cord-013377-d4tbf05a	2020	The main contributions of this paper are the proposal and description of a complete IIoT software architecture, the use of a unified address space, and the use of the computing platform based on SoC (System on Chip) with specialized co-processors in order to be able to execute in real-time certain time-critical operations specific to the industrial environment. In the specialized literature, several reference architectures for IoT and IIoT are proposed, but these are abstract models which do not deal with how to integrate things from the industrial environment, especially as in this environment are used communication systems (fieldbuses) with specific capabilities such as real-time monitoring and control of time-critical operations. One of the main goals of the drivers is to build the address space in a unitary way, hiding the specific details of each fieldbus and connected devices, such as the addressing mode or the In order to meet the real-time requirements specific to the industrial environment, the fog nodes can be designed and developed on SoC systems with specialized coprocessors for the communication implementation with fieldbuses.
cord-019104-rkuzcng5	2005	14 Altogether, the authors proposed a TAM-like research framework with the ISQ, IQ, and PC of the Internet tax-filing system that affect the taxpayers'' PU and PEOU, and additionally the attitude and the intention to utilize the system. To avoid the confusion associated with D&M, this study used D&M-like 6 quality antecedents to summarize the external variables of the TAM acceptance model for the Internet tax-filing system. 14,34, 36 Wang 14 further explained that bperceived fears of divulging personal information and users'' feelings of insecurity provide unique challenges to planners to find ways in which to develop users'' perceived credibility of electronic taxfiling systems.Q Therefore, perceived credibility is considered as another important quality factor in the Internet tax-filing system. Consistent with these aforementioned two points, the authors propose that the constructs hypothesized (e.g., IQ, ISQ, and PC) affect the use of Internet tax filing indirectly through their effect on PU and PEOU.
cord-020199-rm0c2vu9	2020	The novelty of our analysis stems from a unique dataset constructed by matching geo-referenced information from an inventory of network equipment to a nationally representative street-level survey of over 20,000 Nigerians, by far one of the largest technology adoption surveys in sub-Saharan Africa to date within the information systems literature. Second, our focus on Nigeria provides a plausible and timely case study of the effect of broadband infrastructure diffusion on internet usage in SSA and the broader developing country context. Comparatively, this study is therefore the first to explore the individual-level influence of broadband infrastructure on internet adoption using a micro-spatial approach, especially in a developing country context. Hence, we would argue that the failure to control for this network infrastructure effect in the study of broadband adoption across developing countries could well result in significant omitted variable bias.
cord-024773-j24hphoi	2020	Das Internet hat sich rasant zu einem Medium entwickelt, bei dem Überwachung und das Sammeln von Daten über seine Nutzerinnen und Nutzer immer mehr Raum einnimmt. Schon in den 1980er-Jahren wurde der Nachrichtenaustausch über das Netz mit dem Versenden einer Postkarte verglichen, bei der jeder am Transport Beteiligte, etwa der Postbote, nicht nur die Absender-und Empfängeradressen, sondern auch den Inhalt mitlesen kann. Noch bedeutsamer sind die Bemühungen der Internetkonzerne, auch die Kontrolle über die Basisinfrastrukturen des Netzes zu übernehmen, etwa indem sie -und nicht die Telekommunikationsunternehmen -die Nutzer mit dem Netz verbinden. Hinzuweisen ist hier etwa auf das Projekt "Loon" der Google-Mutter-Alphabet [7] zur Versorgung abgelegener Gegenden mit Internet oder das Vorhaben von Amazon, eine globale Internetversorgung über mehr als 3000 Satelliten zu gewährleisten ("Projekt Kuiper") [8] . Letztlich versuchen global tätige Unternehmen, ihre jeweiligen Ökotope zu Synonymen des Internets zu entwickeln, eines proprietäre "Internets", in der letztlich nur eine Instanz die vollständige Kontrolle ausübt und damit über den Umgang mit Informationen im wirtschaftlichen Eigeninteresse entscheidet.
