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Charney, Scott. "The Evolution of Online Identity." IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine 7, no. 5 (September 2009): 56–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/msp.2009.140.
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Marcella-Hood, Madeleine. "Scottish fashion influencers: Constructing a style identity on Instagram." International Journal of Fashion Studies 7, no. 1 (April 1, 2020): 73–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/infs_00017_1.
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This article builds on existing theories of self-presentation and self-identity through a study into the behaviour of fashion influencers who position themselves as Scottish on Instagram. Fourteen interviews were carried out with Scottish fashion influencers who were asked to reflect on their online identity. The interaction between the offline and online self is explored, where national identity and a sense of place are recognized as important attributes of self-identity in an offline setting and participants were sampled on the basis that they were projecting this as a key component of their online self. All were found to be seeking to convey an ideal identity on Instagram; this involved curating particular aspects of their offline style and showcasing these online. The issue of authenticity was complex, and a spectrum of identity evolution on Instagram is observed and reflected on. The most career-minded participants tended to portray themselves in a more one-sided manner and were most strongly influenced by a sense of their audience. In contrast, the participants who were less career-minded tended to explore more freely with their online self and were influenced most strongly by internal factors.
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Zou, Xiang, and Bing Chen. "Design and Implementation of the Network Electronic Identity Management System." Advanced Materials Research 760-762 (September 2013): 1169–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.760-762.1169.
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With the prompt evolution of Internet, network identity management is getting more and more basilica. Personal network electronic identity associated in reality has been the significant and urgent task when online life becomes real. So this paper designs the network electronic identity management system architecture, and discusses the key technology of the system implementation including electronic identity generation and verification of electronic identity, and electronic identity state transition. The network electronic identity management system also has been primary implemented and achieved good effects in actual applications.
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Muriel, Pablo, and Eblin Acosta. "Observing the Evolution of Marginalized Youth’s Identity through Critical Literacy, Critical Pedagogy and Online Commenting,." International Journal of Literacies 23, no. 1 (2015): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/2327-0136/cgp/v23i01/48763.
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Hoffmann, Anna Lauren, Nicholas Proferes, and Michael Zimmer. "“Making the world more open and connected”: Mark Zuckerberg and the discursive construction of Facebook and its users." New Media & Society 20, no. 1 (July 28, 2016): 199–218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444816660784.
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The dominance of online social networking sites (SNSs) sparks questions and concerns regarding information privacy, online identity, and the complexities of social life online. Since messages created by a technology’s purveyors can play an influential role in our understanding of a technology, we argue that gaining a complete understanding of the role of social media in contemporary life must include qualitative exploration of how public figures discuss and frame these platforms. Accordingly, this article reports the results of a discourse analysis of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s public language, foregrounding the evolution of his discourse surrounding Facebook’s self-definitions, the construction of user identity, and the relationship between Facebook and its users.
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Cercleux, Andreea-Loreta. "Graffiti and Street Art between Ephemerality and Making Visible the Culture and Heritage in Cities: Insight at International Level and in Bucharest." Societies 12, no. 5 (September 14, 2022): 129. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/soc12050129.
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The paper aims to analyze, on one hand, the evolution and interpretation of graffiti and street art phenomenon in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, and at international level, and on the other hand how this subculture is related to aspects of culture and heritage. The analysis of the evolution followed by graffiti and street art in Bucharest is doubled by the investigation of the messages transmitted in relation to the national and local culture and history, as street art may be seen as an efficient tool contributing to local cultural identity building. The methods used rely on a complex approach, combining observation and photos from field research, documentation, and data collection from different organizations and online communities. Street art works have various positive effects on the urban landscape, including in relation to culture and heritage in time. The results demonstrate that in Bucharest, street art contributes to highlighting mainly the key-moments and the personalities in culture and history that contribute to shaping a part of cultural identity.
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Urban, Palina. "From diary narrative to the referential Self: how questionnaires and quizzes reshaped online self-writing." Media, Culture & Society 42, no. 5 (April 8, 2020): 777–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0163443720914033.
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This article discusses the evolution of self-inscription from the soul-searching autobiographical narratives characteristic of personal diaries to the highly referential and indirect language articulated in today’s social media. To trace the origins of this shift, this study considers blogs of the first decade of the 21st century where traditional diary narrative started to transform into a new type of ego-text. It suggests that the spread of online quizzes and questionnaires in the beginning of the 21st century played an important role in the creation of the referential Self characteristic of today’s online rhetoric. Entering the realm of traditional ego-text, these prestructured tools replaced evident self-narration with a disguised indirect version, providing ready-made identity templates and establishing clear rules of information circulation.
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MacKewn, Angelina S., and Brian W. Donavant. "Thinking About Your Thinking: Metacognition and the Adolescentizing of Online Higher Education." International Education Studies and Sustainability 1, no. 2 (June 18, 2021): p22. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/iess.v1n2p22.
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Online education is considered a modern landmark in Self-Directed Learning (SDL), but current trends place that characterization and the effectiveness of the delivery method in jeopardy. U.S. growth trends indicate increasing numbers and percentages of younger students entering virtual classrooms, compounded by wholesale shifts to online delivery in the wake of COVID-19. As the online arena transitions from working adults seeking educational access to entire undergraduate populations, online education appears to be evolving from an alternative delivery method into a ubiquitous form of higher education, thereby losing its identity as SDL and with all the pedagogical consequences such an evolution implies. Amid calls for increased student access and the continuing clamor for accountability, we examine differences in metacognitive awareness and regulation strategies in the multigenerational melting pot that has become undergraduate online education. While our findings indicate that younger students possess lower metacognitive capacity for maximizing online success and lead us to caution against wholesale implementation and its overuse for younger participants, we also offer considerations to help both faculty and institutions leverage the benefits of effective online delivery and encourage them to move beyond the stale methodologies that all too often separate motivated students from truly meaningful education.
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Perez-Garcia, Lorena, Jan Broekaert, and Nicole Note. "The temporal evolution of the normalized web distance." Internet Research 26, no. 5 (October 3, 2016): 1269–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/intr-07-2014-0185.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess whether the temporal evolution of the normalized web distance (NWD) between significant terms concerning, e.g., a case of online activism can be used as a meta-data technique to measure evolution over time of, e.g., progress or decline of social empowerment. Design/methodology/approach The NWD between two terms has been identified as a quantitative measure for semantic proximity, ascertaining a defining relation between them. A trend analysis is made by performing on the internet a time window restrained series measurement of NWD of all combinations of key-terms and classifier-terms. Case defining key-terms, positive and negative discourse polarizing classifier-terms, and neutral classifier-terms for negative control need to be determined by discourse analysis of information on a targeted case. An example of NWD evolution from 1994 until 2013 is presented to measure the empowerment effects of the Wirikuta online movement on the Huichol people in Mexico. Findings The application of the NWD temporal evolution method to the Wirikuta case shows a slight but significant semantic change of the key-terms with respect to some of the positive and negative classifier-terms. The neutral classifier correctly shows no significant distance variation, as required for valid application of the method. The method provides indications for a complex image of empowerment of the Huichol identity. Research limitations/implications The accuracy of the method is limited due to short-term and between-user variability of the search tool’s page counts. More reliable access to a web-index will be required for more accurate NWD-based trend analysis. Practical implications The monitoring of temporal NWD evolution provides a potential tool for more comprehensive trend description compared to classical frequency based methods. Originality/value Trend analysis is key to internet research, to which the temporal NWD method provides an innovative contribution.
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GARG, ARTI, and RAJEEV KUMAR SINGH. "Typification of fifty one names in Pedicularis (Orobanchaceae)." Phytotaxa 430, no. 2 (January 28, 2020): 61–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.430.2.1.
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Forty five lectotypes, four second-step lectotypes and two neotypes are designated for fifty one names in Pedicularis to fix the identity and to avoid the misapplication of names. The images of the specimens of the selected lectotype and neotype at CAL are provided here being not available online.
