FRELIP Editorial Team

This week’s digest covers 10 studies, with 7 African-led and 3 global, from journals like Cochrane, Cogent Education, and Journal of Financial Economics. This week: PTSD medication efficacy, teacher error engagement, Uganda birth outcomes, and flood firm impacts.

This digest covers 10 studies across disciplines, with 6 African-led and 4 global, from journals like Alzheimer’s & Dementia and PLoS Computational Biology. This week: cross-ancestry Alzheimer’s risk scores, a cell-nucleus migration model, Permian-Triassic fossil finds, and a new quantile regression method.

This week’s digest covers agronomy, food safety, and plant science, featuring 8 African-led studies and 2 global studies, all from reputable journals. This week: WHO’s foodborne disease burden, enset triploid yield gains, date palm pneumatic pollination, and IoT irrigation water savings.

This digest covers eight African-led studies and two global studies across environmental economics, engineering, and AI, with journals cited. This week: women’s empowerment linked to environmental quality, Industry 5.0 frameworks, okra fiber extraction, and LLM-based agents.

This digest covers 10 studies, with 6 African-led and 4 global, across health, technology, and education, citing journals like The Lancet and PLoS ONE. This week: a once-weekly HIV pill matches daily treatment, early oral switch for childhood pneumonia is safe, a model for antibiotic targets, and a framework for human-driven AI in education.

This week’s digest spans linguistics, philosophy, mental health, and more, with a strong African-led presence across journals like Synthese and Sustainability. This week: Arabic learners’ refusals vary by proficiency, astronomy retreats show mental health promise, individual media literacy tips fall short, and a new audit research survey emerges.

This week’s digest covers environmental science and sustainability, featuring 6 African-led and 4 global studies from journals like Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Advances in Bamboo Science, and Applied Energy. This week: marine extinction recovery, bamboo-based remediation, macroplastic river colonization, satellite precipitation accuracy, bioinvasion super-spreader risk, food and fuel insecurity in Nairobi, gravity theory testing via earthquakes, ship emission mapping, plant evolutionary responses, and AI’s full environmental footprint.

This digest covers law, environmental governance, and nutrition, with eight African-led studies and two global ones, all from peer-reviewed journals. This week: Indigenous peoples in environmental governance, religious freedom in cities, public employment as scaffolding, environmental rule of law, parental inheritance disputes, micro-learning for legal education, tax penalty fairness, the legal concept of care, caution on ultraprocessed food trials, and AI’s impact on fair trials.

This week’s digest spans 10 studies across mathematics, physics, biology, and Earth science, featuring 6 African-led and 4 global papers from journals like PLoS Computational Biology and Sociological Methodology. This week: cross-ancestry Alzheimer’s risk scores, a geometric model of cell nucleus migration, new fossils from the Permian-Triassic, and a residualized quantile regression model.

This week’s digest covers 10 studies across agronomy, plant science, public health, and environmental policy, with 9 African-led studies and 1 global study, all from high-impact journals. This week: WHO foodborne burden update, triploid enset yield boost, pneumatic date palm pollination, sacred forest conservation, and more.