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Loneliness Linked To Negative Social Media Experiences, Study Finds

We have been hearing more and more about loneliness, and the loneliness epidemic, in recent years, as research has stared to lay out both its causes and effects. There are likely many reasons for this increasing psychological/societal issue, but one that is almost certainly involved is our dependence on screens, and in particular social media. And a new study from the University of Pittsburgh and West Virginia University finds that social media use—or at least negative experiences on social—is linked to more feelings of social isolation, a.k.a. loneliness.

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How To Hustle Your Way To A Six-Figure Income As A Social Media Influencer

I am blessed to say that I get to wake up and live out my dreams each day, says social media influencer, comedian and actress Lala Milan. She creates content for many platforms, including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, as well as various apps, doing almost all of the writing, filming, directing, and editing herself. This career has enabled her to generate a six-figure annual income and secured her celebrity bookings at events. Recently, it landed her a role on Boomerang, a TV series coming to BET in February 2019.

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Amazon opens up Alexa store for anyone to create and publish custom skills

Amazon is now letting anyone create and publish Alexa skills into the Alexa skills store. Amazon first made it easy to create custom skills last year with its Alexa Skill Blueprints program, and it’s taking those custom responses and allowing them to be published in the store for everyone to download and use. There are currently more than 80,000 existing Alexa skills in the store, but todays announcement means the store will be growing significantly with user-generated custom skills.

Amazon is primarily aiming this new functionality at content creators, businesses, brands, and other organizations. Publications, local sports teams, YouTubers, and others will all be able to broadcast their latest updates by simply adding a recorded audio feed URL to a blueprint skill directly and then publishing it on the store.

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The Future of Education: How Cities Can Leverage Community Assets, Social Networks, and Personal Passions in Extending Their Learning Systems Beyond the Classroom

Schools can not do it all. We have known this for a long time, yet we often seem to deny this reality in policy and action. For decades we have piled expectations onto our schools, asking them to develop scholars, citizens, and workers and to provide for the academic, nutritional, social, and developmental needs of children. Schools, as critics are quick to point out, invariably fall short of these expectations.

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How social networks are recruiting teenage extremists

In March, in the aftermath of the Christchurch shooting, I tried to distinguish between internet problems and platform problems. Internet problems arise from the existence of a free and open network that connects most of the world; platform problems arise from features native to the platform. The fact that anti-vaccination zealots can meet online is an internet problem; the fact that Facebook recommended that new mothers join anti-vaccination groups is a platform problem.

The recent rise in white supremacist violence around the world has given us fresh reason to ask which aspects of the problem belong to the entire internet, and which belong to our biggest social networks. It seems apparent that the internet is cultivating loose but potent networks of extremists. But what are the mechanics of this radicalization? And what role could platforms play in discouraging it?

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The Oxford handbook of populism / edited by Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Paul Taggart, Paulina Ochoa Espejo and Pierre Ostiguy




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Lower taxes : tax relief to encourage and reward hard-working Australians

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Australian politics in the twenty-first century : old institutions, new challenges / Glenn Kefford, Hannah Murphy-Gregory, Ian Ward, Stewart Jackson, Lloyd Cox, Andrea Carson ; foreword by Tanya Plibersek

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Review of administration and expenditure : no. 16 (2016-2017) - Australian intelligence agencies / Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security

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Unexceptional politics : on obstruction, impasse, and the impolitic / Emily Apter

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Application of clinical bioinformatics edited by Xiangdong Wang, Christian Baumgartner, Denis C. Shields, Hong-Wen Deng, Jacques S Beckmann

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Analysis of single-cell data: ODE constrained mixture modeling and approximate Bayesian computation / Carolin Loos

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Bioinformatics research and applications: 12th International Symposium, ISBRA 2016, Minsk, Belarus, June 5-8, 2016, Proceedings / Anu Bourgeois, Pavel Skums, Xiang Wan, Alex Zelikovsky (eds.)