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Brett, Clare. "Educational Perspectives on Digital Communications Technologies." E-Learning and Digital Media 6, no. 3 (January 1, 2009): 281–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.2304/elea.2009.6.3.281.
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This article examines key issues in how new technologies are impacting upon how we teach, learn and collaborate, and uses an educational research project called GRAIL (Graduate Researcher's Academic Identity Online) under development to illustrate some fundamental issues in adopting new technologies. A significant challenge to the effective use of new technologies in education is the evolution of social practices around those technologies and the discrepancies between broader social uses of new technologies and how those same technologies can be used in educational contexts. The article describes challenges to design along the dimensions of public/private and individual/collaborative and uses data from a series of project research studies to illustrate the nature of these challenges and possible solutions. The taking up of new technologies in new ways requires the evolution of social practices of use – these practices simultaneously reflect and change our culture, and the evolution of such processes takes time.
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Levin, Ilya. "MAJOR TRENDS OF EDUCATIONAL PROCESS IN SCHOOL OF POSTINDUSTRIAL SOCIETY." Problems of Education in the 21st Century 44, no. 1 (July 1, 2012): 101–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.33225/pec/12.44.101.
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The present paper is a theoretical study of the educational system in the coming postindustrial society. The authors propose a conceptual model of that modern educational system. The model represents the approaching new school as a culturological space defined by three planes corresponding to three new phenomena closely related to the modern information technologies. These phenomena affecting the new school are: a) Social Media as a new way of forming social consciousness; b) Personal Identity Online as a new way of forming personality, and c) Data Intensive Science as a new scientific and methodological paradigm. It is shown that each of these phenomena is a result of evolution in three fields: knowledge acquiring, learning process, and science methodology. Development of the educational system/process is considered to benefit from а conflict between two tendencies: socialization and individualization. The paper also discusses digital curation as a novel educational activity which can be born in the new school based on a combined contribution of the above three phenomena. No doubt that education in the social media, within the abundance of various content, and with stimulating the students’ personal identity online - such education should drastically change roles of both the teacher and the students in the new school. Key words: educational system, methodological paradigm, postindustrial society.
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FIGUEIREDO, ESTRELA, DAVID WILLIAMS, and GIDEON F. SMITH. "The identity of John Rattray, diatomist and collector on the Buccaneer expedition (1885–1886) to West Africa." Phytotaxa 408, no. 4 (July 4, 2019): 296–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.408.4.7.
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Herbarium records show that during the second half of the 19th century John Rattray collected several plant specimens at ports of call along the West African coast (Canary Islands, Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ghana, São Tomé, Príncipe, and Angola). At the herbarium (K) of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, four such specimens are databased, three of which can be examined online. At the herbarium (E) of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland, 26 specimens are databased, twenty of which are imaged. All the specimens we examined have printed labels stating ‘Collected by John Rattray, H.M. Challenger Commission, Edinburgh’ with only a handwritten indication of the locality, for example ‘Loanda’ (Luanda, Angola). The collecting date has been omitted from the labels and there are no further details on the specimens. An investigation of the literature revealed that there is some confusion regarding the origin of the material and the identity of John Rattray, the collector.
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MONTAÑO-ARIAS, GENARO, ISOLDA LUNA-VEGA, JUAN J. MORRONE, and DAVID ESPINOSA. "Biogeographical identity of the Mesoamerican dominion with emphasis on seasonally dry tropical forests." Phytotaxa 376, no. 6 (November 22, 2018): 277. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.376.6.3.
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Several studies on the geographical limits and regionalization of the Neotropics have recognized this region as a biogeographical unit. Recent regionalization proposals recognize the existence of a Mesoamerican dominion within the Neotropics, extending from the northern portion of the Mexican Pacific coast into the lowlands of south-central Mexico and most of northern Central America (Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua). In this study, we assessed the biogeographical identity of the Mesoamerican dominion through the analysis of the geographical patterns of diversity of 356 species included in 28 genera and 16 families of plants, with a preferential distribution in the seasonally dry tropical forests of Mexico and Central America. Occurrence data were obtained from online databases (e.g., GBIF, SNIB, MEXU and TROPICOS) and refined using taxonomic and geographical information. We used the Biodiverse 2.0 program to obtain maps of species richness, centres of endemism and conducted analyses of similarity among areas. The analyses led to corroborate the geographical limits of the Mesoamerican dominion. With respect to the species with distributions that extend to America arid, the Brazilian sub-region and Florida and the Greater Antilles. From these analyses, we could identify for the Mesoamerican dominion two highly diverse areas in southern Mexico: the Balsas Basin (more than 60 species) and the Central Valleys of Oaxaca (28). We also identified seven areas of higher dissimilarity corresponding to river basins throughout the study area: Grande de Santiago, Armería-Coahuayana, Tepalcatepec (western Balsas), Eastern Balsas, Papagayo, Verde, higth Papaloapan (Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley) and Tehuantepec. The high values of dissimilarity in the Pacific watershed of southern Mexico are responsible for the high species turnover observed for the seasonally dry tropical forests in the Mesoamerican dominion.
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Zhong, Libo, and Cheryl Craig. "A narrative inquiry into the cultivation of self and identity of three novice teachers in Chinese colleges---through the evolution of an online knowledge community." Journal of Education for Teaching 46, no. 5 (June 4, 2020): 646–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02607476.2020.1775054.
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Rossi, Luca. "Media & Generations: how user generated content reshape generational identity in the Mass Media System." SOCIOLOGIA DELLA COMUNICAZIONE, no. 40 (June 2010): 109–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/sc2009-040009.
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The latest theorizations about generations try to explain the concept as a multi dimensional issue (Donati 2007) through the assumption of a common life experience, shared by the mem- bers, and the emergence of that specific generation as a social-fact itself. The concept of generation then assumes reflexivity process (Giddens 1991) both at an individual and at a collective level. Edmunds (2005) proposed that mass media could be a common landscape able to offer a world-wide shared stage for "concrete historical problems". If the generational ‘we sense' can be described as a meaningful set of connected criteria for interpreting and articulating topics in communication, then mass media would be the place where those ‘criteria' are learnt. Recent evolution of media technologies and the rising case of the so called web 2.0 add an interesting element to the described scenario. While the Mass Media system could have been identified as the place where the generational we sense was constructed, what does it happen today in a media environment where every user can add content (User Generated Content) that is often visible to a lot of unknown spectators? Where do we learn the connected criteria for interpreting and articulating topics? The paper aims to investigate this specific and furtive phenomenon, proposing an innovative methodological approach of analysis of online User Generated Content: blog entries.
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Lin, Min-Pei, Estela Marine-Roig, and Nayra Llonch-Molina. "Gastronomy as a Sign of the Identity and Cultural Heritage of Tourist Destinations: A Bibliometric Analysis 2001–2020." Sustainability 13, no. 22 (November 12, 2021): 12531. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su132212531.
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Gastronomy represents a significant part of the cultural heritage and identity of tourist destinations; however, related scientific literature is scarce. Considering these aspects within the field of tourism and hospitality, and selecting the articles written in English indexed in the Web of Science and Scopus from 2001 to 2020, the objective of this research is twofold: (1) to present a bibliometric analysis of the literature on gastronomic heritage (71 articles); and (2) to analyze some aspects (main topics, frequency of key terms, methods, and data sources) of the research on case studies in Asia and Europe (46 articles), as they are the most prominent regions on the representative list of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity (UNESCO). The study shows the temporal evolution of the literature on gastronomic heritage in parallel with UNESCO’s actions on cultural heritage. The results reveal that most articles relate gastronomic heritage to the sustainability of tourist destinations, and that European case studies address sustainability more than Asian studies do. Regarding the methodology to analyze Asian and European case studies, qualitative research predominates. Within quantitative studies, the use of online content generated by consumers and marketers as a data source is rare.
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Xu, Xingya, and Margret Hjalmarson. "Education Doctoral Students’ Self-Study of Their Identity Development: A Thematic Review." International Journal of Doctoral Studies 17 (2022): 201–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/4965.
