Internet Blogs Research Articles

Evaluation of the quality of Internet information on masseter botox injection for bruxism.

Botulinum toxin, commonly referred to as botox, is frequently used in facial aesthetics, but also has therapeutic applications in various medical and surgical conditions such as bruxism treatment. The aim of this research is to evaluate the information quality of only English resources available on the Internet regarding the use of botulinum toxin in the treatment of bruxism. The terms "Botox + Tooth Grinding" selected for this study were searched on the Internet using the Google Search Engine, and the URLs of the top 150 websites containing only English pages were recorded and examined. The websites were assessed using DISCERN tools, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) benchmark, and HONcode tools. The website readability evaluation involved utilizing the Flesch Reading Ease Score (FRES) and the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level (FKGL). A total of 130 websites met the inclusion criteria. The total mean DISCERN score (section 1 + section 2) for all websites was 39.75/75 (range: 15-67). The average FRES of all websites was 52.79, and the average FKGL score of all websites was 10.72. Internet blog websites had significantly higher DISCERN (Section1) scores than other websites (p= 0.007). Only one website had the HON code. Internet blog websites showed better compliance with JAMA (authorship and currency) benchmarks. No statistically significant difference was determined related to FRES and FKGL scores between groups (p> 0.05). There is moderate and difficult-to-read information on the Internet about masseter botox injection for bruxism. Relevant guidelines are needed to improve the quality of websites about botulinum toxin for the treatment of bruxism.

ОСОБЕННОСТИ РЕЧЕВОГО ПОВЕДЕНИЯ ВИДЕОБЛОГЕРОВ НА ПРИМЕРЕ ОБЗОРОВ ТРАНСПОРТНЫХ СРЕДСТВ

The aim of this article is to identify the features of speech behavior of video bloggers from the point of view of pragmalinguistics, where the main object of the research is the communicant’s conscious and unconscious choice of speech means. The method of traditional content analysis is used to study the conscious choice of language means by a video blogger, while the method of modified content analysis is used to study the unconscious choice. Fragments of speech of videoblogers, whose videos are devoted to retro vehicles reviews were taken as a research material. This article defines such concepts as Internet discourse, blog and video blog, and also identifies and shows on examples the common linguistic features that are found among video bloggers in the field of retro transport. These features will allow to further form speech portraits of video bloggers and determine their personal traits. These traits show what norms of culture, behavior, communication, even the psychology of people’s thinking are formed among representatives of different generations under the influence of the World Wide Web.

A Study of Global Trade War and Its Impact on Indian Economy

A Study of Global Trade War and Its Impact on Indian Economy

<i>Queer</i> Collective Social Action after Signing the Peace Agreement in Colombia

Between 2020 and 2021, Colombia went through several protests, a product of widespread discontent with the government of Iván Duque, which had three particularities: they happened during the health emergency caused by COVID-19; They showed outrage over a new tax reform and the Government’s lack of commitment to the continuity of the peace process; and new actors and groups calling themselves queer participated. Therefore, the objective of this article was to analyze the appearance of these participation spaces in the 21st century in which gender identities were protagonists. Methodologically, information hosted in the media, internet blogs and web pages regarding queer collective social action within the mobilizations was tracked. The results show that the repression of the public force towards queer groups, rather than discouraging protest, evidenced a tension between hegemonic masculinities and their rebellious projects.

Dynamical features and traveling wave structures of the perturbed Fokas-Lenells equation in nonlinear optical fibers

In this study, the new complex wave solutions of the perturbed Fokas-Lenells (p-FL) equation, which has applications in nonlinear optical fibers are obtained using a new extended direct algebraic method. This model represents recent electronic communications like Internet blogs, facebook communication and twitter comments. The obtained solutions are the different classes of traveling wave structures with singular solutions Type-I & II, dark-singular, dark, and dark-bright solutions. Furthermore, stability conditions for the computed structures are reported. Also, graphical representations of some particular structures are shown by taking the specific values of the constants. The ordinary differential equation (ODE) obtained from a traveling wave transformation is converted into a dynamical system using Galilean transformation. The phase plane analysis is done for different values of the controlled parameters d 1 and d 3. A perturbation term is added to analyze the chaotic dynamics, and plots indicate that the system shows the chaotic dynamics. Also, sensitivity analysis shows that the system is sensitive to initial conditions. The conclusion is accounted for toward the end.

