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{"title":"The role of dietary and blood inflammation on the relation of diabetes and cognition in Chinese elderly people","authors":"Tiantian Li,&nbsp;Xuan Wang,&nbsp;Lizheng Guan,&nbsp;Xianyun Wang,&nbsp;Jing Shen,&nbsp;Dajun Li,&nbsp;Hongrui Li,&nbsp;Rong Xiao,&nbsp;Yuandi Xi","doi":"10.1016/j.glt.2022.11.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.glt.2022.11.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Diabetes and dementia are becoming the major problems in elderly people. This study evaluated the relationships of dietary inflammatory index (DII), systemic immune inflammation index (SII) and system inflammation response index (SIRI) with diabetes as well as MCI, and explored the different synergistic effects of DII, SII and SIRI on blood glucose and cognition based on diabetes status. 1050 eligible participants from Beijing were included. Cognitive function was evaluated by neuropsychological tests. Food frequency questionnaire was used to calculate energy-adjusted DII scores. Blood samples were applied to obtain fasting plasma glucose (FPG) and calculate SII, SIRI. The dietary intake between different diabetes status had no differences, while the consumption of Mg, niacin and thiamin were significantly lower in diabetes patients with MCI than others. Lower levels of DII, SIRI and SII might increase the risk of diabetes, MCI and co-morbidity of diabetes with MCI. Higher FPG enhanced the synergistic effects of DII and SII on MCI, as well as DII and SIRI. The lower levels of DII, SIRI and SII were significantly correlated with higher MoCA scores and lower FPG in diabetes patients. The relationships between inflammatory and cognition or FPG were significantly diminished or even disappeared in non-diabetes population. In conclusion, lower levels of DII, SIRI and SII might play protective roles in reducing the risks of diabetes and/or MCI. The synergistic effects of low dietary and blood inflammation on cognitive protection and FPG control were more sensitive in elderly people with diabetes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":33615,"journal":{"name":"Global Transitions","volume":"4 ","pages":"Pages 58-67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589791822000159/pdfft?md5=3b19df081a8a4be21a1752157691dafe&pid=1-s2.0-S2589791822000159-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91660597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Global Transitions: A multidisciplinary journal on human and planetary health","authors":"Wannian Liang (Editor-in-Chief)","doi":"10.1016/j.glt.2022.11.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.glt.2022.11.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33615,"journal":{"name":"Global Transitions","volume":"4 ","pages":"Pages 68-69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589791822000147/pdfft?md5=7e57574c2a1e1e653d4a14af8f5e1b2d&pid=1-s2.0-S2589791822000147-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43690721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Association of dietary sodium, potassium, sodium/potassium, and salt with objective and subjective cognitive function among the elderly in China: A prospective cohort study","authors":"Xiaona Na ,&nbsp;Menglu Xi ,&nbsp;Yiguo Zhou ,&nbsp;Jiaqi Yang ,&nbsp;Jian Zhang ,&nbsp;Yuandi Xi ,&nbsp;Yucheng Yang ,&nbsp;Haibing Yang ,&nbsp;Ai Zhao","doi":"10.1016/j.glt.2022.10.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.glt.2022.10.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background &amp; aims</h3><p>Previous evidence varied on the relationship of dietary sodium, potassium, sodium/potassium, and salt with cognitive function. This study aimed to explore the associations of sodium, potassium, sodium/potassium, and salt intakes with cognitive function among the elderly in China.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>Data were accessed from the database of the 1997–2006 China Health and Nutrition Survey, including 4213 participants aged at least 50 years at baseline. Dietary data at individual and household levels were collected using the method of 24-h dietary recall in three consecutive days. Cognitive function was measured through objective and subjective methods. Linear regression models and multinomial logistic regression models were established to elucidate the association of dietary sodium, potassium, sodium/potassium, and salt with cognitive function. Mediation effect analysis and substitution analysis were also conducted.