Public Timeline Research Articles

Editorial Introduction: Governance, Citizenry, and Methodological Advancement in Policy Research

Editorial Introduction: Governance, Citizenry, and Methodological Advancement in Policy Research

When will Iget my paper back? Areplication study of publication timelines for health professions education research.

IntroductionBiomedical researchers have lamented the lengthy timelines from manuscript submission to publication and highlighted potential detrimental effects on scientific progress and scientists’ careers. In 2015, Himmelstein identified the mean time from manuscript submission to acceptance in biomedicine as approximately 100 days. The length of publication timelines in health professions education (HPE) is currently unknown.MethodsThis study replicates Himmelstein’s work with a sample of 14 HPE journals published between 2008–2018. Using PubMed, 19,182 article citations were retrieved. Open metadata for each were downloaded, including the date the article was received by the journal, date the authors resubmitted revisions, date the journal accepted the article, and date of entry into PubMed. Journals without publication history metadata were excluded.ResultsPublication history data were available for 55% (n = 8) of the journals sampled. The publication histories of 4,735 (25%) articles were analyzed. Mean time from: (1) author submission to journal acceptance was 180.93 days (SD = 103.89), (2) author submission to posting on PubMed was 263.55 days (SD = 157.61), and (3) journal acceptance to posting on PubMed was 83.15 days (SD = 135.72).DiscussionThis study presents publication metadata for journals that openly provide it—a first step towards understanding publication timelines in HPE. Findings confirm the replicability of the original study, and the limited data suggest that, in comparison to biomedical scientists broadly, medical educators may experience longer wait times for article acceptance and publication. Reasons for these delays are currently unknown and deserve further study; such work would be facilitated by increased public access to journal metadata.

Meniscal Injuries in the Olympic and Elite Athletes.

Elite and Olympian athletes are often stretching the upper limits of normal physiology and biomechanics of the musculoskeletal system in their efforts to excel in their sport. For them to get back to their sport at the same level after injury, the management, repair techniques, and rehabilitation protocols should be robust to permit healing of tissues to allow supra-normal loading and performance. The knee and the meniscus are commonly injured in these sports. Yet, the incidence, mechanisms, types of injuries to the meniscus, and their management are not known across different sports in the Olympics. We set out to look into the incidence and the trends of publications on meniscal injuries of the knee in Olympic games. A search of the PubMed and Scopus for these injuries using a search strategy gave 79 and 116 articles, respectively. There were very few publications giving the incidence of meniscal injuries in the Olympics. Football is the sport with the highest rate of meniscal injuries. Different sports are popular in different countries, and depending on the popularity and the country reporting these injuries, incidences differed. There was data available from India and Brazil for Elite athlete from diverse sports, whereas most data from other countries were for football and soccer. Knee was found to be the second most commonly injured part of the body in both Winter and Summer Olympics as well as the Youth Winter Olympics. Data were not available from the Youth Summer Olympics to make any conclusions. The number of publications on this topic is low. We presented the timeline of publications and citations of articles on this topic. The top country, language, journal, university, and author were USA, English, American Journal of Sports Medicine, Hospital of Special Surgery in New York and Brophy RH, respectively. The data on the risk factors for meniscal injuries were analyzed, discussed, and presented for football, as this was the most extensively studied sport. Even though the knee is one of the commonly injured anatomical locations in elite athletes, there is a lack of literature on meniscal injuries in this subset of population. We looked at possible reasons and made recommendations to improve data collection on these injuries.

Note from the Section Editor.

