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Why protect nature? Rethinking values and the environment Open
A cornerstone of environmental policy is the debate over protecting nature for humans’ sake (instrumental values) or for nature’s (intrinsic values) (1). We propose that focusing only on instrumental or intrinsic values may fail to resonat…
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Antibiotic Pollution in the Environment: From Microbial Ecology to Public Policy Open
The ability to fight bacterial infections with antibiotics has been a longstanding cornerstone of modern medicine. However, wide-spread overuse and misuse of antibiotics has led to unintended consequences, which in turn require large-scale…
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Digital transformation in business and management research: An overview of the current status quo Open
It is no surprise that research on digital transformation (DT) has raised vast interest among academics in recent decades. Countries, cities, industries, companies, and people all face the same challenge of adapting to a digital world. The…
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Reviewer bias in single- versus double-blind peer review Open
Significance Scientific peer review has been a cornerstone of the scientific method since the 1600s. Debate continues regarding the merits of single-blind review, in which anonymous reviewers know the authors of a paper and their affiliati…
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The new definition of health technology assessment: A milestone in international collaboration Open
Background An international joint task group co-led by the International Network of Agencies for Health Technology Assessment (INAHTA) and Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi) has developed a new and internationally accepted d…
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European Practical and Patient-Centred Guidelines for Adult Obesity Management in Primary Care Open
The first contact for patients with obesity for any medical treatment or other issues is generally with General Practitioners (GPs). Therefore, given the complexity of the disease, continuing GPs’ education on obesity management is essenti…
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New Redox Strategies in Organic Synthesis by Means of Electrochemistry and Photochemistry Open
As the breadth of radical chemistry grows, new means to promote and regulate single-electron redox activities play increasingly important roles in driving modern synthetic innovation. In this regard, photochemistry and electrochemistry-bot…
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Co-Producing Sustainability: Reordering the Governance of Science, Policy, and Practice Open
Co-production has become a cornerstone of research within the sustainability sciences, motivating collaborations of diverse actors to conduct research in the service of societal and policy change. This review examines theoretical and empir…
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Gender bias in scholarly peer review Open
Peer review is the cornerstone of scholarly publishing and it is essential that peer reviewers are appointed on the basis of their expertise alone. However, it is difficult to check for any bias in the peer-review process because the ident…
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COVID-19 Vaccine–Related Discussion on Twitter: Topic Modeling and Sentiment Analysis Open
Background Vaccination is a cornerstone of the prevention of communicable infectious diseases; however, vaccines have traditionally met with public fear and hesitancy, and COVID-19 vaccines are no exception. Social media use has been demon…
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Social Media– and Internet-Based Disease Surveillance for Public Health Open
Disease surveillance systems are a cornerstone of public health tracking and prevention. This review addresses the use, promise, perils, and ethics of social media– and Internet-based data collection for public health surveillance. Our rev…
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Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Radiology: Summary of the Joint European and North American Multisociety Statement Open
This is a condensed summary of an international multisociety statement on ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) in radiology produced by the ACR, European Society of Radiology, RSNA, Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine, European S…
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KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE OF YEMENI PHYSICIANS TOWARD PHARMACOVIGILANCE: A MIXED METHOD STUDY Open
Objective: The objective of the current study was to investigate the physician’s knowledge, attitude and practice towards pharmacovigilance.Methods: A mixed qualitative and quantitative method was conducted in this study using a face to fa…
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GOVERNMENT QUALITY AND THE ECONOMIC RETURNS OF TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT IN EUROPEAN REGIONS Open
Transport infrastructure investment is a cornerstone of growth‐promoting strategies. However, the link between infrastructure investment and economic performance remains unclear. This may be a consequence of overlooking the role of governm…
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Advanced Electrode Materials in Lithium Batteries: Retrospect and Prospect Open
