Adherence to the Mediterranean diet and depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms in Chilean university students: a cross-sectional study by Gladys Morales, Teresa Balboa-Castillo, Rubén Fernández-Rodríguez, Miriam Garrido-Miguel, Camilo Molino Guidoni, Rafaela Sirtoli, Arthur Eumann Mesas, Renne Rodrigues

“…Adherence to Mediterranean diet and consumption of fruits, vegetables, nuts, avocado, fish, and seafood are associated with a lower likelihood of depression in Chilean university students. New policies and educational strategies are recommended to improve diet quality and the mental health of the entire university community.…”
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Assessing Efficiency and Environmental Performance of a Nearly Zero-Energy University Building’s Energy System in Norway by Fredrik Ege Abrahamsen, Sturla Grina Ruud, Alemayehu Gebremedhin

“…Increasing awareness of climate issues in recent decades has led to new policies on buildings’ energy consumption and energy performance. …”
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The impact of intensive farming systems on groundwater availability in dryland environments: A watershed level study from Telangana, India by Bhavana Rao Kuchimanchi, Raimon Ripoll-Bosch, Fokje A. Steenstra, Renie Thomas, Simon J. Oosting

“…We, therefore, conclude that there is a need to promote agro-ecologically suitable farming strategies, improve the existing technological options and introduce new policies that reduce the over-use of water resources for sustainable agricultural production in dryland regions.…”
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Atmospheric verification of emissions reductions on paths to deep decarbonization by Ahmed Abdulla, Fabian JE Telschow, Julia Dohner, Ralph F Keeling, Armin Schwartzman, David G Victor

“…These scenarios are descriptive of ‘baseline’ trajectories of emissions trends in the absence of new policies along with trajectories that reflect substantial policy efforts to stop warming at 1.5 °C–2 °C above pre-industrial levels, as embodied in the Paris Agreement. …”
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Female Firefighter Work-Related Injuries in the United States and Canada: An Overview of Survey Responses by Samantha Pawer, Kate Turcotte, Ediriweera Desapriya, Alex Zheng, Amanat Purewal, Alyssa Wellar, Kenneth Kunz, Len Garis, Len Garis, Larry S. Thomas, Ian Pike, Ian Pike

“…Among respondents who reported an injury-related time loss claim, 69% were wearing protective equipment when injured, and 9% of the injuries directly resulted in new policy implementation.ConclusionsThese findings can help inform resource allocation, and development of new policies and safety protocols, to reduce the number of work-related injuries among female firefighters.…”
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Overseeing health care facilities in Shanghai, China: regulatory regime, activities and challenges of the governmental regulatory system by Yizhong Zhou, Zechang Lu, Zhifeng Yang, Huidi Li, Yingyao Chen

“…As our study identified significant challenges, including regulatory fragmentation and no risk-based approach used, we offer recommendations to develop new policies and establish new mechanisms for better regulation.…”
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Mental health-related knowledge, attitudes and behaviours in a cross-sectional sample of australian university students: a comparison of domestic and international students by Anthony D. LaMontagne, Clare Shann, Erin Lolicato, Danielle Newton, Patrick J Owen, Adrian J. Tomyn, Nicola J. Reavley

“…Abstract Background There are growing concerns about the mental health of university students in Australia and internationally, with universities, governments and other stakeholders actively developing new policies and practices. Previous research suggests that many students experience poor mental health while at university, and that the risk may be heightened for international students. …”
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Valuation to Foster-up Landscape Preservation. Treasuring New Elements through Landscape Planning by Domenico Enrico Massimo, Mariangela Musolino, Alessandro Malerba

“…This research aims to drown up guidelines and a methodological approach for natural cultural heritage preservation and landscape planning in order to support the setting up and the enforcement of new policies to mitigate paysage destruction and soil consumption. …”
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Socio-Economic Analysis of Wood Charcoal Production as a Significant Output of Forest Bioeconomy in Africa by Isaac Nyarko, Chukwudi Nwaogu, Hájek Miroslav, Prince Opoku Peseu