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Higher potassium intakes in Q3 (<em>Median</em>: 1653.3 g/day, <em>β</em> = 1.366, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.845 to 1.887) and Q4 (<em>Median</em>: 2181.4 g/day, <em>β</em> = 1.454, 95% CI: 0.865 to 2.044) were significantly associated with higher cognitive test score compared with Q1 (<em>Median</em>: 1053.7 g/day). Sodium/potassium intake in Q3 (<em>Median</em>: 3.8, <em>β</em> = −0.791, 95% CI: -1.264 to −0.317) and Q4 (<em>Median</em>: 5.5, <em>β</em> = −0.909, 95% CI: -1.401 to −0.417) were inversely associated with the cognitive test score compared with Q1 (<em>Median</em>: 2.0). Higher dietary sodium and sodium/potassium intakes were associated with a higher risk of a self-reported poor and deteriorated memory during the past 12 months. Additionally, higher potassium intakes were significantly associated with a lower risk of deteriorated memory. The associations of dietary potassium and sodium/potassium were mediated by CCVD, and average cognitive test score increased by about 1 point after replacing 1000 mg/day of sodium with an equal intake of potassium.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>Restricting sodium and increasing potassium, and keeping the balance of dietary sodium and potassium are encouraged to prevent cognitive decline and dementia in the elderly.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":33615,"journal":{"name":"Global Transitions","volume":"4 ","pages":"Pages 28-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589791822000111/pdfft?md5=07c84a03e1b4524dd20f3d64f5a69adc&pid=1-s2.0-S2589791822000111-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91660601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Association of own and spousal intra- and extra-familial adverse childhood experiences with cognitive function and the role of depression in middle-aged and older Chinese women","authors":"Ziyang Ren ,&nbsp;Xinyao Lian ,&nbsp;Yushan Du ,&nbsp;Yating Liu ,&nbsp;Yanqing Han ,&nbsp;Jufen Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.glt.2022.12.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.glt.2022.12.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><p>To explore the associations of own and spousal intra- and extra-familial adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) with cognitive function and the role of depression in women.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>Data were from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. ACEs included 11 intra-familial and 3 extra-familial domains. Principal component analysis was used to divide ACEs into mild, moderate, severe, and most severe. Depression was assessed using CESD-10 (cutoff≥10). Global cognition included episodic memory and mental intactness, with values ranging from 0 to 31. Adjusted multiple generalized linear regression models (GLM) were used to investigate the associations of own or spousal ACEs with women's cognitive function and the role of their depression in general women in Analysis 1 and married women in Analysis 2, respectively.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Among 4613 women aged 59.0 (52.0–65.0) in Analysis 1, depression mediated 12.3%, 14.6%, and 9.5% the effects of most severe overall ACEs on global cognition, episodic memory, and mental intactness. In Analysis 2, most severe spousal overall ACEs were associated with women's mental intactness, with β (95% CI) of −0.120 (−0.217 to −0.023), which was mediated by women's depression by 19.8%. Furthermore, most severe spousal extra-familial ACEs were associated with women's global cognition, episodic memory, and mental intactness (β = −0.210, 95% CI -0.297 to −0.123; β = −0.150, 95% CI -0.241 to −0.060; β = −0.211, 95% CI -0.302 to −0.121), which was 7.6%, 9.4%, and 6.0% mediated by their depression.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>Depression mediated the effects of own and spousal extra-familial (not intra-familial) ACEs on women's cognitive function.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":33615,"journal":{"name":"Global Transitions","volume":"4 ","pages":"Pages 70-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589791822000160/pdfft?md5=fbaee047f0ab21ba7c694084b16ae27c&pid=1-s2.0-S2589791822000160-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91660598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Clean, green and the unseen: The CompeSA framework | Assessing Competing Sustainability Agendas in Carbon Neutrality Policy Pathways","authors":"Katherine Mahoney ,&nbsp;João Pedro Gouveia ,&nbsp;Rita Lopes ,&nbsp;Siddharth Sareen","doi":"10.1016/j.glt.2022.10.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.glt.2022.10.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Competing agendas are common within the sustainability field, given its complex and diverse social, economic, and environmental priorities. They can cause less effective policy results, where multiple goals can result in trade-offs and policy compromises. This paper proposes a conceptual framework: CompeSA – Assessing Competing Sustainability Agendas in Carbon Neutrality Policy Pathways. This framework enables the exploration of competing sustainability agendas arising from the simultaneous implementation of climate change, energy transitions, and energy poverty agendas. CompeSA is built on three key steps, 1) The WHAT, aiming to define the scope, 2) The WHERE, to understand the scales at which corresponding policy impacts apply; and 3) the WHO, for deep characterization and analysis of the key stakeholder groups.