Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Data breaches are becoming much more common these days. PC Magazine reports that 422 million people were affected by data breaches last year. Preliminary research suggests data breaches are going to be even worse this year. A growing number of companies are recognizing that they need to take proactive measures to help bolster their data security. Software companies are among those most heavily affected, so they are taking dramatic measures.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 12, 2023

By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer Texas ocelot, Leopardus pardalis albescens. Image credit: Kline Lab, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Traffic collisions are a major cause of death of endangered Texas ocelots. Researchers have now shown that recently designed wildlife exits, meant to allow ocelots to leave highways surrounded by fences, function as they are designed to do. 10 mammal species apart from ocelots learned to use them correctly.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Scientists have developed new tools, based on AI language models, that can characterize subtle signatures in the speech of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia.

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The New Social Worker

OCTOBER 11, 2023

If you’re just starting your online MSW program, congratulations! As you start to plan where you’ll log into your classes and get your tech set up, we’d like to offer you some budget tips to save money and prioritize your spending.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 11, 2023

AI technology is going to be a lot more important for developing web applications in the near future. This is one of the reasons the AI market is growing by 37% a year. As AI becomes more important for the web, companies are hiring developers to help create the best AI applications. These developers need to be proficient in a number of different types of programming languages.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 11, 2023

by Deborah Pirchner, Frontiers science writer Image: Eric Arce for Outride Physical activity promotes mental well-being and finding activities that people are keen to engage in is key. For teenagers, cycling might be one of them – combining fun, competition, and transportation needs. Researchers in the US have examined if taking part in an in-school cycling program improves middle schoolers’ mental health and found positive effects.

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The New Social Worker

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The digital divide is a social justice problem. Social workers must incorporate digital inclusion strategies into their practices by making sure that services, data, and resources are available to all.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 7, 2023

We are continually surprised by all of the ways that AI technology is affecting our lives. One of the biggest changes is that artificial intelligence is helping change the state of social media. We are already aware of the fact that social media companies like Facebook are using AI to improve their products. Meta is using Facebook data to train its algorithms for a variety of purposes , including identifying harmful content to make the platform more holistic.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The latest news on our collaborations with research institutions, libraries, consortia, and funders. Welcome from Franck Vazquez, director of partnerships at Frontiers Frontiers is committed to making trusted science openly available to all. Something we believe to be crucial in a world facing unprecedented challenges from climate change to fake news and conflict.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

A group of international scientists have mapped the genetic, cellular, and structural makeup of the human brain and the nonhuman primate brain. This understanding of brain structure allows for a deeper knowledge of the cellular basis of brain function and dysfunction, helping pave the way for a new generation of precision therapeutics for people with mental disorders and other disorders of the brain.

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EpidemioLogical

OCTOBER 8, 2023

A strange thing permeates the culture of my mother's side of my family tree. As long as I can remember, everyone seemed to keep tabs on what was owed by everyone else. To the cousins, aunts, and uncles who helped me in any way, their help for me was an investment. And they let me know.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Unraveling the intricacies of legal disputes in the fast food sector can be a formidable task. The inherent complexities often derive from manifold causes, ranging from personal injuries to employment law violations. In such a murky pool, the application of data analytics emerges as an invaluable tool. Harnessing the power of this technology can illuminate the path towards justice, bolstering the efforts of legal professionals.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Author: Catherine Rawlinson Dr Barbara Burlingame is a professor at Massey University , New Zealand. Her research predominantly focuses on nutrition science, and she is also involved in nutrition policy research at the global level. In relation to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero Hunger , I spoke to Barbara about how her research over the years has contributed to nutrition policy and how this relates to providing sustainable diets for all.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Quantum computers promise to reach speeds and efficiencies impossible for even the fastest supercomputers of today. Yet the technology hasn't seen much scale-up and commercialization largely due to its inability to self-correct. Quantum computers, unlike classical ones, cannot correct errors by copying encoded data over and over. Scientists had to find another way.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 7, 2023

