CANDIDATE: A tool for generating anonymous participant-linking IDs in multi-session studies

Background To ensure the privacy of participants is an ethical and legal obligation for researchers. Yet, achieving anonymity can be technically difficult. When observing participants over time one needs mechanisms to link the data from the different sessions. Also, it is often necessary to expand the sample of participants during a project. Objectives To help researchers simplify the administration of such studies the CANDIDATE tool is proposed. This tool allows simple, unique, and anonymous participant IDs to be generated on the fly. Method Simulations were used to validate the uniqueness of the IDs as well as their anonymity. Results The tool can successfully generate IDs with a low collision rate while maintaining high anonymity. A practical compromise between integrity and anonymity was achieved when the ID space is about ten times the number of participants. Implications The tool holds potential for making it easier to collect more comprehensive empirical evidence over time that in turn will provide a more solid basis for drawing reliable conclusions based on research data. An open-source implementation of the tool that runs locally in a web-browser is made available.

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Pengembangan Sistem VOIP Menggunakan Server Issabel Versi 4.0 dan Tunnel EOIP pada OMNI Hospital Alam Sutera

Matrik Jurnal Manajemen Teknik Informatika dan Rekayasa Komputer ◽

10.30812/matrik.v18i1.330 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 13-20

Author(s):

Elly Mufida ◽

David Wardana Agus Rahayu

Keyword(s):

Operating System ◽

Open Source ◽

End Of Life ◽

Communication System ◽

Communication Protocol ◽

The Internet ◽

Migration Process ◽

Web Browser ◽

Backup Path ◽

E Mail

The VoIP communication system at OMNI Hospital Alam Sutera uses the Elastix 2.5 server with the Centos 5.11 operating system. Elastix 2.5 by the developer has been declared End of Life. The server security system is a serious concern considering that VoIP servers can be accessed from the internet. Iptables and fail2ban applications are applications that are used to limit and counteract those who try to attack the VoIP server. One application that can be used as an open source VoIP server is the Issabel Application version 4.0. The migration process from Elastix 2.5 application to Issabel 4.0 by backing up all configurations in the Elastix 2.5 application through a web browser including the configuration of endpoints, fax, e-mail, asterisk. After the backup file is downloaded then upload the backup file to the Issabel 4.0 application then run the migration process. Adding a backup path as a failover connection is needed because the VoIP communication protocol between the OMNI Hospitals Group still uses one path so that when there is a problem in the connection path, the communication protocol will stop. The tunnel EoIP is a protocol used as a backup path between the OMNI Hospitals Group site.

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Media Malaise and the Decline of Legitimacy

10.1093/oso/9780198793717.003.0006 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Peter Van Aelst

Keyword(s):

Systematic Review ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

Media Coverage ◽

News Coverage ◽

Political Support ◽

Level Of Education ◽

Political News ◽

Negative Tone ◽

Election News ◽

Over Time

This chapter analyzes media malaise theories and their consequences for legitimacy. These theories argue that the increasing availability of information through new and old media and increasingly negative tone of media are to blame for declining legitimacy. The chapter examines these claims by providing a systematic review of empirical research on media and political support. It first investigates whether news coverage has become more negative over time, and then examines the micro process that might explain the link between media coverage and political support. Empirical evidence suggests that where coverage has become more negative, this occurred before the 1990s and has levelled off since, and is concentrated primarily in election news. Negative political news does have a modest impact on political support once controlled for level of education, but that effect can be positive and negative, depending on the medium, the receiver, and the indicator of political support.

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Non-random associations in group housed rats (Rattus norvegicus)

Scientific Reports ◽

10.1038/s41598-021-94608-4 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Leanne Proops ◽

Camille A. Troisi ◽

Tanja K. Kleinhappel ◽

Teresa Romero

Keyword(s):

Network Analysis ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

Rattus Norvegicus ◽

Dominance Hierarchy ◽

Group Living ◽

Ecological Factors ◽

Limited Evidence ◽

Rat Strains ◽

Social Species ◽

Over Time

AbstractEcological factors, such as predation, have traditionally been used to explain sociability. However, it is increasingly recognised that individuals within a group do not associate randomly, and that these non-random associations can generate fitness advantages. The majority of the empirical evidence on differentiated associations in group-living mammals, however, comes from a limited number of taxa and we still know very little about their occurrence and characteristics in some highly social species, such as rats (Rattus spp.). Here, using network analysis, we quantified association patterns in four groups of male fancy rats. We found that the associations between rats were not randomly distributed and that most individuals had significantly more preferred/avoided associates than expected by random. We also found that these preferences can be stable over time, and that they were not influenced by individuals’ rank position in the dominance hierarchy. Our findings are consistent with work in other mammals, but contrast with the limited evidence available for other rat strains. While further studies in groups with different demographic composition are warranted to confirm our findings, the occurrence of differentiated associations in all male groups of rats have important implications for the management and welfare of captive rat populations.