Note from the Section Editor Michelle DiMeo The history of medicine discipline in the twenty-first century does not—and should not—look the same as it did in the past. Technological advances have changed the way we read, teach, research, and interact with each other. New opportunities in the digital humanities and related "alt-ac" jobs provide viable alternatives to tenure-track historian positions, just as these traditional academic appointments increasingly encourage the integration of new methods inside (or even outside) the classroom. The products that emerge from these initiatives are rarely monographs, but instead may take the form of an online resource, interactive exhibition, digital tool, or other type of nonbook media. After a two-year hiatus, the BHM is relaunching its Digital Media and Humanities section as the Digital Humanities and Public History section. Published twice per year, this section will review these important new resources in our field, applying the same level of critical assessment expected of our Book Reviews section. Reviewers will consider what the intended goals are and how the chosen format helped the creator achieve these. They may also reflect on how the project engaged with existing debates in the history of medicine, asked us to think differently about something, or communicated a challenging topic in a new way. Overall, our reviewers will consider how these sources could benefit readers of the BHM. Historians will learn about new digital methodologies with the potential to enhance their research and discover online resources that could be incorporated in their classrooms. Curators and public historians may find inspiration for their next engaging visitor experience, while library and digital humanities professionals may find ideas for interpreting their collections and building strategic collaborations across repositories. While we will aim to be timely, using similar criteria as that employed in our Book Reviews section, our academic journal publication timeline may result in some reviews being published after the physical exhibition has closed. Conscious of this, we prioritize reviews of physical exhibitions that have a lasting online presence that may be accessed by readers everywhere. That said, we have found that reviews of innovative physical exhibits and ephemeral experiences—even those that are geographically restricted or have recently closed—are still helpful for collections and public history professionals. They may not be able to physically travel to these spaces, but reading a critical appraisal of their colleagues' ideas can stimulate their own creativity concerning a future project. [End Page 125] If you would like to nominate a work in the digital humanities or public history for review, or if you would be interested in serving as a reviewer, we encourage you to contact our series editor, Michelle DiMeo, or our managing editor, Carolyn McLaughlin. Both can be reached at bhm@jhmi.edu. Michelle DiMeo Science History Institute, Philadelphia Copyright © 2020 Johns Hopkins University Press

Corporate Real Estate Alignment

This dissertation aims to enhance CRE alignment by approaching alignment as a design and decision process as is explained in chapter 1. The current state of the art in CRE alignment modeling is summarized in paragraph 2.1. This sets the context of this research and will show that CRE alignment is complex and multidimensional. Thereafter, an assessment of CRE alignment models from a design and decision perspective is made in paragraph 2.2. Based on this perspective I identified the scientific gap of this PhD research. Most of the work in this chapter has been published before in the last 10 years. Figure 2.1 shows the timeline of the important publications related to the two topics that this chapter addresses: 1 State of the art of modelling CRE alignment processes; 2 Assessment of structure models of CRE alignment from a design and decision perspective. As can be seen in the figure below, the different topics have evolved at the same time. I have chosen to structure the chapter around the two topics and not follow the order of publication. Because the topics have evolved over time this causes some redundancy in and between paragraph 2.1 and 2.2. In the last paragraph 2.3 conclusions, they are brought together. But before showing the state of the art, CRE and CREM are defined. Corporate real estate is a specific type of real estate. CoreNet Global (2015) describes it as the real estate necessary to conduct business—the bricks and mortar of office buildings, manufacturing plants and distribution centres, retail stores, and similar facilities. It can include owned or leased space, buildings, and infrastructure, such as power plants or even airport runways. Corporate real estate is closely related to commercial real estate, however, there is a distinct difference in business objectives. In the commercial real estate world, the business is the real estate. The goal for commercial real estate is to provide a risk adjusted return to the investor; whereas, in corporate real estate real estate supports the business function. In other words, corporate real estate represents the demand side or user side of real estate, while commercial real estate focuses on the supply side to meet that need. Corporate real estate is seen since 30 years by (Joroff, 1993) as the fifth resource of the business that needs to be managed besides capital, human resources, IT and communication. One of the big challenges in corporate real estate management is reducing the gap between the high speed of business and the slow speed of real estate, i.e. between the so-called dynamic real estate demand and the relatively static real estate supply. A decade later (Krumm et al., 2000, p. 32) described CREM as “The management of a corporation’s real estate portfolio by aligning the portfolio and services to the needs of the core business (processes), in order to obtain maximum added value for the business and to contribute optimally to the overall performance of the corporation”. One could say that the authors position CRE alignment in this definition as the raison d’etre of CREM. Other authors (Heywood & Arkesteijn, 2017) position CRE alignment as one of the activities that CREM needs to perform. In this research, CREM will be seen as a wide range of activities that must be performed by the corporate real estate manager, while the alignment of CRE with the business will be seen as one of CREM’s activities and is referred to as CRE alignment.

