Informative Source Research Articles

Is YouTube an informational source for Indian educational resources? Analysis of YouTube videos with particular reference to e-GyanKosh and e-Pgpathshala

ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic created the opportunity for various educational resources to be more widely used by learners studying remotely, including in India. This study examines the availability and type of content offered by two of the most prominent Indian educational sites on YouTube. This study included content analysis, sentiment analysis, and text mining to determine the sentiment of viewers, the trend of videos, the growth of videos, and the regions where the majority of videos were generated and uploaded, among other things. This study made use of two well-known general domain educational resources, namely eGyanKosh and E-PGpathshala. Using the channel ID of each channel, Webometric Analyst software was used to collect raw data, and R-Studio was used to analyse audience sentiments on the accessible videos. Compared to subject-specific videos, the channel e-GyanKosh uploads more generic videos, such as memorials, lectures, and professors’ talks. On the other hand, more subject-specific videos are being added to e-PGpathshala. The majority of user responses were positive, indicating that viewers are satisfied with the YouTube videos made available by these two educational resources.

Awareness and perception on the use of smartphone applications for crop protection among undergraduate students in Southwestern Nigeria

Mobile applications in crop protection especially for speedy pest diagnosis, monitoring, and management are increasingly gaining global attention and support. An understanding of the awareness and perception of the youths, particularly students in tertiary institutions (who are heavy users of smartphones), on the use of smartphone applications for crop protection, is crucial for sharpening their orientations towards embracing the digital ecosystem in agriculture. The imperativeness is evident in the ongoing government drive towards promoting students’ engagement in digital agriculture as accommodated in the National Agricultural Technology and Innovation Policy (2022–2027). Consequently, this study investigated awareness and perception of mobile phone applications among crop and agricultural extension-related final-year students in selected Universities in Southwest Nigeria. A multistage sampling procedure was used in selecting 407 students. Data were obtained with the aid of questionnaires. Data were summarized using descriptive statistics such as frequency counts, percentages, mean and standard deviation using SPSS software. Findings show that very few (less than 8%) of the respondents were aware of the usage of specific smart/android phone applications for pest identification, disease diagnosis, and weather forecasting. Less than 4% ever used smart/android phones for pest identification, crop protection, and information sourcing on disease diagnosis and management. However, their perception of the need for pest and disease diagnosis as a foundation step to enhance crop protection (4.65 points on a scale of 5), and readiness to use android/smartphone applications for this purpose (MS = 4.45) was positive. There are enormous implications for increased awareness and knowledge sharing on the use of android/smartphone applications for crop protection and other interventions to promote digital agriculture among students in Nigeria.

Long-term associations between time-varying exposure to ambient PM2.5 and mortality: an analysis of the UK Biobank.

Evidence for long-term mortality risks of PM2.5 comes mostly from large administrative studies with incomplete individual information and limited exposure definitions. Here we assess PM2.5-mortality associations in the UK Biobank cohort using detailed information on confounders and exposure. We reconstructed detailed exposure histories for 498,090 subjects by linking residential data with high-resolution PM2.5 concentrations from spatio-temporal machine learning models. We split the time-to-event data and assigned yearly exposures over a lag window of 8 years. We fitted Cox proportional hazard models with time-varying exposure controlling for contextual and individual-level factors, as well as trends. In secondary analyses, we inspected the lag structure using distributed lag models and compared results with alternative exposure sources and definitions. In fully adjusted models, an increase of 10 μg/m³ in PM2.5 was associated with hazard ratios (HRs) of 1.27 (95%CI: 1.06-1.53) for all-cause, 1.24 (1.03-1.50) for non-accidental, 2.07 (1.04-4.10) for respiratory, and 1.66 (0.86-3.19) for lung cancer mortality. We found no evidence of association with cardiovascular deaths (HR=0.88, 95%CI: 0.59-1.31). We identified strong confounding by both contextual- and individual-level lifestyle factors. The distributed lag analysis suggested differences in relevant exposure windows across mortality causes. Using more informative exposure summaries and sources resulted in higher risk estimates. We found associations of long-term PM2.5 exposure with all-cause, non-accidental, respiratory, and lung cancer mortality, but not with cardiovascular mortality. This study benefits from finely reconstructed time-varying exposures and extensive control for confounding, further supporting a plausible causal link between long-term PM2.5 and mortality.

