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Artificial Intelligence-Empowered Modern Electric Vehicles in Smart Grid Systems: Chapter 17 - Environmental sustainability and carbon footprint reduction through artificial intelligence-enabled energy management in electric vehicles

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Artificial Intelligence-Empowered Modern Electric Vehicles in Smart Grid Systems: Fundamentals, Technologies, and Solutions, 2024, pp 477-502
This chapter advances the UN SDG goals 9 and 11 by exploring the potential of AI tools to promote sustainable transportation in electric vehicles.
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Data & Analytics; Sustainable transport, Global

Regulatory T Cells and Autoimmune Diseases - Chapter 19: Role of regulatory T cells in the pathogenesis and therapeutics of autoimmune hepatitis

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Regulatory T Cells and Autoimmune Diseases, 2024, Pages 407-432

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health provides understanding the mechanisms involved in AIH pathogenesis controlling hepatitic inflammation.

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Academic Spotlight: Inspirational Words from Aspiring Female Robotics Engineers

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We’re passionate about helping students learn more about STEM, and through our academic program we give students the opportunity to collaborate on STEM-related projects involving innovative technologies like data analytics, robotics and AI. Since 2011, we have partnered with a number of universities to sponsor research projects, internships, robotics teams, scholarships, and other educational programs that provide students with access to hands-on learning and real-world engineering experience.
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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

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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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International Day for Biological Diversity 2024

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The International Day for Biodiversity (IDB) is celebrated every year on 22 May to raise awareness of the importance and value of biodiversity and to increase understanding of biodiversity issues. The theme of IDB 2024, “Be part of the Plan”, is a call to action for all stakeholders to halt and reverse the loss of biodiversity by supporting the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, or the “The Biodiversity Plan”. To mark International Day for Biodiversity, Elsevier has curated a special collection of journal articles and book chapters exploring .
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Climate Change Psychology

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How society and people respond, and adapt to climate change is a psychological process.  Within this collection are papers that explore these different psychological responses from how this influences people's behaviour from action to anxiety and more.

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Climate Change; Climate Resilience, Global

Bioreactor Design Concepts for Viral Vaccine Production - Chapter 16: Bioreactor for hepatitis C virus vaccine

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Bioreactor Design Concepts for Viral Vaccine Production: Progress in Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 2024, Pages 297-310

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health The chapter provides information on a cost-effective and easy way to produce the vaccine grade HCV.

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The Heat Is On: Protecting Workers From Heat-Related Illness in a Warming Climate

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As record-breaking temperatures are steadily becoming the norm nationwide, employers have a unique position and obligation to ensure they keep their employees safe and healthy in the extreme heat. This article supports SDGs 3, 8 and 13.
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air pollution; Climate Change; Global Health; Global Warming, Global

Effects of antidiabetic agents on platelet characteristics with implications in Alzheimer's disease: Mendelian randomization and colocalization study

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Heliyon, Volume 10, 30 May 2024
This study aimed to assess the correlation between antidiabetic agents and platelet characteristics, hoping to provide a potential mechanism of TZDs neuroprotection in AD
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Alzheimer's Disease-associated Region-specific Decrease of Vesicular Glutamate Transporter Immunoreactivity in the Medial Temporal Lobe and Superior Temporal Gyrus

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Neuroscience, Volume 546, 14 May 2024
This study investigated VGLUT1 and VGLUT2 expression in the medial temporal lobe and superior temporal gyrus in Alzheimer's disease (AD). The findings reveal region-specific vulnerabilities, with significantly lower VGLUT1 in the dentate gyrus and VGLUT2 in the subiculum and superior temporal gyrus, suggesting potential therapeutic targets that require further exploration.
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