A syndemic approach to the study of Covid-19-related death: a cohort study using UK Biobank data by de Freitas, DF, Bhui, K, Clesse, C, Zahid, U, Mooney, R, Joury, E, Hayes, RD, Khondoker, M

“…We use syndemic theory to guide the analyses to investigate the impact of social adversity and multiple long-term conditions (MLTC) on Covid-19 mortality.…”

Robustness in stochastic filtering and maximum likelihood estimation for SDEs by Diehl, J, Friz, PK, Mai, H, Oberhauser, H, Riedel, S, Stannat, W

“…The extraction of quantifiable information from such systems has a long history and many aspects. We shall focus here on the perhaps most classical problems in this context: the filtering problem for nonlinear diffusions and the problem of parameter estimation, also for nonlinear and multidimensional diffusions. …”

Sympathetic-neuron-derived neuropeptide Y (NPY) regulates adipose tissue immunometabolic homeostasis by Zhu, Y

“…We show that NPY sustains mural cells, known as a source of beige cells in both BAT and WAT (Long et al., 2014; Shamsi et al., 2021) and that NPY facilitates the differentiation to thermogenic adipocytes. …”

Adams family values: Abigail and Louisa Catherine Adams and the influence of Europe on the 'Republican Courts' of New York, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C. (1789-1829) by Leeper, JL

“…Consequently, the elite actions of the Adams women had a long-lasting impact not only on the reelection outcomes of John Adams and John Quincy Adams, but also on the larger narrative of American political and cultural history. …”

Taming metals: the use of leaded bronze in early China, 2000–1250 BC by Huan, L

“…<p>It has long been known that leaded bronze, an alloy consisting primarily of copper with the addition of tin and lead, was widely used in early China, starting from around the second millennium BC. …”

Shale oil in Russia – commercial catalyst required by Henderson, J

“…These prospects are relatively long term, however, with major increases in oil production unlikely for a decade or more, meaning that a medium-term solution still needs to be found. …”

Will a crude oil price band stabilise the market by Fattouh, B

“…The French president Nicolas Sarkozy and the UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged ‘oil producers to agree a target price range, based on a clearer understanding of the long-term fundamentals’. In a joint article in the Wall Street Journal (8 July 2009), the two leaders gave an indication of what the upper and lower band should reflect, arguing that ‘the world’s economy is still reliant on secure supplies at prices that are not so high as to destroy the prospects of economic growth but not so low as to lead to a slump in investment, as happened in the 1990s’. …”

Equalities in education outcomes in Korea, Sweden and Norway by Goh, HC

“…The Innocenti Report Card suggests that children in Korea have a higher chance of being educated to a reasonable standard, and a lower chance of falling a long way behind the average, than a child born in Denmark or Norway. …”

Asymptomatic female softball pitchers have altered hip morphology and cartilage composition by Warden, SJ, Coburn, SL, Fuchs, RK, Surowiec, RK, Carballido-Gamio, J, Kemp, JL, Jalaie, PK, Hanff, DF, Palmer, AJR, Fernquest, SJ, Crossley, KM, Heerey, JJ

“…Further studies with larger sample sizes are warranted and any potential long-term consequences of the changes in terms of symptom and osteoarthritis development requires investigation.…”

Looking deep at people: towards understanding and generating humans in images with deep learning by de Bem, RA

“…<p>Understanding and generating people in images and videos is a long-standing goal in computer vision. A significant effort has been devoted to these tasks by the research community along the last decades, greatly motivated by a large number of potential applications, like surveillance, human-machine interaction, action and behaviour recognition, motion capture, video reenactment, and computer graphics animation. …”

Effects of soil management practices on soil fauna feeding activity in an Indonesian oil palm plantation by Tao, H-H, Slade, E, Willis, KJ, Caliman, J-P, Snaddon, JL

“…Optimizing the use of available soil management practices in oil palm plantations is crucial to enhance long-term soil fertility and productivity. However, this needs a thorough understanding of the functional responses of soil biota to these management practices. …”

Evolution PDEs on graphs and inverse problems in aggregation-diffusion equations by Mikolás, L

“…Furthermore, we describe the long-time behaviour of equations on co-evolving graphs with a particular type of velocity leading to diffusive dynamics.…”

First cast the beam from thine own eye: the condemnation at the University of Paris 1241/4 by Grice, D

“…This latter was based on long-term biblical enigmas and patristic discussions, now sharpened by external 'threats', including from newly-translated Aristotelian texts and the views of groups deemed heretical. …”

Experimental evaluation and statistical modeling of kenaf fiber-reinforced geopolymer concrete by Noor Abbas, Al-Ghazali, Abdul Aziz, Farah Nora Aznieta, Abdan, Khalina, Mohd Nasir, Noor Azline, Fahim Huseien, Ghasan

“…At 28 days of curing age, KFRGC prepared with 30 mm long, and 1.25 % volume fraction of fiber showed a 20 % and 27 % increase in splitting tensile strength and flexural strength, respectively, compared to the plain geopolymer. …”

Predicting work engagement among young adult cancer survivors: a moderated mediation model by Musa, Siti Nur Syuhada, Hamzah, Siti Raba'ah, Muda, Zulaiha, Asimiran, Soaib, Krauss, Steven E.

“…However, in recent studies on the outcomes of long-term survivorship, some of the main areas of cancer survivorship research revolves around employment issues of young adult cancer survivors. …”
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Impact of internal branding and corporate culture on employee brand support and the role of corporate identity as mediator by Razak, Muhammad Nur Fitri

“…Corporate identity has played a vital role in the halal industry to create a strong foundation for its reputation in the long run. This paper used two modeling analyses for two different data. …”
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Executive and management attitudes towards corporate social responsibility in Malaysia by Abdul Rashid, Md Zabid, Ibrahim, Saadiatul

“…About 69 per cent of the respondents believed that involvement by a business in improving its community’s quality of life will also improve long run profitability. Nearly 65 per cent agreed that socially responsible activities provide a favourable public image. …”
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The role of ESG in enhancing firm resilience to geopolitical risks: an Eastern European perspective by Mohammad Reyad, Hossain, Ayesha, Momtaj, Iqbal, Mohammed Masum, Zariyawati, Mohd Ashhari

“…In Eastern Europe, where conflicts like the Russia–Ukraine war heighten uncertainty, firms face immediate financial threats and long-term strategic vulnerabilities. This study examines the impact of GPR on firm performance, focusing on the moderating role of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices as a resilience mechanism. …”

Recent advances in the formation, stability, and emerging food application of water-in-oil-in-water double emulsion carriers by Elaine, Elaine, Bhandari, Bhesh, Tan, Chin Ping, Nyam, Kar Lin

“…However, at the same time, double emulsion is susceptible to destabilization under environmental stresses and long-term storage. In this paper, recent articles on double emulsion were critically highlighted in terms of production, composition, and stabilization. …”

Social movements and democratization in Malaysia by Khoo, Ying Hooi

“…The mixture model of democracy and authoritarian political system of Malaysia has long been said to hinder the social movements to expand their influence. …”
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