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Structural bioinformatics tools for drug design: extraction of biologically relevant information from structural databases / Jaroslav Koča [and six more]

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Translational bioinformatics and its application / Dong-Qing Wei, Yilong Ma, William C.S. Cho, Qin Xu, Fengfeng Zhou, editors

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Genomic approach to asthma / Xiangdong Wang, Zhihong Chen editors

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Computational biology: a hypertextbook / Scott T. Kelley, Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, and Dennis Didulo, Becton, Dickinson and Company, San Diego, California

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Computing Skills for Biologists: A Toolbox / Madlen Wilmes, Stefano Allesina

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Collecting experiments: making Big Data biology / Bruno J. Strasser

Hayden Library - QH324.2.S728 2019




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The evolution of complexity: simple simulations of major innovations / Larry Bull

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An introduction to undergraduate research in computational and mathematical biology: from birdsongs to viscosities / Hannah Callender Highlander, Alex Capaldi, Carrie Diaz Eaton, editors

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PIX: TV actress Krystle D'Souza's Turkey vacay

Let's take a tour of Turkey through Krystle's eyes.




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PIX: Kasautii Zindagii Kay's Swiss shoot

Ekta Kapoor's show Kasautii Zindagii Kay travels to Switzerland.




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PIX: Karishma takes on khatra in Bulgaria

Here's a look at the contestants living it up in Bulgaria, as they take a breather from KKK's scary stunts.








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PIX: Hina Khan wins big on television

The first edition of News18 India's Saas Bahu Aur Devrani Stardom Awards was held in Mumbai.





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PIX: Surbhi Jyoti's Australian holiday

After touring Paris and Switzerland, television actress Surbhi Jyoti spent her next vacation in Australia.




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PIX: Kriti Sanon walks the orange carpet!

Bollywood attended the fifth edition of the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, and took time out to pose with their favourite toons as well!




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PIX: Hina Khan's bikini holiday in Maldives

Hina Khan made her recent Maldives holiday a sensation on social media, thanks to her hot pictures.





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PIX: Karishma's bikini shoot in the Maldives

It was a fun birthday holiday for Karishma Tanna, as she basked in the exotic beaches of Maldives. The actress, who turned 36 on December 21, vacationed at a spa, and put up beautiful pictures of her trip.




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PIX: Nia Sharma sizzles in a RED HOT bikini

Think Nia is hot? Write in on the message board below!





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PIX: INSIDE Kamya Panjabi's Grand Wedding

Former Bigg Boss contestant Kamya Panjabi got married to her boyfriend of two years Shalabh Dang on February 10, and posted lovely pictures on Instagram.





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PIX: Mandana glams up for a red carpet

The digital platform Zee5 completed two years, and threw an anniversary party for its stars.




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PIX: Malaika glams up an awards night

The Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival awards were held in Mumbai, and saw a mix of film and television stars in attendance.





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Advances in corporate branding / edited by John M.T. Balmer, Shaun M. Powell, Joachim Kernstock and Tim Oliver Brexendorf

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SAP Flexible Real Estate Management: Guide for Implementing and Optimizing SAP Flexible Real Estate Management Solution / Jayant Daithankar

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The big fish experience: create memorable presentations that reel in your audience / Kenny Nguyen, Gus Murillo, Robert Killeen, Luke Jones

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Product Development for Distant Target Groups: An Experimental Study for the Silver Market / Malte Marvede ; with a foreword by Cornelius Herstatt

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Marketing and customer loyalty: the extra step approach / Mauro Cavallone

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Fraud prevention in online digital advertising / Xingquan Zhu, Haicheng Tao, Zhiang Wu, Jie Cao, Kristopher Kalish, Jeremy Kayne

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The Oxford handbook of pricing management / edited by Özalp Özer, Robert Phillips

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Social media analytics strategy: using data to optimize business performance / Alex Gonçalves

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