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Call for Book Chapters
by Hakikur Rahman 30 Jun '19

30 Jun '19

Call for Book Chapters: Greetings! This is a call for book chapters, for the following book: *Human-Computer Interaction and Technology Integration in Modern Society.* The human condition is affected by numerous factors in the modern society. At this modern time, technology is so integrated into culture and life that it has become necessary to perform even daily functions. *Human-Computer Interaction and Technology Integration in Modern Society *is an authoritative reference source for the latest scholarly research on the widespread integration of technological innovations around the globe and examines how human-computer interaction affects various aspects of people’s lives. Featuring emergent research from theoretical perspectives and case studies, this book is ideally designed for professionals, students, practitioners, and academicians. *Topics Covered* - ICTs and citizen participation - ICTs and commerce - ICTs and culture - ICTs and education - ICTs and ethics - ICTs and gender equality - ICTs and governance - ICTs and health - ICTs and human empowerment - ICTs and human rights - ICTs and international cooperation - ICTs and political development - ICTs and poverty alleviation - ICTs and rural development - ICTs and social change - ICTs and social media - ICTs and social networks - ICTs and socio-economic development - ICTs and the environment - ICTs and urban development - Knowledge for human development - Policy making with regard to ICTs for development Please submit your full book chapter by September 30, 2019 for the review process. You may limit the word count to 10000 words for a full book chapter. The book will be published by the IGI Global, USA ( www.igi-global.com) . For any other questions or queries, please contact me. Thanking you, Hakikur Rahman Editor, *Human-Computer Interaction and Technology Integration in Modern Society.*

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CHANTS 2019 – Deadline JULY 5- 14th Workshop on Challenged Networks – co-located with ACM Mobicom 2019 - Los Cabos, Mexico
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 29 Jun '19

29 Jun '19

CALL FOR PAPERS The 14th Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS 2019) http://conferences.ece.unm.edu/chants2019/ colocated with ACM Mobicom 2019, the 25th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking Oct 21-25, Los Cabos, Mexico Scope and Overview Challenged networks comprise those situations where communication is desired, but traditional Internet architectures fail to provide it effectively. Such networks may be characterized by intermittent connectivity, a heterogeneous mix of nodes, frequent nodal churn, and widely varying network conditions. The applications of challenged networks range from time-critical communications such as for disaster relief to delay-tolerant transmission in poorly connected regions or where censorship should be counteracted. However, challenged networking has also found many applications in everyday settings, for which they were not initially conceived, such as opportunistic networking supporting data-centric communications, traffic offloading from cellular networks, mobile cloud/edge computing, opportunistic and participatory sensing as well as challenged IoT. CHANTS builds on the success of the thirteen previous CHANTS workshops and WDTN 2005, and aims to stimulate research on the most novel topics of challenged networking research. This year’s edition encourages submission of theoretical and experimental work (including studies of real deployment), with a primary interest in new directions of challenged networking in concrete application scenarios and demonstrators in areas such as autonomous driving, underwater robots, emergency response operations, underground mining, interplanetary missions, polar research and unmanned aerial vehicles. The workshop seeks original work presented in the form of research papers describing new research approaches and results, as well as demo and poster submissions. Highly disruptive work-in-progress and position papers are also welcome, provided they focus on particularly innovative solutions or applications for challenged networks. All papers shall be forward-looking, describe their relationship to existing work, and shall argue their impact and implications for ongoing or future research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ● Delay/disruption-tolerant networks (DTNs), opportunistic communication and computing ● Modeling and analysis of challenged networks and protocols for challenged networks ● Communication systems and networks for underground mining ● Underwater communication systems and networks ● Security/trust/privacy concerns and solutions in challenged networks ● Networking in polar regions ● Millimeter Wave Networking ● Challenged networking techniques for mobile cloud computing and mobile data offloading ● Challenged networking techniques for participatory and opportunistic sensing ● Challenged networking in the Internet of Things and in Cyber-Physical Systems ● Energy-efficient communication in challenged networks ● User behavior modeling and Quality of Service provisioning in challenged networks ● Space-terrestrial networks, lunar networks as well as interplanetary networks ● Information-centric and content-centric networking in challenged networks ● Real-world mobility trace collection, analysis, and modeling for challenged environments ● Network coding in challenged networks ● Real deployment and case studies in various stages of use ● Configuration, management, and monitoring of challenged networks ● Disrupted scenarios for challenged networks (e.g., disaster relief and emergency management) ● User Interfaces and interactive applications optimized for Challenged Networks ● Test and simulation tools for evaluating challenged network systems Program Committee Chairs Suzan Bayhan (TU Berlin, Germany) Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA) Workshop Web Chair Estefanía Coronado (FBK CREATE-NET, Italy) Publicity Chair Gürkan Gür (ZHAW, Switzerland) Jim Plusquellic (University of New Mexico, USA) Steering Board Kevin Almeroth (UC Santa Barbara, USA) Kevin Fall (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Stephen Farrell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Jörg Ott (TU München, Germany) Andrea Passarella (IIT-CNR, Italy) Important Dates Abstract Registration: July 5, 2019 Submission Deadline: July 5, 2019 Acceptance Notification: July 31st, 2019 Camera-ready: August 12th, 2019 Workshop: October 25th, 2019 Paper Format and Submission Instructions General Paper Format Submitted papers must be no longer than 6 pages, and should adhere to the standard ACM conference proceedings format. All submissions must be written in English. Authors must register the abstract 1 week prior to the full paper submission. Demo/Poster Format Demo and poster proposals (to be published as part of the proceedings) must not be longer than 2 pages, for demos plus 1 page description of the precise setup and requirements (the 1-page setup description will not be published in the proceedings). Submission Reviews will be single-blinded. Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor being currently under review by another conference or journal. Editorial Follow-Ups Extended versions of the selected workshop papers will be considered for possible fast track publication in well-known journals, e.g., Computer Communications (Elsevier) or the ACM GetMobile. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 235D Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab’s News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE>

