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Whyte, K. L., and I. Hunter. "Internet access, utilisation and perception by parents." Archives of Disease in Childhood 93, no. 5 (May 1, 2008): 448–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/adc.2008.137851.
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Elliott, R., and C. Boshoff. "The utilisation of the Internet to market small tourism businesses." South African Journal of Business Management 36, no. 4 (December 30, 2005): 91–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajbm.v36i4.646.
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The tourism sector has been identified as an industry that has the potential to make a substantial contribution to the growth of the South African economy. The majority of tourism ventures are, however, small businesses, which differ from their larger counterparts not only in terms of size, but also in regard to access to resources and marketing expertise. Not surprisingly, one of the issues identified as preventing this sector from reaching its full potential is access to markets. The Internet has been identified as tool which may assist small businesses in both their global and domestic marketing.The focus of this study was to identify the factors specific to the Internet (rather than the technology per se or organisational factors) driving the success of the use of the Internet for marketing purposes in small businesses operating in the tourism sector in South Africa. If these factors can be identified and their relative influence on Internet marketing success be determined, it will allow small tourism businesses utilise the capabilities of the Internet more effectively.The results indicate that having a product champion in the business, having a network of effective alliances, a high level of owner-manager involvement in the Internet marketing strategy as well as a clear owner-manager vision are important to the successful use of the Internet for the marketing of small tourism businesses in South Africa.
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Ajuwon, Grace Ada, and Sunday O. Popoola. "Influence of motivational factors on utilisation of Internet health information resources by resident doctors in Nigeria." Electronic Library 33, no. 1 (February 2, 2015): 103–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/el-12-2012-0159.
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Purpose – This study aims to determine the influence of motivational factors: perceived ease of use (PEU), perceived enjoyment (PEJ) and perceived usefulness (PU) on utilisation of Internet health information resources among resident doctors in tertiary health-care institutions in Nigeria. The Internet has become a major source of health information for practitioners and the general public. Despite the availability of health information resources on the Internet, some resources are underutilised. There are numerous studies on Internet use among health-care workers; however, there is a dearth of information on motivational factors influencing utilisation of Internet health information resources among resident doctors in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach – A descriptive survey design was used. Total enumeration technique was adopted to cover 1,280 resident doctors in 13 tertiary health-care institutions in southwestern Nigeria. A validated, self-administered questionnaire was used for data collection. The questionnaire has four sections covering the demographic profile of the respondents, PEU, PEJ and PU. Four hypotheses were tested at the p < 0.0 1 level of significance. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson product-moment correlation and multiple regression analysis. Findings – There were more males (69.0 per cent) than females (31 per cent); respondents mean age was 34 years. The result revealed that PEU(r = 0.181, p < 0.01), PEJ(r = 0.166, p < 0.01) and PU(r = 0.121, p < 0.01) have significant relationship with utilisation of Internet health information resources by the respondents. Also, PEU, PEJ and PU collectively (F = 15.366, df = 3; 897, p < 0.01) have significant influence on utilisation of Internet health information resources of the respondents. Individually, PEU (B = 0.864, df = 897, t = 3.90, p < 0.01) and PEJ (B = 0.349, df = 897, t = 3.060, p [lt] 0.01) were found to have significant influence on utilisation while PU (B = 0.232, df = 897, t = 1.328, p > 0.01) does not significantly influence the utilisation of Internet health information resource of the respondents. Research limitations/implications – One major implication of this study is that system designers and web content developers should design programs and websites that are compatible with the user’s abilities. Medical librarians have a role to play in providing quality health content that is easy to navigate and pleasurable to use. Both the institutions and the government have a role to play in providing information and communication technology facilities to enable doctors access relevant health information resources easily. Practical implications – Introduction of information literacy training in the residency programme or inclusion as a component of the continuing professional development will enable resident doctors to know relevant online searching tools and search techniques for accessing health information resources which will be useful to their work. This will in turn increase their PU of Internet resources. Health sciences librarians (medical librarians) in the various institutions/centres have a role to play in training resident doctors on how to access, retrieve and evaluate online health information. Librarians should also train resident doctors on how to search evidence-based Medicine resources such as the Cochrane Library and PubMed Clinical Queries and Critical Appraisal of the medical literature to make informed decision in the management of their patients and for research purposes. They should be trained on how to organise bibliographic references using reference manager tools such as Endnote, Zotero or Mendeley. Social implications – The social implication of this findings is that systems that are easy to use should be designed, so that doctors will be able to access relevant information for research and patient care for better health outcomes. The easier and enjoyable the system is to use, the more resident doctors will access and use health information resources to improve their service and save more lives. Originality/value – This study examined three motivational factors (PEU, PEJ and PU) that influence the utilisation of Internet health information resources by resident doctors in tertiary health-care institutions in Nigeria. The result revealed that collectively PEU, PEJ and PU have significant relationship with the utilisation of Internet health information resources, but PEU and PEJ are the main drivers of use of Internet health information resources among the resident doctors studied. This study adds to the literature of motivational factors influencing utilisation of Internet health information resources by resident doctors in southwestern Nigeria. This paper is original because, to the best of our knowledge, there is no other study on motivational factors influencing Internet use among resident doctors in Nigeria.
