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Professor Manoj Sharma | The Multi-theory Model (MTM) of Health Behavior Change: Understanding the Determinants of Breast Cancer Screening
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Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer affecting women overall but there are stark differences in breast cancer risk and survival rates between racial and ethnic groups. Breast cancers must be detected at an early stage to ensure timely treatment and the reduction of premature mortality. Professor Manoj Sharma from the School of Public Health at the University of Nevada, USA, is working with colleagues to gain an in-depth understanding of the determinants of undertaking mammogram screening in typically under-represented groups with a view to improving health through behaviour change.
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Dr Nina Gmeiner | 21st Century Trends in Property Regimes: Progressive Commons
Dr Selina Våge | Modelling Microbes to Understand Ecosystem Dynamics and Infectious Diseases
Professor Eckehard Schöll | Understanding Spontaneous Synchronisation in Epileptic Seizures
Taher Saif | Dr Andrew Holle – Mechanobiology – Exploring the Mechanics of Cell Behaviour
Dr Stella Laletas | How High-conflict Divorce Can Impact Children: Understanding the Perspective of Teachers
Professor Samantha Punch | Benefits of Bridge: The Partnership Mindsport
Building a World-leading Microelectronics Research Group
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Summary of the article ‘Building a Microelectronics Research Group from the Ground Up’ in Scientia. doi.org/10.33548/SCIENTIA854
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Dr Selina Våge | Modelling Microbes to Understand Ecosystem Dynamics and Infectious Diseases
Professor Eckehard Schöll | Understanding Spontaneous Synchronisation in Epileptic Seizures
Taher Saif | Dr Andrew Holle – Mechanobiology – Exploring the Mechanics of Cell Behaviour
Dr Stella Laletas | How High-conflict Divorce Can Impact Children: Understanding the Perspective of Teachers
Professor Samantha Punch | Benefits of Bridge: The Partnership Mindsport
Dr Hong Lu | Exploring the Impact of the Death Penalty on a Convict’s Family
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So far, very few research studies have investigated the effects of criminal convictions on the families of defendants. Dr Hong Lu, a Professor of Criminal Justice at University of Nevada, along with her co-authors, Dr Yudu Li and Dr Bin Liang, carried out a study examining how the family of Nian Bin, the defendant in a high-profile capital case in China who received four death sentences, managed the physical, emotional, financial, and legal challenges they faced after their relative’s conviction.
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This SciPod is a summary of the paper ‘Criminal Defendants’ Family and the Death Penalty in China- A Case Analysis’ in China Journal of Social Work, 2020. doi.org/10.1080/17525098.2020.1780000
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Dr. Jon Reinders | A genetic breakthrough for farming: editing corn inside the plant, not the lab
Professor Rumi Kato Price | New Approaches to Defining and Measuring Human Trafficking
Professor Germaine A. Hoston | How Traditional Chinese Philosophy Shaped Modern Revolutionary Thought
Professor Jeremy Maurer | Building a seismic timeline of the Nippes earthquake
Professor Tristan Nighswander – Professor Ariel Roddy | Mixed Signals: Employment Training Outcomes for Previously Incarcerated Individuals
Dr. Hanieh Razzaghi | Behind the Screens: Improving Health Outcomes with Better Data
Access to Human Tissue for Collaborative Research
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The Collaborative Biorepository for Translational Medicine (CBTM) is based at the University of Cambridge and Addenbrooke’s Hospital in the Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre. Professor Kourosh Saeb-Parsy and the team work to provide reliable access to fresh tissue for collaborative research and to ensure the generously donated tissue has the best chance to make a positive impact.
