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Introduction: Investigations on emotion regulation strategies (ERS) primarily focus on the influence of instructed emotion regulation (ER) on outcomes. However, recent work has shown that selection of ERS is dependent on, e.g., situational demands and personal resources. Methods: In this current investigation, we used an online diary to investigate ERS used by free choice and their association with ER-success, stress and rumination. We identified four factors of ERS: cognitive perspective change, cognitive-behavioral problem-solving, suppression-distraction and body-social ERS. Associations of ERS with stress, state-rumination and ER-success were investigated using multilevel-mixed-models, allowing to separate within- and between-subject effects. Results: Our results show that, on a within-subject level, all adaptive ERS were positively associated with ER-success, while maladaptive ERS as well as higher stress and state rumination were negatively associated with ER-success. On the other hand, only within-subject cognitive ERS were associated with higher self-efficacy. Maladaptive ERS-use was consequently positively associated with stress and state rumination. Surprisingly, only cognitive perspective change ERS were negatively associated with state rumination. Cognitive-behavioral problem-solving was positively associated with stress and success of emotion regulation. Discussion: We interpret these results in the light of situational constraints of ERS-use and the importance of the assessment of these in future studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: The use of online information and communication is globally increasing in the healthcare sector. In addition to known benefits in other medical fields, possible specific potentials of eHealth lie in the monitoring of oncological patients undergoing outpatient therapy. Specifically, the treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) requires intensive monitoring due to various possible negative side effects. The present study explores cancer patients' perspectives on eHealth and demonstrates how eHealth applications, from the patients' point of view, can contribute to further improving outpatient immunotherapy. Methods and findings: Our multicenter study was executed at the university hospitals in Bonn and Aachen. A structured questionnaire was distributed to patients receiving outpatient immunotherapy. Contents addressed were (1) the patients' attitude towards eHealth applications, (2) the use of modern information and communications technologies (ICT) in (2a) everyday life and (2b) health-related information search including eHealth literacy, (3) the use of internet-enabled devices as well as (4) socio-demographic data. 164 patients were included in the study, of whom 39.0% were female and 61.0% male and the average age was 62.8 years. Overall, there was a high distribution of internet-enabled devices for everyday use and a great interest in integrating eHealth applications into outpatient immunotherapy. The assessment of eHealth potentials significantly depended on age. The younger participants demonstrated a broader use of modern ICT and a higher affinity for its use in outpatient immunotherapy. In some aspects, level of education and gender were also relevant factors influencing the patients' view on eHealth. Conclusion: This study demonstrates the potential for further integration of eHealth applications into outpatient immunotherapy from the patients' perspective. It indicates a dependency on age and educational level for the further integration of eHealth into patient care in oncology. Due to particular patient needs regarding age, level of education, gender and other subgroups, specific education and training as well as target-group specific digital health interventions are necessary to fully utilize the potentials of eHealth for outpatient immunotherapy. Future studies are required to specifically address target-group specific usability of eHealth applications and eHealth literacy, as well as to address information security and data protection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This ethnographic study explores how severely ill and dying persons participating in expressive forms of culture, such as art, blogging and talking, confront dying and death. Influenced by the increasing relevance of values such as expressivity and creativity and the mediatisation of everyday life, more and more people facing death in globalised Western culture seek their own expressive ways to deal with finitude in online and offline contexts. Framed by Tony Walter's sociology of death, which captures key features of death attitudes within Western societies, this study identifies commonalities in the different expressive endeavours at the end of life. The data for the analysis stem from encounters with 12 persons receiving palliative care in Switzerland. The study found that the performances of individualistic expressivity are informed by the idea of personal growth, prosumer and sharing culture, a quest for belonging and the wish for silence. The findings aim to contribute to further the understanding of current forms of mediated dying in networked society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

People on the autism spectrum can learn about autism from various sources, likely differing in the information, portrayal, and discussion they offer. The present study investigates where autistic people learn about autism, and whether their information source is associated with their level of autism knowledge, perceptions of stigma, and development and expression of an autism identity. A survey of 198 Australian adults with an autism diagnosis showed that learning about autism from conventional sources (e.g., professionals, parents) was associated with more internalised stigma, lower endorsement of special abilities and autism identity, whereas online blogs and social media showed the opposite pattern as well as more accurate knowledge of autism. The findings raise questions about how authoritative sources of information discuss autism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Partners of fly‐in fly‐out (FIFO) workers face increases in demands, for instance in care and family responsibilities, particularly in the absence of workers; however, little is known about how their daily life experiences influence their health across the FIFO work cycle. This study examined the within‐person effects of workload, job control and social support on affective states and health behaviours of partners of FIFO workers. Forty‐four (N = 44) partners of FIFO workers completed online diary surveys on affective states and health behaviours once a day for 28 consecutive days during on‐and off‐shift periods of the FIFO worker. Multilevel models were used to analyse day‐level data. The results of the study demonstrated significant differences in partners' depressed affect and alcohol consumption during both on‐ and off‐shift periods of FIFO workers. Daily increases in workload were associated with anxious affect, whereas daily increases in job control and social support were associated with low depressed affect and positive affect in partners of FIFO workers. Daily increase in social support was also found to be associated with an increase in daily alcohol intake. Interventions could support partners in managing the daily workload and encouraging the creation of social support networks in partners of FIFO workers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social media may have an impact on people’s interaction patterns and social relationships. Investigating the interaction patterns of learners across various social media platforms can provide profound insights into the characteristics and mechanisms of connectivist learning. This study explores interaction network characteristics and the dynamic evolution of interaction patterns across multiple social media platforms within a cMOOC by using SNA and SIENA. The results show that cMOOC learners' interaction patterns have evolved with different characteristics on WeChat, blogs, and forums, eventually forming distinct interaction networks on each platform. The interaction networks on WeChat demonstrate superior performance in terms of size, cohesion, and connectivity, followed by the networks on blogs, and lastly, those on forums. WeChat and blog interaction networks exhibit a multi-center structure and modular characteristics, while forum interaction networks display a single-center structure. The evolution of interaction patterns on WeChat reveals more significant effects, such as reciprocity, transitivity, homophily, and preferential attachment, in contrast to blogs and forums, where transitivity and homophily are not prominent. The paper concludes with a discussion on the interaction patterns and network characteristics supported by three types of social media. Additionally, it highlights the significance and implications of these findings for educational practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