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McClure, Erin A., Nathaniel L. Baker, Matthew J. Carpenter, Frank A. Treiber, and Kevin M. Gray. "Attitudes and Interest in Technology-Based Treatment and the Remote Monitoring of Smoking among Adolescents and Emerging Adults." Journal of Smoking Cessation 12, no. 2 (October 8, 2015): 88–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jsc.2015.15.
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Introduction: Despite the public health relevance of smoking in adolescents and emerging adults, this group remains understudied and underserved. High technology utilisation among this group may be harnessed as a tool for better understanding of smoking, yet little is known regarding the acceptability of mobile health (mHealth) integration.Methods: Participants (ages 14–21 years) enrolled in a smoking cessation clinical trial provided feedback on their technology utilisation, perceptions, and attitudes; and interest in remote monitoring for smoking. Characteristics that predicted greater technology acceptability for smoking treatment were also explored.Results: Participants (N = 87) averaged 19 years old and were mostly male (67%). Technology utilisation was high for smart phone ownership (93%), Internet use (98%), and social media use (94%). Despite this, only one-third of participants had ever searched the Internet for cessation tips or counselling (33%). Participants showed interest in mHealth-enabled treatment (48%) and felt that it could be somewhat helpful (83%). Heavier smokers had more favourable attitudes toward technology-based treatment, as did those with smartphones and unlimited data.Conclusions: Our results demonstrate high technology utilisation, favourable attitudes towards technology, and minimal concerns. Technology integration among this population should be pursued, though in a tailored fashion, to accomplish the goal of providing maximally effective, just-in-time interventions.
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Sebutu, Abdulganiyu Salman, Olaofe Musa Adeyemi, and Abdullahi AbdulGaniyy. "Utilisation of internet-enabled devices for academic and religious purposes among Muslim undergraduates." Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn) 15, no. 1 (November 1, 2020): 36–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/edulearn.v15i1.15817.
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This study investigated utilisation of internet-enabled devices for academic and religious purposes among Muslim undergraduates in University of Ilorin, Nigeria. All Muslim students in the University constituted the population of the study, while only those in the Faculty of Arts were the target population. Meanwhile, 50 Muslim students were randomly selected from each of the seven departments which totaled 350 undergraduate Muslim students. The instrument used to collect data was researcher-designed questionnaire. Two research hypotheses were formulated and tested using inferential statistics of Pearson Product Moment Correlation Statistics, at 0.05 level of significance. It was revealed from the findings of the study that utilisation of internet-enabled devices significantly related to Muslim students' religious practices and academic performance. Therefore, it was concluded that students should always ensure moderation in chit-chatting and use their internet-enabled devices for the purposes which would boost their academic performance and improve them spiritually.
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Vallance, Michael. "THE DESIGN AND UTILISATION OF AN INTERNET RESOURCE FOR BUSINESS ENGLISH LEARNERS." Computer Assisted Language Learning 10, no. 2 (April 1997): 201–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0958822970100206.
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Obasuyi, Luke, and O. A. Okwilagwe. "Institutional factors influencing utilisation of Research4Life databases by National Agricultural Research Institutes scientists in Nigeria." Information Development 34, no. 2 (November 16, 2016): 122–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0266666916679218.
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This study is part of a doctoral thesis aimed at investigating the influence of institutional factors on utilisation of Research4Life databases by NARIs scientists in Nigeria. The study adopted the descriptive survey design of the correlational type. The study population consists of 1,205 research scientists in the 15 NARIs from which a total of thirteen (13) institutes and 1,062 research scientists were selected adopting cluster, simple random and stratified random sampling techniques. The questionnaire was the main instrument for data collection. It consists of 105 questions arranged in five sections. Simple percentage, mean, Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation, multiple regression analysis and analysis of variance were used to analyse the data. Result indicates that the six institutional factors were significant and the institutional factors influenced utilisation of Research4Life databases. Accessibility of databases, availability of password and fast Internet access made significant contributions to utilisation of Research4Life databases. NARIs management has critical roles to play in providing access to Research4Life databases in research scientists’ offices and their libraries as well as providing fast Internet access and in-house-training in the institutes. The librarians should register for Research4Life databases and make the user names and passwords available to all their bona fide users.
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Ibrahim, Abdulrahaman Olanrewaju, Alabi Afusat Titilayo, Yusuf Suleiman, and Mustapha Adam Ishola. "Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Utilization: A Veritable Tool for Academic Staff Effectiveness in Nigerian Polytechnics." Humanities and Social Sciences: Latvia 28, no. 2 (2020): 101–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.22364/hssl.28.2.07.
