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Graphical Tools for Visualizing the Results of Network Meta-Analysis of Multicomponent Interventions
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Seitidis, Georgios; Tsokani, Sofia; Christogiannis, Christos; Kontouli, Katerina-Maria; Fyraridis, Alexandros; Nikolakopoulos, Stavros; Veroniki, Areti Angeliki; Mavridis, Dimitris – Research Synthesis Methods, 2023
Network meta-analysis (NMA) is an established method for assessing the comparative efficacy and safety of competing interventions. It is often the case that we deal with interventions that consist of multiple, possibly interacting, components. Examples of interventions' components include characteristics of the intervention, mode (face-to-face,…
Descriptors: Networks, Network Analysis, Meta Analysis, Intervention
Educational Use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS): International Development and Its Implications for Higher Education
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Duan, Chenggui; Lee, Tracy K. – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2022
Purpose: Free and open-source software (FOSS) has been used worldwide because of the advantages of user control, cost-saving, flexibility, openness, freedom, more security and better stability. The purpose of this study is to explore the status quo of educational application of FOSS and the trends from international perspectives and its…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Computer Software, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
MetaInsight: An Interactive Web-Based Tool for Analyzing, Interrogating, and Visualizing Network Meta-Analyses Using R-Shiny and Netmeta
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Owen, Rhiannon K.; Bradbury, Naomi; Xin, Yiqiao; Cooper, Nicola; Sutton, Alex – Research Synthesis Methods, 2019
Background: Network meta-analysis (NMA) is a powerful analysis method used to identify the best treatments for a condition and is used extensively by health care decision makers. Although software routines exist for conducting NMA, they require considerable statistical programming expertise to use, which limits the number of researchers able to…
Descriptors: Network Analysis, Meta Analysis, Computer Software, Medical Research
Social Network Aided Plagiarism Detection
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Zrnec, Aljaž; Lavbic, Dejan – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2017
The prevalence of different kinds of electronic devices and the volume of content on the Web have increased the amount of plagiarism, which is considered an unethical act. If we want to be efficient in the detection and prevention of these acts, we have to improve today's methods of discovering plagiarism. The paper presents a research study where…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Plagiarism, Identification, Prevention
Network Analytics of Collaborative Problem-Solving
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Kerrigan, Simon; Feng, Shihui; Vuthaluru, Rupa; Ifenthaler, Dirk; Gibson, David – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
Problem-solving and collaboration are regarded as an essential part of 21st Century Skills. This study describes a task-focused approach to network analysis of trace data from collaborative problem-solving in a digital learning environment. The analysis framework builds and expands upon previous analyses of social ties as well as discourse…
Descriptors: Network Analysis, Problem Solving, Task Analysis, Data Analysis
Curation-Based Network Marketing: Strategies for Network Growth and Electronic Word-of-Mouth Diffusion
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Church, Earnie Mitchell, Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In the last couple of years, a new aspect of online social networking has emerged, in which the strength of social network connections is based not on social ties but mutually shared interests. This dissertation studies these "curation-based" online social networks (CBN) and their suitability for the diffusion of electronic word-of-mouth…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Network Analysis, Marketing, Information Dissemination