his research analytical study aims to explore the linguistic levels in Arafah sermons, In light of Ducrot and Anscombre's theory, and examines how these sermons address the argumentative ladder. The study began with an overview that defined the topic, its significance, and its inquiries, followed by an explanation of Ducrot and Anscombre's theory. The first research was about the linguistic levels of argumentation in the contexts of Arafah sermons, then the second research was about the contexts of Arafah sermons through the logical levels of pilgrims, and the third research was about the argumentative scale of Arafah sermons, then the conclusion, which included results and recommendations, then a list of sources and references. The research has adopted the deliberative approach to analyze the speeches of Arafah. The research uncovered the key findings: argumentation is a foundational theory used in variousdisciplines like jurisprudence, logic, rhetoric, language, etc. Ducrot and Anscombre's argumentation theory emphasizes that language is primarily used for argumentation and secondarily for conveying information, with speakers intending to inform. And that argumentation occurs through interconnected linguistic sequences that create semantic blocks that are capable of producing argumentation.. The study revealed that Arafah's sermons were full of reasoning, questions, and outcomes, He also showed the use of the argumentative ladder by the preachers on the Day of Arafah, and their interest in it to perform the persuasive function. The researcher urges researchers to conduct corresponding studies on major blogs such as holiday and Friday sermons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This is a further review of evaluation blogs, podcasts and webinars in the first half of 2024. It follows on from the previous 'roundup' of 2023 published in Evaluation in this year's April issue. As before, hundreds of sources have been considered, and although this review is inevitably personal and selective, I believe it captures many of the important trends and debates informing current evaluation practice. The review is organised around key trends that emerged throughout the first half of the year, some of which continued and evolved from last year. It begins by considering ongoing debates about artificial intelligence and indigenous evaluation, before identifying further topics which have garnered particular attention so far in 2024. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Microblogs and social media sites have gained a central place and people use these platforms to express their opinions, sentiments, and thoughts about products, news, events, blogs, etc. Sentiment analysis is the process of exploring opinions and sentiments in user reviews and tweets. This area is still in its early developmental phase and requires imperative improvements on various issues. One of the main issues is multilingual tweets and reviews. Earlier sentiment analysis techniques only classified the text of a specific language, i.e., English, Turkish, etc. The accuracy of these techniques decreases in the presence of multilingual text. Existing methods are domain oriented. Using BERT and a lexicon, we propose a method for sorting out multilingual text and improving the polarity calculation of reviews. Experimental results reveal that our proposed technique achieved 90.14% accuracy and outperformed existing aspect-based sentiment analysis techniques. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposed a new algorithm of the credibility evaluation concerning microblog users, based on their multiple interactive relationships and emotional tendencies. Firstly, the algorithm calculated the interaction degree and participation degree of users by analyzing the types and frequency of interactions among users. Secondly, this algorithm made the emotional scores of the textual contents including comments and replied among users by using a sentiment dictionary, and assessed users' emotional tendencies. Thirdly, based on the PageRank algorithm, the new algorithm extracted the features from user profiles and blog posts in order to compute the initial PageRank value for representing individual user credibility, adjusted the distribution of PageRank weights by integrating the user interaction degree and emotional tendencies, and modified the damping factor in accordance with the participation degree. Finally, the proposed algorithm made the credibility of the evaluated users after the iterative stabilization. The experimental results show that, compared to methods that overlook multi-interaction relationships and emotional tendencies, the new algorithm achieves better results with an improvement of up to 13.86% in terms of AUC value, precision, recall, and F₁-measure. The method that considers multiple interaction relationships and emotional tendencies can enhance the effectiveness of microblog user credibility evaluation with respect to microblog users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Group‐hunting animals have been shown to engage their prey in long pursuits (kms) to increase capture success, but the evidence for this is limited to a few terrestrial species. This predation strategy may be effective in the open‐ocean, where group‐hunts are characterised by large predator–prey size ratios and there are few places for prey to hide.However, recording the attack rates, capture rates and capture success probabilities of grouping predators during long‐distance pursuits through the open ocean, remains a significant challenge.Here we use a combination of underwater and aerial video to assess the attack and capture behaviour of striped marlin, Kajikia audax, in relation to the movement of their schooling prey ('stationary' and 'mobile' movement states) during group hunts.We found that the attack rate was higher when the prey school was 'stationary' and, during these times, individual marlin could make longer sequences of uninterrupted attacks on the prey school, effectively monopolising the prey resource for short periods over conspecifics.When the prey school was 'mobile', the attack pattern changed and individual marlin alternated their attacks on the prey school more frequently. Capture success probability (likelihood of capture per attack) was not affected by prey movement state. However, attacks on 'mobile' schools resulted in more prey fish becoming isolated from the school, and these isolated prey were easily captured—not by the attacker but by conspecifics swimming nearby.The likelihood of a prey becoming isolated from a 'mobile' school was predicted by prey school speed, with a 0.1 m s−1 increase leading to an 18.01% increase in the chance of isolation.Altogether this meant the capture rate at the group level was highest when the prey school was 'mobile' rather than 'stationary' because the predators that were pursuing the 'mobile' prey school had an increased availability of isolated and easy to capture prey.This mechanism provides evidence for a by‐product mutualism selecting for conspecific group formation and we discuss our findings in consideration of the social structure of the hunting group and the type of prey. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From soil to freshwater ecosystems, decomposition can be conceived as the result of interactions between organic matter and a diversity of organisms. This function is driven in part by detritivores, invertebrates that feed on detritus or graze on its associated microbes and that have a significant but extremely variable contribution to decomposition.In order to better understand and predict detritivore–detritus pairwise interactions, we propose a conceptual framework, called Detri2match, to study the consumption of detritus by detritivores, using a trait‐matching approach at the individual detritivore level. Here, we focus on the interaction between saprophagous detritivores that fragment plant detritus.We propose a novel definition of a saprophagous detritivore as an animal that consumes plant detritus when its traits match sufficiently the traits of its resource, passing through five interaction facets of consumption. These include (1) a spatial match rule regarding the encounter, (2) a biomechanical match rule regarding ingestion, (3) a digestive match rule regarding assimilation, (4) an energetic match rule regarding the fulfilment of metabolic needs and (5) a nutritional match rule regarding the fulfilment of chemical element needs in adapted proportions.The main goal of this framework is to guide future research to establish generic rules of misunderstood detritus–detritivore pairwise interactions by identifying relevant interaction facets and their key associated traits for both detritivores and detritus. This investigation should be conducted over the temporal variability of trait‐matching constraints throughout the whole decomposition process. Coupled with adequate accumulation of trait information, the Detri2match framework could also facilitate predictions by inference of non‐tested pairwise detritivore–litter interactions.We also outline conceptual, methodological and analytical challenges of this framework. The main challenge would be to scale up these pairwise rules at the detrital network level and to test their genericity, which would contribute to a better understanding of the functioning of the detrital network and its contribution to decomposition. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

People who experience symptoms of autoimmune diseases often have to struggle for illness recognition. Women experiencing such symptoms face additional challenges as their accounts of pain are frequently treated with skepticism. This study examines experiences of people living with Sjögren's Syndrome, an autoimmune disease which is primarily diagnosed in women, by conducting an analysis of individual vlogs posted on YouTube using the themes of gender, chronic illness and neoliberal governmentality. Sjögren's Syndrome is the second most common rheumatic disease after rheumatoid arthritis and affects nearly 4 million people in the United States alone. An analysis of 70 vlogs posted by people living with the disease revealed the challenges faced by them including diagnostic delays and perceived attitudinal biases amongst medical professionals, especially in the context of the gender of the patients. Apart from highlighting the impact of the disease on their gendered roles, the vloggers urged viewers to conduct their own research on the disease and advocate for themselves during interactions with physicians. The study illuminates how dissatisfaction with healthcare services reinforces neoliberal rationalities such as individual advocacy, resilience and self-labor. The findings of the study delineate the role of neoliberal governmentality in making self-management of chronic illnesses such as Sjögren's Syndrome an internalized ideal for women living with the disease. Additionally, the study provides empirical evidence of the need for addressing the medical and socio-cultural factors that contribute to delays in the diagnosis and management of Sjögren's Syndrome. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The mass media have been long known to shape and mould public opinion in every human society. However, with the influence of web 2.0 technologies that have affected mainstream journalism practice in the 21st century, this study investigated the extent to which mainstream media still mould public opinion in Nigeria. The paper was anchored on agenda-setting and media dependency theories as it investigated journalism's ability to mould the views of people on issues of public concern. The survey research design was used where the multistage sampling technique was adopted and an online Australian Calculator was used to draw the sample size of 371, the questionnaire was deployed as the instrument for data collection. The results among other things revealed that, though social media and blogs' usage have influenced mass media and public communication generally, mainstream journalism still moulds public opinion in Nigeria. This was revealed as respondents disclosed that in making decisions, they believe and use more information they obtained from mainstream media platforms than information they got from blogs and social media sites. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social–ecological disruptions, such as changing climate, extreme weather‐related events and the COVID‐19 pandemic, can have cascading and long‐term consequences for people, ecosystems and multispecies relationships. As the early COVID‐19 pandemic disrupted people's lives through isolation and restricted human contact, more‐than‐human relationships played a heightened role in individuals' day‐to‐day lives with potential long‐term impacts on multispecies justice.We analysed 72 interviews conducted during the early (May–June 2020) COVID‐19 lockdown in the United States to investigate how social–ecological disruptions and spatial re‐orderings, exemplified by the pandemic, reassemble more‐than‐human relationships. We consider new relational values through a transformative multispecies justice framing, which contends that times of uncertainty can inspire meaningful connections with the more‐than‐human world, facilitating care and reciprocal relationships during times of disruption.Among interviewee accounts, we find that disorderings of daily life during the pandemic interweave with past and ongoing experiences of inequity to form mosaics of disruption. These mosaics of disruption created circumstances in which interviewees formed new connections with the more‐than‐human world.The more‐than‐human connections of interviewees sat along a spectrum and did not universally represent the same strength of relational values. The more‐than‐human connections were defined by individual's positionality and restricted geographies of the circumstances. However, the newly formed relationships seemed to be ephemeral, indicating that they would not necessarily endure outside of an early‐pandemic context.Thus, while individuals reported rearranged relationships out of pandemic precarity, their transitory qualities do not directly promise long‐term transformational multispecies connections. Our findings suggest that moments of disruption alone do not necessarily produce durable change and there is a need to go beyond merely recognizing relationality.Policy implications: Transformative multispecies justice requires long‐term, routine commitment to deepening relationships with the more‐than‐human world. While future social–ecological and spatial disturbances can be a window of opportunity to initiate multispecies relationships, future initiatives and policies must actively support and foster these relationships and strong relational values beyond the disturbances—recognizing the long‐term, non‐linear processes of transformation needed to address our future challenges. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 1990s and the first decade of the 2000s were a period that witnessed dramatic changes in the literary scene in South Korea. Literary production's engagement with digital media was one of the major changes in this period, when the divide, collision, and merge between pre-digital and digital came to affect almost every aspect of the society. This article explores the divergent strands in the development of digital literature, the new affordances of the digital environment that affected the literary serial vis-à-vis the print serial, and a virtual and actual community that readers and writers created through their engagement with literary texts and beyond. Through close analysis of a blog serial of Hwang Sŏgyŏng's Evening Star (February 27–July 21, 2008; 102 episodes in all), which represents one of the significant moments in the early digital serialization of South Korean literature, this article discusses various types of performativity and participatory culture generated by and connected to the blog serial and participants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AbstractThis quasi-experimental study examined the use of a blog as a mental health resource for students. The main objective was to determine if occupational therapy graduate students benefited from using a resource to support their mental health. A purpose-specific survey was used to assess student perceptions. Sixty-five students participated in the survey and 73% of those students reported the blog helped them to manage their mental health. The results indicate that using a blog as a strategy to support student mental health is beneficial. This study is limited by a small homogenous sample; however, serves as a resource for educators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the emerging new technologies based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the generation of new and paraphrasing of existing text, the identification of genuinely written text has become an important research undertaking. Past approaches to address this issue, need a significant volume of human-labeled data. Most of the approaches used in literature are either for noisy text or for clean text. Conversations in chats, text in blogs, text messages on cell phones, text exchange on Messengers, etc., are examples of noisy text that may contain misspelled words or incomplete words. The second approach focuses on clean text, which is free from the mentioned characteristics in the noisy text. As research articles do not contain noisy data, we propose a model that focuses on clean text for the identification of paraphrases in research articles. To address the problem of paraphrase detection, this work presents a novel Bidirectional Encoder Representation from Transformers (BERT) based model with fine-tuning. For word representation, Global Vectors (Glove) embeddings and contextualized Embeddings From Language Models (ELMo) are employed in this work. Initially, the model is evaluated without performing preprocessing. Later, the preprocessing step is performed before evaluating the model. Extensive experimentations are performed to evaluate the proposed model utilizing two benchmark datasets, namely, Microsoft Research Paraphrase (MSRP) and Quora Question Pairs (Quora). A comparison of the proposed model is done with four closely related state-of-the-art works. The obtained results show that Fine-tuned BERT using ELMo embeddings with preprocessing produces promising outcomes. Paraphrase identification rates achieved on MSRP and Quora datasets are 86.51% and 94.32%, respectively, which are better than the other competing methods. The proposed solution enables the identification of paraphrased text with a higher accuracy having its application in multiple domains requiring genuinely written documents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mommy blog communities have been established by mothers who publish their stories online with the stated purpose to empower themselves and their peers by offering a seemingly unfiltered representation of motherhood. While this benefit has been felt by many readers, there are invisible governing discourses that have prevented such blogs from becoming authentic spaces of resistance to the hegemonic ideals of motherhood. To understand the governing forces placed upon mothers through “mommy blogs,” we explored the question: How is motherhood shaped through narratives (re)presented in mommy blogs? Critical discourse analysis, informed by a governmentality perspective, was used to analyze mommy blog entries to illuminate representations of power and knowledge within the blog entries. The findings suggest that a governmentality perspective is useful in understanding how mommy blogs enact power over mothers using mechanisms of governance through 1) sameness and imperfection, 2) perceived self-compassion, 3) advice and support, and 4) the scientification of motherhood. As more people turn to online communities for support with the experience of mothering, it is important to garner a critical understanding of how mommy blogs continue to influence contemporary experiences of motherhood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As Albania emerges as a growing tourist destination, its unique cultural and historical elements are increasingly subject to global tourism dynamics. This paper explores cultural commodification in Albania, analyzing how it is represented and perceived by tourists through German-speaking travel blogs. Cultural commodification, defined as the transformation of local traditions, customs, and cultural products into commercialized goods for tourism consumption, plays a crucial role in shaping Albania’s cultural landscape. Despite the significance of this phenomenon, there remains a gap in research focusing specifically on Albania, particularly in terms of how tourists frame and contribute to the commodification process. By utilizing travel blogs as qualitative data, this study seeks to uncover how travelers interpret and report their experiences with Albania’s culture. These blogs, offering personal and often candid reflections, serve as valuable sources for examining tourist perceptions, revealing insights into how cultural heritage, folklore, traditions, and everyday life are marketed and consumed. The analysis of these narratives highlights the dual role of tourists as both consumers of culture and agents who contribute to its commodification through their interactions and storytelling. The study also aims to explore how tourism balances consumerism and authenticity, identifying when the commodification of culture enhances tourism or dilutes its authenticity in favor of consumerism. The existing literature on cultural commodification in tourism emphasizes the tensions between preserving cultural authenticity and adapting to the demands of the global tourism market. This paper builds on these discussions by examining how tourism in Albania reflects broader patterns of cultural commodification observed in other regions, while also exploring the specific challenges and opportunities unique to the Albanian context. German-speaking travel blogs provide a contemporary and relevant lens to assess the extent to which Albania’s cultural identity is commodified for tourism and how tourists negotiate notions of authenticity in their experiences. This research contributes to the academic understanding of cultural commodification in Albania by integrating travel blogs as a source of data, filling a gap in the study of tourism-driven cultural transformations. Through this analysis, the study sheds light on the role of tourism in shaping Albania’s cultural narrative and its place in the global tourism market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Concept class analysis (CoCA) is a method for recovering cultural schemas in texts using a combination of word embedding and community detection models. Like survey-based forms of schematic class analysis (SCA), however, interpreting results can be difficult. Some of these interpretive difficulties are applicable across types of SCA, while others are unique to CoCA. In this paper, we propose a complete workflow for interpreting and analyzing CoCA output. We use the case of social identity schemas in a collection of over 13,000 U.S. political blog posts to outline a number of interpretive and analytical strategies and a robustness check to make sense of the cultural schemas recovered from texts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Language is a vehicle for telling the truth and for lies. While linguistic profiles have been used to analyze the language used when telling lies, the linguistic profile of pathological liars has yet to be examined. The purpose of our study was to examine the linguistic profile of pathological liars, specifically