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Dr Nina Gmeiner | 21st Century Trends in Property Regimes: Progressive Commons
Dr Selina Våge | Modelling Microbes to Understand Ecosystem Dynamics and Infectious Diseases
Professor Eckehard Schöll | Understanding Spontaneous Synchronisation in Epileptic Seizures
Taher Saif | Dr Andrew Holle – Mechanobiology – Exploring the Mechanics of Cell Behaviour
Dr Stella Laletas | How High-conflict Divorce Can Impact Children: Understanding the Perspective of Teachers
Professor Samantha Punch | Benefits of Bridge: The Partnership Mindsport
Dr Megan Schraedley | Reducing Political Sectarianism to Introduce Important Legislation
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This SciPod is a summary of the paper ‘Creating and disrupting othering during policymaking in a polarized context’, in the Journal of Communication, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqab042
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Professor Jeremy Maurer | Building a seismic timeline of the Nippes earthquake
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Dr. Hanieh Razzaghi | Behind the Screens: Improving Health Outcomes with Better Data
Dr Robert Bryant – Dr Langdon Martin | Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Cattle Farming with Leftover Brewer’s Yeast
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This SciPod is a summary of the paper ‘Spent Craft Brewer’s Yeast Reduces Production of Methane and Ammonia by Bovine Rumen Microbes’ from Frontiers in Animal Science. doi.org/10.3389/fanim.2021.720646
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Professor Jeremy Maurer | Building a seismic timeline of the Nippes earthquake
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Dr Anthony Swemmer – Exploring How Trees in Savannas Respond to Drought
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This SciPod is a summary of the paper ‘Locally high, but regionally low: the impact of the 2014-2016 drought on the trees of semi-arid savannas, South Africa’ from African Journal of Range & Forage Science. doi.org/10.2989/10220119.2020.1723696
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Professor Jeremy Maurer | Building a seismic timeline of the Nippes earthquake
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Dr Alvin Orbaek White | Chemically Recycling Discarded Face Masks into Carbon Nanotubes
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Dr Alvin Orbaek White and his colleagues at the Energy Safety Research Institute, based at Swansea University, have shown that chemically recycling discarded face masks to create carbon nanotubes may provide a valuable resource as well as tackle the environmental issue of waste.
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Summary of the paper ‘Upcycling of Face Masks to Application-rich Multi and Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes’, in Carbon Letters. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42823-022-00398-8
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Taher Saif | Dr Andrew Holle – Mechanobiology – Exploring the Mechanics of Cell Behaviour
Dr Stella Laletas | How High-conflict Divorce Can Impact Children: Understanding the Perspective of Teachers
Professor Samantha Punch | Benefits of Bridge: The Partnership Mindsport
Dr Thomas Arciuolo | Dr Miad Faezipour – Yellowstone Caldera Supervolcano
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The global climate crisis poses a major threat to human civilisation. The combustion of fossil fuels to generate energy is the primary cause of this crisis, due to the greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere. At the same time, the Earth faces another great crisis. Underneath Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, USA, lies one of Earth’s most powerful volcanoes, which has the potential for an eruption that would be catastrophic to the entire world. Researchers Dr Thomas Arciuolo and Dr Miad Faezipour propose a solution to both of these problems, by harnessing the mighty energy reserve within the Yellowstone Supervolcano to generate clean, emission-free power – turning the Yellowstone curse into an immense blessing.
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Summary of the paper ‘Yellowstone Caldera Volcanic Power Generation Facility: A new engineering approach for harvesting emission-free green volcanic energy on a national scale’, in Renewable Energy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2022.08.063
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Taher Saif | Dr Andrew Holle – Mechanobiology – Exploring the Mechanics of Cell Behaviour
Dr Stella Laletas | How High-conflict Divorce Can Impact Children: Understanding the Perspective of Teachers
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Dr Doug Brugge | The Community Assessment of Freeway Exposure and Health Studies: Minimising Exposure to Traffic-related Air Pollution
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Dr Doug Brugge at the University of Connecticut, USA, leads a group of researchers and community partners dedicated to improving the health of people living in cities and traffic-heavy areas by studying local traffic pollution.
