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Mental health problems and social media exposure during COVID-19 outbreak by Gao, Junling, Zheng, Pinpin, Jia, Yingnan, Chen, Hao, Mao, Yimeng, Chen, Suhong, Wang, Yi, Fu, Hua, Dai, Junming

“…Huge citizens expose to social media during a novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbroke in Wuhan, China. We assess the prevalence of mental health problems…”
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Students under lockdown: Comparisons of students' social networks and mental health before and during the COVID-19 crisis in Switzerland by Elmer, Timon, Mepham, Kieran, Stadtfeld, Christoph

“…This study investigates students' social networks and mental health before and at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2020, using longitudinal data…”
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A simple method to assess and report thematic saturation in qualitative research by Guest, Greg, Namey, Emily, Chen, Mario

“…Data saturation is the most commonly employed concept for estimating sample sizes in qualitative research. Over the past 20 years, scholars using both…”
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SRplot: A free online platform for data visualization and graphing by Tang, Doudou, Chen, Mingjie, Huang, Xinhua, Zhang, Guicheng, Zeng, Lin, Zhang, Guangsen, Wu, Shangjie, Wang, Yewei

“…Graphics are widely used to provide summarization of complex data in scientific publications. Although there are many tools available for drawing graphics,…”
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Machine learning algorithm validation with a limited sample size by Vabalas, Andrius, Gowen, Emma, Poliakoff, Ellen, Casson, Alexander J

“…Advances in neuroimaging, genomic, motion tracking, eye-tracking and many other technology-based data collection methods have led to a torrent of high…”
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Persistent fatigue following SARS-CoV-2 infection is common and independent of severity of initial infection by Townsend, Liam, Dyer, Adam H, Jones, Karen, Dunne, Jean, Mooney, Aoife, Gaffney, Fiona, O'Connor, Laura, Leavy, Deirdre, O'Brien, Kate, Dowds, Joanne, Sugrue, Jamie A, Hopkins, David, Martin-Loeches, Ignacio, Ni Cheallaigh, Cliona, Nadarajan, Parthiban, McLaughlin, Anne Marie, Bourke, Nollaig M, Bergin, Colm, O'Farrelly, Cliona, Bannan, Ciaran, Conlon, Niall

“…Fatigue is a common symptom in those presenting with symptomatic COVID-19 infection. However, it is unknown if COVID-19 results in persistent fatigue in those…”
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Psychological impacts from COVID-19 among university students: Risk factors across seven states in the United States by Browning, Matthew H E M, Larson, Lincoln R, Sharaievska, Iryna, Rigolon, Alessandro, McAnirlin, Olivia, Mullenbach, Lauren, Cloutier, Scott, Vu, Tue M, Thomsen, Jennifer, Reigner, Nathan, Metcalf, Elizabeth Covelli, D'Antonio, Ashley, Helbich, Marco, Bratman, Gregory N, Alvarez, Hector Olvera

“…University students are increasingly recognized as a vulnerable population, suffering from higher levels of anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and…”
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Data-based analysis, modelling and forecasting of the COVID-19 outbreak by Anastassopoulou, Cleo, Russo, Lucia, Tsakris, Athanasios, Siettos, Constantinos

“…Since the first suspected case of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) on December 1st, 2019, in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, a total of 40,235 confirmed cases…”
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Loneliness in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic: Cross-sectional results from the COVID-19 Psychological Wellbeing Study by Groarke, Jenny M, Berry, Emma, Graham-Wisener, Lisa, McKenna-Plumley, Phoebe E, McGlinchey, Emily, Armour, Cherie

“…Loneliness is a significant public health issue. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in lockdown measures limiting social contact. The UK public are worried…”
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Partisanship, health behavior, and policy attitudes in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic by Gadarian, Shana Kushner, Goodman, Sara Wallace, Pepinsky, Thomas B