An Extended Pattern Based Comprehensive Stemmer for the Urdu Language

The Urdu language is used by approximately 200 million people for spoken and written communications on a daily basis. There is a substantial amount of unstructured Urdu textual data that is available worldwide. Data mining techniques can be used to extract meaningful knowledge from such a large, potentially informative source of data. There are many text processing systems available to process unstructured textual data. However, these systems are mostly language specific and developed for a variety of languages such as English, Spanish, Chinese, etc. Unfortunately, there are not as many language processing resources available for Urdu. Stemming is one of the most important preprocessing steps in the text mining process and its goal is to reduce grammatical words form, e.g., parts of speech, gender, tense, and so on, to their root form. In this work, we have extended the stemming capabilities of our existing pattern-based comprehensive stemming system for Urdu text. In addition to the existing stemming rules in previous work, we introduce novel stemming rules for prefix, and infix stemming. We also optimize the existing suffix removal rules and extend the add character lists for word normalization. These stemming rules are generic and have the ability to generate the stem of Urdu words as well as loan words (words belonging to other languages i.e. Arabic, Persian, Turkish, etc). In the experimental evaluation, we have observed a significant improvement in the overall stemming accuracy of our proposed pattern-based Urud stemmer, which demonstrates the adoptability of the proposed stemming approach for a variety of text-processing applications.

«Автобиография профессора Николая Иосифовича Воробьева»

The publication is a commentary and the text of the handwritten autobiography of N.I. Vorobyev. The document is introduced into scholarly discourse for the first time. The undertaken analysis of the text allowed us to identify new facts from the life and work of the researcher and to grasp their context. The document is dated March 2, 1947 and was written by the scholar during his work at Kazan State University. N.I. Vorobyev lists in detail the facts about his parents, the process of receiving an education, the beginning of his teaching and research work. He reveals the evolution of his own academic interests, from geography to ethnography, and highlights the author’s scholarly papers that are of significance from his point of view. The document mentions N.I. Vorobyev’s research work in the Far East dedicated to the study of the life of the Nanai (the Golds) and in the Mari ASSR – limnological studies of lakes. The researcher emphasises his work on methodological support of teachers. A separate chapter of the autobiography contains a description of the academic’s participation in the work of various public scholarly organisations. N.I. Vorobyev focuses on the important aspects of his life that correspond to the spirit of those times. This is the recognition of his political unconsciousness in the first years of the Soviet power, service in the Red Army as a private soldier. The autobiography of N.I. Vorobyev is a valuable, informative source. It shows not only the significance of individual milestones in his life and work for the scholar himself, but also reveals the distinctive features of the Soviet era, which formed the conditions for work for the entire academic community.

Koordinasi Pemerintah Desa dalam Penyusunan Rencana Kerja Pemerintah Desa di Desa Tamiajeng Kecamatan Trawas Kabupaten Mojokerto

The implementation of a village government work plan can run well because it is based on coordination and cooperation between the village government and the activity implementer. In this research, the researcher will use descriptive qualitative research, because the researcher wants to describe and describe in detail the phenomena or problems raised. The location of this research was conducted in Tamiajeng Village, Trawas District, Mojokerto Regency. The focus of this research is on vertical, horizontal and functional coordination in preparing the Village Government Work Plan in Tamiajeng Village. The sources of informants in this research were the Village Head, Head of the Village Development Planning Section, Village Secretary, and Village Staff/Apparatus involved in preparing village government work plans. Data collection techniques, such as Interviews, Questionnaires and Observations. Techniques for testing data validity in qualitative research, namely trustworthiness, transferability, dependability and conformability. Data analysis techniques use data reduction, data collection, data presentation and conclusions. The research results show that the coordination carried out by the Tamiajeng village government as a whole has gone quite well, both vertically, horizontally and functionally. Community participation is quite active in musrembangdes activities to voice aspirations. The key to success in coordinating the preparation of RKPDes for Tamiajeng village is communication, collaboration and cooperation between village institutions and village communities.

Sexual and reproductive health: level of knowledge and source of information in adolescence.