from entries made in blogs and forums. We used the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count software to analyze the narratives of 22 self-reported pathological liars and compared those narratives to normative blog data. We found that pathological liars used more affective processes, negative emotion, risk, and family words. Additionally, pathological liars' narratives contained fewer words, were less analytic, contained less clout, consisted of less tone, and were more authentic. Lastly, pathological liars tended to use more first-person singular pronouns. Implications for research and practice are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current surge in the deployment of web applications underscores the need to consider users' individual preferences in order to enhance their experience. In response to this, an innovative approach is emerging that focuses on the detailed analysis of interaction data captured by web browsers. These data, which includes metrics such as the number of mouse clicks, keystrokes, and navigation patterns, offer insights into user behavior and preferences. By leveraging this information, developers can achieve a higher degree of personalization in web applications, particularly in the context of interactive elements such as online games. This paper presents the WebTraceSense project, which aims to pioneer this approach by developing a framework that encompasses a backend and frontend, advanced visualization modules, a DevOps cycle, and the integration of AI and statistical methods. The backend of this framework will be responsible for securely collecting, storing, and processing vast amounts of interaction data from various websites. The frontend will provide a user-friendly interface that allows developers to easily access and utilize the platform's capabilities. One of the key components of this framework is the visualization modules, which will enable developers to monitor, analyze, and interpret user interactions in real time, facilitating more informed decisions about user interface design and functionality. Furthermore, the WebTraceSense framework incorporates a DevOps cycle to ensure continuous integration and delivery, thereby promoting agile development practices and enhancing the overall efficiency of the development process. Moreover, the integration of AI methods and statistical techniques will be a cornerstone of this framework. By applying machine learning algorithms and statistical analysis, the platform will not only personalize user experiences based on historical interaction data but also infer new user behaviors and predict future preferences. In order to validate the proposed components, a case study was conducted which demonstrated the usefulness of the WebTraceSense framework in the creation of visualizations based on an existing dataset. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using personification and the first person techniques, this article provides a brief introduction to the peptide hormone oxytocin in the form of a Blog, including its basic overview, research history, and functional effects. It also conducts analogical analysis with related substances, using vivid and interesting language to help people form a preliminary understanding of oxytocin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The significance of the web and the crucial role of web archives in its preservation highlight the necessity of understanding how users, both human and robot, access web archive content, and how best to satisfy this disparate needs of both types of users. To identify robots and humans in web archives and analyze their respective access patterns, we used the Internet Archive's (IA) Wayback Machine access logs from 2012, 2015, and 2019, as well as Arquivo.pt's (Portuguese Web Archive) access logs from 2019. We identified user sessions in the access logs and classified those sessions as human or robot based on their browsing behavior. To better understand how users navigate through the web archives, we evaluated these sessions to discover user access patterns. Based on the two archives and between the three years of IA access logs (2012 vs. 2015 vs. 2019), we present a comparison of detected robots vs. humans and their user access patterns and temporal preferences. The total number of robots detected in IA 2012 (91% of requests) and IA 2015 (88% of requests) is greater than in IA 2019 (70% of requests). Robots account for 98% of requests in Arquivo.pt (2019). We found that the robots are almost entirely limited to "Dip" and "Skim" access patterns in IA 2012 and 2015, but exhibit all the patterns and their combinations in IA 2019. Both humans and robots show a preference for web pages archived in the near past. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In spite of the superior effects of semester- or year-long educational experiences abroad, the majority of students prefers short-term study abroad for which participation numbers are steadily rising. Due to the increased student interest in short-term study abroad options, investigations into how a short stay abroad can be designed to maximize learning outcomes for participants are important. While some studies suggest that technology can have negative impacts on language learning during study abroad, effective inclusion of technology can maximize learning. This article summarizes the results of three years of research investigating the effects of daily online journaling during an intensive German summer program on second language (L2) learners' writing skills during an intensive German summer program. The context of the program will be described along with the rationale for including online journaling assignments. The study investigates whether there is a relationship between the amount students wrote in their daily blogs and their writing development, and whether students' linguistic progress can be traced in their journal posts. Lastly, the article will provide a pedagogical evaluation of the benefits of incorporating journaling or blogging in short-term study abroad programs and present suggestions for successful projects. The terms journaling and blogging are used interchangeably in this manuscript; while a blog was used as the journal platform in this project, a different format than a blog can serve the same purpose of providing a space for reflective journaling for students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current study by Konstantinovskaia is a critical investigation of how such notions as "beauty" and "femininity" are constructed, communicated, and defied in Japanese and Russian societies. It adopts a cross-cultural and three-level approach to data evaluation wherein TV ads, interviews, and blog information are utilized to probe into gendered language through the lens of ideology, expectations, and practice. The monograph illustrates that the typology of desirable females in Russian and Japanese TV ads is somewhat diverse and that women have varying views of what is "feminine" and "non-feminine" conduct. It also reveals the complicated evolution of discourses and ideologies on women within these two highly mobile societies. The book is undoubtedly an informative and constructive resource for studies on sociolinguistics, gender, language, and media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Communicating results and ideas to a wider audience has been an important, but challenging component of scientists working in an academic environment. Particularly in recent decades, various social media platforms have become increasingly important to facilitate this. In addition, many scientists have used blogging platforms to communicate and discuss their work. Although the online dynamics of science communication are continuously changing, blogging has been used in a remarkably stable form for several decades. For this work, we brought several ecology bloggers to reflect on blogging as a science communication medium. We argue that blogging can be a powerful way to present new ideas and discuss them with a wide audience. Although blogs are not the same as scientific articles, they often serve as the initial brainstorm session. Importantly, we argue that blogs are most effective