Publications by authors named "Simone Mulargia"
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- TikTok gained popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to an analysis of vaccine-related videos on the platform, focusing on both high-engagement content and those from vaccine skeptics.
- Researchers analyzed 754 Top Videos and 180 Vaccine Sceptics' videos from January 2020 to March 2021, revealing that the majority of Top Videos (40.5%) supported vaccines, while over 95% of skeptic videos were discouraging.
- The study found that vaccine promotion often came from healthcare professionals, with common themes including herd immunity; meanwhile, skeptic videos tended to focus on conspiracy theories and personal freedom, indicating a potential lower level of affective polarization on TikTok compared to other platforms.
Fatigue is a common mode of mechanical failure which occurs when a material is subjected to repeated cycles at a strain level less than that needed for monotonic fracture. Fatigue has been observed and measured in many different materials but, until recently, not in cells. We devised a novel experiment which allowed us to create both monotonic failure and fatigue in the cellular processes of osteocytes within samples of bone (Dooley et al.
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