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Research & Innovation Few Adult Smokers and Nonsmokers Think E-Cigarettes Have Lower Levels of Harmful Chemicals Than Cigarettes.
About half of cigarette smokers and young adult non-smokers think that nicotine-based electronic cigarettes have the same amount or even more harmful chemicals than regular tobacco-based cigarettes, according to a Rutgers study. The study, published in Addiction,...
Are Search Engines Bursting the Filter Bubble?
Political ideology and user choice – not algorithmic curation – are the biggest drivers of engagement with partisan and unreliable news provided by Google Search, according to a study coauthored by Rutgers faculty published in the journal Nature. The study addressed a...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Geller's article in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making titled, "Mining of EHR for interface terminology concepts for annotating EHRs of COVID patients." Electronic Health Records (EHRs) provide a systematic account of patient health...
Discrimination, Crime and Suicidal Thoughts Associated With Greater Odds of Firearm Ownership Among Black Adults.
Black adults – particularly Black women – with higher levels of education and experiences of discrimination and crime are more likely to own a firearm, according to a study by the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center at Rutgers. In a new study appearing in...
For NJIT Faculty, Artificial Intelligence is a Learning Opportunity.
Public artificial intelligence programs such as ChatGPT are being embraced by faculty across New Jersey Institute of Technology as the latest classroom tool, just like the introductions of videoconferencing, laptops, computer-aided drafting and pocket calculators that...
Rutgers Experts Aim to Uncover Barriers to Conducting HIV Research in Africa.
Rutgers has received a $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to conduct a four-year study to explore the legal and ethical barriers to conducting HIV research with youth populations in central, east, west and southern Africa. The goal of researchers...
Rutgers Researchers Find Flaws in Using Source Reputation for Training Automatic Misinformation Detection Algorithms.
Researchers at Rutgers University have found a major flaw in the way that algorithms designed to detect "fake news" evaluate the credibility of online news stories. Most of these algorithms rely on a credibility score for the "source" of the article, rather than...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Maturana's article in the Journal of Virological Methods titled, "Local and systemic administration of AAV vectors with alphaherpesvirus latency-associated promoter 2 drives potent transgene expression in mouse liver, kidney, and skeletal muscle."...