A Pay-It-Forward Approach to Improve Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Testing Uptake Among Female Sex Workers in China: Venue-Based Superiority Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial by Weiming Tang, Yewei Xie, Mingzhou Xiong, Dan Wu, Jason J Ong, Teodora Elvira Wi, Bin Yang, Joseph D Tucker, Cheng Wang

“…However, testing cost, stigma, and lack of access prevent FSWs in low- and middle-income countries from receiving chlamydia and gonorrhea testing. A social innovation to address these problems is “pay it forward,” where an individual receives a gift (free testing) and then asks whether they would like to give a gift to another person in the community. …”
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Effects of a Mental Health Intervention in Athletes: Applying Self-Determination Theory by Stephen Shannon, Stephen Shannon, Donncha Hanna, Donncha Hanna, Tandy Haughey, Gerard Leavey, Conor McGeown, Gavin Breslin, Gavin Breslin

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The association between inhaled corticosteroid and the risks of SARS-COV-2 infection: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Chao-Hsien Chen, Ching-Yi Chen, Chih-Cheng Lai, Ya-Hui Wang, Kuang-Hung Chen, Cheng-Yi Wang, Yu-Feng Wei, Pin-Kuei Fu

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Selection homophily and peer influence for adolescents’ smoking and vaping norms and outcomes in high and middle-income settings by Jennifer M. Murray, Sharon C. Sánchez-Franco, Olga L. Sarmiento, Erik O. Kimbrough, Christopher Tate, Shannon C. Montgomery, Rajnish Kumar, Laura Dunne, Abhijit Ramalingam, Erin L. Krupka, Felipe Montes, Huiyu Zhou, Laurence Moore, Linda Bauld, Blanca Llorente, Frank Kee, Ruth F. Hunter

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Status and physiological significance of circulating adiponectin in the very old and centenarians: an observational study by Takashi Sasaki, Yoshinori Nishimoto, Takumi Hirata, Yukiko Abe, Nobuyoshi Hirose, Michiyo Takayama, Toru Takebayashi, Hideyuki Okano, Yasumichi Arai

“…Funding: This study was supported by grants from the Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Labour for the Scientific Research Projects for Longevity; a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (No 21590775, 24590898, 15KT0009, 18H03055, 20K20409, 20K07792, 23H03337) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; Keio University Global Research Institute (KGRI), Kanagawa Institute of Industrial Science and Technology (KISTEC), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) Research Complex Program "Tonomachi Research Complex" Wellbeing Research Campus: Creating new values through technological and social innovation (JP15667051), the Program for an Integrated Database of Clinical and Genomic Information from the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (No. 16kk0205009h001, 17jm0210051h0001, 19dk0207045h0001); the medical-welfare-food-agriculture collaborative consortium project from the Japan Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries; and the Biobank Japan Program from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, and Technology…”
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大學藝術與設計專業課程融入社會實踐之探究──以地方文化加值設計為例 Integrating Social Practice Into the Specialty Program of Art and Design in Universities: An Example of a Value-Added Concept for the Local Cultur... by 廖敦如 Tun-Ju Liao

“…The following results were obtained: (1) Programs based on practice and local culture develop students’ abilities related to cultural discovery, technological application, social innovation, and group care. (2) Programs based on social practice should stress planning, the learning community, and teachers and learners.…”
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FAIR Metadata Standards for Low Carbon Energy Research—A Review of Practices and How to Advance by August Wierling, Valeria Jana Schwanitz, Sebnem Altinci, Maria Bałazińska, Michael J. Barber, Mehmet Efe Biresselioglu, Christopher Burger-Scheidlin, Massimo Celino, Muhittin Hakan Demir, Richard Dennis, Nicolas Dintzner, Adel el Gammal, Carlos M. Fernández-Peruchena, Winston Gilcrease, Paweł Gładysz, Carsten Hoyer-Klick, Kevin Joshi, Mariusz Kruczek, David Lacroix, Małgorzata Markowska, Rafael Mayo-García, Robbie Morrison, Manfred Paier, Giuseppe Peronato, Mahendranath Ramakrishnan, Janeita Reid, Alessandro Sciullo, Berfu Solak, Demet Suna, Wolfgang Süß, Astrid Unger, Maria Luisa Fernandez Vanoni, Nikola Vasiljevic

