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Western Kenyan farmers favor restoring land with native trees. Yet barriers remain

The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Smallholders in Western Kenya strongly support native-tree restoration due to long-term benefits for landscape restoration, productivity and livelihoods, new research shows. New digital tools and community buy-in are successfully backing restoration projects, though barriers remain. Researchers say that short-term farmers’ needs and concerns to planting trees should be given more attention to ensure the success of restoration projects.

Journal: People and Nature

How minority ownership labels influence brand evaluations

American Marketing Association

Disclosing minority ownership can build resilience during product failures by leveraging consumer empathy.

Journal: Journal of Marketing

Opting for R-rated: One way to draw more customers is to lock out others

University of Texas at Austin

Why would film producers seek an R rating instead of making their film accessible to a broader audience? There are key financial reasons, and the principle applies to marketing for many types of products and services, says Raghunath Rao, chair of the Department of Marketing and the Arthur James Douglass Centennial Professor in Entrepreneurship and Small Business at Texas McCombs. Sometime, pushing away one group of customers can ultimately increase profits.

Journal: Quantitative Marketing and Economics

Strategic corporate social responsibility can create social, economic value

Penn State
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Strategic corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts that are directly related to a hospitality company’s core business operations and competencies can help companies create both social and business value, according to researchers in the Penn State School of Hospitality Management.

Journal: Tourism Economics

Announcing Quanta Books, a new imprint dedicated to illuminating science

Simons Foundation
Business Announcement

The Simons Foundation and publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux announce the launch of Quanta Books, a partnership imprint led by Thomas Lin, the founding editor of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Quanta Magazine. The imprint’s books will illuminate and elucidate the central questions and fundamental ideas of modern science.

Exposure to cold and heat could affect adolescents’ mental health

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

The research, conducted on nearly 5,000 adolescents from the Netherlands (3,934) and Spain (885), highlights how exposure to climate-related temperature influences psychiatric symptoms such as anxiety, depression, and attention problems.

Journal: JAMA Network Open
Funder: Instituto de Salud Carlos III, European Union, Miguel Servet-FEDER, Generalitat Valenciana, Consejo General de Enfermería, Fundación Alicia Koplowitz, CIBERESP, Fundación Cajastur, Universidad de Oviedo, Department of Health of the Basque Government, Provincial Government of Gipuzkoa, Generalitat de Catalunya, Ministry of Research and Universities of the Government of Catalonia, Agence Nationale de Securite Sanitaire de l’Alimentation de l’Environnement et du Travail, Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, Advancing Tools for Human Early Lifecourse Exposome research and Translation (ATHLETE), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI), European Social Fund

Standardizing provider assessments reveals important information about gun and opioid access for veterans at risk of suicide

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Standardizing an assessment process currently used by doctors during care discussions with veterans at risk for suicide in other context could shed more light on the risks related to firearms and opioids.

Journal: JAMA Network Open