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Information, Volume 11, Issue 12

December 2020 - 49 articles

Cover Story: This work presents a software system for the online provision and collection of questionnaires, which exploits a sentiment analysis-based approach to monitor patients’ adherence to telehomecare programs. The idea is that the sentiment, i.e., the degree of positiveness/negativeness expressed by patients through their responses to questionnaires, may be related to their adherence and be used to predict drop-out. The system was validated with a case study involving the home telemonitoring program provided by the Cystic Fibrosis Unit at the “Bambino Gesù” Children’s Hospital, Italy. Experimental results show that, under a Granger causality perspective, a predictive relationship exists between the polarity and adherence score, which may be used for the early detection of the poor adherence of patients to telehomecare programs. View this paper
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Articles (49)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,037 Views
20 Pages

A Model for the Frequency Distribution of Multi-Scale Phenomena

  • Paola Favati,
  • Grazia Lotti,
  • Ornella Menchi and
  • Francesco Romani

13 December 2020

Frequency analysis is often used to investigate the structure of systems representing multi-scale real-world phenomena. In many different environments, functional relationships characterized by a power law have been recognized, but, in many cases thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,066 Views
15 Pages

Release of the Fourth Season of Money Heist: Analysis of Its Social Audience on Twitter during Lockdown in Spain

  • Carmen Cristófol Rodríguez,
  • Paula Meliveo Nogués and
  • Francisco Javier Cristòfol

11 December 2020

Nowadays we are witnessing a significant change in content consumption. This, together with the global health situation, has caused some behaviors to accelerate. This research focuses on the specific case of the lockdown in Spain and the coincidence...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,136 Views
27 Pages

International Strategic Management: A Conceptual Model with Top Managers’ Emotional Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, and Networking

  • Ângelo Miguel R. Cabral,
  • Fernando Manuel P. O. Carvalho and
  • José António Vasconcelos Ferreira

10 December 2020

The conceptual approach in this article follows and analyzes the holistic model of Kuivalainen, Sundqvist, Saarenketo, and McNaughton in 2012, making it analytically fitting to the SMEs’ international strategic groups concerning their internati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
23,926 Views
19 Pages

Employer Branding Applied to SMEs: A Pioneering Model Proposal for Attracting and Retaining Talent

  • Beatriz Monteiro,
  • Vasco Santos,
  • Isabel Reis,
  • Marta Correia Sampaio,
  • Bruno Sousa,
  • Filipa Martinho,
  • Maria José Sousa and
  • Manuel Au-Yong-Oliveira

9 December 2020

Most business enterprises are small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and many of them are without a human resource and recruitment department. Thus, one of the challenges that organizations currently face is to find a strategy to retain and attra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,055 Views
16 Pages

Hiding the Source Code of Stored Database Programs

  • Vitalii Yesin,
  • Mikolaj Karpinski,
  • Maryna Yesina,
  • Vladyslav Vilihura and
  • Kornel Warwas

9 December 2020

The objective of the article is to reveal an approach to hiding the code of stored programs stored in the database. The essence of this approach is the complex use of the method of random permutation of code symbols related to a specific stored progr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,579 Views
22 Pages

9 December 2020

Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) is an imaging technique used in analytical chemistry to study the molecular distribution of various compounds at a micro-scale level. For each pixel, MSI stores a mass spectrum obtained by measuring signal intensities...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,556 Views
20 Pages

8 December 2020

Practitioners and researchers have shown great interest in information-technology (IT)-enabled interactions across partnering firms and developed instruments for measuring it. However, those instruments might have been under criticism as they were de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,503 Views
19 Pages

7 December 2020

In this article a completely objective decoherence mechanism is hypothesized, operating at the level of the elementary particles of matter. The standard quantum mechanical description is complemented with a phenomenological evolution equation, involv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,526 Views
14 Pages

7 December 2020

Under the “Internet+” environment, the R&D intensity of products and services has increased; hence, organizations need to improve their ability to integrate knowledge and technology resources. Knowledge gaps will arise when an organiz...

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