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Concerns over infecting others play a greater role in people s willingness to be vaccinated in sparsely populated areas than dense urban ones, according to newly published findings in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (
PNAS) of the United States.
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania examined people s behavior getting a flu vaccine as well as their future intentions to be vaccinated against the flu and COVID-19.
Given that they encounter more people and have a greater risk of transmitting disease, it might seem that people in urban environments would be more highly motivated to vaccinate because of prosocial concerns - to protect others. But that is not what the research found.
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Teacher credits course she designed for award
BY GLORY REITZ news@joplinglobe.com Dec 19, 2020 1 min to read
NEOSHO, Mo. â The Missouri Community College Association awarded Crowder College math instructor Samantha Fay with the 2020 Excellence in Teaching Award.
Several years ago, Fay created a new math course, which she believes to have earned her the award. Fay said the course, Quantitative Reasoning, is aimed at students who wonât use algebra in their everyday lives. She said her goal is to teach students that math is a necessary life skill and to create a course that covered more practically applicable aspects. Fay said the course covers subjects such as finances, probability and statistics, and unit conversions.
Tusks from ocean bed off Namibia reveal where elephants were killed for ivory five centuries ago New research paper analyses largest ever archaeological cargo of African ivory Tanya Farber > By Tanya Farber - 20 December 2020 - 08:38 All of the elephant tusks found in the wreckage were from African forest elephants, Loxodonta cyclotis. Image: Nicholas Georgiadis
For nearly five centuries, 100 elephant tusks lay undisturbed on the seabed, holding secrets about the trade relations Africa had forged with European and Asian merchants, and the areas in which elephants were being killed for the ivory industry.
Now, a group of scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been able to analyse them to find out exactly where the elephants had roamed before they were killed for their tusks.
Yingying: Always gone, forever there By ZHAO XU in New York | China Daily | Updated: 2020-12-19 09:06 Share CLOSE Zhang Yingying (1990-2017)－The picture was taken in an Illinois park in May 2017. CHINA DAILY
On a sweltering August Day in 2018 Hou Xiaolin stood below a second-story window of a vine-covered redbrick dormitory building in northwestern Beijing and looked up. This is where I would come and call out to her, he said.
Hou was speaking of his late girlfriend Zhang Yingying, who lived there from 2016 to 2017. In April 2017 Zhang, a research assistant for a scientist with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, left for the US to study for a doctoral degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. There, on June 9, just two months after she arrived, she was abducted, raped and brutally killed by a man named Brendt Christensen.
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