scholarly journals Review of Social Media Influence on Software Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 603-611
Author(s):  
Gulshan Nematova ◽  
Mobashar Rehman ◽  
Aamir Amin ◽  
Manzoor Ahmed Hashmani
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Publication Type ◽  
Exclusion Criteria ◽  
Analysis Study ◽  
Time Period ◽  
The World ◽  
Study Setting ◽  
Data Collection Approach

The Software Development (SD) process requires collaboration and sharing of information in order to achieve the best results required and Social Media (SM) has helped this process immensely. SM is frequently utilized by programmers to strengthen their SD tools. In particular, communication is a key component in collaborative development, when designing large-scale software. An engineer can ask his colleagues around the world for help in solving problems or contact users for feedback. However, there is still a need to do research about the benefits as well as limitation of usage of SM in SD process. This study examines research conducted from 2009 until 2019 to help the researchers as well as businesses to learn more about the relation between SM and SD. Inclusion and exclusion criteria is imposed to sort out the research done during the mentioned time period. Type of data extracted from the selected papers includes authors’ name(s), title of the paper, year of publication, type of publication, country of origin, method used, data analysis, study setting and data collection approach. Furthermore, this paper answers to the questions posed in the study, such as what are the potential limitations of using SM for SD, and what reasons are given by the organizations for utilization of SM for SD. This paper provides a systematic literature review of 31 studies on SM and SD.

scholarly journals HEPATITIS C

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (03) ◽  
pp. 387-391
Author(s):  
Muhammad Khuram Nouman ◽  
Bushra Zaidi ◽  
Ghulam Mohiuddin ◽  
Faryal Asif ◽  
Muhammad Khan Malik
Keyword(s):  
Hepatitis C Virus ◽  
Viral Load ◽  
Hepatitis C ◽  
Interferon Therapy ◽  
P Value ◽  
Viral Genotype ◽  
Exclusion Criteria ◽  
The World ◽  
Low Incidence ◽  
Study Setting

Background: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is the most communal source of non-A,non-B viral hepatitis in the world. The disease is illusory, and the majority of patients do notacquire jaundice at its onset. Treatment of hepatitis C with interferon attained a sustainedvirological response (SVR) in almost 50% of the patients with HCV infection. Viral genotype isimportant to determine the response. The present study aims to provide the incidence of relapseof HCV in patients taking interferon therapy and to identify the predictors for relapse. StudyDesign: Retrospective observational study. Setting: Department of Medicine, DHQ TeachingHospital, Sargodha. Period: Two years. Methods: A total of 60 patients were retrospectivelyevaluated for this study. The exclusion criteria include the patients co- infected with hepatitisB virus or HIV. All the patients were monitored 2, 4, 8, 12, 16, and 24 weeks after the endof treatment with interferon alpha. Results: We observed that the patients with relapse weresignificantly older and heavier (P value < 0.05). At the start of treatment, viral load was higherin relapsed patients (P value < 0.04). Conclusion: On the bases of our study findings, we canconclude that low incidence of relapse occurred with interferon therapy. High ALT level, viralloads, older age and obesity were some of strong predictors of relapse among HCV patients.

Transforming Governance: How National Policies and Organizations for Managing Disaster Recovery Evolved following the 4 September 2010 and 22 February 2011 Canterbury Earthquakes

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 577-605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie A. Johnson ◽  
Ljubica Mamula-Seadon
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Recovery ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
National Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Time Period ◽  
The World ◽  
Government Capacity ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
Recovery Management ◽  
New Institutions

Large-scale disasters simultaneously deplete capital stock and services which then requires many complex rebuilding and societal activities to happen in a compressed time period; one of those is governance. Governments often create new institutions or adapt existing institutions to cope with the added demands. Over two years following the 4 September 2010 and 22 February 2011 Canterbury earthquakes, governance transformations have increasingly centralized recovery authority and operations at the national level. This may have helped to strengthen coordination among national agencies and expedite policy and decision making; but the effectiveness of coordination among multiple levels of government, capacity building at the local and regional levels, and public engagement and deliberation of key decisions are some areas where the transformations may not have been as effective. The Canterbury case offers many lessons for future disaster recovery management in New Zealand, the United States, and the world.

scholarly journals COVID-19 Vaccine–Related Discussion on Twitter: Topic Modeling and Sentiment Analysis (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Chen Lyu ◽  
Eileen Le Han ◽  
Garving K Luli
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Topic Modeling ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
National Research Council ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
World Health ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Emotion Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World

