We have developed a system for trained medical experts to curate patient authored text in social media posts (the process of manually reviewing posts to extract medical

numerous studies have been conducted about the role of media during a crisis. accordingly diverse functions have been defined for media while in crisis. by applying a prescriptive viewpoint to derive mass media functions, most of the studies have been the based on the opinions of experts and the opinions of the victims have rarely been taken into consideration. for the first time, we have direc...

MPEG-4 is an ISO/IEC standard developed by MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group). MPEG-4 provides standard and unified ways to: Represent units of audiovisual contents, called “media objects”. Describe the composition of these objects to create compound media objects that form audio visual scenes; Multiplex and synchronize the data associated with media objects, to transport them over network cha...

Social media has become a major platform for debates on science and health. This commentary argues that while social media can present challenges to communicating important health matters, it can also provide health experts a unique opportunity to engage with and build trust among members of the public.

During the past 50 years, the media channels, the media consumption patterns and the entire influence of media in society have changed dramatically. Looking into the future, the pace of change is not likely to decrease. In order to prepare for the future, it is important to increase our understanding of the present, in particular with regards to the environmental aspects of media consumption. I...

the goal of the current study is to determine the optimal level of advertising beyond which advertising expenditure will not be justified by revenues. to achieve the goal first different types of media were rated by experts as to the degree of their importance. then data ware collected by interviewing the managers and reviewing different media resources. the collected data were then analyzed us...