Characteristics Of Information Sources Research Articles

Information Source Characteristics of Personal Data Leakage During the COVID-19 Pandemic in China: Observational Study.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, in the period of preventing and controlling the spread of the virus, a large amount of personal data was collected in China, and privacy leakage incidents occurred. We aimed to examine the information source characteristics of personal data leakage during the COVID-19 pandemic in China. We extracted information source characteristics of 40 personal data leakage cases using open coding and analyzed the data with 1D and 2D matrices. In terms of organizational characteristics, data leakage cases mainly occurred in government agencies below the prefecture level, while few occurred in the medical system or in high-level government organizations. The majority of leakers were regular employees or junior staff members rather than temporary workers or senior managers. Family WeChat groups were the primary route for disclosure; the forwarding of documents was the main method of divulgence, while taking screenshots and pictures made up a comparatively smaller portion. We propose the following suggestions: restricting the authority of nonmedical institutions and low-level government agencies to collect data, strengthening training for low-level employees on privacy protection, and restricting the flow of data on social media through technical measures.

Исследование системы электропотребления угольной шахты

The article is devoted to the study of information sources of the power consumption system of a coal mine. All parameters and the state of structural elements of the power supply network can serve as sources of information. The process of transmitting information about these functional changes is an information system of the mine distribution network, which can serve as an information base for monitoring and controlling the process of mine power consumption. Other sources of information are daily schedules of electrical load for power supply centers, energy-intensive installations and the mine as a whole. Obtaining quantitative characteristics of information sources of the coal mine power consumption system is the main task of the conducted research

Exploring online celebrities and reviews simultaneously- the role of their consistency in different product types

In the face of the increasing influence of online celebrity live streaming and online consumer reviews in present e-commerce environment, the purpose of this paper is to examine how online celebrities’ information source characteristics and review helpfulness affect online consumers' perceived value and purchase intentions. Besides, we try to explore the impact of consistency and product type on consumers. Based on the SOR model, two studies were conducted to achieve these goals. Study 1 collects data by means of a questionnaire and conducts structural equation modeling. The empirical results of 491 questionnaires indicate that credibility, professionalism, and attraction of online celebrities and content, quality, and popularity of review helpfulness positively affect perceived value. Perceived value, in turn, influences purchase intention. Study 2 introduced the concept of consistency and designed a 2 × 2 scenario test with it and product type. The results of 356 questionnaires showed that consistency promotes consumers' purchase intention, with perceived value mediating and product type moderating the effect. The findings have important implications for the development of e-commerce and provide some additions to research in this area.

The hedonic price model for the wine market: A systematic and comparative review of the literature

AbstractThis paper carries out a thorough review of the literature on the estimation of hedonic price functions in the wine market, compiling and carefully documenting all research work on the subject. The review analyses the main methodological decisions taken by the different authors, as well as the typology of the available databases: identification of the relevant market, specification of the price function, sources and types of prices, econometric methodology, and type of publication. The variance decomposition analysis of the Adjusted‐R‐squared values from the estimated hedonic price functions suggests that attribute selection, the definition of the product market, the characteristics of information sources, and the implemented econometric procedures are the most relevant factors in explaining the models’ explanatory power.

유튜브 정보 및 정보원 특성이 소비자 만족에 미치는 영향

Background/Objectives: YouTube is increasingly being used as a channel for acqumng consumer information, and studies have highlighted generational differences in media consumption. This study aims to analyze variances in the perception of YouTube information characteristics and explore differences in factors influencing consumers' information search satisfaction between the younger and older generations.
 Methods: An online survey was conducted targeting people who had searched for information regarding product purchases on YouTube within the past month. A total of 366 responses were statistically analyzed via t-test, analysis of variance, and multiple regression analysis using SPSS 26.0.
 Results: The study revealed disparities m the perception of YouTube information characteristics and information source characteristics based on demographic features. Multiple regression analysis demonstrated that accuracy and reliabili ty had a significant positive impact on consumer satisfaction in both age groups. The expertise and interactivity of the information source showed a significant effect only on the younger generation, whereas the originality and personalization of information had a significant impact on consumer satisfaction only in the older generation.
 Conclusion/Implications: This study holds academic significance and makes a unique contribution by identifying sub- dimensions of YouTube information characteristics. Furthermore, the study provides practical value by suggesting consumer information provision strategies for companies that intend to leverage YouTube for marketing.

