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Mail and internet surveys : the tailored design method

Abstract: Preface to the 2007 Update.Preface to the Second Edition.Acknowledgments.Part One: ELEMENTS OF THE TAILORED DESIGN METHOD.1 Introduction to Tailored Design.2 Writing Questions.3 Constructing the Questionnaire.4 Survey Implementation.5 Reduction of Coverage and Sampling Errors.Part Two: TAILORING TO THE SURVEY SITUATION.6 Mixed-Mode Surveys.7 Alternative Questionnaire Delivery: In Person, to Groups, and through Publications.8 When Timing Is Critical: Diary, Customer Satisfaction, and Election Forecast Surveys.9 Household and Individual Person Surveys by Government.10 Surveys of Businesses and Other Organizations.11 Internet and Interactive Voice Response Surveys.12 Optical Scanning and Imaging, and the Future of Self-Administered Surveys.References.2007 Appendix: Recent Developments in the Design of Web, Mail, and Mixed-Mode Surveys.Appendix References.Index.

Mail and internet surveys: The tailored design method, 2nd ed.

Abstract: Preface to the 2007 Update.Preface to the Second Edition.Acknowledgments.Part One: ELEMENTS OF THE TAILORED DESIGN METHOD.1 Introduction to Tailored Design.2 Writing Questions.3 Constructing the Questionnaire.4 Survey Implementation.5 Reduction of Coverage and Sampling Errors.Part Two: TAILORING TO THE SURVEY SITUATION.6 Mixed-Mode Surveys.7 Alternative Questionnaire Delivery: In Person, to Groups, and through Publications.8 When Timing Is Critical: Diary, Customer Satisfaction, and Election Forecast Surveys.9 Household and Individual Person Surveys by Government.10 Surveys of Businesses and Other Organizations.11 Internet and Interactive Voice Response Surveys.12 Optical Scanning and Imaging, and the Future of Self-Administered Surveys.References.2007 Appendix: Recent Developments in the Design of Web, Mail, and Mixed-Mode Surveys.Appendix References.Index.

The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

Abstract: The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (or OEIS) is a database of some 130000 number sequences. It is freely available on the Web (http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/) and is widely used. There are several ways in which it benefits research: 1 It serves as a dictionary, to tell the user what is known about a particular sequence. There are hundreds of papers which thank the OEIS for assistance in this way. 1 The associated Sequence Fans mailing list is a worldwide network which has evolved into a powerful machine for tackling new problems. 1 As a direct source of new theorems, when a sequence arises in two different contexts. 1 As a source of new research, when one sees a sequence in the OEIS that cries out to be analyzed. The 40-year history of the OEIS recapitulates the story of modern computing, from punched cards to the internet. The talk will be illustrated with numerous examples, emphasizing new sequences that have arrived in the past few months. Many open problems will be mentioned. Because of the profusion of books and journals, volunteers play an important role in maintaining the database. If you come across an interesting number sequence in a book, journal or web site, please send it and the reference to the OEIS. (You do not need to be the author of the sequence to do this.) There is a web site for sending in "Comments" or "New sequences". Several new features have been added to the OEIS in the past year. Thanks to the work of Russ Cox, searches are now performed at high speed, and thanks to the work of Debby Swayne, there is a button which displays plots of each sequence. Finally, a "listen" button enables one to hear the sequence played on a musical instrument (try Recamaan's sequence A005132!).

Measurement and analysis of online social networks

Abstract: Online social networking sites like Orkut, YouTube, and Flickr are among the most popular sites on the Internet. Users of these sites form a social network, which provides a powerful means of sharing, organizing, and finding content and contacts. The popularity of these sites provides an opportunity to study the characteristics of online social network graphs at large scale. Understanding these graphs is important, both to improve current systems and to design new applications of online social networks.This paper presents a large-scale measurement study and analysis of the structure of multiple online social networks. We examine data gathered from four popular online social networks: Flickr, YouTube, LiveJournal, and Orkut. We crawled the publicly accessible user links on each site, obtaining a large portion of each social network's graph. Our data set contains over 11.3 million users and 328 million links. We believe that this is the first study to examine multiple online social networks at scale.Our results confirm the power-law, small-world, and scale-free properties of online social networks. We observe that the indegree of user nodes tends to match the outdegree; that the networks contain a densely connected core of high-degree nodes; and that this core links small groups of strongly clustered, low-degree nodes at the fringes of the network. Finally, we discuss the implications of these structural properties for the design of social network based systems.