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There is no doubt about the fact that information and communication technology utilisation (ICT) is a life wire of any school organisation. However, planners and administrators are aware of the contributions that ICT utilisation could make to the enhancement of academic activities of the institutions. The attainment of the goals and objectives of higher institutions of learning required the availability and optimal utilisation of ICT. Based on the foregoing premise, this study examined ICT utilisation as a veritable tool for academic staff effectiveness in Nigerian Polytechnics. The concept and importance of ICT utilisation were critically examined. Challenges associated with ICT utilisation were highlighted, which include unsteady power supply, inadequate funding, poor quality of telecommunication connections, and lack of qualified ICT operators. The study concluded that the contribution of ICT utilisation to the development of entire level of education today make it necessary for the adoption of ICT utilisation by the school authorities, administrators as well as the lecturers in such a way that it easier for the utilisation of application packages (like power point presentation, Microsoft word process, spread sheet and so on), internet application (video conferencing, e-mail, data base, e-learning) and computer hardware facilities (photo copier machine, printing machine, scanners, laptops to mention but a few). This helps to improve the quality of teaching-learning process, academic and administrative effectiveness in institutions. Also, the technological devices of an institution are a major determinant factor in the actualisation of its objectives. The study recommends that proper funding should be provided for the procurement of ICT devices and equipment which are capital intensive.
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Tschudi, Hunziker, Kündig, Lüscher, Freiermuth, Heller, and Heberer. "Internet-Kommunikation zwischen Hausärzten und Universitätsspital." Praxis 91, no. 7 (February 1, 2002): 257–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1024/0369-8394.91.7.257.
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Les nouvelles perspectives qu'offre la communication électronique en médecine sont illustrées ici par un projet pilote d'une interface de communication via internet (MeDaCom: medical data communication) entre médecins référents et praticiens hospitaliers. L'avantage des échanges électroniques réside principalement dans leur rapidité et leur capacité pour le transfert de données. Ceci confère à ces dernières une disponibilité, une compatibilité et une facilité d'intégration en adéquation avec les diverses contraintes de la gestion et du traitement d'un dossier médicale. Les qualités requises pour un programme gérant la communication électronique de données médicales sont donc liées à la sécurité du transfert, la disponibilité et l'intégration des données ainsi qu'au potentiel de gestion proprement dit du dossier médical (confidentialité, stabilité, simplicité d'utilisation, flexibilité, gestion comptable). L'efficacité de gestion du dossier voire du traitement médical peut être améliorée par la communication électronique dans la mesure où, au delà de la simple substitution du courrier papier par sa version électronique, celle-ci est compatible avec des fonctions plus complexes associées à une utilisation optimisée et généralisable des technologies modernes.
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Rani, Y. Sudha. "Utilisation of Internet by Engineering Students: A Survey in Nellore District of AP." Pearl : A Journal of Library and Information Science 6, no. 3 (2012): 149. http://dx.doi.org/10.5958/j.0973-7081.6.3.015.
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Hamid, Omer Awad Hag, and Mohammad H. Allaymoun. "Murabaha application for electronic commerce internet of things utilisation in Islamic fin-tech." International Journal of Electronic Banking 2, no. 3 (2020): 212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijebank.2020.10033548.
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Hamid, Omer Awad Hag, and Mohammad H. Allaymoun. "Murabaha application for electronic commerce internet of things utilisation in Islamic fin-tech." International Journal of Electronic Banking 2, no. 3 (2020): 212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijebank.2020.111429.
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Silverio-Fernandez, Manuel, Suresh Renukappa, and Subashini Suresh. "Utilisation of Smart Devices in the Construction Industry." International Journal of 3-D Information Modeling 7, no. 1 (January 2018): 15–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ij3dim.2018010102.
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On a global scale, the construction sector is considered to have a high degree of decentralised information. In the Dominican Republic, the construction industry represents the most significant economic activity in the country. Smart devices and the Internet of Things create an opportunity to enhance the exchange of information in the construction sector. This article reports on the empirical findings of an investigation focused on the implementation of smart devices in the AEC sector. Findings address the status of digitalisation in the construction sector of the construction industry as well as main utilisations of smart devices. The findings are based on semi-structured interviews with fifteen professionals from nine construction organisations. The article concludes that smart devices increase efficiency in the construction industry of Dominican Republic by adding mobility, ubiquitous data access, and digitalisation of paperwork.
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Dart, Jared. "The internet as a source of health information in three disparate communities." Australian Health Review 32, no. 3 (2008): 559. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah080559.
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A survey questionnaire was designed and implemented across three different communities to determine the current utilisation, importance, trust and future preference for the internet as a source of health information in three different socioeconomic groups. The following were the key results. Fewer respondents in the low socioeconomic group accessed online health information than the mid-high socioeconomic or university samples. The internet was a much more important source of health information for the university sample. The use of online health information and the importance ascribed to the internet as a source of health information was related to home internet access and the frequency of internet use in all three populations. Most respondents do not bring online health information to their doctor (>70% of those who access online health information). Age alone did not relate to the current use of the internet as a source of health information. Most respondents in all populations did not trust the internet. In all populations the internet was a more preferred source of health information than its current use would suggest, especially among those with home internet access and frequent users of the internet.
