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Identifying Temporal Changes and Topics that Promote Growth Within Online Communities: A Prospective Study of Six Online Cancer Forums, Kathleen Durant et al., International Journal of Computational Models and Algorithms in Medicine, 2(2), 1-22, April-June 2011 http://bit.ly/nmFwek
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