</p><p>We base the development and application of the framework in Portugal, a test case strongly engaged with the carbon neutrality agenda, to illustrate important dilemmas over policy mixes and unpack emerging synergies and barriers. Identified synergies include the linked concepts of economic recovery and employment opportunities, mainly through renewable energy expansion, enhanced economic competitiveness, and skilled job creation. Improvements in air quality and the built environment contribute to health benefits. The most significant barriers are inequitable benefit allocation and power imbalances between the energy-poor and agenda-setting actors. Our demonstration shows CompeSA to be a helpful support tool for structured analysis of competing sustainability agendas and pinpoints key critical points that determine the effectiveness of sustainability policies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":33615,"journal":{"name":"Global Transitions","volume":"4 ","pages":"Pages 45-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589791822000135/pdfft?md5=d65ceaf86b44fd1be1e27991ffbc0b6b&pid=1-s2.0-S2589791822000135-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137325199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Impact of global government investment on education and research development: A comparative analysis and demystifying the science, technology, innovation, and education conundrum","authors":"Kingsley Okoye ,&nbsp;Julius T. Nganji ,&nbsp;Jose Escamilla ,&nbsp;Jin Michael Fung ,&nbsp;Samira Hosseini","doi":"10.1016/j.glt.2022.10.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.glt.2022.10.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>To secure an inclusive and development-oriented society where nations can create, access, and utilize a scalable and sustainable infrastructure and resources, an equitable and effective investment in education and human capital development, including science, technology, and innovation (STI) has proven to be inevitable. There have been speculations on how disproportionate the global government investments and expenditures may be in achieving those goals across the regions. This study conducts a comparative analysis of data about global government investment in relation to education, STI and researchers/human capital development. We applied a multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) and multiple comparisons (Post Hoc Tukey) tests to determine the association between the different types of regions and the level of Educational and STI investment as per percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) and full-time equivalent (FTE) of researchers between 2015 and 2020, respectively. Three categories of data from The UNESCO's Institute for Statistics (UIS) on sustainable development goals (SDGs) were used for the investigations. The analyzed dataset consisted of information about Education as per GDP (<em>n</em> = 190), STI as per GDP (<em>n</em> = 155), and STI as per Researcher FTE (<em>n</em> = 155). The results show that there were differences in the global government investments in the above constructs between the low- and middle-income vs high-income regions. In turn, the study empirically discussed and shed light on the leading factors by considering their implications, and how those can be used to support decision-making and infrastructural investment policies by the various governments, policymakers, financial investors, and educators towards a global/sustainable practice.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":33615,"journal":{"name":"Global Transitions","volume":"4 ","pages":"Pages 11-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258979182200010X/pdfft?md5=f1bda187b0d70702cc605b49c978e11d&pid=1-s2.0-S258979182200010X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91660602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"COVID-19 pandemic as a global phenomenon: Perspectives for research in health, energy and technology transitions","authors":"Alistair Woodward ,&nbsp;Rangan Banerjee ,&nbsp;Alexander Brem","doi":"10.1016/j.glt.2021.06.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.glt.2021.06.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33615,"journal":{"name":"Global Transitions","volume":"3 ","pages":"Pages 87-88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.glt.2021.06.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45390045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Does the greening of banks impact the logics of sustainable financing? The case of bank lending to merchant renewable energy projects in the Philippines","authors":"Varsolo Sunio ,&nbsp;Jaime Mendejar ,&nbsp;Justin Reginald Nery","doi":"10.1016/j.glt.2021.12.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.glt.2021.12.