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Utilizing Next-Generation Sequencing: Advancements in the Diagnosis of Fungal Infections

Diagnostics
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has emerged as a promising tool for diagnosing fungal infections. It enables the identification of a wide range of fungal species and provides more accurate and rapid results than traditional diagnostic methods. NGS-based
Sheetal Naik, Dharambir Kashyap, Jashan Deep, Saif Darwish, Joseph Cross, Edmond Mansoor, Vivek Kumar Garg, Prasanna Honnavar   +7 more
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Technical Change Through Global Value Chains: Evidence From Firms Worldwide

The World Economy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study the impact of global value chain (GVC) participation on firms' innovation, productivity, and other indicators of technical change. Our dataset encompasses heterogeneous firms from 144 countries at different income levels over the period 2006–2025.
Ivan Ledezma, Antonia López‐Villavicencio   +1 more
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Maternal adherence to safe infant sleep recommendations in the USA: trends and disparities from PRAMS 2016–2022

BMJ Paediatrics Open
Purpose Sleep-related infant deaths in the USA have plateaued despite long-standing evidence-based recommendations for safe sleep. Understanding maternal patterns of adherence and associated disparities is critical to improving infant safety.
Rathika Damodara Shenoy, Juan M Acuna, Carolyn Edmondson, Jovita Herrera Herrera, Kasim Williams   +4 more
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Disrupted Identities and Forced Nomads: A Post-Disaster Legacy of Neocolonialism in the Island of Barbuda, Lesser Antilles

Island Studies Journal, 2023
In the aftermath of the forced evacuation of the island of Barbuda due to Hurricane Irma, the Barbudan people have experienced an exile and return to a ‘new’ geographical, political, and economic context, albeit on the same island.
Sophia Perdikaris, Rebecca Borger, Edith Gonzalez, Emira Ibrahimpašić, Jennifer D. Adams   +4 more
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Trade Sophistication and Economic Development Stages in the Context of Global Digitalization

The World Economy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study aims to explore the relationship between trade sophistication and economic development stages, including in the context of digitalization. We employ nonparametric, semiparametric, and parametric methods, covering the period from 2003 to 2024 across 119 countries, categorized into three income groups.
Kim Hanh Nguyen, Anna Strutt, Mark J. Holmes, Steven Lim   +3 more
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Integrating habitat suitability, socioeconomics, and infrastructure to assess global biological invasion risk under climate change: A case study of the rice stem borer, Chilo suppressalis

Pest Management Science, Volume 82, Issue 9, Page 9068-9086, September 2026.
We developed an invasion risk index framework that integrates socioeconomic and environmental data using an entropy‐weighting method. The case study highlights the need for region‐specific biosecurity measures for Chilo suppressalis. Abstract BACKGROUND Biological invasion risk is a multifaceted concept that, according to the Food and Agriculture ...
Jinsol Hong, Minyoung Lee, Yongeun Kim, Yun‐Sik Lee, June Wee, Jaejun Song, Taewoo Kim, Jung‐Joon Park, Florian Kraxner, Woo‐Kyun Lee, Youngil Song, Kijong Cho   +11 more
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PROTAC-Based Antivirals for Respiratory Viruses: A Novel Approach for Targeted Therapy and Vaccine Development

Microorganisms
The global burden of respiratory viral infections is notable, which is attributed to their higher transmissibility compared to other viral diseases. Respiratory viruses are seen to have evolved resistance to available treatment options. Although vaccines
Amith Anugu, Pankaj Singh, Dharambir Kashyap, Jillwin Joseph, Sheetal Naik, Subhabrata Sarkar, Kamran Zaman, Manpreet Dhaliwal, Shubham Nagar, Tanishq Gupta, Prasanna Honnavar   +10 more
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Non‐Native Rodents Dominate Understory Frugivory in the Eastern Caribbean Islands

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 8, August 2026.
We investigated how non‐native mammals have disrupted frugivory by using artificial fruits and camera traps to measure native and non‐native frugivory interactions on 13 islands in the eastern Caribbean. We found that non‐native Rattus sp. were responsible for nearly 80% of all frugivorous activity and that increased non‐native mammal activity was ...
Seokmin Kim, Fabio L. Tarazona‐Tubens, Maximilian G. R. Vollstädt, Fernando Gonçalves, Emmeli Agerskov Claré, Andreas Krogh Norrild, Hanna Welzel, Tianying Zhang, Mark Hulme, Christopher Kaiser‐Bunbury, Mauro Galetti, Benno Simmons, Bo Dalsgaard, Christopher Searcy   +13 more
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The Mobile Core: Perpetuating Tourism Leakage Through the Socioecological Fix in South Korea

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, Volume 67, Issue 2, Page 229-239, August 2026.
ABSTRACT By adopting the socioecological fix concept, this study aims to examine the spatial dynamics of tourism leakage. An ethnographic examination of an ecotourism project on Jeju Island, South Korea was conducted for 18 months from 2011 to 2013.
Souyeon Nam
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Challenges for Small Island Developing States in meeting monitoring requirements of the Kunming‐Montréal global biodiversity framework

Conservation Science and Practice, Volume 8, Issue 8, August 2026.
The Kunming Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework adopted by Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity is an ambitious agreement to halt the decline of the world's biodiversity by 2030 and restore nature by 2050. Small Island Developing States face particular challenges in the availability of data, access to existing data and data management ...
Anik Jarvis, Helena Jeffery Brown, Ashley Dias, Jeremiah K. Edmund, Indira Gamatis, Aria St.Louis, Philip J. K. McGowan   +6 more
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