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Lwoga, Edda Tandi, and Wallace Chigona. "Perception, usage and barriers towards the utilisation of the Telecentre among rural women in Tanzania." Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 17, no. 1 (March 11, 2019): 2–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jices-01-2018-0004.
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Purpose This paper aims to assess the usage pattern of telecentres, how rural women frame telecentres and barriers that limit use of telecentres. Further, the study examined the effects of demographic characteristics and location on telecentre usage. Design/methodology/approach The study used a sequential mixed research design in three rural districts surrounding telecentres: Kongwa, Sengerema and Kilosa districts. The study population comprised rural women who were users and non-users of telecentres. The study conducted six focus group discussions (FGDs) with 37 users and six FGDs with 36 non-users in the first phase of the study in 2014; questionnaires were administered to 90 users and 90 non-users in the second phase of the study in 2015. Findings The primary use of telecentres among users was to access internet (71.4 per cent, n = 60), followed by information and communication technology (ICT) training courses (63.1 per cent, n = 53) and secretarial purposes (63.1 per cent, n = 53). Rural women used internet for educational purposes, followed by news, information on health issues, job opportunities, social and entertainment issues. Rural women currently using internet were more likely to be better educated (ß = 1.926, p = 0.001) and have higher incomes (ß = 5.318, p = 0.021) at both bivariate and multivariate analysis. Users indicated that they faced the following barriers towards using telecentre: short duration of ICT training, frequent power outages, low speed of internet and few computers at the telecentres. Non-users were not using telecentres because of lack of ICT skills and language barriers. Originality/value This study provides empirical evidence to telecentres, libraries and other rural ICT initiatives to design rural ICT services that are gender-sensitive and demand-driven.
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Olowa, Olatomide Waheed. "An Assessment of Internet Uses, Practices, and Barriers for Professional Development by Agricultural Science Teachers in Lagos State." Education Research International 2012 (2012): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/503264.
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The paper reports a study carried out on the utilisation of the Internet by agricultural science teachers in Lagos state focusing on uses, practices, and barriers. A questionnaire was developed based on literature and was administered to 300 agricultural science teachers in Lagos schools. 275 questionnaires properly completed were analyzed. Data reveal that 130 teachers are using the Internet for teaching agricultural science in classrooms as well as for various activities that enhance their professional development. Nevertheless, it was found that agricultural science teachers in Lagos State have not fully utilised the Internet because of barriers related to time factor, accessibility, and facilities. It is suggested that for the proliferation of Internet practices, there needs to be an increase in funding for technology, an introduction of computer/technology education, a provision of pedagogical training for teachers, and a provision of administrational support.
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Bezerra, Vitor Hugo, Victor Guilherme Turrisi da Costa, Sylvio Barbon Junior, Rodrigo Sanches Miani, and Bruno Bogaz Zarpelão. "IoTDS: A One-Class Classification Approach to Detect Botnets in Internet of Things Devices." Sensors 19, no. 14 (July 19, 2019): 3188. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19143188.
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Internet of Things (IoT) devices have become increasingly widespread. Despite their potential of improving multiple application domains, these devices have poor security, which can be explored by attackers to build large-scale botnets. In this work, we propose a host-based approach to detect botnets in IoT devices, named IoTDS (Internet of Things Detection System). It relies on one-class classifiers, which model only the legitimate device behaviour for further detection of deviations, avoiding the manual labelling process. The proposed solution is underpinned by a novel agent-manager architecture based on HTTPS, which prevents the IoT device from being overloaded by the training activities. To analyse the device’s behaviour, the approach extracts features from the device’s CPU utilisation and temperature, memory consumption, and number of running tasks, meaning that it does not make use of network traffic data. To test our approach, we used an experimental IoT setup containing a device compromised by bot malware. Multiple scenarios were made, including three different IoT device profiles and seven botnets. Four one-class algorithms (Elliptic Envelope, Isolation Forest, Local Outlier Factor, and One-class Support Vector Machine) were evaluated. The results show the proposed system has a good predictive performance for different botnets, achieving a mean F1-score of 94% for the best performing algorithm, the Local Outlier Factor. The system also presented a low impact on the device’s energy consumption, and CPU and memory utilisation.
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Husna Osman, Mufind Mukaz Ebedon, and Amna Saad. "A Review on Parameters of Internet Gateway Discovery in MANETS." Science Proceedings Series 3, no. 1 (June 7, 2021): 22–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.31580/sps.v3i1.1920.
