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Community-dwelling older adults’ perspectives on health risks: a qualitative study exploring anxieties, priorities, and expectations in ageing

BMC Public Health
Background With the conflict between the promise of ageing in health and longevity and the limited availability of health resources and social support, older adults in China inevitably experience anxieties surrounding health risks.
Shaoqi Zhai, Zhiying Zhang, Ruyi Zhang, Yingchun Peng, Jiaying Zhang, Yiyao Zhang, Qilin Jin, Jiaojiao Zhou, Jingjing Chen   +8 more
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Overweight and Obesity in Dogs and Cats: An Exploration of Animal Welfare and Behaviour Impacts, and Recommendations for Management in Veterinary Primary Care

Animals
Overweight and obesity are prevalent among companion dogs and cats in the Western world. Affected animals are at risk of comorbidities and reduced longevity.
Rimini Quinn, Anne Quain
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2D Nanomaterials Toward Function‐Ready Superlubricity in Advanced Microsystems

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A unified framework links structural and transformation superlubricity with microsystem functions and deployment requirements. Mechanisms, device architectures, integration strategies, AI‐guided discovery, and benchmarking protocols are connected to define function‐ready superlubricity in advanced microsystems.
Yushan Geng, Jun Yang, Yong Yang
wiley   +1 more source

Escaping Maturation Stress: Late Sowing as a Strategy to Secure High-Vigor Soybean Seeds in Subtropical Low-Altitude Environments

Seeds
Soybean seed production in low-altitude subtropical environments in Paraguay is constrained by the antagonism between achieving high grain yields and high physiological seed quality, a relationship governed by the Genotype x Environment x Management ...
Jose Ricardo Bagateli, Ricardo Mari Bagateli, Giovana Carla da Veiga, Ivan Ricardo Carvalho, Willyan Junior Adorian Bandeira, Geri Eduardo Meneghello   +5 more
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Financial Innovation for an Aging World [PDF]

Over the last half-century, around the world, many nations have seen plummeting fertility rates and mounting life expectancies. These two factors are the engine behind unprecedented global aging.
John Piggott, Michael Sherris, Olivia S. Mitchell, Shaun Yow   +3 more
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Optimal gradual annuitization : quantifying the costs of switching to annuities [PDF]

, 2007
We compute the optimal dynamic asset allocation policy for a retiree with Epstein-Zin utility. The retiree can decide how much he consumes and how much he invests in stocks, bonds, and annuities.
Horneff, Wolfram J., Maurer, Raimond, Stamos, Michael   +2 more
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Neuromorphic Electronics for Intelligence Everywhere: Emerging Devices, Flexible Platforms, and Scalable System Architectures

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
The perspective presents an integrated view of neuromorphic technologies, from device physics to real‐time applicability, while highlighting the necessity of full‐stack co‐optimization. By outlining practical hardware‐level strategies to exploit device behavior and mitigate non‐idealities, it shows pathways for building efficient, scalable, and ...
Kapil Bhardwaj, Roshni Satheesh Babu, Yuxin Xia, Eva Bestelink, Radu Sporea, Nikos Hastas, Ioannis Zeimpekis, Dimitra G. Georgiadou, Sayani Majumdar   +8 more
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Modelling the Effectiveness of Vegetative Nature‐Based Solutions for Coastal Flood Risk Mitigation

Journal of Flood Risk Management
Traditional grey solutions, such as seawalls, are increasingly recognised as being unsustainable for long‐term coastal flood risk management, due to high costs and negative environmental impacts.
Yengi Emmanuel Daro Justine, Avidesh Seenath   +1 more
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How to safeguard the continuous renal replacement therapy circuit: a narrative review

Frontiers in Medicine
The high prevalence of acute kidney injury (AKI) in ICU patients emphasizes the need to understand factors influencing continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) circuit lifespan for optimal outcomes.
Chaomin Hu, Chaomin Hu, Pengfei Shui, Bo Zhang, Xin Xu, Zhengquan Wang, Bin Wang, Jie Yang, Yang Xiang, Jun Zhang, Hongying Ni, Yucai Hong, Zhongheng Zhang, Zhongheng Zhang   +13 more
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The Private Value of Public Pensions [PDF]

Individual retirement savings accounts are replacing or supplementing public basic pensions. However at decumulation, replacing the public pension with an equivalent private sector income stream may be costly.
Konstantin Petrichev, Susan Thorp
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