Hyphy Sparked a Social Movement

Social Interactions Sparked by Pictorial Warnings on Cigarette Packs

The Message Impact Framework suggests that social interactions may offer smokers the opportunity to process pictorial warnings on cigarette packs more deeply. We aimed to describe adult smokers' social interactions about pictorial cigarette pack warnings in two longitudinal pilot studies. In Pilot Study 1, 30 smokers used cigarette packs with one of nine pictorial warnings for two weeks. In Pil...

HyPhy: hypothesis testing using phylogenies

UNLABELLED The HyPhypackage is designed to provide a flexible and unified platform for carrying out likelihood-based analyses on multiple alignments of molecular sequence data, with the emphasis on studies of rates and patterns of sequence evolution. AVAILABILITY http://www.hyphy.org CONTACT [email protected] SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION HyPhydocumentation and tutorials are available at htt...

Statikil sparked Paul Wood's interest.

Row sparked over drug adviser sacking

A key risk factor for climate change is the growth in the human population, projected to be about 35 per cent between 2006 and 2050. In the same period the FAO projects that the number of livestock worldwide will double, as will their emissions, while it is widely expected that emissions from other industries will drop, they say. “This would make the amount of livestock-related emissions even m...

Social movement organizations in the local food movement: linking social capital and movement support

Social movement actors seeking alternatives to the highly industrialized, global food system have been advocating for more sustainable, local food systems. Many of the local food movement strategies and initiatives to counter the conventional practices of the industrial food system have proven successful. Social movement researchers have documented the importance of the roles and services socia...