THE SELF AND OTHERS: REVISITING INFORMATION NEEDS AND LIBRARIES AS PUBLIC, SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD

The Self and Others: Revisiting Information Needs and Libraries as Public, Social Institutions in a Post-truth World

The post-truth era and the increasing ease with which fake news is disseminated and consumed is a wicked problem that invites 3 Piece Cal King Bed re-examination of the media environment, algorithmic authority, library and information science (LIS) professional practice, and what people bring to information interactions in terms of cognitive biases

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The use of contracts to implement and manage healthy vending: best practice recommendations for effective and sustained interventions

Abstract Background Contracts can be an effective lever to implement and manage health-enabling food retail environments.However, guidance for the effective use of contracts in food retail settings is limited.The use of contracts to create healthy food vending environments is one area where policy attention has been focussed in high income countrie

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Geographical accessibility and spatial coverage modelling of public health care network in rural and remote India.

BackgroundLong distances to facilities, topographical constraints, inadequate service capacity of institutions and insufficient/ rudimentary road & transportation network culminate into unprecedented barriers to access.These barriers gets exacerbated in presence of external factors like conflict and political disruptions.Thus, this study was conduc

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Targeted next generation sequencing in 112 Chinese patients with intellectual disability/developmental delay: novel mutations and candidate gene

Abstract Background Intellectual disability/developmental delay is a complex condition with extraordinary heterogeneity.A large proportion of patients lacks a specific diagnosis.Next generation sequencing, enabling identification of genetic variations in multiple genes, has become an efficient strategy for genetic analysis in intellectual disabilit

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The Chinese herb Fructus Broussonetiae aids learning and memory in chronic cerebral hypoperfusion by reducing proinflammatory microglia activation in rats

The neuroprotective role of Fructus Broussonetiae in a model of chronic cerebral hypoperfusion with cognitive decline was focused on neural plasticity and microglia/macrophage polarization.Chronic cerebral hypoperfusion was induced by bilateral common carotid artery ligation.Fructus Broussonetiae shortened escape latency and added the number of pla

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