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View article: Postdoc publications and citations link to academic retention and faculty success
Postdoc publications and citations link to academic retention and faculty success Open
Postdoctoral training is a career stage often described as a demanding and anxiety-laden time when many promising PhDs see their academic dreams slip away due to circumstances beyond their control. We use a unique dataset of academic publi…
View article: Where postdoctoral journeys lead
Where postdoctoral journeys lead Open
Postdoctoral training is a career stage often described as a demanding and anxiety-laden time when many promising PhDs see their academic dreams slip away due to circumstances beyond their control. We use a unique data set of academic publ…
View article: Search Engines Post-ChatGPT: How Generative Artificial Intelligence Could Make Search Less Reliable
Search Engines Post-ChatGPT: How Generative Artificial Intelligence Could Make Search Less Reliable Open
In this commentary, we discuss the evolving nature of search engines, as they begin to generate, index, and distribute content created by generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). Our discussion highlights challenges in the early stages …
View article: Characterizing the effect of retractions on publishing careers
Characterizing the effect of retractions on publishing careers Open
Retracting academic papers is a fundamental tool of quality control, but it may have far-reaching consequences for retracted authors and their careers. Previous studies have highlighted the adverse effects of retractions on citation counts…
View article: China and the U.S. produce more impactful AI research when collaborating together
China and the U.S. produce more impactful AI research when collaborating together Open
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a disruptive technology, promising to grant a significant economic and strategic advantage to nations that harness its power. China, with its recent push towards AI adoption, is challenging the U.S.'…
View article: COVID-19 Vaccine Perceptions in the Initial Phases of US Vaccine Roll-out: An Observational Study on Reddit
COVID-19 Vaccine Perceptions in the Initial Phases of US Vaccine Roll-out: An Observational Study on Reddit Open
Background : Open online forums like Reddit provide an opportunity to quantitatively examine COVID-19 vaccine perceptions early in the vaccine timeline. We examine COVID-19 misinformation on Reddit following vaccine scientific announcement…
View article: COVID-19 vaccine perceptions: An observational study on Reddit
COVID-19 vaccine perceptions: An observational study on Reddit Open
Objectives As COVID-19 vaccinations accelerate in many countries, narratives skeptical of vaccination have also spread through social media. Open online forums like Reddit provide an opportunity to quantitatively examine COVID-19 vaccine p…
View article: Acoustic Correlates of the Voice Qualifiers: A Survey
Acoustic Correlates of the Voice Qualifiers: A Survey Open
Our voices are as distinctive as our faces and fingerprints. There is a spectrum of non-disjoint traits that make our voices unique and identifiable, such as the fundamental frequency, the intensity, and most interestingly the quality of t…
View article: The Phonetic Bases of Vocal Expressed Emotion: Natural versus Acted
The Phonetic Bases of Vocal Expressed Emotion: Natural versus Acted Open
Can vocal emotions be emulated? This question has been a recurrent concern of the speech community, and has also been vigorously investigated. It has been fueled further by its link to the issue of validity of acted emotion databases. Much…
View article: CMU-MisCov19: A Novel Twitter Dataset for Characterizing COVID-19 Misinformation
CMU-MisCov19: A Novel Twitter Dataset for Characterizing COVID-19 Misinformation Open
From conspiracy theories to fake cures and fake treatments, COVID-19 has become a hot-bed for the spread of misinformation online. It is more important than ever to identify methods to debunk and correct false information online. Detection…
View article: Characterizing COVID-19 Misinformation Communities Using a Novel Twitter Dataset
Characterizing COVID-19 Misinformation Communities Using a Novel Twitter Dataset Open
From conspiracy theories to fake cures and fake treatments, COVID-19 has become a hot-bed for the spread of misinformation online. It is more important than ever to identify methods to debunk and correct false information online. In this p…
View article: Lifestyle Disease Surveillance Using Population Search Behavior: Feasibility Study
Lifestyle Disease Surveillance Using Population Search Behavior: Feasibility Study Open
Background As the process of producing official health statistics for lifestyle diseases is slow, researchers have explored using Web search data as a proxy for lifestyle disease surveillance. Existing studies, however, are prone to at lea…
View article: Detecting gender differences in perception of emotion in crowdsourced data
Detecting gender differences in perception of emotion in crowdsourced data Open
Do men and women perceive emotions differently? Popular convictions place women as more emotionally perceptive than men. Empirical findings, however, remain inconclusive. Most prior studies focus on visual modalities. In addition, almost a…
View article: Hierarchical Routing Mixture of Experts
Hierarchical Routing Mixture of Experts Open
In regression tasks the distribution of the data is often too complex to be fitted by a single model. In contrast, partition-based models are developed where data is divided and fitted by local models. These models partition the input spac…
View article: Lifestyle Disease Surveillance Using Population Search Behavior: Feasibility Study (Preprint)
Lifestyle Disease Surveillance Using Population Search Behavior: Feasibility Study (Preprint) Open
BACKGROUND As the process of producing official health statistics for lifestyle diseases is slow, researchers have explored using Web search data as a proxy for lifestyle disease surveillance. Existing studies, however, are prone to at le…