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Self-administered web surveys provide respondents only limited opportunities for feedback. Therefore, many web surveys include so-called "final comment questions" (FCQs) that allow respondents to elaborate on the survey in general and the survey questions in particular. Typing in open answers in text boxes is burdensome – especially via smartphones with virtual on-screen keypads – so that respondents frequently provide short or no answers at all. In this study, we make use of new technological advancements in web survey methodology and investigate FCQs with requests for written and oral answers. For this purpose, we conducted an experiment in a smartphone survey (N = 1,001) in a German online panel. The results reveal that FCQs with a request for written and oral answers do not differ with respect to item-nonresponse. However, oral answers are substantially longer than written answers pointing to more in-depth information. The oral answer condition also results in more positive comments than the written answer condition. This study is a methodological showcase for innovative web survey design that contributes to the improvement of data quality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the growing prevalence of digital platforms for online shopping, advertising, and marketing activities in general, it is imperative to better understand how designs of virtual elements on digital interfaces influence click behavior. Websites and online advertisements contain virtual elements such as call-to-action buttons, images, and logos. This research examines how curved versus sharp angled shapes of virtual elements in online ads and on websites influence click-through rates (CTRs). The findings of a series of studies, including three field experiments and an eye tracking study, show that website and online ad elements in curved (vs. sharp angled) shapes generate higher CTRs. Process evidence suggests that curved (vs. sharp angled) digital elements enhance visual appeal, leading to approach motivation and greater CTR. In terms of practical implications, the findings of this research have strong relevance for designing online ads and website interfaces and for digital marketing strategies. Specifically, digital marketers desiring higher click rates would benefit from having more curved (than sharp angled) virtual elements on websites and in online ads. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent developments in communication technology and changes in people's communication habits facilitate new data collection forms in web surveys. Technical devices, such as computers, tablets, and smartphones, enable researchers to rethink established communication forms and add a human touch to web surveys. Designing web surveys more human-like has the great potential to make communication between researchers and respondents more natural, which may result in higher survey satisfaction and data quality. Considering the existing survey literature, there are only a few studies investigating respondents' willingness for new communication forms in web surveys. Hence, in the present study, we explore respondents' willingness to take part in web surveys to have interviewers read questions via pre-recorded videos (question delivery) and in which respondents provide their answers orally via self-recorded videos (question answering). We included two willingness questions – one on question delivery via pre-recorded videos and one on question answering via self-recorded videos – in the non-probability SoSci panel in Germany. The results reveal that respondents' willingness to have questions read by interviewers is higher than their willingness to self-record video answers. Believing that technology facilitates communication and perceiving the survey as being interesting increases willingness, whereas evaluating the survey topic as sensitive decreases willingness. Personality traits do not play a role when it comes to respondents' willingness, except for extraversion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Public libraries with multilingual communities should provide adequate access to multilingual resources to meet the needs of community members. Few previous studies have addressed online access to multilingual collections of public libraries that serve multilingual communities. This article highlights challenges in supporting multilingual users on public library websites that have multilingual users by asking what factors are involved, how the problems will eventually be solved, and what features will be needed in website design and indexing to enhance multilingual support. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: I investigated best practices for teaching content auditing within two graduate classes tasked with content auditing websites. I observed their strategies for developing auditing criteria. The graduate students used the audits to implement website redesign. Two research questions guided this study: 1) How do students create assessment criteria for website content audits? 2)What additional support could help students better determine assessment or rubric criteria to make them specific, and most of all, easily measurable? I focused on how and why students made auditing decisions. Method: I taught two graduate classes in which the students worked with real clients and live websites. Part of the process the students learned and used was content auditing. I used case study, interviews, and text analysis to empirically investigate student auditing. Nine participants shared their perspectives, including students and clients. Results: Simple categories with binary criteria made auditing easier; simple categories also made for simpler assessment. Students asked to see more examples of audits. Students in Class 1 misunderstood the audience, which led to a ripple effect on the resulting web design. Students from both classes were nonetheless able to make incremental improvements to both client websites. Conclusion: Additional training in listening to clients is needed with graduate students who do content auditing of websites. Discussion of the impact of web content evaluation may be needed to help students discover