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Aim/Purpose: Doctoral students’ experiences in PhD programs could be a journey of identity evolution. Existing research on doctoral students’ identities has typically been conducted by faculties. As the main character in the identity evolution process, it is critical to understand doctoral students’ interpretation of their own identities and identity development in PhD programs. The purpose of this paper is to examine how and what education doctoral students discovered when they used self-study and relevant qualitative methodologies (e.g., auto-ethnography) to investigate their identities and identity development through their own practices in PhD programs. Background: This research began as part of a larger project to synthesize studies on doctoral students’ identities. A cluster of articles was identified in which students were examining their experiences as developing individuals from the perspective of identities and identity development. In contrast to most of the previous research on doctoral education, this collection of articles was written by doctoral students as part of their academic and professional practice. Methodology: The larger qualitative systematic review (i.e., qualitative evidence synthesis) of doctoral students’ identity development began with database searches that were not restricted by year (e.g., PsycINFO, Education Research Complete, and Education Resources Information Center). Thirteen articles written by doctoral students discussing their identities and identity development in PhD programs were further identified from selected articles ranging from 2009 to 2021. These articles and their implications were analyzed using a qualitative research synthesis approach. Contribution: Although scholars have looked at doctoral students’ identities and identity development from various viewpoints, the current investigation deepens the understanding of this focus from doctoral students’ own perspectives. Doctoral students are trained investigators with research skills and mindsets. As novice researchers and educators, their open and honest reflections about their challenges, opportunities, and development are worthwhile to identify significant aspects of their identities and identity development in PhD programs. Findings: There are two dimensions to the findings: the Approach Dimension and the Content Dimension. The Approach Dimension is concerned with how doctoral students investigated their identities and identity development, whereas the Content Dimension is concerned with what they found. Findings in the Approach Dimension show that doctoral students applied the self-study inquiry approach or used the notion of self-study inquiry to interpret their identity and identity development. The self-study inquiry encompasses five main features, including (1) Self-Initiated and Focused, (2) Improvement-Aimed, (3) Collaborative/Interactive, (4) Reflective Data Collection, and (5) Exemplar-Based Validation. Doctoral students examined the five self-study features both directly and indirectly in their studies. The investigation revealed four major themes in the Content Dimension, including (1) Identity Development as a Dynamic Process, (2) Multiple Identities, (3) Learning Contexts, and (4) Socialization. Recommendations for Practitioners: The findings suggest that practitioners in PhD programs should be aware of the existence, process, and dynamics of identity evolution in doctoral programs. The best possible way for PhD program administrators, faculties, and advisors to support doctoral students’ growth and identity development is to incorporate doctoral students’ own insights into practice. Given the unprecedented influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the educational environment and the diversity of doctoral students, it is crucial to discover how doctoral students use structured research methods to reflect, learn, and self-support their identity development during their PhD programs. The self-study inquiry process would be a helpful and effective approach to support doctoral students’ advancement. For instance, PhD programs could create self-evaluation assignments or courses that incorporate both self-study and identity development concepts. Recommendation for Researchers: When studying doctoral students’ identity development, it is critical to emphasize the essence of identity, which is people’s perceptions of who they are. We recommend that researchers who study doctoral students could further integrate doctoral students’ insights about their own identity status (e.g., multiple identities) into research. Impact on Society: Successful completion of PhD programs is a critical foundation for doctoral students to serve society as expert researchers and educators. Support for the growth and development of doctoral students could facilitate the completion of their doctoral programs and strengthen their sense of agency through the lens of identity. Future Research: Future research could go beyond the field of education and expand to more disciplines to identify common and diverse factors influencing doctoral students’ identity and identity development across domains. Future research on the post-COVID-19 era and its implications for online programs must also be studied in connection with doctoral students’ identities and identity development.
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Eggenberger, Lukas, Callia Fordschmid, Claudio Ludwig, Seraina Weber, Jessica Grub, Nikola Komlenac, and Andreas Walther. "Men’s Psychotherapy Use, Male Role Norms, and Male-Typical Depression Symptoms: Examining 716 Men and Women Experiencing Psychological Distress." Behavioral Sciences 11, no. 6 (June 2, 2021): 83. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs11060083.
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Men as compared to women are half as often affected by depressive and anxiety disorders and seek significantly less help for mental health issues than women. Adherence to traditional male role norms (AtTMRN) may hinder men from describing prototypical depression symptoms and from seeking psychotherapy. The current study compared whether AtTMRN, gender role identity, or the experience of prototypical or male-typical externalizing mental health symptoms were associated with psychotherapy use in men and women. In an anonymous online survey, 716 participants (37% men) reporting to currently experience psychological distress were examined. Information was obtained on psychotherapy use, depression and anxiety symptoms, gender role identity, and traditional male role norms. Although experiencing similar levels of depression, men compared to women showed a reduction in psychotherapy use by 29%. Masculine role identity was directly associated with reduced psychotherapy use in men (β = −0.41, p = 0.029), whereas AtTMRN was not (men: β = −0.04, p = 0.818; women: β = −0.25, p = 0.064). Higher externalizing depression symptomatology (β = −0.68, p = 0.005), but not prototypical depression symptomatology (β = −0.02, p = 0.499), was associated with reduced psychotherapy use in men but not women (p > 0.05). Interactions revealed that men, but not women, with high AtTMRN use psychotherapy only when exhibiting elevated symptom levels. The results corroborate previous reports showing reduced psychotherapy use in men as compared to women and identify elevated masculine role identity and male-typical externalizing depression symptomatology as direct factors associated with reduced psychotherapy use in psychologically distressed men. AtTMRN interacts with mental health symptoms to predict psychotherapy use, indicating that men with high AtTMRN only use psychotherapy when exhibiting high symptomatology.
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Levitt, Heidi M. "A Psychosocial Genealogy of LGBTQ+ Gender: An Empirically Based Theory of Gender and Gender Identity Cultures." Psychology of Women Quarterly 43, no. 3 (April 14, 2019): 275–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361684319834641.
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In this invited article, I present an inclusive theory of gender that clarifies its interconnections with gender identity, gender expression, and sexuality. To support this functionalist theory, I summarize findings from an extensive body of mixed methods research on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other (LGBTQ+) genders in the United States. I use a feminist-intersectional lens to empirically base and historically situate a theory of gender that is grounded in research of LGBTQ+ communities (butch, femme, bear, leathermen, transgender, drag queens, and family/house systems). I define genders as either sets of personal qualities within a culture associated with physiological sex or sets of qualities that evolve in reaction to limitations of existing genders. The evolution of genders functions to meet needs in four domains: (1) psychological: an experience of fit between a core aspect of self and a gender construct; (2) cultural: the creation of an LGBTQ+ culture that asserts sets of gender characteristics, which were denied and stigmatized within preexisting cultural norms; (3) interpersonal: the communicating of affiliation and status to enhance safety; and (4) sexual: an erotic embodiment of signifiers of these needs via an aesthetic that structures sexual attraction. I detail how each function affects identity, security, belonging, and personal and social values. Online slides for instructors who want to use this article for teaching are available on PWQ's website at http://journals.sagepub.com/page/pwq/suppl/index
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FIŠER, CENE, BORIS SKET, MARTIN TURJAK, and PETER TRONTELJ. "Public online databases as a tool of collaborative taxonomy: a case study on subteranean amphipods." Zootaxa 2095, no. 1 (May 8, 2009): 47–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2095.1.5.
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Public databases are a promising tool for collaborative taxonomy. A collaborative revision requires a number of decisions, which – unlike in individual work – need to be clarified in advance. The success of such initiatives depends on acceptable guidelines for possible-yet-unknown participants. The nature of morphological variation constrains the scope of this kind of taxonomy to a level of single genera or families. The database should contain information also on sub and infra-subspecific taxa in order to preserve their identity and retain full knowledge of morphological diversity. All information on morphological variation to be included in the open-access database needs to be subject to peer-review, e.g. in the form of species descriptions. We expect the Web-accessed morphological databases to centralize and unify scattered taxonomical efforts, to foster taxonomy of difficult taxa, to provide free identification aids, and to condense the publication-citation cycle in the notoriously undercited field of alpha taxonomy. Specific issues are illustrated by the case of the amphipod family Niphargidae (http://niphargus.info/).
