I is surprising that the prevailing performance taxonomy for scientists (star versus nonstar) focuses only on individual output and ignores social behavior, because innovation is often characterized as a communal process. To develop a deeper understanding of the mechanisms by which scientists influence the productivity of others, I expand the traditional taxonomy of scientists that focuses sole...

In task-oriented communication, references often need to be effective in their distinctive function, that is, help the hearer identify the referent correctly and as effortlessly as possible. However, it can be challenging for computational or empirical studies to capture referential effectiveness. Empirical findings indicate that humanproduced references are not always optimally effective, and ...

With the spread of mobile applications and online interactive platforms, number user reviews are increasing explosively becoming one most important ways for users to voice opinions. Opinion target extraction opinion word two key procedures used determine helpfulness reviews. In this paper, we implement a system extract “opinion target:opinion word” pairs based on Conditional Random Field (CRF)....

OBJECTIVES Previous questionnaire studies have attempted to explore the factor structure of lay beliefs about the causes of depression. These studies have tended to either fail to sample the full range of possible causal explanations or extract too many factors, thereby producing complex solutions. The main objective of the present study was to obtain a more complete and robust factor structure...

Online sales can be influenced significantly by customer reviews, and thus there are several studies on what makes an online review helpful to consumers. However, none of those researches address the helpfulness in context hedonic utilitarian types. This study examines how product type (hedonic utilitarian) moderates relationship between level (hedonicity utilitarianity) helpfulness. To test mo...

This study aims to analyze the effect of product reviews shared by consumers in text-, image- and video-based formats on e-commerce websites online purchasing intention. To this end, selected scale items were adapted three different surveys designed for text- (Study-1), (Study-2), video (Study-3)-based review presentation formats. The research data (Study-1:207, Study-2:209, Study-3:211) are co...

AIM To determine the effectiveness of an intervention programme developed to help parents manage serious child illness. METHOD Information from previous research about parents' stress of managing their children's serious illnesses, plus their wishes for what to do about it, were used to develop a behavioural intervention to be used with groups of parents with seriously ill children. The 6-wee...