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Background: Digital tools to document care preferences in serious illnesses are increasingly common, but their impact is unknown. We developed a web-based advance directive (AD) featuring (1) modular content eliciting detailed care preferences, (2) the ability to electronically transmit ADs to the electronic health record (EHR), and (3) use of nudges to promote document transmission and sharing. Objective: To compare a web-based, EHR-transmissible AD to a paper AD. Methods: Patients with gastrointestinal and lung malignancies were randomized to the web or paper AD. The primary outcome was the proportion of patients with newly documented advance care plans in the EHR at 8 weeks. Secondary outcomes assessed through an e-mail survey included the change in satisfaction with end-of-life plans, AD acceptability, and self-reported sharing with a surrogate. Results: Ninety-one participants were enrolled: 46 randomly allocated to the web AD and 45 to paper. Thirteen patients assigned to web AD (28%) had new documentation versus 7 (16%) assigned to paper (P =.14). Adjusted for demographic factors and primary diagnosis, the odds ratio of new documentation with web AD was 3.7 (95% CI: 0.8-17.0, P =.10). Satisfaction with advance care planning and AD acceptability were high in both groups and not significantly different. Among patients completing web ADs, 79% reported sharing plans with their caregivers, compared with 65% of those completing paper ADs (P =.40). Conclusion: Web-based ADs hold promise for promoting documentation and sharing of preferences, but larger studies are needed to quantify effects on these intermediate end points and on patient-centered outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the web sites of daily newspapers as well as web-only news sites for the presence of information referred to by media critic Steve Outing as credibility statements. The Internet allows journalists to post information almost as soon as they receive it, a quality seen by many journalists as having a positive impact on the profession. A total of 196 news sites were content analyzed. The online editions of the top 100 daily U.S. newspapers by circulation based on March 31, 2004, figures were made part of the sampling frame as were the top papers in the 11 states not represented in the top 100. 118 of the sites analyzed posted information satisfying at least one of the six criteria for editorial policy statements. More than half discussed journalistic principles and one-third disclosed their business relationships. There were significant differences between the two groups regarding their implementation of several of the criteria. Web-only news sites were more likely to post information about journalistic principles, report business relationships and discuss business influences on editorial content. Most Internet news sites do not provide information concerning employee conduct, the influence of business relationships on editorial content or standards for separating editorial content from advertising.

The article presents information on the use of Internet's interactive technologies by newspapers to improve the coverage of public affairs. "Cyber-democracy" proposes that the Internet's ability to close gaps of time and distance with electronic interactivity has the power to make institutional journalism at least anachronistic and perhaps even unnecessary. Online Web sites associated with newspapers can offer themselves as venues for greater citizen engagement because newspapers are the traditional source of the most in-depth information regarding political communication, especially at the state, regional and local levels, and also because they are the focal point for online news consumption. The study found that the promise of online journalism to create conditions for improved political communication is largely untapped. It found that only three of the 13 devices used to operationalize online facilitation of cyber-democratic practices were present at more than 50 percent of the papers surveyed in the study.

Web sites are increasingly more sophisticated in news presentation, revenue-generating features, multimedia and interactive elements. Small papers lag significantly behind medium and large ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents an editorial that discusses research going into marketing and the findings done in the field. Readers and researchers are asked to present their views on various topics relating to marketing. A "Viewpoint" article is presented that asks why there is a lack of journal-standard papers on market research and makes the case for such papers as a way to help the industry. The importance of having a website has also shown to be a downfall for many companies and has a direct connection with a corporation's brand equity.