BACKGROUND Vaccination is a cornerstone of the prevention of communicable infectious diseases; however, vaccines have traditionally met with public fear and hesitancy, and COVID-19 vaccines are no exception. Social media use has been demonstrated to play a role in the low acceptance of vaccines. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to identify the topics and sentiments in the public COVID-19 vaccine–related discussion on social media and discern the salient changes in topics and sentiments over time to better understand the public perceptions, concerns, and emotions that may influence the achievement of herd immunity goals. METHODS Tweets were downloaded from a large-scale COVID-19 Twitter chatter data set from March 11, 2020, the day the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, to January 31, 2021. We used R software to clean the tweets and retain tweets that contained the keywords <i>vaccination</i>, <i>vaccinations</i>, <i>vaccine</i>, <i>vaccines</i>, <i>immunization</i>, <i>vaccinate</i>, and <i>vaccinated</i>. The final data set included in the analysis consisted of 1,499,421 unique tweets from 583,499 different users. We used R to perform latent Dirichlet allocation for topic modeling as well as sentiment and emotion analysis using the National Research Council of Canada Emotion Lexicon. RESULTS Topic modeling of tweets related to COVID-19 vaccines yielded 16 topics, which were grouped into 5 overarching themes. Opinions about vaccination (227,840/1,499,421 tweets, 15.2%) was the most tweeted topic and remained a highly discussed topic during the majority of the period of our examination. Vaccine progress around the world became the most discussed topic around August 11, 2020, when Russia approved the world’s first COVID-19 vaccine. With the advancement of vaccine administration, the topic of instruction on getting vaccines gradually became more salient and became the most discussed topic after the first week of January 2021. Weekly mean sentiment scores showed that despite fluctuations, the sentiment was increasingly positive in general. Emotion analysis further showed that trust was the most predominant emotion, followed by anticipation, fear, sadness, etc. The trust emotion reached its peak on November 9, 2020, when Pfizer announced that its vaccine is 90% effective. CONCLUSIONS Public COVID-19 vaccine–related discussion on Twitter was largely driven by major events about COVID-19 vaccines and mirrored the active news topics in mainstream media. The discussion also demonstrated a global perspective. The increasingly positive sentiment around COVID-19 vaccines and the dominant emotion of trust shown in the social media discussion may imply higher acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines compared with previous vaccines.

scholarly journals 3D printing applications during COVID-19 pandemic: a literature review

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanna Barbosa Brito de Sousa BIONE ◽  
Jéssyca Maria França de Oliveira MELO ◽  
Francine Queiroz PEREIRA ◽  
Felipe Rodrigues de ALMEIDA ◽  
Renata Cimões Jovino SILVEIRA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
3D Printing ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Personal Protective Equipment ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Protective Equipment ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Exclusion Criteria ◽  
The World

ABSTRACT The fast spread of COVID-19 around the world has generated significant impacts on the way societies lives, one of which is the scarcity of personal protective equipment (PPE) for workers in the front lines of combat against the virus. Sanitary insecurity has led populations and health professionals to a rampant search for protective equipment and other devices necessary for life maintenance, both for patients and professionals, revealing health system limitations during large-scale crisis, as the COVID-19 pandemic. On this paper, we aimed to present the initiatives of professionals and companies related to 3D printing to share programs and resources whose purpose is supplying workers in the front line, who have been important allies in combating the effects caused by coronavirus. A search was performed in four electronic databases: SCOPUS, BVS, EMBASE and MEDLINE via PUBMED. After analyzing the inclusion and exclusion criteria, a table of results was prepared with the main characteristics of the products manufactured and made available, as well as the institutions involved. It was concluded, therefore, that the applications of 3D printing in the initiatives had great contributions to public health and the additive industry during the pandemic period of COVID-19.

scholarly journals ConE: A Concurrent Edit Detection Tool for Large-scale Software Development

2022 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Chandra Maddila ◽  
Nachiappan Nagappan ◽  
Christian Bird ◽  
Georgios Gousios ◽  
Arie van Deursen
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
False Alarms ◽  
Detection Tool ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Pull Request ◽  
Software Development Model

Modern, complex software systems are being continuously extended and adjusted. The developers responsible for this may come from different teams or organizations, and may be distributed over the world. This may make it difficult to keep track of what other developers are doing, which may result in multiple developers concurrently editing the same code areas. This, in turn, may lead to hard-to-merge changes or even merge conflicts, logical bugs that are difficult to detect, duplication of work, and wasted developer productivity. To address this, we explore the extent of this problem in the pull-request-based software development model. We study half a year of changes made to six large repositories in Microsoft in which at least 1,000 pull requests are created each month. We find that files concurrently edited in different pull requests are more likely to introduce bugs. Motivated by these findings, we design, implement, and deploy a service named Concurrent Edit Detector (ConE) that proactively detects pull requests containing concurrent edits, to help mitigate the problems caused by them. ConE has been designed to scale, and to minimize false alarms while still flagging relevant concurrently edited files. Key concepts of ConE include the detection of the Extent of Overlap between pull requests, and the identification of Rarely Concurrently Edited Files . To evaluate ConE, we report on its operational deployment on 234 repositories inside Microsoft. ConE assessed 26,000 pull requests and made 775 recommendations about conflicting changes, which were rated as useful in over 70% (554) of the cases. From interviews with 48 users, we learned that they believed ConE would save time in conflict resolution and avoiding duplicate work, and that over 90% intend to keep using the service on a daily basis.