To date, there is a lack of a structured national plan of sexual education in Italy, with large interregional differences and poor uniformity in the promotion and learning of sexual health. The aim of this study was to evaluate the level of knowledge on sexuality and reproductive function among adolescents before and after a sexual education program, considering gender differences in the results. A longitudinal and interventional study was conducted on high school students. Six sessions for each class were carried out by a multidisciplinary team. Anonymous questionnaires were administered to investigate basic knowledge of human sexuality and reproduction before and after intervention. Participants were high school students who completed the questionnaires. Outcomes included pre and posttest answers on the knowledge questionnaire in study population. We obtained data from 842 high school students (mean ± SD age, 16.11 ± 1.74years). The main informative sources on sexuality were social media in 37.9% of participants; family, school, and scientific material were the main source in 15.1%, 5.2%, and 4.4%, respectively. A total score of 12.6 ± 3.4 (range, 1-20) was obtained on the knowledge questionnaire; specifically, the score was higher in females than males (12.8 ± 3.4 vs 11.9 ± 3.4, P = .0001). In males and females, a statistically significant increase in level of knowledge was found after the multidisciplinary intervention (14.5 ± 3.6, P = .0001). The lack of sexual education programs in schools in Italy compels adolescents to refer to frequently unreliable sources, such as social media and peers, contributing to misinformation and adoption of risky sexual behaviors. This study is based on a large sample size and highlights the importance of sexual education programs. The main limitations are a greater representation of the female population and the inclusive nature of the school (ie, an artistic school), attracting students who identify with sexual minorities. Adolescents have limited knowledge about sexuality and reproduction, with a notable gender disparity; sexual education programs in schools, providing information from sexuality experts, led to a substantial increase in knowledge and a reduction in the gender gap.

“We Will Forget the Old Traditions...”: Holidays, Recreation, Everyday Practices and Upbringing of a New Student in the 1920s.

Introduction. In the early Soviet period, the “proletarization” of students became one of the most important components of the Soviet government’s policy toward higher education. To achieve this goal, a whole set of measures was applied, among which a certain role was given to building a qualitative and effective cultural and educational work (kultprosvet). Within the framework of this study, an attempt has been made to identify its main forms aimed at combating traditions, habitual practices of spending free time, and educating a “new” Soviet student. Methods and materials. The achievements of new social history and historical anthropology were applied, which made it possible to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon of attempts to Sovietize students through the transformation of their everyday lives. The most informative sources for studying the problem were materials from the archival collections of Soviet universities and their party committees, where, in particular, minutes of meetings of propaganda commissions, boards of educational institutions, and reports on cultural work carried out among students are stored. Analysis. It was found that the authorities sought to quickly replace the customs, rituals, and practices familiar to the student environment. To do this, a whole range of alternative traditions was imposed on young people in parallel with the discrediting of those that were associated with “bourgeois remnants.” We are talking about new holidays, the approval of such forms of leisure as political education, the celebration of the days of the “red” calendar, sports, etc. In general, they were identical to those promoted in the work environment. These efforts did not always achieve their goal, and even the proletarian students sometimes willingly adopted pre-revolutionary values and behaviors. Results. According to the author, one of the main objectives of the state policy in the field of students was the desire to level its special position, which was fixed in the previous era. From an independent and free citizen, the student had to turn into a “staple of the proletarian regime,” which dealt a strong blow to the uniqueness of this social stratum of the population and led to the devaluation of its status.

An Adaptive Transfer Learning Framework for Functional Classification

In this paper, we study the transfer learning problem in functional classification, aiming to improve the classification accuracy of the target data by leveraging information from related source datasets. To facilitate transfer learning, we propose a novel transferability function tailored for classification problems, enabling a more accurate evaluation of the similarity between source and target dataset distributions. Interestingly, we find that a source dataset can offer more substantial benefits under certain conditions than another dataset with an identical distribution to the target dataset. This observation renders the commonly-used debiasing step in the parameter-based transfer learning algorithm unnecessary under some circumstances to the classification problem. In particular, we propose two adaptive transfer learning algorithms based on the functional Distance Weighted Discrimination (DWD) classifier for scenarios with and without prior knowledge regarding informative sources. Furthermore, we establish the upper bound on the excess risk of the proposed classifiers, providing the statistical gain via transfer learning mathematically provable. Simulation studies are conducted to thoroughly examine the finite-sample performance of the proposed algorithms. Finally, we implement the proposed method to Beijing air-quality data, and significantly improve the prediction of the PM 2.5 level of a target station by effectively incorporating information from source datasets.