Basis set exchange: a community database for computational sciences.

Abstract: Basis sets are some of the most important input data for computational models in the chemistry, materials, biology, and other science domains that utilize computational quantum mechanics methods. Providing a shared, Web-accessible environment where researchers can not only download basis sets in their required format but browse the data, contribute new basis sets, and ultimately curate and manage the data as a community will facilitate growth of this resource and encourage sharing both data and knowledge. We describe the Basis Set Exchange (BSE), a Web portal that provides advanced browsing and download capabilities, facilities for contributing basis set data, and an environment that incorporates tools to foster development and interaction of communities. The BSE leverages and enables continued development of the basis set library originally assembled at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory.

A data-oriented (and beyond) network architecture

Abstract: The Internet has evolved greatly from its original incarnation. For instance, the vast majority of current Internet usage is data retrieval and service access, whereas the architecture was designed around host-to-host applications such as telnet and ftp. Moreover, the original Internet was a purely transparent carrier of packets, but now the various network stakeholders use middleboxes to improve security and accelerate applications. To adapt to these changes, we propose the Data-Oriented Network Architecture (DONA), which involves a clean-slate redesign of Internet naming and name resolution.

Value-based Adoption of Mobile Internet: An empirical investigation

Abstract: This study examines the adoption of Mobile Internet (M-Internet) as a new Information and Communication Technology (ICT) from the value perspective. M-Internet is a fast growing enabling technology for Mobile Commerce. However, despite its phenomenal growth and although M-Internet essentially provides the same services as stationary Internet, its adoption rate in many countries is very low compared to that of stationary Internet. The well-known Technology Adoption Model (TAM) has been used for explaining the adoption of traditional technologies. Most adopters and users of traditional technologies (e.g., spreadsheet, word processor) are employees in an organizational setting who use the technology for work purposes, and the cost of mandatory adoption and usage is borne by the organization. In contrast, adopters and users of M-Internet are individuals who play the dual roles of technology user and service consumer. Most of them adopt and use it for personal purposes, and the cost of voluntary adoption and usage is borne by the individuals. Thus, the adopters of new ICT, especially M-Internet, are also consumers rather than simply technology users. By adopting the theory of consumer choice and decision making from economics and marketing research, this study develops the Value-based Adoption Model (VAM) and explains customers' M-Internet adoption from the value maximization perspective. The findings demonstrate that consumers' perception of the value of M-Internet is a principal determinant of adoption intention, and the other beliefs are mediated through perceived value. The theoretical and practical implications of VAM related to M-Internet are discussed.

System and method for providing requested quality of service in a hybrid network

Abstract: Telephone calls, data and other multimedia information is routed through a hybrid network which includes transfer of information across the internet. A media order entry captures complete user profile information for a user. This profile information is utilized by the system throughout the media experience for routing, billing, monitoring, reporting and other media control functions. Users can manage more aspects of a network than previously possible, and control network activities from a central site. The hybrid network also contains logic for responding to requests for quality of service and reserving the resources to provide the requested services.

The ribosomal database project (RDP-II): introducing myRDP space and quality controlled public data.

Abstract: Substantial new features have been implemented at the Ribosomal Database Project in response to the increased importance of high-throughput rRNA sequence analysis in microbial ecology and related disciplines. The most important changes include quality analysis, including chimera detection, for all available rRNA sequences and the introduction of myRDP Space, a new web component designed to help researchers place their own data in context with the RDP's data. In addition, new video tutorials describe how to use RDP features. Details about RDP data and analytical functions can be found at the RDP-II website (http://rdp.cme.msu.edu/).

