Asia

This study investigates how the interactive digital picture book Food Ninja influences elementary students' creativity, using the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking with 44 sixth-graders.
Motherhood holds great importance in women's transition to adulthood in India, where childlessness is often perceived as an inability to conceive and experienced as a failure. However, with globalization and declining fertility rates, family dynamics are shifting, and childlessness appears as an evolving reality beyond biomedical challenges related to procreation. This research aims to investigate whether there are indications of an emerging category of women forgoing motherhood for reasons beyond a lack of reproductive agency.
Elsevier,

Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease, Volume 12, 1 August 2025

The study found that long-duration and high-intensity walking were associated with reduced amyloid-beta accumulation over 4 years, with the greatest benefits seen in those who started walking earlier in life. However, walking activity was not linked to changes in tau deposition, neurodegeneration, or white matter hyperintensities.
This study investigates the association between polluting cooking technology use, and domain-wise cognitive functions in an rural aging cohort in South India, which includes insights from structural brain MRI. These findings substantiate the results of previous studies, noting diminished global cognition and visuospatial function among polluting cooking technology users.
Background: Improving nutrition for all requires understanding how interventions influence nutrition inequalities within society. Intersectionality, which considers how multiple disadvantages intersect, may offer more precise insight into the equity of these interventions. Objectives: Using an intersectionality-informed approach and mediation with exposure–mediator interaction, we investigated how participation in nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions tested in the UPAVAN trial affected inequalities in women's diets in Odisha, India.
The study examines health insurance coverage and its association with healthcare use and financial protection among people with disabilities in Indonesia.
This study takes a hybrid approach for predicting features of future food security in China
The study highlights that per capita consumption and income are primary drivers of China's industrial process-related GHG emissions, with emission intensity and product structure changes serving as key offsetting factors, emphasizing the importance of macroeconomic and technological considerations for effective mitigation.
This study evaluates a 14-week training aimed for Syrian teachers, aimed at Environmental and Health Education awareness.
Focusing on the Vietnamese Mekong Delta (VMD), this study examines how drought and salinity intrusion from 2000 to 2020 influences rice cropping, aquaculture area, and rice yield across seven coastal provinces.

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