Academic Articles & Research Papers

Dietary Patterns and Nutritional Interventions for Cognitive Impairment in Parkinson's Disease: A Critical Narrative Review.

Illicitly Traded Tobacco Use Among Samples of People Who Regularly Use Illegal Drugs in Australia, 2024-2025.

A probabilistic framework reveals life course heterogeneity in global diet and healthy longevity associations.

From dietary exposure to organ injury: microbiome-mediated biotransformation of food-chain xenobiotics across the gut-liver-kidney axis.

Multi-Isotope Signatures in Modern Pig Bones: Evaluating Dietary and Hydrological Controls on Provenance in South Korea.

Global thyroid cancer incidence in relation to dietary and socioeconomic factors: an ecological machine learning study.

SNP rs11618521 modifies transcription factor NANOG-mediated expression of KPNA3 and the age at onset of spinocerebellar ataxia type 3.

Reporting Experiments in Software Engineering

A Comparative Analysis of the Chloroplast Genomes of Four Polygonum Medicinal Plants

Polygonum is a generalized genus of the Polygonaceae family that includes various herbaceous plants. In order to provide aid in understanding the evolutionary and phylogenetic relationship in Polygonum at the chloroplast (cp) genome-scale l...

Causal relationship between genetic-predicted uric acid and cervical cancer risk: evidence for nutritional intervention on cervical cancer prevention

IntroductionThe relationship between serum uric acid (SUA) and cervical cancer is inconclusive. This study aims to investigate the causal relationship between SUA levels and cervical cancer incidence, and to evaluate the potential role of n...

Health claims about cannabidiol (CBD) at the point-of-sale in three U.S. states with disparate cannabis policies

Objectives: We assessed point-of-sale advertising for CBD in three states with different cannabis laws (i.e., medical/recreational use; medical only; CBD/low THC) to determine if CBD is marketed in ways that are prohibited by the U.S. Food ...

Partial replacement of red and processed meat with legumes: a modelling study of the impact on nutrient intakes and nutrient adequacy on the population level

Abstract Objective: The shift towards plant-based diets with less meat and more legumes is a global target and requires an understanding of the consequences of dietary adequacy on the population level. Our aim was to model the impact of pa...

Public Policy and Political Ideas

Part 1 A theoretical overview: interests or ideas? an overview of ideational concepts in public policy research, Dietmar Braun from hooks to focal points - the changing role of ideas in rational choice theory, Andreas Busch the power of ide...

Co-creation, co-design, co-production for public health – a perspective on definition and distinctions

Collaboration between community members, researchers, and policy makers drives efforts to solve complex health problems such as obesity, alcohol misuse, and type 2 diabetes. Community participation is essential to ensure the optimal design,...

Effect of the mHealth-supported Healthy Future programme delivered by community health workers on maternal and child health in rural China: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial

Introduction Millions of young rural children in China still suffer from poor health and malnutrition, partly due to a lack of knowledge about optimal perinatal and child care among rural mothers and caregivers. Meanwhile, there is an urgen...

Navigating public health research in UK secondary schools: key challenges and opportunities identified by researchers

Abstract Objective Conducting health research with adolescents involves navigating complex challenges at both organisational and individual levels. As part of evaluating the EACH-B (Engaging Adolescents with Changing Behaviour) intervention...

Associations of Eating Identities With Self-Reported Dietary Behaviors and Body Mass Index

Objective:To inform dietary interventions, it is important to understand antecedents of recommended (henceforth: healthy) dietary behaviors, beyond dietary beliefs and self-efficacy. We used the validated “Eating Identity Type Inventory” to...

Public Policy and Federalism

Territorial division of power and public policy-making - an overview the territorial division of power in comparative public policy research - an assessment Canada - dual and executive federalism, ineffective problem-solving regional policy...

Deletion of hepatic carbohydrate response element binding protein (ChREBP) impairs glucose homeostasis and hepatic insulin sensitivity in mice

Objective: Carbohydrate response element binding protein (ChREBP) is a transcription factor that responds to glucose and activates genes involved in the glycolytic and lipogenic pathways. Recent studies have linked adipose ChREBP to insulin...

Capacities: Political Science in Europe

This essay portrays the capacities of political science in Western as well as in Central and Eastern Europe. The discussion is divided into four subtopics: (1) the political and social context in which European political science developed a...