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Dental discoveries: How is dental research improving oral health?

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Dental discoveries: How is dental research improving oral health? Dental scientists at the Iowa Institute of Oral Health Research at the University of Iowa , USA, are studying various aspects of oral health and healthcare, to improve dental practices and keep our teeth and mouths healthy. How do bacteria cause periodontitis?

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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

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Differential treatment is an example of how economic theories can shape public policies and individual’s opportunities. Regardless of whether differential treatment is considered fair, the efficiency rationale gives researchers and policymakers another way to look at how and why public policies should consider socio-economic factors.

Economics 111
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How can we make future places healthier spaces?

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This project is investigating how computing, the internet of things and data science can generate information that people can use to make their future places healthier. DATA SCIENCE – encompasses preparing data for analysis, including cleansing, aggregating and manipulating the data to perform advanced data analysis.

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Bias, assumptions and emotions: why we think what we think

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Though there is a long path ahead, his research into why we make the decisions we do is helping to pave the way for such machines in the future, by applying these cognitive processes in artificial systems. Ultimately, good science has a lot to do with playing and exploring, and I’m able to do that with my research and the people around me.

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Growing a community: building the Plant Cell Atlas

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She and Dr Selena Rice work at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, California, and have helped bring together over 800 experts to create the Plant Cell Atlas – a community resource that will describe everything we know about plant cell types, the molecules they contain, and how these molecules and cells interact.

Biology 98