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Despite the tremendous opportunities provided by current unparalleled advancements in communication and connectivity among individuals, many concerns have been raising, from many fields, regarding the effects of intensive use and exposure to technology in the escalation of social dehumanization. As the main social control mechanism, religion diffuses normative instruments that are not immediately open to progress, as they typically propel a broader resistance to normative, behavioral and social change. In this paper, we focus on the relation between religious practice and the use of technology, and on how religious families curate for the family well-being while conceding to technology exposure within their homes. Large catholic families were selected as the subject of research as they constitute, at least in Portugal, as the most conservative and resistant to change group. A mixed-methods research strategy, with surveys and interviews, was used to identify how these families regulate the use of technology, how and when they use digital devices and internet connection, and which are the norms and strategies used to preserve the values of the Catholic church while engaging with digital devices and networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the tremendous opportunities provided by current unparalleled advancements in communication and connectivity among individuals, many concerns have been raising, from many fields, regarding the effects of intensive use and exposure to technology in the escalation of social dehumanization. As the main social control mechanism, religion diffuses normative instruments that are not immediately open to progress, as they typically propel a broader resistance to normative, behavioral and social change. In this paper, we focus on the relation between religious practice and the use of technology, and on how religious families curate for the family well-being while conceding to technology exposure within their homes. Large catholic families were selected as the subject of research as they constitute, at least in Portugal, as the most conservative and resistant to change group. A mixed-methods research strategy, with surveys and interviews, was used to identify how these families regulate the use of technology, how and when they use digital devices and internet connection, and which are the norms and strategies used to preserve the values of the Catholic church while engaging with digital devices and networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the tremendous opportunities provided by current unparalleled advancements in communication and connectivity among individuals, many concerns have been raising, from many fields, regarding the effects of intensive use and exposure to technology in the escalation of social dehumanization. As the main social control mechanism, religion diffuses normative instruments that are not immediately open to progress, as they typically propel a broader resistance to normative, behavioral and social change. In this paper, we focus on the relation between religious practice and the use of technology, and on how religious families curate for the family well-being while conceding to technology exposure within their homes. Large catholic families were selected as the subject of research as they constitute, at least in Portugal, as the most conservative and resistant to change group. A mixed-methods research strategy, with surveys and interviews, was used to identify how these families regulate the use of technology, how and when they use digital devices and internet connection, and which are the norms and strategies used to preserve the values of the Catholic church while engaging with digital devices and networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The Hidden Web refers to a huge portion of the WWW that holds numerous freely accessible Web databases, hidden behind search form interfaces which can only be accessed through dynamic web pages that are generated in response to the user queries issued at the search form interface. Thus, the core challenge to implement any crawler for the Hidden Web is to routinely surpass these search form interfaces by automatically generating & issuing queries that help discover these dynamic Web pages. The paper provides a novel approach to guide the crawler in choosing the right query term to be submitted to any search form interface that has been designed to accept keywords or terms as input to it. The system is based on the use of classification hierarchies that might have either been manually or automatically constructed. And for the purposes of illustration, we have considered the search form interfaces in the 'Medical' domain, it being one of the most popular domains used by the researchers and the use of a manually generated top-down classification hierarchy in the same domain. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

With the ever proliferating size and scale of the WWW [1], efficient ways of exploring content are of increasing importance. How can we efficiently retrieve information from it through crawling? And in this "era of tera" and multi-core processors, we ought to think of multi-threaded processes as a serving solution. So, even better how can we improve the crawling performance by using parallel crawlers that work independently? The paper devotes to the fundamental advantages and challenges arising from the design of parallel crawlers [4]. The paper mainly focuses on the aspect of URL distribution among the various parallel crawling processes. How to distribute URLs from the URL frontier to the various concurrently executing crawling process threads is an orthogonal problem. The paper provides a solution to the problem by designing a framework that partitions the URL frontier into a several URL queues by ordering the URLs within each of the distributed set of URLs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

