Smart Data Collective

MAY 4, 2023

If you’re like most small business owners, cybersecurity is probably the last worry on your mind. Between growing a business and dealing with day-to-day tasks, it’s easy to let your cyber presence fade into the background of your thoughts. Unfortunately, as the world becomes more and more digital, cybersecurity risks are growing at a rapid pace. As a small business owner, this means that you and your business could be at risk of being attacked this very second.

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Frontiers

MAY 4, 2023

By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer Researchers from Brazil showed that Amazonian dark earth (ADE), soils enriched by Amerindian people thousands of years ago, increases the establishment and growth of seedlings of tree species important for reforestation. By copying the composition of ADE, especially its microbes, reforestation in Brazil and elsewhere could be sped up Between approximately 450 BCE and 950 CE, millions of Amerindian people living in today’s Amazonia transformed the orig

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The New Social Worker

MAY 1, 2023

All of us have times in life that feel particularly like a “big deal.” But, we owe it to ourselves to honor our human nature, which includes navigating life’s highs and lows while taking care of ourselves.

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Gideon

MAY 5, 2023

Infectious disease outbreaks and epidemics are a hotbed of conspiracy theories; the COVID pandemic is no exception. The threat of getting sick or dying, the fear of uncertainty, misinformation, and mistrust in vaccines or treatment methods are all factors that play a role in spreading infectious diseases conspiracy theories. Unfortunately, just like a highly contagious virus, the faster a conspiracy theory spreads and infects a community, the harder it is to correct or eliminate it.

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Smart Data Collective

MAY 4, 2023

UMass Global has a very insightful article on the growing relevance of big data in business. Big data has been discussed by business leaders since the 1990s. The term was first published in 1999 and gained a solid definition in the early 2000s. It refers to datasets too large for normal statistical methods. This includes videos, pictures, maps, words, phrases, and numbers.

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Frontiers

MAY 4, 2023

By Deborah Pirchner, Frontiers science writer Image: CAL FIRE_Official /Flickr ( CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 ) At Frontiers, we bring some of the world’s best research to a global audience. But with tens of thousands of articles published each year, it’s impossible to cover all of them. Here are just five amazing papers you may have missed. Ill-fitting gear increases female firefighters’ risk on the job Over the past years, the number of female firefighters has been rising steadily.

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Institute of Public Health

MAY 2, 2023

Our Work admin Tue, 02/05/2023 - 17:38 Our Work We focus on promoting health and wellbeing, improving health equity, and reducing health inequalities throughout the life course. This covers a wide range of topics within the broad theme of public health which can be seen below. We work with a variety of stakeholders, including healthcare professionals, community organisations, and policymakers at local and national level to ensure that public health policies are equitable and based on the best av

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Smart Data Collective

MAY 4, 2023

We have talked at length about the importance of taking the right steps to stop data breaches. Unfortunately, there are often many weak links in the data security infrastructure, which can increase the risks of data breaches. It seemed like data breaches were starting to decline, but Aimee O’Driscoll of Comparitech reports that trend has not persisted.

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Frontiers

MAY 5, 2023

Has domestication induced cognitive changes in domesticated species? How can we optimize nutrition for dogs and cats? What is it about cats that makes their behaviors so enticing? We put together the top Research Topics about animals living with us. Read about the amazing research done by scientists from across the globe. With more than 1.4 million collective views, researchers explored topics such as the benefits and history of human-animal interaction, how animals perceive and differentiate be

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Public Health Informatics Institute

MAY 1, 2023

PHII Director Vivian Singletary discusses using an equity lens to rethink a vision for US public health data and infrastructure. The post A path forward to build back better for public health infrastructure appeared first on PHII.

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The NACCHO Podcast Series

MAY 5, 2023

In this week’s podcast, the National Association of County and City Health Officials ’ Government Affairs team members Kerry Allen and Lauren Mastroberardino provided an update on the Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations process in Congress, including how the debt ceiling negotiations may factor in, as well as ongoing congressional investigations into COVID-19 origins.

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Smart Data Collective

MAY 4, 2023

Cyber security threats are becoming increasingly more prevalent as life continues to drift further and further into online space. Many of the world’s biggest companies have fallen prey to cyber scams, showing that they can happen to just about anyone. Vigilance is required to keep yourself safe. In this article, we take a look at some of the most prevalent threats out there in 2023 and describe how you can keep yourself safe.

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Frontiers

MAY 5, 2023

Earlier this spring Frontiers hosted a research funders discussion forum to explore the challenges and opportunities faced by funders in supporting and incentivizing open science. Representatives from the European Research Council (ERC), Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO), Volkswagen Foundation and FIIBAP came together for the first time in an open discussion about the respective roles of funders and publishers in open science.

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Frontiers

MAY 4, 2023

The Slovenian National Laboratory of Health, Environment and Food has formed an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. This institutional agreement means that eligible National Laboratory of Health, Environment and Food researchers may publish in any Frontiers journal at no cost to them and with a simplified process.

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Frontiers

MAY 1, 2023

The National Institutes of Health, the foremost federal agency for medical research in the US and the world’s biggest public funder of biomedical and behavioral research, has launched a call for information to improve public access to the findings of its supported research. A summary of our response We support a scalable, cost efficient, transparent publishing model that delivers public value for money, and we think Gold Open Access publishing is the most effective way of securing that out

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