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Frontiers’ Volunteers: Taking action through tutoring

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Frontiers’ volunteers have always been at the forefront of community and societal responses. Emily Darley shares her volunteering efforts tutoring, an opportunity that has allowed her to combine her skills and interests. Photo credit: Emily Darley What is your background and role at Frontiers? “I joined Frontiers last year as a copyediting specialist.

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Ancient DNA reveals diverse community in 'Lost City of the Incas'

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DNA analysis of 34 individuals buried at Machu Picchu revealed that many traveled alone from throughout the Inca Empire.

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Revolutionizing Procurement: The Power of AI in Vendor Management Systems

Smart Data Collective

Vendor Management Systems (VMS) have become an indispensable tool for streamlining procurement and fostering strong vendor relationships. With the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, where the lines between physical, digital, and biological spheres are increasingly blurred, a new transformational player has emerged on the VMS scene: Artificial Intelligence (AI).

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From Classes to Cases: Education and Real-World Experience Shape Our Understanding of Social Work Ethics

The New Social Worker

Understanding ethics in social work isn’t as simple as taking a class and learning everything you need to know. The story of Maria illustrates the complexity.

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Kennesaw State University – Wellstar College of Health and Human Services forms publishing agreement with Frontiers? 

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Wellstar College of Health and Human Services has formed an institutional partnership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers.   This institutional agreement means that eligible Wellstar College of Health and Human Services researchers may publish in any Frontiers journal at no cost to them and with a simplified process.  Articles may benefit from a 7.5% partnership discount.

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Gloomy climate calculation: Scientists predict a collapse of the Atlantic ocean current to happen mid-century

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Important ocean currents that redistribute heat, cold and precipitation between the tropics and the northernmost parts of the Atlantic region will shut down around the year 2060 if current greenhouse gas emissions persist. This is the conclusion based on new calculations that contradict the latest report from the IPCC.

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Black Maternal Health in NYC: A Discussion and Call to Action

Fund for Public Health NYC

Maternal health inequities in New York City are stark, with Black women and birthing persons being 9x more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than their white counterparts. And each life lost represents more than just a statistic; it is a mother, a partner, and a community member whose death could have been prevented with the right care and resources.

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Urinary Tract Infections (UTI): Signs, Causes, Treatment, and Prevention

Gideon

A urinary tract infection or UTI is a very common bacterial infection, impacting approximately 150 million individuals worldwide annually. Each year, in the United States, UTIs contribute to over 10 million office visits, surpass 2 million emergency department visits, and result in 100,000 hospitalizations. As a result, estimated costs linked to these infections in the US range from $1 billion to $1.6 billion annually, including both direct and indirect expenses.

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Scientists discover secret of virgin birth, and switch on the ability in female flies

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Scientists have pinpointed a genetic cause for virgin birth for the first time, and once switched on the ability is passed down through generations of females.

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Analytics Technology Redefines Social Media Marketing in Sports

Smart Data Collective

Analytics technology has been a huge gamechanger for the sports industry. Fortune Business Insights reports that the sports industry spent $2.98 billion on analytics last year. That figure is projected to keep growing at a rate of 28.7% a year until 2030. Nabil M Abbas of Towards Data Science talked about one of the most interesting ways that data analytics is changing the NBA.

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Low fiber intake during pregnancy may delay development in infants’ brains

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By Deborah Pirchner, Frontiers science writer Image: Shutterstock.com Certain nutrients – including dietary fiber, vitamin C, and folic acid – are often consumed in too small amounts. Previous research has shown that during pregnancy these nutrients are essential for the development of offspring. In a new cohort study, researchers have confirmed the link between children’s brain development and maternal fiber consumption.

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A Brief Primer On Monetizing & Unlocking Value From Healthcare Data

Smart Data Collective

Put your thinking caps on and picture this—an undiscovered gold mine of healthcare data. Think of the hidden gems of insights, possible breakthroughs, and treasure buried in mountains of patient info, health stats, and treatment results. Talk about striking gold! But getting that treasure chest open and turning it into cash? That’s not a walk in the park, but hey, we’re up for a good adventure!

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Harnessing the Power of Analytics For Direct-to-Consumer Businesses

Smart Data Collective

Data can feel like an inaccessible word for small businesses. You want to use business intelligence effectively, but you feel that you don’t have the resources at your disposal to do so. While it is true that Fortune 500 companies use their data at a higher level than most stores on Main Street can afford to do, that isn’t to say that analytics is the privilege of only the wealthy.

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Business Management Systems for Data-Driven Businesses

Smart Data Collective

Big data has become an invaluable aspect to most modern businesses. Nevertheless, many companies have been reluctant to Harvard Business Review reports that only 30% of businesses have a data strategy. However, companies with data strategies are far more successful than those without. Companies using big data reportedly have 115% higher ROIs. However, running a data-driven business isn’t always easy.

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Short bursts of daily activity linked to reduced cancer risk

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Promising new research suggests a total of just 4.5 minutes of vigorous activity that makes you huff and puff during daily tasks could reduce the risk of some cancers by up to 32 percent.

