By making the STRN community more international and diverse, TGS aims to highlight low- middle-income countries' viewpoints in addressing very challenging complex phenomena that connect local global, rich poor. Since Global South is not monolithic, also showcase diversity of viewpoints. Inspired by insightful discussions with researchers, aim solidifying ongoing learnings as well expanding this...

LINDA CHANG, M.D., is professor of medi­ cine at the John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawaii and codirector of the University of Hawaii–Queen’s Medical Center Magnetic Resonance Research Program. She has extensive experience in clinical neuroscience research, particularly in the application of advanced neuroimaging techniques to study brain changes associated with HIV infec...

The recruitment of respondents belonging to ethnic minorities poses important challenges in social and health research. This paper reflects on the enablers and barriers to recruitment that we encountered in our research work with persons belonging to ethnic minorities. Additionally, we applied the Matching Model of Recruitment, a theoretical framework concerning minority recruitment, to guide o...

In NTCIR-5, we used five retrieval methods proposed in NTCIR-4: (1) query term weighting using only document frequency, (2) stopword deletion, (3) two-stage patent retrieval, (4) term weighting considering “measurement terms”, and (5) related term expansion. In this paper, we compare the retrieval accuracy for two test sets: 34 main queries in NTCIR-4 and 1189 new queries in NTCIR-5. Then, we e...

the present paper aimed at assessing the effects of young people’s indicators of life skills. the theoretical foundation of this research was obtained from adler’s and the world health organization’s viewpoints on life skill and mental health. the method of this study was a survey (applied, descriptive and correlation), and the sample group consisted of young people aged 15-29 in hajiabad town ...

This paper proposes a new method for analyzing textual data. The method deals with items of textual data, where each item is described based on various viewpoints. The method acquires 2class classification models of the viewpoints by applying an inductive learning method to items with multiple viewpoints. The method infers whether the viewpoints are assigned to the new items or not by using the...

Abstract The research aimed to determine the size of agricultural pollution environment from point view employees in Tikrit district Salah al-Din Governorate and determining difference respondents’ viewpoints about according personal factors represented (age, gender, educational attainment, number years’ service, work location, contact with information sources communication). After that arrangi...