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ESMC New Calls for Papers: Guest Editors Julie Wiest and Heloisa Pait
by Emerald Editorial 28 Jun '19

28 Jun '19

*ESMC announces new calls for two volumes—details below.* *Volume: Crime, Criminals, and Mass Media* *Editor: Julie B. Wiest Initial Abstract Deadline: September 30, 2019* *Volume: Media, Development and Democracy: historical and current connections* *Editor: Heloisa Pait Deadline: December 15, 2019* *Also see: http://www.emeraldmediastudies.com/Calls---Volumes.html <http://www.emeraldmediastudies.com/Calls---Volumes.html>* **** *Crime, Criminals, and Mass Media* *Editor: Julie B. Wiest* *Initial Deadline: September 30, 2019* This volume will include social science research that advances knowledge about the complex relationships between media and crime. Chapters will be divided into central focal areas within this literature to seek the widest breadth of current scholarship. In particular, studies are sought that examine: representations of crime and criminals in mass media; links between media representations of crime and related public beliefs and behaviors; the use of new/digital media in the commission/detection of crime or in the dissemination of crime stories; and advances in theory and/or methods relevant to studies of media and crime. Topics might include: 1. Crime and Criminals in Mass Media: Chapters may examine the representation of crime and/or criminals in news or entertainment media, possibly focusing on depictions of crime rates, criminal incidents, or characteristics of criminals such as race, gender, age, nationality, occupation, etc. 2. Theorizing Media and Crime: Chapters may explore classical and emerging theories used in studies of media and crime, such as uses and gratifications theory, the mean world syndrome, mediatization, media logic, and others. 3. Mediated Perceptions of Crime: Chapters may focus on relationships between media representations of crime/criminals and public perceptions, attitudes, and/or behaviors related to criminality and/or criminal victimization. 4. Crime and Criminals in a New Media Landscape: Chapters may examine the role of new/ digital media technologies in the commission of crime, the detection/policing of crime, or the dissemination of information about crime and/or criminals. 5. Methods for Studying Media and Crime: Chapters may explore classical and/or emerging research methods used to study the relationships between media and crime, including quantitative, qualitative, and/or mixed methods. Volume Deadlines  Proposal submissions: Sept. 30, 2019 (acceptance notifications by Nov. 1, 2019) o Proposals should be emailed to jbwiest(a)gmail.com as an attached Word file in the form of an extended abstract of 500 to 1,000 words, plus references. o All proposals should include information about the purpose and significance of the study, the data and methods employed, and major findings.  Chapter drafts: Feb. 3, 2020 (peer review feedback by March 16, 2020)  Final chapters: May 15, 2020 (about 8,000 – 10,000 words, including notes and references) QUESTIONS? Contact the volume editor at jbwiest(a)gmail.com Editor Julie Wiest is Associate Professor at West Chester University of Pennsylvania USA. As a sociologist of culture and media, Julie Wiest applies mainly symbolic interactionist and social constructivist perspectives to studies in three primary areas: (1) the sociocultural context of violence, (2) mass media effects, and (3) the relationship between new media technologies and social change. Wiest received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Tennessee and M.A. in journalism and mass communication from the University of Georgia. Before academia, she worked as a print and online journalist for nearly a decade. **** *Media, Development and Democracy: historical and current connections* *Editor: Heloisa Pait* *Deadline: December 15, 2019* Connections between the emergence of national democracies, economic development, and the introduction of mass media have been studied for many decades, but there are still missing links in this complex web. In 1949, Daniel Lerner suggested the existence of a relationship between new media and the modern mentality in developing nations. Although much criticized, his insights influenced optimistic views of the impact of television and the internet around the globe. Here we ask a different question: what is the impact of State censorship and material restrictions on the press, in countries that have been witnessing continuous economic development? Do restrictions on the functioning of the media in the formative period of a nation have long-term impacts on economic development? Looking from a different angle, can a limited labor market, with few formal vacancies in competitive firms, make literacy less rewarding, discouraging private investment in education? How do low literacy rates influence political culture and the nature of the public sphere in a modern society? In this volume, we would like to examine the multiple relationships between economic development, adoption of new media, literacy and education, and democratic culture. We are interested in studies of so-called developing countries, and in particular those where there have been restrictions on the printing press, such as colonial Brazil and the Ottoman Empire, or which somehow differ from the Northern European and North American model of media development. We welcome papers using a variety of methods, particularly those bridging interdisciplinary gaps. Our goal is to point to new paths in the understanding of the challenges to achieving a free and just society. We welcome papers that discuss public policy regarding educational or economic reforms within that larger investigative framework, as well as research on the experience of particular groups. Research is particularly welcome on women, the African diaspora, and/or Marranos. The article “Liberalism Without a Press: 18th Century Minas Geraes and the Roots of Brazilian Development”, by the editor, which appeared on volume 18 of Studies in Media and Communications, further elaborates on the possible relations between media, development and the public sphere. Please send your inquiries to Dr. Heloisa Pait, heloisa.pait(a)fulbrightmail.org with the subject “Emerald Book Series”. Submissions should be sent before January 15, 2020. Editor: Heloisa Pait is a tenured professor of sociology at the São Paulo State University Julio de Mesquita Filho. She has written on Brazilian telenovelas, on the role of new media in political action and on higher education in Brazil and in the United States. Heloisa Pait is an active participant of public debates; she has recently launched Revista Pasmas, an online women’s magazine. Her published articles are listed in the Lattes platform at www.bit.ly/helopaitLattes. Contributing editor: Renata Nagamine is a postdoctoral fellow in the Graduate Program in International Relations at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. She received her PhD in international law from the University of São Paulo Law School. Nagamine has worked as a researcher at the Brazilian Centre of Analysis and Planning (Cebrap) and was a Kathleen Fitzpatrick Visiting Fellow with the Laureate Program in International Law at the University of Melbourne in 2018. Her areas of interest are international humanitarian law, human rights, and political theory.Her published articles are listed in the Lattes platform at http://lattes.cnpq.br. *Emerald Studies in Media and Communications* emeraldmediastudies.com editorial(a)emeraldmediastudies.com