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Genome analysis of 46,000-year-old roundworm from Siberian permafrost reveals novel species

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Some organisms, such as tardigrades, rotifers, and nematodes, can survive harsh conditions by entering a dormant state known as 'cryptobiosis.' In 2018, researchers found two roundworms (nematode) species in the Siberian Permafrost. Radiocarbon dating indicated that the nematode individuals have remained in cryptobiosis since the late Pleistocene, about 46,000 years ago.

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'Time-traveling' pathogens in melting permafrost pose likely risk to environment

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Ancient pathogens that escape from melting permafrost have real potential to damage microbial communities and might potentially threaten human health, according to a new study.

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Bacteria as Blacksmiths

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A hot bath is a place to relax. For scientists, it is also where molecules or tiny building blocks meet to form materials. Researchers take it to the next level and use the energy of swimming bacteria to forge materials. A recent study shows us how this works and the potential sustainability benefits that may arise from this innovative approach.

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Researchers successfully train a machine learning model in outer space for the first time

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Scientists have trained a machine learning model in outer space, on board a satellite. This achievement could revolutionize the capabilities of remote-sensing satellites by enabling real-time monitoring and decision making for a range of applications.

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How to move communities away from flooding risks with minimal harm

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As sea levels rise and flooding becomes more frequent, many countries are considering a controversial strategy: relocation of communities. A Stanford analysis of planned relocations around the world reveals a blueprint for positive outcomes.

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New archosaur species shows that precursor of dinosaurs and pterosaurs was armored

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Researchers have described a new species of armored reptile that lived near the time of the first appearance of dinosaurs. With bony plates on its backbone, this archosaur fossil reveals that armor was a boomerang trait in the story of dinosaur and pterosaur evolution: the group's ancestors were armored, but this characteristic was lost and then independently re-evolved multiple times later among specialized dinosaurs like ankylosaurs, stegosaurs, and others.

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Family trees from the European Neolithic

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The Neolithic burial site of Gurgy 'les Noisats' in France revealed two unprecedentedly large family trees which allowed a Franco-German team to explore the social organization of the 6,700-year-old community. Based on multiple lines of evidence, the team describes a close kin group which practiced monogamy and female exogamy, and experienced generally stable times.

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Astronomers shed new light on formation of mysterious fast radio bursts

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International team reports on a radio pulsar phase of a Galactic magnetar that emitted a fast radio burst in 2020; observations suggest unique origins for 'bursts' and 'pulses,' which adds to FRB formation theory.

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Self-healing plastic becomes biodegradable

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Chemists develop mineral plastics with numerous positive properties from sustainable basic building blocks and, together with biologists, demonstrate the material's excellent microbiological degradability.

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Tau-regulating protein identified as a promising target for developing Alzheimer's disease treatment

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A gene encoding a protein linked to tau production -- tripartite motif protein 11 (TRIM11) -- was found to suppress deterioration in small animal models of neurodegenerative diseases similar to Alzheimer's disease (AD), while improving cognitive and motor abilities, according to new research.

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Listen to a star 'twinkle'

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Many people know that stars appear to twinkle because our atmosphere bends starlight as it travels to Earth. But stars also have an innate 'twinkle' -- caused by rippling waves of gas on their surfaces -- that is imperceptible to current Earth-bound telescopes. In a new study, researchers developed the first 3D simulations of energy rippling from a massive star's core to its outer surface.

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Scientists may have discovered mechanism behind cognitive decline in aging

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Scientists have discovered what they believe to be the central mechanism behind cognitive decline associated with normal aging.

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Webb snaps highly detailed infrared image of actively forming stars

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Young stars are rambunctious! NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the 'antics' of a pair of actively forming young stars, known as Herbig-Haro 46/47, in high-resolution near-infrared light. To find them, trace the bright pink and red diffraction spikes until you hit the center: The stars are within the orange-white splotch. They are buried deeply in a disk of gas and dust that feeds their growth as they continue to gain mass.

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New image reveals secrets of planet birth

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Astronomers have gained new clues about how planets as massive as Jupiter could form. Researchers have detected large dusty clumps, close to a young star, that could collapse to create giant planets.

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Complex brain cell connections in the cerebellum more common than believed

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Although the prevailing wisdom among neuroscientists is that Purkinje cells have just one primary dendrite that connects with a single climbing fiber from the brain stem, new research shows that nearly all Purkinje cells in the human cerebellum have multiple primary dendrites.

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Robotic hand rotates objects using touch, not vision

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Inspired by the effortless way humans handle objects without seeing them, engineers have developed a new approach that enables a robotic hand to rotate objects solely through touch, without relying on vision.

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A quick look inside a human being

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Physicists have succeeded in making a new imaging technique ready for use on humans. Radioactive markers and radiation are not necessary for this.

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Dark energy camera captures galaxies in lopsided tug of war, a prelude to merger

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The spiral galaxy NGC 1532, also known as Haley's Coronet, is caught in a lopsided tug of war with its smaller neighbor, the dwarf galaxy NGC 1531.

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Researchers develop low-cost sensor to enhance robots' sense of touch

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Researchers have developed an L3 F-TOUCH sensor to enhance tactile capabilities in robots, allowing it to 'feel' objects and adjust its grip accordingly.

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