when bloggers and readers actively engage in conversations. We believe that blogging will be here to stay in science communication because of its unique and independent form of outreach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID-19 pandemic introduced many restrictions to in-person interactions, and remote social interactions may be especially important for managing loneliness when such restrictions are in place. However, it is unclear how social interactions are related to loneliness when in-person interactions are limited. Data were collected between February 2021 and March 2022 from a sample of 581 university students. Participants reported their loneliness and participation in positive in-person or remote social interactions each day for 14 days. Results from dynamic structural equation models showed that participants felt less lonely than they usually felt on the days they engaged in positive remote interactions at the within-person level. Moreover, participants generally felt less lonely when engaging more frequently in remote interactions, but only when in-person interactions were restricted (between-person level). Some of these results varied by changing COVID-19 restrictions. Finally, for participants who felt lonelier in general, the effect of positive in-person and remote interactions on loneliness was less strong. These findings suggest that social interactions may buffer loneliness but are not as impactful for those who experience greater loneliness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: Online pro‐ana communities encourage, rather than denounce, eating disorder (ED) behaviours. Most research analyses online pro‐ana content. Fewer studies have interviewed bloggers directly. To the authors' knowledge, no previous studies have analysed both posts and interview data from pro‐ana bloggers. This study aimed to explore bloggers' experiences of online pro‐ana communities, analysing posts and interview data. Method: Five pro‐ana bloggers participated in semi‐structured interviews over Skype or Telegram. Bloggers' posts and interview data were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis, a qualitative method of analysis that emphasises the detailed exploration of participants' individual experiences and how they make sense of these experiences. Results: Five superordinate themes were identified: ambivalence towards pro‐ana; social support; 'Ana' way of life; body/weight desperation; and hidden ED identity. Participants reported hiding their pro‐ana blog, for fear of judgement from offline others. In contrast, participants experienced online pro‐ana communities as a source of understanding, connection and solidarity that counteracted stigma experienced in the offline world. All participants idealised 'Ana' (anorexia), either as an admirable lifestyle or as the idealised, personification of anorexia, named 'Ana'. Simultaneously, participants experienced pro‐ana communities as deceptive and/or harmful, demonstrating ambivalence towards pro‐ana. Conclusions: Findings suggest that community and shared understanding are important to individuals accessing pro‐ana content. Therapists may explore this further with clients, alongside any ambivalence towards pro‐ana and/or alternative supportive environments, such as online support groups. This may reduce isolation, without idealising ED behaviours. Future research could explore bloggers' relationships with the personified 'Ana' and experiences of non‐Western and male users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The cryptomarket ecosystem has become increasingly volatile and fragmented with sites shutting down on short notice. Displacement to new marketplaces is tricky when the original location was domestically oriented. We examine the spatial and temporal displacement of 83 Swedish vendors in the aftermath of the Flugsvamp 3.0 shutdown. Vendors rejected the successor Flugsvamp 4.0 and moved to German-run Archetyp Market. Using quantitative cross-sectional data from Archetyp Market we measure bivariate correlations between the temporal displacement and status-related variables. We found moderately strong correlation between vendors' number of sales per day and the order of their relocation to Archetyp. We also examined cryptomarket discussion forums and blogs during the time of the Flugsvamp 3.0 shutdown. This qualitative data supported the finding that migration choices of high-status vendors inspired others to follow. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Technology-facilitated sexual violence (TFSV) is an emerging form of gender-based violence. An understanding regarding the circumstance of TFSV and related health outcomes is limited. This qualitative study analyzed postings from an anonymous Korean website on which women suffering from TFSV freely posted messages asking for help and voicing concerns. Victims made efforts to solve problems that remained unresolved, thereby creating difficulties in their daily lives, and compelling them to quit jobs or break social relationships. They reported mental health concerns including suicide ideation, anxiety, frustration, sleep disorders, and depression. Results infer the imperative nature of research, intervention, and political action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: The number of people who access social networking sites continues to increase at an exponential rate. The use of technology is an essential skill for nursing professionals and its development represents a challenge in improving health education, promotion and care. The objective of this systematic review is to analyse the use of social networking sites by healthcare professionals as an intervention tool for evidence-based public health education. Methods: The protocol of this umbrella review was registered in the International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (CRD42023407249). Searches were carried out in MEDLINE (PubMed), Web of Science, CINAHL, PsycINFO (EBSCOhost), and Cochrane Library of Systematic Reviews, in February 2023. A narrative synthesis of the results was conducted. Results: 1896 articles were found, of which 15 reviews fulfilled the inclusion criteria. Social networks broadened the profession; they were YouTube, X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, and Instagram. The target population was mainly young professionals, and they came across different topic areas that addressed health education. Conclusions: It is important to have information backed by scientific evidence to make health decisions. Health professionals active on social networking sites have a unique opportunity to educate the public about health by sharing scientific evidence in an accessible and clear way, which helps to combat misinformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Skill building is a widely recognized teaching goal in philosophy. Some well-researched skill building techniques include scaffolded assignment design, low-stakes assignments, and peer-review. Many papers have highlighted the efficacy of these techniques by demonstrating novel course and assignment design; for example, the use of blogging in philosophy courses has been shown to have positive results on student writing. While the efficacy of skill building centered course design on student learning seems uncontroversial, two major problems are typically raised: the time investment for such course design is significant and implementing these techniques in large classes is not possible. The central aim of this paper is to combat this second claim. I present a course designed around skill building that has been successfully implemented in classes of from 120 to 450 students. I show some techniques that make this implementation possible and not unwieldy, and I argue that students both improved their philosophical skills and enjoyed the course design. