Large-scale patterns of useful native plants based on a systematic review of ethnobotanical studies in Argentina

Plants are essential for our lives because they provide food, medicine, fuel, shelter, and immaterial resources.Understanding patterns of plant uses through large-scale plant use analysis may contribute to the development of a AMINO ENERGY GREEN APPLE biocultural conservation approach.We conducted a systematic review to assess current knowledge of

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Discovering health topics in social media using topic models.

By aggregating self-reported health statuses across millions of users, we seek to characterize the variety of health information discussed in Twitter.We describe a topic modeling framework for discovering health topics in Twitter, a social media website.This is an exploratory approach with the goal of understanding what health topics are commonly d

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Introducing the PLOS special collection of economic cases for NCD prevention and control: A global perspective.

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and chronic respiratory disease, are responsible for seven out of every 10 deaths worldwide.While NCDs are associated with aging in high-income countries, this representation is often misleading.Over one-third of the 41 million annual deaths from NCDs occur prematurely, defin

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