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Impact of the Febrile Podcast and Learning Resource as an Infectious Diseases Education Platform.

Febrile is an infectious diseases (ID) podcast and learning platform with the aim of providing high-quality and accessible ID content for learners. We describe the use of Febrile as a resource for learning and teaching ID as well as learner satisfaction and perceived impact on clinical practice. The Febrile platform was launched in December 2020 and includes audio podcast episodes, infographics, and detailed online summaries of adult and pediatric ID topics. Production and contributor information is summarized. Podcast, website, and social media engagement is reported from available quantitative analytics. An online anonymous survey was conducted to assess educational impact. After 3 years of operation, Febrile has produced 90 episodes and has been downloaded >460 000 times in 196 countries, with the majority of its audience (58.9%) listening from within the United States. A total of 230 participants from 30 countries and 38 US states completed the survey, of whom 79 (34.5%) were ID fellows in training and 78 (34.2%) were ID faculty physicians. Seventy-two percent of survey respondents reported visiting the website, and 82% had seen an infographic. Enhancing core ID knowledge was the primary driver for listening. Two-thirds of respondents indicated that information learned from Febrile has changed their practice, and 50% have used Febrile as a way to teach others. Febrile also led to favorable impressions of ID for those considering ID as a career. Febrile is an engaging platform for ID medical education and provides a unique resource within the global ID community.

Measuring Public Open-Source Software in the Federal Government: An Analysis of Code.gov

This paper presents an in-depth analysis of patterns and trends in the open-source software (OSS) contributions by the U.S. federal government agencies. OSS is a unique category of computer software notable for its publicly accessible source code and the rights it provides for modification and distribution for any purpose. Prompted by the Federal Source Code Policy (USCIO, 2016), Code.gov was established as a platform to facilitate the sharing of custom-developed software across various federal government agencies. This study leverages data from Code.gov, which catalogs OSS projects developed and shared by government agencies, and enhances this data with detailed development and contributor information from GitHub. By adopting a cost estimation methodology that is consistent with the U.S. national accounting framework for software investment proposed in Korkmaz et al. (2024), this research provides annual estimates of investment in OSS by government agencies for the 2009–2021 period. The findings indicate a significant investment by the federal government in OSS, with the 2021 investment estimated at around $407 million. This study not only sheds light on the government’s role in fostering OSS development but also offers a valuable framework for assessing the scope and value of OSS initiatives within the public sector.

Driving forces and variation in water footprint before and after the COVID-19 lockdown in Fujian Province of China

The COVID-19 outbreak has injured the global industrial supply chain, especially China as the world's largest manufacturing base. Since 2020, China has implemented a rigorous lockdown policy, which has sternly damaged sectoral trade in export-oriented coastal areas. Fujian Province, which mainly processes imported materials, has a more profound influence. Although the COVID-19 lockdown has had some detrimental consequences on the world economy, it also had some favorable benefits on the global ecology. Previous studies have shown that the lockdown has altered the physical water quantity and quality, but the lack of total, virtual, and physical water research that combines water quantity and water quality simultaneously to pinpoint the subject and responsibility of water resources consumption and pollution. This research quantified the physical, virtual, and total water consumption and water pollution among 30 sectors in Fujian Province based on the theory of water footprint and the Economic Input-Output Life Cycle Assessment model. SDA model was then used to investigate the socioeconomic elements that underpin variations in the water footprint. The results show that after the lockdown, the physical water quantity and the physical grey WF in Fujian Province decreased by 2.6 Gm3 (−6.7%) and 0.4 Gm3 (−1.3%) respectively. The virtual water quantity decreased by 2.3 Gm3 (−4.5%), whereas the virtual grey WF rose by 1.5 Gm3 (4.3%). The total water quantity dropped by 3.3 Gm3 (−4.9%), while the grey WF increased by 1.2 Gm3 (2.5%), i.e. the COVID-19 lockdown decreases physical water quantity and improves local water quality. More than 50% of the water comes from virtual water trade outside the province (virtual water is highly dependent on external), and around 60% of the grey WF comes from physical sewage in the province. The COVID-19 lockdown reduced water outsourcing across the province (paid nonlocally decrease) but increased pollution outsourcing (paid nonlocally increase). And gross capital formation's contribution to the growth in water footprint will continue to rise. As a result, this study suggested that Fujian should take advantage of sectoral trade network to enhance the transaction of green water-intensive intermediate products, reduce the physical water consumption of blue water-intensive sectors, and reduce the external dependence on water consumption. Achieving the shared responsibility of upstream and downstream water consumption and reducing the external dependence on water in water-rich regions is crucial to solving the world's water problems. This research provides empirical evidence for the long-term effects of COVID-19 lockdown on the physical and virtual water environment.

