A Japanese study conducted by a team from Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine found that the use of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices, equipped with sensors that alert diabetics when their blood sugar levels drop, can…
Category: Social Sciences
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Limiting screen time protects children’s mental health
A recent Finnish study suggests that limiting screen time and promoting physical activity from childhood may help safeguard mental health in adolescence. The findings are particularly significant given that mental health problems affect up to 30%…
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Brain implants don’t change a person’s sense of self. Hear why
In the fifth episode of The Deep End, Jon Nelson describes depression as a “no-casserole disease,” one that people are often afraid to acknowledge because of the stigma around mental health disorders. This episode lets listeners…
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5 years after COVID-19 became a pandemic, are we ready for what’s next?
We’ve learned a lot about COVID-19 over the last five years, but big questions remain. Recent federal actions may hinder the disease’s management.
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Algorithmic personalization: a study of knowledge gaps and digital media literacy
The information-analytical system for evaluating the level of knowledge among different social classes regarding personalized content within the digital media ecosystem undergoes verification and testing using actual data from the Czech…
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Affiliation around tensions: strategies for aligning with putative readers through counter-expectation resources in media editorials
This section explains the research questions, theoretical frameworks, data, and analytical methods informing the discourse analysis that was undertaken to explore the role of counter-expectation in affiliation.
Research questions
This study is to…
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How many medieval and early modern manuscripts were copied by female scribes? A bibliometric analysis based on colophons
Of the 23774 colophons in the collection (Benedictines, 1965-1982), a total of 254 (were identified as having been written by female scribes, corresponding to 1.1% (95% confidence interval: 0.9% to 1.2%). A complete list of the colophons…
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Immigrants’ consumption choices: evidence from Korea’s food service industry
The literature is reviewed from two distinct perspectives. The first examines how immigrants are associated with or influence the food service industry. The second focuses on the factors shaping immigrants’ food consumption choices and…
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Well-being horizons for silver and golden ages: an application of traditional and fuzzy Markov chains
Profiles identified with Bhattacharyya distance
As it was explained in Section “Methodology”, the first step of the analysis was the estimation of the steady-state probabilities for each of the processes considered. It was carried out using…
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