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Harp Ziegenfuss, Donna, and Cynthia Furse. "Opening up collaboration and partnership possibilities." Digital Library Perspectives 32, no. 2 (May 9, 2016): 103–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/dlp-09-2015-0014.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe a unique case of a librarian–engineering faculty partnership grounded in a faculty development National Science Foundation (NSF) grant. Authors will describe processes, lessons learned, challenges and opportunities resulting from designing, implementing and evaluating a massive open online course (MOOC) focused on teaching faculty how to flip classes. Design/methodology/approach This case study presents a reflective review of the process of two unlikely collaborators who work together, write a grant, design faculty development training and develop and evaluate a MOOC. Decisions made, perspectives and lessons learned will be discussed. Findings The evolution of an NSF grant partnership involving an engineering faculty and librarian is presented. Larger issues, such as proactivity of librarians, non-traditional librarian roles and librarian versus academic identity, are raised and discussed. Originality/value This case study presents a unique type of librarian–faculty partnership, one where a librarian is a Co-PI on an NSF grant. Collaborator reflections on lessons learned, challenges and implications could be applicable to other digital/technology projects, online professional development initiatives and course design projects.
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Rademacher, Mark A., and Casey R. Kelly. "Constructing Lumbersexuality: Marketing an Emergent Masculine Taste Regime." Journal of Communication Inquiry 43, no. 1 (September 5, 2018): 25–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0196859918796169.
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This article examines the online retailer Huckberry.com as a singular, centralized authority responsible for marketing “lumbersexuality” as an emergent, gender-normative taste regime. As an evolution of the devalued hipster marketplace myth, analysis reveals Huckberry promotes an adaptable taste regime to its young, educated, urban, White male clientele that unites goods, meanings, and practices across multiple fields of consumption that reconnect indie consumption and taste with a fantasy of “authentic” masculinity. We argue that Huckberry offers men semiotic resources that merge the urban with the outdoors in a way that enables the enactment of a fraught though seemingly durable masculine identity project that weaves the extraordinary and mythological into the quotidian. Implications of this gendered taste regime are discussed in relationship to the ways in which lumbersexuality is mobilized as a more authentically masculine alternative to the ironic stance of hipsterism and the supposed phoniness of mass culture.
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Galati, Francesco, Barbara Bigliardi, Renato Passaro, and Ivana Quinto. "Why do academics become entrepreneurs? How do their motivations evolve? Results from an empirical study." International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research 26, no. 7 (May 26, 2020): 1477–503. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijebr-11-2019-0619.
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PurposeAccording to the paradigm of the Triple Helix, universities are moving from their traditional roles of research, teaching and knowledge dissemination to an entrepreneurial role. Specifically, they contribute to innovation and competitiveness by creating academic spin-offs (ASOs). In such a context, the diffusion of digital technologies is impacting both on the development of new forms of academic entrepreneurship and on the motivations of academics in launching ASOs. Grounded on a recent reconceptualization developed on identity theory, this study investigates the motivations that lead an academic to establish a spin-off and if, how and why these motivations vary over time.Design/methodology/approachAn extensive online survey was performed in order to obtain a final database of 151 Italian ASOs. Different statistical techniques were used, such as Cluster analysis and ANOVA, to identify different ASO profiles and to understand how and why these profiles change over time.FindingsThe results suggest that motivations change over time: while financial aspects become less important, academics give more importance to other issues. Time, experience and financial gain influence the evolution of academic entrepreneurs' motivations over time.Practical implicationsInsights derived from the study could help policy-makers and administrators in better understanding this phenomenon and the possible evolution of such academic motivations in the context of digitalization, and enable them to act accordingly to foster academic entrepreneurship.Originality/valueThe main contributions of the present study are the addition of empirical knowledge to the scant and anecdotal literature existing to date and the inclusion of cognitive and psychological theoretical perspectives in the academic entrepreneurship debate. Moreover, it is believed that no other study has investigated the above topics in the Italian context.
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Guo, Xinxin, Juho Pesonen, and Raija Komppula. "Analysing online travel reviews to identify temporal changes of a destination image." European Journal of Tourism Research 32 (August 5, 2022): 3209. http://dx.doi.org/10.54055/ejtr.v32i.2447.
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The goal of this study is to examine how destination image and destination sentiment change over time using content from online travel reviews. We explore the evolution of Finland’s destination image from 2013 to 2018 by analysing 10,197 unstructured Chinese travel reviews. With a mixed analysis approach, we identify the evolutions of the perception of destination attributes, destination structure, and destination sentiment at functional, the mixed functional-psychological, and the psychological levels. The results show that the perceptions of destination attributes can evolve and change surprisingly rapidly, even in the case of a country-level destination. Although the structure of destination image seems to be stable, individual dimensions may evolve rapidly. In terms of destination sentiment, the evolving trends of destination sentiment can be even in the opposite direction of the evolution of destination attributes. These findings improve the research on the dynamic characteristics of destination image and provide industry insights for destination marketers in formulating long-term marketing strategies and monitoring destination image development.
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Protogerou, Cleo, Frédéric Leroy, and Martin S. Hagger. "Beliefs and Experiences of Individuals Following a Zero-Carb Diet." Behavioral Sciences 11, no. 12 (November 23, 2021): 161. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs11120161.
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The adoption of carbohydrate-restrictive diets to improve health is increasing in popularity, but there is a dearth of research on individuals who choose to severely restrict or entirely exclude carbohydrates. The present study investigated the beliefs and experiences of individuals following a diet that severely limits, or entirely excludes, dietary carbohydrates, colloquially known as a ‘zero-carb’ diet, for at least 6 months. Zero-carb dieters (n = 170) recruited via a social networking site completed an online qualitative survey prompting them to discuss their motives, rationale, and experiences of following a low-carb diet. Transcripts of participants’ responses were analyzed using inductive thematic analysis. Results revealed that participants’ decision to follow a zero-carb diet was driven by health concerns and benefits. Participants expressed a strong social identity and belongingness to online zero-carb communities. Participants reported strong intentions to follow the diet indefinitely. Shortcomings of the diet centered on experienced stigma; lack of support from healthcare providers and significant others; limited access to, and high cost of, foods; and limited scientific data on the diet. Further research into the benefits and shortcomings of zero-carb diets across settings and populations is warranted, and guidelines for healthcare professionals on how to support individuals following a zero-carb diet are needed.
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Hoxha, Elira, Igli Tafa, Kristi Ndoni, Islam Tahiraj, and Andrea Muco. "Session hijacking vulnerabilities and prevention algorithms." Global Journal of Information Technology: Emerging Technologies 12, no. 1 (April 30, 2022): 77–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/gjit.v12i1.7749.
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The concept of Internet security is studied by computer science as a safe medium for exchanging data while minimizing the likelihood of online threats. The extensive use of advanced web-based software in different industries such as education, retail, medical care, and payment systems, represents a security challenge for the programmers and an opportunity for the hackers to attack through session hijacking. Based on recent OWASP guidelines, this kind of attack is indeed one of the most frequent attacks that happens lately. Session hijacking happens as a result of poorly designed websites and a lack of security mechanisms, where the user's identity and session data are exposed. This paper will present this kind of vulnerability with the respective control mechanisms and will propose an approach for avoiding hijacking threats by using one-time cookies along with other prevention strategies.
Keywords: session hijacking, vulnerability, one-time cookies.
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van Noort, Simon, Rosali Smith, and Julie A. Coetzee. "Identity of parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae and Eulophidae) reared from aquatic leaf-mining flies (Diptera, Ephydridae) on invasive Brazilian waterweed Egeria densa in South Africa." African Invertebrates 62, no. 1 (March 9, 2021): 287–314. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/afrinvertebr.62.62842.