General studies, information and communication technology and contemporary mission in Africa

This study examines the relationship between general studies, information and communication technology (ICT), and contemporary evangelism in Nigeria. Information and communication technology (is defined as a diverse set of technological tools and resources used to transmit, store, create, share or exchange information. These technological tools and resources include computers, the Internet (websites, blogs and emails), live broadcasting technologies (radio, television and webcasting), recorded broadcasting technologies (podcasting, audio and video players, and storage devices) and telephony (fixed or mobile, satellite, visio/video conferencing, etc.). Contemporary evangelism and mission in Africa is a radical approach embarked upon by agents of modern religious thoughts and practices to expand the horizons of the mission of religion to mankind in the present dispensation through general studies (GS) and ICT programmes. Through the medium of ICT, Christian evangelism has received a boost in television, radio broadcasts, computers, and the Internet across cities and nations. This work is an attempt to examine the methods adopted by early missionaries in evangelising Africa vis-à-vis the modern techniques of GS and ICT, the challenges of mission, the concept of ICT and its various forms such as phones, television, radio, computers, and the Internet, and their relevance to mission. This work therefore adopted historical, missiological, and phenomenological approaches in the analysis of data.Contribution: This work discovers that radical development in communication across the globe has influenced and affected Christian methods and practices of carrying out ‘the mission of religion’ and its evangelical perspective, among others.

Specyficzne słownictwo kulinarne. „Diabelskie” nazwy ciast, ciastek i deserów

The object of description in this paper are names of cakes, cookies and desserts, excerpted from culinary recipes published in Internet sources (Internet cookery books, web portals and blogs, Youtube channel), which are motivated by a semantic reference to the demon of evil – devil. Apart from the semantic motivation of terms (which is more complex than the motivation of other “devilish” names of dishes), their form and status in the Polish language have been analysed.

The use of the internet blog as a modern tool to create the image of selected Polish companies in the fashion industry

The use of the internet blog as a modern tool to create the image of selected Polish companies in the fashion industry

Euphemisms Inside and Outside the University Context in the Times of the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Students’ Perspective

The aim of this paper is to explore the phenomenon of euphemisms as perceived by Polish university students in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The article presents an overview of the major theoretical issues related to the linguistic concept of euphemisms and their use in everyday situations during the years of the pandemic. The data for this study were collected through an online questionnaire administered in December 2022. This stage of the research was preceded by a close examination of three internet blogs in terms of COVID-related euphemistic vocabulary. The discussion of the findings is intended to reveal the students’ perspective on the use of euphemisms, including the reasons for their use and the types of situations where such language forms are employed. The results are expected to shed some light on the possible impact that euphemistic language might have on student-teacher interactions. Another significant aspect addressed in this paper is the relationship between euphemisms and language creativity.

Financial sentiment analysis: Classic methods vs. deep learning models

Sentiment Analysis, also known as Opinion Mining, gained prominence in the early 2000s alongside the emergence of internet forums, blogs, and social media platforms. Researchers and businesses recognized the imperative to automate the extraction of valuable insights from the vast pool of textual data generated online. Its utility in the business domain is undeniable, offering actionable insights into customer opinions and attitudes, empowering data-driven decisions that enhance products, services, and customer satisfaction. The expansion of Sentiment Analysis into the financial sector came as a direct consequence, prompting the adaptation of powerful Natural Language Processing models to these contexts. In this study, we rigorously test numerous classical Machine Learning classification algorithms and ensembles against five contemporary Deep Learning Pre-Trained models, like BERT, RoBERTa, and three variants of FinBERT. However, its aim extends beyond evaluating the performance of modern methods, especially those designed for financial tasks, to a comparison of them with classical ones. We also explore how different text representation and data augmentation techniques impact classification outcomes when classical methods are employed. The study yields a wealth of intriguing results, which are thoroughly discussed.

