Frontiers

OCTOBER 17, 2023

by Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer Image/Shutterstock.com ‘Social loafing’ is a phenomenon which happens when members of a team start to put less effort in because they know others will cover for them. Scientists investigating whether this happens in teams which combine work by robots and humans found that humans carrying out quality assurance tasks spotted fewer errors when they had been told that robots had already checked a piece, suggesting they relied on the robots and pai

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Many businesses use big data technology to bolster efficiency. One study from Zappia found that 97.2% of companies say that they use data analytics in some capacity. While only 24% call themselves data-driven, the figure is growing significantly. Big data is changing the business models of many organizations. However, many companies are still struggling to figure out how to utilize data analytics and AI properly.

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The New Social Worker

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Why isn’t it okay for me to take a few minutes out of my day and focus solely on myself? Or, be completely disinclined to exert myself for one hour? Why am I expected to be excessively or exclusively concerned with others and constantly in motion?

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

People who eat just two servings of red meat per week may have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes compared to people who eat fewer servings, and the risk increases with greater consumption, according to a new study. Researchers also found that replacing red meat with healthy plant-based protein sources, such as nuts and legumes, or modest amounts of dairy foods, was associated with reduced risk of type 2 diabetes.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Frontiers will, once again, be at the Charleston conference in South Carolina, USA this November and we’d love to see you there. As a diamond sponsor of the event, we’ll be leading and participating in a range of sessions outlined below. Credit: Frontiers Looking ahead to the conference Thomas Romano, global head of sales at Frontiers said: “Frontiers is excited to exhibit once again at this year’s Charleston conference.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Nowadays, information consumption is skyrocketing. This information, dubbed Big Data, has grown too large and complex for typical data processing methods. Companies want to use Big Data to improve customer service, increase profit, cut expenses, and upgrade existing processes. The influence of Big Data on business is enormous. Where does big data come from?

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In an unusual trial, researchers found that a patient's belief that they had received ketamine, even if they didn't, could improve their depression.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 16, 2023

by Deborah Pirchner, Frontiers science writer Image: Shutterstock.com 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. Chronic pain associated with increased dementia risk Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) make up approximately 80% of the more than 47 million cases of dementia worldwide.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 16, 2023

We have previously written about the benefits of data visualization, including its advantages with content marketing. We felt we were overdue for another article on this topic, so we wanted to talk about a particular type of technology that can be beneficial – box plots. Data visualization techniques like the box plot are instrumental in modern data analysis.

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The Network for Public Health Law

OCTOBER 20, 2023

What is the current state-level capacity for public health advocacy in the United States? How can it be strengthened? The State of State-level Public Health Advocacy: Findings and Implications from a 50-state Scan summarizes findings from research that looked at specific markers of advocacy capacity and interviews of key respondents in 50 states and the District of Columbia between March and June 2023.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Turning unused waste from food production into clean energy: Researchers are using chicken feathers to make fuel cells more cost-effective and sustainable.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 16, 2023

by Deborah Pirchner, Frontiers science writer Image: Shutterstock.com 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. Chronic pain associated with increased dementia risk Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) make up approximately 80% of the more than 47 million cases of dementia worldwide.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 15, 2023

AI technology is becoming more important in business than ever. One survey found that 35% of companies are already using AI , while 42% are exploring the possibility of using it in the future. Unfortunately, not all companies know how to use AI strategically. There are a lot of different ways that it can be incorporated into their business model, but they have to be aware of its potential.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A team of researchers have mapped almost 6,000 proteins from different cell types within the eye by analyzing tiny drops of eye fluid that are routinely removed during surgery. The researchers used an AI model to create a 'proteomic clock' from this data that can predict a healthy person's age based on their protein profile. The clock revealed that diseases such as diabetic retinopathy and uveitis cause accelerated aging within specific cell types.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Researchers have invented an experimental wearable device that generates power from a user's bending finger and can create and store memories, in a promising step towards health monitoring and other technologies.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Researchers have shown it's theoretically possible for black holes to exist in perfectly balanced pairs -- held in equilibrium by a cosmological force -- mimicking a single black hole.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