Estimating the Number of Posts in Sina Weibo

Sina Weibo, an online social network site, has gained popularity but lost it in recent years. Now we are still curious on the number of posts in Sina Weibo in its golden age. Besides checking this number in Sina's operating results, we aim to estimate and verify this number through measurement by using statistical techniques. Existing approaches on measurement always rely on the supported streaming application programming interface (API) which provides proportional sampling. However no such API is available for Sina Weibo. Instead, Sina provides a public timeline API which provides non-proportional sampling but always returns a (nearly) fixed number of samples. In this paper, we present a novel method utilizing this API and estimate the number of posts in Sina Weibo in its golden age.

In What Year Did Hahnemann Return to Medical Practice?

AbstractThis article examines the timeline of Hahnemann's publications between 1777 and 1819 to reveal the year he most likely moved away from chemistry and returned to the study and practice of medicine.

Organ donation in the ICU: A document analysis of institutional policies, protocols, and order sets

ObjectiveTo better understand how local policies influence organ donation rates. Research methodology/designWe conducted a document analysis of our ICU organ donation policies, protocols and order sets. We used a systematic search of our institution’s policy library to identify documents related to organ donation. We used Mindnode software to create a publication timeline, basic statistics to describe document characteristics, and qualitative content analysis to extract document themes. SettingDocuments were retrieved from Hamilton Health Sciences, an academic hospital system with a high volume of organ donation, from database inception to October 2015. FindingsWe retrieved 12 active organ donation documents, including six protocols, two policies, two order sets, and two unclassified documents, a majority (75%) after the introduction of donation after circulatory death in 2006. Four major themes emerged: organ donation process, quality of care, patient and family-centred care, and the role of the institution. These themes indicate areas where documented institutional standards may be beneficial. ConclusionFurther research is necessary to determine the relationship of local policies, protocols, and order sets to actual organ donation practices, and to identify barriers and facilitators to improving donation rates.

Coming in from the Cold: A Safe Harbor from the CFAA and the DMCA 1201 for Security Researchers

We propose a statutory safe harbor from the CFAA and DMCA §1201 for security research activities. Based on a responsible disclosure model in which a researcher and vendor engage in a carefully constructed communication process and vulnerability classification system, our solution would enable security researchers to have a greater degree of control over the vulnerability research publication timeline, allowing for publication regardless of whether or not the vendor in question has effectuated a patch. Any researcher would be guaranteed safety from legal consequences if they comply with the proposed safe harbor process.

From the President of RUSA: Thoughts on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Reference and User Services

As is often the case with publication timelines, I’m writing my last RUSQ President’s Column in February but it won’t be published until June. My columns this year have focused on opportunities and challenges for RUSA and this column is no exception. At the 2017 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Atlanta, ALA Council accepted a proposal to add a fourth strategic direction to ALA’s Strategic Plan. Equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) is now the fourth strategic direction, joining advocacy, information policy, and professional and leadership development.

Incorporating popularity in a personalized news recommender system

Online news reading has become a widely popular way to read news articles from news sources around the globe. With the enormous amount of news articles available, users are easily overwhelmed by information of little interest to them. News recommender systems help users manage this flood by recommending articles based on user interests rather than presenting articles in order of their occurrence. We present our research on developing personalized news recommendation system with the help of a popular micro-blogging service, “Twitter.” News articles are ranked based on the popularity of the article identified from Twitter’s public timeline. In addition, users construct profiles based on their interests and news articles are also ranked based on their match to the user profile. By integrating these two approaches, we present a hybrid news recommendation model that recommends interesting news articles to the user based on their popularity as well as their relevance to the user profile.