cord-025856-gc7hdqis	2020	First, that there is a well-established model of contemporary political mobilisation that employs both new media and large data analysis that can and have been effectively applied to young people in electoral and non-electoral contexts. As such, it is complementary to a study of youth participation in the political processes of evolved democracies, such as Australia, and the internet-based technologies that afford them access. Based on a survey of young people (16-29) in the USA, UK and Australia, and drawn from online panels, they argued that social media was positively related to increase political participation and produce a good regression analysis in support of this claim. Overall, social movement citizenship, or everyday making, presents challenges to an outcome-focused democratic analysis due to a tendency towards adhocracy, paradoxical disconnection and rapid demobilisation by political participants following their "hit-and-run" engagement. The networked young citizen: social media political participation and civic engagement The networked young citizen: social media political participation and civic engagement
cord-026220-1ug29xxd	2020	This contribution presents the problem of planning the Wi-Fi access points activation, where each point can have different signal power levels and availability along the time. Due to energy saving policies, it is impossible to activate all of the available WAPs with a strong signal level (which would be the obvious solution to the problem). Several features should be considered when solving the problem but we highlight two of them: 1) WAPs may not have available all the different signal levels and 2) the demand at a geographic area may change over the time. These features can be modelled using a generalization of DMCLP presented in [10] : the dynamic maximal covering location problem with facility types and time dependent availability (DMCLP-FT). Constraint (2) shows that a node can be covered if an activated WAP with level k in period t belong to set N itk .
cord-028356-kfjg81i7	2020	This is remarkably illustrated by Amir Vodka (2013) who makes the claim that the cinema of kung fu can be related to Deleuze|Guattari''s Body without Organs via Tao, which forms its own kind of BwO as "the shape that has no shape, the image that is without substance" (Lao-Tzu 1963: 18) . Deleuze|Guattari are against any forms of identity as the "dogmatic image of thought." All representational thinking presupposes a subject-object gap, a ''correlationism'' (Meillassoux 2008) . The simulacrum dispels any form of representational truth or essence or category of an object or thing, and works with what Deleuze calls the "powers of the false," where the only truth is time itself; that is change, the "eternal return of difference" as theorized by Nietzsche, where and when the new emerges.
cord-030423-0fjlz3lf	2020	Considering this, the objective of this research is to define the most advantageous strategy of expansion planning to attend a 5 years forecasted Internet demand, considering: (1) the possibility of utilizing a Gigabit-capable Passive Optical Network technology; (2) the application of the minimal Steiner tree and Dijkstra algorithms in planning procedures; (3) the influence of economic and technological factors on the demand forecast; (4) the aggressive, moderate, and conservative scenarios in decision-making. The most advantageous cable network planning strategy was defined from three sets of procedures: estimating the Megabits per second (Mbps) in Brazil, estimating investments in kilometers (Km) of cables, and analyzing the market investments ratio or Mbps/Km. The procedure one "estimating the Megabits per second (Mbps) in Brazil" includes the following steps: I) Internet demand forecasting (Mbps per person), executed on Ninna-PCA and Microsoft Excel Software; II) geoprocessing of the characteristics of the city under analysis; III) creation of conservative, moderate, and aggressive decision scenarios; and IV) estimation of the Internet demand [57] .
cord-030826-lj7x5qdd	2020	This shift offers a unique opportunity to address long-standing inequities in access and issues of sustainability associated with traditional conference formats, through testing online platforms. Given the associated carbon emissions and inequities in access, there is a particularly strong moral onus for those engaged in the field of socio-ecology to develop conference models or practices that do not contribute to the very problems that the discipline seeks to address. Online conference formats remove the need for travel and reduce the costs of attendance, but they do not preclude inequality in access and participation. While many conference participants may have adequate access to Internet and technology, to address issues of diversity, equity and inclusion, online platform selection should consider associated requirements for high bandwidth, high-performing devices and training in these technologies. The potential to address long-standing inequities in the socio-ecological community through online conferences is a bright spot in the post-COVID-19 landscape.
cord-161840-l5zyubwx	2017	First coined in 2014 [5] , Tactile Internet is considered as the communication method over the Internet with typical characteristic such as ultra-low latency in combination with high availability, reliability and security in order to mimic the same as human tactile reaction sense on the Internet environment. Developing new architectures and enabling extremely low-latency endto-end communications to render the Tactile Internet vision realistic is one of the main motivation. The purpose of this paper is to introduce about the Tactile Internet, its impact to our society in the near future as well as its challenges, infrastructure requirement to apply this new technology in real life. The potential impact of the Tactile Internet is expected to bring a new dimension and method to human-tomachine, human-to-human interaction in a plurality of different society aspects including healthcare, education, energy, smart city, and culture.