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Public Administration ReviewVolume 79, Issue 2 p. 295-296 INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS Information for Contributors First published: 25 February 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13040Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume79, Issue2March/April 2019Pages 295-296 RelatedInformation

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Public Administration ReviewVolume 78, Issue 6 p. 934-935 INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS Information for Contributors First published: 29 October 2018 https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.12999Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume78, Issue6November/December 2018Pages 934-935 RelatedInformation

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Public Administration ReviewVolume 78, Issue 3 p. 493-494 INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS Information for Contributors First published: 22 April 2018 https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.12942Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume78, Issue3May/June 2018Pages 493-494 RelatedInformation

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Self-Citations and Increasing Influence of Our Research on Other Fields

This is the last time you are going to see Chicago style being used in the Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly (JMCQ). This issue is a collector's item that many of you may want to keep on your bookshelves. As we are moving to APA style from the autumn issue, you will see fewer footnotes and our explicit editorial policy discouraging excessive self-citations as listed in our Information for Contributors. The APA style puts authors' names within the main body text, while the references are listed by the authors' last names in alphabetical order. This makes the authors' names much more visible than the Chicago style. Regarding this, some authors received a note from me asking them to refrain from citing their own works too much, because that would have identified them easily. They have been asked to cut their self-citations before we sent the manuscripts out to reviewers. Authors certainly may have done many prior works on the topic that they would like to refer in the manuscript. At a time when impact factor and number of citations is becoming more and more important for institutions, it is understandable that authors may want to include as many of their own works in the manuscript as possible. However, this practice will threaten the integrity of the blind review process. When a reviewer sees an article citing five or more works from the same individual, he or she will question the relationship between the and the individual who got cited so many times. As scholars, we should be judicious in citing our own works and acknowledge others who also have contributed to the same topic. Simply listing author without name in front of the citation will not help as it is very easy to find online the from the article title nowadays. Citing the author's own works the same way as others' works is the best way to avoid the being identified.As I started posting tweets on Twitter for our articles, I realized how our JMCQ articles aroused interest of political scientists, sociologists, scientists, and people in other fields from their retweets. In addition to increasing the theoretical and methodological rigor of our field, highlighting the relationship of our research with other fields will broaden the impact and elevate the status of research in our field. One thing I did quite often recently was to suggest to some of our accepted manuscript authors to consider making their titles more relevant to readers and highlighting the unique contribution or essence of the study. In these days with short text messages dominating online conversations, a good title, just like a news headline, will make a big difference to how many people read the text of the full article. An article with a title that does not reflect the article well will drastically lower its readership potential.New Keyword System in JMCQAuthors and reviewers should know that we now use a new set of keyword categories in the JMCQ manuscript submission system. There are nine keyword categories that are standardized, and all authors are required to choose one or more item in each category as appropriate for their submitted manuscript specifically and themselves as scholars. The nine keyword categories are (1) Topic (34 topics),1 (2) Approach (Quantitative, Qualitative, Mixed, Conceptual only), (3) Method (19 methods),2 (4) Statistics (12 common statistical techniques, quantitative research only),3 (5) Medium (14 media types including media in general),4 (6) Country of study or expertise,5 (7) Theory (29 common theories and a write-in category),6 (8) Research interests related to any of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) division/interest group,7 and (9) author's own keywords (other than those keywords given in the eight categories). I hope this scheme is comprehensive enough to accommodate all types of manuscripts, authors, and reviewers. It will also help new authors to easily see if their manuscript falls within the scope of our journal when they check the categories. …