Search results for: Diogo F. Pacheco
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Approximately 22 people die every day in the USA due to a lack of organs for transplant. Research suggests that the most effective solution is to increase organ donor rates, current, proposals range from expanding the donor eligibility criteria (donor pool) to performing mass media campaigns. However, little is known about the extent in which activities on social media are associated with aspects...
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Football (aka Soccer) is the most popular sport in the world. The popularity of the sport leads to several stories (some perhaps anecdotal) about supporters behaviors and to the emergence of rivalries such as the famous Barcelona-Real Madrid (in Spain). Little however has been done to characterize/profile online users' behaviors as football supporters and use them as an aggregate measure to club characterization...