cord-167104-snvq1ol7	2020	Using several nationally representative datasets in Colombia, this article documents how the academic performance of students in their final high school year is affected due to technologies, aggregated by municipalities. Most of the studies over these data indicate that the covariables that most affect the academic performance (have a good score), according to Chica, Galvis, and Ramirez (2011) are socioeconomic status, parents scholarship, the number of hours in the school, school type (private or public) and gender; but there is little work on how technologies affect it. In Colombia there is an academic test provided by ICFES, proctors on standardized tests, called SABER11, that scores students in their final high school year, and also has self-reported socio-demographic information. During pandemic times it is necessary to understand how the internet or computer access affects the score of SABER11 since that can offer a way to comprehend the effect of these technologies in each municipality and which are the best improvements according to each necessity.
cord-170666-zjwlmzj3	2020	We study three questions: (1)How did traffic demands change in the United States as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic?; (2)What effects have these changes had on Internet performance?; (3)How did service providers respond to these changes? The changes in usage patterns have resulted in corresponding changes in network traffic demands observed by Internet service providers. Although there have been several preliminary measurements of the effects of the COVID-19 response, none have holistically studied traffic data, performance analysis, routing data, and ISP capacity information together, as we do in this paper. We focus on the capacity changes during lockdown by inspecting two data sources: (1) to understand how ISPs responded by adding capacity to interconnects, we study the interconnect capacity of two large ISPs in the United States; and (2) to understand how video service providers expanded their network footprints in response to increasing demand, we analyze IPv4 address space from two major video conference providers-WebEx and Zoom-and find that both providers substantially increased advertised IP address space.
cord-198180-pwmr3m4o	2020	IoT and smart connected technologies together with data-driven applications can play a crucial role not only in prevention, continuous monitoring, and mitigation of the disease, but also enable prompt enforcement of guidelines, rules and government orders to contain such future outbreaks. We propose different architectures, applications and technology systems for various smart infrastructures including E-health, smart home, smart supply chain management, smart locality, and smart city, to develop future connected communities to manage and mitigate similar outbreaks. IoT technology including smart sensors, actuators, and devices and data driven applications can enable smart connected com-13 https://www.forbes.com/sites/louiscolumbus/2018/08/16/iot-market-predicted-to-double-by-2021-reaching-520b/#82674f91f948 14 https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/se/internet-of-things/at-a-glance-c45-731471.pdf munities to strengthen the health and economical postures of the nations to fight against the current COVID-19 situation and other future pandemics efficiently. The architecture integrates a hybrid cloud and edge computing nodes together with IoT and smart sensor devices, to enable real-time and data-driven services and applications needed in COVID-19 pandemics.
cord-253212-ygmkul62	2020	The main output of this paper is presented in Section 5 describing the quantum-like mechanism of the generation of big waves of coherent information excitations. Thus, we model the information field as a quantum field with communications (generated, e.g., by mass media) as quanta carrying social energy and some additional characteristics related to communication content. The information flows generated by mass media and the Internet are so powerful that people are not able to analyze communication content deeply, they just scan its quasi-color and absorb a quantum of the social energy carried by this communication. Thus, information excitations in the echo chamber generated by posted communications not only increase the probability of emission of new information excitations by excited atoms, but they also perform the function of additional energy pumping into the gain medium (social group).
cord-262084-mvgqlufq	2007	The first group consisted of Internet references that were readily accessible and contained information that the author intended to cite. The second group consisted of Internet references that failed to contain readily accessible information that the author intended to cite. For example, a URL that links to the New York Times Web site will be active, but the information the authors intended to cite will no longer be on the home page. When comparing the categories of Internet references, we found that the number of Internet references that no longer accessed the authors'' intended information increased over time. The Internet references published in Annals of Emergency Medicine appear to become less readily accessible over time. Five years after publication, 78% of the Internet references no longer allowed the reader to readily access the authors'' intended information as cited in the published reference section.