how to tailor auditing guidelines to their specific clients. Practitioners may need recursive auditing to fully define criteria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Firms adopt randomized experiments to evaluate various interventions (e.g., website design, creative content, and pricing). However, most randomized experiments are designed to identify the impact of one specific intervention. The literature on randomized experiments lacks a holistic approach to optimize a sequence of interventions along the customer journey. Specifically, locally optimal interventions unveiled by randomized experiments might be globally suboptimal when considering their interdependence as well as the long-term rewards. Fortunately, the accumulation of a large number of historical experiments creates exogenous interventions at different stages along the customer journey and provides a new opportunity. This study integrates multiple experiments within the reinforcement learning (RL) framework to tackle the questions that cannot be answered by stand-alone randomized experiments. How can we learn optimal policy with a sequence of interventions along the customer journey based on an ensemble of historical experiments? Additionally, how can we learn from multiple historical experiments to guide future intervention trials? We propose a Bayesian recurrent Q-network model that leverages the exogenous interventions from multiple experiments to learn their effectiveness at different stages of the customer journey and optimize them for long-term rewards. Beyond optimization within the existing interventions, the Bayesian model also estimates the distribution of rewards, which can guide subject allocation in the design of future experiments to optimally balance exploration and exploitation. In summary, the proposed model creates a two-way complementarity between RL and randomized experiments, and thus, it provides a holistic approach to learning and optimizing interventions along the customer journey. This paper was accepted by Anindya Ghose, information systems. Funding: This work was supported by Adobe Faculty Research Award and the Marketing Science Institute Research Grant. Supplemental Material: The data files and online appendix are available at https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2023.4914. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is widely recognized in both research and practice that fibers have great potential to partially, or completely, substitute conventional transverse reinforcement in webs of girders subjected to moderate shear forces. However, despite extensive research in recent years, there is still no consensus in the research community on the mechanically sound modeling of the shear strength of fiber‐reinforced concrete (FRC). Accordingly, current code provisions for the design of FRC to resist shear rely on (semi‐)empirical approaches and are thus justifiably restrictive. This article addresses this knowledge gap by proposing the application of the theory of plasticity to the design of FRC webs. Limit analysis methods for conventionally reinforced concrete are extended to FRC by incorporating the residual crack‐bridging stress offered by the fibers in a consistent manner. This stress, as well as the limits of applicability of the theory of plasticity, are derived through a sensitivity analysis using the recently developed Cracked Membrane Model for FRC considering fixed, interlocking cracks. Based on these investigations, a straightforward and efficient mechanically based shear design model suitable for the design of FRC webs with and without conventional transverse bar reinforcement is proposed. The model is validated against a large database of panel and beam experiments, providing valuable insights into its reliability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article offers a content analysis of technical and professional communication articles related to user experience (TPC-UX) published between 2013 and 2022 in six TPC scholarly journals. This analysis reveals that TPC-UX primarily focuses on product and process topics and illustrates the terminological comingling of user experience and usability. Specific TPC-UX topics identified include theory, multimodality, health and medicine, localization, web design, mobile applications, accessibility, and content strategy. These topics suggest that TPC-UX's key affordances are its attunement to networked power dynamics, its theoretically rich treatment of multimodality, and its strategies for navigating contextual complexities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction Permanent education in health aims to ensure that professionals are constantly learning in the workplace and in the last few years institutions resorted to the technology-mediated education modality and new teaching possibilities were explored. In Brazil, between 2017 and 2021, only six articles and five monographs were published about listening effort. Objective The objective of this study was to develop a website with scientific content on the topic listening effort for Speech -Language Therapist and Audiologist with free online access. Methods The study was carried out in five stages: Analysis, contemplating the search for scientific materials to prepare the material. Design, in which the writing and design of the website was carried out. Development, carrying out the adequacy of the online material. Implementation, a stage in which professionals in the area evaluated the quality of the material after consenting to participation through a free and informed consent term. Review, stage in which the researcher analyzed the evaluators' responses. Results The five stages of elaboration of the website were carried out, which was evaluated by professionals in the area. The average of responses to all applied questions rated the website as "superior". Conclusion The website development was validated for online availability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the extent and pattern of the influence of one of the most important decision-making tools in the context of social commerce. This study demonstrates how much customer testimonials (including verified purchases and ordinary users) can