About 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals, who had lived for hundreds of thousands of years in the western part of the Eurasian continent, gave way to Homo sapiens, who had arrived from Africa. This replacement was not sudden, and the two species coexisted for a few millennia, resulting in the integration of Neanderthal DNA into the genome of Sapiens. Researchers have analyzed the distribution of the portion of DNA inherited from Neanderthals in the genomes of humans (Homo sapiens) over the last 40,0

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Populations of charismatic animals have recovered since hunting ban but now struggle to find enough food.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Anthropologists challenge the traditional view of men as hunters and women as gatherers in prehistoric times. Their research reveals evidence of gender equality in roles and suggests that women were physically capable of hunting. The study sheds light on the gender bias in past research and calls for a more nuanced understanding of prehistoric gender roles.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Women with diets during middle age designed to lower blood pressure were about 17 percent less likely to report memory loss and other signs of cognitive decline decades later, a new study finds.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The fossils of a 170-million-year-old ancient marine reptile from the Age of Dinosaurs have been identified as the oldest-known mega-predatory pliosaur -- a group of ocean-dwelling reptiles closely related to the famous long-necked plesiosaurs. The findings are rare and add new knowledge to the evolution of plesiosaurs.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 20, 2023

It's said that a dog is a man's best friend, but the wild dingo is much maligned in Australia. This may not always have been the case though, with new research suggesting that dingoes were buried -- and even domesticated -- by First Nations people prior to European colonization.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Bats may have lived in caves and used soundwaves to navigate much earlier than first thought.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Formed millions to billions of years ago, diamonds can shine light into the darkest and oldest parts of the Earth's mantle. The analysis of ancient, superdeep diamonds dug up from mines in Brazil and Western Africa, has exposed new processes of how continents evolved and moved during the early evolution of complex life on Earth. These diamonds that were formed between 650 and 450 million years ago on the base of the supercontinent Gondwana, were analysed by an international team of experts, and

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Scientists have announced the results of an unprecedented collaboration to search for the source of the largest ever seismic event recorded on Mars. The study rules out a meteorite impact, suggesting instead that the quake was the result of enormous tectonic forces within Mars' crust.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Particle accelerators are crucial tools in a wide variety of areas in industry, research and the medical sector. The space these machines require ranges from a few square meters to large research centers. Using lasers to accelerate electrons within a photonic nanostructure constitutes a microscopic alternative with the potential of generating significantly lower costs and making devices considerably less bulky.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

A new study looked at 926 polygenic risk scores for 310 diseases. It found that, on average, only 11% of individuals who develop disease are identified, while at the same time 5% of people who do not develop the disease test positive. Unaffected people usually outnumber those affected which results in far more false than true positive predictions.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Stimulating muscle fibers with magnets causes them to grow in the same direction, aligning muscle cells within tissue. The findings offer a simpler, less time-consuming way for medical researchers to program muscle cell alignment, which is strongly tied to healthy muscle function.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A research team has discovered that parasites manipulate their hosts using stolen genes that they likely acquired through a phenomenon called horizontal gene transfer.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

An international team has spotted a remote blast of cosmic radio waves lasting less than a millisecond. This 'fast radio burst' (FRB) is the most distant ever detected. Its source was pinned down by the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) in a galaxy so far away that its light took eight billion years to reach us. The FRB is also one of the most energetic ever observed; in a tiny fraction of a second it released the equivalent of our Sun's total emission over 30 year

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

When stacked in five layers in a rhombohedral pattern, graphene takes on a rare 'multiferroic' state, exhibiting both unconventional magnetism and an exotic electronic behavior known as ferro-valleytricity.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The DNA double helix is composed of two DNA molecules whose sequences are complementary to each other. The stability of the duplex can be fine-tuned in the lab by controlling the amount and location of imperfect complementary sequences. Fluorescent markers bound to one of the matching DNA strands make the duplex visible, and fluorescence intensity increases with increasing duplex stability.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A new study has reconstructed the well-preserved but damaged skull of a great ape species that lived about 12 million years ago. The species, Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, may be crucial to understanding great ape and human evolution.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

It is often claimed that using the snooze button can have negative effects on sleep and cognitive processes, but there has been no direct evidence to this effect. New research shows that snoozing may actually support the waking process for regular snoozers.

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