Behind the Special Collection: Intelligent Manufacturing of Advanced Materials in Structural Applications
Behind the Special Collection: Intelligent Manufacturing of Advanced Materials in Structural Applications

In the ever-evolving landscape of technological advancements, one concept has captured the imagination and potential for transformative change: artificial intelligence. This groundbreaking development in information and communication technology has become the catalyst for what we now recognize as intelligent manufacturing. Gone are the days when the performance of modern machine tools relied solely on the operator's theoretical and experimental knowledge. Instead, a new era has dawned, characterized by intelligent behaviors that seamlessly integrate sensing, simulating, modeling, controlling, and monitoring processes. This metamorphosis has given rise to intelligent manufacturing, which outshines its traditional counterpart in ways previously thought unimaginable.

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Research, Editor's PicksWehida Niazispecial collections, manufacturing, engineering
Bridging the Gap: Harnessing Community Health Workers to Boost Men's Health
Bridging the Gap: Harnessing Community Health Workers to Boost Men's Health

Men have shorter life spans and higher rates of preventable illnesses and diseases than women. Despite these concerns, men are less likely to seek preventive healthcare and engage in health promotion efforts – things that have led them to be called a “hard to reach” group. However, research among men has shown that men really do care about their health. This represents a significant contradiction. This contradiction highlights the need to improve health promotion efforts among men.

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Editor's Picks, ResearchRachel Wolfecommunity health, men's health, healthcare, health promotion programs
Navigating the Diabetes Maze: Uncovering the Invisible Burden of Socially Vulnerable Patients
Navigating the Diabetes Maze: Uncovering the Invisible Burden of Socially Vulnerable Patients

Socially vulnerable type 2 diabetes patients live shorter lives, experience more diabetes complications and benefit less from health services than other type 2 diabetes patients. Diabetes treatment involves both formal health care including consultations and lab tests and self-care including dietary changes, exercise, and medication taking. As disease progresses patients often experience comorbidities and complications demanding specialized health care. This is often more centralized and demand referral potentially making it challenging for socially vulnerable patients first to access and then to attend care.

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Editor's Picks, ResearchMoazzma Arshaddiabetes
Optimizing Nutrient Preservation: The Science of Homogenizing Human Milk
Optimizing Nutrient Preservation: The Science of Homogenizing Human Milk

Human milk has a balanced composition and is considered the first source of nutrition for newborn infants. Its components include antibodies, digestive enzymes, beneficial microorganisms and hormones. However, studies show that the composition of human milk may undergo variations due to intrinsic and extrinsic factors.

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Research, Editor's PicksRachel Wolfenutrition, milk, infant health, premature infants
Reimagining the future of peer review beyond operations
Reimagining the future of peer review beyond operations

Beyond the doom and gloom of AI taking over peer review and the excitement of how this technology could transform scholarly publishing, this peer review week I take stock of how peer review could work in future. The focus of this article is not to discuss the merits and demerits of each mode of peer review but to instead look beyond the operational possibilities of peer review and how these changes can benefit research communities.

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Author ServicesRachel Wolfepeer review week, AI, research integrity
7 Top Tips to Ensure your Submission Makes it to Peer Review
7 Top Tips to Ensure your Submission Makes it to Peer Review

Sage’s ever-evolving peer review processes are adapted to be robust and reflect the latest industry standards. We are committed to ensuring that authors feel confident and well-informed when submitting their manuscripts to our journals. We’ve therefore highlighted 7 helpful tips authors should keep in mind when submitting their manuscripts.  

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Author Services, ResearchWehida Niazipeer review, peer review week, top tips, submissions
Evolution in Peer Review: Exploring Alternative Models for Enhanced Academic Publishing
Evolution in Peer Review: Exploring Alternative Models for Enhanced Academic Publishing

Peer review, as the term suggests, has been the standard for maintaining the quality of academic research publications. The traditional model of peer review involves research papers being assessed by a small number or group of scholars having expertise in the same field, before publication. There are two prominent modes of review that exist in the traditional peer review process, which are single-anonymized peer review and double-anonymized peer review. Despite its crucial role in the academic research publication process, it is undeniable that biases persist within this system.