influence the sales rank of experience and search goods. Design/methodology/approach: The data were collected by text mining and performing a content analysis on the XML documents of Web pages and processing them. For search goods, 22,311 opinions were recorded regarding 95 mobile phones. Additionally, for experience goods, 67,817 opinions were recorded regarding 162 books in the Amazon online store. The data were analyzed by functional regression method in longitudinal data analysis. Findings: In terms of importance, the opinions and recommendations of verified purchases had a 60% greater impact on the sales rank of experience goods than the opinions and recommendations of ordinary users. In search goods, the opinions of ordinary users had a greater impact than the opinions of verified purchases. The historical effect of the opinions of ordinary users at the end of the review period on sales rank was evident, while the historical effect of the verified purchase viewpoints during the review period had a nonlinear curve. The results showed that it was necessary to increase the volume of comments to increase their reliability in experience goods. Practical implications: Measuring the effect of customer testimonials helps the managers of retail websites design algorithms and online suggestion systems, thereby improving the sales of their products by providing information desired by customers. Social implications: Individuals can be a source of information and influence the buying decision process of others by sharing their experiences. This issue helps reduce the purchase risk and explains the importance of interaction and sharing the customer's experience. Originality/value: Analyzing the impact of customer testimonials by separating verified purchases and ordinary users is one of the advantages of this study. The quantitative estimation of the impact of recommendations and the provision of a model of their historical effect is one of the approaches not addressed in similar studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: To identify "headlines" that would engage recipients to consider plant protein over red meat. Design: Mail and web survey. Setting: Urban Minnesota community. Subjects: 144 survey respondents from our health plan and community program distribution lists who live with at least 1 other person and eat meat. Intervention: We asked respondents how likely they would be to click on each of 24 headlines with a motivator (eating plant protein for health vs for environmental reasons) and a barrier (family preferences, knowledge about plant proteins, or cooking skills). 16 headlines contained the word "beans". Measures: We created categorical variables for each headline construct: (1) motivator, (2) barrier, and (3) reference to beans. Using a mixed model with random effects, we compared, for each construct, respondents' self-reported likelihood to click on a headline. Results: Health-related headlines performed significantly better than environmental headlines (P =.0019, 95% CI.01,.11). Family-oriented headlines performed slightly better than skills-oriented (P =.0927, 95% CI -.01,.11) and knowledge-oriented (P =.0960, 95% CI -.01,.11) headlines. Headlines containing the word "beans" performed significantly worse than those not containing "beans" (P <.0001, 95% CI -.22, -.12). Conclusions: The population represented by our survey respondents report being most likely to click on headlines that emphasize health and family. They report they are significantly less likely to click on headlines that promote beans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

INTRODUCTION: Online interventions have emerged as innovative solutions to address health issues, notably obesity, while minimizing the necessity for in-person interactions during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. There is urgency in designing and developing an appropriate online intervention module within a web-based application. This study aims to describe the design process and usability of the online Canteen Operators, Parents, and Teachers (CoPT Nutri Trail) module for an upcoming school-based obesity intervention. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The design methodology consists of four phases: content development, design, web app development, and usability testing. The web application was designed to personalize usage for teachers, parents, and canteen operators to foster healthy environments for children. Thirteen experts, including teachers, nutritionists, and IT professionals, participated in the usability testing. RESULTS: All experts agreed that the design of the web application met the requirements of target users, requiring slight improvements in graphic design, language, and information elements. The web application tool was found acceptable, as the usability of alpha scores for all interface elements ranged from 68.2% to 86.6%, falling between good and very good scores. The content validation indices indicate good levels of validity (ranging from 0.83 to 1.00). CONCLUSION: The CoPT Nutri Trail web application is ready to be launched as a school-based intervention for obesity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In modern healthcare systems, digitalizing medical records is crucial for optimizing patient care. This paper investigates the creation and execution of a website designed to merge patients' medical records, with the goal of offering a holistic and patient-focused approach to healthcare management. The platform aims to streamline the exchange of information among healthcare providers, enhance treatment decision-making processes, and empower patients to take an active role in their healthcare. By centralizing healthcare data on a digital platform, this initiative aims to revolutionize traditional healthcare practices and ultimately improve patient outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This document is a collection of nine pieces written by 6th grade students at Walker Middle School in Capitol Heights, MD. The students describe themselves and their passions, and also discuss how their school supports them and how it could improve. The students express a range of perspectives, from feeling misunderstood and lacking confidence to feeling supported and included. They discuss their interests in video games, sports, cosmetology, and teaching, and highlight the importance of feeling accepted and having opportunities to grow and improve. [Extracted from the article]

