Articles

The challenges and opportunities of mental health data sharing in the UK

Elsevier, The Lancet Digital Health, Volume 3, June 2021
A Comment on mental health data, in the context of SDG 3, focusing specifically on sharing of data between data custodians and researchers in the UK.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

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Data & Analytics; Health and population, Europe

Donanemab removes Alzheimer's plaques: what is special about its target?

Elsevier
A Comment on Alzheimer's disease plaques, in the context of SDG 3, focusing specifically on donanemab and its target.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

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Health and population; Health and wellbeing, Global

Correlation between the carbon isotopic composition of planktonic foraminifera-bound organic matter and surface water pCO2 across the equatorial Pacific

Elsevier,

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta,
Volume 306,
2021,
Pages 281-303

The findings support the possibility that FBOM-δ13C can be used as a paleoceanographic proxy for surface water [CO2(aq)] and thus atmospheric pCO2.
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SDG:

Goal 13: Climate action; Goal 14: Life below water

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Oceans & Seas, Pacific

Carbon capture and storage and the sustainable development goals

Elsevier,

International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, Volume 108, June 2021

Carbon capture and storage can help achieve the sustainable development goals. It is a key enabler of goal 13 relating to combating climate change. It also enables provision of affordable energy and decarbonisation of industry. The capturing process has both positive and negative interactions with most sustainability goals.
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SDG:

Goal 13: Climate action
Global

High cerebrospinal amyloid-β 42 is associated with normal cognition in individuals with brain amyloidosis

Elsevier,

EClinicalMedicine, Volume 38, 2021, 100988

This cross-sectional study examined whether levels of soluble Aβ42 are higher in amyloid-positive normal cognition (NC) individuals compared to mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

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Health and wellbeing, Global

The Risk Factors for Child Anemia Are Consistent across 3 National Surveys in Nepal

Elsevier,

Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 5, 1 June 2021

Anemia affects more than half of Nepalese children aged 6–59 months. Although prevalence varies year to year, the stability of observed risk factors suggests the need to focus on reducing gastrointestinal infection, promoting adequate household sanitation, and improving maternal and child health.
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SDG:

Goal 2: Zero hunger; Goal 3: Good health and well-being

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Water and sanitation, Asia

Embodied emissions of buildings - A forgotten factor in green building certificates

Elsevier,

Energy and Buildings, Volume 241, 15 June 2021

The pre-use stage (construction) emissions of buildings occur in a short time. Wooden buildings seem to emit less compared to concrete ones in pre-use stage according to LCA. Green building certificates need to consider embodied emissions more exhaustively.
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SDG:

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

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Sustainable cities and human settlements; Sustainable consumption and production, Global

North-eastern Nigeria: assessing the response capacity of National Emergency Management Agency to the plights of internally displaced persons

Elsevier, Heliyon, Volume 7, June 2021
The plights of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), including hunger, rape, insecurity, and death, have assumed a frightening dimension in North-eastern Nigeria with the sustained intervention of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to ameliorate their sufferings. This paper aimed to assess the response capacity of NEMA to the plights of the IDPs in North-eastern Nigeria.
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SDG:

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

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Health and wellbeing; Human rights, Global

The role of national carbon pricing in phasing out China's coal power

Elsevier, iScience, Volume 24, 25 June 2021
As the country with the world's largest coal power capacity, China is launching a national carbon market. How the carbon pricing may contribute to phasing out China's coal power is a great concern. We collect full-sample data set of China's 4540 operating coal plant units and develop a stochastic Monte-Carlo financial model to assess the financial sustainability of the plant operation. Although China's coal plants have long residual technical lifetime, their operations are close to the break-even state.
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SDG:

Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy; Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities; Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production

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Energy; Sustainable cities and human settlements; Sustainable consumption and production, Asia

City-level vulnerability to temperature-related mortality in the USA and future projections: a geographically clustered meta-regression

Elsevier,

The Lancet Planetary Health, Volume 5, June 2021

Background: Extreme heat exposure can lead to premature death. Climate change is expected to increase the frequency, intensity, and duration of extreme heat events, resulting in many additional heat-related deaths globally, as well as changing the nature of extreme cold events. At the same time, vulnerability to extreme heat has decreased over time, probably due to a combination of physiological, behavioural, infrastructural, and technological adaptations. We aimed to account for these changes in vulnerability and avoid overstated projections for temperature-related mortality.

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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 13: Climate action

Tags:

Health and wellbeing; Regression Analysis, North America

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