In order to assess the status of retraction notices for publications involving research misconduct, we collected and analyzed information from the Office of Research Integrity website. This site lists confirmed instances of misconduct in research supported by the National Institutes of Health. Over a 10-year period, 200 publications derived from misconduct were identified. For 20.5% of those papers, no retraction notice was published. We found that the majority of these cases were from investigations concluded at least two years before our analysis, and thus are unlikely to be explainable by timing considerations. These findings demonstrate that retraction notices for papers associated with misconduct are often not published and suggest that clear, adherent policies are needed in this circumstance to correct the scientific record. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objectives: The purpose of this research is to summarize the structure of radiomics-based knowledge and to explore potential trends and priorities by using bibliometric analysis. Methods: Select radiomics-related publications from 2012 to October 2022 from the Science Core Collection Web site. Use VOSviewer (version 1.6.18), CiteSpace (version 6.1.3), Tableau (version 2022), Microsoft Excel and Rstudio's free online platforms (http://bibliometric.com) for co-writing, co-citing, and co-occurrence analysis of countries, institutions, authors, references, and keywords in the field. The visual analysis is also carried out on it. Results: The study included 6428 articles. Since 2012, there has been an increase in research papers based on radiomics. Judging by publications, China has made the largest contribution in this area. We identify the most productive institutions and authors as Fudan University and Tianjie. The top three magazines with the most publications are《FRONTIERS IN ONCOLOGY》, 《EUROPEAN RADIOLOGY》, and 《CANCERS》. According to the results of reference and keyword analysis, "deep learning, nomogram, ultrasound, f-18-fdg, machine learning, covid-19, radiogenomics" has been determined as the main research direction in the future. Conclusion: Radiomics is in a phase of vigorous development with broad prospects. Cross-border cooperation between countries and institutions should be strengthened in the future. It can be predicted that the development of deep learning-based models and multimodal fusion models will be the focus of future research. Advances in knowledge: This study explores the current state of research and hot spots in the field of radiomics from multiple perspectives, comprehensively, and objectively reflecting the evolving trends in imaging-related research and providing a reference for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the request of research papers in a special issue of this journal on sensemaking, organizing, and storytelling, which are three fields in organization studies. The purpose of this issue is to explore the connections between sensemaking, organizing, and storytelling to further their understandings. The intellectual history of each of the three terms is explored. Requirements for paper submissions can be found at the "Human Relations" web site, located at http://www.tavainstitute.org/humanrelations/about_journal/aims.html. The submission deadline is March 31, 2010.

The article offers information regarding a website. www.minimanuscript.com, where one can get free access to several scientific papers and summaries on biomedical and health research.

Objective: This study attempt to quantitative assessment of journal productivity by the number of articles published in Pharmacognosy Magazine publications between 2011 and 2020. The present study provides a detailed scientometric analysis of publications by year-wise and citation count, document type, highly productive institutions, highly productive authors, most cited papers, country collaborations, and most used keywords of the journal. Methodology: The publication data on Pharmacognosy Magazine publications have been retrieved by using Web of Science database and the journal web page. The collected data were tabulated using MS Excel, later, we used the VOSviewer and biblioshiny for network graphs. Results: Results found that the 1494 publications and average citations per author 5.807. Average publication per year is 4.51, average citations per documents is 5.807, and majority of publications are published as articles, i.e. 1477, total 1574 institutes contributed 1494 papers, 29 (1.941%) papers published by single author, and the rest 1465 papers were published in collaborations. Conclusion: These results indicate that Pharmacogn Mag is one of the leading journals in where the journal is indexed, with publications from a wide range of authors, institutions, and countries around the world. The study summarizes using various scientometric techniques and analyzing the journal impact, prominent topics, most prolific authors and their affiliations, collaborative countries output, and most used keywords. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In addition, the tabs, which are updated frequently, contain "Latest Articles" (read them here before they appear online or land on your desk in the print issue of the Journal!); "Most Read"; "Most Cited" (includes manuscripts published in the past three years); and "Trending on Altmetric". First, for members of the American College of Toxicology (ACT), the easiest way to access I International Journal of Toxicology i is via the ACT website, using the "Journal" navigation tab. So if a company tweets about a paper published by one of its employees, that tweet can be picked up by Altmetric; similarly, if a major newspaper mentions a paper published in I International Journal of Toxicology i , that will be picked up in the paper's Altmetric score. [Extracted from the article]

The article provides information on the journal "Production and Operations Management." The journal serves as a research journal in operations management in terms of manufacturing and services. It publishes scientific research regarding the problems, interests and concerns of managers who supervise product and manufacturing processes, operations and supply chains. It embraces all topics related to product process and design, operations, and supply chain management and accepts papers using any research paradigm. Meanwhile, the author presents the website www.poms.org for additional information.