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Factors Affecting Response Rates to Natural Resource - Focused Mail Surveys: Empirical Evidence of Declining Rates Over Time

Society & Natural Resources ◽

10.1080/08941920309152 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 16 (6) ◽

pp. 541-549 ◽

Cited By ~ 85

Author(s):

NANCY A. CONNELLY ◽

TOMMY L. BROWN ◽

DANIEL J. DECKER

Keyword(s):

Empirical Evidence ◽

Natural Resource ◽

Response Rates ◽

Factors Affecting ◽

Mail Surveys ◽

Over Time

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THE EFFECT OF INDUSTRIAL REVITALIZATION IN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES ON INDUSTRIAL EXPORTS OF CHINA

The Singapore Economic Review ◽

10.1142/s0217590821500211 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-21

Author(s):

SIZHUO CHEN

Keyword(s):

Empirical Evidence ◽

Difference Method ◽

Developed Countries ◽

Difference In Difference ◽

Proxy Variables ◽

Over Time

This study analyzes the effects of industrial revitalization in developed countries on China’s industrial exports. Using a rich panel dataset and a difference-in-difference method, I find empirical evidence consistent with the hypothesis that industrial revitalization policies in developed countries discourage China’s industrial exports, and these effects have become more apparent over time. This finding is robust to other proxy variables for industrial revitalization policies and robustness checks.

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Using open source software and mobile devices for collecting research data in terrain

Management, Information and Educational Engineering ◽

10.1201/b18558-19 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 99-102

Keyword(s):

Open Source ◽

Mobile Devices ◽

Open Source Software ◽

Research Data

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The Economic Impact of New Firms in Punjab

THE LAHORE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS ◽

10.35536/lje.2015.v20.isp.a7 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 20 (Sspecial Edition) ◽

pp. 143-182

Author(s):

Azam Chaudhry ◽

Maryiam Haroon

Keyword(s):

Empirical Evidence ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Socioeconomic Impact ◽

Firm Entry ◽

New Firms ◽

Socioeconomic Outcomes ◽

Different Types ◽

New Firm ◽

New Firm Entry ◽

Over Time

Despite the consensus that new firms have a significant economic and socioeconomic impact, there is very little empirical evidence to support this claim in the Pakistani context. In this paper, we start by looking at how new firm entry varies across districts in Punjab over time. We then look at how the establishment of different types of firms across these districts has affected district-level socioeconomic outcomes in the province. We find that firm entry has a positive impact on economic outcomes such as employment and enrollment, and that this impact can vary by the scale of the firms that enter.

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The Open Data Challenge: An Analysis of 124,000 Data Availability Statements and an Ironic Lesson about Data Management Plans

Data Intelligence ◽

10.1162/dint_a_00061 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

pp. 554-568

Author(s):

Chris Graf ◽

Dave Flanagan ◽

Lisa Wylie ◽

Deirdre Silver

Keyword(s):

Machine Learning ◽

Data Management ◽

Open Data ◽

Research Data ◽

Data Availability ◽

Policy Changes ◽

Management Plans ◽

Trends Over Time ◽

New Research ◽

Over Time

Data availability statements can provide useful information about how researchers actually share research data. We used unsupervised machine learning to analyze 124,000 data availability statements submitted by research authors to 176 Wiley journals between 2013 and 2019. We categorized the data availability statements, and looked at trends over time. We found expected increases in the number of data availability statements submitted over time, and marked increases that correlate with policy changes made by journals. Our open data challenge becomes to use what we have learned to present researchers with relevant and easy options that help them to share and make an impact with new research data.

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The way public relations practitioners influence media agendas in Vietnam

HCMCOUJS - ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION ◽

10.46223/hcmcoujs.econ.en.5.1.76.2015 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Van Thi Hong Loan

Keyword(s):

Public Relations ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

Research Data ◽

Media Content ◽

Media Relations ◽

The West ◽

Public Relations Practitioners ◽

The Public ◽

The Media ◽

The Way

The paper provides empirical evidence for the development of the theory of media agendasetting. The power of the media, according to the theory, has been changed in public relations in Vietnam. Public relations practitioners have power to shape media content as they desire. This research uncovers that public relations practitioners not only impact media agendas as the theory describes, but also do the job of journalists. While public relations practitioners in the West use framing and information subsidies to influence media agendas for the public, this study indicated that practitioners in Vietnam tend to be responsible for public relations editorials that are considered as the main duty of media people. The paper additionally explains the way Vietnamese journalists conduct news to underpin understanding of the characteristics of media relations in the country. This paper also presents a Tripolar model of corporate, media and public agendas which was designed based on the research data.

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