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The Brazilian waterweed, Egeria densa Planchon, 1849 (Hydrocharitaceae), is an invasive species in South Africa where it is a host plant for the aquatic leaf-miner Hydrellia egeriae Rodrigues-Júnior, 2015 (Ephydridae, Diptera). Efficacy of the biocontrol agent can potentially be affected by parasitoids. Three species of braconid parasitoid wasps were reared from puparia of Hydrellia egeriae. By comparison with the type specimens, these species have been determined to be Ademon lagarosiphonae van Achterberg, 2012 (Braconidae: Opiinae), Chaenusa anervata van Achterberg, 2012 and Chaenusa seminervata van Achterberg, 2012 (Braconidae: Alysiinae: Dacnusini), all previously recorded as parasitoids of an ephydrid dipterous aquatic leaf-miner, Hydrellia lagarosiphon Deeming, 2012, on Lagarosiphon major (Ridley, 1886) Moss ex Wager (Hydrocharitaceae) in South Africa. The chalcidoid, Janicharis africanus Gumovsky & Delvare, 2006 (Eulophidae), was also reared from Hydrellia egeriae and is possibly a hyperparasitoid of the braconids. South Africa is a new country record for J. africanus. We provide comprehensive images of all species including the braconid types and illustrated identification keys to the Afrotropical species of the two braconid genera are also provided. All images and online keys are available on WaspWeb (http://www.waspweb.org).
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Natalia O., Avtaeva, Beynenson Vasilisa A., and Boldina Ksenia A. "The Evolution of the Role of Women in the Family and the Public Sphere (The Case of Domestic Women’s Periodicals of the Late 19th ‒ Early 20th Century )." Humanitarian Vector 15, no. 6 (December 2020): 139–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.21209/1996-7853-2020-15-6-139-150.
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The purpose of the article is to consider the process of transformation of the image of a woman and the dominant family model in the main historical periods in the national female periodicals from the end of the 18th century to the present days. The authors note that the image of a woman in the gender media is changing due to the changes in the global and local agenda, in particular, due to the changes in the position of a woman in the family, the structure of a family, and decreasing of the number of family members. These transformations can also be explained by the change in the state’s requests for the promotion of a certain image, for example, the image of a patriotic woman during the Second World War and a mother woman in the post-war period. Over the course of many historical periods, rubrics devoted to the arrangement of everyday life, the relationship of the sexes, health and beauty, and motherhood remain the traditional rubrics of women’s publications. During more than two hundred years of publications, the image of a woman in them has gone through stages from primordial patriarchal models through a surge of individualization and independence to a moderate combination of the role of the homemaker and the installation of autonomy from men. The article also outlines the main trends in the development of modern women’s online publications, which, on the one hand, have inherited the theme and structure of traditional women’s magazines, and on the other, have the features of blogs. If certain characteristic images of a woman in the press gain or lose relevance, the changes in the family model in women’s media can be considered irreversible: there is no return to the image of a patriarchal multi-generational family. The study was based on the methods of historical review, thematic analysis and content analysis of publications of women’s magazines of various historical periods. Keywords: women’s periodicals, the history of women’s periodicals, the image of a woman in the media, media images, gender identity, family model, women’s online media
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Tariq, Muhammad, Fatima Jehan, Nooria Ali Liaqat, ,. Mehnaz, and Umar Farooq. "COMPARISON OF SARS-COV2 GENOME SEQUENCES FROM PAKISTAN WITH GENOME SEQUENCES FROM OTHER COUNTRIES." KHYBER MEDICAL UNIVERSITY JOURNAL 13, no. 3 (September 30, 2021): 136–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.35845/kmuj.2021.20999.
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OBJECTIVE: To analyze SARS-CoV-2 whole genome reported of Pakistan and compare them with other viral strains collected from other world region to better understand the origin and genetic characterization of the virus.
METHODS: All the available genomic information of SARS-CoV-2 including Pakistani strains were collected from various online sources. Phylogenetic analysis of 131 sequences from 11 countries (Brazil, China, India, Italy, Nepal, Pakistan, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, USA and Viet-Nam) were performed and compared with other related coronaviruses to find the evolution of virus and its origin. Individual SARS-CoV-2 gene, spike (S) glycoprotein and the receptor binding domain (RBD) with closely related coronaviruses were compared to further explore genetic variations and the likely RBD properties of the virus.
RESULTS: The analysis shows that genome of all analyzed 131 SARS-CoV-2 strains collected from different geographical area were extremely similar, exhibiting >99% sequence identity. Notably, genome of the SARS-CoV-2 has high similarity (89.1% sequence identity) with the two bat-derived severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) like betacoronaviruses, bat-SL-CoVZC45 and bat-SL-CoVZXC21 but was sufficiently divergent from SARS-CoV (82.3% similarity) and MERS-CoV (50% similarity). Phylogenetic analysis shows that the SARS-CoV-2 has relatively similar spike glycoprotein with bat-SL-CoVZC45, however, the RBD was more like that of SARS-CoVGZ02.
CONCLUSION: Using different bioinformatics tools, we determined that SARS-CoV-2 has high similarities to bat-derived SARS like betacoronaviruses than SARS-CoV at the whole genome level, however, the RBD was more like that of SARS-CoVGZ02, which shows that they use similar ACE2 as a cell receptor.
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Sandoval-Ortega, Manuel Higinio, José Jesús Sánchez-Escalante, and Silvia Guadalupe Zumaya-Mendoza. "The families Aizoaceae and Molluginaceae (Caryophyllales) in Sonora, Mexico." Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 16, no. 2 (November 29, 2022): 533–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.17348/jbrit.v16.i2.1264.
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The families Aizoaceae and Molluginaceae are distributed in tropical and subtropical areas around the world. In Mexico, these families have been studied for Aguascalientes, Guerrero, Veracruz, the Bajío region, Mexico Valley, and Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley. This work aimed to develop morphological descriptions and dichotomous keys for the taxa of the families Aizoaceae and Molluginaceae present in the state of Sonora. The material collected in the state of Sonora and deposited in the University of Sonora herbarium and the Mexico National Herbarium was reviewed, and the identity of the specimens was corroborated using specialized bibliography. In addition, the specimens deposited in the Herbarium of the Arizona State University Vascular Plant Herbarium, University of Arizona Herbarium, and Desert Botanical Garden were consulted online via Red de Herbarios del Noroeste de México. In Sonora, the family Aizoaceae is represented by three genera and five species, while the family Molluginaceae is represented by three genera and three species, mostly distributed in the Sonoran biogeographic province, in sandy soils. All the taxa of Aizoaceae present in the state are part of the flora of beaches and coastal dunes, and the three genera on the family Molluginaceae reported to the country are also found in Sonora.
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Jendroszek, Agnieszka, Malene S. Sønnichsen, Andrés C. Muñoz, Kato Leyman, Anni Christensen, Steen Petersen, Tobias Wang, et al. "Latency transition of plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 is evolutionarily conserved." Thrombosis and Haemostasis 117, no. 09 (2017): 1688–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1160/th17-02-0102.
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SummaryPlasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 (PAI-1) is a central regulator of fibrinolysis and tissue remodelling. PAI-1 belongs to the serpin super-family and unlike other inhibitory serpins undergoes a spontaneous inactivation process under physiological conditions, termed latency transition. During latency transition the solvent exposed reactive centre loop is inserted into the central β–sheet A of the molecule, and is no longer accessible to reaction with the protease. More than three decades of research on mammalian PAI-1 has not been able to clarify the evolutionary advantage and physiological relevance of latency transition. In order to study the origin of PAI-1 latency transition, we produced PAI-1 from Spiny dogfish shark (Squalus acanthias) and African lungfish (Protopterus sp.), which represent central species in the evolution of vertebrates. Although human PAI-1 and the non-mammalian PAI-1 variants share only approximately 50 % sequence identity, our results showed that all tested PAI–1 variants undergo latency transition with a similar rate. Since the functional stability of PAI–1 can be greatly increased by substitution of few amino acid residues, we conclude that the ability to undergo latency transition must have been a specific selection criterion for the evolution of PAI-1. It appears that all PAI-1 molecules must harbour latency transition to fulfil their physiological function, stressing the importance to further pursue a complete understanding of this molecular phenomenon with possible implication to pharmacological intervention. Our results provide the next step in understanding how the complete role of this important protease inhibitor evolved along with the fibrinolytic system.Supplementary Material to this article is available online at www.thrombosis-online.com.
