SOCIAL MEDIA REFLECTION ASSIGNMENT: A SIMPLE CLASSROOM INTERVENTION TO HELP STUDENTS EXAMINE SCIENTIFIC CLAIMS IN SOCIAL MEDIA

Social Media Reflection Assignment: a Simple Classroom Intervention To Help Students Examine Scientific Claims in Social Media

ABSTRACT Social media has the power to spread information faster than any other news source.The science community has experienced this firsthand during recent years, unfortunately to its detriment.When scientific and medical claims are made without responsible examination of scientific evidence, misinformation is allowed to spread.While all users a

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Performance of NEWS, qSOFA, and SIRS Scores for Assessing Mortality, Early Bacterial Infection, and Admission to ICU in COVID-19 Patients in the Emergency Department

SARS-CoV-2 infection has a wide spectrum of presentations, from asymptomatic to pneumonia and sepsis.Risk scores have been used as triggers for protocols that combine several interventions for early management of sepsis.This study tested the accuracy of the score SIRS, qSOFA, and NEWS in predicting outcomes, including mortality and bacterial infect

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Lidar and Laser Technology for NASA’S Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) Payload on The International Space Station (JEM-EF)

This paper describes the ISS lidar technology provided by Fibertek, Inc.in support of the NASA GSFC CATS mission and provides an assessment of Wash Tee the in-flight systems performance Construction and lessons learned.During February the systems successfully operated in space for more than 300 hours using 25 W average power lasers and photon count

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Practice Patterns and Learning Curve in Transoral Endoscopic Thyroidectomy Vestibular Approach With Neuromonitoring

ObjectivesIntraoperative neuromonitoring has not been routinely applied in early experience with the transoral endoscopic thyroidectomy vestibular approach (TOETVA).Because the preparation and surgical interventions are much different from conventional thyroidectomies, most endocrine Adapters surgeons willing to adapt to TOETVA lack access to infor

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