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  • Experts stress importance of vaccination amidst measles outbreaks

    Experts stress importance of vaccination amidst measles outbreaks

    Pediatric infectious diseases experts stress the importance of vaccination against measles, one of the most contagious viruses, which is once more spreading in the United States. In the article published in Pediatrics, they update pediatricians…

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  • Archaeologists compared the size of 50,000 ancient houses to learn about history of inequality, they found that it’s not inevitable

    Archaeologists compared the size of 50,000 ancient houses to learn about history of inequality, they found that it’s not inevitable

    We’re living in a period where the gap between rich and poor is dramatic, and it’s continuing to widen. But inequality is nothing new. In a new study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than…

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  • Federal cuts put help for mental health and drug addiction in peril

    Federal cuts put help for mental health and drug addiction in peril

    People in the United States are in the midst of an ongoing opioid epidemic and a wave of mental health problems.

    So funding and staff cuts to a federal agency that supports mental health care, suicide prevention, and addiction…

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  • Spotting climate misinformation with AI requires expertly trained models

    Spotting climate misinformation with AI requires expertly trained models

    Conversational AI chatbots are making climate misinformation sound more credible, making it harder to distinguish falsehoods from real science. In response, climate experts are using some of the same tools to detect fake information…

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  • Globalization and marginalization in contemporary Asia: migration, class, and capitalism in Tash Aw’s Five Star Billionaire and We, the Survivors

    If Five Star Billionaire subtly alludes to the survival struggles of working-class Chinese Malaysians within the postcolonial Malaysian society and the challenges one faces when resorting to globalization, We, the Survivors brings these issues…

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  • Modeling coastal land use scenario impacts on ecosystem services restoration in Southwest Ghana, West Africa

    Modeling coastal land use scenario impacts on ecosystem services restoration in Southwest Ghana, West Africa

  • Coastal Resources Center & Friends of the Nation. Assessment of critical coastal habitats of the Western Region, Ghana. Integrated Coastal and Fisheries Governance Initiative for the Western Region of Ghana. 132.

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  • Learning about color from language

    Learning about color from language

    All experiments received ethics approval from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Minimal Risk Research Institutional Review Board (approval number 2020-0683) as the experiments pose minimal risk to participants. All participants provided…

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  • A holistic approach to advancing women’s health

    A holistic approach to advancing women’s health

  • Bird, C. E. & Rieker, P. P. Gender matters: an integrated model for understanding men’s and women’s health. Soc. Sci. Med. 48, 745–55 (1999).

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