AI technology has had a huge impact on our everyday lives. The daily articles we are seeing about the changes brought on by ChatGPT are clear evidence of the changes it has created. One of the most overlooked benefits of AI is that it is helping make it easier to do backgrounds checks and trace people. This is going to make it a lot easier to find people in the years to come.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

An international team of scientists have discovered a huge spike in radiocarbon levels 14,300 years ago by analyzing ancient tree-rings found in the French Alps. The radiocarbon spike was caused by a massive solar storm, the biggest ever identified. A similar solar storm today would be catastrophic for modern technological society – potentially wiping out telecommunications and satellite systems, causing massive electricity grid blackouts, and costing us billions.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) comes with promises of helping coders code faster, drivers drive safer, and making daily tasks less time-consuming. But a recent study demonstrates that the tool, when adopted widely, could have a large energy footprint, which in the future may exceed the power demands of some countries.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In a large, multi-institutional effort researchers have analyzed more than a million human brain cells and revealed links between specific types of cells and various common neuropsychiatric disorders.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

There is evidence that some form of conscious experience is present by birth, and perhaps even in late pregnancy, an international team of researchers has found.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Big data technology has had a profound impact on many sectors. One of the fields that is heavily affected by advances in big data is the manufacturing industry. We have talked at length about some of the ways that manufacturers are using big data and AI to improve the trajectory of their industry. For example, many manufacturers are using AI to create augmented reality to make things easier to process.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Researchers created and used complex neural networks to recreate speech from brain recordings, and then used that recreation to analyze the processes that drive human speech.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are an astronomical mystery, with their exact cause and origins still unconfirmed. These intense bursts of radio energy are invisible to the human eye, but show up brightly on radio telescopes. Previous studies have noted broad similarities between the energy distribution of repeat FRBs, and that of earthquakes and solar flares.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A chance social media post by an eagle-eyed amateur astronomer sparked the discovery of an explosive collision between two giant planets, which crashed into each other in a distant space system 1,800 light years away from planet Earth.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Geologists have reconstructed a massive and previously unknown tectonic plate that was once one-quarter the size of the Pacific Ocean. The team had predicted its existence over 10 years ago based on fragments of old tectonic plates found deep in the Earth’s mantle. To the lead researchers surprise, she found that oceanic remnants on northern Borneo must have belonged to the long-suspected plate, which scientists have named Pontus.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

A 13-million-year-old saber-toothed marsupial skeleton discovered during paleontological explorations in Colombia is the most complete specimen recovered in the region.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

A team of researchers has created the first 'multiome' atlas of brain cell development in the human cerebral cortex across six broad developmental time points from fetal development into adulthood, shedding new light on their roles during brain development and disease.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A massive computational analysis of microbiome datasets has more than doubled the number of known protein families. This is the first time protein structures have been used to help characterize the vast array of microbial 'dark matter.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The Gulf Stream is intrinsic to the global climate system, bringing warm waters from the Caribbean up the East Coast of the United States. As it flows along the coast and then across the Atlantic Ocean, this powerful ocean current influences weather patterns and storms, and it carries heat from the tropics to higher latitudes as part of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

New analysis of the remains of victims of the 1918 influenza pandemic, which killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide, contradicts the widespread belief the flu disproportionately impacted healthy young adults.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

An extremely supportive atmosphere for new ideas laid the foundation for an 'Aha moment' about a toggle-switch in the fruit fly brain. Do humans have one, too?

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

One of the greatest strengths of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is its ability to give astronomers detailed views of areas where new stars are being born. The latest example, showcased here in a new image from Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), is NGC 346 – the brightest and largest star-forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Though scientists have long known through observational data that the Milky Way is warped and its edges are flared like a skirt, no one could explain why. Now, astronomers have performed the first calculations that fully explain this phenomenon, with compelling evidence pointing to the Milky Way's envelopment in an off-kilter halo of dark matter.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

People who carry three gene variants that have bene inherited from Neanderthals are more sensitive to some types of pain, according to a new study.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Twelve people crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a rowing boat. One of them was Ciara Burns, a scientist, who monitored her own heartbeat. Now the data was analyzed and the results were published: It turns out that the variability of the heart rate provides a lot of information about physical and mental wellbeing.

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