BACKGROUND In the Indian context, a household's caste characteristics are most relevant for identifying its poverty and vulnerability status. Inadequate provision of public health care, the near-absence of health insurance and increasing dependence on the private health sector have impoverished the poor and the marginalised, especially the scheduled tribe population. This study examines caste-b...

A social networking service is an online service, platform, or site that focuses on facilitating the building of social networks or social relations among people who, for example, share interests, activities, backgrounds, or reallife connections. A social network service consists of a representation of each user, his/her social links, and a variety of additional services. Most social network se...

In this research various objective quality measures are evaluated in order to predict the intelligibility for a wide range of non-linearly processed speech signals and speech degraded by additive noise. The obtained results are compared with the prediction results of a more advanced perceptual-based model proposed by Dau et al. and an objective intelligibility measure, namely the coherence spee...

Many massive open online courses (MOOCs) offer mainly videobased lectures, which limits the opportunity for interactions and communications among students and instructors. Thus, the discussion forums of MOOC become indispensable in providing a platform for facilitating interactions and communications. In this research, discussion forum users who continually and actively participate in the forum...

The study presented in this article explores the processes through which influence takes shape eclectic online forums with few vanity metrics. Using a dataset of 7.5 million posts large Swedish discussion forum Flashback, it who becomes influential, their strategies for appealing to community, and others’ support them. While has been known that Flashback hosts far-right users content, current s...

With the rising of online social networks, influence has been a complex and subtle force to govern users’ behaviors and relationship formation. Therefore, how to precisely identify and measure influence has been a hot research direction. Differentiating from existing researches, we are devoted to combining the status of users in the network and the contents generated from these users to synthet...

Copyright is held by the author/owner(s). EICS’16, June 21-24, 2016, Bruxelles, Belgium. Abstract Recommender Systems (RS) have become indispensable tools to support users when confronted with large collections. They focus the attention of users on a subset of items out of a variety of choices. Therefore RS are inherently persuasive online tools trying to pair users with items that might consti...

Social networking websites provide a suitable environment for interaction and topic discussion. With the growing popularity of online communities, estimulated by the easiness with which content can be created and consumed, some of this content became strategical for companies interested in obtaining population feedback for products, personalities, etc. One of the most important of such websites...

User interactions in online social networks (OSNs) enable the spread of information and enhance the information dissemination process, but at the same time they exacerbate the information overload problem. In this paper, we propose a social content recommendation method based on spatial-temporal aware controlled information diffusion modeling in OSNs. Users interact more frequently when they ar...