Real Time Detection of Suspicious URLs on Social Networking Sites Twitter

Twitter, FACEBOOK are very famous social networking site utilized by billions of individuals to exchange the data to one another. To communicate with one another over the long separation it is used. At the same time it additionally attracts the attacker in doing diverse assaults or get the data being imparted by their clients. Twitter users can send the messages to one another as tweets, that tweets have the size impediment of greatest 140 characters. So to share the large information addresses to that pages is used by providing links of that pages. And for this purpose URL shorting is used. Attackers send the suspicious URLS in tweets and move the clients to malignant pages. These URLs can also be shared on Facebook with followers and friends. This paper introduces a Near REAL TIME APPLICATION to detect the suspicious URLs which are shared on twitters public timeline. This application collects the tweets, extracts the features correlated to the URL redirect chain, and with the help of training classifier it classifies the URLs as Suspicious and Benign.

Ross University: Cash Cow or Pig in a Poke?

Maintaining Access While the official number of first-year students registered at colleges and universities is not yet available, the COU expected universities to enroll the usual proportion of applicants from Ontario’s high schools—a remarkable achievement. In June 2003, close to 72,000 students had accepted positions in the province’s universities, and 42,600 confirmed they would attend firstyear classes at one of the community colleges. Ontario’s double cohort is a fascinating case study in the politics of higher education. While governments frequently come under pressure to maintain or increase access, few are forced to address these concerns in the context of a media flurry focusing on the countdown of a very public timeline to address the needs of a specific cohort.

A Major Milestone for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery-Global Open: Indexing and Archiving in PubMed Central.

In April 2013, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), our publisher Wolters Kluwer Health, the Editorial Board, Editorial Office staff, and I set sail on a new adventure with the launch of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery—Global Open (PRS Global Open).1 It was a voyage into unknown territory for some of us: PRS Global Open was one of the first open-access surgery journals in the world, and the first new academic journal for ASPS in more than half a century. When PRS Global Open began, we knew we had our sights set very high: we wanted to bring regional news, advances, case reports, and original research in plastic and reconstructive surgery to anyone, anywhere in the entire world with an Internet connection. PRSGlobalOpen.com and the iPad application have been free since the beginning, while content and readers have come from all over the world. But the potential reach of PRS Global Open—and the true beginning of our intended voyage—could not be fully realized until the Journal was easily discoverable and highly visible. As you have likely heard already, PRS Global Open attained our first milestone in being “on the map”—as of October 2014, PRS Global Open is completely and retroactively indexed in PubMed Central (PMC). PMC is not only an index but an archive of (already 3 millions) articles that can be accessed immediately and free of charge. Now, after a very brief period of existence, our new Journal is standing on a new, firmer spot, and we anticipate that you—our readers, authors, and reviewers—will be able to move the plastic surgery world through PRS Global Open.

Can Twitter be an Effective Platform for Political Discourse in Malaysia? A Study of #PRU13

Studies show that social media play an important role in shaping political discourse. Applications of Web 2.0, particularly Twitter, are currently influencing the nature of online participation in which the audience is not merely passively reading web content, but is actually contributing to and creating the content. This study examines communication on Twitter during the 13th Malaysian General Election based on Twitter messages collected under the #PRU13 hashtag. The analyzed dataset is collected from Twitter's public timeline from May 1 to May 6, 2013. This study found lack of diversity in the discussion on Twitter sphere in which tweets that are pro-Barisan National coalition dominates the #pru13. Based on the communication patterns, however, #PRU13 constitute a multifaceted group of commenters who seek to persuade, educate, provoke and so on.

How are we doing? October 2014

This is the last issue of the year, and the Transactions is making great strides to improve the publication timelines. We are in the process of upgrading the web review system to incorporate processing manuscripts post acceptance. This will provide a convenient portal for Rita Janssen, our industrious adminstrative editor, and authors to remain in communication through the entire process up to publication. Furthermore, the system should enable rapid posting of the manuscripts onto Xplore, which is an enhancement that many students and junior faculty will appreciate. The rapid post will be considered a "publication" even though all the editing and typesetting is not complete. For the researcher, this will mean that credit for your work will be given earlier. And for the editorial board, this will mean that our time from manuscript submission to publication should be reduced by about 6 months. This enhanced web review system will also allow us to perpetually archive all files related to a published paper in one location. We hope that this upgrade goes live by February 2015.