Pieturzīmes interneta forumos

On the internet, people can connect with others and share news and experiences through social media such as internet forums, social networks, or blogs. An internet forum is a discussion group within an online service organisation where users with similar interests can exchange ideas, find valuable information, and share files. Users use a variety of graphical means, such as punctuation, emoticons, and emojis, to express emotions and attitudes in text. The aim is to analyse the use of punctuation marks in internet forums. Punctuation has at least six functions in modern texts: grammatical, emotive, intonational, conative, phatic, and text-formation function. The study analyses the use of punctuation marks (ellipses, dashes, quotation marks, exclamation marks, question marks, and conjunctions of punctuation marks) in emotive, intonational, text-formation, phatic, and conative functions. The empirical basis of the research comprises 500 syntactic constructions manually extracted from 13 internet forums – “BOOT”, “Cālis.lv”, “Copes Lietas”, “debets-kredīts”, “FIZMATI.LV”, “Dieviete”, “Kursors.lv”, “iAuto”, “Māmiņu klubs”, “PRECOS”, “Sieviešu Klubs”, “BUILDING.LV” and “Dabasdati.lv”. The article compares the use of punctuation in internet forums for female and male audiences. The study focuses on the posts, comments, and headlines of internet forums. The study employs a descriptive method.

FakePoI: A Large-Scale Fake Person of Interest Video Detection Benchmark and a Strong Baseline

Deepfake technique can synthesize realistic images, audios, and videos, facilitating the thriving of entertainment, education, healthcare, and other industries. However, its abuse may pose potential threats to personal privacy, social stability, and even national security. Therefore, the development of deepfake detection methods is attracting more and more attention. Existing works mainly focus on the detection of common videos for entertainment purposes. In contrast, fake videos maliciously synthesized for Person of Interest (PoI, <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">i.e</i> ., who is in an authoritative position and has broadly public influences) are much more harmful to society because of <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">celebrity endorsement</i> . However, there is no particular benchmark for driving related research in the community. Motivated by this observation, we present the first large-scale benchmark dataset, named <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">FakePoI</i> , to enable the research on fake PoI detection. It contains numerous fake videos of important people from all walks of life, <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">e.g</i> ., police chiefs, city mayors, famous artists, and well-known Internet bloggers. In summary, our <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">FakePoI</i> includes 11,092 synthesized videos where only a few clips rather than the entire are fake. Previous fake detection algorithms deteriorate heavily or even fail on our <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">FakePoI</i> due to two main challenges. On the one hand, the rich diversity of our fake videos makes it pretty difficult to find universally applicable patterns for detection. On the other hand, the high credibility contributed by the presence of real frames easily confuses a common detector. To tackle these challenges, we present an amplifier framework, highlighting the feature gap between real and generated video frames. Specifically, we present a quadruplet loss to narrow the distance of all real PoIs and meanwhile push away each real and fake PoI in embedding space. We implement our framework and conduct extensive experiments on the proposed benchmark. The quantitative results demonstrate that our approach outperforms existing methods significantly, setting a strong baseline on <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">FakePoI</i> . The qualitative analysis also shows its superiority. We will release our dataset and code at https://github.com/cslltian/deepfake-detection to encourage future research on this valuable area.

Речевые тактики реализации стратегии самопрезентации в немецкоязычных lifestyle-блогах

The study focuses on German-language lifestyle blogs, which are being considered from the perspective of their authors’ self-presentation and presentation of their lifestyle. The aim of the study is to determine some of the ways used by the authors of German-language lifestyle blogs to implement the communication strategy of self-presentation. The paper discusses the genre features of lifestyle blogs, which serve as a platform for a certain lifestyle, defines the strategy of self-presentation as the leading communication strategy of this type of Internet blogs and highlights some tactics for implementing this strategy. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that based on the material of a German lifestyle blog, a number of speech tactics for implementing the self-presentation strategy have been identified for the first time. As a result, it has been proved that the speech tactics of conveying objective and subjective information, conveying information from a third person, using a promoted image, demonstrating competence and uniting with the addressee serve to effectively implement the blogger’s self-presentation strategy.

