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Telemedicine adoption, US ambulatory visits, and total medical spending, 2019-2023

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About The Study: Nationwide telemedicine adoption was not significantly associated with changes in visits or spending, either overall or when stratified by urbanicity, payer type, or area-level social vulnerability, thus easing concerns about large utilization and spending increases from telemedicine expansion.

Journal: JAMA Network Open

Study identifies product-category differences in language associated with click-through rates in Japanese Instagram advertisements

University of Tsukuba
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at University of Tsukuba examined Japanese-language Instagram advertisements to determine how the linguistic features of ad copy are associated with click-through rates (CTR). The findings reveal marked differences by product category. While linguistic expressions related to health risk and discrepancies between a current and an ideal state were positively associated with CTR in supplement advertisements, expressions related to visual perception, positive emotion, and motion were associated with higher CTR in cosmetic advertisements. This study provides one of the first large-scale empirical examinations of the association between linguistic features in Japanese-language Instagram ad copy and CTR across product categories.

Journal: PLOS One

Ground-breaking study finds immigrants face a host of hurdles in the workforce

University of British Columbia
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Immigrants play an essential role in the workforce in Canada and around the world, but immigrants face a host of hurdles trying to translate their knowledge, skills and abilities in ways that employers can recognize and value. A new UBC Sauder study created a cutting-edge machine learning model to review more than 13,000 research papers, dating from 1888 to 2022, and from fields including economics, sociology and anthropology. They found the lack of recognition of degrees, certificates and licenses make it especially difficult for immigrants to effectively translate their human capital in the host market.

Journal: Applied Psychology

On air travel and digital currencies

Goethe University Frankfurt
Grant and Award Announcement

Each year, Goethe University’s Faculty of Law recognizes exceptional academic achievement through a number of prestigious awards. The 2026 Baker McKenzie Award, presented by the renowned law firm of the same name, will go to Dr. Alexander Heger and Dr. Felix-Julius Konow for their outstanding doctoral dissertations in business law.

A study quantifies for the first time in the European population the impact of socioeconomic inequality on temperature-related mortality

Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Regions with greater socioeconomic inequalities are more affected by cold weather, whereas areas with higher levels of wealth and urbanisation are at greater risk during heatwaves and lower risk during cold spells. This is shown by a study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre supported by the ”la Caixa” Foundation. The results, published in Nature Health, for the first time quantify across the urban and rural population of 32 European countries how socioeconomic inequalities influence temperature-related mortality.

Journal: Nature Health
Funder: European Research Council, ERC Proof-of-Concept, Swedish Research Council

Cash transfers in the perinatal period and investigations of infant maltreatment

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About The Study: In this study, the Rx Kids prenatal and infant cash prescription program was associated with a significant reduction in investigated allegations of maltreatment among infants. These findings provide important evidence about the role of economic stability in preventing child welfare system involvement.

Journal: JAMA Pediatrics

Predicting the carbon cost of land-use change in Bangladesh’s Chittagong hill tracts

Biochar Editorial Office, Shenyang Agricultural University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study warns that continuing forest loss and land-use change in Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts could steadily reduce the region’s ability to store carbon, with measurable environmental and economic consequences by 2043.

Journal: Carbon Research

Toward startup-friendly smart cities

Toyohashi University of Technology (TUT)
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team from the Urban and Transportation Systems Laboratory, Department of Architecture and Urban Systems, Toyohashi University of Technology (lead researcher: Dr. Mustafa Mutahari), has developed a quantitative policy evaluation framework for assessing how cities can attract startups while maintaining high living standards. In this study, the team evaluated the startup ecosystem under an air-front smart city using a model that integrates Quality of Life (QOL), Quality of Business (QOB), and accessibility from both digital and physical dimensions, and revealed that policy, accessibility, and QOL are the key determinants. This research was conducted as part of the JST e-ASIA Joint Research Program, an international collaborative project involving Japan, Thailand, and the Philippines, and the findings have been published in Smart Cities, an international academic journal.

Journal: Smart Cities

Forest fuel treatments reduce wildfire spread, prevent $2.8 billion in damage

University of California - Davis
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A UC Davis study finds every dollar spent on forest fuel treatments saves $3.75 in wildfire damages.

Journal: Science
Funder: U.S. Forest Service, Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics

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