Articles

Functional materials for powering and implementing next-generation miniature sensors

Elsevier,

Materials Today, Volume 69, October 2023

This text ties into several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 9 (Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure) and SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities). It highlights the role of sensors in advancing smart technologies and infrastructure, which can optimize industrial processes, improve healthcare, and contribute to sustainable urban development. Additionally, it touches on SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being) through the potential of wearable and implantable sensors to enhance health monitoring and disease prevention.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure; Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities

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Energy; Technology, Global

The relationship between e-health literacy and information technology acceptance, and the willingness to share personal and health information among pregnant women

Elsevier,

International Journal of Medical Informatics, Volume 178, October 2023

Setting and updating information-sharing rules and security mechanisms with the participation of people can help reduce concerns and increase public trust. Healthcare policymakers can encourage the use of health IT in the prevention and treatment of diseases by providing relevant education and informing people.
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SDG:

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

Tags:

Health and wellbeing; health information technologies, Asia

Prediction of postpartum prediabetes by machine learning methods in women with gestational diabetes mellitus

Elsevier,

iScience, Volume 26, 20 October 2023

This study aims to predict the risk of postpartum prediabetes in women diagnosed with gestational diabetes
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SDG:

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

Tags:

Health and wellbeing; Gender equality and women's empowerment, Global

Up-skilling women or de-skilling patriarchy? How TVET can drive wider gender transformation and the decent work agenda in Sub-Saharan Africa

Elsevier,

International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 102, October 2023

Despite decades of focus on gender and skills training, the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) landscape in Sub-Saharan Africa remains deeply gendered and rooted in wider structures of patriarchal inequality and exploitation. Engaging with recent theoretical moves toward gender-transformative and gender-just TVET programming, this paper explores how a gradual revisioning of TVET can be mobilised to challenge broader gender inequality and discrimination in precarious settings.
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SDG:

Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality
Africa

A survey of multimodal information fusion for smart healthcare: Mapping the journey from data to wisdom

Elsevier,

Information Fusion, 2023, 102040

This paper reviews the integration of diverse medical data types to enhance personalized healthcare, proposing a unified framework that aligns with the DIKW hierarchy and supports advances across predictive, preventive, personalized, and participatory medicine. It aims to guide researchers and practitioners in harnessing multimodal fusion to transform patient care.

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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions

Tags:

Data & Analytics; Health and wellbeing, Global

The global energy impact of raising the space temperature for high-temperature data centers

Elsevier,

Cell Reports Physical Science, Volume 4, 18 October 2023

This article tackles the issue of high energy consumption created by data centers. They find an immediate way to quickly mitigate some of the massive energy sink is by simply operating data centers at higher temperatures. As such, this article supports SDGs 9 (ensuring data centers that are key to current society are sustainable) and 13 (a rapid solution to immediately reduce fossil-fuel driven energy consumption).
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SDG:

Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure; Goal 13: Climate action

Tags:

Technology; Energy; Data & Analytics, Global

Analysis the characterization of climate change and its impacts on smallholder farmers in Eastern Ethiopia

Elsevier,

Heliyon, Volume 9, October 2023

This study supports SDG 13 by examining climatic features, M − K trend test, variability, precipitation concentration index and temperature variability on the role of smallholder farmers in eastern Ethiopia.
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SDG:

Goal 13: Climate action

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Data & Analytics, Africa

Whiteness and the Race Equality Network: co-production in action

Elsevier,

The Lancet Psychiatry, Volume 10, October 2023

This commentary describes the contributions people from minority groups with mental illness can make to mental health research.
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SDG:

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

Tags:

Health and wellbeing, Global

Prevalence of depressive disorder in the adult population of Latin America: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Elsevier,

Lancet Regional Health - Americas, Volume 26, October 2023

This Article supports SDG 3 by analysing 40 studies from Latin America to find a lifetime prevalence of depressive disorder in this region of 12.6%, and a current prevalence of 3.1%. The authors note that after adjusting for income and using the same inclusion criteria and assessment methods, these estimates may be higher than global estimates provided by previous systematic reviews; however, more mental health research is needed in the region to generate more definitive conclusions.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Tags:

Health and population; Health and wellbeing; Regression Analysis, Global

‘Braiding Knowledge’ about the peopling of the River Murray (Rinta) in South Australia: Ancestral narratives, geomorphological interpretations and archaeological evidence

Elsevier,

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, Volume 71, September 2023

This paper explore Aboriginal ancestral narratives, geomorphological interpretations and archaeological evidence relating to the Murray River (Rinta) in South Australia’s Riverland region. It provides an indigeous history for the people.
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SDG:

Goal 10: Reduced inequalities; Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities; Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
Oceania

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