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Media and public interest in the era of web analytics: A case study of two Spanish leading newspapers

Las etiquetas “Lo mas visto”, “Lo mas compartido” y “Lo mas comentado” son ejemplos de la logica que las herramientas de analitica web imponen a los medios digitales en un ecosistema informativo en el que la audiencia, que hoy se puede cuantificar mas al detalle que nunca, ha adquirido un protagonismo enorme. En este contexto, el presente articulo se centra en estudiar como se construye hoy la agenda de los medios en relacion con la creciente importancia dada a las estadisticas de paginas vistas. SE analizan las implicaciones de este nuevo escenario en nuestras sociedades democraticas. Esta investigacion toma la forma de un caso de estudio sobre dos de los principales diarios espanoles, Lavanguardia.com y Elperiodico. com, recurriendo al analisis de contenido y a entrevistas en profundidad con profesionales en activo. El objetivo es dar respuesta a la siguiente pregunta: ? que peso tiene el interes publico en las noticias y el contenido viral o anecdotico que se propaga en la web? Abstract The labels “The most viewed”, “The most shared”, and “The most commented” are examples of the logic from web analytics tools in an information ecosystem where the audience has acquired an enormous role because it is now possible to quantify more precisely than ever before. In this context, the present investigation focuses on how the digital media agenda is currently being constructed in relation to the increasing importance given to pageview statistics. The implications of this new scenario for our society as a whole will be analyzed. This research takes the form of a case study of two of Spain’s leading newspapers, Lavanguardia.com and Elperiodico.com, using content analysis and in-depth interviews with working professionals. The aim of the research is to attempt to answer the following questions: How relevant is public interest news? How much importance is accorded to anecdotal and viral content?
THE BENEFITS OF BILINGUALISM: A COMPARATIVE PILOT STUDY ON THE PERFORMANCE OF BILINGUALS VERSUS MONOLINGUALS

The paper focuses on the differences and similarities in the performance of two groups of test takers taking the ECL (European Consortium for the Certificate of Attainment in Modern Languages) language exam – a proficiency-type of language exam – in Hungary and in neighbouring countries. The two groups under investigation include Hungarian test takers living in Romania, Slovakia and Serbia and native Hungarians between the ages of 14 and 19 living in Hungary. The research aims to identify whether bilingual test takers have an advantage when taking a language examination in a third language as compared to those who are monolingual. The study compares, contrasts and analyses the performance of these two distinct groups, one of which comes from a multilingual environment. It has been found out that the overall performance (achieved in each of the four components: listening, speaking, writing and reading) of bilingual test takers was significantly better than that of the monolinguals (p < 0.001). Three tendencies have been identified with respect to the differences between the performance of the bilingual and monolingual test takers: first, there is a greater gap in relation to receptive skills - listening and reading – than in the case of the productive skills – speaking and writing; second, in the case of the receptive skills the gap decreases as the proficiency level increases; third, in the case of the speaking skill the gap increases as the proficiency level increases. Possible explanations are offered to explain these phenomena. DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.7220/2335-2027.8. 8
Decreased Left Ventricular Rotation and Torsion in Hemodialysis Patients Studied by Three-Dimensional Speckle Tracking Imaging

BACKGROUND: Left ventricle (LV) structural change in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients is due principally to a chronic increase in volume and pressure overload. LV torsion has been shown to be a key factor of evaluating LV function, but has rarely been assessed in CKD by three-dimensional speckle tracking imaging (3D STI). The purpose of this study is to evaluate LV torsion in CKD patients receiving hemodialysis compared with normal healthy subjects. METHODS: Twenty-seven CKD patients on hemodialysis and 27 healthy volunteers were recruited. 3D STI was performed immediately before hemodialysis in the dialysis room. The rotation, twist, and torsion of the LV were automatically calculated by commercialized software for each segment of the LV. RESULTS: Body weight (P < 0.01), both systolic and diastolic blood pressure (P < 0.01), end diastolic and end systolic volume (P < 0.05), and ejection fractions (P < 0.01) showed statistically significant differences between the two groups. There were also significant differences in global value of rotation (3.0 ± 2.0 vs. 2.5 ± 1.9 deg P < 0.05), twist (4.6 ± 3.3 vs. 2.7 ± 1.9 deg P < 0.05), basal torsion (1.6 ± 1.1 vs. 0.9 ± 0.6 deg/cm P < 0.05) and regional torsion (1.6 ± 1.2 vs. 0.9 ± 0.8 deg/cm P < 0.05) between healthy volunteers and CKD patients. CONCLUSION: Assessment of LV torsion by newly developed 3D STI is less laborious and timeconsuming. Decrease of LV torsion in CKD patients might be due to the marked disarray of myocardial fibers in a uremic heart that affects LV structure, resulting in non-uniform LV torsion.
Seroprevalence of hepatitis E virus infection in domestic pigs in the Federal District , Brazil

