#ButNotMaternity: Analysing Instagram posts of reproductive politics under pandemic crisis

The Frequency of Pro-Fluoride Verses Anti-Fluoride Posts on Instagram

Fluoride is now accessible in a variety of forms, including water, toothpaste, mouth rinses, and professional fluoride therapy at dental clinics. A body of data supports the use of systemic and topical fluoride from various sources to prevent dental caries. Fluoride ions are absorbed by the enamel prior to tooth eruption and produce fluorohydroxyapatite, which is more resistant to acid attack t...

Politics and science: reproductive health.

State Resource Politics in the Realm of Crisis : The Forest Reserve Imataca under Dispute

This paper explores conflicts that have arisen around the opening of the Forest Reserve Imataca in Venezuela's south to large-scale mining activities, which is justified by the State to boost the ailing national economy. Venezuela's move towards intensifying natural resource exploitation in this region as well as resource use activities already under way might put one of the largest remaining t...

Introduction – Financial Crisis, Austerity, and Electoral Politics

We are pleased to present this issue of JEPOP which is a special issue on the topic of how the financial crisis in Europe has changed the electoral politics of some of the most deeply affected countries. We are delighted to welcome on board Pedro C. Magalhães as guest co-editor for this issue. Pedro is principal researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portuga...

Embodied Conversational Agents for H5N1 Pandemic Crisis

This paper presents a novel framework for modeling embodied conversational agent for crisis communication focusing on the H5N1 pandemic crisis. Our system aims to cope with the most challenging issue on the maintenance of an engaging while convincing conversation. What primarily distinguishes our system from other conversational agent systems is that the human-computer conversation takes place ...