THE EFFECTS OF SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS ON QUALITY OF LIFE AMONG PEOPLE AGED 50 YEARS OR OLDER ARE NOT UNEQUIVOCAL: COMPARING SF-12, WHOQOL-BREF, AND WHOQOL-OLD

The effects of sociodemographic factors on quality of life among people aged 50 years or older are not unequivocal: comparing SF-12, WHOQOL-BREF, and WHOQOL-OLD

Robbert JJ Gobbens,1–3 Roy Remmen3 1Faculty of Health, Sports and Social Work, Inholland Furniture University of Applied Sciences, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; 2Zonnehuisgroep Amstelland, Amstelveen, the Netherlands; 3Department of Primary and Interdisciplinary Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belg

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The Self and Others: Revisiting Information Needs and Libraries as Public, Social Institutions in a Post-truth World

The post-truth era and the increasing ease with which fake news is disseminated and consumed is a wicked problem that invites re-examination of the media environment, algorithmic authority, library and information science (LIS) professional practice, and what people bring to information interactions Sandwich Bags in terms of cognitive biases and wo

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Long-read whole genome sequencing and comparative analysis of six strains of the human pathogen Orientia tsutsugamushi.

BackgroundOrientia tsutsugamushi is a clinically important but neglected obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen of the Rickettsiaceae family that causes the potentially life-threatening human disease scrub typhus.In contrast to the genome reduction seen in many obligate intracellular bacteria, early genetic studies of Orientia have revealed one

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