Drawing on ethnographic research on lap dancing work, this paper focuses on how the subjectivities, interactions and settings that constitute the lap dancing industry come into being through three interrelated processes of encoding, embodying and embedding. In considering how these processes combine to 'enact' the industry, the paper draws on Merleau Ponty's understanding of the world as a dynamic nexus of 'self-others-things'. Focusing on how this nexus shapes lived experiences of intimate service interactions, the analysis considers how dancers continually negotiate customers' expectations of the service encounter given the ways in which these are: (i) encoded in depictions of lap dancing work in marketing and advertising materials on club websites; (ii) embodied by lap dancers through their interactions with customers; and (iii) embedded within the materiality of lap dancing clubs. The paper shows how intimate service encounters can be understood as the outcome of a nexus of 'self-others-things' through which particular organizational subjectivities and settings are brought into being through these three interrelated processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The growth of the Internet opens new possibilities for web-based data collection in cognitive anthropology. This study examines whether free-list data collected online are comparable to those collected with face to face interviews or with self-administered paper questionnaires. We collected free lists for two cultural domains in the United States: one diffuse (things that mothers do) and one relatively well defined (racial and ethnic groups). We selected a purposive sample of 318 university students and randomly assigned participants to provide free lists for one of these domains using a web-based survey, a face to face interview, or a self-administered paper questionnaire. All three modes identified the same set of salient concepts in each domain. Median list length per respondent varied across modes in response to a standard free-list question and to supplementary probes. For the well-defined domain of “racial and ethnic groups,” supplementary probes widened differences among modes; for the more diffuse domain of “things that mothers do,” probes erased evidence of mode effects. Collecting free lists online is viable but may yield different results depending on the study population and attributes of the cultural domains. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on innovations made to the "Journal of Management." The website houses a great deal of important information such as submission guidelines, paper formatting guidelines, a list of the Editorial Board, links to the websites of the Academy of Management and the Southern Management Association, and statistics about the papers processed. However, the most exciting feature of the new website is the search facility. The title, author, and abstracts of the last ten years of the "Journal of Management" have been loaded into a database that can be searched by topic or author. Rhonda Reger from University of Maryland was appointed as the Senior Associate Editor. Rhonda' s role will be to increase the Journal of Management's coverage of macro level topics, serve as the action editor for macro submissions, and make all editorial decisions regarding these manuscripts. Pam Carter has been hired as the Editorial Assistant for the Journal of Management. Besides her excellent organizational skills, Pam has a great deal of experience with database design and management. Pam designed a database application for the "Journal of Management" that tracks, processes, and manages the flow of manuscripts. Her efforts will be monumental in continuing the quick turnaround "Journal of Management" submitters have come to expect.

In 2006, Harvard Law School Professor Yochai Benkler proposed a wager to technology and society author Nicholas Carr. Benkler argued that by 2011 the most influential websites would be based on content produced by people engaged in peer production. Carr maintained that the lure of money and the corporate hierarchies will be more effective. So, after 15 years, who has really won the bet? Are the most influential websites peer-produced or price-incentivized? To address these questions, this paper discusses what peer production is in relation to price-incentivized production. The Carr-Benkler wager is used as a lens to examine the current social and political struggles in the digital economy, to unveil the adversary value systems underneath and the respective implications for organization. We conclude with some reflections on the controversies and ambiguities of peer production and a call for critical scholarship to engage in a deeper discussion on value and organization in the digital economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The editor explores various issues related to the periodical "International Journal of Market Research" (IJMR), including an overview of discussions at the IJMR Research Methods Forum held on November 7, 2012, changes to the IJMR website located at www.mrs.org.uk/ijmr, and IJMR awards competitions.

Strain was measured in the first phase data collection, so it did not have the sample size and temporal structure problems of anxiety, but the results were substantively similar. Thus, although the authors did not fully report the sample size for hypothesized relationships involving anxiety and, as a result, the number of missing values was not clear, they were transparent about their approach to missing values. The data, code and results for the replication are available by request from the authors and at the following web site: https://osf.io/9nkwx/. [Extracted from the article]

The article offers information on the author's guide of the "British Journal of Occupational Therapy" (BJOT) for the submission of articles. BJOT is the official journal of the College of Occupational Therapists, with the purpose of publishing contribution of papers relevant to theory, practice, research, education, and management in occupational therapy. The submission of articles is online through Manuscript Central, available at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/bjot.

The article reviews several Web sites including Sixth International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication, located at http://www.ama-assn.org/public/peer/peerhome.htm, Equator Network, located at http://www.equator-network.org/home/, and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), located at http://www.wame.org/.

