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Does online learning work better than offline learning in undergraduate medical education? A systematic review and meta-analysis Open
With the increasing use of technology in education, online learning has become a common teaching method. How effective online learning is for undergraduate medical education remains unknown. This article's aim is to evaluate whether online…
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Do online social media cut through the constraints that limit the size of offline social networks? Open
The social brain hypothesis has suggested that natural social network sizes may have a characteristic size in humans. This is determined in part by cognitive constraints and in part by the time costs of servicing relationships. Online soci…
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The structure of online social networks mirrors those in the offline world Open
We use data on frequencies of bi-directional posts to define edges (or relationships) in two Facebook datasets and a Twitter dataset and use these to create ego-centric social networks. We explore the internal structure of these networks t…
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D4RL: Datasets for Deep Data-Driven Reinforcement Learning Open
The offline reinforcement learning (RL) setting (also known as full batch RL), where a policy is learned from a static dataset, is compelling as progress enables RL methods to take advantage of large, previously-collected datasets, much li…
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Are Online and Offline Prices Similar? Evidence from Large Multi-Channel Retailers Open
Online prices are increasingly used for measurement and research applications, yet little is known about their relation to prices collected offline, where most retail transactions take place. I conduct the first large-scale comparison of p…
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Impulse buying behaviour: an online-offline comparative and the impact of social media Open
Purpose This paper aims to explore the phenomenon of impulse buying in the fashion industry. The online and offline channels are compared to determine which is perceived as leading to more impulsive buying. Design/methodology/approach As t…
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A Survey on Natural Language Processing for Fake News Detection Open
Fake news detection is a critical yet challenging problem in Natural Language Processing (NLP). The rapid rise of social networking platforms has not only yielded a vast increase in information accessibility but has also accelerated the sp…
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Seven Fears and the Science of How Mobile Technologies May Be Influencing Adolescents in the Digital Age Open
Close to 90% of U.S. adolescents now own or have access to a mobile phone, and they are using them frequently. Adolescents send and receive an average of over 60 text messages per day from their devices, and over 90% of adolescents now acc…
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Political Expression and Action on Social Media: Exploring the Relationship Between Lower- and Higher-Threshold Political Activities Among Twitter Users in Italy Open
This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication following peer review. The version of record VACCARI, C. ... et al, 2015. Political expression and action on…
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Behavior Regularized Offline Reinforcement Learning Open
In reinforcement learning (RL) research, it is common to assume access to direct online interactions with the environment. However in many real-world applications, access to the environment is limited to a fixed offline dataset of logged e…
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Survey method matters: Online/offline questionnaires and face-to-face or telephone interviews differ Open
Self-report inventories enable efficient assessment of mental attributes in large representative surveys. However, an inventory can be administered in several ways whose equivalence is largely untested. In the present study, we administere…
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The Political Significance of Social Media Activity and Social Networks Open
This paper examines panel data from two waves of the Youth Participatory Politics Survey, a nationally representative sample of young people in the United States. It employs a cross-lagged design to investigate the extent to which common f…
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Connected seniors: how older adults in East York exchange social support online and offline Open
How do older adults mobilize social support, with and without digital media? To investigate this, we focus on older adults 65+ residing in the Toronto locality of East York, using 42 interviews lasting about 90 minutes done in 2013–2014. W…
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What is so special about online (as compared to offline) hate speech? Open
There is a growing body of literature on whether or not online hate speech, or cyberhate, might be special compared to offline hate speech. This article aims to both critique and augment that literature by emphasising a distinctive feature…
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Social Networks and Health: New Developments in Diffusion, Online and Offline Open
The relationship between social networks and health encompasses everything from the flow of pathogens and information to the diffusion of beliefs and behaviors. This review addresses the vast and multidisciplinary literature that studies s…
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Individual and social benefits of online discussion forums Open
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Social media and political discussion: when online presence silences offline conversation Open
This paper explores the relationship between the use of social media, attitudinal strength, perceived opinion agreement with social ties, and willingness to discuss a political issue in different online and offline contexts. Unlike the ano…
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Online social networks and offline protest Open
Large-scale protests occur frequently and sometimes overthrow entire political systems. Meanwhile, online social networks have become an increasingly common component of people's lives. We present a large-scale longitudinal study that conn…
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Determinants of Consumers’ Online/Offline Shopping Behaviours during the COVID-19 Pandemic Open
The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc in Korean society since the end of 2019. Unlike prior to the pandemic, when online and offline activities were conducted side-by-side, many aspects of consumers’ daily lives are only conducted online…
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MOReL : Model-Based Offline Reinforcement Learning Open
In offline reinforcement learning (RL), the goal is to learn a highly rewarding policy based solely on a dataset of historical interactions with the environment. The ability to train RL policies offline can greatly expand the applicability…
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The Use of Social Media on Political Participation Among University Students: An Analysis of Survey Results From Rural Pakistan Open
Over the last decade, extensive literature has been published regarding social media effects on real-life political participation. Many argue that social media stimulates online and offline political participation. This study investigates …
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Substitute or stepping stone? Assessing the impact of low‐threshold online collective actions on offline participation Open
Anecdotes of past social movements suggest that Internet‐enabled technologies, especially social media platforms, can facilitate collective actions. Recently, however, it has been argued that the participatory Internet encourages low‐cost …
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Hate in the Machine: Anti-Black and Anti-Muslim Social Media Posts as Predictors of Offline Racially and Religiously Aggravated Crime Open
National governments now recognize online hate speech as a pernicious social problem. In the wake of political votes and terror attacks, hate incidents online and offline are known to peak in tandem. This article examines whether an associ…
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How to strategically choose or combine augmented and virtual reality for improved online experiential retailing Open
Despite the promise of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) to help experiential retailers align online and offline experiences, guidance on choosing or combining these technologies is lacking. In three experiments, we address t…
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Crime Sensing with Big Data: The Affordances and Limitations of using Open Source Communications to Estimate Crime Patterns Open
This paper critically examines the affordances and limitations of big data for the study of crime and disorder. We hypothesise that disorder-related posts on Twitter are associated with actual police crime rates. Our results provide eviden…
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Online Actions with Offline Impact Open
Many of today's most widely used computing applications utilize social networking features and allow users to connect, follow each other, share content, and comment on others' posts. However, despite the widespread adoption of these featur…
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Understanding the effects of physical experience and information integration on consumer use of online to offline commerce Open
© 2019 The Authors Online to Offline (O2O) commerce commands intense attention from both academic and practical fields, but the unique features of O2O commerce and how these features affect consumer use of O2O commerce remain unclear. Base…
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Factors Influencing the Adoption of Online Health Consultation Services: The Role of Subjective Norm, Trust, Perceived Benefit, and Offline Habit Open
The cyberspace plays an important role in improving the quality, equity, and efficiency of health services. Studying people's adoption of online health services, such as online health consultation services (OHCS) can benefit both industry …
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Online and Offline Performance Gains Following Motor Imagery Practice: A Comprehensive Review of Behavioral and Neuroimaging Studies Open
There is now compelling evidence that motor imagery (MI) promotes motor learning. While MI has been shown to influence the early stages of the learning process, recent data revealed that sleep also contributes to the consolidation of the m…
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Studying the Digital: Directions and Challenges for Digital Methods Open
The methodological tool chest available to those who study digital technologies ranges from those that are uniquely digital methods to approaches that are well established in the social sciences. This domain of work includes the applicatio…