We have built a prototype mixed-reality advertising and web publishing service to investigate new forms of advertising and mobile aspects in mirror worlds. The mirror world is the concept of visually mirroring the real world and enabling interaction with the city both remotely and in situ on mobile devices. Our experiment comprises both a Web tool chain for advertisement publishing, and a mobile native client, rather than traditional mobile map applications running in mobile browsers. We present a work in progress report outlining some unique features and user experiences that browser-based mobile applications are still hard to achieve. In the end we also discuss some issues related to the differences between Web and native mobile applications. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Search engines help users find information on WWW by making web pages related to their query available. Searches are factorized by using either terms or keywords or through short sentences. No matter how user specifies the search query, the results retrieved, organized & presented by search engines are in terms of millions of linked pages of which many of them might not be useful to the user. Due to lack of refinement & any meaningful classification of search result, user seldom find required information on the first page of the result page. Furthermore temporal quality of downloaded documents due to lack of automatic tracking of user trend & topic of current interest is not high. Thus providing accurate precise & high quality result to the end user has become major task for search engine. In this paper Prospective Terms Based Architecture for Migrating Crawler is being proposed that helps to retrieve web pages according to latest trend & updated information among various topics while working in parallel. A prospective table which relate semantically related keyword is being used at crawling, indexing and page ranking level so that search engine adopt a prospective view & user get full information within first few urls & need not go deeper into the results. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The organization and retrieval of information from hyper-linked documents is a challenging task for search engine expected to satisfy user queries with relevant content in first few top results displayed to the user. This arrangement implies in need of maintaining index of relevant context based pages. This paper provides a novel technique for indexing the web documents based on the context of keywords that helps a search engine to serve a query with more specific documents, and relevant contents. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It is the era of information technology and governments around the world opting for electronic government and official websites are now under the use of a diverse population for the purpose of information retrieval. A number of disabled persons are becoming the part of this society but they are ignored when web projects are planned and developed. If this practice of software development is kept continuing then disabled persons would not take the advantage in the electronic government era. This study evaluates the websites of central government in Pakistan including all ministries and divisions using accessibility evaluation tools based on World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) web accessibility standards. Functional accessibility evaluator and total validator are the tools which are used for the evaluation process. The results shows that most of the web sites are not developed according to the accessibility standards for disabled persons. In the light of these results, recommendations are made to improve the accessibility of these websites for disable persons. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The complex network property discovering is important for network modeling, performance evaluation and robustness assessment. WAP network, a kind of complex networks for mobile users, is developing rapidly and attracting a lot of research in recent years, but the research for its topology is rare. In this paper, WAP network topology is focused on. It is compared with WWW on three aspects: degree distribution, clustering and spectrum. Especially a new method on clustering is proposed to examine the asymmetry property of topology. The distinctions of topology between two networks are shown. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

There are many nontext contents, such as graphs and images, on the World Wide Web (WWW). Focusing on line graphs, many methods for representing using sounds have been proposed to enable access by people with visual impairment. In those methods, there is only one way of representing graphs. However, there are several requirements for representing a series of numerical values as a line graph. In our research, we propose a method of representing one series of numerical values as a line graphs according to users' requirements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Provides an insight in to the changing dynamics of access to Science information currently practiced in India. Vividly describes the changing dynamics of publishing technology, open access journals and their impact and some key science consortiums in India viz. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We describe the design and implementation of a Web-based distributed system called TREE STORE, intended for storing compressed XML documents in a relational database. The use of a database is fully portable, requiring minimal changes to application code to substitute one database management system for another. In TREE STORE, compressed XML documents are shredded into a fixed number of relational tables. Besides the storage capability, TREE STORE provides online querying of compressed XML documents without requiring full decompression. Therefore, it is a useful component of any Web application as it combines space-efficient, database-portable access to persistent storage with online querying. