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Humans evolved to walk with an extra spring in our step

Frontiers

by Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer Image/Shutterstock.com Scientists have discovered that the recoil created by the flexible arch of human feet helps position our legs in the optimal posture for moving forward in bipedal walking. Understanding how our joints help modern humans walk upright could help us track the evolution of bipedalism and improve care for patients with foot problems.

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First X-ray of a single atom

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Scientists have taken the world's first X-ray SIGNAL (or SIGNATURE) of just one atom. This groundbreaking achievement could revolutionize the way scientists detect the materials.

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What to Know Before Recruiting an Analyst to Handle Company Data

Smart Data Collective

The rate of growth at which world economies are growing and developing thanks to new technologies in information data and analysis means that companies are needing to prepare accordingly. As a result of the benefits of business analytics , the demand for Data analysts is growing quickly. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the role of research and data analysts is projected to grow as much as 23% in the next 8 years.

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What About Social Justice? Confronting Workplace Maltreatment

The New Social Worker

Social workers are in key leadership positions to create policies and practices to confront workplace maltreatment, respond to the needs of survivors, and promote a healthy work environment.

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Frontiers responds to the European Council’s conclusions on open science publishing

Frontiers

On 23 May 2023, the European Council adopted conclusions that called for transparent, equitable, and open access to scholarly publications. It argued for immediate and unrestricted access to published science that benefits from public funding. The Council has reached an ethically sound conclusion – that paywalls around publicly funded scientific research should be taken down.

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Plants can distinguish when touch starts and stops, study suggests

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Even without nerves, plants can sense when something touches them and when it lets go, a study has found. In a set of experiments, individual plant cells responded to the touch of a very fine glass rod by sending slow waves of calcium signals to other plant cells, and when that pressure was released, they sent much more rapid waves. While scientists have known that plants can respond to touch, this study shows that plant cells send different signals when touch is initiated and ended.

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Book Review: The Way Up - Climbing the Corporate Mountain as a Professional of Color

The New Social Worker

Errol Pierre argues that achieving success in the corporate world is more akin to scaling a mountain than climbing up steps on a ladder, especially for professionals of color. Read our review.

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Underwater forest’s recovery offers hope for marine restoration across the globe

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by Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer Image/Enric Ballesteros Scientists show that efforts to restore the building blocks of marine ecosystems are paying off, with macroalgae that provide food and shelter for other species bouncing back over 10 years of growth in an underwater seaweed forest in the Mediterranean Sea. Human activity has degraded ecosystems and damaged biodiversity around the world, but ecosystem restoration offers hope for the future.

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Astrophysicists confirm the faintest galaxy ever seen in the early universe

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After the Big Bang, the universe expanded and cooled sufficiently for hydrogen atoms to form. In the absence of light from the first stars and galaxies, the universe entered a period known as the cosmic dark ages. The first stars and galaxies appeared several hundred million years later and began burning away the hydrogen fog left over from the Big Bang, rendering the universe transparent, like it is today.

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Tackling Bias in AI Translation: A Data Perspective

Smart Data Collective

The world of artificial intelligence (AI) is constantly changing, and we must be vigilant about the issue of bias in AI. AI translation systems, particularly machine translation (MT), are not immune to this, and we should always confront and overcome this challenge. Let us uncover its implications in AI translation and discover effective strategies to combat them.

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PHII bids farewell to Sabanur Cavdar

Public Health Informatics Institute Newsletters

PHII expresses our gratitude for the Humphrey Fellow Sabanur Cavdar's contributions to our work. The post PHII bids farewell to Sabanur Cavdar appeared first on PHII.

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New health indicator can revolutionize how we measure and achieve well-being

Frontiers

by Liad Hollender, Frontiers science writer Image: Shutterstock Researchers reveal how a new assessment of health called ‘human functioning’ could bridge health and well-being, with far reaching benefits to individuals and society as a whole. Publishing in Frontiers in Science , the authors chart a plan for implementing human functioning into health systems, by recognizing it as a major health indicator alongside mortality and morbidity and establishing a new scientific field called human functi

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Robot centipedes go for a walk

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Researchers show how their multilegged walking robot can be steered by inducing a dynamic instability. By making the couplings between segments more flexible, the robot changes from walking straight to moving in a curved path. This work can lead to more energy-efficient and reliable robotic navigation of terrain.

