With the increasing volumes of information gathered via patient monitoring systems,
physicians have been put on increasing pressure for making sophisticated analytical …

Background Anxiety conditions are debilitating and prevalent throughout the world.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is an effective, acceptance-based behavioral …

We use data from Google Trends to predict the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on future
births in the United States. First, we show that periods of above-normal search volume for …

Objective: The largest pandemic in history, the COVID-19 pandemic, has been declared a
doomsday globally. The second wave spreading worldwide has devastating consequences …

With the continuous growth of internet usage, Google Trends has emerged as a source of
information to investigate how social trends evolve over time. Knowing how the level of …

This paper provides an analytical framework and uses data from the US and Germany to test
for the existence of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sick leave …

The proliferation of social media applications such as online communities, social networking
sites, or blogs gives the public new means for receiving, and importantly, providing …

Several approaches have been proposed for near real-time detection and prediction of the
spread of influenza. These include search query data for influenza-related terms, which has …

Big Data has increasingly been promoted as a revolutionary development in the future of
science, including epidemiology. However, the definition and implications of Big Data for …

Amphibian declines and extinctions are critical concerns of biologists around the world. The
estimated current rate of amphibian extinction is known, but how it compares to the …