Webometric assesses the user convenience and experience while interacting with web-based system. Businesses use websites to present their deliverables to a larger audience. The aim of which is to refocus and reshape a user's image of about a business. This has today, been extended to facilitate activities like recruitment etc. We investigate usability of the University of Delta Agbor (UniDEL) website with other select Nigerian varsities using expert review guideline, and to compare the achieved criterion scores against the selected varsities websites. The adopted methodology is the expert review guideline that is available by the World Ranking of Universities. Result shows the overall performance with UniDEL website performing poorly against the selected websites. These are based on the unique strengths and unique gaps. Unique features showed that selected websites successfully ensured that her trust/credibility section and homepages received highest scores. The UniDEL's website was found to struggle for good search usability, and data entry criteria among other flaws in her web design. Findings suggest UniDEL website needs to be reworked with home-pages, search, trust and content features in mind to ensure greater visibility and user experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The web was conceived in 1997 with the goal of universal accessibility. However, it still presents obstacles for users with diverse abilities. Although interactions in digital environments have improved the quality of life for many people, they remain a source of limitations and frustrations, up to twice as much for users with total visual impairment, which is commonly known as blindness. This article emphasizes the need to provide designers and developers with methodologies and tools that consider users with different abilities in all stages and from the beginning of the design, redesign, and development of digital products and services on the web, collecting their needs and goals and delving into their reactions and emotions. While an approach based on persona archetypes can optimally represent each group of users with disabilities throughout website design processes, serving as a communication and empathy tool for development teams and stakeholders, it is essential that this tool considers all dimensions involved in the experiences of people with disabilities. This conceptual paper develops a methodology that provides designers with a persona tool that effectively captures the goals and emotions of these users in their interaction with the web. This methodology proposal is multidimensional and holistic. It addresses conscious and subconscious dimensions, combines traditional user experience and neuroscientific techniques, focuses on total visual impairment, the most challenging in digital environments, and makes it adaptable to other disabilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BACKGROUND: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a highly prevalent childhood and adult behavioral disorder. Internet searches for ADHD information are rising, particularly for diagnosis and treatment. Despite effective ADHD treatments, research suggests that there are delays in seeking help for ADHD. Identifying ways to shorten delays is important for minimizing morbidity associated with ADHD. One way to shorten these delays is to improve internet health information resources. Research shows that parents of children with ADHD feel that much of the information available is technical and not tailored for their childs needs and verbal instructions given by health care providers were too pharmacologically focused with limited information about how to manage and support ADHD symptoms in daily living. A majority of parents search the internet for general and pharmacological information for ADHD and prefer web-based resources for learning about ADHD, but web-based resources may be inaccurate and of low quality. Ensuring accurate information through the internet is an important step in assisting parents and adults in making informed decisions about the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD. OBJECTIVE: Although a great deal of information regarding ADHD is available on the internet, some information is not based on scientific evidence or is difficult for stakeholders to understand. Determining gaps in access to accurate ADHD information and stakeholder interest in the type of information desired is important in improving patient engagement with the health care system, but minimal research addresses these needs. This study aims to determine the information needs and formatting needs of web-based content for adults with ADHD and parents of children with ADHD in order to improve user experience and engagement. METHODS: This was a 3-phase study consisting of in-depth phone interviews about experiences with ADHD and barriers searching for ADHD-related information, focus groups where participants were instructed to consider the pathways by which they made decisions using web-based resources, and observing participants interacting with a newly developed website tailored for adults with potential ADHD and caregivers of children who had or might have ADHD. Phase 1 individual interviews and phase 2 focus groups identified the needs of the ADHD stakeholders related to website content and format. Interview and focus group findings were used to develop a website. Phase 3 used think-aloud interviews to evaluate website usability to inform the tailoring of the website based on user feedback. RESULTS: Interviews and focus group findings revealed preferences for ADHD website information and content, website layout, and information sources. Themes included a preference for destigmatizing information about ADHD, information specific to patient demographics, and evidence-based information tailored to lay audiences. CONCLUSIONS: ADHD stakeholders are specifically seeking positive information about ADHD presented in a user-friendly format.