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Rift Valley Fever Zoonotic Disease: All You Need to Know

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Rift Valley Fever is a significant viral infection that poses a threat to both human and animal health. RVFV, the virus causing Rift Valley Fever, is known to cause severe illness in humans as well as domesticated animals such as cattle, sheep, and goats in sub-Saharan Africa. In this blog, we will delve into the history of the Rift Valley Fever zoonotic disease and its epidemiology across the African continent.

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#WNTD Blog: Tobacco and Mental Health - Untangling the relationship and identifying opportunities to progress policy

Institute of Public Health

#WNTD Blog: Tobacco and Mental Health - Untangling the relationship and identifying opportunities to progress policy maresa.fagan@p… Tue, 30/05/2023 - 15:59 #WNTD Blog: Tobacco and Mental Health - Untangling the relationship and identifying opportunities to progress policy Mental Health Tobacco and Nicotine Products 31 May, 2023 The 9th European Conference on Tobacco or Health in Madrid attracted hundreds of delegates from far and wide to consider how a ‘Tobacco-Free Generation’ could be achieve

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‘Rethinking health beyond disability and disease’

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by Liad Hollender, Frontiers science writer Image: Prof Gerold Stucki Is there more to health than just the absence of disease? According to a team of researchers from Swiss Paraplegic Research and the University of Lucerne, the answer is a resounding ‘yes’. In an article published in Frontiers in Science , the researchers explain how ‘human functioning’ – a new assessment of health – could revolutionize healthcare, and even help advance the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda.

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The 'breath' between atoms -- a new building block for quantum technology

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Researchers have discovered they can detect atomic 'breathing,' or the mechanical vibration between two layers of atoms, by observing the type of light those atoms emitted when stimulated by a laser. The sound of this atomic 'breath' could help researchers encode and transmit quantum information.

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Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever (OHF): A Rare Viral Disease

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Omsk hemorrhagic fever (OHF) is a rare viral disease primarily found in Western Siberia, Russia. The virus responsible for OHF belongs to the tick-borne flavivirus group and is transmitted through the bite of infected ticks ( Dermacentor reticulatus and Ixodes persulcatus ) or contact with sick muskrats. Although human cases are sporadic, notable outbreaks have occurred in 1945, 1953-54, and 1968.

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#WNTD Blog: Gaslighting, greenwashing and personal responsibility – old and new tropes in tobacco industry interference

Institute of Public Health

#WNTD Blog: Gaslighting, greenwashing and personal responsibility – old and new tropes in tobacco industry interference maresa.fagan@p… Tue, 30/05/2023 - 16:19 #WNTD Blog: Gaslighting, greenwashing and personal responsibility – old and new tropes in tobacco industry interference Tobacco and Nicotine Products 31 May, 2023 On the 20th anniversary of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, IPH Director of Policy Dr Helen McAvoy reflects on tobacco industry interfere

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Hutton forms publishing agreement with Frontiers – JISC national open access deal? 

Frontiers

We would like to announce that The James Hutton Institute has joined the national open access deal agreed between Jisc Collections and Frontiers. This deal provides a simplified and streamlined route to open access publishing for researchers in the UK, who publish 7% of the world’s research.  This institutional agreement means that eligible Hutton researchers may publish open access in any Frontiers journal and will receive a 10% reduction in their article processing charge.

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Landmark study finds that the shape of the brain influences the way it works

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

For over a century, researchers have thought that the patterns of brain activity that define our experiences, hopes and dreams are determined by how different brain regions communicate with each other through a complex web of trillions of cellular connections. Now, a study has examined more than 10,000 different maps of human brain activity and found that the overall shape of a person's brain exerts a far greater influence on how we think, feel and behave than its intricate neuronal connectivity

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NY State Commercial Tobacco Control Newsletters

Public Health Law Center

NY State Commercial Tobacco Control Newsletters Please click on a link below to view any of our archived, quarterly NY State Commercial Tobacco Control Newsletters.

