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The transition to green industrial policies has become a global imperative as countries strive to achieve sustainable economic growth parallel to a reduction of environmental externalities. Developing countries face unique challenges in adopting green industrial policy, as they are latecomers to industrialization and must balance economic growth with stringent environmental controls. This study aims to gain insights into the progression of publications on green industrialization in developing countries and identify key themes and research gaps. By using a systematic-cum-bibliometric review, the study identified publication trends, influential articles and research themes. The analysis of the merged dataset of 539 articles from Scopus and Web of Science databases revealed a notable increase in publications from 2014 to 2022, driven by the momentum of the Paris Climate Agreement. China emerged as a leading country in green industrial policy research, followed by the UK and the USA. The University of Sussex and Tsinghua University demonstrated significant contributions to the field. We identified six themes which offer valuable insights for adopting environmentally friendly policies while fostering economic growth and inclusivity. Targeted subsidies, technological innovation and collaboration are vital to accelerate the transition to green industrialization. Research gaps remain particularly in integrating the informal sector into green economies, harmonizing climate policies with international trade rules and understanding the impact of digital technology on green industrialization in developing countries. The findings have crucial implications for policymakers, researchers and stakeholders aiming to promote green industrial policies and sustainable development. The study calls for further research to expand the scope of data sources beyond Scopus and Web of Science to Google Scholar and Dimensions to enhance the breadth of knowledge in this field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this philosophical exploration, we investigate the concept of robotic moral environment interaction. The common view understands moral interaction to occur between agents endowed with ethical and interactive capacities. However, recent developments in moral philosophy argue that moral interaction also occurs in relation to the environment. Here conditions and situations of the environment contribute to human moral cognition and the formation of our moral experiences. Based on this philosophical position, we imagine robots interacting as moral environments—a novel conceptualization of human–robot moral interaction with an inherent capacity for moral augmentation. To explicate this idea, we first define moral environments as moral systems providing moral affordances. We then intuit and explicate two constitutive conditions of moral environments: the environment's moral ambiance and its moral atmosphere and compare them with real-life cases of moral environments—the moral landmarks. Based on these explications, we construct several explanatory cases to illustrate robots interacting as moral environments. Lastly, we set to evaluate the ethical challenges and wider social ramifications of using moral environment robots in the public space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Smallholder farmers, crucial to global food security, face challenges in sustainable integration into agricultural innovation due to inherent flaws in existing finance models. This research addresses the conspicuous gap in comprehensive reviews on sustainable finance in agriculture through a bibliometric approach. Financial constraints, limited market access, and climate vulnerability plague smallholder farmers, hindering the long-term sustainability of current financial models. This study aims to systematically map the scholarly landscape of sustainable finance models for smallholder farmers, focusing on the adoption of agricultural innovations. A critical knowledge gap exists regarding bibliometric patterns and trends in the adoption of agricultural innovations by smallholder farmers. The study utilizes the RAPID framework for a streamlined and evidence-based bibliometric review, employing RStudio and the bibliometrix-package. The analysis aims to recognize, assess, purge, investigate, and document key themes and emerging patterns in the literature. Noteworthy trends from bibliometric reviews indicate a rise in bibliometric approaches, with VOSviewer as a prevalent tool. This research contributes methodologically by advocating for Scopus as the primary database. The study's significance lies in informing policy, practice, and research initiatives supporting smallholder farmers. By revealing bibliometric patterns, this study aims to guide the design of innovative and context-specific financial instruments, fostering a more sustainable and inclusive agricultural landscape. In conclusion, this research endeavors to bridge the knowledge gap and provide novel insights at the intersection of sustainable finance and agricultural innovation adoption. The anticipated outcomes will inform the development of tailored financial models, advancing the resilience and productivity of smallholder farmers globally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The finance and natural resources revenue nexus play a critical role in an economy. The recent development and significant increase in academic literature regarding the resource-finance nexus are the primary motivations for conducting this study. This study aims to conduct a bibliometric analysis