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Mashup Score: 6How social evaluations shape trust in 45 types of scientists - 1 day(s) ago
Science can offer solutions to a wide range of societal problems. Key to capitalizing on such solutions is the public’s trust and willingness to grant influence to scientists in shaping policy. However, previous research on determinants of trust is limited and does not factor in the diversity of scientific occupations. The present study (N = 2,780; U.S. participants) investigated how four well-established dimensions of social evaluations (competence, assertiveness, morality, warmth) shape trust in 45 types of scientists (from agronomists to zoologists). Trust in most scientists was relatively high but varied considerably across occupations. Perceptions of morality and competence emerged as the most important antecedents of trust, in turn predicting the willingness to grant scientists influence in managing societal problems. Importantly, the contribution of morality (but not competence) varied across occupations: Morality was most strongly associated with trust in scientists who work on
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Mashup Score: 327Neuronal cell cycle reentry events in the aging brain are more prevalent in neurodegeneration and lead to cellular senescence - 4 day(s) ago
Recent evidence suggests that cell cycle genes become re-activated in some post-mitotic neurons in the aged brain. In this study, the authors develop a bioinformatic approach to robustly characterize the prevalence, nature, and fate of these cell cycle re-entry neurons, within the healthy aging and diseased human brain.
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Most brain cells have lost their ability to divide. But the ones that can divide (get into cell cycle) — are more frequent in people with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's—quickly become senescent and die, and may contribute to neurodegeneration https://t.co/IWwOEbpdP3 @PLOSBiology https://t.co/JPCNiy4t3F
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Mashup Score: 19Navigating time equity: Balancing urgency and inclusivity in pandemic treaty negotiations - 4 day(s) ago
Citation: Sekalala S, Lake S, Hodges S, Perera Y (2024) Navigating time equity: Balancing urgency and inclusivity in pandemic treaty negotiations. PLOS Glob Public Health 4(4): e0003118. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0003118 Editors: Madhukar Pai (McGill University, CANADA), Catherine Kyobutungi (APHRC, KENYA), and Julia Robinson (PLOS: Public Library of Science, UNITED STATES) Copyright: © 2024 Sekalala et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons
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Citation: Naidu T (2024) Epistemic disobedience–Undoing coloniality in global health research. PLOS Glob Public Health 4(4): e0003033. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0003033 Editor: Seye Abimbola, University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA Copyright: © 2024 Thirusha Naidu. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Aim The aim of this umbrella review was to establish which biopsychosocial factors are associated with development of chronic musculoskeletal pain. Methods Ovid Medline, Embase, Web of Science Core Collection, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, PsycINFO, CINAHL, PEDro, PROSPERO, Google Scholar and grey literature were searched from database inception to 4th April 2023. Systematic reviews of observational prospective longitudinal studies, including populations with 3 months) musculoskeletal pain. Two reviewers searched the literature, assessed risk of bias (Assessing the Methodological Quality of Systematic Reviews-2), and evaluated quality (Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation) to provide an overall statement on the certainty of evidence for each biopsychosocial factor. Data analy
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Citation: Kerry V, Sayeed S (2024) Advancing the climate change and health nexus: The 2024 Agenda. PLOS Glob Public Health 4(3): e0003008. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0003008 Editor: Renzo R. Guinto, St Luke’s Medical Center College of Medicine, PHILIPPINES Copyright: © 2024 Kerry, Sayeed. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original
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Mashup Score: 2Machine learning for healthcare that matters: Reorienting from technical novelty to equitable impact - 8 day(s) ago
Author summary The field of machine learning has made significant technical advancements over the past several years, but the impact of this technology on healthcare practice has remained limited. We identify issues in the structure of the field of machine learning for healthcare which incentivise work that is scientifically novel over work that ultimately impacts patients. Among others, these issues include a lack of diversity in available data, an emphasis on targets which are easy to measure but may not be clinically important, and limited funding for work focused on deployment. We offer a series of suggestions about how best to address these issues, and advocate for a distinction to be made between “machine research performed ON healthcare data” and true “machine FOR healthcare”. The latter, we argue, requires starting from the very beginning with a focus on the impact that a model will have on patients. We conclude with discussion of “impact challenges”—specific and measurable goa
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Data are the most important elements of bioinformatics: Computational analysis of bioinformatics data, in fact, can help researchers infer new knowledge about biology, chemistry, biophysics, and sometimes even medicine, influencing treatments and therapies for patients. Bioinformatics and high-throughput biological data coming from different sources can even be more helpful, because each of these different data chunks can provide alternative, complementary information about a specific biological phenomenon, similar to multiple photos of the same subject taken from different angles. In this context, the integration of bioinformatics and high-throughput biological data gets a pivotal role in running a successful bioinformatics study. In the last decades, data originating from proteomics, metabolomics, metagenomics, phenomics, transcriptomics, and epigenomics have been labelled -omics data, as a unique name to refer to them, and the integration of these omics data has gained importance in
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Mashup Score: 252Large language models approach expert-level clinical knowledge and reasoning in ophthalmology: A head-to-head cross-sectional study - 9 day(s) ago
Author summary Large language models (LLMs) are the most sophisticated form of language-based artificial intelligence. LLMs have the potential to improve healthcare, and experiments and trials are ongoing to explore potential avenues for LLMs to improve patient care. Here, we test state-of-the-art LLMs on challenging questions used to assess the aptitude of eye doctors (ophthalmologists) in the United Kingdom before they can be deemed fully qualified. We compare the performance of these LLMs to fully trained ophthalmologists as well as doctors in training to gauge the aptitude of the LLMs for providing advice to patients about eye health. One of the LLMs, GPT-4, exhibits favourable performance when compared with fully qualified and training ophthalmologists; and comparisons with its predecessor model, GPT-3.5, indicate that this superior performance is due to improved accuracy and relevance of model responses. LLMs are approaching expert-level ophthalmological knowledge and reasoning,
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Peter Scarborough and colleagues investigate how the UK Soft Drink Industry Levy has impacted dental caries, obesity, life expectancy and quality of life in children and adolescents living in England.
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