cord-266724-4szg1nbu	2020	5, 6 The COVID-19 pandemic has generated a huge impact on social media behaviors across the world internet community, in particular at the early outbreak in China when global attention was focused on the situation in Wuhan and Hubei province, the epicenter of the epidemic outbreak. [17] [18] [19] Similar to the situation in the regions mentioned above, researchers in many Asian countries have also verified that Internet search trends and social media data could be considered as an important and effective way for the assessment of public attention, risk perception, and behavioral responses to the epidemic outbreaks, since the outbreak of SARS in 2002 20 to the outbreak of COVID-19. 30 Based on quantitative analyses with data mined from both Baidu and Google indexes, this study aims to argue that Internet monitoring is a convenient and cost-effective way to assess public reactions, which can provide evidence to all governments and the public in the world to handle public health emergency problems in case of epidemic outbreaks.
cord-282383-op2hiqw1	2020	title: Coronavirus pandemic highlights critical gaps in rural Internet access for migrant and seasonal farmworkers: a call for partnership with medical libraries We note the importance of Internet access in the time of physical distancing, the fact that many health outreach workers are no longer visiting camps, the need for telemedicine infrastructure, and the role of Internet access in providing connections to families in communities of origin. Migrant and seasonal farmworkers, who represent a critical part of rural economies and US food systems, face health inequities, poor and overcrowded housing conditions, limited access to personal protective equipment and handwashing facilities in the fields, and lack of access to health information [5, 6] . Thus, it is critical to recognize the imperative prescribed by the coronavirus pandemic: Rural and farmworker health, medical libraries, emergency preparedness, education, rural economic development, and broadband infrastructure must be brought together to address barriers to Internet access in ways that include migrant and seasonal farmworkers.
cord-292166-nd3ozu9w	2020	So, by moving all these things to telehealth, I think we have to be cognizant that some patients are not going to be able to access those things, and so in some ways, we are taking away barriers from people getting access to mental health care, but I also think we are also highlighting some increased barriers for some individuals. If telehealth is here to stay, which most people say it is, then coupled with the expansion in digital health care monitoring, such as using the Internet of Things in people''s homes to support better monitoring, we can start to see an intensification of the inequities for the communities served by these practices. If you think about it from a policy perspective, I love when you say not just universal health care, but also universal access to the Internet, especially if we are talking about telehealth and telemedicine and some of these other things.
cord-292835-zzc1a7id	2020	The proposed system would employ an Internet of Things (IoTs) framework to collect real-time symptom data from users to early identify suspected coronaviruses cases, to monitor the treatment response of those who have already recovered from the virus, and to understand the nature of the virus by collecting and analyzing relevant data. To quickly identify potential coronaviruses cases from this real-time symptom data, this work proposes eight machine learning algorithms, namely Support Vector Machine (SVM), Neural Network, Naïve Bayes, K-Nearest Neighbor (K-NN), Decision Table, Decision Stump, OneR, and ZeroR. Based on these results we believe that real-time symptom data would allow these five algorithms to provide effective and accurate identification of potential cases of COVID-19, and the framework would then document the treatment response for each patient who has contracted the virus. The proposed framework consists of five main components: (1) real-time symptom data collection (using wearable devices), (2) treatment and outcome records from quarantine/isolation centers, (3) a data analysis center that uses machine learning algorithms, (4) healthcare physicians, and (5) a cloud infrastructure.
cord-293403-o1i999hy	2004	OBJECTIVE: The article analyzes e-health progress in East Asia''s leading tiger economies: Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. In this article, we examine the progress of e-health in the five leading economies of East Asia: Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. Against the dual backdrop of sophisticated IT societies that make extensive use of the Internet and cost-effective healthcare systems driven in variable ways by actors from the public and private sectors, we now turn to a survey of e-health in the East Asian tigers. Throughout the region, the major quasi-autonomous state agencies, such as the national health insurance agencies in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, the HKHA in Hong Kong and the two big healthcare clusters in Singapore, also have sites. Over the next 5 years, the HKHA is planning to create a Hong Kong Health Information Infrastructure, with the aim of networking all healthcare providers in the public, private and social welfare sectors.