“…Wood charcoal is an essential livelihood support system. New policies including commercial wood charcoal production and licensing for revenue and ecological sustainability are required. …”
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Existing Policies/Guidelines on the Environmental Dimension of Antimicrobial Resistance in India: An Insight into the Key Facets through Review and SWOT Analysis by Falguni Debnath, Debjit Chakraborty, Sandip Giri, Shatabdi Saha, Soume Pyne, Raja Chakraverty, Agniva Majumdar, Alok Kumar Deb, Vishal Diwan, Rajesh Bhatia, Shanta Dutta

“…Opportunities for policy refinements/the introduction of new policies are ample. However, easy access to antimicrobials and injudicious use imposes threats to AMR containment in all sectors. …”
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Social Hydrological Analysis for Poverty Reduction in Community-Managed Water Resources Systems in Cambodia by Laura Forni, Susan Bresney, Sophia Espinoza, Angela Lavado, Marina RL Mautner, Jenny Yi-Chen Han, Ha Nguyen, Chap Sreyphea, Paula Uniacke, Luis Villarroel, Meloney Lindberg, Bernadette P. Resurrección, Annette Huber-Lee

“…Without adding social considerations into the model, new policies or water infrastructure development suggested by the model could reinforce existing inequalities.…”
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Sustainable cities and institutional change : the transformation of urban stormwater management by Schulman, Alexis

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Public-private partnerships : security and emergency response collaboration in a new threat environment by Disraelly, Deena S. (Deena Sara), 1974-

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New priorities for old roads : re-thinking roadway preservation by Sylvester, Kathleen R. (Kathleen Rynn)

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Design for affordability in defense and aerospace systems using tradespace-based methods by Wu, Marcus Shihong

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Goodbye tracking? Impact of iOS app tracking transparency and privacy labels by Kollnig, K, Shuba, A, Van Kleek, M, Binns, R, Shadbolt, N

“…We find that Apple’s new policies, as promised, prevent the collection of the Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA), an identifier used to facilitate cross-app user tracking. …”

Requirement engineering best practices for Malaysian public sector by Haron, Azlena

“…Although a variety of ICT standards have been developed as a guide for IT Managers, the Malaysian Public Sector is in tandem by developing new policies for them. The need of Requirement Engineering Best Practices for IT Manager is to produce an appropriate Software Requirement Specification. …”
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Public perspectives on inequality and mental health: A peer research study by Vanessa Pinfold, Rose Thompson, Alex Lewington, Gillian Samuel, Sandra Jayacodi, Oliver Jones, Ami Vadgama, Achille Crawford, Laura E. Fischer, Jennifer Dykxhoorn, Judi Kidger, Emily J. Oliver, Fiona Duncan, Members of the SPHR Public Mental Health Programme

“…To improve public mental health, we must address the everyday, painful structural inequalities experienced by many as commonplace and unfair. New policies and strategies must be found that involve communities, redistributing resources and power, building on a collective knowledge base, to coproduce actions combatting inequalities and improving population mental health. …”
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Gender and non-communicable diseases in Mexico: a political mapping and stakeholder analysis by Emanuel Orozco-Núñez, Enai Ojeda-Arroyo, Nadia Cerecer-Ortiz, Carlos M. Guerrero-López, Beatriz M. Ramírez-Pérez, Ileana Heredia-Pi, Betania Allen-Leigh, Emma Feeny, Edson Serván-Mori

“…However, care will be needed to ensure the implementation of new policies has a positive impact on both gender equity and health outcomes. …”
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Healthcare provider perceptions on the implementation of the universal test-and-treat policy in South Africa: a qualitative inquiry by Edward Nicol, Vuyelwa Mehlomakulu, Ngcwalisa Amanda Jama, Mbuzeleni Hlongwa, Wisdom Basera, Desiree Pass, Debbie Bradshaw

“…Conclusion Health system strengthening such as providing more systems’ capacity for expected increase in workload, proper training and retraining of HCPs with new policies in the management of patient readiness for lifelong ART journey, and ensuring availability of medicines, may reduce strain on HCPs, thus improving the delivery of the comprehensive UTT services to PLHIV.…”
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