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What is it that develops in adult life? Development through work and family life have been documented and theorised in detail, but much less is known about what is learned beyond these domains, through people's engagements in hobbies or when out of work (e.g., unemployed, retired). We argue that adult development can be addressed in general terms, beyond domain specificity; drawing on our sociocultural psychology framework, and assuming an open-system perspective, we highlight the two processes of progressive differentiation and psychological distancing in diverse domains of activity. To address development over time, we explore 20 years of people's lives through the longitudinal analysis of online diaries. A combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis enables us to identify people's experiences of rupture and transitions, the diversity of their domains of interests, and how these change over time. Based on a case-study, we show that, if the general direction of development does entail progressive differentiation and distanciation, these processes can also be hindered by the cumulation of vulnerabilising events. Finally, we show that some domains, such as the long-standing activity of diary writing, can itself be used as resource for adult development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Detecting texts that contain semantic-level new information is not straightforward. The problem becomes more challenging for research articles. Over the years, many datasets and techniques have been developed to attempt automatic novelty detection. However, the majority of the existing textual novelty detection investigations are targeted toward general domains like newswire. A comprehensive dataset for scientific novelty detection is not available in the literature. In this paper, we present a new triplet-based corpus (SciND) for scientific novelty detection from research articles via knowledge graphs. The proposed dataset consists of three types of triples (i) triplet for the knowledge graph, (ii) novel triplets, and (iii) non-novel triplets. We build a scientific knowledge graph for research articles using triplets across several natural language processing (NLP) domains and extract novel triplets from the paper published in the year 2021. For the non-novel articles, we use blog post summaries of the research articles. Our knowledge graph is domain-specific. We build the knowledge graph for seven NLP domains. We further use a feature-based novelty detection scheme from the research articles as a baseline. Moreover, we show the applicability of our proposed dataset using our baseline novelty detection algorithm. Our algorithm yields a baseline F1 score of 72%. We show analysis and discuss the future scope using our proposed dataset. To the best of our knowledge, this is the very first dataset for scientific novelty detection via a knowledge graph. We make our codes and dataset publicly available at https://github.com/92Komal/Scientific_Novelty_Detection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores the variation between the possessive prepositional construction and the s-genitive in Danish with respect to five factors: animacy, definiteness, type of possessive relation, givenness, and length. The goal is to establish if and in what way these factors influence the selection between the two adnominal possessive constructions. The study is based on a newly compiled corpus of contemporary Danish texts, namely, literary, press, and blog texts. The corpus consists of over 114,000 word tokens. The material is studied quantitatively; the chi-square test of independence is used to determine whether there is a significant association between the studied factors and the possessive construction, and the classification and regression tree analysis is used to determine the relative importance of each factor. The results indicate that animacy, type of possessive relation, and definiteness especially significantly contribute to the selection between the prepositional construction and the s-genitive. The prepositional construction is favored when the possessor phrase referent is inanimate and indefinite. It is also more frequent with expressions of possession that involve a part–whole relationship (although only with an inanimate possessor referent) and locative possession. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract This research explores using blogs as an innovative assessment tool to enhance authentic learning and professional skill development in students. Unlike traditional methods, blogs foster active knowledge building and peer interaction, making learning more engaging and aligned with industry contexts. The study involved third-year planning students, in the course Governance and Planning, and utilised questionnaires, focus groups, and blog post analyses. Results indicated that blogs promoted reflective practice, facilitated peer review, and improved learning efficiencies. Despite some initial resistance and concerns about academic rigor, students found that blogging enhanced their understanding of course content and professional practices. Teacher support and peer feedback played a crucial role in this process. The literature supports blogs’ effectiveness in motivating students and aligning learning activities with real-world applications. However, assumptions about students’ familiarity with blogging were challenged, highlighting the need for thorough induction and support. Overall, blog-based assessments proved beneficial in creating authentic learning experiences and preparing students for their future careers. Future research should consider long-term studies on graduate outcomes and further explore peer review mechanisms.

During the global COVID-19 pandemic one population that faced special challenges was individuals with preexisting chronic health conditions. In this study, we examined how people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) managed their autoimmune disease, considering their increased susceptibility to contracting COVID-19. Specifically, we analyzed how people with IBD made sense of their precarious position through the writing of publicly accessible blogs. We found that for IBD patients, navigating healthcare needs in the context of pandemic-related concerns and restrictions meant grappling with several salient, but conflicting tensions: separation vs. connection, safety vs. exposure, uncertainty vs. control, and resilience vs. vulnerability. People with IBD struggled to find a balance between living with IBD while keeping themselves and their loved ones safe from the virus. While the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic may be over, the underlying disease, and the tensions the disease causes, is still present for people with IBD. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the postfeminist context, discourses of time panic and time scarcity are used to generate a culture of anxiety that justifies gender traditionalism. Food blogs offer unique insights into the ways that these postfeminist discourses of temporality and labour are negotiated in the daily, lived experiences of individual women. I draw on a sample of 19 Saveur Award-nominated food blogs to explore how they respond to concepts of time panic and time scarcity through discussions and depictions of women’s work, retreatism, and postfeminist subjectivity. I perform a thematic analysis in conjunction with an architectural analysis of food blogs’ database narratives to discuss how postfeminist time scarcity—and its attendant anxieties—are rejected through fantasised depictions of domesticity as a creative pursuit and digital entrepreneurialism as an empowering endeavour. While the reading of such fantasised representations is ultimately ambivalent, particularly given the diversity of ways an audience may respond to these positionalities, I find that food blogs tend to reinforce the focus on the individual’s resilience, resourcefulness, and responsibility to make correct choices and resolve postfeminist contradictions, particularly through the affective management of food work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using multimedia elements to present poetry can help make it more accessible and understandable to a broader audience. In the context of China, where poetry is important in culture and art, interpreting the poems of Chinese poets in contemporary music can help popularize their work among young audiences. The study aimed to explore the possibilities of using various