The article presents information on transport records deposited in 2002. T he following classified list of major archive collections acquired by British repositories during 2002 has been compiled by the Historical Manuscripts Commission. Some collections may not yet be available for research, and enquiries should be directed to the relevant repositories. The commission seeks each year to collect information relating to manuscript accessions from over 200 repositories and record offices throughout the British Isles. The information is published on the commission's Web site (virww.nationalarchives.gov.uk) and in a series of thematic digests which appear in learned journals and newssheets.

The article discusses various papers published in this issue including one by Constant Okello-Obura on fighting corruption through records and information management, one by Hui-Ju Wang and Jin Lo on government websites and one by Christine Stilwell and Ruth Hoskins on library management.

While the transition of traditional newspapers and magazines to the online space is gathering pace, and the literature on multimedia journalism is proliferating, little attention has been paid to date to the implications of convergence for the press in regulatory terms. One such regulatory dilemma arises from the proliferation of video content on newspaper websites. It is this question and others at the conjuncture of press freedom and the dynamics unleashed by convergence that the papers in this special section seek to shed light upon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A crucial question that has arisen is whether the involvement of Web users can be extended to the funding of news organizations aimed at their financial independence from traditional funding practices. The evolution of multimodal media websites, the media crisis and the growing dissatisfaction of the citizens, create the conditions for online journalism to work with citizens, and through emerging journalistic practices such as crowdsourcing. This concept is a form of collective online activity in which a person or a group of people volunteer to engage in work that always involves mutual benefit to both sides. The main research question of this paper concerns the analysis of the current situation regarding crowdfunding and the adoption of best practices on the technological features, services, and tools used by websites around the world. Very few media have tried to apply even nowadays, the proposed model of journalism, which this study is going to research. The results of the study shape new perspectives and practices for participation, journalism, and democracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study documents a steady increase in dynamic journalism on the Web sites of twenty-four U.S. newspapers, including a sharp rise in 2006 of multimedia elements, particularly video. This trend was particularly apparent for newspapers in our sample with print circulation between 100,000 and 120,000. While traditional news categories are the most common source of dynamic content, the growth over time is coming from coverage of weather, sports, crime, and accidents. There also appears to be a rise in hourly updating of softer news. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores how writers of online diaries, or weblogs, about public affairs negotiate their relationship with the genres and social position of news journalism. Although often labelled radical journalists, this paper finds, through interviews with seven webloggers, that such writers orient themselves in complex ways towards news journalism, at times drawing upon its modes of knowledge, at times setting themselves in opposition to it and at times seeking to cross discursive spaces. The paper concludes that, rather than emerging as a new public communicative form or genre in relation to journalism, the distinctiveness of the form is in its generic heterogeneity and ability to traverse the boundaries of news and other institutional discourses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Several alternative response formats are available to the web survey designer, but the choice of format is often made with little consideration of measurement error. The authors experimentally explore three common response formats used in web surveys: a series of radio buttons, a drop box with none of the options initially displayed until the respondent clicks on the box, and a scrollable drop box with some of the options initially visible, requiting the respondent to scroll to see the remainder of the options. The authors reversed the order of the response options for half the sample. The authors find evidence of response order effects but stronger evidence that visible response options are endorsed more frequently, suggesting that visibility may be a more powerful effect than primacy in web surveys. The results suggest that the response format used in web surveys does affect the choices made by respondents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper considers the structure of advertising effectiveness on the internet. It investigates empirically the importance of creative and media factors for banner effectiveness. Econometric modelling of actual data on banner ads demonstrates that creative factors such as banner size, animation, message length and logos, as well as media factors such as campaign length, number of host websites, use of offline media, and campaign cost, may influence the direct response of the target audience as measured by click-through rates. The results lead to important practical implications for internet advertising. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses various reports published within the issue, including one by Martin Callingham and Tim Baker concerning market commoditization and market dynamics, and an article by Magne Supphellen and Herbj&oslah;rn Nysveen concerning brand loyalty and website traffic.

