Articles

Elsevier,

iScience, Volume 28, 15 August 2025

This perspective highlights strategies for modeling salt tolerance mechanisms, including root system architecture adaptation, salt filtration, adaptation of plant hydraulics, ion compartmentalization, and stomatal responses, to improve model representation and prediction.
Elsevier,

Food Policy, Volume 135, August 2025

Low-income citizens show the highest support for food labeling and educational campaigns, viewing them as effective and less intrusive, while taxation and checkout prompts are least accepted due to perceived invasiveness. Policy support is strongly influenced by perceived effectiveness, intrusiveness, and individuals’ existing behaviors, suggesting tailored approaches are needed to improve acceptance and impact.
Elsevier, Environmental Science and Policy, Volume 170, August 2025
This article offers a comprehensive review of how climate policies in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) interact with all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a particular focus on SDG13 (Climate Action). It identifies a significant research gap, showing that only 5% of relevant studies focus on LDCs, and emphasizes the need for more inclusive, context-specific data and policy analysis. The authors propose a holistic resilience framework, combining infrastructural, institutional, and informational dimensions, to guide future climate policy that supports sustainable development across all SDGs.
Elsevier, Energy Research and Social Science, Volume 126, August 2025
The paper critically examines the assumption that access to electricity (SDG 7) inherently promotes gender equality (SDG 5). It finds that the gendered impacts of electricity access vary widely—sometimes empowering women, but other times reinforcing existing inequalities. To better understand these dynamics, the authors develop a new theoretical framework that merges: Gender Studies insights on gender as performative, intersectional, and shaped by power relations. Social Practice Theory, which explores how electricity gains meaning through its role in everyday practices. This framework is applied to case studies in rural Guatemala (patriarchal) and rural Colombia (matrilineal), revealing how cultural context shapes outcomes. The paper also introduces an 8-step methodology for applying this framework in practice. Ultimately, the study offers tools for designing context-sensitive energy policies that are more likely to advance gender equality.
Elsevier, The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia, Volume 39, August 2025
This study investigates the association between polluting cooking technology use, and domain-wise cognitive functions in an rural aging cohort in South India, which includes insights from structural brain MRI. These findings substantiate the results of previous studies, noting diminished global cognition and visuospatial function among polluting cooking technology users.
Elsevier,

Cell Biomaterials, Available online 6 August 2025, 100158

Ceria nanoclusters, with their ultra-small particle size and and targeted peptides, provides substantial penetration of the blood drain barrier for rapid and susptained relief from neuroinflammation.

Elsevier,

Evaluation and Program Planning, Volume 111, August 2025

Given the climate crisis, all sectors must make choices that serve people and planet well into the future. The establishment of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 shifted the global debates on these issues particularly recognizing that sustainability as a critical lens must be applied not only by public and not-for-profit sectors, but also by philanthropy and private sector.

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The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Volume 122, Issue 2, August 2025, Pages 582-592

The article underscores the vital role of traditional country foods in supporting the health of Nunavik Inuit, as these foods are primary sources of important antioxidants like ergothioneine and selenoneine. The markedly higher levels of these compounds among Nunavimmiut�especially among women, elders, and frequent country food consumers�demonstrate the nutritional and cultural significance of maintaining access to wild foods. The findings advocate for the protection and promotion of traditional food systems to preserve both health benefits and Indigenous food sovereignty, while also calling for further research into the health impacts of these unique dietary antioxidants in Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations alike.

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Asian Journal of Psychiatry, Volume 111, September 2025, 104632

This study demonstrates that deep learning models, especially Graph Convolutional Networks can effectively and accurately differentiate healthy individuals from those with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease, supporting early diagnosis of cognitive decline.

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IJID One Health, Volume 8, September 2025, 100078

The article highlights the importance of tailoring interventions to local cultural contexts and engaging with indigenous communities to ensure the feasibility and sustainability of Echinococcus control efforts.

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