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 Chronic pain is difficult to treat and affects the individual’s quality of life, often leading to severe disability.  Ketamine was initially used in anaesthesia, but since the 1990s it has also been used in a much lower dose as a treatment for acute and chronic pain. and also works as an antidepressant 

Professor Albert Dahan and  colleagues at the Leiden University Medical Center  managed to unlock some of ketamine’s previously unknown mechanisms of action against pain, its psychedelic effects,  and also new actions on the heart and breathing mechanism. 

Read the original research: https://doi.org/10.1097/ALN.0000000000004176

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The trend of companies using technologies to improve their products, processes, and teams effectively is collectively described as a digital transformation. As digitization proliferates, companies are beginning to put more emphasis on their governance, risk, and compliance - but do investors understand their values and impacts? 

Researchers  from Singapore Management University surveyed non-professional investors  on themes surrounding investment practices regarding GRC to find out the importance their placed on its role in digital transformation.

Read their original article: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4276136

Culturally responsive teaching is the recognition that culture is a strength that can be used as a resource in the classroom to improve academic and social achievement. But what does this teaching approach look like, what historical methods is it influenced by, and what specific outcomes are achieved for students?

Magnus O. Bassey, Professor in Secondary Education and Youth Services at Queens College, explains how this method can help teachers to create a more inclusive and equitable learning environment for all students. In becoming culturally responsive, teachers may help to bring about wider social change.

Read the original article: https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci6040035

Racism is manifested and institutionalised in many areas of life, from education and housing to employment, health care, and the criminal justice system. 

Dr Ebonyse Mead and and Dr Tameka Ardrey of Georgia Southern University have published a new book, Building equitable early learning programs, which sets out to address racial inequities in early childhood education. 

With 38 years’ professional experience between them, their new book aims to help education professionals to analyse the causes of racial inequities in early childhood, and to address the injustices they identify. 

 Building equitable early learning programs is available from Gryphon House from June 1st.

Well-being is a well-established and growing field within psychology, and an increasingly popular area of study for psychology students. However,  it's also challenging to define: What does good well-being look like for any person, and what do we need to know to study it? 

A team of researchers, led by Dr William Tov of Singapore Management University, attempt to define well-being, not only to guide fellow researchers teaching it, but also for the general public.  They uncovered eight major findings from the field of subjective well-being, and were able to provide guidelines as to how universities can teach those findings in a psychology curriculum.

Read their research: https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916211046946 

The  black hole information paradox laid out by Stephen Hawking says information cannot be destroyed or disappear, but black holes breach the time symmetry of physics. 

Dr Szymon Łukaszyk, an independent researcher in Poland, offers a solution to the black hole information paradox. Instead of suggesting novel physical theories, he pursues innovative connotations of existing physics, specifically the theory of relativity.

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Read the original research: https://doi.org/10.3390/sym15030755

Mobile Health, or mHealth, is branch of digital health focussed on monitoring health-related information which can be sent directly to doctors and other healthcare professionals.

A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge and Singapore Management University investigate how head-worn technologies have only come about in the last couple of years or so, but look set to revolutionize the ever-popular sector of personalized health monitoring as we know it.

Read their original article: https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MPRV.2022.3191711

The UK is the world's leading financial hub and the financial sector contributes a substantial part of its wealth. However, cybersecurity risk is an ever-growing topic of significance to the sector. With higher numbers of IT and operational risks coming to light, understanding the landscape is increasingly valuable. 

Dr Paul Klumpes of Aalborg University has studied markets, risk, and investment across the last three decades. In his latest article he covers the topic of cybersecurity risk management in the UK Insurance sector.

Read the original article: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41288-023-00287-9

General equality rights can seem quite straightforward. But treating someone equally can become complicated when we apply the concept of equality to a specific government decision.  How do we decide if a person has been treated equally in relation to a particular government decision? To what or to whom do we compare them?

Kenny Chng from Singapore Management University compares different approaches to deciding whether or not someone is entitled to equal protection under the constitution of a given jurisdiction, and proposes how best to apply constitutional equal rights to cases concerning discrete executive acts.

Read more about his research: https://doi.org/10.1017/lst.2022.33

Professional workplaces are still a typically male dominated arena, especially in relation to leadership roles. How then should female managers behave; conform to feminine stereotypes or try to fit the mould set by male role models?  

Prof Daniela Rastetter and Dr Christiane Juengling look at the different expectations and rules for how men and women may display their emotions within the workplace. Their research has led to a coaching strategy to help promote the strategic handling of emotions within the workplace, to enable women in leadership positions to identify any stereotypically gendered expectations and develop their own tactical responses.


Read more about their research: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81938-5_50