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How a member of the public reacts to health crises depends on a lot of differing factors, including perceived risk or resistance to the disease, trust in the government, and general anxiety levels.

Since media, including government-sourced information, can also determine how individuals respond to health messages, the impact of crisis communication could depend on how the risk is framed.

Dr Su Lin Yeo and colleagues explore the effectiveness of the Singaporean government’s messaging to promote COVID-19 prevention behaviours,  be they social distancing, mask wearing or hand washing. In particular, does viewing the world as dangerous in general affect the success of prevention messages?

Read their original research: https://doi.org/10.1080/1553118X.2022.2036742

Myocarditis is the inflammation of the heart wall tissues that can affect the heart’s ability to pump blood, and sometimes cause an irregular or pathologically rapid heartbeat.

Dr. Sandeep is a general paediatric and fetal cardiologist and is currently the Medical Director of his practice Pediatrix Northwest Congenital HeartCare in Seattle and Tacoma in Washington state U.S.A, who has created a pathway to help paediatricians with the management of children with symptoms of myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccination.

Find out more about Pediatrix: www.pediatrix.com

Read the original research: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36285797

New technologies like Artificial Intelligence bring new perceptions, new practices and new understandings. 

Stefan Brunnhuber, the head of an initiative of the World academy of Art and Science, questions whether AI is just another trend, or whether it will change how humans are able to generate information, knowledge, even wisdom, like we never experienced before.

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Read the original research: link.springer.com/book/9783031481123

The distribution of parcels from local distribution centres to customers can be met with hiccups, as customers may be unavailable to receive packages at optimal delivery times. 

Jhonny Pincay-Nieves and colleagues, have developed a framework for improving first-try success in last-mile delivery, demonstrating how complex processes and improvements can be performed using approximate, or ‘fuzzy logic' based methods.

Read the original research: doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16704-1

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Large pension funds are not just financial giants; they also serve as catalysts for climate action. In Denmark, these pension funds are not only influential but have also committed to reducing emissions as outlined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.

The research of Dr Paul Klumpes and Jesper Lindgaard Christensen of Aalborg University focuses on the globe's major pension funds and why they are crucial in the fight against climate change. 

The project was funded by  the Denmark Government funding body “Independent Research Fund Denmark” 

Our jaws shape our appearance, communication, diet and more. However, the branch of medicine dedicated to its correction — orthognathic surgery – is relatively new. 

Dr R Scott Conley is an associate professor in the Department of Orthodontics and Oral Facial Genetics at the Indiana University School of Dentistry. He has helped lead dental and medical schools on collaborations that are characteristic of orthognathic surgery teams, and has become one of the fields most enthusiastic champions.

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Read the original research:  https://doi.org/10.1080/27705781.2022.2127606

Complex systems are found across a diverse array of situations in nature: from human societies to groups of interacting quantum particles.

Dr Alberto Robledo shows how his results may lead to new discoveries about many areas of nature where complex systems can be found. 

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Read the original research: doi.org/10.31349/SuplRevMexFis.1.4.32

In the 21st century, we sit in the driver’s seat to determine the technosphere and ecosphere we inhabit, in turn reshaping what it is to be human today.

Stefan Brunnhuber, the head of an initiative of the World academy of Art and Science, aims to answer this pivotal question in relation to species losses, pandemics and global heating on the one side, and disruptive new technologies, namely AI and BIG DATA, on the other.

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Read the original research: springer.com/book/9783031481123

The bricks, steel and glass of modern architecture may seem brand new, but  all came from somewhere. For the sake of sustainability,  we can plan ahead for what comes next for those materials and their shared space.

Dr Lara Katscher from Werner Sober Green Technologies discusses building projects at the forefront of engineering which put architecture and design at the heart of climate research.

Read more at wernersobek.com

 Tsallis entropy aims to extend traditional statistical mechanics, but some physicists believe the theory is incompatible with the fundamental principles of thermodynamics.

Dr Alberto Robledo, however, shows for the first time how Tsallis entropy can explain natural phenomena that turn out to be surprisingly linked to the transitions from regular to chaotic behaviours, a result that has eluded researchers so far. His discovery could lead to a deeper understanding of how thermodynamic systems behave.

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Read the original research: doi.org/10.3390/e24121761