This paper surveys and extends the use of social media technologies as part of decision making support system (DMSS) development and management. In particular, this paper investigates how social media technologies, such as wikis, blogs, micro-blogs and tagging, have been and can be used to facilitate development and management of DMSS, through communication and collaboration. However, the autho...

BACKGROUND Public health policy calls for intervention programmes to reduce loneliness in the ageing population. So far, numerous loneliness interventions have been developed, with effectiveness demonstrated for few of these interventions. The loneliness intervention described in this manuscript distinguishes itself from others by including multiple intervention components and targeting individ...

Backgrounds and Aims: The protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania can be stated as the causative agents of the various clinical diseases. Fetal Calf Serum (FCS) is the major part of the Leishmania culture media, which is the most expensive ingredient in these media. The coconut water is packed with nutrients that yield an array of health benefits. Materials and Methods: In the present st...

Social media has changed the information landscape for a variety of events including natural disasters, demonstrations, and violent crises. During these events, people use a variety of social media, such as Twitter, to share information with the world. Given the massive amount of data generated, it is difficult to identify the valuable information in a sea of noise. In this study, we focus on a...

The Web as medium has a high significance in everyday life of the digital society. The circumstance of growing visibility of social media covers a high potential in the range of a more citizen centric and socially rooted policy making. These potentials call for novel tools with the capability to analyze society’s input and predict the possible impact of policies. The paper describes a prototype...

the development of culture media able to mimic the preovulatory stage of follicular environment and support nuclear and cytoplasmic maturation of oocyte is important for in-vitro fertilization (ivf) programs. it seems that the best culture media for embryonic development and cell cleavage is the natural composition which surrounds the oocyte which has been used occasionally in human ivf program...

While enterprise social media (ESM) increasingly plays a vital role in improving teamwork in organizations, our understanding of how ESM is used by team members is still limited. Although researchers have investigated the impacts of ESM use, relatively few studies explore how individual members exhibit different extents of ESM usage behavior. Drawing upon media system dependency theory, we prop...

Acknowledgments The authors thank KLICT: Chain networks, clusters, and ICT for financial support for part of this project; Olga Gommers for valuable research assistance; for insightful comments and suggestions; and an anonymous food product manufacturer for its valuable support of this project. Abstract In this article, the authors investigate consumers' consideration of media channels during d...