Formation of the ethnic symbolic politics as the mechanism of interaction between society and the political elite: Impact of information technologies

The purpose of the article was to examine the role of information technologies in the formation of symbolic politics through the prism of mass media, communications and new Internet technologies. The methodological basis of the study is formed by legislation and historical literature, using dialectical and comparative methods, as well as general methods of scientific analysis. Symbolic politics is one of the mechanisms of information interaction between society and the political elite; in a new form, it allows solving social and socio-political problems. It has been established that full communication between the political elite and the population is impossible without elements of symbolic politics, such as public relations agencies, Internet blogs and social networks, etc., whose purpose is not only to form a positive image of politics and leaders, but also, it serves to establish an agreement of understanding in society. The authors conclude that new mechanisms of interaction between the elite and society, such as e-receptions, destination portals and digital government, lead to greater government transparency and increased efficiency of its activities.

Colloquial Persian: Towards a New Rise of Simple Verbs?1

AbstractFor the formation of new verbs, Persian very productively employs complex predicates, while the derivation of simple verbs has been held to be marginal or even inexistent. We use data from internet fora, blogs, and messaging services to argue that the derivation of simple verbs from nominals is a productive process at least among speakers of colloquial Persian who actively use online media. Two acceptability tests of seven verbs and two ‘placebo verbs’ conducted among 58 participants produced more than 7,000 gradings. They show that such verbs are surprisingly well accepted, with statistically significant differences depending on age, gender, region, TAM form, and the individual verbs. Some of these results seem quite straightforward (e.g., acceptance declining with age), others rather not (for instance, the present and past progressive is very well accepted). The results run counter to the assumption that a gradual substitution of synthetic structures (simple verbs) by analytical ones (complex predicates) is a unidirectional process.

The geopolitical area of televised debate in crisis/emergency conditions: Unghiuri de vedere program, Moldova 1

Through its actions of informing, explaining and treating the events of our daily lives, the mass media long ago became, rightly, the barometer of society. But, as the author of the article mentions, the optics of the reflection and interpretation of reality by the mass media changes substantially in the conditions of the crisis and the state of emergency, such as those currently imposed on the Republic of Moldova, as well as on other countries, by the war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine. Against the background of the events taking place at the borders of our country, the approach to reality by the national media and not only, makes a substantial leap from political to geopolitical. In this way, the media coverage of facts and events is increasingly subject to disinformation, through fake news and propaganda, carried out in our country by part of the mass media in the country and abroad, by certain politicians, representatives of the opposition parties, and by some internet bloggers. In this context, the task of our bona fide mass media is not only to inform the public correctly, but also to fight misinformation and manipulation of public opinion. Concretely, the article examines the tasks that fall in this regard to the new specialized program Angles of View, proposed by the Public TV Station Moldova 1. In this regard, the author makes rigorous conclusions and proposals to counteract propaganda and manipulation of public opinion in the conditions of the crisis and the state of emergency imposed on our country by regional geopolitics.

Representation of the Influence of Travel Vlog on the Development of Tourism (On the Example of the Authorial Channels on Youtube Video Hosting)

The purpose of the article. The purpose of the article is to study and demonstrate the influence of travel vlog on the development of tourism using the example of the authorial YouTube video hosting channels.&#x0D; The methodology. The research methods were content and discourse analysis of travel vlogs from YouTube video hosting, as well as analysis of their structure and target audience.&#x0D; The results. Ukrainian YouTube travel vlogs are an important leader of public opinion. This category of Internet bloggers has great potential for use in the promotion of Ukraine as a tourist destination, raising the level of awareness of Ukrainians with Ukraine, organizing leisure activities of Ukrainian citizens and foreign guests.&#x0D; Analyzing the thematic rating of the videos, especially the latest ones, we came to the conclusion that the most relevant topics for the audience of the channels today are trips to different parts of Ukraine, including those in which there were military actions and which were under occupation, as evidenced by the number of views. Some topics are still silenced in the official media and are not widely discussed, despite the fact that these topics are really relevant for society, especially for young people, since the youth audience is the main audience on the Internet platform YouTube. We can express the hope that Ukrainian travel channels will continue to develop in this direction as a high-quality example of new media and will contribute to the formation of a new Ukrainian audiovisual culture.&#x0D; It is also undeniable that, as part of Travel 2.0, travel blogs make life easier for consumers of travel services in many ways: they help to learn more about the destination and what it can offer the tourist; help to make decisions about certain destinations, add confidence in the choice. reduce the risks and uncertainties associated with travel planning, etc. Therefore, the blogosphere, in our case, YouTube video hosting, can be considered an effective tool for the development of tourism. Bloggers provide feedback and contribute to the development of the country as a modern and popular tourist destination, and their reviews, opinions, comments are sometimes a more reliable than information from the travel service providers themselves.&#x0D; The scientific novelty. Consideration of tourism through the prism of audiovisual culture.&#x0D; The practical significance. The materials of this article can be used to develop programs or strategies for the further development of tourism as an integral part of Ukrainian culture.