cord-305195-e41yfo89	2016	The discovery of viruses as "filterable agents" in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries greatly enhanced the study of viral epidemiology, allowing the characterization of infected individuals, risk factors for infection and disease, and transmission pathways. Traditional epidemiological methods measure the distribution of viral infections, diseases, and associated risk factors in populations in terms of person, place, and time using standard measures of disease frequency, study designs, and approaches to causal inference. Much can be learned about the epidemiology of viral infections using such traditional methods and many examples could be cited to establish the importance of these approaches, including demonstration of the mode of transmission of viruses by mosquitoes (e.g., yellow fever and West Nile viruses), the causal relationship between maternal viral infection and fetal abnormalities (e.g., rubella virus and cytomegalovirus), and the role of viruses in the etiology of cancer (e.g., Epstein-Barr and human papilloma viruses). The concepts and methods of infectious disease epidemiology provide the tools to understand changes in temporal and spatial patterns of viral infections and the impact of interventions.
cord-307511-fcinsz0z	2020	Potential development of new smart and powerful devices for monitoring of individuals'' health, health experts are taking advantage of these technologies, thus a substantial improvement in healthcare in clinical settings and out of them. IoT allows integrating physical devices capable of connecting to the Internet and provides real-time health status of the patients to doctors. [3] analyzed the clinical characteristics of coronavirus and extracted data from 552 hospitals in 30 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities in China from 1099 laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 patients through January 29, 2020. [7] developed an architecture based on an ontology for monitoring the health and workout and provides recommendations to patients with chronic diseases. The use of IoT with smart sensors to measure and record the body temperature of individuals will help to identify the infected. Review on Internet of Things ( IoT ): Making the World Smart An Internet of Things-Based Smart Homes and Healthcare Monitoring and Management System : Review
cord-308544-d2s5d0ni	2020	METHODS: Using survey data from 2003, 2005, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2017, and 2018 Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) iterations, the objectives of this study were to report prevalence, trends, and user profiles in HRIU in terms of emailing doctors, buying medicine online, and support group participation. Chou and colleagues have documented an increasing trend in health-related internet use (HRIU) among cancer survivors, which they defined as emailing doctors, buying medicine online, online support group participation, and seeking cancer information from the internet as the first source [15] . Therefore, the objectives of this analysis were to replicate and update the findings by Chou and colleagues [15] using a pooled, cross-sectional analysis based on data over multiple Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) iterations to examine prevalence, trends in HRIU, and user profiles of cancer survivors across the years.
cord-311190-i630n88t	2020	The remaining of the paper is organized as follows: in Section 2, we summarize the most significant work concerning the detection and analysis of large anomalies occurred in the Internet; Section 3 describes the data collection phase; in Section 4, the method we followed to compute the performance indexes is explained; the main characteristics of the datasets are illustrated in Section 5, together with a preliminary analysis; Section 6 contains the results on the Italian Internet latency from different perspectives (type of measurements, hour of the day, IPv4 vs IPv6, etc), whereas Section 7 shows the results concerning the above-mentioned countries and the whole of Europe (with less details compared to Italy); Section 8 concludes the paper. We studied the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the latency of the Italian Internet from different perspectives: when both source and target are located in Italy or just one of the two, when considering the time of the day and workweek/weekend, and when taking into account the version of the Internet Protocol.
cord-312568-8avgxkir	2018	METHODS: We designed an online, semi-structured stakeholder questionnaire to collect information on global outbreak surveillance sources and limitations from participants who use epidemic intelligence and outbreak alert services in their work in government and nongovernment organizations in the Asia–Pacific region. Mainstream media and specialist Internet sources such as the World Health Organization (n = 54/91; 59%), the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED)-mail (n = 45/91; 49%) and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (n = 31/91; 34%) were the most common sources for global outbreak news; rapid intelligence services such as HealthMap were less common (n = 9/91; 10%). When asked about sources of automated global outbreak alerts (such as Google alerts or Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases [ProMED]-mail updates), 60% (55/91) reported receiving automated alerts, 18% (16/91) followed outbreak news sample was targeted to selected countries so that results would be relevant to inform development of an epidemic intelligence system for use within the region.
