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Long-term trends in pediatric self-injury in high-income countries

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About The Study: This systematic review and meta-analysis of 42 studies observed a relative increase in the annual rate of self-injury visits to health care and self-reported self-injury among children and youth, with variability in baseline rates across studies in 12 high-income countries. Effective, contextually informed, large-scale prevention initiatives are urgently needed to curb the rise in self-injury within high-income countries, particularly among female individuals.

Journal: JAMA Pediatrics

How the 2008 recession shifted class identity

Association for Psychological Science
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study explores how the economic and social class of Americans changed after the Great Recession.

Journal: Psychological Science

New research outlines pathway to achieve high well-being and a safe climate without economic growth

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Roadmap shows how to achieve good lives for all and a safe climate by reorienting production and distribution toward well-being and ecological transformation instead of capital accumulation and elite consumption.

Journal: Nature Climate Change

Seeing global trade through the lens of physics

Complexity Science Hub
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research from the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) shows why widely used algorithms for measuring economic complexity produce trustworthy results and how these tools may benefit diverse areas such as ecology, social science, and agentic AI.

Journal: Physical Review E

Study documents conflict between commerce and conservation at mining operation in Bangladesh

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study using multidecade satellite imagery and face-to-face human interviews tracked the environmental and societal impacts of gravel mining in the Lubha River, Northeast Bangladesh. The researchers found that the river had recovered its natural shape within just four years after gravel mining stopped. However, the local economy did not bounce back nearly as quickly.

Journal: Cell Reports Sustainability
Funder: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Can merging hotels improve efficiency? Data-driven model uncovers major gains

Sultan Qaboos University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study published in The Journal of Engineering Research introduces a data-driven framework showing that hotel mergers can generate significant resource savings—even among already efficient hotels—by optimising operational inputs such as rooms, beds, staff, and salaries. The approach helps identify merger partnerships with the greatest potential efficiency gains in the hospitality sector.

Journal: The Journal of Engineering Research [TJER]

A nonparametric framework for inference on integrated quantiles

KeAi Communications Co., Ltd.
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study presents a general, nonparametric statistical inference theory for integrals of quantiles without assuming a particular sampling design or dependence structure. The authors discuss conditions for consistency, bias, and asymptotic normality, and illustrate how the framework applies to widely used quantities in risk and inequality measurement, including tail-value-at-risk as well as Lorenz and Gini curves. Notes for dependent (time-series) data are also provided.

Journal: Risk Sciences
Funder: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Mitacs

US gender differences in poverty rates may be associated with the varying burden of childcare

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Gender differences in poverty rates in the United States may be associated with women’s differing circumstances — particularly the burden of dependent children — rather than inherent to gender itself, according to a new study published March 11, 2026 in the open-access journal PLOS One by Patti Fisher of Virginia Tech, USA.

Journal: PLOS One

Foreign aid cuts to tuberculosis services could cost families $80 billion worldwide

Boston University School of Public Health
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study in PLOS Medicine led by Boston University School of Public Health estimated that the loss of USAID support could generate about $7.5 billion in additional costs for low- and middle-income households that include at least one person diagnosed with TB. An additional four million households could experience “catastrophic costs,” defined by the World Health Organization’s End TB Strategy as costs that include related medical and nonmedical costs, as well as indirect costs, that exceed 20 percent of a person’s annual household income.

Journal: PLOS Medicine

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