This paper analyses: 1) the semantic content of tweets discussing diabetes and diets: 2) the conversational connections of those tweeting and those being mentioned in the tweets. The content analysis of the tweets aims at mapping what kinds of diets are mentioned in conversations about diabetes and in what context. Our data consists of 9,042 tweets containing the words ‘diabetes’ and ‘diet’. Th...

A common type of pages on the World Wide Web concerns individual persons. These “personal home pages” often include information about activities, interest areas etc, and show what knowledge and interests different persons have. In a “knowledge net” the idea is to distribute information about peoples knowledge about different topics. To do this references to “who-knows-what” is given. This repor...

This paper addresses the problem of scientific research analysis. We use the topic model Latent Dirichlet Allocation [2] and a novel classifier to classify research papers based on topic and language. Moreover, we show various insightful statistics and correlations within and across three research fields: Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, and Education. In particular, we show how topics c...

This paper deals with the teaching of various unrelated topics. Several I have found to be difficult to teach or likely not to be covered at all because of the way that our presentation of renal physiology is usually organized. Several have been chosen to raise questions about how (and what) to teach at this time of unprecedented explosion of knowledge. The general topics chosen for review are ...

The presence of militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is growing. Terrorist attacks in Europe and an incoming stream of refugees in the south of the continent are some of the reasons Europe is getting socially involved in the Middle-Eastern war. It might seem that the Netherlands could become a target of the organization too. But are Dutch citizens concerned about this? In this ...

Social media users make decisions about what content to post and read. As posted content is often visible to others, users are likely to impose self-censorship when deciding what content to post. On the other hand, such a concern may not apply to reading social media content. As a result, the topics of content that a user posted and read can be different and this has major implications to the a...

in sale of goods, the delivered goods must conform both to what is the subject of contract and to what the parties intend. conformity of goods has two aspects: legal and material. the legal aspect, with which this article concerns, consist of such topics as right of sale, ownership of seller, lack of third party’s claim and so on .since domestic and international transactions are increasing, th...