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Impacts of road development in sub-Saharan Africa: A call for holistic perspectives in research and policy

Elsevier,

iScience, Volume 28, Issue 2, 21 February 2025, 111913

This Perspective highlights the complex development challenges of road network expansion in sub-Saharan Africa, emphasizing the need for sustainable, evidence-based strategies that balance economic growth with environmental preservation through community engagement and transdisciplinary approaches.

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SDG:

Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure; Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities; Goal 15: Life on land

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Green economy; Biodiversity and ecosystems; Desertification and land degradation, Africa

Evaluating Pelvic Floor Disorder Care Among Racially Minoritized Women: A Focus Group Analysis

Elsevier

This study evaluates the barriers to care for minority women with pelvice floor disorders

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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Health and wellbeing, North America

Decoloniality, identity and the third space: The case of students’ experiences of well-being from an indigenous knowledge system university programme in south africa

Elsevier,

International Journal of Educational Research, Volume 130, 2025, 102547

This paper explores the well-being of students in an Indigenous University program at a historically disadvantaged South African university, framing its analysis within decolonial debates in Higher Education.

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SDG:

Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Education, Africa

Differential Privacy in Geotechnical Engineering

Elsevier,

Geodata and AI, Volume 1, September 2024, 100004

This article provides a comprehensive review of differential privacy (DP) and its applications in geotechnical engineering

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SDG:

Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

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Data & Analytics, Global

Process intensification for circular economy

Elsevier,

Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 208, February 2025

The rise of complexity of secondary raw materials makes it essential to focus on the most targeted process driving forces in order to recover valuables from these resources. In this way the application of processing engineering technologies that follow the principles of process intensification are key in circular economy concepts.

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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality
Global

Developing non-invasive molecular markers for early risk assessment of Alzheimer's disease

Elsevier,

Biomarkers in Neuropsychiatry, Volume 12, June 2025, 100120

The article focuses on developing non-invasive blood-based biomarkers for early detection and risk assessment of Alzheimer's disease, highlighting the limitations of current diagnostic methods and the need for affordable, accessible, and robust alternatives. It also explores the connection between Alzheimer's and type 2 diabetes.

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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

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Health and wellbeing, North America

Stepping up: From lab scale to industrial processes

Elsevier,

Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 208, February 2025

"Celebrating Women in Process Intensification. This special issue highlights and celebrates the diversity of career pathways of women in process intensification. This 1-page graphical abstract gives you an overview of key research highlights."
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality

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Diversity and inclusion, Global

Does women empowerment alone influence contraception utilization in Bangladesh perspective? Findings from the 2017–2018 Demographic Health Survey using a structural equation model analysis

Elsevier,

AJOG Global Reports, Volume 5, February 2025

This study implies that greater women empowerment may not always act as a stronger determinant of contraceptive use. Other contributing factors such as age, education and religion should be considered.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality
Global

Effectiveness of quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccination against high-grade cervical lesions by age and doses: a population-based cohort study

Elsevier,

The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, Volume 49, February 2025

Findings support the World Health Organization’s recommendation of using a two-dose or one-dose HPV vaccine regimen in girls and young women. As many countries are switching to one-dose regimen to scale up the coverage of HPV vaccination, these findings based on nationwide Swedish registries and real-life programs provided high-quality evidence to support such policy changes and decision-making for HPV vaccination programs globally.
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SDG:

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

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Health and wellbeing, Europe

Adaptive HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis adherence interventions for young women in Johannesburg, South Africa: a sequential multiple-assignment randomised trial

Elsevier,

The Lancet HIV, Volume 12, February 2025

African young women, a key population in HIV that represent a growing share of people living with HIV worldwide, but adherence to HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) reamains low in this population. Differenciated PrEP-adherence support strategies to avoid HIV acquisition are a fundamental to curve new HIV acquisitions in women.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Gender equality and women's empowerment, Africa

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