Microblogging sites are being used as analysis avenues due to their peculiarities (promptness, short texts...). Lately, researchers have focused mainly in classification performance rather than interpretability. When the problem requires transparency, it is necessary build interpretable pipelines, and even though, resulting models too complex be considered comprehensible, making impossible for ...

Eclipse, an open source software project, acknowledges its donors by presenting donation badges in its issue tracking system Bugzilla. However, the rewarding effect of this strategy is currently unknown. We applied a framework of causal inference to investigate relative promptness of developer response to bug reports with donation badges compared with bug reports without the badges, and estimat...

A crucial factor contributing to the high rate of road accidents involving young people is inexperience, in particular the inability to promptly identify risky situations. The aim of this study is to test the effectiveness of a riding simulator in improving this skill in young inexperienced riders. We use the first fixation latency to measure the improvement in detecting the hazardous object. R...

BACKGROUND There are different models for community-based health insurance (CBHI), and in Nepal, among them, the government and the local communities (co-ops) are responsible for operating the CBHI models that are in practice. AIMS The aim of this study is to compare the outcomes in relation to benefit packages, population coverage, inclusiveness, healthcare utilization, and promptness of tre...

Cancer awareness public campaigns aim to shorten the interval between symptom onset and presentation to a doctor (the 'patient interval'). Appreciating variation in promptness of presentation can help to better target awareness campaigns. We explored variation in patient intervals recorded in consultations with general practitioners among 10,297 English patients subsequently diagnosed with one ...

BACKGROUND Road injuries are the second-leading cause of disease and injury in the Andean region of South America. Adequate management of road traffic crash victims is important to prevent and reduce deaths and serious long-term injuries. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the promptness of health care services provided to those injured in road traffic incidents (RTIs) and the satisfaction with those serv...

The popularity of online information generally experiences a rising and falling evolution. This paper considers the "burst", "peak", and "fade" key events together as a representative summary of popularity evolution. We propose a novel prediction task-predicting when popularity undergoes these key events. It is of great importance to know when these three key events occur, because doing so help...

In wireless networks new services will be rolled out ever faster and must meet customers expectation in terms of promptness, capacity and quality of service. This is why the performance of such systems must be assessed in an early system design stage. A simulation methodology based on Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) to analyze alternative network architectures and protocol stacks with respect to...

More and more shopping sites implement membership level management strategies and provide customers with not only online review communities but also incentives to promote them to post their online reviews. However, whether these measures affect the results of online reviews and how they influence have not been studied yet. Based on the social exchange theory, we collect data of online reviews a...