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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Leveraging deep learning for toxic comment detection in cursive languages by Muhammad Shahid, Muhammad Umair, Muhammad Amjad Iqbal, Muhammad Rashid, Sheeraz Akram, Muhammad Zubair

“…Although Urdu (a low-resource language) is one of the most popular Asian languages around the globe, a standard tool does not exist to detect toxic comments posted in this language. Tokenization and then categorizing cursive text is challenging due to its complex nature, especially when dealing with toxic comments, which are often ungrammatical and very brief. …”
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Quantifying social presence in online-based learning: a statistical and didactical analysis of indicators from social network analysis by Lisa-Maria Norz, Éva Kaczkó, Michael Netzer, Elske Ammenwerth

“…This study aimed to identify and evaluate indicators derived from social network analysis, which could quantify social presence and provide didactically relevant information to teachers. 3,546 postings from different modules and study groups (n=49) of an online-based Master course were manually coded. …”
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Knowledge and attitudes of tuberculosis management in San Juan de Lurigancho district of Lima, Peru by Elizabeth M. Kiefer, Theresa Shao, Olveen Carrasquillo, Pamela Nabeta, Carlos Seas

“…Methodology: We surveyed HCPs practicing in 30 clinical settings (hospitals, community health centers, and health posts) in the San Juan de Lurigancho district of Eastern Lima, Peru. …”
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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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Exercising of integrated approach for the specialized meat products development by M. A. Aslanova, O. K. Derevitskaya, A. S. Didikin, A. L. Bero, N. E. Soldatova

“…The modern approaches to creation of healthy food products for people with socially significant diseases, the recommendations of the World Health Organization based on the analysis of scientific literature posted in open sources and publicly available databases were used as the material of the research, as well as the results of our own studies in the field of technologies for dietary therapeutic and prophylactic nutrition meat products. …”
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Sentiment analysis for depression detection: A stacking ensemble-based deep learning approach by Kinza Noor, Mariam Rehman, Maria Anjum, Afzaal Hussain, Rabia Saleem

“…In the modern era of social media, individuals often reveal their emotional states by providing daily posts on platforms like X (previously Twitter) and Facebook. …”
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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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Understanding the Patient Experience with Twice-Nightly Sodium Oxybate Therapy for Narcolepsy: A Social Listening Experiment by Maria Picone, Frederik Ascencion, Matthew Horsnell, Enming Zhang, Lauren Dougherty, Christopher DeFelice, Maurice Flurie, Rachelle Cook, Anne Marie Morse, Luis E. Ortiz, E. Robert Wassman, Jennifer Gudeman

“…Results: From the social media analysis, the largest topic was related to “cataplexy”, with 537 posts/comments. The most frequent term was “xyrem”, with 22,200 mentions. …”
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