Social commerce has become a recent phenomenon and is poised to grow rapidly in the next few years. To better address customer behavior on social commerce platforms, it is imperative to acquire a comprehensive understanding of social commerce from the perspective of service quality. The objective of this research is to examine the dimensions of social commerce service quality and to reveal the factors influencing purchase intentions among the expanding user population. This study identified seven critical dimensions of social commerce service quality (website design, fulfilment, customer service, communication, contact, credibility, and security) that influence purchase intention. This research adopts a questionnaire survey method to collect data from social commerce users. Using PLS-SEM, the findings from an empirical analysis, conducted with a sample of 411 social commerce users, demonstrate that all measured dimensions significantly impact the intention to purchase. The findings also demonstrate that e-commerce has considerable influence on customer purchase intention as a partial mediator in social commerce. The findings hold significant implications for social commerce enterprises to increase customer attraction by identifying the motivations behind their purchasing decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is concerned with the transition of a longitudinal survey from a single-mode design to a web-first mixed-mode design and the role that text messages to sample members can play in smoothing that transition. We present the results of an experiment that investigates the effects of augmenting the contact strategy of letters and emails with text messages, inviting the sample members to complete a web questionnaire and reminding them of the invite. The experiment was conducted in a subsample of Understanding Society , a household panel survey in the United Kingdom, in the wave that transitioned from a CAPI-only design to a sequential design combining web and CATI. In the experiment, a quarter of the sample received letters and emails, while the rest received between one and three text messages with a personalized link to the questionnaire. We examine the effect of the text messages on response rates, both at the web phase of a sequential design and at the end of the fieldwork after a CATI follow-up phase, and explore various mechanisms that might drive the increase in response rates. We also look at the effects on the device used to complete the survey and field efforts needed at the CATI stage. The findings indicate that text messages did not help to significantly increase response rates overall, although some subgroups benefited from them, such as panel members who had not provided an email or postal address before. Likewise, the text messages increased web completion among younger panel members and those with an irregular response pattern. We only found a slight and nonsignificant effect on smartphone use and no effect on the web household response rate, a proxy for fieldwork efforts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigates the impact of review quality (a situational stimulus) on consumers’ risk perception and purchase intention in cross-border e-commerce based on the Stimulus-Organism-Response (SOR) model. In doing so, quantitative research involving 400 Hungarian respondents was performed. The data were analysed using composite-based structural equation modelling (SEM). The study concludes that an experience created through highly qualified online reviews of previous consumers has a significant effect on mitigating consumers’ risk perception while increasing their purchase intentions. The study also differentiates two aspects of risk, including perceived risk and affective risk, and reveals the two-fold mechanism of the decision-making journey. These results enrich the existing literature by supporting the use of the SOR model and introducing review quality as a situational stimulus to explain consumers’ risk perception and purchase behaviours in cross-border e-commerce. Additionally, the study also provides valuable guidance in website design that can stimulate purchasing while lowering online perceived risk. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The analysis and comparison of gene neighborhoods is a powerful approach for exploring microbial genome structure, function, and evolution. Although numerous tools exist for genome visualization and comparison, genome exploration across large genomic databases or user-generated datasets remains a challenge. Here, we introduce AnnoView, a web server designed for interactive exploration of gene neighborhoods across the bacterial and archaeal tree of life. Our server offers users the ability to identify, compare, and visualize gene neighborhoods of interest from 30 238 bacterial genomes and 1672 archaeal genomes, through integration with the comprehensive Genome Taxonomy Database and AnnoTree databases. Identified gene neighborhoods can be visualized using pre-computed functional annotations from different sources such as KEGG, Pfam and TIGRFAM, or clustered based on similarity. Alternatively, users can upload and explore their own custom genomic datasets in GBK, GFF or CSV format, or use AnnoView as a genome browser for relatively small genomes (e.g. viruses and plasmids). Ultimately, we anticipate that AnnoView will catalyze biological discovery by enabling user-friendly search, comparison, and visualization of genomic data. AnnoView is available at http://annoview.uwaterloo.ca [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While a tailored antibiotic treatment plan is often straightforward, what we often observe in daily clinical practice is a highly variable approach when defining empirical therapy. Specifically, a debate exists on preference to spare the new β-lactams and β-lactamase inhibitors (BL-BLIs) or to apply a carbapenem-sparing