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Zhang, Shenyang, and Yangle Chen. "A Study on Embodied Experience of Surfing Tourism Based on Grounded Theory—Take China’s Hainan Province as an Example." Behavioral Sciences 12, no. 11 (October 22, 2022): 407. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs12110407.
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In the context of the rapid development of surfing tourism in China, the behavior explanation of surfing tourists has not attracted attention from the academic circle. Based on the theory of embodiment, this study takes surfing tourism in Hainan Province as the first case to explain the process and results of body experience in surfing tourism behavior. Based on the grounded theory analysis of the collected online travel notes and on-site interview text materials related to tourism experience, 21 categories and 6 main categories were extracted, and the story line of the surfing tourism experience was constructed based on embodied experience. The results show that the embodied phenomena and processes of the surfing tourism experience affect the quality of tourists’ experience. Surfing tourists experience four typical processes, namely embodied perception, embodied awakening, embodied emotion and embodied extension, and represent the body’s meaning, self-identity and social value through surfing behavior. The research theoretically proposes the embodied experience model and a new category of surfing tourism and provides a reference value for the practice of the surfing tourism industry.
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Li, Linyao, Yi Li, Bo Song, Zhaomin Shi, and Chongli Wang. "How Human-like Behavior of Service Robot Affects Social Distance: A Mediation Model and Cross-Cultural Comparison." Behavioral Sciences 12, no. 7 (June 22, 2022): 205. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs12070205.
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Previous studies on the human likeness of service robots have focused mainly on their human-like appearance and used psychological constructs to measure the outcomes of human likeness. Unlike previous studies, this study focused on the human-like behavior of the service robot and used a sociological construct, social distance, to measure the outcome of human likeness. We constructed a conceptual model, with perceived competence and warmth as mediators, based on social-identity theory. The hypotheses were tested through online experiments with 219 participants from China and 180 participants from the US. Similar results emerged for Chinese and American participants in that the high (vs. low) human-like behavior of the service robot caused the participants to have stronger perceptions of competence and warmth, both of which contributed to a smaller social distance between humans and service robots. Perceptions of competence and warmth completely mediated the positive effect of the human-like behavior of the service robot on social distance. Furthermore, Chinese participants showed higher anthropomorphism (perceived human-like behavior) and a stronger perception of warmth and smaller social distance. The perception of competence did not differ across cultures. This study provides suggestions for the human-likeness design of service robots to promote natural interaction between humans and service robots and increase human acceptance of service robots.
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Stewart, Brenton, and Kaetrena Davis Kendrick. "“Hard to find”: information barriers among LGBT college students." Aslib Journal of Information Management 71, no. 5 (September 16, 2019): 601–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ajim-02-2019-0040.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine collegiate information barriers and perceptions of academic library climate among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) college students in the USA. Design/methodology/approach The primary method used for this investigation was an online crowdsourced survey of 105 participants who attended two and four-year colleges in the USA. The questionnaire used free word association where participants shared information barriers encountered on colleges’ campuses. Responses from each questionnaire were interpreted using open coding. Findings Information barriers around sexuality continue to be a challenge for non- heteronormative information seekers on college campuses. One-third of students had distinctive information needs around their sexuality and experienced information barriers from both the institution and social stigma. The study reveals an evolution in sexual minority students’ sense of self, which has moved beyond the binary identity of gay/lesbian explored in previous studies; students identified bisexuality as a salient information need, and described a campus environment that often erased bisexuality. The academic library was described as an information barrier due to inadequate sexual minority-related resources. Practical implications Academic librarians as well as higher education professionals, such as recruitment/admissions officers, student counseling services, student health and student affairs, can leverage the results of this study to help establish a more inclusive and welcoming information environment that empowers students for academic and personal success. Originality/value A limited number of studies in information science have focused on sexual minority college students’ information behaviors and even fewer on information barriers. This study presents new insight and deeper understanding of the collegiate information environment of LGBT identified students in the USA.
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Beardsley, Paul, Melissa Csikari, Ashley Ertzman, and Meghan Jeffus. "BioInteractive’s Free Online Professional Learning Course on Evolution." American Biology Teacher 84, no. 2 (February 1, 2022): 68–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/abt.2022.84.2.68.
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Teachers are eager for professional development on teaching evolution, especially if it includes direct ties to relevant curricula and detailed lesson plans. Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s BioInteractive Online Professional Learning: Evolution course was developed to provide educators with free, in-depth, multimedia resources that highlight important scientific concepts and studies in evolution and engage participants through interactive activities that link to student resources. Our goals in the development of the asynchronous, nonfacilitated course were to (1) deepen teachers’ content knowledge of evolutionary concepts essential to NGSS and AP Biology courses, (2) increase teachers’ confidence and comfort in teaching evolution content to general biology and AP Biology students, (3) have teachers identify major evolutionary concepts in scientific studies, authentic data, or educational media used to teach evolution, and (4) assist teachers in identifying and incorporating relevant BioInteractive resources to illustrate evolutionary content and science practices in their own course(s). Our results from a postcourse survey that included pre-post retrospective confidence questions suggest that the course improved educators’ knowledge in evolution and their confidence in teaching evolutionary topics. Overall, this course provides educators the opportunity to deepen their content knowledge and obtain exciting, relevant, and reliable resources to use in their classrooms.
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Jones, Tyson, and Simon C. Benjamin. "Robust quantum compilation and circuit optimisation via energy minimisation." Quantum 6 (January 24, 2022): 628. http://dx.doi.org/10.22331/q-2022-01-24-628.
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We explore a method for automatically recompiling a quantum circuit A into a target circuit B, with the goal that both circuits have the same action on a specific input i.e. B∣in⟩=A∣in⟩. This is of particular relevance to hybrid, NISQ-era algorithms for dynamical simulation or eigensolving. The user initially specifies B as a blank template: a layout of parameterised unitary gates configured to the identity. The compilation then proceeds using quantum hardware to perform an isomorphic energy-minimisation task, and an optional gate elimination phase to compress the circuit. If B is insufficient for perfect recompilation then the method will result in an approximate solution. We optimise using imaginary time evolution, and a recent extension of quantum natural gradient for noisy settings. We successfully recompile a 7-qubit circuit involving 186 gates of multiple types into an alternative form with a different topology, far fewer two-qubit gates, and a smaller family of gate types. Moreover we verify that the process is robust, finding that per-gate noise of up to 1% can still yield near-perfect recompilation. We test the scaling of our algorithm on up to 20 qubits, recompiling into circuits with up to 400 parameterized gates, and incorporate a custom adaptive timestep technique. We note that a classical simulation of the process can be useful to optimise circuits for today's prototypes, and more generally the method may enable `blind' compilation i.e. harnessing a device whose response to control parameters is deterministic but unknown.The code and resources used to generate our results are openly available online \cite{githubLink} \cite{mmaGithubLink}. A simple Mathematica demonstration of our algorithm can be found at questlink.qtechtheory.org.
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Batac, Kenneth Ian Talosig, and Voltaire Mallari Mistades. "Development and Evaluation of a Nature of Science-Based Online Course in Tenth-Grade Evolution." Proceedings Series on Physical & Formal Sciences 3 (March 9, 2022): 63–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.30595/pspfs.v3i.266.
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Worldwide, misconceptions and non-scientific notions about evolution are prevalent within academic circles. As online learning gains popularity because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is crucial to identify practices that support learning in these contexts. Using the ADDIE instructional model, this study developed and evaluated a nature of science-based online course in evolution for tenth-grade junior high school students. Results revealed that the biology teachers considered the quality of pedagogies, resources, and delivery strategies in the online course excellent. Correspondingly, the students deemed the classroom climate in the online course exceptional in terms of instructor behaviors, course structure, course clarity, and student connectedness. The online course also helped them understand how evolution works through the videos and informative content and accept evolution by considering that several pieces of evidence and information support it and science and religion are not contradictory. Although the online course is good the way it is for most students, some of them provided recommendations for improvement. Overall, the students regarded the online course as recommendable because it is educational and manageable.