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The input parameters are very crucial in simulation tools for the analysis of data after the implementation. Authors in Mobile ad hoc Networks and particularly in Internet gateway discovery, face some challenges on how to decide on the choice of specific parameters. A wrong choice of input parameters could lead to a doubtful result by other researchers. A best practice is to follow what other authors are using as input parameters in their paper. This review analyses 72 proceeding papers and articles in different digital libraries: google scholar, IEEE Xplore, Elsevier, Springer, and snowball from 2010-2020. We present the result of our survey in this paper. We recommend the input parameters research should use base on the high utilisation as reference. Our review will help the community in MANET and Internet gateway to improve the credibility of the input parameters.
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Ogunjobi, T. E., and F. O. Oyewusi. "Media Resources Availability and Utilisation for Effective Publication Output by Agricultural Researchers in Southwestern Nigeria." Journal of Information & Knowledge Management 15, no. 02 (May 20, 2016): 1650016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219649216500167.
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The study examines media resource utilisation and effective publication output by agricultural researchers in Southwestern Nigeria. The respondents consisted of agricultural researchers in agricultural research institutes in Southwest Nigeria. The descriptive survey of correlational type was used. Four hundred and sixty two copies of the questionnaire were distributed using total enumeration technique, 334 were returned representing 72.3 return rate. The data collected were analysed using descriptive statistic of frequency counts, percentages, mean and standard deviation while Pearson product moment correlation and multiple regressions were used to test the hypothesis. The result of the finding showed that the internet ([Formula: see text]), Email ([Formula: see text]), and laptops ([Formula: see text]) were the frequently used media resources. Agricultural databases were scantly used. The result also revealed that Email and the internet were the most available media resources while AGORA, LanTEEAL and FAO publications were the most available agricultural databases. Also, some researchers (0.6%) and others (62.3%) had below four local publications while on international publications, 3% researchers had above 16 international publications and 50.6% researchers had below 6 international publications. The study further revealed that there was a positive and significant relationship between media resources utilisation and publication output of researchers ([Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text]). A significant relationship also exists between media resource availability and publication output and a joint relationship existed among media resource availability, media resource utilisation and publication output. The study identified poor funding, irregular electricity and inadequate electronic media resources as constraint to electronic media usage in Nigeria. Finally, the study recommends constant electricity, more funding for purchase of media and training for researchers.
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Emasealu, Helen U., and Susan Nnadozie Umeozor. "Frequencies of Some of the Problems Hampering Optimal Utilisation of e-Resources in Two Nigerian Federal Universities." Journal of Information & Knowledge Management 17, no. 04 (December 2018): 1850044. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219649218500442.
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This study was conducted to assess the frequencies of 11 problems hampering the optimal utilisation of e-resources in two Nigerian Federal University of Ibadan and Obafemi Awolowo University. A structured questionnaire was adopted for data collection. A total of 480 lecturers were involved in the study with 240 per institution, 80 from each of the three faculties per institution and 20 lecturers from each of the four departments per faculty. Frequency counts (often, occasional and never) for each of the 11 problems were subjected to Analysis of Variance and Duncan’s Multiple Range Test. Results showed that all the six faculties studied indicated that frequencies of poor electricity supply and maintenance problem were significantly “often”. Five of the six faculties indicated that the frequencies of lack of internet connectivity and the problem of internet bandwidth to access e-resources were significantly “often”. These were followed by insufficient training of personnel and lack of awareness of the existence of e-resources in which four faculties indicated their frequencies to be significantly “often”. Three of the six faculties showed that the frequencies of frequent power outage, fluctuation in power supply and lack of technical expertise were significantly “often” while for lack of infrastructure (Software/Hardware) and frequent power changeover, two of the six faculties showed their frequencies to be significantly “often”. The higher the frequency of a problem, the more prominent the problem is in hampering e-resources utilisation. It is concluded that optimal utilisation of e-resources in the developing countries is beset with many problems and that the prominence of the problems varies from one to another.
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Kehoe, D. F., and N. J. Boughton. "New paradigms in planning and control across manufacturing supply chains ‐ The utilisation of Internet technologies." International Journal of Operations & Production Management 21, no. 5/6 (May 2001): 582–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/01443570110390345.
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Khwileh, Ahmad, Debasis Ganguly, and Gareth J. F. Jones. "Utilisation of Metadata Fields and Query Expansion in Cross-Lingual Search of User-Generated Internet Video." Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 55 (January 27, 2016): 249–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1613/jair.4775.
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Recent years have seen significant efforts in the area of Cross Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) for text retrieval. This work initially focused on formally published content, but more recently research has begun to concentrate on CLIR for informal social media content. However, despite the current expansion in online multimedia archives, there has been little work on CLIR for this content. While there has been some limited work on Cross-Language Video Retrieval (CLVR) for professional videos, such as documentaries or TV news broadcasts, there has to date, been no significant investigation of CLVR for the rapidly growing archives of informal user generated (UGC) content. Key differences between such UGC and professionally produced content are the nature and structure of the textual UGC metadata associated with it, as well as the form and quality of the content itself. In this setting, retrieval effectiveness may not only suffer from translation errors common to all CLIR tasks, but also recognition errors associated with the automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems used to transcribe the spoken content of the video and with the informality and inconsistency of the associated user-created metadata for each video. This work proposes and evaluates techniques to improve CLIR effectiveness of such noisy UGC content. Our experimental investigation shows that different sources of evidence, e.g. the content from different fields of the structured metadata, significantly affect CLIR effectiveness. Results from our experiments also show that each metadata field has a varying robustness to query expansion (QE) and hence can have a negative impact on the CLIR effectiveness. Our work proposes a novel adaptive QE technique that predicts the most reliable source for expansion and shows how this technique can be effective for improving the CLIR effectiveness for UGC content.