Facebook was a major conduit to fake news exposure during the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. This article explores factors that predict liking pages for "fake news" websites on the Facebook platform. Leveraging paired survey and digital trace data from 806 American Facebook users, we determine that 18.4% of subjects liked at least one page for a website that published fake news. A substantial share of fake news page likes (23.9%) came from lifestyle sites that also published misinformation. Regression analyses determine that age, male sex, Trump support, and political participation are associated with liking fake news pages. A network analysis based on audience overlap finds three page clusters of fake news content—two right-leaning and one left-leaning—that also contain a majority of political and news pages. Results add nuance to our understanding of fake news by illustrating the role of non-political sources in providing potential exposure to misinformation on Facebook. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the first reports of the Covid-19 virus in December 2019, the tourism industry has struggled to find solutions to this unprecedented crisis. During crises, organizational learning can develop crisis management and communication skills while enhancing organizational resilience in coping with crises. This research examines whether organizational learning for communicating during crises occurred in the Swiss hotel industry in the past 2 years. By tracking and visualizing the messages communicated by Swiss hotels on their websites, this study analyzes the communication strategies employed by hoteliers over the past 20 months through thematic analysis, co-occurrence analysis, and Situational Crisis Communication (SCCT) strategies. The results of this study identified the evolution of communication strategies over time. Specifically, ingratiation, corrective action, transferring, victimization, and justification are the five key strategies. This study also visualizes the crisis responses in concept maps in three snapshots (June 2020, June 2021, and February 2022). The concepts and colors of the visualization provide a different perspective on the evolution of crisis communication over the past 2 years. This study contributes to academia and practitioners by demonstrating the evolution of crisis communication messages through both the granular analysis of SCCT strategies and the bird's-eye view of themes and concepts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Given Wikipedia's breadth of coverage, social impact, and longevity as an impactful open knowledge resource, the encyclopedia has been the subject of considerable interdisciplinary research. Building on scholarship related to collaboration, authorship, ownership, and editing in Wikipedia, this study sought to better understand Wikipedians as writers, paying specific attention to their sense of ownership. While previous research has shown that editors engage in individualist editing practices at times, often ignoring community-mediated policy regarding ownership, findings from a mixed-method survey of 117 editors demonstrate the existence of both "individual" and "community" notions of ownership that often reinforce, or mutually inform, each other. This study adds clarity to these issues by demonstrating how feelings of individual ownership, voice, and pride in writing often occur in collaborative circumstances. This research ultimately extends our understanding of collaborative writing in what is one of the most well-known collaborative websites. Despite contemporary theoretical strides advocating for relinquishing ownership concepts in favor of distributed or ecological frameworks, the concept of ownership remains prevalent within digital writing communities, exemplified by Wikipedia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses first on the scopophilic aspects of large scale data visualization—the fantasy of command and control through seeing—and places these in relation to key sites and conventions inside the tech industry. John Caldwell’s notion of “industrial reflexivity” provides a framework to explain the charismatic power and performative effects that attend representations of data as a visual spectacle. Drawing on twelve months of personal experience working for a large technology company, and observations from a number of relevant showcases, conferences, and events, I take a “production studies” approach to understand the forms of common sense produced in industry settings. I then offer two examples of data work understood as a new kind of “below the line” labor. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper examines the website performance analysis of the Content Delivery Network (CDN) against the normal webhosting method, by using the existing resources available in an academic institute. It also compares the collected real-time data with CDN simulation software. In this experiment, 'URL rewriting' is the method adopted for the CDN and reverse proxy. It aims to improve the response time of access to the web site by overcoming the flash crowd and provide the content of the web site in the most efficient manner. The significance of this method is that it allows for using the existing and available local resources and it calls for no additional investment on infrastructure from the part of the organization. A detailed real-time account of both the methods and analyses, towards finding out the best suitable method is illustrated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses various topics related to French cultural studies, including news related to France's Ministry of Culture and a bibliography of books about French culture. Also discussed are cultural studies conferences to be held in March, July, and June 2012 in the U.S. and England about African multilingualism, 19th century spirituality and religion, and French history. Also mentioned are art exhibitions in Paris, France, in 2011 and 2012 and a selection of cultural websites.

This paper examines various Web applications of the four "officially" recognized ethnicities in Taiwan and aims to identify the links between information and communication technologies (ICTs), ethnic identities and issues related to Taiwanization and its contestation. To give some background, the paper introduces Taiwan's more recent multiculturalist policies, which should be seen as part of the broader Taiwanization and nation-building project. These multiculturalist/ ethnicityrelated policies, directed toward the wider population as well as the specific ethnicities, are presented on the Internet by various government organizations and government-supported organizations. This paper also employs a discursive analysis of popular websites and blogs to examine the roles played by various societal and civic actors (ranging from NGOs to individuals) within Taiwan's ethnicity discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents updates on matters related to the French Ministry of Culture as February 2011. Performance arts and advanced audiovisual technologies were combined in holding the Festival international du théâtre de rue at Aurillac from August 18-21, 2010. Papers are being solicited for the Society for French Studies 52nd Annual Conference to be held at Queen Mary University of London in England from July 4-6, 2011. A list of culture-related websites is presented.