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Prabal, P. S., and P. Vanishree. "Understanding critical success factors and customer expectations for Indian travelers after COVID-19." CARDIOMETRY, no. 23 (August 20, 2022): 207–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.18137/cardiometry.2022.23.207215.
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This research examines the identity of critical success factors (CSFs) in the leisure lodging segment and growth in India, coming out of the perspective of the domestic travelers representing the demand side of the lodging segment. Understanding the distinctions in CSFs deems to be critical to the growth of the leisure lodging segment. With the help of 319 questionnaires, the results identified eight dimensions of CSFs (i.e., Physical Product, Hotel Room Policy, Value-added Facilities, Room Booking channel, Brand Image, Services Quality, Food & Beverage services, and COVID-19 Safety) as being the most important that travelers will look in hotels/budget hotels and luxury hotels before making a reservation. However, the level of significance of each dimension differed, where Brand Image and Food and Beverage service show the least importance. The principal component analysis also highlights that the top three CSFs for Indian travelers show the highest variance inflexible checkout time, Design/Look of the guestroom, and online reservation system. It gives insight into how the Indian lodging industry must not overlook these three critical success factors to regain trust, earn back loyal customers, and ultimately become profitable.
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Veremchuk, Olena, and Liudmyla Trachuk. "LIBRARY OPAC: EVOLUTION OF TECHNOLOGIES." Scientific journal “Library Science. Record Studies. Informology”, no. 2 (September 1, 2021): 42–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.32461/2409-9805.2.2021.238780.
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The purpose of the article is an analysis of evolutionary stages in the development of online-catalog and the requirements to these services in the context of customer orientation. The methodological basis of scientific intelligence is a customer-oriented approach that allows studying library products and services through the prism its accordance and level of satisfaction needs of customers (users) in the library; the principle of historicism, allowed to identify the origins of online cataloging, the stages of its development and quality of online-catalogs; source analysis and synthesis. The scientific novelty is the technological evolution of online catalogs were studied the first time in the Ukrainian library and the modern requirements to these services in the context of customer orientation and web 2.0 technologies are defined. Conclusions – automation of library at the current stage should be concentrated on developing and deploying electronic catalogs which are suited to the expectation of the new generation as competent web users. Improving the search tools should not be directed at the library staff but used for breaking down the barriers that users have when trying to navigate in different library resources and websites therefore will be possible while the architecture of modern automated library information systems does not interfere with the cooperation of the user and catalog. The evolutionary solution to this problem can be a reconstruction of automated libraries and information systems in the way by changing their architecture to one the user is orientated.
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Eugenia Fernandes Augusto, Eryka, Gabriela Conde Marcellino, Gilmara Lima de Elua Roble, Luis Fernando Pacheco Pereira, and Fábio Rogério de Morais. "EVOLUTION OF THE BRAZILIAN DIGITAL PAYMENT METHODS MARKET." Journal on Innovation and Sustainability RISUS 12, no. 4 (December 23, 2021): 77–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.23925/2179-3565.2021v12i4p77-90.
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This paper aims to understand the evolution of the Brazilian digital payment methods market. Thus, it is intended to present to the reader an overview of the characteristics and configurations of the payment arrangements sector, since the beginning of the popularization of cards, until the most recent movements, given the new retail configurations, which have been established in online environments, called e-commerce. Furthermore, it is intended in this work, using the qualitative research, to identify the main motivations that encourage consumers to choose the payment method used in online shopping. It was possible to conclude that credit card is the payment method that most motivates consumers in e-commerce.
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Rhys Leahy, Richard F. Sear, Nicholas J. Restrepo, Yonatan Lupu, and Neil F. Johnson. "Dynamic Latent Dirichlet Allocation Tracks Evolution of Online Hate Topics." Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning 02, no. 01 (2022): 257–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.54364/aaiml.2022.1117.
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Not only can online hate content spread easily between social media platforms, but its focus can also evolve over time. Machine learning and other artificial intelligence (AI) tools could play a key role in helping human moderators understand how such hate topics are evolving online. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) has been shown to be able to identify hate topics from a corpus of text associated with online communities that promote hate. However, applying LDA to each day’s data is impractical since the inferred topic list from the optimization can change abruptly from day to day, even though the underlying text and hence topics do not typically change this quickly. Hence, LDA is not well suited to capture the way in which hate topics evolve and morph. Here we solve this problem by showing that a dynamic version of LDA can help capture this evolution of topics surrounding online hate. Specifically, we show how standard and dynamical LDA models can be used in conjunction to analyze the topics over time emerging from extremist communities across multiple moderated and unmoderated social media platforms. Our dataset comprises material that we have gathered from hate-related communities on Facebook, Telegram, and Gab during the time period January-April 2021. We demonstrate the ability of dynamic LDA to shed light on how hate groups use different platforms in order to propagate their cause and interests across the online multiverse of social media platforms.
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Alaa, Rana, Mariam Gawish, and Manuel Fernández-Veiga. "Improving Recommendations for Online Retail Markets Based on Ontology Evolution." Electronics 10, no. 14 (July 11, 2021): 1650. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/electronics10141650.
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The semantic web is considered to be an extension of the present web. In the semantic web, information is given with well-defined meanings, and thus helps people worldwide to cooperate together and exchange knowledge. The semantic web plays a significant role in describing the contents and services in a machine-readable form. It has been developed based on ontologies, which are deemed the backbone of the semantic web. Ontologies are a key technique with which semantics are annotated, and they provide common comprehensible foundation for resources on the semantic web. The use of semantics and artificial intelligence leads to what is known to be “Smarter Web”, where it will be easy to retrieve what customers want to see on e-commerce platforms, and thus will help users save time and enhance their search for the products they need. The semantic web is used as well as webs 3.0, which helps enhancing systems performance. Previous personalized recommendation methods based on ontologies identify users’ preferences by means of static snapshots of purchase data. However, as the user preferences evolve with time, the one-shot ontology construction is too constrained for capturing individual diverse opinions and users’ preferences evolution over time. This paper will present a novel recommendation system architecture based on ontology evolution, the proposed subsystem architecture for ontology evolution. Furthermore, the paper proposes an ontology building methodology based on a semi-automatic technique as well as development of online retail ontology. Additionally, a recommendation method based on the ontology reasoning is proposed. Based on the proposed method, e-retailers can develop a more convenient product recommendation system to support consumers’ purchase decisions.
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Bhatt, Rushi, and Kishor Barman. "Global Dynamics of Online Group Conversations." Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 6, no. 1 (August 3, 2021): 403–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v6i1.14319.
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Public online groups allow individuals to carry out conver- sations of common interests. Study of such group conversa- tions provides a unique opportunity to study patterns of hu- man conversations without violating individual privacy. The observational studies conducted in this paper are an attempt to identify the main correlates of continued growth of con- versations, thereby clearing the path to developing predictive models user participation. We study temporal evolution of online group discussions. Surprisingly, we find that individual discussion groups dis- play distinctively q-exponential shaped inter-message times to reply distributions, unlike the power law distributions seen in email conversations. We show, using simulations, that the heavy-tailed distribution of time to reply, which we also ob- serve when all data is combined, originate from mixtures of q-exponentials. We also find that popular threads come to be so from the very beginning as opposed to evolving to be more popular as they grow. This raises new possibilities for devel- oping generative models of thread growth.
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Sabou, Simona, Bianca Avram-Pop, and Liliana Adela Zima. "The Impact of the Problems Faced by Online Customers on Ecommerce." Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Oeconomica 62, no. 2 (August 1, 2017): 77–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/subboec-2017-0010.