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Taher Saif | Dr Andrew Holle – Mechanobiology – Exploring the Mechanics of Cell Behaviour
Dr Stella Laletas | How High-conflict Divorce Can Impact Children: Understanding the Perspective of Teachers
Professor Samantha Punch | Benefits of Bridge: The Partnership Mindsport
Professor Michael Bukrinsky | Human Immunodeficiency Virus Co-morbidities: How Lipid Homeostasis Alterations Lead to Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
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Professor Michael Bukrinsky at George Washington University in Washington DC is working with scientists across the globe to elucidate the molecular mechanisms behind the comorbidities associated with human immunodeficiency virus so that they can be targeted with therapies.
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Professor Samantha Punch | Benefits of Bridge: The Partnership Mindsport
Dr Susmita Bose | 3D Printed Bone-like Materials for Delivering Natural Medicine
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Some of the greatest advances in medical history have revolved around the creation of new materials that can replace damaged tissues in the body. Today, many researchers focus on creating materials that can replace damaged bone tissue, which often cannot heal naturally. Dr Susmita Bose and her team at Washington State University have been researching ways to engineer exciting new materials that mimic the structure of natural bone, allowing us to live happier, healthier, and longer lives.
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Dr Robert L. Walsh | Propaganda and Mass Deception Depend Upon the Tribal Mind
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Propaganda is the systemic use of language with the intent to brainwash rather than to persuade. It has the subtle but pervasive power to ensnare an entire populace toward a predetermined attitude or outlook. Deceptive communication is now commonplace in this information age. Dr Robert L. Walsh recently examined how propagandists bend language for mass deception. He argued that what makes propaganda so insidious is a vestige of our prehistoric past – the Neolithic or Tribal mind.
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This SciPod is a summary of the paper ‘An Inquisition for Propaganda and Mass Deception: Deposing the Neolithic Mind’, in Frontiers in Communication, 2021. doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.636292
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Professor Jeremy Maurer | Building a seismic timeline of the Nippes earthquake
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Dr Alan Litchfield | Jeff Herbert – ReSOLV: Preventing Software Piracy with Cryptocurrency Blockchain Technology
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Software piracy is a large and growing problem. The methods used to combat it are becoming increasingly complex as technology evolves, costing software publishers and users billions of dollars each year. Dr Alan Litchfield from the Auckland University of Technology and Jeff Herbert from Cybercraft, New Zealand, have developed a new method to suppress software piracy. In a recent paper, they present ReSOLV – a method for software validation based on cryptocurrency blockchain technology.
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This SciPod is a summary of the paper ‘ReSOLV: Applying Cryptocurrency Blockchain Methods to Enable Global Cross-Platform Software Validation’. doi.org/10.3390/cryptography2020010
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Dr Thomas Arciuolo | Dr Miad Faezipour – Yellowstone Caldera Supervolcano – A Solution to the Climate and Energy Crisis
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The global climate crisis poses a major threat to human civilisation. The combustion of fossil fuels to generate energy is the primary cause of this crisis, due to the greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere. At the same time, the Earth faces another great crisis. Underneath Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, USA, lies one of Earth’s most powerful volcanoes, which has the potential for an eruption that would be catastrophic to the entire world. Researchers Dr Thomas Arciuolo and Dr Miad Faezipour propose a solution to both of these problems, by harnessing the mighty energy reserve within the Yellowstone Supervolcano to generate clean, emission-free power – turning the Yellowstone curse into an immense blessing.
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Summary of the paper ‘Yellowstone Caldera Volcanic Power Generation Facility: A new engineering approach for harvesting emission-free green volcanic energy on a national scale’, in Renewable Energy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2022.08.063
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Dr Matthew Hoare | Dr Peter Campbell – Understanding Gene Mutations in Chronic Liver Disease
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Liver disease is reported to be the third largest cause of premature death in the UK, with 75% of patients being diagnosed too late for any meaningful intervention. Dr Matthew Hoare from the University of Cambridge, and Dr Peter Campbell from the Sanger Institute, lead a team conducting research into the genome changes associated with chronic liver disease to help understand the cause and consequence of these changes.
