Elsevier, The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, Volume 7, June 2023
Background: Latin America and the Caribbean present the second highest adolescent fertility rate in the world, only after sub-Saharan Africa, and have reached the third position globally in the incidence of motherhood in adolescence. We aimed to explore trends and inequities in adolescent childbearing in the region.
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Lancet Regional Health - Americas, Volume 22, June 2023
While social justice is a pillar that society seeks to uphold, in the area of organ transplantation, social justice, equity, and inclusion fail in the unbefriended and undomiciled population. Due to lack of social support of the homeless population, such status often renders these individuals ineligible to be organ recipients. Though it can be argued that organ donation by an unbefriended, undomciled patient benefits the greater good, there is clear inequity in the fact that homeless individuals are denied transplants due to inadequate social support. To illustrate such social breakdown, we describe two unbefriended, undomiciled patients brought to our hospitals by emergency services with diagnoses of intracerebral haemorrhage that progressed to brain death. This proposal represents a call to action to remediate the broken system: how the inherent inequity in organ donation by unbefriended, undomiciled patients would be ethically optimized if social support systems were implemented to allow for their candidacy for organ transplantation.
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Computers and Composition, Volume 68, June 2023
Speech to text (STT) technology automatically transcribes users’ speech to a computer screen. Research indicates that STT shows promise as an alternative mode of composition, supporting students in making fewer errors, writing more, and writing better. Much of this research takes place in elementary and middle schools, often focusing on students with identified learning disabilities.
Elsevier, High-Confidence Computing, Volume 3, June 2023
Intellectual Property (IP) refers to anything that originates in the human mind, including theories, conceptions, discoveries, anecdotes, works of literature. World Intellectual Property Day 2024 is highlighting the critical importance of intellectual property (IP) in catalyzing the human innovation and creativity needed for achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This paper discusses the existing IP rights and breakthroughs in the field of IPP research; provides discussions on hardware IP and software IP attacks and defense techniques; summarizes different applications of IP protection; and identifies the challenges and future research prospects in hardware and software IP security.
