2020

SoMABiT

Knowledge Discovery from Social Media using Big Data provided Sentiment Analysis (SoMABiT)

Abstract: In today’s competitive business world, being aware of customer needs and market-oriented production is a key success factor for industries. To this aim, the use of efficient analytic algorithms […]

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Perceptions of Using Smart Mobile Devices in Higher Education Teaching: A Case Study from Palestine

Perceptions of Using Smart Mobile Devices in Higher Education Teaching: A Case Study from Palestine

Abstract Smart mobile devices (SMDs), especially smartphones (Smart mobile devices) and tablets are becoming increasingly ubiquitous among educators and students in Palestine. While their use is on the rise, many

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Predicting social media performance metrics and evaluation of the impact on brand building: A data mining approach

Predicting social media performance metrics and evaluation of the impact on brand building: A data mining approach

Abstract This study presents a research approach using data mining for predicting the performance metrics of posts published in brands’ Facebook pages. Twelve posts’ performance metrics extracted from a cosmetic

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The role of ICT in the shift towards student-centred learning in higher education

The role of ICT in the shift towards student-centred learning in higher education

Abstract Over recent decades, there has been a significant rise in the use of information and communication technology (ICT) and a greater emphasis on student-centered learning (SCL) in higher education

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Migrants and the COVID-19 pandemic: An initial analysis

Migrants and the COVID-19 pandemic: An initial analysis of “migrants in covid-19 response”

Introduction COVID-19 has emerged in a world tightly connected by local and international population(migrants in COVID-19 response) movements, with more people moving for work, education and family reasons, tourism, and

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Do Negative Emotions Play a Role?

Understanding the Association Between Socioeconomic Status and Physical Health: Do Negative Emotions Play a Role?

Abstract: Do Negative Emotions Play a Role? In this article, the authors evaluate the possible roles of negative emotions and cognitions in the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and physical

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health behaviour in school-aged children

Growing up unequal: gender and socioeconomic differences in young people’s health and well-being

ABSTRACT Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC), a WHO collaborative cross-national study, has provided information about the health, well-being, social environment, and of 11-, 13- and 15-year-old boys and girls

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Socioeconomic status is not associated with health-related quality of life in a group of overweight middle-aged men

Socioeconomic status is not associated with health-related quality of life in a group of overweight middle-aged men

ABSTRACT Socioeconomic status is a known determinant of health. In secondary data analyses, we assessed whether socioeconomic status affected health-related quality of life in a group of overweight (body mass

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The causal effect of income on health: An original microsimulation approach

The causal effect of income on health: An original microsimulation approach

Introduction: An original microsimulation approach The relationship between health and individual income is a topic at the center of health economics, with the broad finding that higher socioeconomic status(original microsimulation

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