Future challenges and opportunities in brand management: An introduction to a commemorative special issue

The Enhancing NeuroImaging Genetics through Meta-Analysis (ENIGMA) consortium brings together researchers from around the world to try to identify the genetic underpinnings of brain structure and function, along with robust, generalizable effects of neurological and psychiatric disorders. The recently-formed ENIGMA Brain Injury working group includes 8 subgroups, based largely on injury mechanism and patient population. This introduction to the special issue summarizes the history, organization, and objectives of ENIGMA Brain Injury, and includes a discussion of strategies, challenges, opportunities and goals common across 6 of the subgroups under the umbrella of ENIGMA Brain Injury. The following articles in this special issue, including 6 articles from different subgroups, will detail the challenges and opportunities specific to each subgroup.

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Dutch Public health Foresight study 2018/20

European Journal of Public Health ◽

10.1093/eurpub/ckaa165.1290 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽

Author(s):

H Hilderink

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Health Care ◽

Health Care Expenditures ◽

Living Environment ◽

Societal Challenges ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

Future Challenges ◽

National Prevention ◽

Business As Usual ◽

Insight Into

Abstract The four-year Public Health Foresight Study (VTV) provides insight into the most important societal challenges for public health and health care in the Netherlands. The seventh edition of the Dutch Public Health Foresight study was published in 2018, with an update in 2020. In this update a business-as-usual or Trend Scenario was developed using 2018 as a base year. In the trend scenario demographic and epidemiological projections have been used to depict the future trends regarding ageing, health, disease, health behaviors, health expenditures and health inequalities. Next, these trends are used to identify the most important future challenges and opportunities for public health. In the 2020 update, special attentions is given to climate change and the local living environment and their impacts and interaction with public health outcomes. Trends in lifestyle-related lifestyle show both positive (smoking prevalence) and negative (overweight prevalence) future developments. Dementia will be the leading cause of mortality and disease burden in 2040 by far. Health care expenditures will double by 2040, with cancers showing the most rapid growth of all disease groups. The insights of this study are directly used as input for the National Health Policy Memorandum and for the National Prevention Accord.

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Unconventional Materials Processing Using Spark Plasma Sintering

Ceramics ◽

10.3390/ceramics4010003 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 20-40

Author(s):

Ambreen Nisar ◽

Cheng Zhang ◽

Benjamin Boesl ◽

Arvind Agarwal

Keyword(s):

Spark Plasma Sintering ◽

Real Life ◽

Functional Materials ◽

Research Field ◽

Advanced Materials ◽

Plasma Sintering ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

Future Challenges ◽

Gas Quenching ◽

Spark Plasma

Spark plasma sintering (SPS) has gained recognition in the last 20 years for its rapid densification of hard-to-sinter conventional and advanced materials, including metals, ceramics, polymers, and composites. Herein, we describe the unconventional usages of the SPS technique developed in the field. The potential of various new modifications in the SPS technique, from pressureless to the integration of a novel gas quenching system to extrusion, has led to SPS’ evolution into a completely new manufacturing tool. The SPS technique’s modifications have broadened its usability from merely a densification tool to the fabrication of complex-shaped components, advanced functional materials, functionally gradient materials, interconnected materials, and porous filter materials for real-life applications. The broader application achieved by modification of the SPS technique can provide an alternative to conventional powder metallurgy methods as a scalable manufacturing process. The future challenges and opportunities in this emerging research field have also been identified and presented.

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