Examining the impact of climate information access on adaptive behaviors during heatwaves: insights from Central Vietnam

This study focuses on the correlation between the different sources of climatic information involving the Short Message Service (SMS), social networks, local governments, online platforms, and workplaces and the individual adaptation measures concerning heatwaves. The survey data were obtained from four areas in central Vietnam involving 400 respondents. We used propensity score matching (PSM) to estimate the average treatment effect on the treated, aiming to mitigate selection bias. Findings indicate that the availability of various information sources encourages communities to address rising heat stress, with information sourced from SMS, social media platforms, local authorities, and workplaces being prominent. The findings signal the need to increase the visibility of heatwave data, which can change people’s behavior to reduce climate risks. In order to accomplish this goal, it is important to focus on climate change information sharing through platforms such as social networks, local administration offices, and the workplace in coping with climate change-related threats.

"Microbiology can be . . . " Student Competition to Develop Resources about Infectious Diseases that Improve Health Literacy.

The European Association of Establishments for Veterinary Education emphasizes the importance of communication skills and teamwork for student success in clinical practice. Traditionally, many veterinary curricula lacked standardized formal training in acquiring these essential skills.Effective communication and collaborative teamwork are not only crucial for fulfilling the clinical responsibilities of the veterinary profession but also play a pivotal role in the broader societal context. Veterinarians, in their social role, serve as scientific communicators for the community. This role involves conveying scientific concepts, even complex ones, with a particular emphasis on their significance for public health, reaching a diverse audience. Currently, there is a growing public health necessity to improve health literacy, which refers to the ability to access, understand, appraise, and use information to support healthy choices by society, especially for topics like infectious diseases and vaccination. This became more evident during the global COVID-19 pandemic. This teaching tip describes the development, organization, and broad outcomes of a student competition introduced during a standard veterinary medicine course to design novel resources on microbiology and infectious disease-enhancing health literacy. Three separate events were organized during the academic years 2020-2023. The third-year veterinary medicine students attending the 3-month course on infectious diseases of small animals participated in a student competition aimed at promoting creativity and innovation. Their task was to develop novel resources that delivered informative content to the public concerning microbiology and infectious diseases. Participation was voluntary and students participated in groups of 5-6. Overall, 125 students created 22 projects on microbiology and infectious diseases that were able to enhance health literacy. This approach allowed students to engage with the content and convey foundational knowledge to others in an easily accessible way. This skill of communicating with the public using easy-to-understand language is essential for success in the veterinary medicine profession. The resources produced, such as drawings, comics, games, and videos, constitute informative sources. Thus, they were published online on a scientific journal to disseminate knowledge of infectious diseases to a broader audience.

Информативные возможности аудиовизуальных источников при изучении истории и культуры татарского народа

Cinema is the most valuable source in the study of socio-politicalsocio-cultural processes. This explains the popularity of using film documents in the research activities of scholars, including historians. The article provides a brief overview of the content of films made by Kazan filmmakers with an emphasis on films dedicated to the anniversaries of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The author identifies the main ideas promoted by the creators of the film and shows how they changed over time. The propaganda and agitation task, which is present in all films, is emphasized; in the conditions of a national region it was always accompanied by a demonstration of the historical and ethnocultural specifics of the region. Establishing the research activity on the principles of historicism, objectivity, complexity, as well as using the hermeneutic method when interpreting audiovisual sources, it was concluded that newsreel materials can serve as informative source material on the cultural, economic and political life of the republic in the Soviet times.

Raised by machines—Children's collection of information as a catalyst for the creation of AI complaisant consumers

AbstractPrivacy laws have yet to effectively deal with the ever‐growing implementation of predictive technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), making critical decisions for children. To resolve this issue, COPPA should be revised, and a new division of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) should be created to provide a central informational source on the risks related to AI− a more effective means for parents to determine what types of data are being collected and used by AI, and allow parents to provide prior express consent for such usage.

