Articles

Smart regulations in maritime governance: Efficacy, gaps, and stakeholder perspectives

Elsevier,

Marine Pollution Bulletin, Volume 202, May 2024

The paper explores maritime environmental regulations, analyzing industry perspectives and their operational execution.
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SDG:

Goal 13: Climate action

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Capacity-building, Global

Accelerating social tipping points in sustainable behaviors: Insights from a dynamic model of moralized social change

Elsevier,

One Earth, Volume 7, 17 May 2024

This One Earth Commentary discusses how policy makers could accelerate social change towards climate action (SDG 13) in their cities and communities (SDG 11) by reducing early inertia.
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SDG:

Goal 13: Climate action; Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities

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Capacity Building, Global

Prioritising the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples receiving home-based aged care

Elsevier,

First Nations Health and Wellbeing - The Lowitja Journal, Volume 2, 2024, 100021

The authors find that urposefully including insights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural ways of being and doing and a specific focus on the structural drivers of inequity in access, health and social outcomes burdened by this population group may contribute to effectively caring for the additional unique social and emotional wellbeing needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander consumers of aged care.

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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being
Oceania

Prioritising the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples receiving home-based aged care: An exploratory study

Elsevier,

First Nations Health and Wellbeing - The Lowitja Journal, Volume 2, 2024, 10002

The findings contribute to a deeper understanding of the unique social and emotional wellbeing needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples accessing home-based aged care services and have significant implications for current and future aged care reforms in Australia.

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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 1: No poverty; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
Oceania

Situated action, double dialogicality and the sociogenesis of categorizing in institutional practices: Diversity in schooling from vicious children to neuropsychiatric diagnoses

Elsevier,

Language Sciences, Volume 103, May 2024

This research highlights how how diversity is, and has been, defined, explained and enacted in the context of schooling.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities; Goal 4: Quality education

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Health and wellbeing; Education, Europe

The association between disability and all-cause mortality in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Elsevier,

The Lancet Global Health, Volume 12, May 2024

This Article supports SDG 3 by highlighting that people with disabilities have a two-fold higher mortality rate than people without disabilities in LMICs; a better understanding of this relationship is needed to inform public health planning, policy making, and the allocation of health-care resources to promote healthy longevity for all populations worldwide.
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SDG:

Goal 10: Reduced inequalities; Goal 3: Good health and well-being

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Health and wellbeing, Global

Academic Spotlight: Inspirational Words from Aspiring Female Robotics Engineers

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SDG:

Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

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Academia; community outreach; robotics; Gender equality and women's empowerment, Global

Counteracting Alzheimer’s disease via normalizing neurovascular unit with a self-regulated multi-functional nano-modulator

Elsevier,

Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2024, ISSN 2211-3835

The study introduces a nano-modulator that targets the damaged blood-brain barrier in Alzheimer’s disease. This modulator releases therapeutic agents that reduce amyloid-beta load, alleviate neuroinflammation, and restore neurovascular unit function, showing potential for Alzheimer’s treatment.

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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being
Global

The impact of agricultural colonization and deforestation on orchid bees (Apidae: Euglossini) in the Brazilian Amazon

Elsevier,

Biological Conservation, Volume 293, May 2024

This papers shows that deforestation negatively affects orchid bee species diversity and that protected areas house the highest richness and abundance of orchid bees.
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SDG:

Goal 15: Life on land

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Biodiversity and ecosystems, South America

Ecosystem restoration with local or broad seed provenancing: Debates and perceptions in science and practice

Elsevier,

Biological Conservation, Volume 293, May 2024

A perspective piece on ecosystem restoration and seed provenance, highlighting different stakeholders and frameworks and current needs
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SDG:

Goal 15: Life on land

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Biodiversity and ecosystems, Europe

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