Hamas, Hezbollah and The Houthis are terror movements that use sophisticated means of information flow to a general public through TV, radio New Media channels, while making the newest broadcasting equipment, skilled substances target specific audiences (culminating with western countries). This study will relate scrutinization these media in test cases, following hypotheses: These guided by Ir...

BACKGROUND The future of health care services in the European Union faces the triple challenges of aging, fiscal restriction, and inclusion. Co-production offers ways to manage informal care resources to help them cater for the growing needs of elderly people. Social media (SM) is seen as a critical enabler for co-production. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to investigate how SM-pri...

In this paper we suggest novel interaction and visualization techniques for a prospective ECML crisis room environment focusing on the analysis of social media data. For this purpose we describe both, concepts providing a Daily Newsflash and concepts for the preparation of Daily Reports referring to a selected incident or crisis situation. The Daily Newsflash is an overview of global incidents ...

This paper examines the role of Chinese social media in three areas: organizing collective action, surveillance of government offi cials, and propaganda. Our study is based on a data set of 13.2 billion blog posts published on Sina Weibo — the most prominent Chinese microblogging platform — during the 2009-2013 period. We find millions of posts discussing explicit corruption allegations and col...

Consumers increasingly desire to make purchasing decisions based on factors such as health, the environment, and social justice. In response, there has been a commensurate rise in cause-related marketing to appeal to socially-conscious consumers. However, a lack of regulation and standardization makes it difficult for consumers to assess marketing claims; this is further complicated by social m...

In this two-part series, we examine the role of industry and pain societies in two distinct ways. In this first column , the ethical issue of industry conflict of interest in continuing medical education is debated. In the forthcoming second column, we will address conflict of interest within individual leaders of pain societies. In recent years, issues of conflict of interest in medical educat...

The conflict adaptation account proposes that participants adjust attention to target and distracting stimuli in response to conflict. This is argued to explain the proportion congruent effect, wherein the congruency effect decreases as the proportion of conflicting incongruent trials increases. Some reports further argue that this conflict adaptation process can be context-specific. This paper...

In order to maintain a coherent, unified percept of the external environment, the brain must continuously combine information encoded by our different sensory systems. Contemporary models suggest that multisensory integration produces a weighted average of sensory estimates, where the contribution of each system to the ultimate multisensory percept is governed by the relative reliability of the...

Billy WoodWard, B.S.Pharm., is President, Renaissance Innovative Pharmacy Services, Ltd., 16 East Avenue A, Temple, TX 76501 ([email protected]). The author has declared no potential conflicts of interest. Copyright © 2011, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Inc. All rights reserved. 1079-2082/11/0602-1099$06.00. DOI 10.2146/ajhp110075 This is a summary of a speech at the Summ...

©2002 Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. Originally appeared in Journal of Planning Education and Research 22(2002): 164–77. Used by permission. This article advocates a neopragmatic approach to collaborative planning in protected areas characterized by historical conflict among diverse stakeholders. Our example is a multisectoral process initiated to address use and development con...