Organizational Technology Policies and the Growth of Micro and Small Enterprises in Nairobi City County, Kenya

This study sought to establish the influence of establish the influence of organizational technology policies on the Growth of Micro and Small Enterprises in Nairobi, Kenya and; To determine the moderating effect of Entrepreneurial Orientation on organizational technology policies and the Growth of Micro and Small Enterprises in Nairobi, Kenya. The study was grounded on the Resource Based theory. The study adopted a descriptive research design since the design enabled the researcher to generalize the findings to a larger population of MSEs. In addition, this design enabled the researcher describe the characteristics of the population being studied as they exist at present hence minimizing biasness and maximizing the reliability of the evidence collected. This study was guided by positivism philosophy. The target population for this study comprised of all the 1835 Owners or managers of the MSEs registered with Nairobi City County and have operated for more than five years. Stratified and Simple Random sampling techniques was used to select a total of 184 respondents for the study. The study found out that organizational technology policies and organizational technology policies were the key variable that significantly influencing the Growth of Micro and Small Enterprises in Nairobi County, Kenya. Specifically, MSEs Staff were largely found to be un-trained especially on Emerging Technologies and lacked motivation to adopt and use technologies. In addition, study found out that there was low adoption on use of social media platform for business operation. The study recommends that the Management of MSEs needs to make deliberate efforts and invest on training especially on Emerging Technologies such as e-commerce, communication, e-production, e-procurement among others. This will ensure that the MSEs staffs are well equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge needed to effectively utilize the emerging technologies in the market. Further, the management of the MSEs needs to be motivated to adopt and use technologies and innovation. Motivation many be inform of incentives and rewards that motivates users to adopt and use technology in their operations. The is also need to invest in a strong and robust social media platform that are easy to use for most users. Social media networks can be harnessed to boast in product and services marketing and sourcing of market information among other.

Users' Technology Capabilities and the Growth of Micro and Small Enterprises in Nairobi City County, Kenya

This study sought to establish the influence of establish the influence of user's capabilities on the Growth of Micro and Small Enterprises in Nairobi, Kenya and; To determine the moderating effect of Entrepreneurial Orientation on user's capabilities and the Growth of Micro and Small Enterprises in Nairobi, Kenya. The study was grounded on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM. The study adopted a descriptive research design since the design enabled the researcher to generalize the findings to a larger population of MSEs. In addition, this design enabled the researcher describe the characteristics of the population being studied as they exist at present hence minimizing biasness and maximizing the reliability of the evidence collected. This study was guided by positivism philosophy. The target population for this study comprised of all the 1835 Owners or managers of the MSEs registered with Nairobi City County and have operated for more than five years. Stratified and Simple Random sampling techniques was used to select a total of 184 respondents for the study. The study found out that user's capabilities and organizational technology policies were the key variable that significantly influencing the Growth of Micro and Small Enterprises in Nairobi County, Kenya. Specifically MSEs Staff were largely found to be un-trained especially on Emerging Technologies and lacked motivation to adopt and use technologies. In addition, study found out that there was low adoption on use of social media platform for business operation. The study recommend that the Management of MSEs needs to make deliberate efforts and invest on training especially on Emerging Technologies such as e-commerce, communication, e-production, e-procurement among others. This will ensure that the MSEs staffs are well equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge needed to effective utilize the emerging technologies in the market. Further, the management of the MSEs needs to be motivated to adopt and use technologies and innovation. Motivation many be inform of incentives and rewards that motivates users to adopt and use technology in their operations. The is also need to invest in a strong and robust social media platforms that are easy to use for most users. Social media networks can be harnessed to boast in product and services marketing and sourcing of market information among other.

Heterogeneous latent transfer learning in Gaussian graphical models.

Gaussian graphical models (GGMs) are useful for understanding the complex relationships between biological entities. Transfer learning can improve the estimation of GGMs in a target dataset by incorporating relevant information from related source studies. However, biomedical research often involves intrinsic and latent heterogeneity within a study, such as heterogeneous subpopulations. This heterogeneity can make it difficult to identify informative source studies or lead to negative transfer if the source study is improperly used. To address this challenge, we developed a heterogeneous latent transfer learning (Latent-TL) approach that accounts for both within-sample and between-sample heterogeneity. The idea behind this approach is to "learn from the alike" by leveraging the similarities between source and target GGMs within each subpopulation. The Latent-TL algorithm simultaneously identifies common subpopulation structures among samples and facilitates the learning of target GGMs using source samples from the same subpopulation. Through extensive simulations and real data application, we have shown that the proposed method outperforms single-site learning and standard transfer learning that ignores the latent structures. We have also demonstrated the applicability of the proposed algorithm in characterizing gene co-expression networks in breast cancer patients, where the inferred genetic networks identified many biologically meaningful gene-gene interactions.

