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American Thoracic Society
Meeting Announcement

If you want to highlight science on the cutting edge, register now for a complimentary media pass for the ATS 2026 International Conference in Orlando, Florida. We will premiere the ATS AI Lab Exposition Space in the exhibit hall. This is part of a larger AI strategy anchored in education, research and innovation, clinical implementation, community engagement as well as policy, ethics and regulatory measures.

Meeting: ATS 2026 International Conference

Is tourism the most undervalued skills training ground in the economy? Hospitality work builds over 100 transferable skills, challenging the sector’s ‘low-skilled’ reputation

University of Surrey
Peer-Reviewed Publication

People working in tourism and hospitality develop more than 100 transferable skills – from empathy and resilience to problem-solving and communication – that are in demand across every sector of the economy, according to research from the University of Surrey that has already shaped European policy and been translated into children’s books distributed across the continent.

Journal: Annals of Tourism Research

Does a company’s political power affect its success in obtaining federal contracts?

Wiley
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A study published in Contemporary Economic Policy investigated the extent to which the companies’ political investments influence their success in the competition for federal contracts.

Journal: Contemporary Economic Policy

Powering the future of South Asia: The economic math behind carbon neutrality

Biochar Editorial Office, Shenyang Agricultural University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

With over a fifth of the global population, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) represents a massive piece of the international climate puzzle. Figuring out how these eight nations can expand their economies without severely degrading the atmosphere is an urgent, complex challenge. Now, an in-depth econometric analysis provides a concrete, data-backed roadmap for balancing regional wealth with environmental health.

Authored by corresponding researcher Imran Khan, who bridges the Department of Economics at The University of Haripur in Pakistan and the School of Economics and Management at China University of Mining and Technology in China, this paper replaces theoretical climate goals with hard numbers. By deploying advanced statistical tools—specifically Panel Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) models and cointegration tests—the research tracks the exact push-and-pull between national wealth generation and carbon dioxide outputs across the region.

The investigation highlights a stubborn economic paradox. As South Asian countries globalize and build up their industrial sectors, their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) reliably climbs. However, this financial growth historically demands a steep atmospheric toll.

Funder: Ongoing Research Funding Program, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Low-income students and girls are steered away from “risky” creative careers at school

University of Cambridge
Reports and Proceedings

Class and gender inequalities in the UK’s creative industries can be traced back to school, according to a new report which finds that many young people – especially girls and those from low-income backgrounds – are steadily steered away from subjects like art, music and drama during their education. The study analysed the educational records of 1.7 million students, longitudinal data about 7,200 young people’s progress into work, and interviews and surveys with people in creative work. The report’s authors criticise entrenched “educational hierarchies” that treat both creative subjects, and Further Education qualifications in those subjects, as low-status and financially “risky”. They argue that this creates a “narrowing pathway” for students into the creative industries.

New research reveals high option trading fees and barriers to competition

Carnegie Mellon University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Could the rules of the options market be quietly costing you ten times more than your stock trades? A new study in The Review of Financial Studies, “Payment for Order Flow and Option Internalization,” uncovers how current market rules protect high profits for option wholesalers and create significant financial incentives for brokers to favor option trading over stocks. Authors Thomas Ernst of the University of Maryland and Chester Spatt of Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business highlight that while recent regulatory focus centers on the stock market, the more complex and lucrative options market remains largely unaddressed.

Journal: Review of Financial Studies

Medicare plan switching and hospice care among decedents with advanced cancer

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In this cohort study of Medicare decedents with advanced cancers, continuous Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollees were most likely to receive hospice at home, while those who switched from MA to traditional Medicare more frequently received hospice care in nursing homes. Plan switching near the end-of-life (EOL) may reflect access barriers, highlighting the importance of addressing care coordination to improve EOL care.

Journal: JAMA Network Open

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