Lithium- (Li-) ion batteries have revolutionized our daily life towards wireless and clean style, and the demand for batteries with higher energy density and better safety is highly required. The next-generation batteries with innovatory c…
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The FAIR guiding principles for data stewardship: fair enough? Open
The FAIR guiding principles for research data stewardship (findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability) look set to become a cornerstone of research in the life sciences. A critical appraisal of these principles in light …
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Revisiting “Success” and “Failure” of Marine Protected Areas: A Conservation Scientist Perspective Open
Marine protected areas (MPAs) form the cornerstone of marine conservation. Identifying which factors contribute to their success or failure is crucial considering the international conservation targets for 2020 and the limited funds genera…
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‘No regionalism please, we are <i>Leghisti</i> !’ The transformation of the Italian Lega Nord under the leadership of Matteo Salvini Open
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Stuck in the middle: a systematic review of authorship in collaborative health research in Africa, 2014–2016 Open
Background Collaborations are often a cornerstone of global health research. Power dynamics can shape if and how local researchers are included in manuscripts. This article investigates how international collaborations affect the represent…
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Urology practice during the COVID-19 pandemic Open
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 and the disease it causes, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is generating a rapid and tragic health emergency in Italy due to the need to provide assistance to an overwhelming number o…
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Accountability in artificial intelligence: what it is and how it works Open
Accountability is a cornerstone of the governance of artificial intelligence (AI). However, it is often defined too imprecisely because its multifaceted nature and the sociotechnical structure of AI systems imply a variety of values, pract…
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Survey on open peer review: Attitudes and experience amongst editors, authors and reviewers Open
Open peer review (OPR) is a cornerstone of the emergent Open Science agenda. Yet to date no large-scale survey of attitudes towards OPR amongst academic editors, authors, reviewers and publishers has been undertaken. This paper presents th…
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Informed consent process: A step further towards making it meaningful! Open
Informed consent process is the cornerstone of ethics in clinical research. Obtaining informed consent from patients participating in clinical research is an important legal and ethical imperative for clinical trial researchers. Although i…
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An Effective Model of Diabetes Care and Education: The ADCES7 Self-Care Behaviors™ Open
Purpose The ADCES7 Self-Care Behaviors ™ (ADCES7) is a robust framework for self-management of diabetes and other related conditions, such as prediabetes and cardiometabolic diseases. It is the position of the Association of Diabetes Care …
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Safety in psychiatric inpatient care: The impact of risk management culture on mental health nursing practice Open
The discourse of safety has informed the care of individuals with mental illness through institutionalization and into modern psychiatric nursing practices. Confinement arose from safety: out of both societal stigma and fear for public saf…
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Beyond Breitbart: Comparing Right‐Wing Digital News Infrastructures in Six Western Democracies Open
Right‐wing online news media have emerged in many countries as an important force in the media landscape, positioning themselves as an alternative to a perceived political and media mainstream. This article studies these sites as a corners…
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From promise to practice: towards the realisation of AI-informed mental health care Open
In this Series paper, we explore the promises and challenges of artificial intelligence (AI)-based precision medicine tools in mental health care from clinical, ethical, and regulatory perspectives. The real-world implementation of these t…
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Biosensors in Health Care: The Milestones Achieved in Their Development towards Lab-on-Chip-Analysis Open
Immense potentiality of biosensors in medical diagnostics has driven scientists in evolution of biosensor technologies and innovating newer tools in time. The cornerstone of the popularity of biosensors in sensing wide range of biomolecule…
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Policy Analysis of Multi-Actor Systems Open
Policy of Multi-Actor Systems is an introduction into the art of craft of problem exploration and problem structuring. It positions policy analysis as a scientific discipline focused on systems analysis in a multi-actor context to support …
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The case for formal methodology in scientific reform Open
Current attempts at methodological reform in sciences come in response to an overall lack of rigor in methodological and scientific practices in experimental sciences. However, most methodological reform attempts suffer from similar mistak…