Ibn Sina (980-1037 AD), known by his full name Abu Ali al-Hussain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina and the Latin name 'Avicenna', was a Persian scholar who is primarily remembered for his contributions to the science of medicine. He authored Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb (The Canon of Medicine). Sections of his work are devoted to detailed descriptions of a number of infectious illnesses, particularly rabies. Avice...

This article introduces a sensor information networking architecture, called SINA, that facilitates querying, monitoring, and tasking of sensor networks. SINA plays the role of a middleware that abstracts a network of sensor nodes as a collection of massively distributed objects. The SINA’s execution environment provides a set of configuration and communication primitives that enable scalable a...

We conducted an interpretive, qualitative research study to investigate herding behavior around trending posts about disasters on Sina Weibo, one of the most popular social media websites in China. Our preliminary results show that in response to uncertain situations, users engage in sensemaking (Seidel, 2013) and become emotionally engaged (Taylor, 2015) as they converge around trending posts ...

Vol. LI (June 2014), 300–319 *Ye Hu is Associate Professor of Marketing (e-mail: [email protected]), Rex Yuxing Du is Hurley Associate Professor of Marketing (e-mail: rexdu@ bauer.uh.edu), and Sina Damangir is a doctoral student (e-mail: sdamangir@ uh.edu), C.T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston. The authors thank three anonymous JMR reviewers for their numerous inputs in improving the...

The control of voices within a country is as important to a censor as blocking information from outside. This control must extend to social media. Screening every post prior to publication is not practical; instead, censors find and delete objectionable content after it has been posted. This paper presents GhostPost, a distributed system that conveniently and safely restores deleted posts on an...

Hanae Harchaoui, Bousayna Iraqi, Houria knouni, Youness Taboz, Hasnae Benkirane, Hassan Aguenaou, Amina Barkat Equipe de recherche en santé et nutrition du couple mère enfant, faculté de médecine et de pharmacie de Rabat, université Mohamed VRABAT, Service de médecine et réanimation néonatales, Centre Hospitalier Ibn Sina, Rabat, Maroc 2 Université Ibn Tofail, Unité Mixte. Corresponding author:...