RARE DISEASE NARRATIVES ON SOCIAL MEDIA: A CONTENT ANALYSIS

Rare disease narratives on social media: A content analysis

Purpose: Social media provides an opportunity for the expression of people with rare conditions and may provide valuable insight into lived experiences to inform genomic care.Our objective was to describe the nature and content of rare disease video narratives on social media.Methods: We reviewed content on a short-video-format social media website

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Beyond Fictionality: A Definition of Fictional Characterhood

While the nature of fictional characters has received much attention in the last few years within analytic philosophy, most accounts fail to grasp what distinguishes fictional characters Developer Unit from other fictional entities.In this paper, I propose to amend this deficiency by defining fictional characterhood.I claim that fictional character

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Some environmental and biological factors influencing the activity of entomopathogenic Bacillus on mosquito larvae in Brazil

The influence of environmental and biological factors on the efficacy of Bacillus Wall Unit thuringiensis serovar israelensis and B.sphaericus as mosquito larvicides are reviewed.The importance of strain dependence, cultivating media/methods, mosquito species/specificity, formulations and their relation to mosquito feeding habits, as well as temper

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