This special issue of Internet Policy Review is the first to bring together the best policy-oriented papers presented at the annual conference Recycle-Appliance of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR).This issue is anchored in the 2017 conference in Tartu, Estonia, which was organised around the theme of networked publics.The seven papers

Abstract Background The essentially unlimited expansion potential and the pluripotency of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) make them attractive for cell-based therapeutic purposes.Although hESCs can indefinitely proliferate in culture, unlike transformed cancer cells, they are endowed with a cell-intrinsic property termed mitochondrial priming th

Schistosomiasis is a leading cause of morbidity in Africa.Understanding the disease ecology and environmental factors that influence its distribution is important to guide control efforts.Geographic information systems have increasingly been used in the field of schistosomiasis environmental epidemiology.This study reports prevalences of Schistosom

Background This study examined the relationship between family communication and weight stigma.The Family Communication Patterns Theory was used as a framework to explain the relationships between two dimensions of Feature family communication (i.e., conversation orientation and conformity orientation) and antifat attitudes (i.e., physical unattrac

Isabelle Amigues,1 Deepa Ramadurai,2 Jeffrey J Swigris3 1Division of Rheumatology, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO, USA; 2Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA; 3Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Interstitial Lung Disease Program, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO, USACorr