Audio visual player apparatus and system and method of content distribution using the same

Abstract: A system is presented providing content to a plurality of handheld devices (including musical selections). The devices can access a server over the Internet via a WIFI or other similar wireless interconnection and can download songs requested by a user from the server or from other users using, e.g., a P2P protocol. All downloads are governed by applicable DRM rules. Content and playlists may also be pushed by a server from other sources and means including, e.g., podcasting, based on predetermined rules, favorite preferences of users, and other criteria.

A Measurement Study of a Large-Scale P2P IPTV System

Abstract: An emerging Internet application, IPTV, has the potential to flood Internet access and backbone ISPs with massive amounts of new traffic. Although many architectures are possible for IPTV video distribution, several mesh-pull P2P architectures have been successfully deployed on the Internet. In order to gain insights into mesh-pull P2P IPTV systems and the traffic loads they place on ISPs, we have undertaken an in-depth measurement study of one of the most popular IPTV systems, namely, PPLive. We have developed a dedicated PPLive crawler, which enables us to study the global characteristics of the mesh-pull PPLive system. We have also collected extensive packet traces for various different measurement scenarios, including both campus access networks and residential access networks. The measurement results obtained through these platforms bring important insights into P2P IPTV systems. Specifically, our results show the following. 1) P2P IPTV users have the similar viewing behaviors as regular TV users. 2) During its session, a peer exchanges video data dynamically with a large number of peers. 3) A small set of super peers act as video proxy and contribute significantly to video data uploading. 4) Users in the measured P2P IPTV system still suffer from long start-up delays and playback lags, ranging from several seconds to a couple of minutes. Insights obtained in this study will be valuable for the development and deployment of future P2P IPTV systems.

MINT: the Molecular INTeraction database

Abstract: The Molecular INTeraction database (MINT, http://mint.bio.uniroma2.it/mint/) aims at storing, in a structured format, information about molecular interactions (MIs) by extracting experimental details from work published in peer-reviewed journals. At present the MINT team focuses the curation work on physical interactions between proteins. Genetic or computationally inferred interactions are not included in the database. Over the past four years MINT has undergone extensive revision. The new version of MINT is based on a completely remodeled database structure, which offers more efficient data exploration and analysis, and is characterized by entries with a richer annotation. Over the past few years the number of curated physical interactions has soared to over 95 000. The whole dataset can be freely accessed online in both interactive and batch modes through web-based interfaces and an FTP server. MINT now includes, as an integrated addition, HomoMINT, a database of interactions between human proteins inferred from experiments with ortholog proteins in model organisms (http://mint.bio.uniroma2.it/mint/).

Gradations in digital inclusion: children, young people and the digital divide

Abstract: Little academic and policy attention has addressed the `digital divide' among children and young people. This article analyses findings from a national survey of UK 9—19-year-olds that reveal inequalities by age, gender and socioeconomic status in relation to their quality of access to and use of the internet. Since both the extent of use and the reasons for low- and non-use of the internet vary by age, a different explanation for the digital divide is required for children compared with adults. Looking beyond the idea of a binary divide, we propose instead a continuum of digital inclusion. Gradations in frequency of internet use (from non and low users through to weekly and daily users) are found to map onto a progression in the take-up of online opportunities among young people (from basic through moderate to broad and then all-round users), thus beginning to explain why differences in internet use matter, contributing to inclusion and exclusion. Demographic, use and expertise variables are all shown to...

IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPANs): Overview, Assumptions, Problem Statement, and Goals

Abstract: This document describes the assumptions, problem statement, and goals for transmitting IP over IEEE 802.15.4 networks. The set of goals enumerated in this document form an initial set only. This memo provides information for the Internet community.

Delay-Tolerant Networking Architecture

Abstract: This document describes an architecture for delay-tolerant and disruption-tolerant networks, and is an evolution of the architecture originally designed for the Interplanetary Internet, a communication system envisioned to provide Internet-like services across interplanetary distances in support of deep space exploration. This document describes an architecture that addresses a variety of problems with internetworks having operational and performance characteristics that make conventional (Internet-like) networking approaches either unworkable or impractical. We define a message- oriented overlay that exists above the transport (or other) layers of the networks it interconnects. The document presents a motivation for the architecture, an architectural overview, review of state management required for its operation, and a discussion of application design issues. This document represents the consensus of the IRTF DTN research group and has been widely reviewed by that group. This memo provides information for the Internet community.

