, Amanda Ferrero, Silvia Casagrande, Roberta Morini, Riccardo Zuccarino
Summary: The urgent need for new therapies for devastating neuromuscular diseases has led to an intense search for new potential biomarkers, which can be diagnostic, prognostic, or therapeutic. Circulating biomarkers, such as antibodies and microRNAs, are easier to access than instrumental/invasive ones, but face challenges in terms of variability, stability, and reliable performance metrics.
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Jose Gallardo, Marta Perez-Illana, Natalia Martin-Gonzalez, Carmen San Martin
Summary: Adenoviruses are large and complex icosahedral viruses, with their structure being a challenge to decipher. Advances in techniques like cryo-electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy have provided new insights into adenovirus structure.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2021)
Review
Oncology
Andres F. Espinoza, Sanjeev A. Vasudevan, Prakash M. Masand, Dolores H. Lopez-Terrada, Kalyani R. Patel
Summary: Current understanding of pediatric hepatocellular adenomas (HCA) is mainly based on adult data. HCAs in children are rare and often associated with syndromes or abnormal liver conditions. Some HCA lesions may show atypical features and those with beta-catenin mutations have a risk for malignant transformation. Treatment depends on various factors.
Review
Orthopedics
David W. Evans, Nicholas Lucas
Summary: This paper derives a set of eligibility criteria from existing definitions of manipulation to create a new definition. The resulting definitions are considered to be valid, complete, minimally sufficient, and robust. It is hoped that these definitions will be widely adopted in clinical, research, educational, and professional settings.
BMC MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS
(2023)
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Virginia Solitano, Arianna Dal Buono, Roberto Gabbiadini, Marek Wozny, Alessandro Repici, Antonino Spinelli, Stefania Vetrano, Alessandro Armuzzi
Summary: Fibro-stenosing Crohn's disease (CD) is a common disease presentation that leads to impaired quality of life and often requires endoscopic treatments or surgery. Currently, there are no existing imaging techniques that can accurately quantify the amount of fibrosis within a stricture, and managing patients is challenging, requiring a multidisciplinary team.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Ghina Elhaffar, Fabien Durif, Dilip Soman, Laurette Dube
Summary: This study conceptualizes and organizes the perceived green costs and develops a measurement scale for them. The authors find that people perceive nine types of green costs, which are further divided into nine first-order constructs. The Perceived Green Costs Scale demonstrates reliability, internal consistency, and convergent and divergent validity. The findings show that the Switching Costs construct mediates between green attitude and green behavior, contributing to the theory of planned behavior. The study provides insights into the green behavioral gap and behavioral frictions in sustainable consumption and offers implications for brand managers, customer experience architects, educators, and consumers in promoting a more sustainable future.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2023)
Article
Microbiology
Kathrin Spettel, Richard Kriz, Christine Wu, Lukas Achter, Stefan Schmid, Sonia Galazka, Brigitte Selitsch, Iris Camp, Athanasios Makristathis, Heimo Lagler, Birgit Willinger
Summary: Candida auris is a novel pathogenic yeast that poses a serious global health threat. It has caused hospital outbreaks worldwide and is often resistant to multiple antifungal drug classes. In Austria, five C. auris isolates were detected and characterized, showing elevated resistance to different antifungal classes. The new antifungal manogepix demonstrated high efficacy against all isolates. Understanding the pathogenicity and origins of C. auris is crucial for preventing transmission and outbreaks.
Article
Oncology
Casey J. Allen, Grace L. Smith, Laura Prakash, Robert J. Volk, Naruhiko Ikoma, Thomas A. Aloia, Vijaya Gottumukkala, Matthew H. G. Katz
Summary: This study measured the importance patients with gastrointestinal cancer and health care providers place on treatment outcomes, quality of life, and costs, and compared their views. The results showed discrepancies in the perception of value between patients and providers. Patients' values differed across their treatment and survivorship course. The study highlights the importance of accounting for multistakeholder perspectives in assessments of value in health care.
ANNALS OF SURGICAL ONCOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Dermatology
Avneet Randhawa, Rajendra Kapila, Robert A. Schwartz
Summary: Leprosy, a chronic infectious disease, has seen new breakthroughs in research on its etiology and treatment methods in recent years. The emergence of new vaccines and treatment options has brought new hope and change.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY
(2022)
Review
Economics
Mengmeng Zhang, Yun Bao, Yitian Lang, Shihui Fu, Melissa Kimber, Mitchell Levine, Feng Xie
Summary: The study found substantial variations in defining and measuring value in existing healthcare value assessment frameworks. A notable weakness is the limited or missing patient or public engagement in the framework development process. Existing VAFs tend to aggregate multiple value attributes into a single index for decision making.
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Emmie Hine, Luciano Floridi
Summary: China is taking the lead over the European Union and the United States by implementing new regulations on synthetic content. These draft provisions would increase platform's responsibility in maintaining social stability, potentially limiting online freedoms. This demonstrates the Chinese Communist Party's readiness to protect itself against the specific threats posed by emerging technologies.
NATURE MACHINE INTELLIGENCE
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Mengmeng Hu, Yafei Wang, Beicheng Xia, Guohe Huang
Summary: This study examines the relationship between energy consumption and economic development in Guangdong Province using spatial autocorrelation, hotspot analysis, panel vector autoregression, and system generalized method of moments. The results show that the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth is complex, and Guangdong can achieve economic growth without sacrificing energy consumption.
ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
(2023)
