Research

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Heliyon, Volume 10, 15 April 2024

This study aims to develop novel prognostic models based on the dynamic changes in variables to predict the short-term mortality of HBV-associated ACLF (HBV-ACL)
Elsevier,

eClinicalMedicine, Volume 70, April 2024

This Article supports SDG 3 by arguing that people under community correction supervision (probation or parole) are a large population of individuals at risk of viral hepatitis, to whom little attention has thus far been paid. Targeting hepatitis testing and treatment services at this population would be feasible and effective in reducing hepatitis incidence.
Elsevier

World Health Day is a global health awareness day celebrated every year on 7 April.  This year’s theme "'My health, my right’ was chosen to champion the right of everyone, everywhere to have access to quality health services, education, and information, as well as safe drinking water, clean air, good nutrition, quality housing, decent working and environmental conditions, and freedom from discrimination. 

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Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 201, April 2024

The study forecasts AI-based innovation's impact on SDGs in 22 countries from 2022 to 2030 using System Dynamics Modeling. In most of the 22 countries studied, AI-based innovation positively affects SDGs 1, 3, and 5. For half of the countries studied, AI-based innovation positively influences SDGs 2, 4, 6–8, 11, 13, and 16–17. AI-based innovation does not positively influence SDGs 10, 12, 14–15 for most countries studied.
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Risk Assessment and Management for Ships and Offshore Structures, 2024, pages 163-178

This chapter aligns with Goals 9 and 14 by studying the risk-based assessment methods associated with health, safety, and environmental protection of engineering structures and infrastructure, discussing how to prevent and mitigate oil and gas leaks, fires, explosions, and more.
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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, Volume 73, March 2024

This research provides an ethnographic review of hunter-gatherers' profound relationships with trees, today and into the deep past. In the modern west we sometimes ignore our profound human relationship with trees.
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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, Volume 73, March 2024

The research highlights how, for Indigenous people across the globe, being connected to traditional lands and histories continues to be of paramount importance. To document this connection on one river system in the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America, the researchers have compiled archaeological evidence from 14 settlements occupied between 3,000 years ago and the early 20th century.
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Dynamic Aquaria, Fourth Edition: Building and Restoring Ecosystems and the Biosphere, 2024, pp 167-180

This chapter advances the UN SDG goals 13 and 14 by reviewing how to calculate species count in a high-veracity ecosystem model for use in climate resilience and aquatic conservation settings.
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Advanced Vaccination Technologies for Infectious and Chronic Diseases: A Guide to Vaccinology, Developments in Immunology, 2024, Pages 51-62

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health. Presents the successful influenza vaccines (using hemagglutinin and neuraminidase proteins), hepatitis B surface antigen vaccine, and the human papillomavirus vaccines targeting viral capsid proteins.

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