“…To study the U.S. public's health behaviors, attitudes, and policy opinions about COVID-19 in the earliest weeks of the national health crisis (March 20-23,…”
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Influence of COVID-19 confinement on students' performance in higher education by Gonzalez, T, de la Rubia, M A, Hincz, K P, Comas-Lopez, M, Subirats, Laia, Fort, Santi, Sacha, G M

“…This study analyzes the effects of COVID-19 confinement on the autonomous learning performance of students in higher education. Using a field experiment with…”
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Prognostic factors for severity and mortality in patients infected with COVID-19: A systematic review by Izcovich, Ariel, Ragusa, Martín Alberto, Tortosa, Fernando, Lavena Marzio, María Andrea, Agnoletti, Camila, Bengolea, Agustín, Ceirano, Agustina, Espinosa, Federico, Saavedra, Ezequiel, Sanguine, Verónica, Tassara, Alfredo, Cid, Candelaria, Catalano, Hugo Norberto, Agarwal, Arnav, Foroutan, Farid, Rada, Gabriel

“…The objective of our systematic review is to identify prognostic factors that may be used in decision-making related to the care of patients infected with…”
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Data quality in online human-subjects research: Comparisons between MTurk, Prolific, CloudResearch, Qualtrics, and SONA by Douglas, Benjamin D, Ewell, Patrick J, Brauer, Markus

“…With the proliferation of online data collection in human-subjects research, concerns have been raised over the presence of inattentive survey participants and…”
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Depression and anxiety among university students during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh: A web-based cross-sectional survey by Islam, Md Akhtarul, Barna, Sutapa Dey, Raihan, Hasin, Khan, Md Nafiul Alam, Hossain, Md Tanvir

“…The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of depression and anxiety among Bangladeshi university students during the COVID-19 pandemic. It…”
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Public knowledge, attitudes and practices towards COVID-19: A cross-sectional study in Malaysia by Azlan, Arina Anis, Hamzah, Mohammad Rezal, Sern, Tham Jen, Ayub, Suffian Hadi, Mohamad, Emma

“…In an effort to mitigate the outbreak of COVID-19, many countries have imposed drastic lockdown, movement control or shelter in place orders on their…”
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miRWalk: An online resource for prediction of microRNA binding sites by Sticht, Carsten, De La Torre, Carolina, Parveen, Alisha, Gretz, Norbert

“…miRWalk is an open-source platform providing an intuitive interface that generates predicted and validated miRNA-binding sites of known genes of human, mouse,…”
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An empirical survey of data augmentation for time series classification with neural networks by Iwana, Brian Kenji, Uchida, Seiichi

“…In recent times, deep artificial neural networks have achieved many successes in pattern recognition. Part of this success can be attributed to the reliance on…”
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Prevalence, Severity and Mortality associated with COPD and Smoking in patients with COVID-19: A Rapid Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Alqahtani, Jaber S, Oyelade, Tope, Aldhahir, Abdulelah M, Alghamdi, Saeed M, Almehmadi, Mater, Alqahtani, Abdullah S, Quaderi, Shumonta, Mandal, Swapna, Hurst, John R

“…Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an evolving infectious disease that dramatically spread all over the world in the early part of 2020. No studies have…”
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False-negative results of initial RT-PCR assays for COVID-19: A systematic review by Arevalo-Rodriguez, Ingrid, Buitrago-Garcia, Diana, Simancas-Racines, Daniel, Zambrano-Achig, Paula, Del Campo, Rosa, Ciapponi, Agustin, Sued, Omar, Martinez-García, Laura, Rutjes, Anne W, Low, Nicola, Bossuyt, Patrick M, Perez-Molina, Jose A, Zamora, Javier

“…A false-negative case of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection is defined as a person with suspected infection and an initial…”
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COVID-19 and vaccine hesitancy: A longitudinal study by Fridman, Ariel, Gershon, Rachel, Gneezy, Ayelet

“…How do attitudes toward vaccination change over the course of a public health crisis? We report results from a longitudinal survey of United States residents…”
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