MODELING AND PROCESSING OF INFORMATION FLOWS IN THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS OF MEDICAL STUDENTS USING MIND MAPS

The fundamental principle of medical education today should be the formation of a highly qualified competitive medical professional who can conduct innovative activities and has the skills of continuous professional development, as well as increasing the transparency and clarity of the educational process for students and building confidence in achieving effective results. The creation of a modern innovative educational environment involves ensuring optimal conditions for the development and self-development of a student, which can be created, among other things, through the use of modern digital resources by both lecturers and students. Thus, the task of digitalizing the educational process of medical students is currently relevant. The purpose of this study is to model and process the information flows of the educational process of medical students.
 Digitalization and visualization of the educational process at the Department of Histology of National Pirogov Memorial Medical University (Vinnytsya, Ukraine) by developing mind maps revolutionizes education, improves the teaching process, significantly increases the efficiency, effectiveness and quality of the educational process through the development of cognitive, productive, reproductive thinking in students, compliance with the intellectual capabilities of higher education students, increasing the level of involvement of students, developing digital competence in students, and so on.
 The modeling and processing of information flows of the educational process of medical students has shown that students' knowledge is largely determined by the characteristics of information sources, and in order to maximize the coincidence of information flows of information sources and information flows learned by students, it is worthwhile and expedient to digitalize and visualize educational content using mind maps. It has been empirically confirmed that the use of mind maps in the study of the educational component "Histology" has increased the coincidence of information flows of information sources and information flows learned by students from one quarter to three quarters.

라이브 커머스에서 고객의 충동구매 행동에 관한 포괄적 분석

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to understand customer purchasing phenomenon in live commerce from the perspective of impulse buying.
 Design/Methodology/Approach - In this study, in order to study factors affecting impulse buying behavior in live commerce, factors affecting impulse buying behavior were classified into four characteristic areas using flow and perceived usefulness as mediators. The four characteristic areas are live commerce platform characteristics, information source characteristics, product characteristics, and individual characteristics. A total of 290 copies of valid data were collected through a questionnaire survey, which was empirically analyzed using structural equation modeling.
 Findings - As a result of the study, it was found that sense of reality, credibility, and entertainment affect flow, low price, trendy product, and high involvement product affect perceived usefulness, and perceived usefulness and flow affect impulse buying behavior.
 Research Implications - Practitioners that want to achieve business results by utilizing impulse purchases in live commerce first select products with high involvement, and during the broadcast process, they emphasize the practical benefits that consumers can obtain from purchasing products to make it fun instead of boring.

A Potential Systematic Barrier to Community Health Literacy about Epilepsy Surgery: A Preliminary Readability Analysis of Online Health Education Materials in the United States (P6-1.006)