strategy first. To investigate, we designed a web survey aimed at investigating the variables considered relevant to empirically choosing one antibiotic over the other. Submitted to Italian infectious diseases and intensive care physicians through the support of Società Italiana di Malattie Infettive e Tropicali (SIMIT), Società Italiana di Terapia Antinfettiva (SITA) and Società Italiana Anestesia, Analgesia, Rianimazione e Terapia Intensiva (SIAARTI). We found that demographic characteristics were irrelevant when deciding for empirical therapy. Clinical and anamnestic data were most meaningful. Significantly considered were underlying comorbidities and previous exposure to antimicrobial treatments. History of third-generation cephalosporin-resistant, carbapenem-resistant and/or metallo-β-lactamase-producing Enterobacterales rectal colonisation and/or infection were considered the most relevant by most physicians. Unexpectedly, clinicians considered less the source of infection. These results prompt the need of straightforward methods to retrieve medical histories and the magnitude of rectal colonisation data, often not routinely obtained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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There has been a growth in e-commerce, presenting consumers with varied forms of advertising. A key goal of web advertising is to leave a lasting impression on the user, and web satisfaction is an important measure of the quality and usability of a web page after an ad is placed on it. This experiment manipulated participants' purpose in web browsing (free browsing versus goal oriented) and the color combination of the web background and the vertical-ad background (high or low hue contrast) to predict users' satisfaction with the web page and the degree of ad recall. The psychological mechanisms of this effect were also explored using an eye-tracking device to record and analyze eye movements. The participants were 120 university students, 64.2% of whom were female and 35.8% of whom were male. During free browsing, participants could simulate the daily use of a browser to browse the web and were given 120 s to do so, and in the task-oriented browsing condition, participants were told in advance that they had to summarize the headlines of each news item one at a time within 120 s. The results showed that, in the free-viewing task, the hue contrast between the ad–web background colors negatively affected web satisfaction and ad memory whereas there was no significant difference in this effect in the goal-oriented task. Furthermore, in the free-viewing task, the level of attentional intrusion mediated the effect of ad–web hue contrast on the degree of ad recall; color harmony mediated the effect of hue contrast on the user's evaluation of web satisfaction. These results can act as a new reference for web design research and marketing practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Summary: Web scraping is a widely used technique for decision‐making, collecting, and structuring public data from the internet. As the volume of data continues to grow, the need for more efficient methods of data extraction becomes crucial. This article introduces a novel web scraping framework that utilizes Burstable virtual machines (VMs) on Amazon Web Services with the objective of reducing the monetary cost of execution while ensuring compliance with service level agreements (SLAs). To achieve this, the framework utilizes a combination of fixed and temporary Burstable VMs in a mixed cluster, which can be elastically scaled up to fulfill the SLA and scaled down to minimize monetary costs. Two strategies for handling VM allocation are proposed and evaluated: (i) a queue and SLA‐based strategy that employs queue size information and SLA criteria to determine the required number of VMs for the current scraping requests, and (ii) a credit‐based strategy that incorporates information about Burstable VM credits to effectively manage instance creation and termination. Experimental tests show that the proposed framework meets the defined SLA while achieving cost reductions of up to 74% compared to an approach that executes on fixed‐size clusters of Burstable instances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

E-governments are considered the primary gateway through which citizens can access services and benefit from the information provided by electronic platforms when needed. Although the situation in developed countries has shifted from electronic governments to local electronic services, many developing countries still encounter various challenges, such as ease of use and enhancing user experience. This study aims to help address the obstacles faced by North African countries, including Morocco and Tunisia, in the context of e-government usability. It evaluates the accessibility of these sites, addresses the issues involved in using them, and suggests solutions that could enhance user experience by improving ease of use. The limited previous research on this region makes this study even more relevant. Research-based web design and usability guidelines (RBWDUG), specifically the chapter on optimizing user experience, serve as the foundation of this research, facilitating the assessment of ease of use and user satisfaction. Converting this valuable tool into a questionnaire enabled the research to achieve valuable results through evaluation. The evaluation of ten websites in each country, with 100 participants involved in the assessment, reveals a common pitfall when it in improving user experience and ease of use. This issue impacts user satisfaction and the effectiveness of e-government services. An important relationship has been established between these usability issues and the effectiveness and efficiency of these services. The study emphasizes the vital connection between usability and e-government service efficiency while recommending improvements based on user feedback. