Health selection into neighborhoods may contribute to geographic health disparities.We Optocouplers demonstrate the potential for clinical trial data to help clarify the causal role of health on locational attainment.We used data from the 20-year United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS) to explore whether random assignment to intensive blo
Resting brain activity in early childhood predicts IQ at 18 years
Resting brain activity has been widely used as an index of brain development in neuroscience and clinical research.However, it remains unclear whether early differences in resting brain activity have meaningful implications for predicting long-term cognitive outcomes.Using data from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (Zeanah et al., 2003), we
COVID-19 and future pandemics: a global systems approach and relevance to SDGs
Abstract Background The COVID-19 pandemic is adversely impacting modern human civilization.A global view using a systems science approach is necessary to recognize the close interactions between health of animals, humans and the Sandals environment.Discussion A model is developed initially by describing five sequential or parallel steps on how a RN
Literacy in a post-truth world
: This theoretical paper examines whether acquiring better literacy skills may help people to be less vulnerable to various types of information disorders such as fake news or conspiracy theories.We start this venture Coaster by looking, first, at the relationships between vulnerability to information disorders and literacy (or, more generally, for
From the instrumental function to the communicative function of artifacts
This article explores the Silicone Storage Container identification and analysis of the possible functions, or the instrumental, utilitarian, meaningful, communicative, aesthetic and symbolic, values, from which objects and artifacts are represented, interpreted and renewed, in the context of technological innovation and the prevailing consumer soc