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luiy's curator insight,
January 17, 2014 8:58 AM
Big Data & Society (BD&S) is an open access peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes interdisciplinary work principally in the social sciences, humanities and computing and their intersections with the arts and natural sciences about the implications of Big Data for societies.
BD&S moves beyond usual notions of Big Data and treats it as an emerging field of practices that is not defined by but generative of (sometimes) novel data qualities such as high volume and granularity and complex analytics such as data linking and mining. It thus attends to digital content generated through online and offline practices in social, commercial, scientific, and government domains. This includes, for instance, content generated on the Internet through social media and search engines but also that which is generated in closed networks (commercial or government transactions) and open networks such as digital archives, open government and crowdsourced data. Critically, rather than settling on a definition the Journal makes this an object of interdisciplinary inquiries and debates explored through studies of a variety of topics and themes.
Alfredo Corell's curator insight,
December 8, 2013 7:10 AM
"More than one-third of all college students are taking at least one online course, according to the Babson Survey Research Group’s most recent Survey of Online Learning. That’s more than 6.7 million students. And those students are taking courses that have been tested by years of experience and that have been reviewed as part of regular accreditation reviews of colleges. Some students are entirely online, while others are traditional students, enrolled at physical campuses, but taking some of their education online." |
Alfredo Corell's curator insight,
December 9, 2013 3:11 PM
BMJ. 2013 Dec 4;347:f6471. doi: 10.1136/bmj.f6471.Probiotic supplementation during pregnancy or infancy for the prevention of asthma and wheeze: systematic review and meta-analysis.Azad MB, Coneys JG, Kozyrskyj AL, Field CJ, Ramsey CD, Becker AB, Friesen C, Abou-Setta AM, Zarychanski R.
Conclusions We found no evidence to support a protective association between perinatal use of probiotics and doctor diagnosed asthma or childhood wheeze. Randomised controlled trials to date have not yielded sufficient evidence to recommend probiotics for the primary prevention of these disorders. Extended follow-up of existing trials, along with further clinical and basic research, are needed to accurately define the role of probiotics in the prevention of childhood asthma.
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