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What are you looking at? ‘Virtual’ communication in the age of social distancing

March 30, 2020 sarah Jonas AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA, BEHAVIOR, BUSINESS/ECONOMICS, Collaboration, LANGUAGE/LINGUISTICS/SPEECH, MASS MEDIA, SOCIAL/BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE, TELECOMMUNICATIONS

First-of-its-kind study explores phenomenon of visual cues and live video interactions

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Female directors are quicker to recall dangerous medical products, study shows

March 30, 2020 sarah Jonas BUSINESS/ECONOMICS

Medical product recalls number in the thousands each year. In the first quarter of 2018, for example, 84 pharmaceutical companies

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A lifesaving reason to have more women on boards: ensuring consumer safety

March 27, 2020 sarah Jonas BUSINESS/ECONOMICS, DEMOGRAPHY, MEDICAL/SCIENTIFIC ETHICS, MEDICINE/HEALTH, PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES, POLICY/ETHICS

A new study of the medical products industry — the first to examine the impact of female board representation on product recalls — finds that firms with female directors on their boards announce high-severity recalls 28-days faster than all-male boards

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Global supply chains as a way to curb carbon emissions

March 27, 2020 sarah Jonas BUSINESS/ECONOMICS, Climate Change, Earth Science, SOCIOECONOMICS

The coronavirus outbreak has companies from Apple to Amazon warning consumers, shareholders and governments about how factory shutdowns in China

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UK local authorities not ready for the number of deaths from Covid-19

March 27, 2020 sarah Jonas BUSINESS/ECONOMICS, CRITICAL CARE/EMERGENCY MEDICINE, DEATH/DYING, HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS/SERVICES, INFECTIOUS/EMERGING DISEASES, MEDICAL/SCIENTIFIC ETHICS, MORTALITY/LONGEVITY, POPULATION BIOLOGY

The situation could lead to a bottleneck in burials and cremations, mortuaries filled beyond capacity and the possibility of mass graves

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The physics that drives periodic economic downturns

March 24, 2020 sarah Jonas BUSINESS/ECONOMICS, CHEMISTRY/PHYSICS/MATERIALS SCIENCES, History

The physics behind saving, investment and the time-dependent movement of spreading over an area reveals why all good things must come to an end

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Taylor & Francis offers full access to breaking COVID-19 research through new microsite

March 24, 2020 sarah Jonas Biology, BUSINESS/ECONOMICS, Cell Biology, Education, MEDICINE/HEALTH, POLICY/ETHICS, SOCIAL/BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE, VIROLOGY

Taylor & Francis has published a new microsite that aggregates and organizes all recently published COVID-19 research in one easy

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Coal exit benefits outweigh its costs

March 23, 2020 sarah Jonas BUSINESS/ECONOMICS, Climate Change, Climate Science, Earth Science, ENERGY SOURCES, HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS/SERVICES, Nature, POLLUTION/REMEDIATION

Coal combustion is not only the single most important source of CO 2 , accounting for more than a third

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