258 research outputs found

    Talking about personal recovery in bipolar disorder: Integrating health research, natural language processing, and corpus linguistics to analyse peer online support forum posts

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    Background: Personal recovery, ‘living a satisfying, hopeful and contributing lifeeven with the limitations caused by the illness’ (Anthony, 1993) is of particular value in bipolar disorder where symptoms often persist despite treatment. So far, personal recovery has only been studied in researcher-constructed environments (interviews, focus groups). Support forum posts can serve as a complementary naturalistic data source. Objective: The overarching aim of this thesis was to study personal recovery experiences that people living with bipolar disorder have shared in online support forums through integrating health research, NLP, and corpus linguistics in a mixed methods approach within a pragmatic research paradigm, while considering ethical issues and involving people with lived experience. Methods: This mixed-methods study analysed: 1) previous qualitative evidence on personal recovery in bipolar disorder from interviews and focus groups 2) who self-reports a bipolar disorder diagnosis on the online discussion platform Reddit 3) the relationship of mood and posting in mental health-specific Reddit forums (subreddits) 4) discussions of personal recovery in bipolar disorder subreddits. Results: A systematic review of qualitative evidence resulted in the first framework for personal recovery in bipolar disorder, POETIC (Purpose & meaning, Optimism & hope, Empowerment, Tensions, Identity, Connectedness). Mainly young or middle-aged US-based adults self-report a bipolar disorder diagnosis on Reddit. Of these, those experiencing more intense emotions appear to be more likely to post in mental health support subreddits. Their personal recovery-related discussions in bipolar disorder subreddits primarily focussed on three domains: Purpose & meaning (particularly reproductive decisions, work), Connectedness (romantic relationships, social support), Empowerment (self-management, personal responsibility). Support forum data highlighted personal recovery issues that exclusively or more frequently came up online compared to previous evidence from interviews and focus groups. Conclusion: This project is the first to analyse non-reactive data on personal recovery in bipolar disorder. Indicating the key areas that people focus on in personal recovery when posting freely and the language they use provides a helpful starting point for formal and informal carers to understand the concerns of people diagnosed with bipolar disorder and to consider how best to offer support

    Hidden Citations Obscure True Impact in Science

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    References, the mechanism scientists rely on to signal previous knowledge, lately have turned into widely used and misused measures of scientific impact. Yet, when a discovery becomes common knowledge, citations suffer from obliteration by incorporation. This leads to the concept of hidden citation, representing a clear textual credit to a discovery without a reference to the publication embodying it. Here, we rely on unsupervised interpretable machine learning applied to the full text of each paper to systematically identify hidden citations. We find that for influential discoveries hidden citations outnumber citation counts, emerging regardless of publishing venue and discipline. We show that the prevalence of hidden citations is not driven by citation counts, but rather by the degree of the discourse on the topic within the text of the manuscripts, indicating that the more discussed is a discovery, the less visible it is to standard bibliometric analysis. Hidden citations indicate that bibliometric measures offer a limited perspective on quantifying the true impact of a discovery, raising the need to extract knowledge from the full text of the scientific corpus

    Measurement of Triple-Differential Z+Jet Cross Sections with the CMS Detector at 13 TeV and Modelling of Large-Scale Distributed Computing Systems

