Prof Robert Brent, Professor of Economics at Fordham University, discusses his new book on interventions for managing dementia, and cost-benefit approaches to life and healthcare.

The book, Cost-Benefit Analysis and Dementia, is available here: https://bit.ly/RobertBrent

The New Personality Self-Portrait25, or NPSP25 is the work of psychiatrist John M. Oldham, M.D., in longtime collaboration with mental health journalist and author Lois B. Morris, and more recently, psychologist Alok Madan, PhD. 

The NPSP25 is an updated, internet-only version of a book first published in a 1990 by Oldham and Morris, called The Personality Self-Portrait: Why You Think, Work, Love, and Act the Way You Do, with the the second edition remaining in print since 1995.

Find more at the NPSP25 website.

Dr Stanley Luck of Vector Analytics LLC has developed a novel parametric framework for multidimensional linear regression, following collaborative research and developments involving the identification of beneficial agronomic variation in maize.

Read more in Research Outreach.

Read the original article here: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262148

 Mining, fracking and other georesource activities pose various environmental hazards - groundwater contamination, air pollution, and even significant earthquakes

The EPOS Thematic Core Service for Anthropogenic Hazards (TCS AH) was created to facilitate global-scale open data access and research of anthropogenic hazards related to georesource exploitation. 

Find more about TCS AH at their website, or in this article: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0429-3

Emeritus Professor Gregg Barak, is co-founder of the Journal of White Collar & Corporate Crime. Barak is also a three-time award-winning author and editor of books on crime, justice, media, violence, criminal law, corporate law, homelessness, and human rights.

His book, Criminology on Trump , is available for preorder here

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 The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the UN set out the aims of ensuring the future of life on Planet Earth is clean, healthy, and rich in biodiversity. However, reaching these goals is expensive, requiring around an additional $5 Trillion per year over the next 15–20 years. So the question now is: How to finance our Future?

 The Tao of Finance initiative from the World Academy of Arts and Sciences proposes outside-the-box solutions to generate the funds needed, utilising distributed digital technologies and innovative approaches to finance.

 Read more about the Tao of Finance at the WAAS website, or read the book ‘Financing Our Future: Unveiling a Parallel Digital Currency System to Fund the SDGs and the Common Good’.

Innovation is an important driver for increasing a firms profit margins. However, short-term expenses in the innovation process, with a short product life cycle common among highly innovative leaps, makes it very difficult to predict demand.This can make investors wary.

 Dr. Sterling Huang and colleagues look into how the balance between a company and its investors can shift with successful innovations, and the changes that has on the company’s internal communication and management

 Read the original paper: https://doi.org/10.2308/tar-2017-0082

Substance use disorders (SUD) are common within the population of people with HIV, and this can have a detrimental effect on their progression along the HIV care continuum. Despite this, SUD services are not currently integrated into AIDS service organisations as well as they might be.

Dr Bryan Garner at RTI International and his team identified that integrating these services within community-based ASOs is one of the keys to addressing SUDs among people with HIV.

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 Read the original article: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-021-03473-9

Higher Education Institutions, or HEIs, have been forced to reconfigure their activities as a result of the pandemic.

Based on new research, Prof Lloyd George Waller argues that the difference between the institutions’ success or otherwise in moving online depends on their digital readiness and resilience, which in turn depends on their digital transformation strategy.

His book, "Digital Transformation for Higher Education Institutions: A Framework for the Future" is available online.

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Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) represent around 90% of businesses and more than 50% of worldwide employment. Despite their economic relevance, most insolvency jurisdictions fail to provide an adequate response for MSMEs in insolvency.  

Professor Gurrea Martínez of Singapore Management University is an expert in insolvency and business restructuring and his recent work looks at international insolvency frameworks.

Read the original article: https://doi.org/10.1002/iir.1422