Hepatitis E is caused by the hepatitis E virus (HEV) which is currently known to be a zoonotic pathogen transmitted by pigs. In Brazil, there is no information about the circulation of HEV in the swine herd of the Federal District. Therefore, a cross-sectional study was performed with sera from 449 domestic pigs, provided by the Secretary of Agriculture of the Federal District. Blood samples were collected between June and September 2014. A commercially available ELISA kit was used for the detection of IgG antibodies. High seroprevalence of antibodies to HEV was found, since 304 animals showed anti-HEV positive reactions (67.7%; 95% CI = 63.2%, 71.9%). The seropositivity presented no difference by gender or age. The results suggest that HEV circulates among domestic pigs in the Federal District and it can serve as a warning to the local public health system due to their possible involvement in human infections.
The Effect of Thyme and Nigella Oil on Some Properties of Acrylic Resin Denture Base

Aims: To evaluating the preferable properties and concentrations of Genuine Nigella sativa and Thyme as oil low cost additive biocompatible antibiotic materials of denture base acrylic powder inrelation to the commercially available heat cure acrylic resin material. Materials and Methods: One hundred and sixty acrylic resin Major heat cured samples were prepared without additives (Control), and with additives (A pure natural oil of Nigella sativa and Thyme 0.5%, 1%, 1.5%, and 2%) to evaluate transverse strength, indentation hardness, color property, residual monomer, dimensional accuracy, porosity, measurement of IR spectra, and anti–microbial–sensitivity tests. Results: Results showed a significant difference to P= 0.05. The addition of Thyme and Nigella oil increased the transverse strength, and hardness of the denture base materials, no porosities, an increase in residual monomer elution at 1 st day, and both additives Nigella and Thyme oil act as antibacterial materials. Conclusions: The additives materials of pure natural oil of Nigella sativa and Thyme with concentration of 1.5% were recommended to give a proper properties, and as antimicrobial after curing of the acrylic resin denture base, but Thyme oil showed no effect on the color after curing in relation to Nigella sativa
Restaurant customer satisfaction and return patronage in a Bloemfontein shopping mall

Purpose: Restaurants form one of the core components of a mall's retail offering and its tenant mix. In order to successfully manage the tenant mix, research suggests that mall management continuously monitor their tenants' performance through customer satisfaction and return patronage surveys. The purpose of the study on which this article is based, was to gain insight into restaurant customers' satisfaction and return patronage in a shopping mall context. Research questions: The research was conceptualised with the following three research questions in mind: Which dining attributes are important for customer satisfaction and return patronage in mall restaurants? Is there a difference in restaurant customers' satisfaction and return patronage levels based on their demographic characteristics? Is there a difference in restaurant customers' satisfaction and return patronage in the respective mall restaurants? Design / methodology / approach: A mixed-methods research design was followed. The views of restaurateurs and mall managers were explored (qualitative) and 590 customers of eight restaurants situated in the mall successfully completed questionnaires (quantitative). Analysis of variance, t-tests, correlation analysis and regression analysis were performed to reach the objectives of the study. Findings: This research showed that food quality, quality service, restaurant ambience, the quality of facilities and the presence of management are important attributes in contributing to customers' overall dining satisfaction. Food quality and overall dining satisfaction are regarded as important attributes for restaurant customers' decision to return to a mall restaurant. Demographic characteristics of restaurant customers have little impact on customer satisfaction and return patronage levels. Mall restaurants were not equally successful in satisfying their customers in terms of service quality, quality of facilities and the presence of management. Implications: From a managerial perspective, it is important for mall restaurateurs to continuously strive to increase the levels of customer satisfaction and return patronage by emphasising the dining attributes identified in this article. Mall management needs to monitor customers' satisfaction in those restaurants that obtained significantly lower customer satisfaction ratings. Restaurateurs should address areas identified for improvement by this research. Originality / value: This article offers the South African restaurant subsector increased insight into customers' satisfaction and return patronage. The contribution of this article is unique in that, for the first time, customer satisfaction and return patronage are investigated from the context of restaurants situated in the same mall. The research findings supported the strategic responsible growth objectives of the National Tourism Sector Strategy.
HER-2 / neu Expression in Resectable Gastric Cancer and its Relationship with Histopathologic Subtype , Grade , and Stage * 1

