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Background: Access to reliable and credible health information improves individuals' personal care level in crises, such as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID- 19) pandemic. It subsequently results in enhancing the community's health and reducing the health system's costs. Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the COVID- 19 related information seeking behaviour demonstrated by citizens in Isfahan, Iran. Methods: This research was conducted in 2020 and employed a qualitative approach using conventional content analysis. The research population was selected from almost different social classes of people in Iran using purposive sampling. The saturation point was reached at 24 semi- structured interviews. The data's soundness was confirmed based on the criteria of credibility, confirmability, dependability and transferability proposed by Guba and Lincoln. Results: The findings revealed five subcategories and 25 codes within the information seeking behaviour. The subcategories included attitude towards the COVID- 19 crisis, information needs, information resources, information validation and information seeking barriers. Conclusion: People seek information from various resources to update their knowledge and become more prepared in the face of COVID- 19. The findings can be used to develop policies on informing and preventing the dissemination of false information in crises, such as the COVID- 19 crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Numerous questions are generated for physicians during patient care. Facilitators and barriers affect the physicians' clinical information‐seeking behaviour. While most health studies have focused on barriers, few have dealt with facilitators. Objective: This review aimed to identify facilitators in physicians' information‐seeking behaviour to help respond to clinical questions raised during patient care. Methods: A narrative review was conducted, and 9 databases were searched. Selection criteria included original articles in the context of patient care and full‐text articles published in the English language from 2002 to 2019. The articles were selected and analysed by group discussions. Results: Analysis of studies disclosed personal, technical and organisational facilitators including 26 themes. Internet utilisation and information searching skills, more available time, personal interests and knowing preferred sites or textbooks were among the personal factors. The most common technical factors included providing navigation support, and ease of searching and finding needed information. The most commonly reported factors at the organisational level are closeness to Internet facility and access during the consultation. Conclusion: Information systems designers, health service managers and librarians may need to work together to provide systems and settings that encourage doctors to seek information to answer their clinical questions during patient care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, error-control coding is used with a six-port direct-digital QPSK receiver [1] in an AWGN channel. The direct-conversion wideband six-port millimeter wave receiver proposed herein meets the needs of MMIC mass-market wireless communications. Convolutional code and Turbo code are used as the channel codes for the first time in this type of receiver. The BER results for the convolutional code, turbo code, and the uncoded system in the six-port receiver, are presented at a bit rate of 1 Mbps. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 36: 465–467, 2003; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.10791 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]