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New research report: AI, Ethics and Governance: Global Perspectives
by Angela Daly 28 Jun '19

28 Jun '19

Dear all, My colleagues and I have just released a co-authored report examining AI ethics and governance initiatives emerging from the US, EU, China, India and Australia, supported by a Chinese University of Hong Kong Direct Grant for Research. You can find a copy of the report via this link: https://angeladaly.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/artificial-intelligence-ethi… Feedback, comments, and offers for further collaboration and/or support are greatly appreciated - please get in touch! Thanks, Angela

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CFP Special Issue on 5G-Enabled Internet of Things, Applications and Services - Elsevier Computer Networks
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 28 Jun '19

28 Jun '19

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] * Call for Papers * Special Issue on 5G-Enabled Internet of Things, Applications and Services Elsevier Computer Networks https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-networks/call-for-papers/special… The Internet of Things (IoT) is shaping the evolution of the future Internet. According to the vision underlying the IoT, the next step in increasing the ubiquity of the Internet, after connecting people anytime and everywhere, is to connect inanimate objects. By providing objects with embedded communication capabilities and a common addressing scheme, a highly distributed, ubiquitous and dense network of seamlessly connected heterogeneous devices is formed, which can be fully integrated into the current Internet and mobile networks, thus allowing for the development of new intelligent applications and services available anytime, anywhere, by anyone and anything. Many applications with high social and business impact fall under the IoT umbrella. Many application areas are emerging such as public safety, smart city environments, personal healthcare, smart grid, surveillance, building automation, intelligent transportation, smart vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles systems, smart agriculture and aquaculture, as well as tactile Internet applications. Nevertheless, it is expected that new areas will emerge once the enabling technologies reach a stable state. In this context, the upcoming 5G wireless network technology promises to be responsive, fast and power efficient. The combination of speed, responsiveness and reach of 5G will provide both opportunities and challenges for new IoT applications and services, relying on software defined networks within virtualized environments with the aim to provide optimal performance targets regarding latency, bandwidth, resilience and energy consumption. The goal of this special issue is to bring together state-of-the-art research contributions that describe original and unpublished work addressing IoT applications and services within the 5G context. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: - Architectures, protocols and algorithms for an efficient interconnection of smart objects, both between themselves and with the Internet within the 5G context. - Resource description, provisioning, scheduling, allocation and orchestration for IoT-enabled infrastructures, including the use of reinforcement learning approaches to address the dynamicity, stochasticity and uncertainty of emerging environments and applications. - Real life modeling approaches regarding applications, objects' and users' interdependencies and decision making, including application workload profiling, user behavior modeling, utility maximization, QoS satisfaction. - The creation of value-added services in cross-domain applications, especially open and interoperable, enabled by the interconnection of things / machines / smart objects, in such a way that they can be integrated with current and new business and development processes. - The support of a virtualized IoT, --based on the concepts of virtualized components