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ResearchWehida Niazipeer review week, peer review, academia
Creating Queer Spaces from Film Sets to Sex Ed Classrooms: Lessons Learned from Developing Inclusive Sex Education Training Videos
Creating Queer Spaces from Film Sets to Sex Ed Classrooms: Lessons Learned from Developing Inclusive Sex Education Training Videos

Sex education in schools is not comprehensive, and even less so for LGBTQ+ students. As Project Director for dfusion Inc’s SkillFlix for Educators project, Mia Barrett knew this was an opportunity to create a meaningful resource for the field. SkillFlix for Educators is a digital training platform designed to help educators develop skills to effectively facilitate sexuality education, regardless of their curriculum or their own training background.   

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ResearchRachel WolfeLGBTQIA+, sex education, filmmaking, queer, inclusive education
University Student Mental Health – An important window of opportunity for prevention and early intervention
University Student Mental Health – An important window of opportunity for prevention and early intervention

The transition to higher education coincides with a pivotal period in psychosocial and neurobiological development.  It is therefore a priority to understand the determinants of university student well-being and mental health and use this evidence to develop and further refine student well-being support – at the individual, learning community and institutional levels.

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Research, Editor's PicksRachel Wolfestudents, mental health, Higher Education, psychosocial, student stress
Call for Papers: Learning from the Past: Using History to Enhance Public Health Practice and Policy
Call for Papers: Learning from the Past: Using History to Enhance Public Health Practice and Policy

It is with great pleasure that we introduce our "Special Collection on Learning from the Past: Using History to Enhance Public Health Practice and Policy." This collection will bring together historians of health with practitioners of public health and health policy, to find ways for past experiments and experiences to benefit the health of populations today

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ResearchRachel Wolfespecial collections, call for papers, history, public health and practice
Quality Improvement in Healthcare – Reflections from the Authors
Quality Improvement in Healthcare – Reflections from the Authors

Quality improvement (QI) has been the core of much of Dr. Maria Kordowicz and Niroshan Siriwardena’s work both as practitioners and researchers. They wanted to write an accessible guide for students and practitioners which would not only convey the theoretical underpinnings of QI, but also consider the applied elements of what it takes to be an ‘improver’. 

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Research, Editor's PicksRachel Wolfehealthcare, quality improvement, books, improver
Advancing Research and Awareness in Rare Genitourinary Cancers: A Call to Action
Advancing Research and Awareness in Rare Genitourinary Cancers: A Call to Action

In the ever-evolving landscape of medical research, there are areas that often remain in the shadows, waiting for dedicated attention and innovative solutions. Genitourinary cancers, a complex and diverse group of malignancies, are a prime example of this. This is why Dr. Rezazadeh and are proud to introduce our Special Collection aimed at shedding light on rare genitourinary cancers and driving forward the quest for improved patient outcomes.

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ResearchRachel Wolfespecial collections, improved patient outcomes, genitourinary cancers, call for papers
Enhancing Nodule Biopsy Through Technology Integration
Enhancing Nodule Biopsy Through Technology Integration

Lung cancer was the leading cause of cancer-related death in 2020. Nearly half of those patients diagnosed were found to be late-stage. There has been ongoing work to increase screening for lung cancer in at-risk patients with enhanced imaging. However, after identification of suspicious masses, there remains the task of diagnosing any cancerous lesions. Unfortunately, obtaining accurate biopsy results has been a challenge either due to inaccurate results from conventional bronchoscopy, or risk from alternative mechanisms of biopsy.

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ResearchRachel Wolfecancer, technology, biopsy, bronchoscopy
Ergonomics for Cleft Providers
Ergonomics for Cleft Providers

When we think about superheroes, we often envision invincible, impervious-to-harm individuals with superpowers beyond imagination. Yet, outside the pages of comic books and movies, real-life heroes work diligently to make this world a better place. They may not wear capes or wield extraordinary abilities, but their superpower lies in their determination to transform people's lives. Some of them wear uniforms and fight crime, while some others have the power to create smiles.

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Editor's Picks, ResearchMoazzma Arshadergonomics