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Getting to know the subsea mapping company MMA Global Aqua
Authors: Low Jared , Song Gwo-shyh 
Published: April 2023

Getting to know the subsea mapping company MMA Global Aqua
Jared Low, Project Manager at MMA Global Aqua, talks about his first impressions at the subsea mapping company and his predictions for the company's future. My name is Jared, I'm 31 years old, and I originally come from Indonesia. After graduating from university, I started working for Oceaneering in the ROV division for about eight years, thus I have very limited survey-related knowledge. I left Oceaneering and subsea mapping company MMA Global Aqua found me to join their team in Taiwan. Renewable energy is such a big development in Taiwan and going forward, I think globally, it's going to be a major change to the energy industry as well. As MMA Global Aqua specialises in survey and mapping technology, my experience in ROV provides a different perspective for the company. At the same time, I can gain knowledge about survey technology from my fellow colleagues.
How can the health sector support Canada's net-zero ambition?
Authors: Miller Fiona A. 
Published: April 2023

How can the health sector support Canada's net-zero ambition?
As the Honourable Steven Guilbeault has clarified, if Canada is to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, we will need “all-hands-on-deck.” Fiona A. Miller, Professor & Director at the Centre for Sustainable Health Systems, University of Toronto in Canada, explores Canada's net-zero ambition, looking in particular at the role of the health sector in decarbonisation. However, achieving Canada's net-zero ambition of neutral greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 is a complex and challenging goal that requires a whole-of-society approach. The initiative calls for all companies operating in Canada to voluntarily commit to developing and implementing a plan to achieve Canada's net-zero ambition, supported by clear technical standards and public reporting requirements. So far, the 2030 emissions reduction plan aims at “clean air and good jobs, a healthy environment and a strong economy.” The problem lies in the significant gap in the Federal Government's plans: the health sector's direct contribution to the net-zero transition. Healthcare is a highly resource-intensive and polluting industry, estimated at 5.2% of global emissions and increasing. Moreover, Canada's health sector is estimated to be the second most carbon-intensive in the world after that of the U.S. There is clearly work to do, Professor Miller evaluates.
Using of opioids for chronic pain: Controversies, guidelines, research needs
Authors: Buckley Norm , Busse Jason 
Published: April 2023

Using of opioids for chronic pain: Controversies, guidelines, research needs
First in a series of five articles, Norm Buckley and Jason Busse explore the trials and tribulations associated with using opioids for chronic pain, particularly in Canada. The prescription of opioids for chronic pain is both clinically controversial and a highly politicized arena. Although rigorously developed clinical practice guidelines, when followed, can improve patient care, a number of other issues affect the behaviour of physicians, other healthcare providers and agencies responsible for access to treatment. This is the first of five editorials that will be published over the next year that will review the use of opioids for chronic noncancer pain, with a particular focus on Canada.
Revolutionary pain relief cream and two-minute exercise to cure and prevent lower back pain
Authors: Bertrand Hélène 
Published: April 2023

Revolutionary pain relief cream and two-minute exercise to cure and prevent lower back pain
In an interview with Open Access Government, Dr Helene Bertrand looks to her own back pain journey and the ways she has found to heal herself. Dr. Bertrand suffered from lower back pain for 37 years following the birth of her first child, but despite trying everything, she couldn't get the pain to go away. In 2003, she started working on prolotherapy after using it to relieve her own pain. This is when she started helping patients, and her demand skyrocketed. After conducting a research project on rotator cuff tendinopathy, she realised it was twice as good as physiotherapy in improving pain and function in the shoulder. She then published this paper on rotator cuff tendinopathy “Dextrose Prolotherapy Versus Control Injections in Painful Rotator Cuff Tendinopathy”(1) and started getting referrals. It was then that Helene decided she was going to concentrate on treating pain. After trying 16 different base creams, in 2014, they came up with QR cream, a quick pain relief cream made using Mannitol. She also came up with a two-minute exercise that could relieve lower back pain instantly.
Policy recommendations for Japan towards achieving labour CRS/ RBC
Authors: Sugawara Emi 
Published: April 2023

Policy recommendations for Japan towards achieving labour CRS/ RBC
The government's current policy can be improved. Therefore, it is an urgent task to create an overarching policy vision to help Japan on its journey towards Labour CSR/RBC. The study “Policy recommendations for Japan towards achieving the labour dimension of corporate social responsibility: Japan's national policy concerning business and human rights” (co-authors Prof. Emi Sugawara, Osaka University of Economics and Law and Ryusuke Tanaka, ILO Tokyo) analyses the norms developed in the context of international instruments, such as the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), and the dynamism of normative development led by diverse actors' implementation of those norms.(1)
Ultrananocrystaline diamond (UNCD™) coatings for new generations high-tech/ medical devices/prostheses
Authors: Auciello Orlando 
Published: April 2023