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Kommoss, S., F. Kommoss, J. Diebold, S. Lax, D. Schmidt, A. Staebler, A. du Bois, and J. Pfisterer. "Better resource utilisation and quality of care for ovarian cancer patients using internet-based pathology review." British Journal of Cancer 116, no. 3 (December 22, 2016): 287–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2016.416.
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AKPABIO, Iniobong Aniefiok, Glory Emmanuel EDET, and Joan Ekpo CYRIL. "UNDERLYING FACTORS AFFECTING UTILIZATION OF COMPUTER – BASED INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES BY AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION PERSONNEL IN AKWA IBOM, NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA." International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH 9, no. 1 (February 13, 2021): 399–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v9.i1.2021.3143.
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The study sought to examine factors affecting utilization of Computer Based Internet Technologies (CBIT) by extension personnel in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. Relevant data were obtained from 180 respondents, while data analyses were achieved with the aid of descriptive and inferential statistical tools. Findings showed that 57.8 % of the respondents were male, 91.7% were married, with a mean age of 43years, while 62.8% respondents had no formal computer training. It was also revealed that, of the nine surveyed CBIT facilities and applications, only mobile phones were highly utilized, while I-pads/laptops and YouTube were the least utilized. It was also revealed that 62.8% respondents indicated that they had a low level of CBIT utilization, while level of CBIT utilisation was found to be influenced by financial, training, policy/personal barriers, social, technical and management factors. Results of tested hypotheses revealed that CBIT utilisation was not influenced by respondents’ personal characteristics, and no significant difference was observed in terms of level of CBIT utilization between field extension personnel (FEP) and supervisory extension personnel (SEP). It was concluded that extension personnel are constrained from using CBIT due to the prohibitive cost of CBIT software and maintenance, inappropriate infrastructure and lack of access to training opportunities. It is recommended, among others, that policy makers should facilitate the evolution of appropriate CBIT policies to enhance access to appropriate tools by extension personnel.
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Abba, Tukur. "Impact of utilisation of internet services and resources on university lecturers’ academic activities in Adamawa state, Nigeria." Information Impact: Journal of Information and Knowledge Management 8, no. 2 (June 26, 2017): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/iijikm.v8i2.2.
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Shabi, Iwok N., Olabode M. Shabi, Modupe A. Akewukereke, and Emem P. Udofia. "Physicians utilisation of internet medical databases at the tertiary health institutions in Osun State, South West, Nigeria." Health Information & Libraries Journal 28, no. 4 (November 3, 2011): 313–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-1842.2011.00962.x.
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Kwong, Catherine K. Y., and Ben Y. F. Fong. "Promotion of Appropriate Use of Electronic Devices Among Hong Kong Adolescents." Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management 14, no. 1 (April 15, 2019): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.24083/apjhm.v14i1.199.
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The advancement of technology is changing the world so rapidly with implication to people’s daily activities and health. The excessive utilisation of electronic devices, particularly among adolescents, are affecting the physical, psychological and social wellbeing of these young people. Physical inactivity, obesity, musculoskeletal conditions, vision, cognitive development, sleep pattern, family relationship, addiction and gaming are issues of importance and attention arising from the inappropriate use of electronic devices. Stakeholders, including the parents, teachers, government, community organisations and the adolescents themselves, have different but complementary roles in the prevention of internet addiction and in the promotion of appropriate use of electronic devices among adolescents.
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Odelius, Johan, Stephen Mayowa Famurewa, Lars Forslöf, Johan Casselgren, and Heikki Konttaniemi. "Industrial internet applications for efficient road winter maintenance." Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering 23, no. 3 (August 14, 2017): 355–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jqme-11-2016-0071.
