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BACKGROUND Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is a potential cure for a range of life-threatening diseases, but is also associated with a high mortality rate. Nurses encounter a variety of situations wherein they are faced with discussing bad news with hematopoietic stem cell transplantation patients. RESEARCH OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to explore the experiences and strategies ...

Newspaper websites and news aggregators rank news stories by their newsworthiness in real-time for display to the user. Recent work has shown that news stories can be ranked automatically in a retrospective manner based upon related discussion within the blogosphere. However, it is as yet undetermined whether blogs are sufficiently fresh to rank stories in real-time. In this paper, we propose a...

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This paper proposes a general framework for analyzing a class of functions called social aggregators, which map profiles of linear orders to a set of binary relations. This class of aggregators includes aggregators that yield a preference relation (social welfare functions) and those which yield a choice of an alternative (social choice functions). Equipped with this framework, I identify a pro...

The problem of information overload on Facebook is exacerbating as users expand their networks. Growing quantity and increasingly poor quality of information on the Newsfeed may interfere with the hedonic experience of users resulting in frustration and dissatisfaction. In the long run, such developments threaten to undermine sustainability of the platform. To address these issues, our study ad...

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Online Social Networking is a fascinating phenomena, attracting more than one billion people. It supports basic human needs such as communication, socializing with others and reputation building. Thus, an in-depth understanding of user behavior in Online Social Networks (OSNs) can provide major insights into human behavior, and impacts design choices of social platforms and applications. Howeve...