<h3>Objective:</h3> Analyze readability of online health education materials designed to provide epilepsy surgery information to patients. <h3>Background:</h3> Epilepsy surgery is an effective albeit underused treatment for refractory epilepsy. The workup and procedure explanations are complex and further compounded by the cognitive difficulties many people with epilepsy face. A previous United Kingdom study showed poor readability of online resources used for epilepsy surgery. However, there is still much to explore regarding the readability of resources in the United States, and what kinds of sites are associated with better readability. <h3>Design/Methods:</h3> A private browser was used to search Google for the top 100 search results for the terms “epilepsy+surgery”. Scientific papers, insurance pages, pay-wall access sites, and non-text content were excluded. The website text was re-formatted to exclude graphics, contact information, links, and headers. Readability metrics were calculated using an online readability tool (Datayze Readability Analyzer). Analysis was done through R using the Kruskal-Wallis test, and statistical assumptions were assessed. <h3>Results:</h3> Here we present the preliminary analysis of the top 100 items from a Google search yielding 76 websites and 24 exclusions. Websites were categorized as US based organizations or non-US, content from level 4 epilepsy centers, and if the sources were community health websites not associated with academic institutions. The Flesch Reading Ease (FRE) and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level (FKGL) showed significantly better readability in community health websites (FRE p=.03, FKGL p=.03), non-level 4 epilepsy centers (FRE p=.002, FKGL p=.002), and international websites (FRE p=.02, FKGL =.03). <h3>Conclusions:</h3> Health information source characteristics associated with better readability levels included non-academic centers, non-level 4 epilepsy centers and community health information websites. This analysis suggests that academic centers, especially level 4 epilepsy centers, should consider involving community members, advocacy organizations and non-medical writers in the designing of online epilepsy surgery health education materials. <b>Disclosure:</b> Mr. Seneviratne has nothing to disclose. Ms. Ho has nothing to disclose. Dr. Correa has received personal compensation in the range of $0-$499 for serving as a Consultant for Independent Medical Consultants. Dr. Correa has received personal compensation in the range of $0-$499 for serving as a Consultant for Atheneum Partners. Dr. Correa has received personal compensation in the range of $10,000-$49,999 for serving as an Editor, Associate Editor, or Editorial Advisory Board Member for American Academy of Neurology. Dr. Correa has stock in Aidin Inc. Dr. Correa has received research support from Genentech. Dr. Correa has received research support from Psi Upsilon Foundation Inc.

How do local government information sources affect the purchase willingness of low-carbon agricultural products? The example of regional brand agricultural products.

In order to achieve the carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals, the agricultural sector has been given high priority to reduce carbon emissions. Since consumption is the ultimate goal of production, the consumption of low-carbon agricultural products is of great significance to promote the reduction of agricultural carbon emissions. Regional brand agricultural product is an important tool to promote the development of regional economy to "green, low-carbon, branded and high-quality", and has the technical and institutional conditions to develop into low-carbon agricultural product, so this study takes regional brand agricultural products as the representative of low-carbon agricultural products. As a information source to guide the public to consume in the green and low-carbon way, local government can effectively develop the market for low-carbon agricultural products and drive the development of low-carbon agriculture from the demand side. Based on structural equation model with bootstrap method, this paper focuses on the mechanism of the influence of local government information source characteristics (credibility, professionalism, and attractiveness) on consumers' willingness to purchase low-carbon agricultural products, and explores the mediating role of perceived benefits and perceived risks. The following findings are established: first, the credibility and professionalism of local governments play a positive role in influencing the purchase willingness of low-carbon agricultural products through perceived benefits, with credibility having the greatest degree of influence. Second, the attractiveness of local governments positively influences consumers' willingness to purchase low-carbon agricultural products through perceived risk. Third, perceived benefits play a fully mediating role between credibility and purchase intention, play a partially mediating role between professionalism and purchase willingness, perceived risks play a partially mediating role between attractiveness and purchase willingness. This study provides new ideas for the construction of low-carbon agricultural products and low-carbon development in the agricultural sector from the perspective of local government information sources.

Prilaku Pencarian Informasi Pekerjaan oleh Masyarakat dengan Analisis Model Wilson

Introduction This paper discusses people's information seeking behavior. In fact, many university graduates are still facing serious difficulties in the job search process given the increasing unemployment rate.Method of collecting data Purposive sampling was used with 10 respondents. Interviews were used as a data collection technique.Data analysis Miles and Huberman's data analysis was used in this study to reduce, present data and draw conclusions.Results and Discussion Two barriers in seeking information come from psychological factors and interpersonal skills. Fresh graduates with low psychological and interpersonal skills, such as lack of confidence, confusion, low self-esteem, anxiety, lack of communication show ineffective search results. Situations where information sources are easily accessible support faster information retrieval and vice versa. Our informants who live in cities with easy access support the information search process.Conclusion The factors that influence information seeking behavior are psychological situation, demographic situation, interpersonal skills, environment and characteristics of information sources. These five factors influence each other.&#x0D; Keywords: information behavior; information search; publik; job seekers

An empirical study on impulse consumption intention of livestreaming e-commerce: The mediating effect of flow experience and the moderating effect of time pressure.