Republic.com 2.0

Abstract: What happens to democracy and free speech if people use the Internet to create echo chambers--to listen and speak only to the like-minded? What is the democratic benefit of the Internet's unlimited choices if citizens narrowly limit the information they receive, creating ever-smaller niches and fragmenting the shared public conversation on which democracy depends? Cass Sunstein first asked these questions before 9/11, in Republic.com, and they have become even more urgent in the years since. Now, in Republic.com 2.0, Sunstein thoroughly rethinks the critical relationship between democracy and the Internet in a world where partisan Web logs have emerged as a significant force in politics and where cyber-jihadists have embraced the Internet to thwart democracy and spread violence. Emphasizing the value of unplanned, unchosen encounters, the original Republic.com provoked a strong reaction from cyber-optimists. In Republic.com 2.0 Sunstein answers the critics and expands his argument to take account of new developments, including the blogosphere, and fresh evidence about how people are using the Internet. He demonstrates that the real question is how to avoid "information cocoons" and to ensure that the unrestricted choices made possible by technology do not undermine democracy. Sunstein also proposes new remedies and reforms--focusing far less on what government should do, and much more on what consumers and producers should do--to help democracy avoid the perils, and realize the promise, of the Internet.

ManyEyes: a Site for Visualization at Internet Scale

Abstract: We describe the design and deployment of Many Eyes, a public Web site where users may upload data, create interactive visualizations, and carry on discussions. The goal of the site is to support collaboration around visualizations at a large scale by fostering a social style of data analysis in which visualizations not only serve as a discovery tool for individuals but also as a medium to spur discussion among users. To support this goal, the site includes novel mechanisms for end-user creation of visualizations and asynchronous collaboration around those visualizations. In addition to describing these technologies, we provide a preliminary report on the activity of our users.

Scale-Free Networks: Complex Webs in Nature and Technology

Abstract: 1. Introduction to Graphs 2. Graph structure: Communities 3. Scale-invariance 4. The Origin of power law functions 5. Graph Generating Models 6. Networks in the cell 7. Ecological networks 8. Geophysical networks 9. Technological networks: Internet and WWW 10. Collaborative Relational and Cognitive Networks 11. Financial networks

A model of Internet topology using k-shell decomposition.

Abstract: We study a map of the Internet (at the autonomous systems level), by introducing and using the method of k-shell decomposition and the methods of percolation theory and fractal geometry, to find a model for the structure of the Internet. In particular, our analysis uses information on the connectivity of the network shells to separate, in a unique (no parameters) way, the Internet into three subcomponents: (i) a nucleus that is a small (≈100 nodes), very well connected globally distributed subgraph; (ii) a fractal subcomponent that is able to connect the bulk of the Internet without congesting the nucleus, with self-similar properties and critical exponents predicted from percolation theory; and (iii) dendrite-like structures, usually isolated nodes that are connected to the rest of the network through the nucleus only. We show that our method of decomposition is robust and provides insight into the underlying structure of the Internet and its functional consequences. Our approach of decomposing the network is general and also useful when studying other complex networks.

Making sense of credibility on the Web: Models for evaluating online information and recommendations for future research

Abstract: This article summarizes much of what is known from the communication and information literacy fields about the skills that Internet users need to assess the credibility of online information. The article reviews current recommendations for credibility assessment, empirical research on how users determine the credibility of Internet information, and describes several cognitive models of online information evaluation. Based on the literature review and critique of existing models of credibility assessment, recommendations for future online credibility education and practice are provided to assist users in locating reliable information online. The article concludes by offering ideas for research and theory development on this topic in an effort to advance knowledge in the area of credibility assessment of Internet-based information. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Exploring the Online Reading Comprehension Strategies Used by Sixth-Grade Skilled Readers to Search for and Locate Information on the Internet.

