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Public Health 2022 May 23;207:108-112. Epub 2022 May 23.

Division of Epidemiology, Department of Health Informatics and Public Health, Tohoku University School of Public Health, Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.

Objectives: Cognitive social capital (SC), such as attitude, trust, or norms, may help improve resilience among survivors, thus improving their health. However, the association between cognitive SC and the risk of all-cause mortality among survivors after the natural disaster has never been investigated. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the association between cognitive SC and the risk of all-cause mortality among survivors of the Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE). Read More

PLoS One 2022 26;17(5):e0269117. Epub 2022 May 26.

School of Allied Health, Faculty of Education and Health Sciences, Ageing Research Centre, Health Research Institute, University of Limerick, Ireland.

Background: There is encouraging evidence that interdisciplinary teams of Health and Social Care Professionals (HSCPs) can enhance patient care in the Emergency Department (ED), especially for older adults with complex needs. However, no formal process evaluations of implementations of ED-based HSCP interventions are available. The study aimed to evaluate the development and delivery of a HSCP team intervention for older adults in the ED of a large Irish teaching hospital. Read More

Disasters 2022 May 26. Epub 2022 May 26.

MPH, PhD, Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom.

Efforts to reduce the gap between the research evidence base and humanitarian responses have focused on producing quality evidence and ensuring its use for decision-making. Yet how evidence translates to field-level implementation is not well understood in humanitarian contexts. This study analysed how recommendations produced through academic research partnerships were implemented by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Lebanon and Myanmar. Read More

PLoS One 2022 26;17(5):e0268453. Epub 2022 May 26.

College of Safety Science and Engineering, Liaoning Technical University, Huludao, Liaoning, PR China.

An explosion with a discontinuous gas supply (DGS-explosion) is more complicated than a common secondary explosion. We present the results of a study on the propagation laws of the DGS-explosion induced by a gas explosion in excavation roadways. A rectangular tube was established using ANSYS, similar to an excavation roadway in an underground coal mine. Read More

Carbon Balance Manag 2022 May 26;17(1). Epub 2022 May 26.

State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, No. 19 XinJieKouWai St., HaiDian District, Beijing, 100875, China.

Background: Quantifying the stock of soil organic carbon (SOC) and evaluating its potential impact factors is important to evaluating global climate change. Human disturbances and past climate are known to influence the rates of carbon fixation, soil physiochemical properties, soil microbial diversity and plant functional traits, which ultimately affect the current SOC storage. However, whether and how the paleoclimate and human disturbances affect the distribution of SOC storage on the high-altitude Tibetan Plateau remain largely unknown. Read More