BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated issues of poverty and food insecurity in New York City, and many residents experienced difficulty accessing available resources to help them get food on the table. Social media presents an opportunity to ...
BACKGROUND: Nowadays, digital health technologies, including mobile apps, wearable technologies, social media, websites, electronic medical records, and artificial intelligence, are impacting disease management and outcomes. We aimed to analyse the c...
BACKGROUND: Stigma associated with HIV/AIDS continues to be a major barrier to prevention, management, and care. HIV stigma can negatively influence health behaviors. Surveys of the general public in Japan also demonstrated substantial gaps in knowle...
BACKGROUND: A major challenge in sentiment analysis on social media is the increasing prevalence of image-based content, which integrates text and visuals to convey nuanced messages. Traditional text-based approaches have been widely used to assess p...
The widespread disinformation on social media platforms has created significant challenges in verifying the authenticity of content, especially in multimodal contexts. However, simple modality fusion can introduce much noise due to the differences in...
In fast-paced urban environments, Citywalk has emerged as a key leisure activity for urban residents to alleviate stress and enhance emotional well-being. From the perspective of virtual-physical interaction, this study integrates social media data w...
Social media has become a popular stage for people's views over climate change. Monitoring how climate change is perceived on social media is relevant for informed decision-making. This work advances the way social media users' perceptions and reacti...
BACKGROUND: Nutritional yeast, an inactive form of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, has recently become increasingly popular as a food supplement and healthy ingredient, especially among individuals following plant-based diets. It is valued for its health b...
OBJECTIVES: Globally, there has been a rapid increase in the availability of online gambling. As online gambling has increased in popularity, there has been a corresponding increase in online communities that discuss gambling. The movement of gamblin...
BACKGROUND: The opioid epidemic in the United States remains a major public health concern, with opioid-related deaths increasing more than 8-fold since 1999. Chronic pain, affecting 1 in 5 US adults, is a key contributor to opioid use and misuse. Wh...