Who Is Tweeting on #PRU13?

The popular microblogging platform known as Twitter has become a legitimate and frequently used communication channel in the Malaysian political arena. While the 2008 Malaysian general election was notable for the use of social media by the opposition parties during their campaigns, the 2013 general election saw a level playing field in which the Barisan Nasional coalition had quickly caught up in its use of social media. This study draws on a content analysis of election-related Twitter messages collected under the #pru13 hashtag to describe the key patterns of activity and the thematic foci of the election’s coverage on this particular social media site. The dataset is collected from Twitter’s public timeline from May 1to May 6, 2013. What emerged from this analysis is there are evidently intensified and amplified campaign messages polluting the #pru13 hastag from accounts that are questionable in their origin. This study adds to the literature that has questioned the predictive power of social media in an election.

How K-12 School District and university officials Anticipated and Responded to 2011 National Weather Service Tornado Warnings

This research examines how public K-12 school district and university officials made decisions during National Weather Service (NWS) tornado warnings in the spring of 2011. K-12 public school districts and universities placed under tornado warnings were identified during the Spring 2011 tornado season. Interviews with officials at six public school districts and five public universities were conducted to address two main research questions: 1) What is the public school and university official's timeline of decision making and action implementation before, during, and after tornado warnings? and 2) What are the non-weather factors that influence how decisions are made? This research found that NWS tornado warnings acted as a trigger to activate most emergency plans and notification systems. However, multiple decisions and actions also occurred prior to the issuance of the tornado warning, including communication with other departments on campus, weather monitoring, and situational assessment. Preparations for tornado warnings occurred during the majority of the year when there was no severe weather. Additionally, much of the action taken occurred throughout several phases beginning hours before the severe weather was approaching and ending when the tornado warning had passed. The main non-weather factors that influenced decision making were the time of day or year and the location of people on campus.

Umbrella Protection Against Unauthorized Black Blanket Address on Public Webbing

Twitter is prone to malicious tweets containing URLs for spam, phishing, and malware distribution. Conventional Twitter spam detection schemes utilize account features such as the ratio of tweets containing URLs and the account creation date, or relation features in the Twitter graph. These detection schemes are ineffective against feature fabrications or consume much time and resources. Conventional suspicious URL detection schemes utilize several features including lexical features of URLs, URL redirection, HTML content, and dynamic behavior. However, evading techniques such as time-based evasion and crawler evasion exist. In this paper, we propose WARNINGBIRD, a suspicious URL detection system for Twitter. Our system investigates correlations of URL redirect chains extracted from several tweets. Because attackers have limited resources and usually reuse them, their URL redirect chains frequently share the same URLs. We develop methods to discover correlated URL redirect chains using the frequently shared URLs and to determine their suspiciousness. We collect numerous tweets from the Twitter public timeline and build a statistical classifier using them. Evaluation results show that our classifier accurately and efficiently detects suspicious URLs. WARNINGBIRD as a near real-time system for classifying suspicious URLs in the Twitter stream. In this project I proposed block the malicious URLs and provide mail alert for malicious URLs occur in the twitter stream.

Social Media Use during Japan's 2011 Earthquake: How Twitter Transforms the Locus of Crisis Communication

This article explores social media use during Japan's 2011 earthquake. In the era of social media, this earthquake provides an opportunity for analysing the role of communication during a crisis. To explain how social media use transforms the locus of crisis communication, we collected sufficient data on tweets in Japan from the Twitter public timeline during the earthquake and examined the Japanese government's Twitter account and its URLs. The results indicate that crisis communication on Twitter was led by peer-to-peer communication and relied on peer-generated information. In addition, the government's traditional leadership role in exercising tight control over crises and facilitating disaster communication was not clearly apparent on Twitter. By examining the shift in the locus of crisis communication through social media, this study provides new insights into the current use of social media.