Informational needs related to menstrual literacy among Dutch women: a focus group study by Lisa Zuidema, Eveline M. van Luik, Manna A. Alma, Jaklien C. Leemans, Marlies Y. Bongers, Peggy M. A. J. Geomini

“…Participants were recruited at the gynaecology outpatient clinic of Máxima MC and through social media posts. A total of 24 Dutch women (aged between 20 and 62 years), who currently menstruate or have menstruated, participated in three focus group discussions. …”
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Co-creating and disseminating substance use and vaping educational videos, question prompt lists, and other resources in partnership with community organizations and youth in Weste... by Betsy Sleath, Abena A. Adjei, Jeremy Lowery, Mckenna Knock, Bethany Beznos, Delesha M. Carpenter, Casey R. Tak, Kim James, Michelle Geiser, Nacire Garcia, Charles Lee

“…There were 1175 impressions on X, and the substance use and vaping content posted on Instagram reached 581 accounts during the dissemination period. …”
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Stacked LSTM Model for Contextual Correlation Detection Among Multiple Emotions by Aqsa Younas, Shazia Riaz, Saqib Ali, Rafiullah Khan, Mohib Ullah, Daehan Kwak

“…This study proposes a fast, accurate, and robust method for predicting future emotions based on current emotional states, while also identifying interrelated emotions present within social media posts. We annotate a public dataset with multilabel emotion tags and model contextual dependencies, both temporal and social, using a novel Stacked Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) architecture. …”
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Stereotypes and social representations associated with pediatric surgeons among medical students, residents and physicians: a cross-sectional study by Coline Ducrot, Max Piffoux, Mathilde Payen, Sebastien Raux, Franck Rolland, Evan Gouy, Linh Nam Truong, Ariel Frajerman, Florent Vinchon, Nawale Hadouiri

“…Methods This anonymous nationwide web-based survey was posted on social networks and disseminated by e-mail by medical students and residents’ associations. …”
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Multihead Average Pseudo-Margin Learning for Disaster Tweet Classification by Iustin Sîrbu, Robert-Adrian Popovici, Traian Rebedea, Ștefan Trăușan-Matu

“…During natural disasters, social media platforms, such as X (formerly Twitter), become a valuable source of real-time information, with eyewitnesses and affected individuals posting messages about the produced damage and the victims. …”
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Marka Güven Ölçeğinin Türkçe’ye Uyarlanması: Geçerlik ve Güvenirlik Çalışması by Emel Sarıtaş, Ali Alper Akgün

“…Post-modern toplumlarda artan risk algısının, yoğun rekabet ortamıyla birleşmesi, tüketicileri güven duydukları markalara yöneltmektedir. …”
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Counterspeech encouraging users to adopt the perspective of minority groups reduces hate speech and its amplification on social media by Gloria Gennaro, Laurenz Derksen, Aya Abdelrahman, Emma Broggini, Mariya Alexandra Green, Victoria Andrea Haerter, Elia Heer, Isabel Heidler, Fiona Kauer, Han-Nuri Kim, Benjamin Landry, Alessio Levis, Jiazhen Li, Şevval Şimşir, Iva Srbinovska, Robin Anna Vital, Karsten Donnay, Fabrizio Gilardi, Dominik Hangartner

“…Compared to a passive control group, we find that the pooled effect of the three perspective-centered strategies—traditional perspective-taking, analogical perspective-taking, and perspective getting—increased the likelihood that the sender deleted their xenophobic message by +0.14 SD ( $$p=0.003$$ ), decreased the number of likes the xenophobic message received by others (− 0.133 SD, $$p=0.040$$ ), but yielded a limited and not statistically significant estimate for the share of xenophobic messages the sender posted over the following four weeks (− 0.084 SD, $$p=0.178$$ ). …”
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Public awareness about infant prematurity and its related health issues: A national-based survey in Jordan by Reem Ali, Karimeh Alnuaimi, Buthyna Alnasarat

“…Lectures could be given by healthcare professionals at hospitals, and posted via social media, to educate people about prematurity and premature infants' health-related issues, with attention paid to infants’ long-term health and developmental problems.…”
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The use of social media in plastic surgery biomedical research: scoping systematic review by Amanda Beneat, Boris Joutovsky, Victor Moon, Armen Kasabian, Alisha Oropallo

“…The studies largely focused on social media’s effect on self-esteem and acceptance of cosmetic surgery, but other notable trends were analyses of patient perceptions of a disease, or surgical outcomes as reported in social media posts. Discussion: Overall, social media can be a useful tool for plastic surgeons looking to recruit patients for a survey-based study or crowdsourcing of information.…”
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How does misinformation influence the digital agri-food advisory service? Multi-stakeholder Perspectives from Sri Lanka by Ataharul Chowdhury, Khondokar H. Kabir, Nasir Abbas Khan, Gordon Gow

