This article engages in a methodological discussion on how to consider affordances in the context of digital environments, focusing on the r/coronavirus community on Reddit.To underline how affordances might affect social interaction, Reddit and its voting system offer a privileged ground to observe how social dynamics intersect with technical feat
Bifidobacteria play a vital role in human nutrition and health by shaping and maintaining the gut ecosystem.In order to exert a beneficial effect, a sufficient population of bifidobacteria must colonise the host.In this study, we developed a miniaturised high-throughput in vitro assay for assessing the colonising ability of bacterial strains in hum
This paper presents the feasibility of automated and accurate in vivo measurements of vascular parameters using an ultrasound sensor.The continuous and non-invasive monitoring of certain parameters, such as cookies portable dab rig pulse wave velocity (PWV), blood pressure (BP), arterial compliance (AC), and stiffness index (SI), is crucial for ass
One of the only areas of study that has a specific field to study its relationship with technology is the language teaching area.This field is called Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL).CALL is considered part of Second Language Acquisition studies (Blake, 2008; Chambers, 2010), i.e., it is a young branch of Applied Linguistics (Beatty, 2010