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Self-care with non-prescription medicines to improve health care access and quality of life in low- and middle-income countries: systematic review and methodological approach

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
ObjectivesThis study aims to develop a structured framework to capture beneficial effects and determine the value of self-care for individuals and society in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Uwe May, Uwe May, Cosima Bauer, Anissa Schneider-Ziebe, Chiara Giulini-Limbach, Chiara Giulini-Limbach   +5 more
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Combining instance selection and self-training to improve data stream quantification

Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society, 2018
In the last years, learning from data streams has attracted the attention of researchers and practitioners due to its large number of applications. These applications have motivated the research community to propose a significant amount of methods to ...
André G. Maletzke, Denis M. dos Reis, Gustavo E. A. P. A. Batista   +2 more
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Qualitative Research on Youths’ Social Media Use: A review of the literature [PDF]

, 2018
In this article we explore how educational researchers report empirical qualitative research about young people’s social media use. We frame the overall study with an understanding that social media sites contribute to the production of neoliberal ...
Hughes, Hilary E, Kutner, Mel, Schmeichel, Mardi   +2 more
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Food logging: an information literacy perspective [PDF]

, 2017
Purpose: The aim of the paper is to explore the meaning of information literacy in food logging, the activity of recording food intake and monitoring weight and other health conditions that may be affected by diet, using applications (apps) accessed ...
Cox, A.M., Goodale, P., McKinney, P.A.
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Journeys & Notes: Designing Social Computing for Non-Places

, 2016
In this work we present a mobile application we designed and engineered to enable people to log their travels near and far, leave notes behind, and build a community around spaces in between destinations. Our design explores new ground for location-based
Cranshaw, Justin, Monroy-Hernández, Andrés, Needham, S. A.   +2 more
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Soldiers and Superheroes Needed! Masculine Archetypes and Constrained Commodification in the Sperm Donation Market [PDF]

, 2019
Extant research on bodily commodification emphasises contexts where market actors can pursue commodification in relatively unconstrained ways. However, scant research examines how marketers foster bodily commodification in markets where institutional ...
Mimoun, L, Sobande, F., Trujillo Torres, L.   +2 more
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Psychological Determinants of the Trajectories of Self-quantification and Digitalization of Professional Cyclists’ Physical Activity: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations

Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov: Series VII: Social Sciences, Law
Digitalization and self-quantification have permeated the field of high-level sport, particularly professional cycling. The data generated by connected objects and applications are used to improve riders' performance.
Y. Linossier, G. Martinent, M. Quidu
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Real-time monitoring of hydrophobic aggregation reveals a critical role of cooperativity in hydrophobic effect

Nature Communications, 2017
Hydrophobic interactions occur between nonpolar molecules in water and their experimental quantification can help the understanding of biological self-assembly. Here Jianget al. examine the kinetics and thermodynamics of hydrophobic aggregation in a bulk
Liguo Jiang, Siqin Cao, Peter Pak-Hang Cheung, Xiaoyan Zheng, Chris Wai Tung Leung, Qian Peng, Zhigang Shuai, Ben Zhong Tang, Shuhuai Yao, Xuhui Huang   +9 more
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One-step and wash-free multiplexed immunoassay platform based on bioinspired photonic barcodes

Engineered Regeneration, 2023
Multiplex, rapid and accurate virus quantification plays a great value in biomedical detection. Here, a novel one step, wash-free immunoassay platform based bioinspired PhC barcodes for multiplexed virus quantification was explored.
Dagan Zhang, Yuze Wang, Junqi Zhao, Xueqin Li, Yuanyang Zhou, Sen Wang   +5 more
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Privacy for Personal Neuroinformatics

, 2014
Human brain activity collected in the form of Electroencephalography (EEG), even with low number of sensors, is an extremely rich signal. Traces collected from multiple channels and with high sampling rates capture many important aspects of participants'
Greenwood, Dazza, Hansen, Lars Kai, Pentland, Alex, Stopczynski, Arkadiusz   +3 more
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