“…The third perspective sees misinformation as spreading quickly and difficult to counteract but acknowledges that it can be posted and shared by mistake. All three perspectives emphasize the need to improve digital literacy skills, develop an effective moderation strategy, and adopt a political economy of agri-food misinformation, and cultivate a multi-stakeholder collaboration to combat it. …”
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Between Convention and Innovation: The Regional Diversity of Gender-Appropriate Language in Job Advertisements for Technician, Educator, IT and Nursing Professions by Філіпп Штанг, Штефані Шольц, Крістіан Вінклер, Сандра Рейманн

“…In contrast, the care and nursery sectors exhibit greater linguistic diversity, with regional variations particularly pronounced in nursery job postings. These differences suggest that cultural and occupational dynamics significantly influence the adoption of gender-inclusive practices. …”
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Pro-democracy platform advocacy: Resisting Big Tech-mediated authoritarianism in Southeast Asia [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Tuwanont Phattharathanasut, Mai Van Tran, Haymarn Soe Nyunt, Nalinthip Ekapong, Lewis Young

“…We conduct an exploratory mixed methods analysis of an original dataset of 38 semi-structured expert interviews, 6000 Facebook posts, and relevant Meta’s Transparency Reports. …”
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Revistas científicas indexadas en SciELO Colombia, Perú y Ecuador by Nicolas Sumba, Jorge Manuel Cueva Estrada, Wileidys Artigas, Rosana Meleán Romero

“…Las revistas analizadas en los tres países mayoritariamente optan por hacer sus posts en FB empleando una imagen y algún texto de acompañamiento, estos resultados no sugieren una gestión activa e innovadora por parte de las revistas científicas, gestión determinante en las actividades de la economía digital.  …”
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Sexual and gender-related violence against girls in sub-Saharan Africa: a need for effective interventions by Andrew J. Macnab, Innocent Besigye, Brenda Tusubira

“…Over 12 months, the video was viewed 36,651 times on YouTube and generated >200,000 social media posts; streaming platforms saw 113,757 individuals downloaded the song; >310,000 people at public concerts heard the song performed; and eight national broadcasters played the video or song at least 30 times reaching a combined audience of >9,500,000. …”
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Influence of design parameters of reclamation rippers on the improvement of agrophysical properties in treated soil by Victor I. Balabanov, Natalia B. Martynova, Alexandr A. Makarov

“…The lowest value of traction resistance is achieved at a lateral cutting angle of 13°-16° and an angle between the posts of 90°. The assessment was carried out using fractal methods. …”
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Emotional reactions towards vaccination during the emergence of the Omicron variant: Insights from twitter analysis in South Africa by Blessing Ogbuokiri, Ali Ahmadi, Nidhi Tripathi, Laleh Seyyed-Kalantari, Woldergebriel Assefa Woldegerima, Bruce Mellado, Jiahong Wu, James Orbinski, Ali Asgary, Jude Dzevela Kong

“…Using statistical methods such as χ2, Mann–Whitney U, Granger causality, and Jaccard similarity, we identified a strong association between emotional intensities in vaccine-related posts and vaccination rates during the Omicron period (p<0.04) in specific provinces. …”
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Expanding on Methodologies for Analyzing Truck Speeds in States with Differential Speed Limits by Gregory L. Brinster, Jairaj Desai, Rahul Suryakant Sakhare, Jijo K. Mathew, Darcy M. Bullock

“…The 85th percentile speeds across all segments were greater than the posted truck speed limit in 90% of segments with DSLs, but only 12.5% of segments without DSLs. …”
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User Experience Design for Online Sports Shoe Retail Platforms: An Empirical Analysis Based on Consumer Needs by Yixin Zou, Chao Zhao, Peter Childs, Dingbang Luh, Xiaoying Tang

“…This study employs Latent Dirichlet Allocation topic analysis to analyze 44,110 online user posts and comments from social platforms, extracting thematic elements of consumer experience needs for purchasing sports shoes online. …”
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Propagation Channel Measurements for Indoor-to-Outdoor Communications for Device-to-Device Public Safety Applications by Hussein Hammoud, Zihang Cheng, Jorge Gomez-Ponce, Seun Sangodoyin, Jason Kahn, Andreas F. Molisch

“…One notable scenario is Indoor-to-Outdoor (I2O), where emergency responders inside buildings communicate with command posts on the street. We aim to understand the propagation channel for designing wireless systems in such contexts. …”
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Postural analysis of children with muscle retraction after six-month exercise or heel cup interventions in a randomized trial by Vicenta Martínez-Córcoles, Jonatan García-Campos, Juan Vicente-Mampel, Esther Chicharro-Luna, Eva María Martínez Jiménez, Javier Ferrer-Torregrosa

“…The study was registered at ClinicalTrials.gov under the identification number NCT05902949 (first posted on 06/15/23). The area of oscillation was measured using the Gyko system under four conditions: eyes open/closed and firm ground/foam. …”
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