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UrduBROOKLYN, New York, Wednesday, March 3, 2021 – Machine-learning (ML) systems are becoming pervasive not only in technologies affecting our day-to-day lives, but also in those observing them, including face expression recognition systems. Companies that make and use such widely…
Tag: INFORMATION MANAGEMENT/TRACKING SYSTEMS
Open Data for Resilience — A webinar for International Open Data Day
An expert panel of researchers discusses the importance of open data to building resilient food systems
UNESCO listing for AusStage
Accolade for innovative live performance record
Scoot Over! Study Reveals E-Scooter Use in Washington D.C.
Researchers Build First Model to Track Travel Patterns that Captures Built Environment Variables More Precisely
Model for wildlife tourism
New method helps to ensure sustainable industries
New research shows unpredictable work schedules impact restaurant revenue
Nearly a 5% drop in checks handled by servers asked to stay longer
Changes in writing style provide clues to group identity
Small changes to people’s writing style can reveal which social group they “belong to” at a given moment, new research shows. Groups are central to human identity, and most people are part of multiple groups based on shared interests or…
Project examines how to make ‘farm to table’ more sustainable
UTA research into Iowa farming has potential impact for urban and rural areas in Texas
Study of auto recalls shows carmakers delay announcements until they ‘hide in the herd’
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Automotive recalls are occurring at record levels, but seem to be announced after inexplicable delays. A research study of 48 years of auto recalls announced in the United States finds carmakers frequently wait to make their announcements…
Location tracking apps and privacy implications
How much personal information can our phone apps gather through location tracking? To answer this question, two researchers – Mirco Musolesi (University of Bologna, Italy) and Benjamin Baron (University College London, UK) – carried out a field study using an…
Data show lower daily temperatures lead to higher transmission of COVID-19
Researchers analyzed daily low temperatures and infection rates in 50 Northern Hemisphere countries to quantify their effect on SARS-CoV-2 transmission
New research finds drive-through mass-vaccination clinics could alter COVID-19 trajectory
Researchers use data from the H1N1 pandemic to model pathway to achieve faster vaccination to stem COVID-19 crisis
University of Minnesota national study aims to improve US transportation system with accessibility data
Study adds education and health care destinations to annual measure of access to jobs by auto, transit, biking and walking.
How shared partisanship leads to social media connections
Twitter experiment shows clear self-selection into social media “echo chambers” due to political preferences.
NSF/Amazon grant supports research at NYU to help cities detect biases in algorithmically
Three-year project will develop methods and tools for addressing public sector policy impacts.
The strange impact of the first consumer review
Shopping online? Here’s what you should know about user reviews
Digital Health Divide Runs Deep in Older Racial and Ethnic Minorities
FAU Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing Study Identifies Factors and Reasons for Disparities
Apps help integration and health of migrants
New study finds apps aided by artificial intelligence also improve mental health
How clicks on a job platform can reveal bias
Education, professional skills and experience are the essential criteria for filling a position – or at least that is the expectation. The reality often looks different, as numerous studies have shown. When deciding whether to hire a candidate or not,…
Who’s writing open access articles?
An Academic Analytics Research Center (AARC) study has found greater rates of authorship of open access (OA) research articles among scholars at more prestigious institutions with greater access to resources and job security. “The open access publishing model is growing,…
When AI is used to set prices, can inadvertent collusion be a result?
New research points to the advantages and pitfalls of machine learning to set pricing
Oxford Brookes University hosts £5 million project to document endangered wooden buildings
The School of Architecture’s grant-giving worldwide programme will make records freely available online
Public health messaging in era of social media
What The Viewpoint Says: The rapid spread of scientific misinformation on social media platforms throughout the COVID-19 pandemic is discussed in this Viewpoint, which also proposes strategies to counteract its adverse effects including surveillance of digital data and partnering with…
Discussion and de-escalation in social media
International research team awarded funding to develop AI-based, social media ‘moderator’
Estonian-led international network publishes first study of growing influence of social media
The key conclusion of the study was not a surprise to the scientists involved: the importance of social media as a primary communication channel grows during a crisis. Inversely, the topicality of the limited regulation of social media lessens. We…
Graz research group develops health portal of the future
Can this digital medium make predictions about the individual information needs of users, recognize their cognitive abilities, and use this data to convey high-quality medical content in a comprehensible and clear manner? If Tobias Schreck, head of the Institute of…
Citizens versus the internet: Confronting digital challenges with cognitive tools
Access to the Internet is essential for economic development, education, global communications, and countless other applications. For all its benefits, however, the Internet has a darker side. It has emerged as a conduit for spreading misinformation, stoking tensions, and promoting…
Will we still need Covid-19 volunteers in the new year?
