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A REST-based publish/subscribe platform to support things-to-services communications
2013
The term “Internet of Things” has been used widely in recent years, bringing up a grand idea of connecting physical objects with one another through both wired and wireless networks. Maturity of the Internet Protocol has pushed 21st century communications between devices to go all-IP, which includes everyday objects. Many new services are deployed in the “cloud”, utilising the Internet infrastructure and the Web, and information from everyday objects can play an important role. This paper presents an information integration platform which enables everyday objects to communicate with Internet services based on event-driven service-oriented architecture paradigm. A proof-of-concept prototype …
TuBaFrost: European Virtual Tumor Tissue Banking
2006
TuBaFrost is a consortium responsible for the task to create a virtual European human frozen tumor tissue bank, composed of high quality frozen tumor tissue collections with corresponding accurate diagnosis stored in European cancer centers and universities, searchable on the Internet, providing rules for access and use and a code of conduct to comply with the various legal and ethical regulations in European countries. Such infrastructure would enlarge tissue availability and accessibility in large amounts of specified or even rare tumor samples. Design of an infrastructure for European residual tissue banking with the described characteristics, clear focus points emerge that can be broken…
Integrated multimedia publishing: combining TV and newspaper content on personal channels
1999
Abstract Fast networks enable the delivery of TV and newspaper content over an Internet connection. This enables new types of integrated publications that include features from both media. The IMU system, described in this paper, automatically integrates newspaper and TV content into a continuously updated World Wide Web-multimedia publication. An active proxy server pursues the integration and delivers the publication through an ATM fibre link to fast networks, such as the bi-directional cable TV network and the ADSL telephone network, providing near-TV quality. The users read the IMU publication from the Internet on their PCs with normal World Wide Web-browsers. You can also watch the pub…
Developing Mobile Ontologies; Who, Why, Where, and How?
2007
The number of mobile subscribers in the world is soon reaching the three billion mark. According to the newest estimates, majority of the subscribers are already in the developing countries, whereas the number of subscribers in the industrialized countries is about to stagnate around one billion. Because especially in the developing countries the only access to Internet are mobile devices, developing high quality services based on them grows in importance. Ontologies are an important ingredient towards more complicated mobile services. In this paper we refine the taxonomy for mobile ontologies and discuss their creation, business models, maintenance and intellectual property rights (IPR).
Motivation and Consequences of Internet and Mobile Phone Usage among the Urban Poor in Kampala, Uganda
2015
The Internet and mobile phones are rapidly diffusing throughout communities, and it is important to understand what people are actually doing with their access to these technologies. This study seeks to improve our understanding of the motivational factors and social and economic consequences of such use among the urban poor, which is examined through the Diffusion of Innovations Theory (DoI) and the Capability Approach (CA). The combined theoretical perspective was introduced to explore findings of an explorative case study conducted among the urban poor in Kampala, Uganda, where Internet access was found to be low due to high illiteracy and associated costs. On the other hand, mobile phon…
Why Real Leisure Really Matters: Incentive Effects on Real Effort in the Laboratory
2013
On-the-job leisure is a pervasive feature of the modern workplace. We studied its impact on work performance in a laboratory experiment by either allowing or restricting Internet access. We used a 2×2 experimental design in which subjects completing real-effort work tasks could earn cash according to either individual- or team-production incentive schemes. Under team pay, production levels were significantly lower when Internet browsing was available than when it was not. Under individual pay, however, no differences in production levels were observed between the treatment in which Internet was available and the treatment in which it was not. In line with standard incentive theory, individu…
Internet Access in Rural Areas: Brake or Stimulus as Post-Covid-19 Opportunity?
2020
The lack of internet access in most rural areas has become a challenge worldwide. The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted trends such as teleworking and e-commerce, meaning an opportunity for the local economy of these areas, but with serious difficulties in carrying it out. This paper aims to detect this lack of internet in inland areas of the region of Valencia through local actors, in order to identify clear priorities and real needs through an explorative and replicable approach based on agglomerative hierarchical clustering (AHC). The main findings suggest that there are different patterns in the rural internet access related to adequate infrastructure and planned actions by local counci…
Parenting Styles and Internet Use
2017
The Internet has become the most popular way for young people to communicate with one another. Recent data indicate that 95% of students have Internet access. This study examined the links between Internet use and the parenting styles that shape parent-child interactions. Empirical analysis showed that Internet use accounts for the majority of adolescents' leisure time. The neglecting parenting style has the strongest relationship with addictive Internet use by adolescent girls and boys. For boys, addictive Internet use is also related to a combination of different parenting styles resulting from inconsistencies and contradictions between parents.
Bērnības ģimenes vides un piesaistes stilu saistība ar pārmērīgu datorspēļu spēlēšanu pieaugušā vecumā
2022
Šī maģistra darba mērķis ir noskaidrot, kādai bērnības ģimenes videi (atvērtai, vienotai vai konfliktējošai) un piesaistes stilam (trauksmainam vai izvairīgam) ar vecākiem, ir saistība ar indivīda pārmērīgu tieksmi spēlēt spēles internetā pieaugušā vecumā? Pētījumā piedalījās 80 cilvēki, visi dalībnieki bija pieaugušie, kuri pēdējo 6 mēnešu laikā ir spēlējuši spēles internetā, datorā vai telefonā. No tiem bija 48 vīrieši un 31 sieviete, vecumā no 18 līdz 45 gadiem (vidējais dalībnieku vecums ir 25 gadi). Pētījuma dalībniekiem, atbildot uz piedāvātajiem jautājumiem, bija jāsniedz novērtējums par savu bērnības ģimenes vidi, piesaistes attiecībām ar vecākiem un tuvākajiem cilvēkiem, kā arī jān…
Videopolítica e Internet
2011
El resultado de las Elecciones Generales de 2004, que supuso un cambio de Gobierno, implicaría también el intercambio de papeles entre PSOE y PP. Como se explica en el Capítulo 1 este último partido, ahora en la oposición, no acabaría de reconocer la legitimidad de la victoria socialista (que habría estado, según esta línea de interpretación, estrechamente ligada con los atentados terroristas del 11M), y pasaría a desarrollar, a lo largo de toda la legislatura, una estrategia de aumento de la crispación e intensidad de la lucha política caracterizada por la creación y difusión de mensajes mediáticos a través de los canales convencionales (prensa, radio y televisión). A partir de 2005, con l…