Objective HER-2/neu is overexpressed in diverse human cancers. Studies suggest a role of this protein in tumor progression by specifically promoting the invasive capacity of tumor cells. Our aim was to evaluate HER2/neu overexpression in resectable gastric cancer in 100 North-Eastern Iranian patients and to assess the relationship between its expression and clinicopathologic tumor parameters. Materials and Methods Indirect immunostaining was employed to evaluate the expression of this receptor in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue samples. Results HER-2/neu overexpression was present in 26 (26%) of 100 gastric carcinomas. This was significantly more common in the intestinal type of gastric cancer (33%) compared to diffuse (5%) or the mixed type (0%). HER-2/neu overexpression was also more common in well-differentiated gastric cancers versus other grades (41% vs 7%). However, it was not associated with gender, age at diagnosis or stage. Conclusion HER-2/neu overexpression is common in gastric carcinoma and more prevalent in intestinal and welldifferentiated subtypes. There is no correlation between HER-2/neu expression and tumor stage. The relatively high percentage of HER-2/neu positive tumors may provide a useful target for immunotherapy
The shape of things to come? Expanding the inequality and grievance model for civil war forecasts with event data

We examine if dynamic information from event data can help improve on a model attempting to forecast civil war using measures reflecting plausible motivation and grievances. Buhaug, Cederman, and Gleditsch predict the risk of civil war using a horizontal inequality model with measures reflecting motivation and relevant group characteristics at the country level. The predictions from their model outperform in an out-of-sample forecast conventional country-level models of civil war, emphasizing vertical inequality and country characteristics. However, most grievance measures change little over time. We surmise that a model reflecting potential motivation for conflict can be improved with more dynamic information on mobilization and the behavior of actors. Our conjecture receives some support in the empirical analysis, where we consider both conflict onset and termination over territorial and governmental incompatibilities in the Uppsala/PRIO Armed Conflict Data, and find some evidence that event data can help improve forecasts. Moreover, models with the original grievance measures do better than purely event based models, supporting our claim that both structure and event based components can add value to conflict prediction models. However, the contribution of events to improving predictive power is modest and not entirely consistent, and some types of conflict events seem easier to forecast than others.
Determinants of Profitability of Islamic Banks of Pakistan – A Case Study on Pakistan’s Islamic Banking Sector

The purpose of this study is to find out the determinants of Islamic banks of Pakistan. The author collected data of five Islamic banks of Pakistan over ten years extending from 2006-2015. The independent variables were GDP, Size, Inflation & Liquidity whereas dependent variables were Return on Asset. By using STATA software and employed panel regression, the researcher found that in fixed model effect, there are two significant variables at 5% i.e., size of Islamic banks and liquidity. Liquidity has positive whereas size has negative impact on profitability of Islamic banks. The findings will be helpful for Islamic banking sector to make their policies accordingly. Keywords: Islamic Banks, Size, GDP, Inflation, Liquidity, Return On Assets
Early onset of a large pool of previtellogenic oocytes and cyclic escape by vitellogenesis : the pattern of ovarian activity of Xenopus laevis females and its physiological consequences

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. Early onset of a large pool of previtellogenic oocytes and cyclic escape by vitellogenesis : the pattern of ovarian activity of Xenopus laevis females and its physiological consequences J.-C. Callen, N. Dennebouy, J.-C. Mounolou
Presence: Is your heart in it?

Introduction Various researchers have proposed physiological measures as objective correlates of presence (the subjective sensation of ? being there? in a displayed environment). The unifying idea behind this approach is that as presence within a displayed environment increases, physiological reactions will tend towards those that would be observed in a real environment. For example, short-term physiological responses to novel, interesting and threatening stimuli within immersive environments should be more intense as the sense of presence increases (Barfield & Weghorst, 1993; Held & Durlach, 1992). In addition and in line with the behavioural realism approach, the long term physiological characteristics of the affective impact of a content should also be more apparent as the sense of presence increases (Freeman, Avons, Meddis, Pearson & Ijsselsteijn, 2000; IJsselsteijn, de Ridder, Freeman & Avons, 2000).
Diversification and Performance of Group-Affiliated Firms during Institutional Transitions: The Case of the Chinese Textile Industry

Problem statement: Business groups play significant roles and evolve with the changing institutional environments in many emerging Asian economies. A study of how the institutional transition and the resultant ‘institutionally rooted evolution’ of business groups affect the diversification outcomes of affiliated firms will therefore help to deepen our understanding of this unique organizational form. Approach: This study uses the 2001-2005 data on listed firms from the Chinese textile industry and estimates the diversification effects of all firms in the sample and the differences in the diversification effects between group-affiliated firms and their stand-alone counterparts. Results: A positive relationship is found between the listed textile firms’ unrelated diversification and their firm value during the period 2001-2005. Furthermore, the results indicate that group affiliation has complicated impacts on the diversification-performance relationship of the listed firms. Although group-affiliated firms are more successful in pursuing unrelated diversification when compared with stand-alone firms, such a difference in performance outcomes is statistically weak (as measured by Tobin’s Q). Furthermore, it is found that group-affiliated firms perform related diversification worse than their stand-alone counterparts (as measured by both ROA and Tobin’s Q). Conclusion: At late stages of the institutional transition, as in China at present, the dominant influence of institutional environments on the diversification-performance link of firms still works and motivates business groups to evolve organizationally. Such an organizational evolution has complex implications for group-affiliated firms’ diversification: the weak performance advantage from unrelated diversification suggests that business groups’ organizational evolution may contribute to the persistence of the comparative strength of business groups’ internal markets; the concurrent low outcomes from related diversification however suggests that the organizational evolution disrupts the interrelations inside the group unavoidably and therefore hurts the fundamental foundation for the realization of related diversification’s value-creation tendency.
Improved Discharge Configurations for Brine Effluents from Desalination Plants