– A University of Sheffield-led research programme finds Local Authorities and the Voluntary and Community Sector are best placed to support the response to the Covid-19 crisis locally Mobilising Volunteers Effectively found local initiatives are best placed to identify and…
Public cameras provide valuable insights on pandemic, consumers
Patented systems may help reduce misinformation in the media
Which product categories and industries benefit most from social advertising
Social advertising centers on the placement of social cues or proof in advertising
Bad news for fake news: Rice research helps combat social media misinformation
Improved use of machine learning can double throughput of real-time information filters
Seeing the values behind the numbers
In a new book, “Data Action,” Associate Professor Sarah Williams issues a call for thinking ethically about data today.
New COVID surveillance predicts direction, speed and acceleration of virus
First dynamic global surveillance system being rolled out this week in 195 countries, including U.S.
Brown researchers to track adverse impacts of vaccinations in nursing home residents
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — As the U.S. moves toward the highly anticipated approval of the first COVID-19 vaccines, residents of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities are likely to join health care workers as groups who will be…
Newest phase of massive slavery database welcomes public contribution
Michigan State University’s searchable database containing millions of records cataloging the lives of enslaved Africans and their descendants — Enslaved.org — is launching a second phase that will accept contributions from the public and from academic researchers. The one-of-a-kind hub,…
1 in 3 who are aware of deepfakes say they have inadvertently shared them on social media
A Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) study has found that some Singaporeans have reported that, despite being aware of the existence of ‘deepfakes’ in general, they believe they have circulated deepfake content on social media which they later found out was a hoax.
1 in 3 who are aware of deepfakes say they have inadvertently shared them on social media
Author says results highlight need to educate citizens to deal with deepfakes
Rewarding excellence in Open Science
Donor-funded prize recognizes talented researchers who share resources
Iceland to become centre for sleep research
Scientists at Reykjavik University (RU) to lead a research project receiving a 15-million Euro Horizon 2020 grant
New tool to combat terrorism
Dust on boots, baggage can track down suspects
Machine learning uncovers missing info about ethnicity in population health data: Study
University of Alberta epidemiologist says these key social determinants of health are often not tracked adequately in Canada
Field research has changed, and so should ethical guidelines, Brown professor says
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — The old ethics rules are no longer offering adequate protection to field research subjects, according to two leading social scientists from Brown and Pennsylvania State Universities — and as a result, individual people and even…
Yale team finds way to protect genetic privacy in research
The era of functional genomics has enabled scientists to analyze massive amounts of data on cellular activity in disease and health. The more these data are shared between labs, the greater the power scientists have for finding genes linked to…
Building an ethics framework for Big Data in health care
New NIH-funded Hastings Center project
Ignis Health licenses telehealth roadmap from the Medical University of South Carolina
In a quest to create a one-stop telehealth solution, Ignis Health, which has developed a robust telehealth analytics platform, licenses a roadmap for telehealth implementation from the Medical University of South Carolina
Stanford-led team creates a computer model that can predict how COVID-19 spreads in cities
A study of how 98 million Americans move around each day suggests that most infections occur at “superspreader” sites, and details how mobility patterns help drive higher infection rates among minority and low-income populations.
Lev Manovich’s ‘Cultural Analytics’ is leading the way to understanding digital culture
New book looks at intersection of data science & media studies, presenting concepts and methods for computational analysis of cultural data
Effect, reach of medical articles posted on preprint servers during COVID-19 pandemic
What The Study Did: Researchers compared the effect and reach of studies about therapies for COVID-19 posted on the medRxiv preprint server, subsequent publications in medical journals of some of these studies, and journal articles that were not posted on either…
Researchers examine if online physician reviews indicate clinical outcomes
Online consumer reviews play an important role in almost every consumer industry — from dining and shopping to travel and technology. But what do online reviews of physicians tell consumers? In a new study, researchers from The University of Texas…
Tokyo’s voluntary standstill may have stopped COVID-19 in its tracks
Tokyo – Why did Japan largely contain COVID-19 despite famously jam-packed Tokyo and despite the country’s proximity to China? With no penalties and only requests for cooperation, Japan’s state of emergency somehow averted the large-scale outbreaks seen elsewhere. At least…