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Purpose For the expected increase in the capacity of existing transportation systems and efficient energy utilisation, smart maintenance solutions that are supported by online and integrated condition monitoring systems are required. Industrial internet is one of the smart maintenance solutions which enables real-time acquisition and analysis of asset condition by linking intelligent devices with different stakeholders’ applications and databases. The purpose of this paper is to present some aspects of industrial internet application as required for integrating weather information and floating road condition data from vehicle mounted sensors to enhance effective and efficient winter maintenance. Design/methodology/approach The concept of real-time road condition assessment using in-vehicle sensors is demonstrated in a case study of a 3.5 km road section located in Northern Sweden. The main floating data sources were acceleration and position sensors from a smartphone positioned on the dash board of a truck. Features extracted from the acceleration signal were two road roughness estimations. To extract targeted information and knowledge, the floating data were further processed to produce time series data of the road condition using Kalman filtering. The time series data were thereafter combined with weather data to assess the condition of the road. Findings In the case study, examples of visualisation and analytics to support winter maintenance planning, execution and resource allocation were presented. Reasonable correlation was shown between estimated road roughness and annual road survey data to validate and prove the presented results wider applicability. Originality/value The paper describes a concept of floating data for an industrial internet application for efficient road maintenance. The resulting improvement in winter maintenance will promote dependable, safe and sustainable transportation of goods and people, especially in Northern Nordic region with harsh and sometimes unpredictable weather conditions.
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Nakic, Draško, and Suzana Loškovska. "Creating and Using the Knowledge Archive in the Internet Medical Consultant for Decision Support at the Point of Care." International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications 3, no. 3 (July 2012): 72–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jehmc.2012070106.
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The Internet Medical Consultant – IMC is a knowledge sharing system for physicians. The system’s main purpose is to collect and store the communication between its users and to provide easy retrieval of stored information. The system provides access to human generated knowledge at the point of care. Having that kind of knowledge at hand can be very helpful for physicians when they make decisions. This paper describes the process of knowledge capturing, creating and searching the knowledge archive, for final utilisation of that knowledge at point of care. The process of effective knowledge retrieval is represented more thoroughly by several modifications of algorithms for that purpose.
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Sooka, H., C. Sofianos, and EA Christofides. "#PlasticSurgery: an overview of the internet presence and utilisation of social media platforms by South African plastic surgeons." South African Journal of Surgery 56, no. 4 (2018): 40–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2078-5151/2018/v56n4a2616.
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Hirsch, Oliver, Karina Löltgen, and Annette Becker. "Comparing health survey data from Internet- and paper-based convenience samples of lesbian women in Germany." Sexual Health 11, no. 4 (2014): 351. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sh14041.
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Background Members of populations that are measured online should be compared with paper-based samples in order to determine whether data from these different sources can be merged or must be analysed separately due to substantial differences. Methods: A sample of lesbian women recruited via the Internet were compared with a paper-based sample. Both groups used a questionnaire consisting of demographic variables, questions regarding dealing with homosexuality, psychological burden, access to care, and discrimination experience within the German healthcare system. Results: Only small differences emerged in dealing with homosexuality between both groups. Moderately more women in the Internet-based sample suffered from nervous tension and the impression of being out of balance. Moderately more women in the paper-based sample stated that their main contact person regarding health matters was informed about their sexual orientation. Most differences had small effect sizes. No substantial differences occurred between the two groups in the area of discrimination experience. No large differences in socioeconomic data, psychological burden, healthcare utilisation, or dealing with or experiences with homosexuality were found. Conclusions: Health survey data derived from Internet- and paper-based samples of lesbian women in Germany are not too dissimilar. Further research in additional contexts is needed to decide whether they can be merged for further analyses.
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Rezaei, Sajad, Maryam Emami, and Nurlida Ismail. "Paid internet advertising (PIA) and frequency of apps-buying decisions." Journal of Enterprise Information Management 31, no. 3 (April 9, 2018): 463–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jeim-08-2017-0113.
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Purpose Despite the tremendous advancement of information technology worldwide, a few attempts have been made to uncover the effectiveness of paid internet advertising (PIA) on consumers buying decisions for retail enterprises in emerging markets. The purpose of this paper is to examine the structural relationships between consumer self-confidence, perceived intrusiveness, continuance search intention, attitude towards PIA and frequency of apps-buying decisions. Design/methodology/approach A total number of 515 online questionnaires were obtained from a sample of experienced apps shoppers who were disposed to PIA, in order to evaluate the theoretical model. VB-SEM, which is a variance-based structural equation modelling technique, was applied to assess the measurement scales and structural relationship between exogenous and endogenous constructs. Findings Overall, the structural results imply that the proposed model explains 0.738 per cent of variances in consumer’s continuance search intention and 0.756 per cent of the frequency of apps-buying decisions. The results support that consumer self-confidence positively influences attitude towards PIA, continuance search intention and frequency of apps-buying decisions; however, consumer self-confidence is negatively related to perceived intrusiveness. Similarly, attitude towards PIA is positively related to continuance search intention and frequency of apps-buying decision. Besides, perceived intrusiveness negatively influences attitude towards PIA, continuance search intention and frequency of apps-buying decisions. Finally, continuance search intention and the frequency of apps-buying decisions are positively related. Originality/value Despite the fact that PIA and its utilisation has been a recent growing trend in managing retail enterprises worldwide, a few studies have been conducted on possible end results of PIA, including consumer continuous apps search intention and purchase decisions.
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Kane, J. M. "Technology-based interventions in health care." Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences 23, no. 4 (August 22, 2014): 323–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s2045796014000444.