When confronted with a small sample, feature-selection algorithms often fail to find good feature sets, a problem exacerbated for high-dimensional data and large feature sets. The problem is compounded by the fact that, if one obtains a feature set with a low error estimate, the estimate is unreliable because training-data-based error estimators typically perform poorly on small samples, exhibiting optimistic bias or high variance. One way around the problem is limit the number of features being considered, restrict features sets to sizes such that all feature sets can be examined by exhaustive search, and report a list of the best performing feature sets. If the list is short, then it greatly restricts the possible feature sets to be considered as candidates; however, one can expect the lowest error estimates obtained to be optimistically biased so that there may not be a close-to-optimal feature set on the list. This paper provides a power analysis of this methodology; in particular, it examines the kind of results one should expect to obtain relative to the length of the list and the number of discriminating features among those considered. Two measures are employed. The first is the probability that there is at least one feature set on the list whose true classification error is within some given tolerance of the best feature set and the second is the expected number of feature sets on the list whose true errors are within the given tolerance of the best feature set. These values are plotted as functions of the list length to generate power curves. The results show that, if the number of discriminating features is not too small-that is, the prior biological knowledge is not too poor-then one should expect, with high probability, to find good feature sets. Availability: companion website at http://gsp.tamu.edu/Publications/supplementary/zhao09a/ [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study meta-analyzes thirty-nine study results published within last ten years that directly compared Web and mail survey modes. Although considerable variation exists across the studies, the authors' findings show that mail surveys have higher response rates than Web surveys in general. Two study features (i.e., population types and follow-up reminders) are shown to contribute statistically to the variation of response rate differences between Web and paper surveys in the comparative studies. College respondents appear to be more responsive to Web surveys, while some other respondents (e.g., medical doctors, school teachers, and general consumers) appear to prefer traditional mail surveys. Follow-up reminders appear to be less effective for Web survey respondents than for mail survey respondents. Other study features (i.e., implementation of random assignment of survey respondents, incentives, and publication year) are not statistically useful in accounting for the variation of response rate differences between Web and mail surveys. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The practice of Weblogging as a new social and technological phenomenon in society and business is gaining a growing number of supporters. In short, a Weblog is a website where individual thoughts are publicly displayed in the form of a diary. In this paper, we seek to illustrate the impact of Weblog technology on people's passion for knowledge. We start from the assumption that successful knowledge management requires the engagement of people in knowledge-related practices. We introduce a famous agglomeration of Weblogs that deal with the development of a commercial software. Based on an exploratory study, we suggest that the specific features and character of this novel technology have an impact upon the passion for voluntary knowledge work, which is triggered by experiences of flow states, as well as extrinsic stimuli. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides information on ultrasound organizations, literature and other resources. The organizations include the British Medical Ultrasound Society (BMUS), the United Kingdom Association of Sonographers (UKAS), and World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology(WFUMB). The journals include "European Journal of Ultrasound," and "Journal of Clinical Ultrasound." In addition the article also lists the websites and books which are based on ultrasonic imaging.