“…The potential for industrial and social innovation is vast. Domain-specific metadata standards are crucial in this context, but are widely missing in the energy sector. …”
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Food environment intervention improves food knowledge, wellbeing and dietary habits in primary school children: Project Daire, a randomised-controlled, factorial design cluster tri... by Sarah F. Brennan, Fiona Lavelle, Sarah E. Moore, Moira Dean, Michelle C. McKinley, Patrick McCole, Ruth F. Hunter, Laura Dunne, Niamh E. O’Connell, Chris R. Cardwell, Chris T. Elliott, Danielle McCarthy, Jayne V. Woodside

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Los nuevos roles en entornos educativos extendidos en Red. La experiencia de diseño de un entorno virtual de aprendizaje colaborativo orientado al desarrollo de proyectos colectivo... by Fernando Osuna-Perez, Francisco Javier Abarca-Alvarez

“…</span></strong></em></p><p>Higher Education is currently facing some fundamental challenges such as the need for a new paradigm in the distribution and access to knowledge, empowering a rapprochement between academic and professional training, as well as promoting social innovation which spontaneously occurs in society. …”
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Reviews by Francesca Giglio

“…Monsù Scolaro highlights the interdisciplinarity as a factor of social innovation with respect to these issues, noting how the points of connection between the two terms represent the new trajectories that describe the dynamic concepts between cities of the future and quality of life. …”
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U-CHANGE Project: a multidimensional consensus on how clinicians, patients and caregivers may approach together the new urothelial cancer scenario by Sergio Bracarda, Roberto Iacovelli, Valentina Baldazzi, Paolo Andrea Zucali, Paolo Andrea Zucali, Angela Gernone, Giario Natale Conti, Giovanni Pappagallo, Matteo Brunelli, Paolo Bruzzi, Edoardo Fiorini, Laura Magenta, Francesco Diomede, Federico Mereta, Irma D’Aria, Danilo Magliano, Monica Liberatori, Daniela Cantù, Davide Croce, Simone Eandi, Giorgio Lorenzo Colombo, Fulvio Ferrante, Emanuela Omodeo Salè, Andrea Marinozzi, Daniele Lenzi, Francesca Remiddi, Stefano Remiddi

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MECHANISMS Study: Using Game Theory to Assess the Effects of Social Norms and Social Networks on Adolescent Smoking in Schools—Study Protocol by Ruth F. Hunter, Felipe Montes, Jennifer M. Murray, Sharon C. Sanchez-Franco, Shannon C. Montgomery, Joaquín Jaramillo, Christopher Tate, Rajnish Kumar, Laura Dunne, Abhijit Ramalingam, Erik O. Kimbrough, Erin Krupka, Huiyu Zhou, Laurence Moore, Linda Bauld, Blanca Llorente, Olga L. Sarmiento, Frank Kee

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Transforming European Water Governance? Participation and River Basin Management under the EU Water Framework Directive in 13 Member States by Nicolas W. Jager, Edward Challies, Elisa Kochskämper, Jens Newig, David Benson, Kirsty Blackstock, Kevin Collins, Anna Ernst, Mariele Evers, Judith Feichtinger, Oliver Fritsch, Geoffrey Gooch, Wiebke Grund, Beatrice Hedelin, Nuria Hernández-Mora, Frank Hüesker, Dave Huitema, Kenneth Irvine, Andreas Klinke, Leonie Lange, Delphine Loupsans, Mark Lubell, Carmen Maganda, Piotr Matczak, Marc Parés, Heli Saarikoski, Lenka Slavíková, Sonja van der Arend, Yorck von Korff

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Targeted single-cell gene induction by optimizing the dually regulated CRE/loxP system by a newly defined heat-shock promoter and the steroid hormone in Arabidopsis thaliana by Takumi Tomoi, Takumi Tomoi, Takumi Tomoi, Toshiaki Tameshige, Toshiaki Tameshige, Eriko Betsuyaku, Saki Hamada, Joe Sakamoto, Joe Sakamoto, Naoyuki Uchida, Naoyuki Uchida, Keiko U. Torii, Keiko U. Torii, Kentaro K. Shimizu, Kentaro K. Shimizu, Yosuke Tamada, Yosuke Tamada, Yosuke Tamada, Hiroko Urawa, Hiroko Urawa, Kiyotaka Okada, Kiyotaka Okada, Hiroo Fukuda, Hiroo Fukuda, Kiyoshi Tatematsu, Kiyoshi Tatematsu, Yasuhiro Kamei, Yasuhiro Kamei, Yasuhiro Kamei, Yasuhiro Kamei, Shigeyuki Betsuyaku