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    The achievable precision in the calculations of predictions for observables measured at the LHC experiments depends on the amount of invested computing power and the precision of input parameters that go into the calculation. Currently, no theory exists that can derive the input parameter values for perturbative calculations from first principles. Instead, they have to be derived from measurements in dedicated analyses that measure observables sensitive to the input parameters with high precision. Such an analysis that measures the production cross section of oppositely charged muon pairs with an invariant mass close to the mass of the Z\mathrm{Z} boson in association with jets in a phase space divided into bins of the transverse momentum of the dimuon system pTZp_T^\text{Z}, and two observables y∗y^* and yby_b created from the rapidities of the dimuon system and the jet with the highest momentum is presented. To achieve the highest statistical precision in this triple-differential measurement the full data recorded by the CMS experiment at a center-of-mass energy of s=13 TeV\sqrt{s}=13\,\mathrm{TeV} in the years 2016 to 2018 is combined. The measured cross sections are compared to theoretical predictions approximating full NNLO accuracy in perturbative QCD. Deviations from these predictions are observed rendering further studies at full NNLO accuracy necessary. To obtain the measured results large amounts of data are processed and analysed on distributed computing infrastructures. Theoretical calculations pose similar computing demands. Consequently, substantial amounts of storage and processing resources are required by the LHC collaborations. These requirements are met in large parts by the resources of the WLCG, a complex federation of globally distributed computer centres. With the upgrade of the LHC and the experiments, in the HL-LHC era, the computing demands are expected to increase substantially. Therefore, the prevailing computing models need to be updated to cope with the unprecedented demands. For the design of future adaptions of the HEP workflow executions on infrastructures a simulation model is developed, and an implementation tested on infrastructure design candidates inspired by a proposal of the German HEP computing community. The presented study of these infrastructure candidates showcases the applicability of the simulation tool in the strategical development of a future computing infrastructure for HEP in the HL-LHC context

    Teaching Tip: A Social Media Analytics Capstone Research Project with Community Engagement

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    Businesses assess public sentiment toward relevant topics and gain valuable insights through social media analytics (SMA). Students of business information analytics can therefore reap multiple benefits from SMA as a learning tool. We designed and implemented an SMA capstone project that integrated undergraduate research and community engagement. Students first identified research questions on their topics of interest that aligned with the interests of the client, a community organization. They collected relevant tweets through Twitter’s API using R and then assessed public sentiment through text mining and analytics tools such as Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count. They also presented their findings to various stakeholders through multiple venues. Preliminary assessment suggests that the students achieved positive learning outcomes

    Quantitative Verification and Synthesis of Resilient Networks

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    Fintech Competition: Law, Policy, and Market Organisation

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    This open access book is the first to systematically explore competition policy in fintech markets. Drawing from the expertise of law scholars, economists, and social and natural scientists from the EU and the US, this edited collection explores the competitive dynamics, market organisation, and competition law application in fintech markets

    The Fifteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting

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    The three volumes of the proceedings of MG15 give a broad view of all aspects of gravitational physics and astrophysics, from mathematical issues to recent observations and experiments. The scientific program of the meeting included 40 morning plenary talks over 6 days, 5 evening popular talks and nearly 100 parallel sessions on 71 topics spread over 4 afternoons. These proceedings are a representative sample of the very many oral and poster presentations made at the meeting.Part A contains plenary and review articles and the contributions from some parallel sessions, while Parts B and C consist of those from the remaining parallel sessions. The contents range from the mathematical foundations of classical and quantum gravitational theories including recent developments in string theory, to precision tests of general relativity including progress towards the detection of gravitational waves, and from supernova cosmology to relativistic astrophysics, including topics such as gamma ray bursts, black hole physics both in our galaxy and in active galactic nuclei in other galaxies, and neutron star, pulsar and white dwarf astrophysics. Parallel sessions touch on dark matter, neutrinos, X-ray sources, astrophysical black holes, neutron stars, white dwarfs, binary systems, radiative transfer, accretion disks, quasars, gamma ray bursts, supernovas, alternative gravitational theories, perturbations of collapsed objects, analog models, black hole thermodynamics, numerical relativity, gravitational lensing, large scale structure, observational cosmology, early universe models and cosmic microwave background anisotropies, inhomogeneous cosmology, inflation, global structure, singularities, chaos, Einstein-Maxwell systems, wormholes, exact solutions of Einstein's equations, gravitational waves, gravitational wave detectors and data analysis, precision gravitational measurements, quantum gravity and loop quantum gravity, quantum cosmology, strings and branes, self-gravitating systems, gamma ray astronomy, cosmic rays and the history of general relativity
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