Amy Case

United States Solvitur Consulting

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Commented on Short-Term Fellowship
The URL is https://www.newberry.org/short-term-fellowships

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Commented on Genealogy of Life
This opportunity no longer appears to be available.

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Commented on Myrtle Beinhauer Fund
I had no idea that Sons of Norway had so many funding opportunities.

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Commented on Public health potential of guidelines-based dietary scores for non-communicable diseases mortality prevention: simulation study using the Preventable Risk Integrated ModEl (PRIME) model
Such an elegantly designed study, but a problematic abstract: first, the authors don't give the underlying sample number, only the number of deaths prevented. I know the point is comparing assessment tools, but proving the N would give some context. In addition, the conclusion "results provide some insights as the potential impact of following various dietary guidelines to reduce mortality from nutrition-related diseases" is not so much a conclusion as it is a restatement of the title.

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Commented on Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program
Really wide open in terms of eligibility and focus. Must be extremely competetive.

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Commented on Smart Diabetic Socks: Embedded device for diabetic foot prevention
Terrible title! Diabetic foot prevention? What is a diabetic foot, and why do we want to prevent it??

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Commented on Energy intake in frequent consumers of low-calorie sweetened beverages: Effects of beverage availability and experimentally-induced food cravings
Unfortunately, the publisher has not provided an abstract for this article on their website.

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Commented on Consumption of Low-Calorie Sweetened Beverages Compared to Water Is Associated with Reduced Intake of Carbohydrates and Sugar, with No Adverse Relationships to Glycemic Responses: Results from the 2001–2012 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys
A major study with contrary findings, published in the early 2010s, made a big splash in consumer health news, but I never heard of the equally compelling results from this study.

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Commented on Disparities in plain, tap and bottled water consumption among US adults: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2007–2014
Unfortunately, not enough is known about the risks of "inadequate water consumption" on human health to make these findings particularly helpful.

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Commented on Does the use of open, non-anonymous peer review in scholarly publishing introduce bias? Evidence from the F1000Research post-publication open peer review publishing model
It may be that the evidence of biased reviews of reviewers in a specific country toward works by researchers in the same country is due to the (sometimes atrocious) translation to the reviewer's first language. Unfortunately, the abstract doesn't actually say in which direction they observed bias.

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Commented on Housing structure and occupant behaviour to increase the environmental and health co-benefits of housing: Insights from expert interviews in New Zealand
A nice write-up, but I am puzzled by what this statement means, in context: "Schools and the local community were identified as suitable settings." Settings for what?

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Commented on Living with strangers: exploring motivations and stated preferences for considering co-housing and shared living in Bergen, Norway
I wonder how well these findings would translate to a US population.

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Commented on Solon T. Kimball Award for Public and Applied Anthropology
The URL is actually here: https://www.americananthro.org/ConnectWithAAA/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=2102

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Commented on Peter Townsend Prize
Evidently not the rock star.