This article presents a project proposal that was created in response to competitive call from the Czech research support agency area of Increasing Resilience Society Disinformation. We consider most effective strategy for achieving this goal be accessible interdisciplinary education – knowledge shared by so-called Opposite Side Method. The idea uses acronym INEDCO (INterdisciplinary EDucation ...

It is important to recognize the political and policy accomplishments of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), anticipate its limitations, and use the levers it provides strategically to address the problems it does not resolve. Passage of the ACA broke the political logjam that long stymied national progress toward equitable, quality, universal, affordable health care. It exten...

Social media users spend several hours a day to read, post and search for news on microblogging platforms. Social media is becoming a key means for discovering news. However, verifying the trustworthiness of this information is becoming even more challenging. In this study, we attempt to address the problem of rumor detection and belief investigation on Twitter. Our definition of rumor is an un...

The prevention of respiratory diseases caused by high air pollution rates is an important issue in big cities, where industrialization and overpopulation cause an increase in allergenic particles that aggravate the disease of allergic rhinitis and asthma, especially in childhood. The problem lies in the disinformation of the population about air quality and the preventive measures to be taken i...

The paper presents two concepts: entity resolution (ER, record linkage) and data privacy (DP). Authors presented a sketch of a framework for managing information leakage, and studied how the framework can be used to answer a variety of questions related to ER and DP. In the paper they studied the problems of measuring the incremental leakage of critical information. The framework bases on defin...

Humans are far from being the healthiest of animals. Whether in a modern city or primeval forest, their life-styles expose them to too many risks from infection and accident (a recent study of a group of Paraguayan hunter-gatherers revealed that men are too unwell to hunt 20% of the time [1]). Yet we argue in this essay that humans are by nature exceptionally good — perhaps even the best of all...

When evaluating environmental risk and its perception, psychosocial and psychosomatic factors may be of fundamental importance for public health programming and the promotion of quality of life. This is the case in particular where knowledge of the true health consequences of environmental exposure to given risk factors are incomplete or its action is within the range of values where we do not ...

This anthropological study aimed to evaluate the incorporation of pacemakers into the lives of individuals with Chagas disease. An ethnographic methodology was used, based on an open interview focusing on the personal perceptions of 15 patients with chronic Chagas cardiopathy who had required pacemaker implants at the Federal University Hospital in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. As...