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This SciPod is a summary of the papers ‘Somatic mutations and clonal dynamics in healthy and cirrhotic human liver’, and ‘Convergent somatic mutations in metabolism genes in chronic liver disease’ both published in Nature. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1670-9 and DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03974-6
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Professor Paige Lacy | Deciphering Novel Cytokine Secretion Mechanisms
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Following exposure to injury or infection, the body elicits a counteractive immune response which involves many different cell types and processes. Cytokines are substances secreted by cells which play a pivotal role in the regulation of this response. Professor Paige Lacy and colleagues in the Department of Medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, have conducted extensive research into the exact mechanisms underpinning the regulation of cytokine release during the immune response with a particular focus on airway inflammatory disorders.
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Dr Ilida Ortega Asencio | Template-driven Electrospinning: A Smart Manufacturing Approach to Treating Skin Injuries
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Human skin acts as an important line of defence against the external environment. To preserve this important function, the regeneration of injured skin is critical. Scientists are now able to artificially replicate aspects of the complex microenvironment in which human skin stem cells reside thanks to the technological advances in the field of biomaterial devices. Dr Ilida Ortega Asencio, from the University of Sheffield, UK, and her team have developed a new approach in which electrospun patches with defined microenvironments can be functionalised with key compounds to aid the formation of new blood vessels in injured skin.
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This SciPod is a summary of the paper ‘Delivery of Bioactive Compounds to Improve Skin Cell Responses on Microfabricated Electrospun Microenvironments’, from the journal Bioengineering. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering8080105
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Dr Dipak Panigrahy | Chemotherapy- and Carcinogen-induced Cell Debris Initiates Cancer Recurrence
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Chemotherapy, one of the mainstays of cancer treatment, can unfortunately act as a double-edged sword. While achieving the intended aim of killing cancerous cells, it also generates an accumulation of cell debris, which in turn, promotes tumour growth by stimulating inflammation in the tumour microenvironment. Dr Dipak Panigrahy and his colleagues from Harvard Medical School, USA, have conducted several studies in mice showing that targeting the tumour cell debris-mediated surge of proinflammatory and protumourigenic factors provides a strategy for enhancing the efficacy of chemotherapy.
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Toria Herd | Understanding How Adolescents Respond to Trauma
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This SciPod is a summary of the paper ‘Individual and Social Risk and Protective Factors as Predictors of Trajectories of Post-traumatic Stress Symptoms in Adolescents’, published in Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-022-00960-y
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Dr Kristin Parent | Bacteriophage Hunting: Searching for the Tiny Viruses That Kill Harmful Bacteria
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Shigellosis is an infection of the Shigella bacteria with over 164 million cases each year leading to 1.1 million deaths. The ever-increasing antibiotic resistance of the bacteria means we need alternatives or supplements to existing antibiotics. Dr Kristin Parent from Michigan State University is working on exciting, collaborative projects hunting for bacteriophages to be used in novel therapeutics.
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Professor Manoj Sharma | The Multi-theory Model (MTM) of Health Behavior Change: Understanding the Determinants of Breast Cancer Screening
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The multi-theory model (MTM) of health behavior change provides a theoretical framework for understanding and promoting health behaviors. Professor Manoj Sharma from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, the originator of this model, has applied this model to breast cancer and undertaking mammography screening in women from groups underserved in current healthcare. His findings have important theoretical and practical implications.
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This SciPod is a summary of the paper ‘Using the Multi-Theory Model (MTM) of Health Behavior Change to Explain the Correlates of Mammography Screening among Asian American Women’, published in Pharmacy, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy9030126
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‘A multi-theory model based analysis of correlates for initiating and sustaining mammography screening behavior among Hispanic American women in the United States’ published in Health Promotion Perspectives, DOI: https://doi.org/10.34172/hpp.2022.14
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Yuki Fuseya | Exploring Turing Patterns at Atomic Levels
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Patterns can be found across the entire natural world – from the spots on a leopard’s coat to stripes in mineral deposits deep underground. Such motifs are better known as Turing patterns – named after the famous mathematician and codebreaker, Alan Turing, who proposed the theory behind them. Turing patterns are often found on large scales, but they become much rarer at smaller scales, with very few known examples at microscopic and atomic scales. Aharon Kapitulnik and Yuki Fuseya have revealed a new atomic-scale Turing pattern, which arises in an atom-thick layer of bismuth atoms.
