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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

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Economics is the study of how people make decisions, how we choose where to study and work, how we promote fairness in society and how our lives are shaped by market institutions and government policies,” says Dr Emil Temnyalov, an economist at the University of Technology Sydney. How does economics combine mathematics and social science?

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What lessons can we learn from past pandemics?

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Some of the hardest hit regions were the world’s remotest places, as they did not have access to medical care. Studying the 1918 influenza pandemic enables social scientists to better understand how social inequalities contribute to different mortality outcomes.

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Fire trackers: how can we use modelling techniques to predict where wildfires will occur?

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“These data capture the location of assets in the area, the distance to roads, vegetation type, soil moisture, rainfall, fire history and a myriad of climate information.” Collecting all these data can take a long time, and the team makes use of government databases, academic papers and its own field work and experiments to do so. “It

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The importance of community for reducing social isolation

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Language is also a barrier to social inclusion in the US,” explains Lidia. “If If immigrants don’t speak enough English to get by, they will struggle to access resources and fully integrate into a new community in a new country.” And, if immigrants are undocumented, they may live in fear of discovery and so avoid social contact.

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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see?

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When researchers visit the facility to capture images, they are supported by scientists, including research software engineers who help them process their data and access software. Once this is done, the CTC video footage will be accessible to artificial intelligence image analysis techniques.