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Inspired by a few of our valued colleagues, we’ve been working on single search white papers. Our goal is that people who just want a deep dive on a topic can do so without any other commitment. Great for students, family members, anyone who is interested in more than you can get by browsing google […]
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Many public health organizations have a specific focus on resilience. For example, the Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health (DBHIDS, 2011) specifically promotes resilience by saying that it is, “a protective process which enables individuals to reach good outcomes even though they have endured significant adversities. Resilience is a common phenomenon arising from ordinary human adaptation […]
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You may come across a variety of methods to assess a variable during a study. This article will describe the four primary kinds of measurement scales and provide some examples of them. Nominal scale A nominal scale assigns a name or label to a category. These variables are categories that tell what something is, like […]
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Health equity is a major topic and research focus over the past few years. And with good reason! For those of us who want wellbeing to improve in our communities, we can’t have that happen unless we working for improved outcomes for all. For that reason, health equity is more than an academic topic. Working […]
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The ArXiv (pronounced “archive”) is a digital library that archives papers in physics, computer science, mathematics, and other scientific disciplines. It was established because not many journals would accept emails for submissions, so scientists wanted to have their work published as soon as possible. Preprints are one method of achieving this goal. A preprint is […]
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Let’s talk evaluation. I haven’t done a summary of evaluation in a long time, and since we’re dialing up a really big project with our friends at RISE, it’s as good a time as any to see what’s been going on in the evaluation field. I would hypothesize that the ratio of evaluation practitioners to […]
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Is busyness ever a valid excuse? Probably not. We’ve been working on a ton of underlying improvements that we plan to showcase when we launch our next update. We plan on having improved topic modeling and, for 101 Days of Science Subscribers, the ability to synthesize what’s been written in the mainstream media. This helps […]
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Our analysis of the recent trends in academic articles, news articles and tweets.
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The influential and transcendental psychologist Aaron Beck died on October 31st at the age of 100. His work and research on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy have influenced and improved, without exaggeration, millions and millions of lives. I started out in substance abuse treatment about 15 years ago. This was in Philly, and Beck was based at […]
Read more →Happy six-month birthday to this article, 5335 days of Implementation Science: using natural language processing to examine publication trends and topics! Written by myself and Dr. Victoria Scott, we talked about ways to leverage NLP to makes sense of large amounts of literature. While the methods that we used here can seem complicated on the surface, […]
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Yes, this post will save you $1,200! That’s $1,200 in the cost of registration and the cost of your time that you don’t have to spend! Before I get into the specific results, I want to go up on a soapbox. Over the past two years, the virtual conferences I’ve been a part of, both […]
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Our sister company, The Dawn Chorus Group, is involved in many community-based research and evaluation projects. This work is part of our larger overall mission of getting good ideas into practice. More and more, our partner meetings are beginning with an indigenous peoples’ land acknowledgment. A land acknowledgment speaks to, and about, the original inhabitants […]
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