With their blistering expansion in recent years, popular online social sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Bebo, have become not only one of the most effective channels for viral marketing but also the major news sources for many people nowadays. Alongside these promising features, however, comes the threat of misinformation propagation which can lead to undesirable effects. Due to the sheer nu...

introduction: delivering bad news is a stressful moment for both physicians and patients. the purpose of this investigation was to explore the patients’ preferences and attitudes toward being informed about the bad news. methods: this cross-sectional study was done on patients admitted to imam khomeini hospital, sari, iran, from september 2014 to february 2015. patient attitude regarding breaki...

The spread of fake news on online media is very dangerous and can lead to casualties, effects psychology, character assassination, elections for political parties, state chaos. Fake that concerning Covid-19 massively during the pandemic. Detecting misinformation Internet an essential challenging task since humans face difficulty detecting news. We applied BERT GPT2 as pre-trained using BiGRU-At...

Breaking news leads to situations of fast-paced reporting in social media, producing all kinds of updates related to news stories, albeit with the caveat that some of those early updates tend to be rumours, i.e., information with an unverified status at the time of posting. Flagging information that is unverified can be helpful to avoid the spread of information that may turn out to be false. D...

We construct a new credit spread index, employing an extensive micro-level data set of secondary market prices of outstanding senior unsecured bonds over the 1973– 2009 period. Compared with the standard default-risk indicators such as the Baa-Aaa corporate bond spread and the paper-bill spread, our credit spread index is a robust predictor of future economic activity across a variety of econom...

Depending on the market strength and structure, it is a known fact that there is a correlation between the stock market values and the content in newspapers. The correlation increases in weak and speculative markets, while they never get reduced to zero in the strongest markets. This research focuses on the correlation between the economic news published in a highly circulating newspaper in Tur...

COVER With her mother looking on, a woman in Hlabisa, South Africa, receives an HIV test as part of a survey by the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies. In this issue, two Reports (pages 961 and 966) show that treating HIV-infected people reduces the risk of virus spread and increases life expectancy. A special News section (page 898) describes South Africa’s fi ght against the co-e...

Media in general and news in particular constitute indispensable parts of modern life. TV news which contains visual elements in addition to the verbal aspects was used as the corpus of this study. In fact, this research culled out the ideologies of Iranian national television in presenting different issues. To be more precise, three internationally-significant pieces of news reports were chose...