Sustainability Strategies for Software Development Firms

2019 ◽  
pp. 179-203
Author(s):  
Arunasalam Sambhanthan
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Business Sustainability ◽  
Sustainability Strategies ◽  
The World ◽  
Sustainability Reports ◽  
Sustainability Initiatives ◽  
Practical Implications

Business sustainability is critical for any industry. In the software sector, this is often well practiced by organizations according to their sustainability reports. The work documented in this chapter aims to analyze the sustainability reports of software development firms from India to document the best practices in business sustainability. Ten large-scale software development firms were selected, and the themes such as efficiency enhancement, health and safety, opportunity maximization, productivity enhancement, risk management, value creation, and waste management were explored in the reports. The results are presented in this chapter that integrates the knowledge on the practical implications that software organizations in the rest of the world could adapt for better management of sustainability initiatives.

Palestine Unbound

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 152-156
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Free Speech ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Security Cooperation ◽  
The West ◽  
The World ◽  
One Step

This quarter (May 16—August 15) was characterized by large-scale displays of solidarity on social media by organizers and activists in Gaza, Haifa, the West Bank, and Ireland. In this issue, the Great March of Return enters its 20th consecutive week of demonstrations, Palestinians in the West Bank cities of Nablus and Ramallah protest PA sanctions against Gaza and security cooperation with Israel, Palestinian activists show their gratitude to Ireland as a bill to outlaw settlement products moves one step closer to becoming law, and free speech advocates from around the world show their support for convicted Palestinian poet-activist Dareen Tatour. Trending hashtags this issue are #GreatReturnMarch #ThankYouIreland, #LifttheSanctions, and #FreeDareen.

Watching How Ideas Spread Over Social Media

Leonardo ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Ru Lin ◽  
David Lazer ◽  
Nan Cao
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Information Diffusion ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Visualization Tool ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
Spatiotemporal Processes

Social media, like Twitter, have been widely used for exchanging information, opinions and emotions about events happening across the world. The authors introduce a new visualization tool for tracing the process of information diffusion on social media in real time. The design highlights the social, spatiotemporal processes of diffusion based on a sunflower metaphor whose seeds are often dispersed far away. The design facilitates an understanding of when, where and how a piece of information is dispersed for large-scale events, including campaigns and earthquakes, as a tool witnessing today's information consumption and dispersion in the wild.

Change of Attitude, Technology and Practice: Identifying the Change for Increased Value Creation with Customer Co-creation

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-82
Author(s):  
Soumi Paul ◽  
Paola Peretti ◽  
Saroj Kumar Datta
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Customer Orientation ◽  
Customer Relationships ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Management Competencies ◽  
Business Decisions ◽  
Prime Concern

Building customer relationships and customer equity is the prime concern in today’s business decisions. The emergence of internet, especially social media like Facebook and Twitter, changed traditional marketing thought to a great extent. The importance of customer orientation is reflected in the axiom, “The customer is the king”. A good number of organizations are engaging customers in their new product development activities via social media platforms. Co-creation, a new perspective in which customers are active co-creators of the products they buy and use, is currently challenging the traditional paradigm. The concept of co-creation involving the customer’s knowledge, creativity and judgment to generate value is considered not only an upcoming trend that introduces new products or services but also fitting their need and increasing value for money. Knowledge and innovation are inseparable. Knowledge management competencies and capacities are essential to any organization that aspires to be distinguished and innovative. The present work is an attempt to identify the change in value creation procedure along with one area of business, where co-creation can return significant dividends. It is on extending the brand or brand category through brand extension or line extension. This article, through an in depth literature review analysis, identifies the changes in every perspective of this paradigm shift and it presents a conceptual model of company-customer-brand-based co-creation activity via social media. The main objective is offering an agenda for future research of this emerging trend and ensuring the way to move from theory to practice. The paper acts as a proposal; it allows the organization to go for this change in a large scale and obtain early feedback on the idea presented. 

TO THE QUESTION OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR TORTURE IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-106
Author(s):  
ASTEMIR ZHURTOV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Human Life ◽  
International Standards ◽  
World Community ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
The Russian Federation

Cruel and inhumane acts that harm human life and health, as well as humiliate the dignity, are prohibited in most countries of the world, and Russia is no exception in this issue. The article presents an analysis of the institution of responsibility for torture in the Russian Federation. The author comes to the conclusion that the current criminal law of Russia superficially and fragmentally regulates liability for torture, in connection with which the author formulated the proposals to define such act as an independent crime. In the frame of modern globalization, the world community pays special attention to the protection of human rights, in connection with which large-scale international standards have been created a long time ago. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international acts enshrine prohibitions of cruel and inhumane acts that harm human life and health, as well as degrade the dignity.Considering the historical experience of the past, these standards focus on the prohibition of any kind of torture, regardless of the purpose of their implementation.

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