of 363 documents published between 1976 and 2021 collected from the Scopus database. The results have been demonstrated via graphs, tables, knowledge maps about the past trends, growth, and prospects using co-occurrence, co-authorship, and co-citation analysis via the VOSviewer tool. This study has identified prolific authors, journals, countries, academic institutions, and future pathways. The findings indicate that China has the highest share of publications (88, 24.2%), followed by Pakistan (58, 15.9%) and Turkey (37, 10.2%). The most productive academic institution is the Beijing Institute of Technology in China (13, 3.6%). This study proposes new avenues for further research concerning the resource-finance nexus, such as ecological footprint, sustainability, fiscal decentralization, green investment, energy prices, environmental quality, technological innovation, financial resource curse (especially the stock market resource curse), human capital, and renewable energy in policy development and sustainability towards the achievement of the SDGs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Surface temperature can be used as a tool for calculating sensible heat transfer. However, it needs to be associated with air temperature to identify the direction of heat flow (gain or loss). This study quantified sensible heat transfer in Japanese quail as a function of operative temperature. The meteorological variables were air temperature, relative humidity, and black globe temperature. Quail surface temperature was measured on 50 adult Coturnix coturnix japonica individuals 270 days old during 8 days by using a thermographic camera. The data were analyzed by the least-squares method to assess the effects of sex (male and female), period of the day (morning and afternoon), and body region (head, body, and feet). Quail surface temperature was strongly correlated with operative temperature. The total sensible heat flow was 64.02 W m−2. The morning period had a mean operative temperature of 22.48 °C, providing a higher gradient between air and quail temperature and thereby producing a higher heat flow (82.19 W m−2). In the afternoon, the heat transfer was lower (45.70 W m−2) because the operative temperature was higher (30.84 °C). Comparison between sexes showed that heat transfer was higher in females (67.37 W m−2) than in males (60.53 W m−2). The head served as an important thermal window, with a heat transfer of 78.24 W m−2, whereas the body and feet had a transfer of 56.80 W m−2. Heat transfer by sensible mechanisms was quantified in Japanese quail. Heat transfer depended greatly on ambient temperature. When the operative temperature was below 28 °C, sensible mechanisms were efficient in dissipating heat to the environment. When the ambient temperature exceeded 29 °C, quail could not effectively dissipate heat to the environment through sensible mechanisms. At 30 °C and above, heat loss shifted to heat gain, causing thermal stress in Japanese quail. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Brazil has one of the fastest-growing COVID-19 epidemics worldwide. Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) have been adopted at the municipal level with asynchronous actions taken across 5,568 municipalities and the Federal District. This paper systematises the fragmented information on NPIs reporting on a novel dataset with survey responses from 4,027 mayors, covering 72.3% of all municipalities in the country. This dataset responds to the urgency to track and share findings on fragmented policies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Quantifying NPIs can help to assess the role of interventions in reducing transmission. We offer spatial and temporal details for a range of measures aimed at implementing social distancing and the dates when these measures were relaxed by local governments. Measurement(s) prevention and control intervention • SARS-CoV-2 non-pharmaceutical interventions Technology Type(s) Survey Sample Characteristic - Location Brazil Machine-accessible metadata file describing the reported data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13862108 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Approximately 98% of patients with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A (MEN 2A) have an identifiable RET mutation. Prophylactic or early total thyroidectomy or pheochromocytoma/parathyroid removal in patients can be preventative or curative and has become standard management. The general strategy for RET screening on family members at risk is to sequence the most commonly affected exons and, if negative, to extend sequencing to additional exons. However, different families with MEN 2A due to the same RET mutation often have significant variability in the clinical exhibition of disease and aggressiveness of the MTC, which implies additional genetic loci exsit beyond RET coding region. Whole genome sequencing (WGS) greatly expands the breadth of screening from genes associated with a particular disease to the whole genome and, potentially, all the information that the genome contains about diseases or traits. This is presumably due to additive effect of disease modifying factors. In this study, we performed WGS on a typical Chinese MEN 2A proband and identified the pathogenic RET p.C634R mutation. We also identified several neutral variants within RET and pheochromocytoma-related genes. Moreover, we found several interesting structural variants including genetic deletions ( RSPO1, OVCH2 and AP3S1, etc.) and fusion transcripts ( FSIP1- BAZ2A, etc.). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]