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Crisis Information Seeking and Sharing (CISS): Scale Development for Measuring Publicsā Communicative Behavior in Social-Mediated Public Health Crises
This study first refines the conceptual framework of publicsā communicative behavior in social mediated health crises. Then two multiple-item scales for measuring publicsā health crisis information seeking and sharing (CISS) are developed and tested by employing online survey data sets from a random national sample of 279 adults and 280 adults in the United States, respectively. Results indicate seven types of crisis information seeking behavior and 17 types of crisis information sharing behavior crossing over platforms, channels, and information sources. The CISS scales provide a valid and reliable tool for crisis communication researchers and practitioners to measure publicsā information seeking and sharing activities in social-mediated public health crisis communication
Antibody-Dependent Enhancement (ADE) of influenza infection and its possible role in the pathogenesis of influenza
Poster Presentations: P05postprintThe International Symposium on 'Surveillance and Discovery in Respiratory and Other Emerging Infections', Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 29-31 May 2011
Antibody-Dependent Enhancement (ADE) of infection and its possible role in the pathogenesis of influenza
Poster Presentationpublished_or_final_versionAnnual Scientific Meeting of the Institut Pasteur International Network, Hong Kong, China, 22-23 November 2010. In BMC Proceedings, 2011, v. 5, suppl. 1, p. 6
Critical Factors of Adopting Enterprise Application Integration Technology: An Empirical Study on Larger Hospitals
As hospitals extend their service scope, they adopt more information systems. These systems are implemented in different timelines and the interfaces of databases become varied. Frequently, the exchange of information between various systems requires additional coordination or even manual input for unifying data. To embrace automation, the solution is to adopt enterprise application integration (EAI) technology, the middleware, to convert data from among various information systems to enable an efficient flow of data in the hospital. In this paper, we discuss and verify the impact factors on the integration levels of EAI by surveying larger hospitals above the regional level in Taiwan and testing a proposed research model. The findings of this study show that information technology infrastructure, hospital size, external pressure, internal pressure, and external support significantly affect the EAI level
Proposal for interferometric detection of topological defects in modulated superfluids
Attractive interactions between fermions can produce a superfluid ground
state, in which pairs of up and down spins swirl together in a coordinated,
coherent dance. How is this dance affected by an imbalance in the population of
up and down fermions? Do the extra fermions stand on the sides, or do they
disrupt the dance? The most intriguing possibility is the formation of a
modulated superfluid state, known as an LO phase, in which the excess fermions
self-organize into domain walls where the pairing amplitude changes sign.
Despite fifty years of theoretical and experimental work, there has so far been
no direct observation of an LO phase. Here we propose an experiment in which
two fermion clouds, prepared with unequal population imbalances, are allowed to
expand and interfere. A zipper pattern in the interference fringes is
unequivocal evidence of LO physics. Furthermore, because the experiment is
resolved in time and in two spatial directions, we expect an observable
signature even at finite temperatures (when thermal fluctuations destroy
long-range LO order averaged over time)
JCMT POL-2 and ALMA polarimetric observations of 6000-100 au scales in the protostar B335: linking magnetic field and gas kinematics in observations and MHD simulations
We present our analysis of the magnetic field structures from 6000 au to 100
au scales in the Class 0 protostar B335 inferred from our JCMT POL-2
observations and the ALMA archival polarimetric data. To interpret the
observational results, we perform a series of (non-)ideal MHD simulations of
the collapse of a rotating non-turbulent dense core, whose initial conditions
are adopted to be the same as observed in B335, and generate synthetic
polarization maps. The comparison of our JCMT and simulation results suggests
that the magnetic field on a 6000 au scale in B335 is pinched and well aligned
with the bipolar outflow along the east-west direction. Among all our
simulations, the ALMA polarimetric results are best explained with weak
magnetic field models having an initial mass-to-flux ratio of 9.6. However, we
find that with the weak magnetic field, the rotational velocity on a 100 au
scale and the disk size in our simulations are larger than the observational
estimates by a factor of several. An independent comparison of our simulations
and the gas kinematics in B335 observed with the SMA and ALMA favors strong
magnetic field models with an initial mass-to-flux ratio smaller than 4.8. We
discuss two possibilities resulting in the different magnetic field strengths
inferred from the polarimetric and molecular-line observations, (1)
overestimated rotational-to-gravitational energy in B335 and (2) additional
contributions in the polarized intensity due to scattering on a 100 au scale.Comment: Accepted by Ap
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