Abstract: The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the nature of reading comprehension processes while reading on the Internet Eleven sixth-grade students with the highest combination of standardized reading scores, reading report card grades, and Internet reading experiences were selected from a population of 150 sixth graders in three different middle schools in the central and northeastern United States These 11 skilled readers met individually with a researcher and completed two separate tasks that involved reading within multilayered websites or using the Yahooligans! search engine Students answered specific questions about their strategy use in a follow-up interview after each reading session Qualitative analysis evolved through four distinct phases, each of which involved reviewing data from think-aloud protocols, field observations, and semistructured interviews to provide insights on the nature of online reading comprehension Findings suggested that successful Internet reading experiences appeared to simultaneously require both similar and more complex applications of (1) prior knowledge sources, (2) inferential reasoning strategies, and (3) self-regulated reading processes The authors suggest that reading Internet text prompts a process of self-directed text construction that may explain the additional complexities of online reading comprehension Implications for literacy theory and future research are discussed [Note: Julie Coiro discusses the research presented in this article in a podcast presented by the “Voice of Literacy”: http:wwwvoiceofliteracyorgposts26036] El proposito de este estudio cualitativo fue explorar la naturaleza de los procesos de comprension lectora durante la lectura en Internet Once estudiantes de sexto grado que presentaban la combinacion de puntuaciones mas alta en pruebas estandarizadas de lectura, en el boletin de calificaciones y en experiencias de lectura en Internet fueron seleccionados de una poblacion de 150 estudiantes de sexto grado en tres escuelas medias del centro y noreste de los Estados Unidos Los once lectores fueron entrevistados en forma individual por un investigador y completaron dos tareas separadas de lectura en sitios de la red con multiples niveles o usando el mecanismo de busqueda de Yahoo Los estudiantes respondieron a preguntas especificas acerca del uso de estrategias en una entrevista luego de cada sesion de lectura El analisis cualitativo se desarrollo en cuatro fases distintas, cada una de las cuales incluyo la revision de protocolos de pensar en voz alta, observaciones de campo y entrevistas semiestructuradas para conocer la naturaleza de la comprension lectora en linea Los hallazgos sugieren que las experiencias exitosas de lectura en Internet requieren de la utilizacion mas compleja de: 1) fuentes de conocimientos previos, 2) estrategias de razonamiento inferencial y 3) procesos de lectura autorregulados Los autores sugieren que la lectura de textos de Internet promueve un proceso de construccion autodirigida del texto que podria explicar las complejidades adicionales de la comprension lectora en linea Se discuten implicancias para la teoria de la alfabetizacion y la investigacion futura Podcast: http:wwwvoiceofliteracyorgposts26036 Zweck dieser qualitativen Studie war es, die Eigenschaft des Verstandnisprozesses beim Lesevorgang wahrend des Lesens im Internet zu untersuchen Elf Schuler der sechsten Klasse mit der hochsten Kombination von standardisierten Lesebewertungen, Zeugnisnoten im Lesen und Internetleseerfahrungen wurden aus einer Gruppierung von 150 Sechstklasslern aus drei verschiedenen Mittelschulen in den mittleren und nordostlichen Vereinigten Staaten ausgewahlt Diese elf begabten Leser trafen sich jeweils einzeln mit einem Forscher und komplettierten zwei separate Ubungen, die das Lesen innerhalb vielschichtiger Websites oder die Anwendung der Yahooligans Search Engine umfassten Die Schuler beantworteten spezifische Fragen uber ihre Anwendungsstrategie in einem Follow-up Interview nach jeder Lesesitzung Die qualitative Analyse entwickelte sich durch vier bestimmte Phasen, jede fur sich