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we propose adaptation of fragment-based web pages as a means of overload control for dynamic web sites serviced by edge servers. We describe a fragment-based delivery system for dynamic content. We present an overview of our adaptation architecture. We also discuss various adaptation techniques that can be applied to fragments. Given the pre-established service requirements between the service provider and the content provider, we derive the conditions for adaptation. We briefly discuss how these conditions can be used in finding an adaptation strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper argues that searching and search engines are very important aspects of the World Wide Web. It asserts that commercial search engines have not progressed in capability since 1998 and the introduction of Google and its PageRank algorithm. PageRank is identified as a problem that prevents users from obtaining the search engine results that would be of most use to them. The basic problems of search engine retrieval are considered alongside two areas of research which if successful could address them. The question, "Will search engines ever get any better?" is posed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the relationship between various levels of media gratifications. It proposes both an analytic and an empirical differentiation between: (1) Gratifications expected, i.e. naïve theories held by media users about the capacity of different media channels (here: World Wide Web and television). This type of gratification is depicted by traditional survey methods of uses and gratifications research. (2) Gratifications sought and obtained measured directly in the situation. It is argued that conventional survey methods capture gratifications independent of the using situation. Therefore the respondent has to remember and generalize his/her usual media behavior. This might lead to an answering bias. We propose a situational measurement by using the "Experience Sampling Method" that induces self-observations at random points in time. This method depicts behavior and attitudes while using mass media. Results show that the situational measurement is helpful in understanding media gratifications and in predicting media behavior. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we develop an automatic collection system that can extract some accommodation websites in a certain region and detect whether a website is an official one. First, we show that the system can gather a lot of Web pages by using the search engine Google and extract only the Web pages of accommodation facilities among them, and then classify some accommodation websites by the facility name and rank them in order of probability that the website is an official one. To implement the system, we used the Web crawling and data mining techniques. To evaluate our system, we applied the system to the Hokkaido region, which is one of the most popular tourism areas in Japan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a new learning content management system integrating in an ongoing project for building an innovative e-learning platform. The aim of this work is to implement a system that follows the new trends in content standardization while achieving high levels of usability. Even though compliance is guaranteed with the SCORM, the most wide spread standard available today, the system is not particularly bound to it, as it provides dynamic support for multiple metadata models, resulting in maximum content portability and an increased system longevity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We have developed a distributed search engine, Cooperative Search Engine (CSE) to retrieve fresh information. In CSE, a local search engine located in each web server makes an index of local pages. And, a Meta search server integrates these local search engines to realize a global search engine. In such a way, the communication delay occurs at retrieval. So, we have developed several speedup techniques in order to realize real time retrieval. In addition, the meta server is a single point of failure in CSE. So, we introduce redundancy of the meta search server increase availability of CSE. In this paper, we describe scalability and reliability of CSE and their evaluations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines gender differences in the stylistic and substantive composition of personal home pages authored by high-school age teens (14-18). A content analysis was conducted on a sample of adolescents' home pages (N=241). The results indicate that although boys' home pages are more abundant, girls provide more descriptive and expressive information on their home pages, and include more references to intimate topics and relationships with family and romantic partners. The study concludes that personal home pages do not appear to have generated a new type of gender-neutral communication among adolescent authors, but rather, they seem merely to provide a new outlet for traditional, gendered communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study explored how Central European countries draw virtual borderlands on the World Wide Web through self-presentation sites. The underlying questions driving this research were whether Central European countries take advantage of the Internet to compensate for the imbalance of information flow in international media, and how they do so. National presentation Web sites of the seven Central European countries were examined in order to understand what self-presentation strategies they use to introduce their countries to the world. One of the main findings of the study was that while contouring their own virtual borderlands, Central European countries attempted to erase the shadow of another invisible borderland, the Iron Curtain. RUNNING HEAD: Central Europe on the WWW [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This project addressed two major criticisms of the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM). It is unclear whether individuals process peripheral cues at the expense of central cues or if these cues are processed simultaneously. Second, the concept of peripheral cues has been criticized for being ill-defined and ambiguous. This project addressed both of these issues in the context of the WWW. To test the hypotheses the author utilized a 2 (argument strength) x 2 (issue involvement) x 2 (peripheral cue complexity) factorial design. 