Customer purchase intention in online shopping stores can be influenced by electronic word of mouth (eWom) communication generated by the comments of consumers on social networking sites.However, the adoption of eWom information by consumers is influenced by various factors.This study investigates the mechanism through eWom antecedents influence eW

Abstract Background Seasonal influenza and other respiratory tract infections are serious public health problems that need to be further addressed and investigated.Internet search data are recognized as a valuable source for forecasting influenza or other respiratory tract infection epidemics.However, the selection of internet search data and the a

Citizen science has become more popular in recent years, quickly taking on a variety of potentially conflicting characteristics: a way to collect massive data sets at relatively low cost, a Walnuts way to break science out of the ivory tower and better engage the public, an approach to educate lay people in scientific methods.But the extent of curr

Because current molecular haplotyping methods are expensive and not amenable to automation, many researchers rely on statistical methods to infer haplotype pairs from multilocus genotypes, and subsequently treat these inferred haplotype pairs as observations.These procedures are prone to haplotype misclassification.We examine the effect of these mi

Introduction: Urinary tract infections are the most frequent healthcare associated infections, being related to both high costs and morbidity.Our intention was to carry out an epidemiological characterization of hospital acquired urinary tract infections that occurred in an internal medicine department of a Portuguese hospital.Material and Methods: