Articles

On-scalp printing of personalized electroencephalography e-tattoos

Elsevier, Cell Biomaterials, Volume 1, 25 February 2025
Electroencephalography (EEG) is crucial for diagnosing neurological disorders and facilitating brain-computer interfaces. Traditional EEG setups with wet gels and cumbersome cables are labor intensive, uncomfortable, and degrade over time. Dry, skin-conformable e-tattoos offer a comfortable and user-friendly alternative but struggle with hairy scalps. To tackle this problem, we introduce non-contact digital printing of e-tattoos directly on the hairy scalp. Biocompatible inks are crafted for low-impedance electrodes and high-conductivity interconnects.
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SDG:

Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

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Health and wellbeing, Global

A Systematic Review: The Impact of COVID-19 Policy Flexibilities on SNAP and WIC Programmatic Outcomes

Elsevier, Advances in Nutrition, Volume 16, February 2025
In response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) public health emergency (PHE), the federal government deployed policy flexibilities in food and nutrition assistance programs including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) to meet the needs those experiencing economic hardship. Emergent literature evaluates the impact of these flexibilities on program outcomes.
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SDG:

Goal 2: Zero hunger

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Health and wellbeing, North America

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

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

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

Female versus viral: Understanding the UK gender health inequalities during the Covid-19 pandemic using e-archives

Elsevier,

Social Science and Medicine, Volume 366, February 2025

This transdisciplinary study, through health, feminist, and infrastructural geographical lens, examines how gender health inequalities may have emerged or worsened during Covid-19 in the UK. 
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SDG:

Goal 5: Gender equality
Europe

Rejection of the hijab is not a psychiatric diagnosis

Elsevier,

The Lancet Psychiatry, Volume 12, February 2025

Letter examines the right for women to make decisions that might be unpopular without having their mental health questioned.
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SDG:

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

Gender Gap in Teaching Evaluations and its Effect on Course Enrollments

Elsevier,

Economics of Education Review, Volume 104, February 2025

This paper demonstrates that, even when controlling for specific components of the same evaluation surveys, students tend to give lower overall ratings to female instructors compared to their male counterparts. 
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SDG:

Goal 5: Gender equality
North America

Association between HPV vaccination and cervical screening policy changes and cervical cancer incidence and grade-3 cervical intraepithelial neoplasia incidence in England, 2006–2020: a population-based trends analysis

Elsevier,

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

Women offered vaccination at age 12–13 years have around 80% lower rates of Cervical cancer than they would have had in the absence of a national vaccination programme.
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SDG:

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

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