Ultrananocrystaline diamond (UNCD™) coatings for new generations high-tech/ medical devices/prostheses
This article provides a summary of materials science, materials integration strategies, materials properties, and design and development of new generations of industrial products, high-tech and external/implantable medical devices/prostheses, and treatment of medical conditions, based on the unique biocompatible Ultrananocrystalline Diamond (UNCD™) coating co-developed by Auciello and colleagues, and key oxide films and nanoparticles, to improve the quality of life of people worldwide. The target audience for this article includes undergraduate/graduate students, postdocs, scientists and engineers in Academia and Industry in different fields of science and technology, including materials scientists, mechanical engineers, bioengineers, applied physicists/chemists, medical device designers/manufacturers, and medical doctors/surgeons, who, by knowing more about biomaterials and devices they are implanting in people, may make better decisions when selecting a device based on the appropriate material for implantation.
Kinematic redundancy: Kinetics for use with redundant manipulators
Authors: Okabe Kousuke 
Published: April 2023

Kinematic redundancy: Kinetics for use with redundant manipulators
Kousuke Okabe, an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, explores kinematic redundancy and the redundant manipulator using the Grassmann algebra. In recent years, the industrial world has witnessed the launch of manipulators with kinematic redundancy such as those from Yaskawa Electric Corporation's MOTOMAN-SIA series. However, for many of these, redundancy is applied kinematically, through contact avoidance between the arm and the environment, and not dynamically. The robot's operations include contact avoidance and turning movements. Much of the time when it is not required, the redundancy is not utilised, but rather consumes more energy due to the increased weight.
Moral markets in energy: Bridging the gap between policy, industry, and society
Authors: Georgallis Panikos 
Published: April 2023

Moral markets in energy: Bridging the gap between policy, industry, and society
Dr. Panikos Georgallis, an Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam, does research on the interaction between companies and their socio-political environment when adapting to moral markets. Moral markets are sectors that emerge not only to address an economic opportunity but also to solve some social or environmental problems. This includes, for example, ethical fashion, organic goods, grass-fed meat, sustainable forestry, renewable energy, fair trade products, recycling and now, plant-based meat. These markets emerged to address some broader social or environmental challenge. They differ from conventional markets in a couple of ways. One is that their products are considered superior, not from a functional or a cost-based perspective, but normatively superior. We think that fair-trade products are better than non-fair-trade products, not because we can tell a difference in taste, but because of the way farmers are paid.
The importance of good childcare services for gender equality
Authors: Naumann Ingela 
Published: April 2023

The importance of good childcare services for gender equality
Professor Ingela Naumann at Fribourg University discusses the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on childcare arrangements and family wellbeing, and how it highlighted gendered care norms. The COVID-pandemic put a spotlight on a central conundrum of modern society: you cannot do your job while simultaneously looking after your child. Whatever you do, in the long run one or the other will suffer: You can park your child in front of the TV so you can do that online meeting (bad educational value!), or you pretend to be present in that meeting while, actually, you are stacking blocks with your child (and you might miss that important part in the meeting for your input!). Yet, during COVID-lockdowns when childcare services and schools were closed and employment moved online for many, scores of parents tried to do exactly that: juggle employment and childcare in their homes, all at once. How did they fare?
An economic analysis of social welfare
Authors: Ng Yew-Kwang 
Published: April 2023

An economic analysis of social welfare
Welfare economics may be defined as the branch of study which formu lates propositions by which we can say that the social welfare in one economic situation is higher or lower than in another (Ng 2004, 2015(1)). Briefly, it is the economic analysis of social welfare. As a society consists of individuals in that society, social welfare is just the welfare of individuals in that society. Here, welfare is defined as the happiness of the individual. Though some authors since Aristotle require some ethical/eudemonic elements in the definition of welfare in addition to happiness, I argue (Ng 2022, Ch.1) that it is most simple to separate the subjective/hedonic element from the eudemonic element; the latter element being regarded as an issue in morality, not in the concept of welfare or happiness
Exploring current and future therapies for childhood astrocytoma
Authors: Houghton Peter J 
Published: April 2023

Exploring current and future therapies for childhood astrocytoma
Here, Doctor Peter J Houghton explains current therapies for childhood brain cancer what needs to change to ensure better outcomes for children diagnosed with astrocytoma in the future. Cancer in children is rare, representing less than 1% of all cancers in the U.S. Yet, despite major advances in treating childhood cancer, it remains the major cause of disease-related death in children up to 19 years of age in the U.S. It is estimated that 1 in 285 children will be diagnosed with cancer.
Demographic pressures on the Egyptian labour market
Authors: Assaad Ragui 
Published: April 2023

