Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Nicolas Acosta Garcia, Eric Boyd, Maris Boyd Gillette, Nanna Rask, Hannah Saldert, Benedict Esmond Singleton
Summary: This article discusses the issue of sustainability science. The author argues that certain topics and research methods have become taboo, inhibiting the field's ability to contribute to the achievement of Agenda 2030. In response, they problematize the framing of sustainability science and emphasize the importance of its unparadigmatic nature in addressing complex problems. The question then becomes how to have productive disagreements and ensure quality within this field.
SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Psychiatry
Nicolas Garel, Jessica Drury, Julien Thibault Levesque, Nathalie Goyette, Alexandre Lehmann, Karl Looper, David Erritzoe, Shannon Dames, Gustavo Turecki, Soham Rej, Stephane Richard-Devantoy, Kyle T. Greenway
Summary: This article presents the Montreal model, a comprehensive biopsychosocial approach to ketamine for severe treatment-resistant depression (TRD). The model aims to bridge the gap between biomedical and psychedelic treatments and provides a feasible, flexible, and standardized approach to ketamine for TRD.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jessie Willis, Janina A. Ramos, Kelly Cobey, Jeremy Ng, Hassan Khan, Marc Albert, Mohsen Alayche, David Moher
Summary: Most researchers have not received formal training in peer review and found it difficult to access or not available.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Paolo Diviacco, Massimiliano Iurcev, Rodrigo Jose Carbajales, Alberto Viola, Mihai Burca, Alessandro Busato
Summary: This study presents new advances in monitoring particulate matter in urban areas using a participatory vehicle sensor network. By utilizing low-cost IoT devices, the researchers were able to reconstruct the spatial and temporal distribution of pollutants in real time. They integrated the newly acquired data with reference measurements from governmental environmental agencies and successfully identified areas with lower air quality and the possible causes of these anomalies. The study highlights the potential of this approach in supporting urban planning and promoting community reflection on improving air quality.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Diana Mitsova
Summary: This perspective article discusses the uses, challenges, and opportunities of interdisciplinary research in critical infrastructure interdependency analysis, proposing three basic modes of integration: integrating engineering models with social science research, engaging communities in participative problem solving using simulation models, and developing interactive simulations for improving situational awareness and response capabilities in natural disasters.
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Alessia Giarraputo, Ilaria Barison, Marny Fedrigo, Jacopo Burrello, Chiara Castellani, Francesco Tona, Tomaso Bottio, Gino Gerosa, Lucio Barile, Annalisa Angelini
Summary: Diagnosing cardiac allograft rejection post-heart transplantation is challenging, with tissue biopsies being the current gold standard. Non-invasive methods like liquid biopsy show promise for improving rejection diagnosis. Future advancements may involve molecular techniques and omics science to enhance monitoring accuracy for heart transplant patients.
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Katerina Cermakova, H. Courtney Hodges
Summary: In this article, the authors review the molecular elements frequently found within intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) that confer regulatory specificity, with a focus on the roles of disordered low-complexity regions (LCRs) and short linear motifs (SLiMs) in selective nuclear regulation. The study highlights SLiMs as organizers of selectivity in gene regulation and integration of cellular signals. Analysis of recurrent interactions between SLiMs and folded domains provides opportunities to manipulate these interactions for control of biological activity, particularly in phase-separated condensates.
TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture
Xianhao Chen, Yiqin Deng, Guangyu Zhu, Danxin Wang, Yuguang Fang
Summary: This article discusses the concept of end-to-end (E2E) service auction in 5G and beyond, where emerging services like edge computing/intelligence demand heterogeneous CCS resources. By addressing the joint problem of network optimization and auction design, this auction model can provide E2E QoS guarantees while ensuring economic properties.
IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
(2022)
Review
Nursing
Silje Rysst Gustafsson, Irene Eriksson
Summary: This study aimed to identify key factors indicating quality in telephone nursing through an integrative literature review. Ten factors were revealed, including availability and simplicity of the service, sustainable working conditions, specialist education and experience, healthcare resources and organization, good communication, person-centredness, competence, correct and safe care, efficiency and satisfaction. It was concluded that telephone nursing services need to focus on these factors to ensure high-quality care.
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Sydney L. Payne, Lyly Nguyen, Ashkan Afshari, Brian C. Drolet
Summary: This study evaluated the application of a Flexible Care Pathway (FCP) in the postoperative period of carpal/cubital tunnel release surgeries. The results showed that FCP had a high degree of safety and patient satisfaction, and it reduced patient travel distance.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SYSTEMS
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Mercedes Gaitan-Angulo, Melva Ines Gomez-Caicedo, Maritza Torres-Samuel, Adriana Correa-Guimaraes, Luis Manuel Navas-Gracia, Carmen Luisa Vasquez-Stanescu, Rodrigo Ramirez-Pisco, Marisabel Luna-Cardozo
Summary: This article reviews the adoption of sustainability in universities from two dimensions: educational and research processes, and the performance of their university campus. The findings show that sustainability has been hardly integrated into university academic programs, and the traditional world university rankings do not adequately consider sustainability criteria. Policies need to be developed to encourage universities to integrate sustainability strategies into their academic and institutional processes, as well as in the global university evaluation systems, in order to properly value sustainability.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Katie Moon, Christopher Cvitanovic, Deborah A. Blackman, Ivan R. Scales, Nicola K. Browne
Summary: Developing solutions for complex marine and coastal social-ecological issues requires new forms of knowledge production and integration. While progress has been made in producing integrated marine research and connecting that knowledge to decision-makers, challenges remain that hinder successful implementation of integrated research practices. Understanding and reconciling different epistemologies in various disciplines is identified as a key barrier to successful integrative marine research.
FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Sarah Polkinghorne, Lisa M. Given
Summary: This paper examines the importance and application of holism in research in the field of library and information science. By comparing the rhetorical use of holism with substantive holistic approaches, it is argued that greater adoption of interpretivist and critical methods can address concerns underlying the use of holistic rhetoric. It is proposed that adopting holistic approaches can provide for richer analyses of critical phenomena in the discipline.
JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Bernhard Streicher, Moritz Bielefeld, Eric Eller
Summary: Risk culture is an important concept in risk analysis as it shapes individual, group, organizational, and societal risk perception and behavior. Although popular among practitioners, risk culture concepts are still poorly defined and lack empirical foundations. This study introduces a new Risk Culture Framework based on research on organizational culture and risk climate, which aims to overcome these limitations and provide practical guidelines.
Review
Physiology
Junyung Park, Hyeon Seok Seok, Sang-Su Kim, Hangsik Shin
Summary: This review examines the use of photoplethysmogram (PPG) in clinical and daily life settings, focusing on its generation mechanisms, measurement principles, clinical applications, noise definition, pre-processing techniques, feature detection techniques, and post-processing techniques. The study finds that the application field of PPG is expanding from clinical to mobile environments, and machine learning-based methods hold promise for future solutions.
FRONTIERS IN PHYSIOLOGY
(2022)
