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February 19, 2021
02/11/2021
Science communication
Stanley and colleagues found that strategies targeted towards increasing the effectiveness of climate change communication interact with political affiliation, and may undermine pro-environmentalism.
Image credit: climate change by stockcatalog, CC BY 2.0
02/17/2021
Maternal/child health
Ashish and colleagues found that infants born to women who were younger or from ethnic minorities were more likely to experience newborn mistreatment in Nepal.
Image credit: Baby Feet by congerdesign, CC0
02/16/2021
Evolutionary biology
Hassanin and colleagues analyse the complete mitogenomes for 220 carnivores and estimate their phylogeny and divergence times.
Image credit: Fig 2 by Hassanin et al., CC BY 4.0
02/16/2021
Research Article
Author Deogratius Bintabara has demonstrated that there is a persistent poor-rich gap across Tanzania in the ability to access institutional delivery/skilled birth attendance and safe childbirth care services.
Image credit: Petr Kratochvil, PublicDomainPictures
02/09/2021
Protocols now accepted
PLOS ONE is happy to announce two new article types that improve reproducibility and transparency, and allow researchers to receive credit for their contributions to study design: Lab Protocols and Study Protocols.
Image credit: Fernando Zhiminaicela, Pixabay License
02/11/2021
Radiology
Bar and Bang use Pearson's coefficients between gene pairs to recover a gene network's structure from co-expression data.
02/08/2021
Education research
Dian and colleagues found that overweight and obese students receive systematically lower grades by their teachers compared to typical weight students even after controlling for academic competence and sociodemographic characteristics, highlighting that discrimination against overweight people in wider society is mirrored in school settings.
Image credit: Dimension by ShuttrKing|KT, CC BY 2.0
02/17/2021
Infectious disease
Delabre and colleagues conducted a 12-country study among European women and found that high-risk individuals are interested in using PrEP to prevent HIV acquisition.
02/11/2021
Ecology/Agriculture
Ratnayake and colleagues developed a detection and tracking algorithm to monitor unmarked insects outdoors.
Image credit: Bee insect green nature bloom by Jonas Thoren, Pixabay License
02/11/2021
Public health
Bezerra de Souza and colleagues provide an overview of the burdens of multimorbidity and its associated factors in an aging population.
02/11/2021
Computer Science
Fu and colleagues use a thermodynamic approach to evaluate the popularity of scientific topics.
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