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Data Analytics Helps Marketers Make the Most of Instagram Stories

Smart Data Collective

Big data technology has significantly changed the marketing profession over the last few years. One of the biggest changes brought on by big data has been in the field of social media marketing. Most savvy marketers recognize the importance of using analytics technology to optimize their strategies to get a higher ROI. One example of this trend is by using analytics to measure the engagement of Instagram stories to get customers to interact more frequently.

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Frontiers appoints Julian Oei as Group Business Officer 

Frontiers

Digital media executive Julian Oei has been appointed to the position of group business officer by the open access publisher Frontiers. In the newly created role, Mr. Oei will join the leadership team and lead the expansion of Frontiers’ product and services portfolio into innovative data driven areas adjacent to the organization’s core publishing services.

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Saved from extinction, Southern California's Channel Island Foxes now face new threat to survival

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Starting in the 1990s, Island Fox populations began to dwindle due to an outbreak of canine distemper and an increase in attacks by golden eagles. Some islands saw their population drop to as low as 15 individuals, but conservation efforts by the Federal government restored numbers by 2017. A new study reveals a worrying decrease in genetic diversity within the species, signaling a new threat to the Channel Islands foxes' survival.

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NIRISS instrument on Webb maps an ultra-hot Jupiter's atmosphere

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There's an intriguing exoplanet out there -- 400 light-years out there -- that is so tantalizing that astronomers have been studying it since its discovery in 2009. One orbit for WASP-18 b around its star that is slightly larger than our Sun takes just 23 hours. There is nothing like it in our Solar System. A new study about this exoplanet, an ultra-hot gas giant 10 times more massive than Jupiter.

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Eventually everything will evaporate, not only black holes

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New theoretical research has shown that Stephen Hawking was likely right about black holes, although not completely. Due to Hawking radiation, black holes will eventually evaporate, but the event horizon is not as crucial as had been believed. Gravity and the curvature of spacetime cause this radiation too. This means that all large objects in the universe, like the remnants of stars, will eventually evaporate.

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Fastest industry standard optical fiber

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An optical fiber about the thickness of a human hair can now carry the equivalent of more than 10 million fast home internet connections running at full capacity.

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Mysterious dashes revealed in Milky Way's center

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In the early 1980s, astronomers discovered gigantic, one-dimensional filaments dangling vertically near Sagittarius A*, our galaxy's central supermassive black hole. Now, astronomers have discovered a new population of filaments -- but these threads are much shorter and lie horizontally or radially, spreading out like spokes on a wheel from the black hole.

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Genomes of 233 primate species sequenced

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Researchers from 24 countries have analyzed the genomes of 809 individuals from 233 primate species, generating the most complete catalog of genomic information about our closest relatives to date. The project provides new insights into the evolution of primates, including humans, and their diversity. In baboons, for example, hybridization and gene flow between different species occurred in the past and is still ongoing in several regions of their range.

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One-third of galaxy's most common planets could be in habitable zone

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A third of the exoplanets orbiting common M dwarf stars have gentle enough orbits to potentially be in the habitable zone capable of hosting liquid water.

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New catalyst lowers cost for producing environmentally sustainable hydrogen from water

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A team has developed a new catalyst composed of elements abundant in the Earth. It could make possible the low-cost and energy-efficient production of hydrogen for use in transportation and industrial applications.

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Quarter-ton marsupial roamed long distances across Australia's arid interior

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One of Australia's first long-distance walkers has been described after palaeontologists used advanced 3D scans and other technology to take a new look at the partial remains of a 3.5 million year old marsupial from central Australia. They have named a new genus of diprotodontid Ambulator, meaning walker or wanderer, because the locomotory adaptations of the legs and feet of this quarter-tonne animal would have made it well suited to roam long distances in search of food and water when compare

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Astronomers discover last three planets Kepler telescope observed before going dark

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With the help of citizen scientists, astronomers discovered what may be the last three planets that the Kepler Space Telescope saw before it was retired.

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