On the Issue of Conflict Potential of Socio-Political Discourse in the Russian Blogosphere

This article examines the features of socio-political discourse based on the texts of online blogs of public opinion leaders —I. Varlamov, Yu. Latynina, R. Kadyrov, N. Mikhalkov, S. Mikheev, and M. Simonyan. The purpose of the article is to determine the degree of conflictogenicity of the texts of the Russian blogosphere, specifically the blogs of media personalities, public opinion leaders; the results obtained will provide for predicting and preventing the occurrence of conflict situations by establishing and reducing the conflict index of the text, the main indicator of which is frequency of the corresponding lexical markers. The authors distinguish several subtypes of socio-political discourse and their features. The genre specificity of such new media phenomenon as Internet blog is considered. There is a high degree of conflictogenicity in analytical texts, signaled by specific lexical markers identified with the help of the content analysis method. Foreign policy texts, regardless of their authors’ personal views, appear to have the greatest number of conflict markers, which means that political analytics, the object of consideration of which lies in the plane of international and intercultural communication, has a significant degree of conflict potential. In the Internet, as in journalism in general, the addressees of texts and the addressees of conflicting vocabulary are not the same due to the specificity of discursive space, in which direct recipients of information are blog subscribers, who as a rule have a political orientation close to that of the author. The very same conflicting vocabulary refers to persons who occupy the opposite position. The manifestation of conflictogenicity in blog texts is analyzed at three levels: stylistic, semantic and pragmatic, which makes it possible to identify all the features of conflictogenicity markers in the liberal, patriotic and official subtypes of socio-political discourse. The specificity of such features is revealed in each of the three main subtypes of the Internet discourse: liberal, patriotic and official. In the authors’ blogs under analysis, the highest index of conflict is characteristic of texts belonging to the liberal subtype of socio-political discourse due to the greater frequency of use of the units related to lexical markers of conflict, their stylistically reduced modality—up to obscene words. At the same time, the conflict nature of the patriotic and official subtypes is closer to the traditional journalism style and shows less expressiveness in the use of metaphors, irony, phraseology, words with a seme of direct negative evaluation.

A systematic review of infopreneurship’s opportunities and challenges

In this study, the literature on the opportunities and challenges for infopreneurship was compiled using the systematic literature review (SLR) method. The study's specific goal was to look at the infopreneurship opportunities that are available and the obstacles that LIS graduates must overcome in order to take use of them. In a methodical manner, relevant research publications from journals were downloaded, reviewed, and interpreted. The researchers used numerous research strategies, such as keyword and phrase searches, to assure the precision of the study papers collected. Because basic phrase and key word searches produced substantial results, advanced search tactics like truncation and Boolean operators were not employed in this investigation. The researchers employed multiple databases, including emerald, research4life, Ebsco host, FullfreePDF, and Google scholar, with base search serving as the primary search engine. The study found out several opportunities that existed on infopreneurship, some of which include Internet blogging, software and hardware installation, graphic design, using information, customized information, facilitating access to information, repackaging information, increasing the flow of information, digitization and internetworking. The study further found a number of challenges that make it less likely for infopreneurs to seize and exploit these opportunities such as financial constraints, the price of necessary equipment, a lack of infrastructure, the legal registration process, graduates' lack of skills, and poor planning. The study concludes that information entrepreneurship is essential to any nation's economic sector. The study suggests that by reviewing LIS curricula we can increase student understanding of infopreneurship practice.

Patient education interventions for the management of inflammatory bowel disease.

Patient education interventions for the management of inflammatory bowel disease.