cord-314052-sqyhzxty	2020	This has compounded the difficulties in preventing and treating nCoV pneumonia, such as (1) efficiently learning the updated interim guideline; suggest rapid learning interim and revised management guideline; (2) better managing suspected cases; (3) performing a consultation on difficult diagnose patients to improve the success rate of supportive treatment, and (4) directing and ensuring quality control for clinical practice. Based on advanced information technology (IT) and electronic medicine, the Medical IoT (mIoT) has experienced four major evolutions, including the development of wireless sensing technology, use of Internet technology in clinical medicine, use of radio frequency identification (RFID), and artificial intelligence (AI) applications, to realize the IoT medical model. It realizes the prospect of ''''The experts are linked by the cloud-The public enjoys modern medical treatment." For example, a successful wireless sensing pulmonary function meter has been developed at Zhongshan Hospital Fudan University, by which patients can complete lung function monitoring from home.
cord-314092-ph5vrba6	2020	The Covid-19 pandemic has led to an inevitable surge in the use of digital technologies due to the social distancing norms and nationwide lockdowns. In the next section, we examine the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the use of digital technologies where we discuss some possible scenarios and research issues of the post-pandemic world. With the substantial use of technology in accessing basic requirements like health and education, it is imperative to understand the impact of the digital divide on social equality. 6. Given the significant role which the Internet is about to play in times to come, Internet intermediaries will work with government and civil society to address privacy and surveillance issues for better adoption of technology. For the Covid-19 pandemic, we envisage a dramatic shift in digital usage with impacts on all aspects of work and life.
cord-321621-maym3iah	2020	title: Internet-based self-help intervention aimed at increasing social self-efficacy among internal migrants in Poland: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial These results served as a background for creating the New in Town, a self-help Internet-based intervention for internal migrants in Poland that aims at increasing social self-efficacy. Internet-based self-help intervention aimed at increasing social self-efficacy among internal migrants in Poland: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial Human services professionals exposed to indirect trauma who took part in an Internet-based intervention displayed significantly greater improvements in self-J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f efficacy beliefs related to managing secondary traumatic stress compared to an active control group. With our study, we hope to gain insight into the efficacy and acceptance of the New in Town-self-help Internet-based intervention aimed at increasing J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f social self-efficacy among internal migrants in Poland.
cord-333479-d0mgma42	2020	Moreover, multiple linear regression and bivariate logistic regression analyses were used to assess the association between outcome variables (the reported level of anxiety and clinical depressive symptom) and potential predictors (e.g. concerns related to the epidemic, smartphone/internet addiction, and coping style) while adjusting for other identified explanatory variables. Additionally, in order to further analyze the significant factors associated with the level of respondent'' anxiety, we conducted multiple linear regression analysis and obtained the following factors to construct a multiple linear regression model of anxiety: clinical depression levels, implementation of the precaution and control measures, sex, family member or friend was infected with coronavirus, occupation of the mother involved in the epidemic, region (e.g., rural, urban), and emotion-focused coping style, which accounted for 31.0% of the total variance ( Table 5) .
cord-333595-9erjf8rk	2008	title: The benevolent health worm: comparing Western human rights-based ethics and Confucian duty-based moral philosophy Ethical issues are examined first in a general fashion and then in a specific manner which uses the duty-based moral philosophy of Confucianism and a Western human rights-based analysis. 1 The use of a controversial technology such as a computer worm to disseminate uncensored, sanctioned public health information in China presents contentious ethical issues worth examining. 2 The use of Western rights-based theories (human rights) alongside the Eastern duty-based theory of Confucian moral philosophy provides an interesting platform for an ethical analysis of the benevolent health worm. The author will suggest how human rights and Confucian moral philosophy may be used to better understand the ethical issues presented with the use of the benevolent health worm.
cord-334638-au5sqzxw	2020	The aims of this work were to (a) analyze how the attitudes of professionals in the field of psychology have changed in relation to the use of ICTs in the context of psychological monitoring during the lockdown; (b) assess whether the practice of psychological counseling and therapy includes greater use of ICTs during the lockdown period; (c) identify the factors that potentially have affected such changes; and (d) study the possible adoption of guidelines for at-distance psychological monitoring by psychologists who are using ICTs during the period of physical distance This study aimed to explore psychologists'' attitudes and practices related with the use of ICTs before and during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period, for identification of the main changes that have occurred in the provision of counseling and therapy.