Sea water desalination plants discharge a concentrated brine effluent into coastal waters. Modern, large capacity plants require submerged discharges, in the form of a negatively buoyant jet, that ensure a high dilution in order to minimize harmful impacts on the marine environment. Existing design practice favors a steep discharge angle of 60° above horizontal, a practice based on limited and outdated laboratory data for dilutions at the level of maximum rise. Examination of more recent laboratory data and the parametric application of a jet integral model suggest that flatter discharge angles of about 30-45° above horizontal may have considerable design advantages. These relate to better dilution levels at the impingement location, especially if bottom slope and port height are taken into account, there is better offshore transport of the mixed effluent during weak ambient current conditions, and there is the ability to locate in more shallow water near shore.
A search for z= 7.3 Lyα emitters behind gravitationally lensing clusters

We searched for z= 7.3 Lyα emitters (LAEs) behind two gravitationally lensing clusters, Abell 2390 and CL 0024, using the Subaru Telescope Suprime-Cam and a narrow-band filter NB1006 (λc˜ 1005 nm and full width at half-maximum of about 21 nm). The combination of the fully depleted CCDs of the Suprime-Cam, sensitive to z˜ 7 Lyα emission at ˜ 1 μm, and the magnification by the lensing clusters can be potentially a powerful tool to detect faint distant LAEs. Using the NB1006 and deep optical to mid-infrared images of the clusters taken with the Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope, we investigated if there exist objects consistent with the colour of z= 7.3 LAEs behind the clusters. We could not detect any LAEs to the unlensed Lyα line flux limit of FLyα≃ 6.9 × 10-18 erg s-1 cm-2. Using several z=7 Lyα luminosity functions (LFs) from the literature, we estimated and compared the expected detection numbers of z˜ 7$ LAEs in lensing and blank field surveys in the case of using an 8-m class ground-based telescope. Given the steep bright-end slope of the LFs, when the detector field of view (FOV) is comparable to the angular extent of a massive lensing cluster, imaging cluster(s) is (are) more efficient in detecting z˜ 7 LAEs than imaging a blank field. However, the gain is expected to be modest, a factor of 2 at most and likely much less depending on the adopted LFs. The main advantage of lensing survey, therefore, remains the gain in depth and not necessarily in detection efficiency. For much larger detectors, the lensing effect becomes negligible and the efficiency of LAE detection is proportional to the instrumental FOV. We also investigated the NB1006 images of the three z˜ 7 z-dropout galaxy candidates previously detected in Abell 2390 and found that none of them is detected in NB1006. Two of them are consistent with the predictions from previous studies that they would be at lower redshifts. The other one has a photometric redshift of z≃ 7.3, and if we assume that it is at z= 7.3, the unlensed Lyα line flux would be very faint: FLyα < 4.4 × 10-18 erg s-1 cm-2 (1σ upper limit) or equivalent width of ? A. Its Lyα emission might be attenuated by neutral hydrogen, as recent studies show that the fraction of Lyman break galaxies displaying strong Lyα emission is lower at z˜ 7 than at z≲ 6.
Grazing Pressure of Cattle on Mixed Pastures at Coal Mine Land Reclamation

The objective of the research was to determine the grazing pressure in mix pasture of signal grass ( Brachiaria decumbens ) and puero ( Pueraria phaseoloides ) at coal mining reclamation. The experiment was arranged by randomized block design consisted of 5 stocking rate treatments, those were 12.56, 19.63, 28.26, 38.47, and 50.24 m 2 . animal -1 . d -1 which were equal to length of tether rope of 2.0, 2.5, 3.0, 3.5, and 4.0 m, respectively. The rotation system was applied by modifying the tether. Each rotation period was 30 d of three-rotation period. Result of this experiment showed that average daily gain (ADG) was different (P2.animal -1 . d -1 and decreased linearly with increasing length of rope from 254.29 to 100.17 kg.ha -1 . Maximum dry matter consumption was achieved at length of tether rope of 3.32 m or grazing area 34.61 m 2 . animal -1 . d -1 . Average dry matter yield in this experiment was 235.39 g.m -2 . d -1 or 2.35 ton.ha -1 . mo -1 . Botanical composition of signal grass, puero, and weeds before and after grazing was change with grazing pressure.