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The Effectiveness of a Smoking Cessation Intervention Program Based upon a Process Model of Health Motivation
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of participation in a health motivation-based intervention program on college students’ smoking behavior. One hundred and seventy smokers (mean age = 19.0 years, 151 males) from nine colleges and universities in Chengdu, China were randomly assigned to one of 5 groups that received between one and four sessions of the intervention, or no intervention. The intervention sessions included sequential activities based on the stages of the process model of health motivation. Each group completed questionnaires assessing health motivation and smoking behaviors at pre-test, immediately post-intervention, and at one month follow-up. Analyses indicated that the intervention program did improve participants’ health motivation, and that was associated with reduced levels of smoking relative to baseline. The greater the number of sessions, the greater the reduction in smoking
A framework for mining lifestyle profiles through multi-dimensional and high-order mobility feature clustering
Human mobility demonstrates a high degree of regularity, which facilitates
the discovery of lifestyle profiles. Existing research has yet to fully utilize
the regularities embedded in high-order features extracted from human mobility
records in such profiling. This study proposes a progressive feature extraction
strategy that mines high-order mobility features from users' moving trajectory
records from the spatial, temporal, and semantic dimensions. Specific features
are extracted such as travel motifs, rhythms decomposed by discrete Fourier
transform (DFT) of mobility time series, and vectorized place semantics by
word2vec, respectively to the three dimensions, and they are further clustered
to reveal the users' lifestyle characteristics. An experiment using a
trajectory dataset of over 500k users in Shenzhen, China yields seven user
clusters with different lifestyle profiles that can be well interpreted by
common sense. The results suggest the possibility of fine-grained user
profiling through cross-order trajectory feature engineering and clustering
Towards Open-World Product Attribute Mining: A Lightly-Supervised Approach
We present a new task setting for attribute mining on e-commerce products,
serving as a practical solution to extract open-world attributes without
extensive human intervention. Our supervision comes from a high-quality seed
attribute set bootstrapped from existing resources, and we aim to expand the
attribute vocabulary of existing seed types, and also to discover any new
attribute types automatically. A new dataset is created to support our setting,
and our approach Amacer is proposed specifically to tackle the limited
supervision. Especially, given that no direct supervision is available for
those unseen new attributes, our novel formulation exploits self-supervised
heuristic and unsupervised latent attributes, which attains implicit semantic
signals as additional supervision by leveraging product context. Experiments
suggest that our approach surpasses various baselines by 12 F1, expanding
attributes of existing types significantly by up to 12 times, and discovering
values from 39% new types.Comment: Accepted to ACL 202
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