The use of organizational web sites for recruitment has become increasingly common. Despite their widespread growth, however little is known about how these web sites influence recruitment outcomes. In the current paper, we present a model that explicates how job seekers interact with and respond to web site characteristics to predict various job seeker attitudes and behaviors. We suggest that job seekers are initially affected by the facade of a web site, comprised of the web site's aesthetic and playfulness features. Coupled with system features of the web site, these initial affective reactions then influence perceptions of the usability of the web site. Perceptions of usability and affective reactions work through two key mediating constructs, job seeker search behavior and web site attitude, to ultimately predict applicant attraction. Throughout the paper we present a series of testable propositions that should serve to guide future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the most romantic sites to visit nowadays is cyberspace. At any moment, millions of people are surfing that space and having romantic affairs. Why do people feel compelled to leave the comfortable surroundings of their actual world and immerse themselves in this seductive space? Why are emotions so intense in this seemingly imaginary world? This paper tries to explore some of these issues by discussing the type of activity involved in offline and online affairs. A central contention of this paper is that most online affairs are more similar to flirting than to actual sexual affairs. The paper analyses the type of activities underlying flirting and their implications for online romantic affairs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To review the efficacy, safety, and role of lenacapavir (LEN) in the treatment of HIV-1 infection. Data Sources: A literature search was performed using PubMed and Google Scholar (through March 2023) with the search term LEN and GS-6207. Other resources included abstracts presented at recent conferences, the manufacturer's Web site, and prescribing information. Study Selection and Data Extraction: All relevant articles, trial updates, and conference abstracts in the English language were included. Data Synthesis: Lenacapavir represents a new class of antiretrovirals (ARVs) with a novel mechanism of action as a capsid inhibitor and a unique twice-a-year subcutaneous administration schedule. Lenacapavir when combined with other ARVs has proven to benefit heavily treatment-experienced (HTE) patients with HIV-1 infection in achieving viral suppression and immune restoration. Relevance to Patient Care and Clinical Practice in Comparison With Existing Drugs: Lenacapavir is a new treatment option that patients who are HTE can consider adding as part of an ARV regimen. Conclusions: Lenacapavir is an effective and well-tolerated option for HTE patients which is a valuable addition to the arsenal of ARVs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to assess hotel websites as a marketing communication tool using Kent and Taylor’s (1998) dialogic principles. This study was executed qualitatively using content analysis of 42 hotel websites in Ghana. The results of the study show that hotels in Ghana are adequately utilising websites as a marketing communication tool. The findings further show a preponderant use of the principle of conservation of visitors and the dialogic loop principle by the sampled hotel websites. However, the majority of the sampled websites performed rather poorly on the return visit principle. The research contributes to the scarce literature on hospitality management in an emerging economy context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: With increasing numbers of oral cancer diagnoses and guidance recommending that patients approach their doctors or dentists for assessments, when searching for information regarding mouth cancer, patients may first look to their dental practice website. This study aimed to evaluate the variance of patient information provided regarding oral cancer on dental practice websites. Materials and methods: Dental practices within the Manchester area with an active website were included with assessment of whether there was any information provided regarding reducing oral cancer risk factors, signs to look out for and if oral cancer screening was included as part of the general check-up, using a three-point score based on the joint statement from the British and Irish Society for Oral Medicine (BISOM) and Cancer Research UK (CRUK) regarding oral cancer diagnosis and prevention. Results: In total, 66.6% (n=60) of practices provided no accessible information regarding oral cancer screening and prevention on their websites. Only 12.2% (n=11) discussed all three factors of oral screening, symptoms and reducing risk factors. Screening as part of routine examination was most frequently mentioned at 27% (n=24), risk factors were discussed by 23% (n=21) of practices and symptoms to be aware of by 13% (n=12). Discussion: There is a lack of information available to patients on dental practice websites regarding oral cancer. To overcome lack of quality assurance on the internet, dentists can provide factual information via their dental practice websites. This could help with improving patient awareness and therefore aiding in early detection, improving patient outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

JCE is committed to publishing high-quality participant observation studies of social settings in diverse places, we rarely publish articles about ethnographers themselves. Dmitri Shalin is the curator and originator of the Erving Goffman Archives which, are housed at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (http://cdclv.unlv.edu/ega/). As noted on its website: This web-based, open-source project serves as a clearing house for those interested in the dramaturgical perspective in sociology and biographical methods of research. [Extracted from the article]

The Pittman-Robertson Act of 1937 was a transformative piece of legislation for wildlife management and conservation in the United States, incentivizing the creation of state wildlife agencies and establishing funding mechanisms for these agencies. The legislation directs an excise tax on firearms, ammunition, and archery equipment to a fund to support wildlife restoration projects by state wildlife agencies. In 2021 alone, this generated more than $1 billion in project funds. Although commonly framed as a user pays model of conservation whereby hunters fund wildlife management, most of the excise taxes collected on firearms and ammunition are now associated with non-hunting uses. Despite this disconnect, many firearms industry groups continue to support and promote their relationship to Pittman-Robertson. Here, we examine the role of Pittman-Robertson in shaping the relationship between firearms and conservation and seek to understand how this relationship is reproduced. We examine this shifting relationship through an analysis of amendments to Pittman-Robertson since its creation and a discourse analysis of contemporary materials from web sites of firearms, hunting, shooting, and conservation organizations. Drawing on the concept of environmentality and diverse ecologies, we argue that Pittman-Robertson has contributed to the production of, and been re-shaped by, a distinct environmental actor: the eco-munitionary subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]