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>As the Philippines pursues its mission of decarbonization in the energy sector by 2030, a target which aims to achieve a 35% share of renewable energy (RE) in the country's power generation mix, the broad participation of merchant plant developers and banks is crucial. Developers of merchant plants can generate supply of renewable energy, while banks can provide the financing. Nonetheless, banks traditionally do not lend to fully merchant plants, particularly by small proponents who have no implicit guarantor. In recent years, as more banks embed sustainability principles in their corporate philosophy, the question arises on whether this trend has also impacted the bank lending logics, especially with respect to how banks evaluate the risk-return profiles of RE projects, including pure merchant plants by small developers. Using qualitative research methods, we collected data through interviews and desk research from six banks in the Philippines (private and government-controlled, as well as universal and rural). To unpack the lending logics of banks, we presented ten credit enhancement options for the banks to appraise. We found that government-controlled banks, partly due to their mandate in supporting national development, have more appetite towards small merchant plants, unlike private banks, despite the latter's aggressive pursuit of sustainability targets. In the end, a fundamental gap between private banks and merchant plants remains. Since addressing it is crucial for the Philippines to achieve its mission of energy decarbonization, we end with some recommendations on how this gap may be bridged.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":33615,"journal":{"name":"Global Transitions","volume":"3 ","pages":"Pages 109-118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589791821000177/pdfft?md5=e7d26612251ae4df35d81259df3f3db7&pid=1-s2.0-S2589791821000177-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136972261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Understanding social innovation in local energy transitions processes: A multi-case study","authors":"Sujeetha Selvakkumaran ,&nbsp;Erik O. Ahlgren","doi":"10.1016/j.glt.2020.12.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.glt.2020.12.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Social innovation (SI) in local energy transitions is gaining focus in current times but energy transitions have not yet been explicitly analysed in the context of SI. Our objective is to characterize SI in co-created local energy transitions processes through the study of three distinct cases based on energy transitions in localities in Sweden (Skåne and Dalsland) and Denmark (Hjørring). In these localities, municipality actors (MA) are engaged in increasing the adoption of solar PV systems, uptake of EV and biogas cars, and phasing out oil-burners, respectively. We analyse the three cases by following the work of the MAs and through the frame of Transformative Social Innovation (TSI), which consists of four shades; social innovation, system innovation, game-changers, and narratives of change. Subsequently, we use causal loop diagrams to characterize the SI in the oil-burner phase-out case. We see shades of SI and system innovation but there are no ‘game changers’ or ‘narratives of change’ yet in any of the cases.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":33615,"journal":{"name":"Global Transitions","volume":"3 ","pages":"Pages 1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.glt.2020.12.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136972263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Relationship between methane emissions and economic growth in Central Africa countries: Evidence from panel data","authors":"Any Flore Djoumessi Djoukouo","doi":"10.1016/j.glt.2022.02.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.glt.2022.02.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Methane (CH₄) is a greenhouse gas with a warming potential 28 times that of dioxide of carbon (CO₂) and Africa alone contributes more than 1/3 of global methane emissions. Considering the fact that Africa has the second largest hydro-forest basin in the world after the Amazon and is highly dependent on agriculture, this study examines the effects of economic growth on environmental quality in an Environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) framework. It empirically tests the relationship between CH₄ emissions and GDP per capita (GDPC) for six countries of Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) over the period 1980 to 2018. Using the Driscoll-Kraay standard errors technique as well as panel Granger non-causality test, the results point out cointegration between CH₄ emissions and GDPC, show that there is bidirectional causality between the two variables and support evidence of EKC hypothesis. Policymakers should strengthen sustainable strategies for growth and environment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":33615,"journal":{"name":"Global Transitions","volume":"3 ","pages":"Pages 126-134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589791822000020/pdfft?md5=c9bdfd4bfda5c8ad5579ab64e31a3fee&pid=1-s2.0-S2589791822000020-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136972211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}