The COVID-19 pandemic, which emerged in December 2019 and then spread worldwide, has affected not only economic social life but also the financial markets. It left investors greatly panicked their decisions. In this study, effect of related news on Borsa Istanbul is analyzed using panel quantile regression method. study period set between 10 March 2020 17 April 2020. panic index, media hype fak...

A growing literature is emerging on the believability and spread of disinformation, such as fake news, over social networks. However, little known about degree to which malicious actors can use media covertly affect behavior with disinformation. lab-based randomized controlled experiment was conducted 233 undergraduate students investigate behavioral effects news. It found that even short (unde...

Background: Building fires are the most common threatening and distressing hazard in hospitals. Fire is one of the top 10 hazards that threaten Iranian hospitals. Nevertheless, no study has been done on the features of fires in Iran hospitals. So, this study aimed to investigate the characteristics of fires taking place in Iranian hospitals.  Materials and Methods:  In this cross-sectional stu...

1 Partial support was provided by NSF awards ITR-IIS-0326460 and ITR-IDM-0219649 and funding from I.B.M. Contact the authors as {akale1,kolari1,aks1,finin,joshi}@cs.umbc.edu ABSTRACT There is a growing interest in exploring the role of social networks to understand how communities and individuals spread influence. In a densely connected online world, social media and networks have a great poten...

In a marked departure from traditional offline media, where all subscribers of a particular news media source (e.g., New York Times) used to get the same news stories through printed newspapers, online news media presents multiple options for the readers to consume news. For example, the subscribers of a media source can get news directly from the news website, or from what their peers share ov...