A Gender-Informed Smoking Cessation App for Women: Protocol for an Acceptability and Feasibility Study by Osnat C Melamed, Kamna Mehra, Roshni Panda, Nadia Minian, Scott Veldhuizen, Laurie Zawertailo, Leslie Buckley, Marta Maslej, Lorraine Greaves, Andreea C Brabete, Jonathan Rose, Matt Ratto, Peter Selby

“…MethodsWe co-developed a smoking cessation app specifically tailored for women, named My Change Plan-Women (MCP-W). This app builds upon our previous gender-neutral app, MCP, by retaining its content grounded in behavioral change techniques aimed at supporting tobacco reduction and cessation. …”
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Features of the use of the statistical method of frequency stabilization of generators in distributed information-measuring systems by D. D. Gabrielyan, P. I. Kostenko, O. A. Safarian

“…When time delays are greater than the correlation interval, the use of the statistical method does not lead to the change of relative instability of information signal frequency. …”
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Modern Information Technologies: Obstacles and Assistants in Management Decision-Making. Article One. Obstacles by V. A. Shamakhov, N. M. Mezhevich

“…However, the changing quality of information creates both new challenges and new opportunities in the information and analytical field. …”
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Doctor-patient interaction and informed consent in pediatric surgery: theory and reality in the regional practice by Sergio Luis González López, Carlos Alberto Cabrera Machado, Guillermo Cortiza Orbe, Zoe Quintero Delgado, Bertha Emelina Fonseca Romero, Yordan Ponce Rodríguez

“…It is widely accepted that the recognition of patient´s autonomy and the informed consent process have led to a change in the doctor-patients interaction, which is closely linked to the pediatric surgical practice in the particular Cuban modern environment. …”
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Corporate diversification, information asymmetry and firm performance: Evidence from Tehran Stock Exchange by Hossein Vazifeh Dust, Fatemeh Dadbeh, Farzaneh Hashemloo

“…The results indicate that corporate diversification using entropy influenced on information asymmetry and firm performance. With controlling other variables, the results indicate when ENTROP increases one unit, STDRET increases 0.49 unit but with controlling other variables, the results indicate when ENTROP increases or decreases one unit, ROA does not change.…”
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Four-Dimensional Building Information Modeling (4D BIM) in Construction Project Management by Farzad Fani, Roohollah Taherkhani

“…The construction industry, like other industries, leverages cutting-edge technologies and innovations in its path of evolution and progress. Building Information Modeling (BIM) is one of these innovations that has fundamentally transformed current construction processes by increasing efficiency. …”
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A new approach to integral information system of a company for business and sustainable development by Tatijana Minić, Bratislav Petrović, Oliver Ilić

“…Since computers and computer information systems (IS) have appeared, the necessity for the existing data processing methodology modification according to possibilities of computer data processing has been forced. …”
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Selected Topics on Business Information Systems Research: Editorial Introduction to Issue 26 of CSIMQ by Ben Roelens

“…Business Information Systems research deals with the conceptualization, development, introduction, maintenance and utilization of systems for computer-assisted information processing within companies and enterprise-wide networks.  …”
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Public demand for carbon capture and storage varies with information, development magnitude and prior familiarity by Jiwon Kim, Jacob Ladenburg

“…Here we address this gap by considering information effects, development magnitude effects and prior familiarity relations on willingness to pay towards carbon capture and storage. …”
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A Tent Census: How Counting Tents Informs an Understanding of Unsheltered Homelessness in Seattle by Karen A. Snedker, Jennifer McKinney, Charles C. Lanfear

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Evidence-Informed Educational Practice in Catalan Education: From Public Agenda to Teachers’ Practice by Georgeta Ion, Cecilia Inés Suárez, Anna Diaz Vicario

“…As the Catalan education system is highly autonomous, not all schools have embraced the evidence-informed practice (EIP) movement, and this has created differences between schools that choose to implement a change or innovation based on scientifically demonstrated evidence and those that do not. …”
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Design and Implementation of a Weather Information Acquisition System Applied to Locomotive Remote Monitoring by WANG Chunbo

“…This system captures weather information from the website of Weather China using a web crawler application via Ethernet and enables communication with locomotive remote monitoring systems, as the first implementation of such monitoring based on information fusion related to weather conditions. …”
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Integrating Building Management Systems in High-Rise Structures using Building Information Modeling by Purva Mujumdar, Shlok Agarwal

“…The concept of Building Information Modeling (BIM) to manage building management systems in construction projects is gaining popularity. …”
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Assessing the Information Technology Alignment in Business based on Combined Indicators(A Survey of OPIC) by Alireza Aliahmadi, Davood Karimzadegan Moghadam, Hamidreza Izadbakhsh, Reza Ghourchian

“…Alignment of information technology in business increases performance and effectiveness of information technology used in organization’s business and improves goals, strategies, resources, integration, investment and other relevant factors in the business. …”
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RISK-INFORMED STRENGTH DESIGN OF HOT MOLTEN SALT STORAGE TANK FOR CSP PLANTS by ZENG Xin, CAI Jun, ZHENG WeiDong, LI FangYa, YE DongTing, HU JingDong, LIU ChangJun

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Use of Business Intelligence as a Strategic Information Technology in Banking: Farud Discovery & Detection by علی محقر, کارو لوکس, ، فرید حسینی, آصف علی منشی

“…s competitive, complex and rapidly changing business world, based on information, it is very essential to have timely and accurate insight of business conditions and activities to check whether they are healthy and according to business norms. …”
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The Role of Intertheoretical Connections in the System of Sciences (by the Example of Applying the Information Approach to the Theory of Evolution) by A. Yu. Storozhuk

“…The process of intertheoretical adaptation of the conceptual apparatus is considered on the example of transferring the terminology of information theory and thermodynamics to the field of evolution theory. …”
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Applications of the Critical Incident Technique in Library and Information Science Research: A Literature Review by Sadeghi Halimeh, Nowkarizi Mohsen, Tajafari Masoumeh

“…This study was conducted to identify and analyze the use of this technique in the field of library and information science (LIS). A review of 523 records retrieved from databases like Web of Science, Scopus, Emerald, LISTA, and Google Scholar revealed that the critical incident technique has been applied in various areas including information-seeking behavior, analysis of positive and negative experiences, reference services, psychological aspects, copyright issues, knowledge management, change management, user satisfaction, the role of resources and information systems in decision-making, as well as the clinical, educational, and research utility of libraries. …”
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Information literacy instruction in special libraries: the situation in the year 2010 in comparison with the year 2002 by Uršula Tarfila, Primož Južnič

“…Results: The results show that information literacy instruction of special library users has remained more or less unchanged. …”
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Application of forecast‐informed reservoir operations at US Army Corps of Engineers dams in California by Joe Forbis, Cuong Ly

“…Considering the specific characteristics of a reservoir, forecast‐informed reservoir operations (FIRO) may be used to enhance flood risk reduction, improve water availability, and achieve other benefits. …”
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