Using posts to an online social network to assess fishing effort

Surveillance of an Online Social Network to Assess Population-level Diabetes Health Status and Healthcare Quality

OBJECTIVE Test a novel health monitoring approach by engaging an international online diabetes social network (SN) in consented health surveillance. METHODS Collection of structured self-reports about preventive and self-care practices and health status using a software application ("app") that supports SN-mediated health research. Comparison of SN measures by diabetes type; and, SN with Beha...

Social Consequences of Excess Fishing Effort

Levels of fishing effort are defined as being excessive where they result in depletion of commercially valuable stocks and so threaten sustainable harvests. In many parts of Southeast Asia, this threat has been realized by the rapid expansion of commercial fisheries and the consequent increase in fishing effort. Southeast Asian fisheries are described as having a dualistic structure with distin...

Supporting Learner-to-Learner Interactions Using Online Social Network Information

E-Learning students can benefit from proper class formation process based on the student needs. In particular, Online Social Networks make available data concerning users’ interactions, as skills and trust relationships, that are behind the dynamics of thematic social network groups, and can be explouted to form e-Learning classes. To this aim, we propose a model based on such information, whic...

A Solution to the Problem of Extrapolation in Car Following Modeling Using an online fuzzy Neural Network

Car following process is time-varying in essence, due to the involvement of human actions. This paper develops an adaptive technique for car following modeling in a traffic flow. The proposed technique includes an online fuzzy neural network (OFNN) which is able to adapt its rule-consequent parameters to the time-varying processes. The proposed OFNN is first trained by an growing binary tree le...

An effort to produce a homozygous dominant male-sterile cotton