120 college students read a Web site with some combination of the three factors. It was predicted that the degree of peripheral cue complexity (PCC) would increase persuasion among those not personally involved in the issue regardless of argument strength. Results indicate that the degree of PCC may increase attention paid to message content among those less personally involved, and may have encouraged the processing of argument strength. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to explore Congressional Web sites as spaces for government--constituent relationship building. An analysis of Congressional Web sites (n= 100) and interviews with Congressional offices (n=32) shows that Congressional representatives recognize the value of the Internet and the WWW for communicating with constituents. However, our examination of Congressional Web sites suggests that they are not very dialogic, furthermore, interviews with legislative aides responsible for maintenance of legislative Web sites suggest that legislators see Web sites primarily as information dissemination tools. There appears to be an almost total absence of dialogic communication and relationship building on legislative sites. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present an Information Customization framework, which offers a unique hybrid of Adaptive Hypermedia and Constraint Satisfaction methods. IC is being modelled as a constraint satisfaction problem. Information customization involves the generation of personalized information that (a) comprises multiple topic-specific documents deemed relevant to the user-model; (b) satisfies factual, contextual and functional constraints between the constituent documents; and (c) is pro-actively delivered to the user via the WWW. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With Internet technology and other information systems that are available today users can often easily find the information needed. However, there are still several situations, in which users do not succeed to get the information required. In this paper we suggest context models to help users finding information in adequate quantity and quality. In general, context models analyse the current situation a user is in, compare it to the available information, and provide the user with information that is of most value in this situation. In this paper we discuss requirements for context modelling, present two approaches we have applied for our own applications-one with a highly sophisticated single-user model and one with a light-weight cooperative model-and discuss how these two approaches can be applied to information retrieval. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article describes the application of intelligent systems. Web and multimedia technology in order to reach a high degree of a particular tourist's satisfaction by supporting the process of choosing the most suitable destination and proposes a theoretical model of the tourist intelligent decision support system. The goal of this system is to present information and decision-making process direction in a way which makes it possible to reach the perception of satisfaction based on virtual experience that should be near equal to future satisfaction with the real destination. Furthermore, the article proposes a measure called virtual destination exactness ratio (VDER) which indicates the degree of concordance between perception of satisfaction with various features in the virtual destination and the real destination. Based upon various research data, obtained with techniques of classical and multimedia polling on a sample of 6500 subjects, intelligent models of tourist destination satisfaction were created. These models were used in simulations which confirmed a relatively high degree of accuracy in predicting the degree of tourist satisfaction. Nevertheless, future decision-making processes will require more iteration for the final solution to be achieved. In these processes it will be necessary to use intelligent models of satisfaction prediction and personalized multimedia presentation systems. Also, it has been proven that tourists' communication preferences are also predictable, which makes it possible to recognize and satisfy individual needs and tourist preferences. The research has shown that the perception of the same virtual destination differs in accordance with different user profiles. Nowadays it is possible for the perception of the virtual destination to be significantly different from the real destination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines management education needs of the emerging Digital Economy. The Internet, WWW, and e-commerce are transforming the business world. The paper argues that our assumptions underlying current management education practices are severely challenged by the advent of the Internet. It discusses Internet/WWWeb based teaching strategies for business education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the result of research of an exemplary website concerning Polish Angling Association. The whole project is based on the free web technologies. The site enables anglers and active workers of angling area as well as members of the Polish Angling Association, a quick access to information concerning current activity of angling area. The site facilitates access to statistics including the data that concerns fishing in basins as well as inspections of restocked water bodies in the angling area. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

There is increasing demand for evaluations of environmental education programs and thus, for assistance with conducting these evaluations. Learn about, and provide input to, a web-based "clearinghouse" that seeks to address these needs (a joint effort by the University of Michigan, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and USDA Forest Service). ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Help, I need to evaluate my environmental education program - what do I do?" If you are asking yourself this question, come learn about what practical evaluation resources and tools are now available for your use via a new, innovative web-site. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]