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WOmen's Action for Mums and Bubs (WOMB) Trial Protocol: A Non-randomized Stepped Wedge Implementation Trial of Participatory Women's Groups to Improve the Health of Aboriginal and... by Karen Carlisle, Karen Carlisle, Karen Carlisle, Catrina Felton-Busch, Catrina Felton-Busch, Catrina Felton-Busch, Yvonne Cadet-James, Yvonne Cadet-James, Yvonne Cadet-James, Judy Taylor, Judy Taylor, Judy Taylor, Ross Bailie, Jane Farmer, Megan Passey, Veronica Matthews, Emily Callander, Rebecca Evans, Rebecca Evans, Rebecca Evans, Janet Kelly, Robyn Preston, Michelle Redman-MacLaren, Michelle Redman-MacLaren, Michelle Redman-MacLaren, Haylee Fox, Adrian Esterman, Merrick Zwarenstein, Sarah Larkins, Sarah Larkins, Sarah Larkins

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Understanding the Quality of Interaction of Complexity Leadership and Social Enterprise based on the Complex Science Lens by Zahra Vafaee, Marjan Fayyazi, Mohammad Ali Shah Hoseini

“…Hence, common theoretical grounds besides unique qualities of each construct facilitate generation of further social innovation (Mulgan, 2006), using recombinatory operations (Goldstein et al., 2010). …”
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(Re)constructing public services in the face of neoliberal governance: praxes of associative water systems in Metro Manila’s urban poor communities by Mary Manahan, Erik Villanueva, Joseph Edward Alegado, Yelena Morón-Cara Ortega

“…This section also identifies three challenges around issues of non-participation, power, and outcomes/impacts, underscoring the dangers of fetishizing communities (Cleaver, 2002) as homogenous, idealized forms or sources of social innovation. Divided along the lines of gender and class, women empowerment facilitated by the cooperative through trainings and skills enhancement did not sit well with some men in the communities. …”
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Circular transition: scenarios for the future of design by Mario Losasso

“…Promoting the transition to regenerative cities requires, on the one hand, the development of circular metabolisms and processes gradually replacing conventional and linear ones, and on the other hand, the proposal of low-carbon technical policies and actions, support for social innovation, as well as urban organization in eco-districts where efficient and low-waste products and processes in the field of energy and materials are integrated. …”
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Editorial by Bárbara Amaral da Silva

“…Em “Aplicaciones que emplean y recomendaciones que entregan las y los docentes universitarios para la autorregulación del aprendizaje en contexto de la pandemia por COVID-19”, Valeria Aylín Infante-Villagrán, Bianca Maria Pia Dapelo Pellerano, Rubia Cobo-Rendon, Yaranay López-Ângulo, Bertha Escobar Alaniz e Christian Beyle apresentam um estudo exploratório em que são identificados aplicativos digitais usados e recomendados por professores chilenos para a autorregulação da aprendizagem em ensino virtual, no contexto da pandemia de COVID-19, sendo identificados 27 aplicativos relevantes. Em “Social innovation laboratories for the social construction of knowledge systematic review of literature”, José-Antonio Yañez-Figueroa, María-Soledad Ramírez-Montoya e Francisco-José García-Peñalvo identificam os estudos mais relevantes sobre a construção social do conhecimento ligada a problemas ambientais e propõem soluções para a sustentabilidade. …”
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PRESENTACIÓN - PRESENTATION by Ana María Córdoba

“…Second, an article by professors: Carlos Andrés Córdoba Cely, Francisco Javier Villamarín Martínez and Harold Bonilla, addresses the topic concerning theoretical basis for social innovation from a sociological perspective. They suggest a multidisciplinary model about formulation of entrepreneurship, based on sociological conceptual basis. …”
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