FRELIP Editorial Team

This week in education, sustainability, and finance research, we feature 10 open-access studies, with 8 African-led and 2 global, all from high-impact journals. This week: symbolic compliance in sustainability reporting, community radio journalists’ safety in South Africa, corporate R&D and environmental sustainability in Japan, medical students’ teaching preferences in Nigeria, and search attention and AI stock volatility in Korea.

This week’s digest covers 10 studies, with 6 African-led and 4 global, all citing journals. This week: symbolic compliance in sustainability reporting, community radio protest coverage in South Africa, corporate R&D and environmental sustainability in Japan, medical student teaching preferences in Nigeria, and search attention and AI-stock volatility in Korea.

This week in multidisciplinary research, we feature 10 studies, including 6 African-led and 4 global, with journals cited. This week: space weather economic impacts, novel prostate cancer inhibitors, non-invasive IBD assessment, and compound flooding risks in Egypt.

This week in agricultural and environmental sciences, we feature 10 open-access studies, 8 of which are African-led, with journals cited. This week: a new phylogenomic classification for Bulbostylis sedges, price discounts boosting agrodealer stock of new technologies in Kenya, CRISPR gene editing prospects for African crops, compost and gypsum reclaiming saline-sodic soils in Ethiopia, and geographical variation in medicinal plant chemistry in South Africa.

This week in agricultural, plant, and environmental sciences, we feature 7 African-led studies and 3 global studies, with journals cited. This week: a new phylogenomic classification of Bulbostylis, price discounts boosting agrodealer stock of new technologies in Kenya, gene editing for African crop improvement, compost and gypsum reclaiming saline-sodic soils in Ethiopia, and geographical variation in medicinal plant properties.

This week’s digest covers engineering, energy, and computing, with 5 African-led and 5 global studies, all from high-impact open-access journals. This week: a new traffic model for heterogeneous vehicles, economic viability of solar-plus-battery in Nigeria, the UN Cybercrime Convention’s enforcement gaps, a Gamma model for railway wheel life, and a secure beamforming algorithm for SWIPT networks.

This week’s digest covers engineering, energy, and computing research from Transportmetrica B, Results in Engineering, Journal of Economic Criminology, Applied Sciences, Information, Advanced Science, Machine Intelligence Research, PLoS ONE, WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, and Energies. This week: a new traffic-flow model for mixed vehicle classes, grid reliability and rooftop solar economics in Nigeria, the UN Cybercrime Convention’s enforcement gaps, a Gamma model for railway wheel life, and a secure beamforming algorithm for STAR-RIS networks.

This week in global health, virology, clinical medicine, and molecular biology, we summarise 10 open-access papers, 7 of them led by African researchers, with journals cited. This week: long-term Ebola stigma in Uganda, cross-reactive antibodies against Bundibugyo virus, similar outcomes for two spinal stenosis surgeries, machine translation in clinical settings, and cost-effectiveness of hepatitis B birth-dose vaccination in South Africa.

This week in global health and clinical research, we feature 10 open-access studies, with 6 African-led and 4 global, all from high-impact journals. This week: long-term Ebola stigma in Uganda, cross-reactive antibodies from the Ebola vaccine, similar outcomes for two spinal stenosis surgeries, machine translation in clinical care, barriers to HIV disclosure in Uganda, cost-effectiveness of hepatitis B birth-dose in South Africa, menopause self-help critiques, predicting TCR-pMHC specificity, epicardial fat and plaque progression, and a genetic mutation affecting cattle fat.

This week’s digest features 7 African-led and 3 global studies in education, forensic science, cultural studies, and heritage, with journals cited. This week: assessment language and equity in Ghana, foot dimensions for sex estimation in Nigeria, cultural specificity in transnational TV coproduction, decolonization in North Africa, and Indigenous graphic narratives.