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aimed to identify the level of satisfaction of patients who attend private Yemeni hospitals operating in the town of Rada'a, know the impact of electronic marketing for health services in gaining patient satisfaction, analyze the correlations between electronic marketing and patient satisfaction, and know the trends in the answers of the sample members especially in the role of electronic marketing for health services. The study relied on the descriptive analytical approach and distributed a questionnaire to a purposive sample of (51) patients receiving treatment at private Yemeni hospitals operating in the town of Rada'a The study reached a number of conclusions, the most important of which is the existence of a positive, statistically significant impact relationship between the dimensions of electronic marketing, electronic product, online promotion - website design for health services in gaining the satisfaction of patients who attend such hospitals, with the exception of the relationship of pricing health services through online in gaining patient satisfaction, which was an inverse relationship [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Factors, such as whether a website is designed to be user-oriented beyond its mere visual design, its effectiveness and efficiency, its usability, and the organisation of the information it offers, have come to the fore once again after the Covid-19 pandemic. It has been evident that the link structure in a website, better known as the website's information architecture, helps the practitioners with identifying factors that affect the usability of a website. In this sense, practitioners must ensure that the information architecture supports the usage intentions of a websites' visitors to better serve and motivate them. However, in many cases, different types of users navigate websites that contain immense amounts of information, so understanding their needs is also important for practitioners. In parallel, this article addresses the problem that different visitors of a large-scale website will need to navigate through dense information to find the information they are looking for, and the information architecture of the website must support different user tasks for the website to be widely adopted. Thus, unlike previous studies, this article combines the principles of information architecture and the technology acceptance model to investigate the effect of information architecture on visitor's usage intentions. The work also guides practitioners in developing architectural strategies to better enable visitors to fulfil their objectives in the least amount of time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the Early Modern Songscapes project, which explores sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English songs, particularly the works of Henry Lawes. Topics include the project's methodological framework and flexible structure, the comprehensive yet occasionally cumbersome website design, and the need for improved accessibility and user guidance for both scholars and the general public.

Human emotion recognition from audio has potential applications such as healthcare, feedback assessment, gaming and advertisement to mention few. Human emotion detection often helps in assessing the feelings of person automatically. It could lead to making well informed decisions. Advancements in machine learning (ML) has paved way for unprecedented possibilities in emotion recognition from audio automatically. The methods identified in existing literature exhibit limitations, notably the absence of feature engineering to enhance predictive performance. A framework is proposed based on ML for automatic recognition of human emotions from a given voice content. The framework is called the Human Emotion Recognition Framework (HERF), designed to receive audio datasets as input and employs supervised learning for the automated identification of human emotions based on audio signals. We proposed two algorithms for realizing the framework. A Hybrid Feature Selection (HFS) algorithm is introduced to enhance the efficiency of identifying features that could have discriminative power. Additionally, the Neural Network-based Automatic Emotion Recognition (NN-AER) algorithm, utilizing Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) and HFS, is proposed for automatic emotion recognition. The feature selection provided by the HFS algorithm improves the training quality of NN-AER. RAVDESS is dataset used for empirical study. This dataset supports emotions such as neutral, happy, sad, disgust, angry, fearful and surprised. We designed a web application used to recognise emotion for given audio sample based on saved MLP model. Results of our study revealed that NN-AER outperforms many states of the art methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the INVINCIBLE methodology, which was created by the INVINCIBLE youth research team in collaboration with adult facilitators. The methodology combines Indigenous ways and teachings with the team's own skills and ideas, as well as research and storytelling skills learned from the Kinship Rising Indigenous community-based research project. The goal of the project was to design and share stories and artwork by Indigenous youth in care. The team conducted hands-on, arts-based research and created 17 illustrated storybooks. They also participated in workshops, meetings, and healing activities, and received certificates, references, honoraria, and gifts. The team used diverse art materials and learned digital media software to develop and share their stories. They also focused on making their work accessible and plan to present their findings at conferences and workshops. The article concludes with a personal story from Angel Houle, an Indigenous youth in care and a member of the INVINCIBLE team. [Extracted from the article]