Based on the Stimulus-Organism-Response (S-O-R) model, this paper studies the impulsive consumption mechanism of consumers participating in livestreaming e-commerce from the perspectives of information source characteristics and social presence and examines the mediating effect of flow experience and the moderating effect of time pressure. Based on the consumption data of 268 live shoppers, multiple regression analysis and Bootstrap method were used to test the research hypothesis. The empirical results show that the credibility, professionalism, attractiveness, and interactivity of live information sources have significant positive impacts on consumers' flow experience and impulsive consumption intention. Furthermore, coexistence, communication and emotional presence of social presence have a significant positive impact on consumers' flow experience and impulsive consumption intention. Flow experience plays part of the mediating role in the process of the characteristics of livestreaming information sources and social presence affecting consumers' impulsive consumption intention, while time pressure has a positive moderating effect in the relationship between livestreaming information source characteristics and coexistence presence and flow experience. The higher the time pressure, the stronger the promotion of live information source characteristics and coexistence presence on flow experience. This study enriches the research literature on the consumption driving mechanism of livestreaming e-commerce and offers practical enlightenment and reference to improve the effectiveness of livestreaming e-commerce anchors. It is also one of the first studies to apply the theory of flow and social presence to the impulsive consumption intention of livestreaming e-commerce.

Barriers and Gaps in Effective Health Communication at Both Public Health and Healthcare Delivery Levels During Epidemics and Pandemics; Systematic Review.

To assess gaps and barriers to effective health communication during epidemics, pandemics, and mass health emergencies. A systematic literature review was conducted in PubMed (National Library of Medicine, Maryland, USA), SCOPUS (Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands), Cochrane (Cochrane, London, UK), and grey literature between 2000 to 2020. 16043 of 16535 identified citations were eliminated through title/ abstracts screening, 437 through full-text review and 55 articles were assessed qualitatively. Key barriers to effective health communication included misinformation, distrust, limited collaboration, and messaging inconsistency. Lack of information/ research was not the primary challenge. Major gaps were in mass and social media strategies, characteristics of messages, sociocultural contexts, digital communication, rapid response, providers' attitude and perception, and information source characteristics. Health messaging should be adaptable to information outlets and tailored for the most vulnerable. Denigration of individuals with inaccurate beliefs increases misinformation and baseline knowledge differences and fears should be addressed without polarization. Involving frontline providers in health communication strategies is crucial. Primary reason for misinformation is the failure of health sector to convincingly convey accurate information. With input from all stakeholders, especially trusted members of communities and providers, health communication should include reinvestment in methods, multidimensional and multidisciplinary approaches, consistent frameworks, improved social media usage, clear, simple, and targeted messaging, and addressing systematic disinformation and misinformation with intention.

How Characteristics of Information Sources Impact Attitude in Public Opinion Dissemination on Social Media

社交媒体；舆情；信息源可信度；关系强度；态度

Search results diversification for effective fair ranking in academic search

Providing users with relevant search results has been the primary focus of information retrieval research. However, focusing on relevance alone can lead to undesirable side effects. For example, small differences between the relevance scores of documents that are ranked by relevance alone can result in large differences in the exposure that the authors of relevant documents receive, i.e., the likelihood that the documents will be seen by searchers. Therefore, developing fair ranking techniques to try to ensure that search results are not dominated, for example, by certain information sources is of growing interest, to mitigate against such biases. In this work, we argue that generating fair rankings can be cast as a search results diversification problem across a number of assumed fairness groups, where groups can represent the demographics or other characteristics of information sources. In the context of academic search, as in the TREC Fair Ranking Track, which aims to be fair to unknown groups of authors, we evaluate three well-known search results diversification approaches from the literature to generate rankings that are fair to multiple assumed fairness groups, e.g. early-career researchers vs. highly-experienced authors. Our experiments on the 2019 and 2020 TREC datasets show that explicit search results diversification is a viable approach for generating effective rankings that are fair to information sources. In particular, we show that building on xQuAD diversification as a fairness component can result in a significant (p<0.05) increase (up to 50% in our experiments) in the fairness of exposure that authors from unknown protected groups receive.

