This paper addresses the errors of Romanian public communication in first year COVID-19 pandemic (March-December 2020), classified as disinformation by fact-checking website Factual.ro. The focus is on claims made Facebook platform political representatives through their personal accounts or pages. One main findings that statements tagged False came from pages/accounts with a high visibility an...

In recent years, statisticians and psychologists have provided the critique that p-values do not capture the evidence afforded by data and are, consequently, ill suited for analysis in scientific endeavors. The issue is particular salient in the assessment of the recent evidence provided for ESP by Bem (2011) in the mainstream Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Wagenmakers, Wetzels, ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Billing claims are increasingly examined beyond administrative functions as outcomes measures in observational research. Few studies have described the performance of billing claims as surrogate measures of clinical events among kidney transplant recipients. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS We investigated the sensitivity of Medicare billing claims for c...

visual sciences have been progressing quickly in recent decades through globalization phenomenon. an enormous change has taken place in ocular health issues, however, there are various problems facing ophthalmic public health worldwide. in the previous years, the world health organization and the international agency for the prevention of blindness in partnership launched the global initiative ...

VISION 2020: The Right to Sight has provided a vision and a common goal for eye care programmes. It has provided the paradigm shift, or change in the way of thinking, from individual patient care to population care, a shift from each person doing a job or task, to a group working to eliminate avoidable blindness. Such a common goal needs a team approach. The VISION 2020 approach proposes that a...

Abbas Kiarostami set out his cinematic experience with works for children and about them. Despite the significant place this early phase of his oeuvre possesses in Iranian cinema, little has been done to analyze the ethical relations in these works. The major claim of this research project is that there are two major ethical conditions at the heart of ...

Invasive Computing is a research program that aims at developing a new paradigm to address the hardwareand software challenges of managing and using massively-parallel MPSoCs of the years 2020 and beyond. The program encompasses twelve projects from the areas of computer architecture, system software, programming systems, algorithm engineering and applications. The core idea is to let applicati...