umfasste die Durchsicht von Daten von geauserten Gedankenprotokollen, Feldbeobachtungen, und semi-strukturierten Interviews, um Einsichten in die Natur des Online Leseverstandnisses zu liefern Die Erkenntnisse deuteten daraufhin, dass erfolgreiche Internet-Leseerfahrungen anscheinend simultan jeweils gleichgeartete und mehr komplexere Applikationen erfordern von (1) vorhandenen Wissensquellen; (2) inferentialen Denkstrategien; und (3) selbstausgefuhrten Leseprozessen Die Autoren schlagen vor, dass das Lesen von Internet-Text einen Prozess von eigenangeleiteter Textkonstruktion hervorruft, was die zusatzlichen Komplexitaten des Online-Leseverstandnisses erklaren mag Auswirkungen auf die Lese- und Schreibtheorie und zukunftige Forschung werden diskutiert Podcast: http:wwwvoiceofliteracyorgposts26036 Cette etude qualitative avait pour but d'identifier les processus de comprehension de la lecture en situation de lecture sur Internet Partant d'une population de 150 enfants de 6° de trois ecoles du centre et du nord-est des Etats-Unis, on a selectionne onze enfants presentant la meilleure combinaison de resultats a des tests de lecture standardises, de notes de lecture sur leurs bulletins scolaires, et d'experience de la lecture sur Internet Ces onze bons eleves ont rencontre individuellement le chercheur et accompli deux tâches differentes impliquant une lecture dans des sites internet multi niveaux, et l'utilisation du moteur de recherche Yahooligans Apres chaque session de lecture, les eleves ont repondu a des questions specifiques portant sur les strategies utilisees L'analyse qualitative a permis de distinguer quatre phases distinctes, dont chacune comporte des donnees provenant des protocoles de pensee a haute voix, d'observations en situation, et d'entretiens semi-stuctures donnant des idees sur la comprehension lors de la lecture en ligne Les resultats suggerent qu'un travail fructueux de lecture sur Internet semble necessiter une utilisation a la fois semblable et plus ou moins complexe 1) de sources prealables de connaissance; 2) de strategies de raisonnement par inference; et 3) de processus de lecture autoregules Les auteurs suggerent que la lecture de textes sur Internet induit un processus de construction de texte autoregule qui peut expliquer la plus grande complexite de la comprehension de la lecture en ligne La discussion porte sur les implications pour la theorie du lettrisme et les recherches a effectuer Podcast: http:wwwvoiceofliteracyorgposts26036 Цель этого качественного исследования состояла в том, чтобы изучить природу процессов восприятия прочитанного при чтении онлайн Одиннадцать учащихся с самыми высокими показателями в стандартизированных тестах по чтению, а также самыми богатыми читательскими формулярами и обширным опытом работы в Интернете были отобраны среди 150 шестиклассников в трех средних школах в центре и на северо-востоке Соединенных Штатов Эти одиннадцать “квалифицированных” читателей индивидуально встречались с исследователем и выполняли две отдельных задачи, состоявшие в чтении многоуровневых вебсайтов и поиске электронных ресурсов с помощью поисковой системы Yahooligans (http:kidsyahoocom) После каждого сеанса чтения учащиеся отвечали на конкретные вопросы, посвященные их стратегии при чтении в сети Качественный анализ состоял из четырех последовательных стадий, каждая из которых включала в себя анализ расшифрованных аудиозаписей устных размышлений учащихся, полевых наблюдений и полуструктурированных интервью, что обеспечило глубинное понимание природы процессов восприятия при чтении онлайн Результаты подсказывают, что для успешного чтения в сети учащимся нужно было одновременно и неоднозначно обращаться к (1) ранее накопленным знаниям, (2) стратегиям логического рассуждения и (3) саморегулируемым процессам чтения Авторы предполагают, что чтение Интернет-текстов одновременно стимулирует процесс самонаправляемого структурирования текста, что объясняет возникновение дополнительных сложностей при восприятии онлайн-текстов В статье делаются выводы, значимые для теории грамотности и будущих исследований Podcast: http:wwwvoiceofliteracyorgposts26036

Online shopping acceptance model — a critical survey of consumer factors in online shopping

Abstract: Since the late 1990s, online shopping has taken off as an increasing number of consumers purchase increasingly diversified products on the Internet. Given that how to attract and retain consumers is critical to the success of online retailers, research on the antecedents of consumer acceptance of online shopping has attracted widespread attention. There has yet to be a holistic view of online shopping acceptance from the perspective of consumers. In this research, we conducted an extensive survey of extant related studies and synthesized their findings into a reference model called OSAM (Online Shopping Acceptance Model) to explain consumer acceptance of online shopping. Our literature survey reveals that a myriad of factors have been examined in the context of online shopping and mixed results on those factors have been reported. The proposed model helps reconcile conflicting findings, discover recent trends in this line of research, and shed light on future research directions.

The role of site features, user attributes, and information verification behaviors on the perceived credibility of web-based information

Abstract: Data from 574 participants were used to assess perceptions of message, site, and sponsor credibility across four genres of websites; to explore the extent and effects of verifying web-based information; and to measure the relative influence of sponsor familiarity and site attributes on perceived credibility.The results show that perceptions of credibility differed, such that news organization websites were rated highest and personal websites lowest, in terms of message, sponsor, and overall site credibility, with e-commerce and special interest sites rated between these, for the most part.The results also indicated that credibility assessments appear to be primarily due to website attributes (e.g. design features, depth of content, site complexity) rather than to familiarity with website sponsors. Finally, there was a negative relationship between self-reported and observed information verification behavior and a positive relationship between self-reported verification and internet/web experience.The find...

Using internet content as a means to establish live social networks by linking internet users to each other who are simultaneously engaged in the same and/or similar content

Abstract: A system and method that uses internet content and/or content metadata as a means to establish social networks. Examples include linking internet users, searchers, viewers and/or listeners of the same and/or similar internet content to each other via a platform that enables any of the following in n-dimensional environments: social networking, communications, sharing, e-commerce, advertising, search, hosting and registry services, push and pull applications, anonymous communications, and rich presence.

Internet-based vehicle-diagnostic system

Abstract: The invention provides a system for monitoring a vehicle that includes a wireless appliance in electrical contact with an in-vehicle computer. The wireless appliance features: 1) a data-collection component that supports communication software that collects diagnostic data from the computer; and 2) a data-transmission component, in electrical communication with the data-collection electronics, configured to transmit an outgoing data packet comprising the diagnostic data over a network and receive over the same network an incoming data packet that modifies the communication software. The wireless appliance communicates with a host computer system that is configured to: 1) receive the outgoing data packet from the network; 2) process the outgoing data packet to generate a set of vehicle diagnostic data; 3) host a web site on the Internet that displays the vehicle diagnostic data; and 4) send out the incoming data packet over the same network to modify the communication software.

European citizens' use of E-health services: A study of seven countries

Abstract: European citizens are increasingly being offered Internet health services. This study investigated patterns of health-related Internet use, its consequences, and citizens' expectations about their doctors' provision of e-health services. Representative samples were obtained from the general populations in Norway, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Poland, Portugal and Latvia. The total sample consisted of 7934 respondents. Interviews were conducted by telephone. 44 % of the total sample, 71 % of the Internet users, had used the Internet for health purposes. Factors that positively affected the use of Internet for health purposes were youth, higher education, white-collar or no paid job, visits to the GP during the past year, long-term illness or disabilities, and a subjective assessment of one's own health as good. Women were the most active health users among those who were online. One in four of the respondents used the Internet to prepare for or follow up doctors' appointments. Feeling reassured after using the Internet for health purposes was twice as common as experiencing anxieties. When choosing a new doctor, more than a third of the sample rated the provision of e-health services as important. The users of Internet health services differ from the general population when it comes to health and demographic variables. The most common way to use the Internet in health matters is to read information, second comes using the net to decide whether to see a doctor and to prepare for and follow up on doctors' appointments. Hence, health-related use of the Internet does affect patients' use of other health services, but it would appear to supplement rather than to replace other health services.

He says, she says: conflict and coordination in Wikipedia

Abstract: Wikipedia, a wiki-based encyclopedia, has become one of the most successful experiments in collaborative knowledge building on the Internet. As Wikipedia continues to grow, the potential for conflict and the need for coordination increase as well. This article examines the growth of such non-direct work and describes the development of tools to characterize conflict and coordination costs in Wikipedia. The results may inform the design of new collaborative knowledge systems.

GENECODIS: a web-based tool for finding significant concurrent annotations in gene lists

Abstract: We present GENECODIS, a web-based tool that integrates different sources of information to search for annotations that frequently co-occur in a set of genes and rank them by statistical significance. The analysis of concurrent annotations provides significant information for the biologic interpretation of high-throughput experiments and may outperform the results of standard methods for the functional analysis of gene lists. GENECODIS is publicly available at http://genecodis.dacya.ucm.es/.