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Maximizing the Diversity of Exposure in a Social Network [PDF]
Social-media platforms have created new ways for citizens to stay informed and participate in public debates. However, to enable a healthy environment for information sharing, social deliberation, and opinion formation, citizens need to be exposed to sufficiently diverse viewpoints that challenge their assumptions, instead of being trapped inside ...
Aslay, Çigdem +4 more
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BackgroundExposure to particulate matter has been shown to increase the adhesion of bacteria to human airway epithelial cells. However, the impact of traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) on the respiratory microbiome is unknown.MethodsForty children were
Christine Niemeier-Walsh +5 more
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In the age of the high-choice media environment, there is less and less consensus over America's most important problem. Over the last two decades, several studies have demonstrated that agenda diversity—the degree of disagreement over the most important
John K. Wagner
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Measuring Dietary Botanical Diversity as a Proxy for Phytochemical Exposure [PDF]
The study of natural plant molecules and their medicinal properties, pharmacognosy, provides a taxonomy for botanical families that represent diverse chemical groupings with potentially distinct functions in relation to human health. Yet, this reservoir of knowledge has not been systematically applied to elucidating the role of patterns of plant food ...
Henry J. Thompson +6 more
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Selective exposure bias predicts views on diversity over time
Despite growing diversity, many individuals do not support it, posing a challenge to the successful functioning of societies, institutions, and organizations. We investigated the role of the selective exposure bias on diversity beliefs. In a large-scale nationally representative Spanish sample (N = 2297), we conducted a time-lagged experiment with two ...
Jonas De keersmaecker, Katharina Schmid
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Short-term triphenyltin exposure alters microbial homeostasis in the silkworm (Bombyx mori) midgut
Triphenyltin (TPT) is a widespread synthetic chemical used in many fields and its potential risk to organisms has been comprehensively investigated using different animal models and species. Currently, little is known about the effects of TPT exposure on
Wenlin Zhou +6 more
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Access and exposure to a diversity of voices is a fundamental pillar of democracy. On social media markets, exposure diversity is limited by various factors, one being how platforms curate the content each user sees.
Maria Luisa Stasi
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CO2 leakage can cause loss of benthic biodiversity in submarine sands [PDF]
One of the options to mitigate atmospheric CO2 increase is CO2 Capture and Storage in sub-seabed geological formations. Since predicting long-term storage security is difficult, different CO2 leakage scenarios and impacts on marine ecosystems require ...
Guilini, Katja +4 more
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A two-species stage-structured model for West Nile virus transmission [PDF]
We develop a host–vector model of West Nile virus (WNV) transmission that incorporates multiple avian host species as well as host stage-structure (juvenile and adult stages), allowing for both species-specific and stage-specific biting rates of vectors ...
Beebe, Taylor A., Robertson, Suzanne L.
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Measuring Online Social Bubbles [PDF]
Social media have quickly become a prevalent channel to access information, spread ideas, and influence opinions. However, it has been suggested that social and algorithmic filtering may cause exposure to less diverse points of view, and even foster ...
Flammini, Alessandro +3 more
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