Demographic pressures on the Egyptian labour market
Ragui Assaad, Professor from Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, explores the upcoming resumption of demographic pressures on the Egyptian labour market and what can be done about it. Although unemployment rates have been falling in Egypt in recent years, this trend will likely reverse in the next five to ten years as the “echo” generation comes of age and starts entering the labor market and substantially increasing labor supply.
Sustainable production of pheromones now a reality
Authors: Borodina Irina 
Published: April 2023

Sustainable production of pheromones now a reality
When the PHERA Project started, it was with an ambitious goal to prove that insect pheromones can be produced using a biological rather than a chemical process. A seeming subtlety, yet with the potential to propel agriculture in a much more sustainable direction involving less pesticides. Now, nearing its end, the EU-funded PHERA Project reveals just how far it has come. When modern insecticides were introduced around World War II, it was accompanied by optimism. Insecticides quickly helped to boost agricultural output for a growing global population. In time, however, concerns arose about their environmental and human impacts. Insecticides also became less effective as insects developed resistance to them. Instead, integrated pest management (IPM) became more prevalent.
How entrepreneurship industry saved COVID fighting nanotechnology?
Authors: Webster Tom 
Published: April 2023

How entrepreneurship industry saved COVID fighting nanotechnology?
Here Thomas J. Webster, Ph.D. explores how Nanotechnology was crucial in the battle against COVID-19 and how entrepreneurship helped it thrive. Our healthcare system was ill-prepared for a viral pandemic, as well as many other health crises. Our only recourse when COVID emerged was to shut everything down and tell people not to interact for fear of spreading the virus. Stay home. Cancel trips. Do everything virtually. There are few examples of larger healthcare failures than COVID, when the only way to stop a virus from spreading was to tell people to stop seeing each other. Fortunately, vaccines eventually emerged, masks were worn, diagnostic kits were developed, and we have learned to live with SARS-CoV-2. But how did we get to such a dark place in our healthcare system, and what technologies helped us? In my experience, it was nanotechnology.
FMRI neurofeedback: Novel interventions for depression
Authors: Young Kymberly 
Published: April 2023

FMRI neurofeedback: Novel interventions for depression
Kymberly Young, an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, discusses neurofeedback as a novel non-invasive intervention for depression. Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a chronic, disabling, and devastation condition that is the leading cause of disability worldwide (Friedrich, 2017). Up to two-thirds of patients who seek standard interventions will not respond, while only one-half of patients who do will achieve sustained remission (Cain, 2007). Therefore, there is a pressing need to research and develop novel non-invasive interventions for MDD, particularly in those who have failed to respond to previous treatments such as antidepressant medications.
Peroxisomes, lipids, and neurodegeneration
Authors: Schrader Michael 
Published: April 2023

Peroxisomes, lipids, and neurodegeneration
Prof. Michael Schrader at the University of Exeter looks to understand the role of peroxisomes in human health and disease. The proper functioning of eukaryotic cells depends on membrane-bound subcellular compartments (organelles). They create distinct and unique reaction chambers with an optimised environment to promote various metabolic reactions required to sustain life. These compartments are highly dynamic and can alter their position, number, enzymatic content, and morphology according to cellular needs or environmental changes. In addition, organelles interact, communicate, and cooperate in metabolic pathways and tasks distributed across different organelles. Prof. Schrader and his team in the Dept. of Biosciences at the University of Exeter are investigating how these processes are regulated, and what molecular components and mechanisms are involved, with a particular focus on peroxisomes.
Genetic coding: Roots of genetic readout in nucleic acid structural duality
Authors: Carter Charlie 
Published: April 2023

Genetic coding: Roots of genetic readout in nucleic acid structural duality
Charles W. Carter, Jr, from the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill explores the roots of genetic readout in the inherent structural duality of DNA and how genetic coding expanded its potential, enabling life to emerge. One of Nature's most ingenious inventions, the genetic code unlocked a vast molecular machinery enabling independently living cells to emerge from the complex chemistry that preceded the origin of life.
Fostering nonhuman primate (NHP) brain research without animal sacrifice
Authors: Duque Alvaro 
Published: April 2023