Lift the veil of rumors: the impact of the characteristics of information sources on the effectiveness of rumors spreading

PurposeThis paper aims to investigate the impacts of rumors' information characteristics on people's believing and spreading of rumors online.Design/methodology/approachThis study employed a mixed-methods approach by combining qualitative and quantitative methods. In study 1, the authors explored different types of rumors and their information source characteristics through qualitative research. In study 2, the authors utilized the findings from study 1 to develop an empirical model to verify the impact of these characteristics on the public's behaviors of believing and spreading rumors by content analysis and quantitative research.FindingsThe results show that five information source characteristics – credibility, professionalism, attractiveness, mystery and concreteness – influence the spreading effect of different types of rumors.Research limitations/implicationsThis study contributes to rumor spreading research by deepening the theory of information source characteristics and adding to the emerging literature on the COVID-19 pandemic.Practical implicationsInsights from this research offer important practical implications for policymakers and online-platform operators by highlighting how to suppress the spread of rumors, particularly those associated with COVID-19.Originality/valueThis research introduces the theory of information source characteristics into the field of rumor spreading and adopts a mixed-methods approach, taking COVID-19 rumors as a typical case, which provides a unique perspective for a deeper understanding of rumor spreading's antecedences.

Health Information Source Characteristics Matter: Adapting the Dissemination of an HPV Vaccine Intervention to Reach Latina and Vietnamese Women

Latina and Vietnamese women are disproportionately burdened by human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated cervical cancer and underutilize the HPV vaccine, which is an effective cancer prevention measure. To inform the adaptation of a National Cancer Institute’s evidence-based cancer control program, HPV Vaccine Decision Narratives, and because of the rapidly changing information concerning consumption patterns of young adults, we elicited preferences and characteristics associated with women’s interest in various health information sources, specifically for HPV vaccination. We conducted 50 interviews with young Latina and Vietnamese women at two Planned Parenthood health centers in Southern California. Interview questions were guided by the Channel Complementarity Theory and focused on understanding the multiple communication channels women turn to for health, and the characteristics that motivate their use. Our results showed that Latina and Vietnamese women turn to many sources, from online and social media to school health classes, mothers, and doctors. Specific characteristics that motivate women’s online use of health information included immediacy and access, convenience and credibility. When receiving HPV vaccine information, privacy, avoiding information overload, interpersonal engagement, and receiving health information from trusted sources was important. Our study advances the prevention literature by elevating the role of platform delivery considerations and emphasizing preferences to effectively reach Latina and Vietnamese women, who are disproportionately burdened by HPV cancers and are less aware of HPV vaccine prevention. These results can be used to further inform the dissemination of this cancer control program. Adaptation of the program should include changes to its delivery, such that trusted sources are used, and dissemination is coordinated to send a consistent message across multiple communication methods.

Perilaku pencarian informasi pekerjaan oleh sarjana fresh graduate dengan analisis Model Wilson

Introduction. This paper discusses information seeking behavior of university fresh graduate. In fact, many university graduates still face serious difficulties in the job search process based on the increasingly high unemployment rate.&#x0D; Data Collection Method. Purposive sampling was used with 10 respondents. Interviews were used as a data collection technique. &#x0D; Data Analysis. Miles and Huberman data analysis was used in this study reduction, data presentation and conclusion..&#x0D; Resultsand Discussions. Two barriers in finding information were from psychological factors and interpersonal abilities. New graduates with low psychological and interpersonal skills, such as lack of self-confidence, confusion, inferiority, anxiety, lack of communication show uneffective search results. The situation where information sources are easily accessible supports faster information retrieval and vice versa. Our five informants who lived in the city with easy access support the infomatation seeking process.&#x0D; Conclusion Factors affecting information seeking behaviour were psychological situations, demographic circumstances, interpersonal abilities, environment and characteristics of information sources. Those five factors influence each other.

