Impact of Corona Virus on The Life Status of Kurdish People Living in Kurdistan Region of Iraq by Pary M. Azize, Chia H. Sadiq, Lavin Luqman Othman

“…The aim of this study is to carry out the effect of coronavirus on life status among Kurdish people in Kurdistan region. An online form (questionnaire) was used to collect the data among the researchers’ social media users, especially Facebook as the main platform. 643 participated in the study and filled out the form; however, 510 forms were accepted in terms of a statistical point of view. …”
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Relative Importance of Mode of Administration in Treatment Preferences among Plaque Psoriasis Patients in the United States by Steven R. Feldman, Anders Holmen Moeller, Sandra T. Erntoft Idemyr, Juan Marcos González

“…We evaluated patient preferences for attributes of psoriasis treatments, including efficacy, tolerability, and mode and frequency of administration. **Methods:** Adult patients in the United States with a self-reported physician diagnosis of psoriasis completed an online discrete-choice experiment survey. …”
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Estimation of Health State Utility Values in Fabry Disease Using Vignette Development and Valuation by Derralynn Hughes, Andrew Lenny, Koonal Shah, Louise Longworth, Giovanna Devercelli, Olulade Ayodele

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Dissemination of Evidence-Based Recommendations for Sickle Cell Disease to Primary Care and Emergency Department Providers in North Carolina: A Cost Benefit Analysis by Paula Tanabe, Audrey L. Blewer, Emily Bonnabeau, Hayden B. Bosworth, Denise H. Clayton, Nancy Crego, Marian F. Earls, Kern Eason, Grayson Forlines, Gary Rains, Matthew Young, Nirmish Shah

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Learning From High-Cardinality Categorical Features in Deep Neural Networks by Mustafa Murat Arat

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Pengaruh Minat Belajar Siswa dengan Sistem Daring Menggunakan Aplikasi Simpel pada Pembelajaran Matematika Kelas X SMA PSM 1 Kedunggalar by Indra Puji Astuti, Erny Untari, Doni Susanto

“…This research is a quantitative research using a survey method with a correlational approach. …”
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Exploring Quality of Life in Adults Living With Late-onset Pompe Disease: A Combined Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Patient Perceptions from Australia, France, Italy, and... by Holly Lumgair, Lisa Bashorum, Alasdair MacCulloch, Elizabeth Minas, George Timmins, Drago Bratkovic, Richard Perry, Medi Stone, Vasileios Blazos, Elisabetta Conti, Raymond Saich

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Analysis of equity in the distribution of human resources and hospital beds and its association with the COVID-19 mortality rate: a case of Iran by Habib Jalilian, Seyed Mohammad Riahi, Somayeh Heydari, Masoomeh Taji

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Open access on a zero budget: a case study of Postcolonial Text by John Willinsky, Ranjini Mendis

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Pollution Characteristics and Source Analysis of Carbonaceous Components in PM2.5 in a Typical Industrial City by Liyan Ma, Dongmei Hu, Yulong Yan, Yueyuan Niu, Xiaolin Duan, Yafei Guo, Wanhua Li, Lin Peng

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Contextual information needs of people in life transitions struggling with obsessive-compulsive disorder by Dawei Wu, Yuxiang Chris Zhao, Yan Zhang, Shijie Song

“…This study aims to reveal the contextual information needs of the people living with OCD during life transitions and how these needs dynamically evolve across various transitional stages. Method. The study collected 1,500 posts from an OCD online forum of a well-known Chinese social media platform, Douban. …”
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Everyday inclusive Web design: an activity perspective by Shaun K. Kane

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User satisfaction with referrals at a collaborative virtual reference service Virtual reference services, Reference services, Referrals, User satisfaction by Nahyun Kwon

“…Specifically, it examined the extent to which questions are referred, the types of questions that are more likely to be referred than others, and the level of user satisfaction with the referrals in the collaborative chat reference service. <br><b>Method.</b> The data analysed for this study were 420 chat reference transaction transcripts along with corresponding online survey questionnaires submitted by the service users. …”
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Health information sharing – conceptual clarification and exploratory analysis in the context of mammography screening by Paula Stehr, Elena Link, Constanze Rossmann

“…Method. We conducted a two-wave online survey with N = 1,136 women. …”
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Training in open access for doctoral students: results of a survey of current and recent students and supervisors by Simon Wakeling, Monique Shephard, Hamid H. R. Jamali

“…This study aimed to understand the extent to which doctoral students receive training relating to open access publishing, and the form of that training. Method. An international online survey of 1,569 current and recent doctoral students and supervisors was undertaken. …”
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The role of information skewness in shaping extremist content: A look at four extremists by Waseem Afzal

“…Method. To fill this gap, the current research has used ‘content analysis’ and ‘affective lexicon’ to identify and categorise terms from the publicly available online content of four extremists – two groups and two individuals. …”
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Health information post-encountering behaviours on social media platforms by Khalid U Fallatah, Morgan A Harvey, Sophie Rutter

“…Introduction. While much research has been done into how people encounter information, little has investigated post-encountering behaviours and their motivating factors. …”
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Improving the experience of health services for trans and gender-diverse young people and their families: an exploratory qualitative study by Melissa Stepney, Samantha Martin, Magdalena Mikulak, Sara Ryan, Jay Stewart, Richard Ma, Adam Barnett

“…Funding This award was funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Health and Social Care Delivery Research programme (NIHR award ref: 17/51/07) and is published in full in Health and Social Care Delivery Research; Vol. 13, No. 4. …”
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‘Alexa, play metal’: exploring music selection and personal information management via voice assistants by Jochen Steffens, Jesse David Dinneen, Sascha Donner, Tom Potthoff

“…Voice interfaces to such services are becoming increasingly com-mon, for example through voice assistants on mobile and smart devices, and have the poten-tial to further change personal music management by introducing new beneficial features and new challenges. Method. To explore the implications of voice assistants for personal music listening and management we surveyed 248 participants online and in a lab setting to investigate (a) in which situa-tions people use voice assistants to play music, (b) how the situations compare to established activities common during non-voice assistant music listening, and (c) what kinds of com-mands they use. …”
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Practices and pain points in personal records by Matt Balogh, William Billingsley, David Paul, Mary Anne Kennan, Melanie Robertson-Dean

“…This paper presents one stage of a broader design science research program. Method. The research for this paper was conducted by means of an online questionnaire using Qualtrics software and participants were recruited through social media. …”
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