and functions within dense and heterogeneous environments, as expected for the massive growth of IoT 5G services and applications. - Security, privacy and trust for IoT applications and services, for ensuring that the provided services will protect the users' data, provide guarantees that no malicious users/devices will affect the system decisions and that the IoT applications will be secure and privacy-preserving "by design". * Important Dates * Paper Submission Due: 30 September 2019 First Round Notification: 15 December 2019 Revised Paper Submission: 15 January, 2020 Final author notification: 15 March, 2020 Tentative Publication Date: 2nd quarter, 2020 * Submission guidelines * All received submissions will be sent out for peer review by three experts in the field and be evaluated with respect to the relevance to this special issue, level of innovation, depth of contribution, and quality of presentation. The Guest Editors will make an initial determination of the suitability and scope for all submissions. Papers that either lack originality or clarity in presentation will not be sent for review and the authors will be promptly informed in such cases. Submitted papers must not be under consideration by other journals, publications or conferences. Authors should follow the Computer Networks manuscript format described below at the journal site: http://www.elsevier.com/journals/computer-networks/1389-1286/guide-for-auth…. The submission must be clearly written and in excellent English, with a maximum page limit of 20 pages. If some of the content of the paper was published in a conference, the submitted manuscript must be a substantial extension of the conference paper. In this case, authors are also required to submit their published conference article and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. Manuscripts should be submitted online through https://www.evise.com/profile/#/COMNET/login, with "SI: IoT SOS" selected as the article type. * Guest editors * Marilia Curado, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (marilia(a)dei.uc.pt<mailto:marilia@dei.uc.pt>) Giacomo Tanganelli, University of Pisa, Italy (giacomo.tanganelli(a)iet.unipi.it<mailto:giacomo.tanganelli@iet.unipi.it>) Antonio A F Loureiro, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil (loureiro(a)dcc.ufmg.br<mailto:loureiro@dcc.ufmg.br>) Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, USA (eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu>) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 235D Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab's News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE>

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[CFP] “Studying Information Deviances: ‘Truth’ and ‘Conspiracy’ in the Digital Age”
by Baptiste Kotras 28 Jun '19

28 Jun '19

Dear colleagues, Please find in the link below a call for papers for a special issue of RESET – Social Science Research on the Internet , entitled “Studying Information Deviances: ‘Truth’ and ‘Conspiracy’ in the Digital Age” , coordinated by Henri Boullier (IRIS/INSERM), Baptiste Kotras (LISIS/Paris-Est University) and Ignacio Siles (CICOM/University of Costa Rica). https://journals.openedition.org/reset/1478 Paper proposals (maximum 500 words, excluding bibliography), in French or English, must be sent to the following addresses before 10 September 2019: RESET Journal reset(a)openedition.org Henri Boullier h.boullier(a)gmail.com Baptiste Kotras bkotras(a)gmail.com Ignacio Siles isiles(a)gmail.com Notifications of acceptance will be given no later than 30 September 2019. Successful authors must submit their papers by November 30, 2019. Link to the call for papers: https://journals.openedition.org/reset/1478 Best regards, The issue coordinators -- -- Baptiste KOTRAS Chercheur postdoc au LISIS Postdoctoral researcher at LISIS IFRIS / Université Paris-Est

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PhD/Post-doc positions (OSN, distributed AI, Internet of People) available at IIT-CNR, Pisa, Italy
by Andrea Passarella 28 Jun '19