Fostering nonhuman primate (NHP) brain research without animal sacrifice
The MacBrain Resource Center (MBRC) at Yale University School of Medicine is positioning itself at the forefront of innovative ways to provide cost-effective means for scientists to conduct de novo nonhuman primate brain research with extant materials. This avoids superfluous animal sacrifice, increases study repeatability, decreases costs, and makes NHP brain research accessible to a much larger scientific community. Conditions that its Director, Dr. Alvaro Duque, believe will help advance neuroscience. The brain is a complex system and, as it is often the case with the study of complex systems, research is expensive and progress very slow.
Uncovering the potential for geoscience research in Canada's North
Authors: Mate David 
Published: April 2023

Uncovering the potential for geoscience research in Canada's North
David Mate, Executive Director of the Northern Canada Division, Geological Survey of Canada, shares how the GEM-GeoNorth program is using geoscience research to improve the quality of life for Canadians. We have a longstanding geological knowledge gap in Canada. The north – the area above 57° latitude – encompasses roughly 40 per cent of the total area of Canada. Despite the importance of this region to the culture, history and identity of our country and its people, it has historically been understudied compared to southern Canada. We have much to understand about geoscience research in this environment, and resource potential, as well as the resilience of the land and infrastructure to climate change.
Updating services for people with younger onset dementia and their caregivers
Authors: Kwok Timothy , Ho Florence , Wong Bel , Cheng Tobi 
Published: April 2023

Updating services for people with younger onset dementia and their caregivers
Researchers from the Jockey Club Centre for Positive Ageing analyse the services available for people with younger onset dementia, looking to improve the lives of those affected and their carers. People who exhibit dementia-related symptoms when they are under age 65 are categorised as people with younger onset dementia (YOD). Currently, there are 4.9 million people with YOD,(1, 2) accounting for 9% of the dementia population. Compared to people with late-onset dementia, such as dementia onset at or after 65 years old, people with YOD face different challenges and therefore require different support in their daily lives. However, the existing dementia services mainly focus on the elderly with late-onset dementia, suggesting that people with YOD and their caregivers are not adequately supported.(3, 4)
Ethnography and cinema as meditation tools in gang research
Authors: Feixa Carles , Sánchez-García José 
Published: April 2023

Ethnography and cinema as meditation tools in gang research
In this article, Carles Feixa and José Sánchez-García share two main results of the Special Features of the TRANSGANG project: White Paper and Documentary films which looks at mediation tools in gang research. During the last five years, the TRANSGANG Project has investigated transnational gangs as agents of mediation in twelve cities of three regions: Southern Europe (Barcelona, Madrid, Marseille, Milano), Northern Africa (Rabat-Salé, Algiers, Djendel, Tunis), and the Americas (Medellin, San Salvador, Santiago de Cuba and Chicago). Among the main outcomes of the project, two special features have used ethnography and cinema as mediation tools in gang research.
Refletindo sobre a formação inicial de professores de Educação Física: percepções docentes
Authors: Alviano Jr Wilson Alviano 
Published: April 2023

A presente pesquisa teve como proposta analisar aspectos da formação inicial de professores de Educação Física, utilizando como ponto de partida as representações de docentes do componente que atuam na Rede Municipal de Educação Básica das cidades de Santo André, São Bernardo do Campo e Diadema, municípios da região pertencente à Grande São Paulo conhecida como Grande ABC, ou ABC paulista, e egressos das Instituições de Ensino Superior ali situadas. A escolha da região se deu em função da diversidade das instituições ali presentes que oferecem o curso. O estudo objetivou compreender a elaboração das significações docentes construídas nos cursos de formação inicial de professores de Educação Física acerca da escola pública e da docência. Foram gravadas em áudio entrevistas semi-estruturadas com docentes egressos dos cursos das diferentes IES pertencentes à região, e que atuem como docentes de escolas das redes públicas municipais. Pudemos, ao longo da pesquisa, verificar de que forma os currículos de diferentes instituições de uma mesma região compreendem a escola pública e a docência do componente Educação Física na formação inicial. Embora o território de formação e de atuação seja o mesmo, os docentes identificam um grande distanciamento entre os conhecimentos priorizados no curso de origem e aqueles requisitados pelo cotidiano escolar. Chamam a atenção para as ausências de temáticas relevantes para atuação na escola contemporânea e denunciam o privilégio concedido a saberes por eles entendidos como secundários ou até mesmo vistos como desnecessários na prática pedagógica. As análises realizadas a partir do material coletado procuraram compreender quais discursos são legitimados e quais estão interditados nos currículos a que os sujeitos da pesquisa foram submetidos. As considerações objetivaram trazer um deslocamento para discutir alternativas de mudanças e de reinterpretação do currículo de formação de professores de Educação Física, estabelecendo assim sentidos que caminhem ao encontro de perspectivas sintonizadas com o cotidiano escolar, suas necessidades e sua realidade.