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Abstract The purpose of this study is to identify the behavior of customers in the online environment. We analyzed the evolution, characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of this type of commerce, and its implications on the consumers. In order to identify the customers’ behavior online, we selected three variables which are characterized by time intervals of the latest online order, and six variables which analyze the main problems faced by consumers of goods/services bought online (a long shipping time, damaged products, non-compliant products, fraud related issues, underperforming complaint system, technical issues, lack of customer and legal aspects). Online commerce is less developed in the Czech Republic, Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Ireland, Bulgaria, Estonia, Slovenia and Norway. But, the advantages of ecommerce weigh more for the consumer than the problems they face, for example: online shoppers will continue to make online purchases even if they have experienced delays in delivering goods/services, damaged products, online fraud, technical problems or difficulties in finding information about the warranty of goods/services.
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Cheng, Justin, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, and Jure Leskovec. "Antisocial Behavior in Online Discussion Communities." Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 9, no. 1 (August 3, 2021): 61–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v9i1.14583.
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User contributions in the form of posts, comments, and votes are essential to the success of online communities. However, allowing user participation also invites undesirable behavior such as trolling. In this paper, we characterize antisocial behavior in three large online discussion communities by analyzing users who were banned from these communities. We find that such users tend to concentrate their efforts in a small number of threads, are more likely to post irrelevantly, and are more successful at garnering responses from other users. Studying the evolution of these users from the moment they join a community up to when they get banned, we find that not only do they write worse than other users over time, but they also become increasingly less tolerated by the community. Further, we discover that antisocial behavior is exacerbated when community feedback is overly harsh. Our analysis also reveals distinct groups of users with different levels of antisocial behavior that can change over time. We use these insights to identify antisocial users early on, a task of high practical importance to community maintainers.
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Gioiosa, Roberto, Gokcen Kestor, and Darren J. Kerbyson. "Online Monitoring Systems for Performance Fault Detection." Parallel Processing Letters 24, no. 04 (December 2014): 1442003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0129626414420031.
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To achieve the exaFLOPS performance within a contained power budget, next generation supercomputers will feature hundreds of millions of components operating at low- and near-threshold voltage. As the probability that at least one of these components fails during the execution of an application approaches certainty, it seems unrealistic to expect that any run of a scientific application will not experience some performance faults. We believe that there is need of a new generation of light-weight performance and debugging tools that can be used online even during production runs of parallel applications and that can identify performance anomalies during the application execution. In this work we propose the design and implementation of a monitoring system that continuously inspects the evolution of running applications and the health of the system. To achieve minimum runtime overhead while maintaining the desired level of flexibility, we propose a decoupled approach in which accurate monitoring is performed at kernel-level while performance anomaly disambiguation and corrective actions are performed at user-level. We evaluate our monitoring system on a 128-core AMD Interlagos system: First, we show that the runtime overhead of the monitoring system is negligible (0-2%). Then we show how our system can be used to precisely identify performance faults in three different scenarios: OS noise, application co-scheduling and dynamic power capping.
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Jarrar, Yosra, Ayodeji Awobamise, Gabriel E. Nweke, and Khaled Tamim. "Motivations for Social Media Use as Mediators in the Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence and Social Media Addiction." Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies 12, no. 4 (October 26, 2022): e202243. http://dx.doi.org/10.30935/ojcmt/12580.
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In the midst of an ever-changing world that we inhabit today, many facets that were once viewed as ‘intruding’, ‘alien’, or utter anomalies, have turned into integral linchpins of our day-to-day lives, and without them, the modern dynamics of human essence are portrayed as incompetent. Amongst those pivotal factors are the emergence of the Internet, social media platforms, and the inevitable ascendancy of the virtual world. That is, the perception of what is deemed incongruent is primarily dependent on how well one seems to utilize social media, as it is the cutting edge of the contemporary means of social evolution. Indeed, the conception of social engagement has become completely novel nowadays from what it was in the past, and despite the fact that communication has been altered to fit ‘electronic screens’, it has facilitated the mechanisms of communication in a way that is simply undeniable. Howbeit, on the other hand, this cacophony of interactive tools has created one of the virtual world’s most obstreperous dogmas, that is, social media addiction. The rapid changes in external methods of communication have contributed to the stripping of our innate roots of ordeal human communication and thus completely remolded our behaviors in a whirlwind of what seemed like a revolutionary momentum. That is, socialization and the formation of both individual identity and communal solidarity are essentially centered around our online practices, where the dependencies of such shift in communication transmit further into the entirety of our beings and seep into our subconsciousness. Thus, among the notions of social media’s intermingling with human intellect, is the deployment of emotional intelligence (EI) in dealing with social media addiction. Formulating the crux to this research, this paper seeks to shed light on the role of EI in either dampening or arousing the desires of obsessive social media use, especially since there is a major dearth of studies that observe the crucialness of EI management in controlling addictive behaviors on various social media platforms. Through the use of a quantitative research approach, this study examined the role of several motivations for social media use, namely, entertainment, communication, self-expression, and relationship maintenance, in moderating the relationship between EI and social media addiction. This was achieved by distributing questionnaires to 400 participants aged between 18 and 25 in the Kampala Region of Uganda, using a random sampling method. Findings elucidated that EI is negatively correlated to social media addiction, implying that a higher level of EI translates to a lower desire for social media addiction and vice versa, while all four motivations for social media use were significantly correlated with social media addiction. Furthermore, results conveyed that entertainment and relationship management are amongst the top stimulating mediators for the relationship between EI and social media addiction. However, this also implies that if individuals have low levels of EI, it does not necessarily guarantee that they will most likely adopt pathological social media behaviors, simply because the motivations for using such online platforms critically vary from one individual to the other, while also simultaneously keeping an analytical eye on the role of freewill in promulgating this dilemma in possible future research.
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SHARMA, SANJIV, and G. N. PUROHIT. "A NOVEL FRAMEWORK FOR TRACKING ONLINE COMMUNITY INTERACTION IN SOCIAL NETWORK." International Journal of Information Acquisition 09, no. 02 (June 2013): 1350011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219878913500113.
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This paper focuses on a design of improved framework and analysis of existing framework which exploits certain algorithms for tracking online community in social network. Tracking of online community is an imperative task where the goal is to identify meaningful group structures in the dynamic social network and consider the problem of the evolution of groups of users in dynamic scenarios. Existing frameworks for tracking community in social network have some limitation which makes it less scalable and computationally inefficient. This novel framework facilitates scalable tracking communities over the time in social networks and offers efficient methods to deal with the problems which are offered in most of the existing frameworks.
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Gomes, Sofia, and João M. Lopes. "Evolution of the Online Grocery Shopping Experience during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Empiric Study from Portugal." Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research 17, no. 3 (July 6, 2022): 909–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jtaer17030047.
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Online shopping has intensified in the last decade. The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed circulation limitations and more restrictive behaviors on consumers due to fears of contracting the virus, boosting online grocery shopping. This study aims to assess the relationship between the online food purchasing experience during the pandemic and the intention to purchase food online after the pandemic. The sample of this quantitative study is composed of 358 Portuguese consumers who carried out grocery shopping online during the pandemic and was collected through an online questionnaire. First, a cross-sectional description of the variables was applied to this sample and then an analytical cross-sectional survey was carried out using the partial least squares method. Due to health concerns, food and beverage consumption behaviors changed positively during the pandemic compared to before. Healthier consumer behavior towards food and beverages during the pandemic, compared to before the pandemic, may influence a greater propensity for online grocery shopping. Sociodemographic characteristics (age, education, income) were also determinants of the propensity to shop online during the pandemic. Specifically, the results of this study demonstrate a positive influence of young male consumers, with higher levels of education and income, regarding the online supermarket shopping experience. The results also demonstrate that a good online shopping experience during the pandemic can positively influence online shopping intentions after the pandemic. This study makes it possible to identify determinants of the online food shopping experience, serving as guidance and preparation for strategic marketing for retail grocery companies that wish to position themselves online. It also helps marketers and policymakers understand the potential influence of sociodemographic characteristics such as age, income, and education on building a relationship with consumers. Finally, the relationship between personal characteristics and the online grocery shopping experience requires further substantiation and this study contributes to this gap in the literature.