28 Jun '19

Post-doc/PhD positions are open @ IIT-CNR, Pisa, Italy, on the following topics #1: Analysis of large-scale Online Social Networks #2: Distributed AI at the edge of the Internet #3: Internet of People ** Hosting University for PhD positions: IIT-CNR is part of the PhD program in Data Science (https://datasciencephd.eu/) hosted by the Scuola Normale Superiore (https://www.sns.it/en) Selected applicants shall apply to the official call of the PhD https://www.sns.it/en/admissions/phd/how-to-apply-for-the-phd-courses ** Application deadline: continuous evaluation, up until 28 July 2019 Details available here http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/andrea/2019_ui_positions.txt Best regards, Andrea -- Andrea Passarella -- Institute for Informatics and Telematics (IIT) National Research Council (CNR) Via G. Moruzzi, 1 voice: +39 050 315 3269 56124 Pisa, Italy fax: +39 050 315 2593 @/sip: a.passarella(a)iit.cnr.it mobile: +39 346 0082 540 ======================================================================== Founding Associate EiC Elsevier Journal on Online Social Networks and Media http://www.journals.elsevier.com/online-social-networks-and-media/

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The journal Global Media and China published the latest issue
by Xiao Han 28 Jun '19

28 Jun '19

Dear All, We are pleased to announce that our journal Global Media and China has just published its latest issue(Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2019). And also we sincerely welcome your contribution to our journals. If you are interested and have the time, it is a great honour for us to receive your submission. Here is the submission portal: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gmac. For more information about Global Media and China, please go to http://journals.sagepub.com/home/gch, you can also find detailed submission guidelines there. You can freely read this new issue at https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/gch/current *Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2019* *Special Section: * Data on Demand: Ranking the Nation, Predicting the Future *Research Article* Michael Keane, Gary Rawnsley *Data on Demand* Alberto Carrera Portugal *The role of city rankings in local public policy design: Urban competitiveness and economic press* Chang Zhang, Ruiqin Wu *Battlefield of global ranking: How do power rivalries shape soft power index building?* Brian Yecies, Michael Keane, Haiqing Yu, Elaine Jing Zhao, Peter Yong Zhong, Susan Leong, Huan Wu *The cultural power metric: Toward a reputational analysis of China’s soft power in the Asia-Pacific* Karen Li Xan Wong, Amy Shields Dobson *We’re just data: Exploring China’s social credit system in relation to digital platform ratings cultures in Westernised democracies* *Original Articles* Huan Chen, Rang Wang, Xuan Liang *Americanized or localized: A qualitative study on Chinese advertising practitioners’ perceptions of creativity and strategy in the digital age* Xiaoxiao Zhang *Narrated oppressive mechanisms: Chinese audiences’ receptions of effeminate masculinity* Yicheng Zhu *Determining economic news about China in global news feed: Evidence from Global Database of Events, Language and Tone* Zheng Zhu *Re-constructing “China” in a transnational context* Best regards, Dr HAN Xiao Research Assistant, Social Media Centre, Communication University of China (CUC) Commissioning Editor, Global Media and China

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Network analysis of media industry
by k.cybulski＠tuta.io 27 Jun '19

27 Jun '19

Dear AoIR community, Are any of you aware of studies utilising network methodologies to examine the media industry? I'm trying to dig into the subject of corporate media bias from a network perspective, but so far I haven't found much on the topic in literature. I found numerous network analyses of user behaviour on social media, yet very little research concerning the news sources themselves. I'd greatly appreciate any help! Best, Krzysztof Cybulski BSc Data Science and Knowledge Engineering, Universiteit Maastricht

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APP HEALTH PRIMARY CARE - INSTRUMENT FOR MEASURING EMPOWERMENT
by Andre Pereira Neto 27 Jun '19

27 Jun '19

Dear Colleagues, We have just produced an application for primary care that serves a low income population, precarious schooling and subjected to an intense atmosphere of violence, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The app is available on Google Play - *Meu Info Saúde* The information will be transmitted between the users and the managers of the different public and free health services offered. This application is a pioneering experience in Brazil. It has not yet been installed on the users' cell phones. We would like to start this intervention by carrying out a research project that includes the evaluation that the users have of this innovation before, during and after its installation. We have a particular interest in following the process of empowerment that quality information can promote with these users. We are sending this email to see if any colleague (s) could suggest one or more instruments that could assist in measuring the impact of this information on the increase of self-care practices, disease prevention and health promotion. Partnerships are welcome. Thank you in advance for your interest. Andre Pereira and Rodolfo Paolucci

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