Метод формалізації даних при вирішенні задач розпізнавання повітряних об'єктів

В роботі розроблена методика формалізації структур даних ознак повітряних об’єктів яка враховує характеристики точності і достовірності джерел інформації з нестохастичною невизначеністю і рекурентними правилами узагальнення оцінок значень ознак при багаторазовому спостереженні повітряних об’єктів. В основу розробленої методики були покладені методи формалізації процесу розпізнавання, оцінки ступеня істинності різнорідних ознак, об'єднання незалежних результатів розпізнавання, пошуку рішень про класи розпізнаваних повітряних об'єктів з урахуванням неповноти і надмірності даних про ознаки. Розроблений метод формалізації процесу розпізнавання повітряних об’єктів на основі описів класів різнорідними ознаками, відрізняється від відомих використанням ієрархічної функціональної мережі. Удосконалення методу об'єднання незалежних результатів розпізнавання на основі правила Демпстера полягає в попередньому перетворенні одного з неузгоджених розподілів можливостей класів алфавіту в розподіл ймовірностей. Це дозволяє проводити коректне об'єднання неузгоджених розподілів можливостей класів алфавіту з використанням правила Демпстера. Проведено дослідження застосовності розробленого правила при об'єднанні неузгоджених розподілів ймовірностей класів алфавіту. Розроблений метод пошуку рішень про класи розпізнаваних об'єктів на графі функціональної мережі відрізняється від відомих розробленим способом отримання інтервальної оцінки ступеня істинності класів в умовах відсутності даних щодо окремих ознак повітряних об’єктів і запропонованим евристичним правилом, що дозволяє скоротити розмірність безлічі вершин мережі, які перебираються при пошуку рішення про клас повітряних об’єктів. Метод дозволяє проводити пошук рішень про класи повітряних об’єктів в умовах неповноти і надмірності даних про ознаки.

The methodological approaches of studying development of family health by implementation of its functions

The article presents analysis of qualitative characteristics of information sources concerning methodological approaches to study of health of family with consideration for implementation of its function on the basis of 562 national and foreign publications in Internet resources: 78 medical sites, 12 sociological sites, 3 economic sites. It is emphasized that in 96.5-100% of scientific publications the methodological approaches are oriented to studying of social philosophical, social economical, medical social hygienic problems in countries of European Union and in Russia and on ethnic, financial insurance and legal issues too. All of them firstly input into public and individual health. Secondly, they give a view of effectiveness of quality of primary medical sanitary care. Nevertheless, they provide no solution of issues related to study of formation of health offamily under implementation of its priority functions.

POLA PENCARIAN INFORMASI TENTANG REPRODUKSI SEKSUAL PADA MAHASISWA UNIVERSITAS SRIWIJAYA

This study aims to determine the sexual reproduction information seeking pattern of Students in Sriwijaya University. It uses a qualitative approach based on Wilson's Model of Information Seeking Behavior that consist; passive attention, passive search, active search, and ongoing search. This research involves in-depth interviews with 12 students of Sriwijaya University. The study found that students at Sriwijaya University tend to perform a passive search pattern in seeking of sexual reproductive information. However this conditions does not apply when the students have responsibilities to fullfil, both academically and professionally, as it is known that the student with such responsibilities will perform an active and ongoing search. The study also found that Wilson's Search Information Behavior model can still be usefull. In the context of information seeking behavior of Student in Sriwijaya University, it was still influenced by psychological conditions, demographics, roles in society, environment, and characteristics of information sources. This study also identifies the motive of sexual reproduction information seeking behavior in students at Sriwijaya University.