SavvyMiners

SavvyMiners is a communication campaign with the goal of encouraging local investors aged 18-30 to adopt proper investment information-seeking behaviours, in turn facilitating them to make more informed investment decisions. This comes at a time when 63% of these young adults are not on track to achieve their investment goals amidst a bleak, post-pandemic economy, which can hamper their financial and emotional wellbeing. The campaign defined three components as part of the overall investment information-seeking behaviour. They include: acquisition of relevant investment information, evaluation of investment information credibility, and objective processing of investment information. With reference to the Health Belief Model, SavvyMiners sought to improve the target audience’s knowledge, attitudes and self-efficacy levels to drive behavioural change. This was done through informative social media posts, content collaboration with investment experts and interactive online challenges surrounding investment information-seeking behaviour. Over a 13-week duration, the campaign has successfully boosted a 8% rise in intention and 15% rise in adoption of investment information-seeking behaviour among the target audience.Bachelor of Communication Studie

Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

In 2008, we published the first set of guidelines for standardizing research in autophagy. Since then, this topic has received increasing attention, and many scientists have entered the field. Our knowledge base and relevant new technologies have also been expanding. Thus, it is important to formulate on a regular basis updated guidelines for monitoring autophagy in different organisms. Despite numerous reviews, there continues to be confusion regarding acceptable methods to evaluate autophagy, especially in multicellular eukaryotes. Here, we present a set of guidelines for investigators to select and interpret methods to examine autophagy and related processes, and for reviewers to provide realistic and reasonable critiques of reports that are focused on these processes. These guidelines are not meant to be a dogmatic set of rules, because the appropriateness of any assay largely depends on the question being asked and the system being used. Moreover, no individual assay is perfect for every situation, calling for the use of multiple techniques to properly monitor autophagy in each experimental setting. Finally, several core components of the autophagy machinery have been implicated in distinct autophagic processes (canonical and noncanonical autophagy), implying that genetic approaches to block autophagy should rely on targeting two or more autophagy-related genes that ideally participate in distinct steps of the pathway. Along similar lines, because multiple proteins involved in autophagy also regulate other cellular pathways including apoptosis, not all of them can be used as a specific marker for bona fide autophagic responses. Here, we critically discuss current methods of assessing autophagy and the information they can, or cannot, provide. Our ultimate goal is to encourage intellectual and technical innovation in the field

Erratum to: Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) (Autophagy, 12, 1, 1-222, 10.1080/15548627.2015.1100356

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