multimedia tools to promote poetry in online educational blogs and to study the effectiveness of various multimedia tools in attracting audience attention to poetry. The survey results reveal the popularity of contemporary songs in China among the youth, who draw inspiration from poetry. "Green Light" (绿光) received the highest percentage of votes, at 38%. This song centres on the theme of love and expresses the desire to be reunited with a loved one. "Raindrops on Banana Leaves" (雨打芭蕉) garnered 26% of the votes and conveys the beauty of nature after rain, emphasizing the appreciation of the world's beauty. "Nebula" (天空) was mentioned by 9% of the students, and this song includes lines from the poem "Love in the Sky" by Jiang Zhiqun. It explores themes of love and self-reflection, reflecting the desire to be with a loved one. "Crazy Heartbeats" (疯狂的心跳) received 18% of the votes, and the song uses phrases from the poem "Strong Feelings" by Junjian Lu. It portrays intense emotions, highlighting love and passion. "I Am by Your Side" (我在你左右), a song containing lines from the eponymous poem by Zhongsan Lu, was chosen by 9% of the students. It revolves around the theme of love and the longing to be with someone special. These findings illustrate how contemporary music in China often intertwines with classical poetry, bridging the gap between traditional literary heritage and modern forms of cultural self-expression. The results of the statistical analysis indicate a statistically significant difference between the control and experimental groups regarding the impact of multimedia technologies on learning outcomes.. The experiment has shown that these technologies contribute to better comprehension of the material and the attainment of higher scores compared to students who employed traditional teaching methods. Based on the study, conclusions can be drawn about the prospects of other processes related to this topic, namely the importance of using multimedia technologies to present poetry in online educational blogs, especially for interpreting poems by Chinese poets in modern Chinese music, such technologies will help to attract a wider audience and develop a person's creativity, linguistic culture, and sensual and aesthetic spheres. For further research, it will be essential to study the impact of multimedia technologies on the understanding and appreciation of Chinese poetry by students of different age groups and cultural backgrounds and to conduct a comparative analysis of various methods of interpreting Chinese poetry in multimedia format. The present findings can also be used to develop recommendations and practices for using multimedia technologies in education and cultural activities related to Chinese poetry and methods for applying multimedia technologies as the presentation of poetry in online blogs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This research explores using blogs as an innovative assessment tool to enhance authentic learning and professional skill development in students. Unlike traditional methods, blogs foster active knowledge building and peer interaction, making learning more engaging and aligned with industry contexts. The study involved third-year planning students, in the course Governance and Planning, and utilised questionnaires, focus groups, and blog post analyses. Results indicated that blogs promoted reflective practice, facilitated peer review, and improved learning efficiencies. Despite some initial resistance and concerns about academic rigor, students found that blogging enhanced their understanding of course content and professional practices. Teacher support and peer feedback played a crucial role in this process. The literature supports blogs' effectiveness in motivating students and aligning learning activities with real-world applications. However, assumptions about students' familiarity with blogging were challenged, highlighting the need for thorough induction and support. Overall, blog-based assessments proved beneficial in creating authentic learning experiences and preparing students for their future careers. Future research should consider long-term studies on graduate outcomes and further explore peer review mechanisms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Making intersectional interventions within ecofeminism and rhetorical studies, this essay examines Black women's vegan rhetoric on the website Black Vegans Rock! We argue that Black women's vegan rhetoric includes two primary themes. First, their vegan rhetoric reveals how Black women find healing and love through veganism. In a world that shows little compassion for their needs, Black women turn to veganism to embrace radical acts of self-love and heal from trauma caused by misogynoir. Second, their vegan rhetoric underscores the challenges of Black women's self-identification. Black women must navigate the whiteness of vegan spaces and restrictive social norms involving their body and hair, creating hurdles for Black women's existence in both mainstream (white) vegan movements and Black communities. Through our analysis, we chart Black women's decolonial ecological practices, which continue to go substantially understudied in ecofeminist and rhetorical studies scholarship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although the influence of celebrities on public health-related attitudes and behaviors is well established, the specific role that celebrity examples play in shaping health-related social norm perceptions is not well understood. To examine the effect of celebrities on social norm perceptions, young adults were randomly assigned to read news articles about vaping that either featured one of four film stars using a vape pen or did not contain any celebrity exemplar. The presence or absence of a celebrity exemplar did not affect readers' perceptions of vaping social norms. However, three types of audience involvement with the celebrities – liking, parasocial relationship strength, and wishful identification, were examined as mediators of the relative effects of the different celebrities on vaping norm perceptions. The results suggest that celebrities who people like more and those who they wishfully identify with less can wield a greater influence on social norms. PSR strength did not mediate indirect effects of celebrity on social norm perceptions. These findings indicate that celebrities can shape public perceptions of social norms through some types of involvement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the evolving roles and responsibilities of information and library science (ILS) professionals in an artificial intelligence (AI)-augmented world. Topics include the integration of AI into information management practices; the critical responsibilities for ILS professionals in data curation and system evaluation; and the importance of maintaining a human-centered approach amid technological advancements.

This experimental study investigates the impact of ChatGPT-simplified authentic texts on university students’ reading comprehension, inferencing, and reading anxiety levels. A within-subjects design was employed, and 105 undergraduate English as a foreign language (EFL) students engaged in both original and ChatGPT-simplified text readings, serving as their own controls. The findings reveal a significant improvement in reading comprehension scores and inferencing scores following ChatGPT intervention. However, no significant change in reading anxiety levels was observed. Results suggest that ChatGPT simplification positively influences reading comprehension and inferencing, but its impact on reading anxiety remains inconclusive. This research contributes to literature on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in education and sheds light on ChatGPT’s potential to influence language learning experiences within higher education contexts. The study highlights the practical application of ChatGPT as a tool for helping students engage in authentic text readings by making text more comprehensible. Based on the findings, several multifaceted implications that extend to various stakeholders in the field of language education are provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]