Currently, there are a wide range of approaches to deploying digital ads, with advanced technologies now being harnessed to craft advertising that is engaging and even tailored to personal interests and preferences, yet potentially distracting and irritating. This research seeks to evaluate contemporary digital advertising methods by assessing how annoying they are to users, particularly when they distract users from intended tasks or cause delays in regular online activities. To pursue this, an eye-tracking study was conducted, with 51 participants navigating a specially designed website featuring seven distinct types of advertisements without a specific content to avoid the effect of ad content on the collected data. Participants were asked to execute specific information-seeking tasks during the experiment and afterwards to report if they recalled seeing each ad and the degree of annoyance by each ad type. Ad effectiveness is assessed by eye-tracking metrics (time to first fixation, average fixation duration, dwell time, fixation count, and revisit count) depicting how appealing an ad is as a marketing stimulus. Findings indicated that pop-ups, ads with content reorganization, and non-skippable videos ranked as the most annoying forms of advertising. Conversely, in-content ads without content reorganization, banners, and right rail ads were indicated as less intrusive options, seeming to strike a balance between effectiveness and user acceptance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this research is to conduct a comprehensive benchmarking analysis of the volunteering activities of educational institutions. This is achieved using a sophisticated web resource designed to provide detailed information about all educational institutions. The resource allows users to view the locations of these institutions on an interactive map, filter them according to various parameters, and sort by specialty, all facilitated by a convenient and intuitive search function. In addressing the main challenges within this subject area, a systematic approach was employed. This included observing user requests to understand their needs and preferences, conducting thorough analyses and comparisons of existing analogous platforms, and identifying best practices. The study results in an extensive review of the volunteer activities carried out by educational institutions within the information field. This includes a detailed consideration of the primary methods used in benchmarking analysis, focusing on evaluating the effectiveness and impact of the web resource. By examining these aspects, the research provides valuable insights into how educational institutions can enhance their volunteering programs and how the web resource can be optimized to better serve users’ needs. The study also delves into the technological underpinnings of the web resource, exploring the integration of mapping technologies and the implementation of advanced search algorithms that enable users to efficiently locate and assess educational institutions based on specific criteria. Furthermore, the research highlights the importance of user experience design in creating a tool that not only provides valuable data but also ensures ease of use. The analysis offers recommendations for improving the web resource, suggesting enhancements that could lead to more effective dissemination of information about volunteering activities and greater engagement from educational institutions and potential volunteers alike. Overall, this research aims to contribute to the ongoing development and refinement of digital tools that support the promotion and organization of volunteering activities within the educational sector, fostering a more connected and active community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Motivation The post-processing and analysis of large-scale untargeted metabolomics data face significant challenges due to the intricate nature of correction, filtration, imputation, and normalization steps. Manual execution across various applications often leads to inefficiencies, human-induced errors, and inconsistencies within the workflow. Results Addressing these issues, we introduce MetaboLink, a novel web application designed to process LC-MS metabolomics datasets combining established methodologies and offering flexibility and ease of implementation. It offers visualization options for data interpretation, an interface for statistical testing, and integration with PolySTest for further tests and with VSClust for clustering analysis. Availability and implementation Fully functional tool is publicly available at https://computproteomics.bmb.sdu.dk/Metabolomics/. The source code is available at https://github.com/anitamnd/MetaboLink and a detailed description of the app can be found at https://github.com/anitamnd/MetaboLink/wiki. A tutorial video can be found at https://youtu.be/ZM6j10S6Z8Q. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, we investigate how website visual design affects users' experience, then their subsequent attitudinal and behavioural outcomes towards the website. We investigate the roles of usability and pleasure, two important constructs of user experience, and propose a three-path sequential mediation model. We test the model with experiments in which we assign web users with varied levels of website visual design in two studies, one with a fictional website and the other with comparable webpages from real e-commerce websites. In both experiments, we find a consistent positive effect of website visual design on website evaluation variables through a sequential mediation of usability and pleasure. An alternative reversed mediation model in which pleasure precedes usability is also tested but found to be unsupported. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]