Natalia Andrienko Fraunhofer Institute Intell igent Analysis and Information Systems Siava Kisilevich Department of Computer and Information Science University of Konstanz This article presents a geovisual analytics approach to discovering people's preferences for landmarks and movement patterns from photos posted on the Flickr website . The approach combines an exploratory spatio-temporal anal...

Employers often recruit workers by invoking corporate social responsibility, organizational purpose, or other claims to a prosocial mission. In an era of substantial labor market inequality, commentators typically dismiss these as hypocritical: employers turn out be no more generous with low-wage than are employers. this article, we argue that commitments in fact inadvertently reduce earnings b...

BACKGROUND The ubiquitous use of social media by physicians poses professionalism challenges. Regulatory bodies have disseminated guidelines related to physicians' use of social media. OBJECTIVE This study had 2 objectives: (1) to understand what pediatric residents view as appropriate social media postings, and (2) to recognize the degree to which these residents are exposed to postings that...

BACKGROUND Consumer-generated content, such as postings on social media websites, can serve as an ideal source of information for studying health care from a consumer's perspective. However, consumer-generated content on health care topics often contains spelling errors, which, if not corrected, will be obstacles for downstream computer-based text analysis. OBJECTIVE In this study, we propose...

Empirical research on the relationship between language learners’ (LLs’) multilingual and professional development has remained scant in conversations surrounding LLs’ sustained engagement with a target (TL) beyond higher education. To address this gap, article examines co-construction of US collegiate multilingual–professional identities trajectories career advising appointments where is cast ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the best means of detecting hearing disability in subjects aged 50-65 and whether rehabilitative intervention is acceptable in this age group. DESIGN Questionnaire survey of patients on general practice age-sex registers. Two types of questionnaire were used, one being based on the closed set approach of the Institute of Hearing Research questionnaire, which had been us...

Many blogs are written by people with no formal training in public writing; this could suggest a low level of editing and general correctness. A quantitative analysis of misspellings, however, shows that in their orthography Italian blogs are as well revised as conventional Italian newspaper texts. On the other hand, their editing is more careful than the editing of the average of Italian web p...

Selective search is a distributed retrieval architecture that intentionally creates skewed postings and access patterns. This work shows that the well-known QtfDf inverted list caching algorithm is as effective with topicallypartitioned indexes as it is with randomly-partitioned indexes. It also shows that a mixed global-local strategy reduces total I/O without harming query hit rates.