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Mathematics

25-Sep-2022

Widening participation in STEM requires an attitude change

University of Reading
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Students rule themselves out of, or in to, STEM disciplines, based on stereotyped views of what makes a typical student, a new study has found.

Journal: International Studies in Sociology of Education

25-Sep-2022

Living donor transplantation offers a safe alternative for liver transplant patients

Elsevier
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Demand for donor livers for transplant patients outstrips supply with over 15% of waitlist patients dying after a year. A new international study offers support for increasing the use of living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) in Western countries and reducing the imbalance between organ supply and demand. This study is reported in the Journal of Hepatology, the official journal of the European Association for the Study of the Liver, published by Elsevier.

Journal: Journal of Hepatology

23-Sep-2022

Pritzker Molecular Engineering professors David Awschalom and Liang Jiang awarded $1 million for development of South Korea-U.S. quantum center

University of Chicago
Grant and Award Announcement

The National Research Foundation of South Korea (NRF) has awarded two professors from the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) $1 million to co-lead the creation of a South Korea-U.S. joint research center dedicated to quantum error correction.

23-Sep-2022

An AI message decoder based on bacterial growth patterns

Duke University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Depending on the initial conditions used, such as nutrient levels and space constraints, bacteria tend to grow in specific ways. Duke University researchers have created a new type of encryption scheme based on how a virtual bacterial colony grows with specific initial conditions.

Journal: Patterns
Funder: National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research

23-Sep-2022

COVID-19 associated with increase in new diagnoses of type 1 diabetes in youth, by as much as 72%

Case Western Reserve University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Children who were infected with COVID-19 show a substantially higher risk of developing type 1 diabetes (T1D), according to a new study that analyzed electronic health records of more than 1 million patients ages 18 and younger.

Journal: JAMA Network Open

22-Sep-2022

Emo-jional rescue: UBC Okanagan researchers create tool to measure the emotion in emojis

University of British Columbia Okanagan campus

How much is really known about those smiley faces staring back at from smartphone screens? Anyone who has ever wondered if the people sending them are really that happy is not alone. Thanks to a pair of UBC Okanagan colleagues, researchers striving to better understand the ever-expanding world of emojis now have a new tool to keep pace with technology—what they call a multidimensional lexicon of emojis (MLE).

Journal: Frontiers in Psychology

22-Sep-2022

New study shows higher death toll among Puerto Ricans following Hurricane Maria than reported following 2017 disaster

University of Toronto
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research shows an irregular increase in deaths of Puerto Ricans in the United States in the six-month period after the devastating Hurricane Maria cyclone passed over the island in September 2017. The researchers say the findings suggest an additional 514 deaths should be added to the official estimate of 2,975 deaths caused by Hurricane Maria, due to the displacement of thousands of Puerto Ricans to the U.S. mainland in the aftermath of the disaster.

Journal: BMJ Open