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This video is a summary of the paper ‘Nanoscale Turing patterns in a bismuth monolayer’, in Nature Physics. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-021-01288-y
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Sarah Leighton | Can Psychiatric Assistance Dogs Help Military Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder?
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Psychiatric assistance dogs trained to help with mental health symptoms have become increasingly popular as a complementary intervention for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Sarah Leighton and her colleagues from Purdue University and the University of Arizona in the USA are exploring the effectiveness of psychiatric assistance dog partnerships for military veterans with PTSD.
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Dr Martín Medina-Elizalde | Collapse of the Ancient Maya Civilisation: Aligning History with Geological Analysis
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Between 800 and 1000 CE, one of the world’s most advanced ancient civilisations underwent a devastating decline. The collapse of ancient Maya society has widely been attributed to a century-long drought; but so far, there have been few efforts to quantify this event, or to equate scientific findings with historical sources. Through new geological and paleoclimatological analyses, Dr Martín Medina-Elizalde at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst has revealed that the climate changes experienced during the drought followed more complex patterns than previously thought. His team’s discoveries could have important implications for predicting our own society’s future.
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Krti Tallam | The Importance of Estuaries for Predicting Climate Change Impacts in the Oceans
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Climate change is threatening the world’s marine ecosystems in myriad ways, due to rising temperatures, ocean acidification, and sea-level rise. Another often-overlooked effect is that warmer temperatures and changing weather patterns can alter the transmission of many marine parasites and infectious diseases. Such diseases don’t just impact their host populations, as cascading effects can disrupt entire ocean food webs. Krti Tallam at Stanford University studies the evolution of marine parasites and diseases, along with the broader implications for marine ecology. In a recent review paper, Tallam focuses on critically important ecosystems within intertidal zones.
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This video is a summary of review ‘Assessing intertidal parasite dynamics in the Anthropecene’.
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Professor Rafael Ravina-Ripoll – Achieving Sustainable Competitive Advantage in Organisations: Happiness Management
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Sustainable Development Goal 12 refers to responsible production and consumption. Professor Rafael Ravina-Ripoll at the University of Cádiz in Spain and his colleagues (Luis Bayardo Tobar-Pesantez, Estela Núñez-Barriopedro and David Almorza-Gomar) have addressed a lack of research and understanding in the literature about how management models based on happiness management can help promote sustainable and ethical development in the COVID-19 era.
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This SciPod is a summary of the paper ‘Happiness Management: A Culture to Explore From Brand Orientation as a Sign of Responsible and Sustainable Production’, published in the open access journal Frontiers in Psychology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.727845
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Overcoming Challenges and Defining Successful Strategies: Setting up a Vital Biorepository in Sub-Saharan Africa
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This SciPod is a summary of the paper ‘PRECISE pregnancy cohort: challenges and strategies in setting up a biorepository in sub-Saharan Africa’, from Reproductive Health. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-020-0874-7.
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This SciPod is a summary of the paper ‘A protocol for retrospective translational science case studies of health interventions’, from the Journal of Clinical and Translational Science. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cts.2020.514.
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Professor Derrick Robinson | Using Intrabodies to Induce Cell Death in Trypanosome Parasites
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Trypanosomes are single-celled parasites that cause life-threatening diseases in humans, domestic livestock and wild animals. In sub-Saharan Africa, infection with a species called Trypanosoma brucei or T.brucei causes African sleeping sickness, which results in organ failure and eventually fatal coma if left untreated. There are limited diagnostic tests and treatments available and much of trypanosome biology remains undiscovered.
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This video is a summary of ‘Intrabody-Induced Cell Death by Targeting the T. brucei Cytoskeletal Protein TbBILBO1’ published in the journal Microbiology Spectrum. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/Spectrum.00915-21
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