The Impact of Source of Information on Teenagers’ Knowledge of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

Background: The many cases of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrom (AIDS) in Indonesia within the age range of 25-49 years. Teenagers who are infected by HIV-AID in Indonesia shows an increasing number, misinformation and ignorance in teenagers are among the major causes of those increase. Teenagers are on a high risk since they have the tendency of involving in short term relationships with numerous partners. Therefore, to prevent further increase on the case, teenagers need to expand their source of informations and increase their knowledge n the matter. Researchers focused on studying the impact of source of informations towards the teenagers’ knowledge. Objective: to find out the co-relations between source of informations towards teenagers’ knowledge in a high school in in West Java. Method: Quantitative descriptive with cross sectional design. The number of samples taken are 99 respondents with purposive sampling technique and the statistic test using Chi Square test. Result: shows that there was significant correlations between the source of information on teenagers’ knowledge on HIV/AIDS with p-value 0,000. There is a significant impact between sources of information towards teenagers’ knowledge on HIV/AIDS. Conclusion: Increased knowledge on HIV-AID and understanding the steps on how to prevent the transmission became very important to encourage the teenagers to avoid getting infected by HIV/AIDS

PENERAPAN PERILAKU PROSOSIAL TERHADAP ANAK USIA 5-6 TAHUN DI PAUD DOA IBU

This research aims to find out and understand the "Implementation of Prosocial Behavior for Children Aged 5-6 Years in the Doa Ibu PAUD". The type of approach used in this research is a descriptive qualitative approach. Data collection techniques in this research are observation, interviews and documentation. The sources of informants in this research were the class teachers and the school principal. Checking the validity of the data was carried out by triangulating techniques and sources. The data analysis techniques for this research are data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions. Based on the results of research at PAUD Doa Ibu, teachers have implemented this prosocial behavior with various strategies given to children.

A cross-sectional content quality analysis of information in TikTok videos on "Dermarolling (Roller Microneedling)".

TikTok is one of the fastest-growing social media platform, and its short-form videos have become a widely used source of health information. "Dermarolling" is a form of roller microneedling often practiced at home, and patients may be using TikTok to inform their decision to pursue this treatment and their practice of it. This study assessed the informational content quality, source, and engagement of TikTok dermarolling videos to highlight potentially harmful social media trends. On a predetermined date, "dermarolling" was searched on TikTok. The top 75 results were screened. Number of views, creator type, type of video, and whether risks were discussed were recorded. Information quality was assessed using the DISCERN tool. The data were stratified by creator type, and statistical analysis was performed using R version 4.3.2. Median viewership and DISCERN scores were compared using Kruskal-Wallis tests with post hoc pairwise Wilcoxon tests. Fisher's exact test was used to compare rates of risk discussion between groups. Sixty-one of the reviewed videos met the inclusion criteria. Influencer videos engaged the largest overall audience and had higher median viewership than other creators. Physicians, primarily dermatologists, created exclusively educational content and influencers created mostly experience-based content. Overall content quality was generally low-moderate, with a median (IQR) DISCERN score of 30.5 (26.5-33.5). Physician content had higher median DISCERN scores than influencers (p = 0.004) and others (p = 0.004). Physicians were more likely to discuss risks compared to influencers (p = 0.02). TikTok content on "dermarolling" was of relatively low quality, and nonphysicians command a large viewership. Physician-created content is often of higher informational quality, and dermatologists should escalate their efforts to engage patients in this space to mitigate the effects of potential misinformation.

How teams can overcome silence: The roles of humble leadership and team commitment

AbstractTeam performance can be eroded or undermined when team members intentionally withhold information, such as suggestions for improvements, or concerns about issues that matter for the team. Yet, we know very little about whether silence in teams (team silence) in fact reduces team performance, and if it does, how team silence might be ameliorated. Grounded in social information processing (SIP) theory, we hypothesize and investigate the role of leaders as a potent social informational source to reduce team silence and in turn, enhance team performance. We further posit the role of team commitment to the organization as an important amplifier of humble leadership in reducing team silence. Across a programmatic series of five empirical studies involving experimental, multisource, and multiwave field data, we found support for the negative relationship between leader humility and team silence. Team silence also mediated the relationship between leader humility and team performance in a variety of work contexts. Findings supported that the benefits of leader humility were amplified in teams with higher levels of organizational commitment. Overall, this paper contributes new theoretical and practical insights by identifying leader humility as a preventative antecedent to team silence, with team commitment to the organization as an important qualifier of the impact of humble leadership on teams.