cord-339880-8ey3kr3b	2020	title: The use of internet analytics by a Canadian provincial chiropractic regulator to monitor, evaluate and remediate misleading claims regarding specific health conditions, pregnancy, and COVID-19 Our study aimed to evaluate the novel use of internet analytics by a Canadian chiropractic regulator to determine their registrants compliance with three regulations related to specific health conditions, pregnancy conditions and most recently, claims of improved immunity during the COVID-19 crisis. METHODS: A customized internet search tool (Market Review Tool, MRT) was used by the College of Chiropractors of British Columbia (CCBC), Canada to audit registrants websites and social media activity. Recently, the College of Chiropractors of British Columbia (CCBC) became the first chiropractic regulatory body that we are aware of to use internet analytics in their regulation of registrants. The CCBC''s use of internet analytics also provides researchers with a unique opportunity to better describe the frequency and content of registrant internet activity and to evaluate the effectiveness of the regulatory process in remediating these claimssomething not yet reported in the literature.
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cord-342841-b1rucgmg	2020	Zohu et al (2020) reported that the decrease of hospital visits led to a reduction of routine psychiatric care for many patients with mental disorders in China, during the COVID-19 outbreak. Telemental health services can be particularly useful and appropriate for the support of both patients and health care workers during this pandemic, allowing providing assistance and care to those who need it by reducing the risk of infection. Patients with depressive disorders have been shown to benefit from TP, as reported by several studies in which patients'' symptoms improved more in the telemental health group than in the traditional setting ones. Evidence from several studies has underlined that the use of TP for delivering mental healthcare services can improve symptoms of depression among older adults. During this pandemic period several Authors all over the world underlined the need to promote online mental health care services and encourage their use [13, 63, 64] .
cord-343499-rdlfm27v	2020	This study aimed to scrutinize the mediating effects of health anxiety (HA), anxiety symptoms (AS), and Internet addiction (IA) in the pathway from distress tolerance (DT) to cyberchondria by using a bootstrapping method. The use of the Internet for health elicited a phenomenon called as "cyberchondria" which is characterized by an excessive and escalated seek for health-related information on the Web while feeling increased distress or anxiety, and a need to get reassurance (Starcevic 2017; Starcevic and Berle 2013; White and Horvitz 2009) . Furthermore, by considering the changes in health-related problems as people age, this study will contribute to the related literature by comparing the young and middle adulthood samples in terms of proposed model and thus exploring which associations are significantly stronger in the development of cyberchondria across samples. Taken together, these results support previous research findings showing that individuals with symptoms of AS or HA use the Internet to search for health-related information which may result in cyberchondria (e.g., Mathes et al.
cord-346258-xlyi0cnl	2020	
cord-348847-53s19r16	2020	We found that Internet search patterns reveal a robust temporal pattern of disease progression for COVID-19: Initial symptoms of fever, dry cough, sore throat and chills are followed by shortness of breath an average of 5.22 days [95% CI 3.30-7.14] after symptom onset, matching the precise clinical course reported in the medical literature. We conducted a detailed global study across 32 countries on six continents to determine whether Internet search patterns can provide reliable real-time indicators of local COVID-19 spread, and whether these data can reveal the clinical progression of COVID-19. Figure 1 shows search volumes for the terms "fever" and "dry cough", alongside reported COVID-19 cases and deaths for China, Iran, Italy, United States and India. Figure 4a shows the ensemble average search volumes for "fever", "cough", "dry cough" and "shortness of breath", indexed by searches for "coronavirus symptoms", alongside reported COVID-19 cases and deaths.
cord-355062-zrvv4l0p	2020	BACKGROUND: Newer models of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) delivery are promising but depend upon patient participation and ability to use technological media including Internet and smart devices. The purpose of this study was to explore the availability of Internet/smart devices, current utilization patterns, and proficiency in using them for health-related issues in an older cohort of attendees within an urban outpatient CR program. The major findings of our study are: (1) The majority of CR attendees had Internet access and device ownership was high (85% in general, and 47% for smart phone); (2) Despite three quarters of CR attendees reporting no perceived barriers, only 18% used the Internet for DHI; and (3) Consistent with the general population, younger age, college education, and higher income predicted greater use of the Internet and less perceived barriers [9] . In conclusion, our study demonstrates that most older patients attending CR in an urban metropolitan area have access to Internet/smart devices and do not perceive significant barriers to use.