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There are several converging forces that create a particularly opportune time for technological solutions to enhance cost efficiency in healthcare. Health care costs are unsustainable, yet many patients do not have adequate access to state-of-the-art treatments or to ongoing disease management. Consumerism is an increasingly powerful force in healthcare and the emphasis on personalised medicine will help to define future research and clinical treatment strategies. At the same time, the phenomenal advances in internet utilisation and mobile device applications provide possibilities that have never before existed. We have reason to be very optimistic about these opportunities, but appropriate research will be required to develop scalable and sustainable methods as well as determine expected outcomes.
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Kımıloğlu, Hande, and Hülya Zaralı. "What signifies success in e‐CRM?" Marketing Intelligence & Planning 27, no. 2 (March 27, 2009): 246–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/02634500910945011.
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PurposeThis paper seeks to use the balanced scorecard approach to create a performance measurement tool for e‐CRM implementations, distinguishing the criteria which signify higher levels of success in e‐CRM for internet businesses.Design/methodology/approachA performance measurement tool assessing the success of e‐CRM implementations under the customer, internal business, innovation and learning, and financial perspectives of the balanced scorecard is constructed. A total of 72 internet businesses in Turkey were surveyed about how much their CRM implementations contributed to the improvement in various measures under these four perspectives. These businesses are categorised as those with high versus moderate levels of perceived e‐CRM success. T‐tests are conducted to find out which success criteria distinguish these two groups more significantly.FindingsCompanies with higher levels of perceived e‐CRM success claimed significantly higher levels of improvements in customer satisfaction, transaction amounts and frequency, brand image, effective database management and customer targeting, efficient business processes, technology utilisation, excellence and innovation in services, improved sales, profitability and decreased service support costs.Research limitations/implicationsThe sample size is relatively small due to the difficulty of collecting data from internet businesses on a strategic issue such as e‐CRM. Perceived e‐CRM success is assessed based on the answers of a single respondent from each business.Practical implicationsWith successful e‐CRM programs, internet businesses can experience significant levels of improvements under all the four perspectives of the balanced scorecard, including tangible measures such as financial outcomes and the less tangible indicators such as customer value, innovation, excellence, and efficiency in business processes.Originality/valueA general strategic management tool is applied to a specific process in internet businesses. Performance in e‐CRM is assessed extensively.
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Frantti, Tapio. "Cascaded Fuzzy Congestion Controller for TCP/IP Traffic." Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics 9, no. 2 (March 20, 2005): 92–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.20965/jaciii.2005.p0092.
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This paper presents a fuzzy congestion control solution for active queue management in wireline packet switched networks, that use TCP to solve end-to-end flow control. Queue management is a trade-off between link utilisation, delay and the loss of packets. The targets of it are to reduce the average queue length in routers, decrease the end-to-end delay and reduce the packet loss probability by preventing buffer overflows. In the presented solution, a fuzzy controller regulates the rejection probability of received packets in routers to prevent buffer overflow and the rejection of all packets during congestion. Using simulations a fuzzy controller is compared with the traditional random early discard (RED) algorithm. Pareto distributed traffic was used in the comparison for the evaluation of controllers. The results showed that the fuzzy controller decreased the packet loss rate with lower buffer occupation and increased the link utilisation and throughput. It also decreased control traffic between the transmitting nodes and routers via decreasing the number of ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) messages. In addition, by keeping the average queue size small, the developed algorithm had the ability to accommodate itself more effectively to very bursty traffic than the RED algorithm without dropping packets.
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Diakostefanis, M., T. Nikolaidis, S. Sampath, and T. Triantafyllou. "Remote operation and monitoring of a micro aero gas turbine." Aeronautical Journal 121, no. 1242 (June 21, 2017): 1051–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/aer.2017.50.
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ABSTRACTInternet applications have been extended to various aspects of everyday life and offer services of high reliability and security at relatively low cost. This project presents the design of a reliable, safe and secure software system for real-time remote operation and monitoring of an aero gas turbine with utilisation of existing internet technology, whilst the gas turbine is installed in a remote test facilityThis project introduces a capability that allows remote and flexible operation of an aero gas turbine throughout the whole operational envelope, as required by the user at low cost, by exploiting the available Internet technology. Remote operation of the gas turbine can be combined with other remote Internet applications to provide very powerful gas-turbine performance-simulation experimental platforms and real-time performance monitoring tools, whilst keeping the implementation cost at low levels.The gas turbine used in this experiment is an AMT Netherlands Olympus micro gas turbine and a spiral model approach was applied for the software. The whole process was driven by risk mitigation.The outcome is a fully functional software application that enables remote operation of the micro gas turbine whilst constantly monitors the performance of the engine according to basic gas turbine control theory. The application is very flexible, as it runs with no local installation requirements and includes provisions for expansion and collaboration with other online performance simulation and diagnostic tools.
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Parker, Ruth F., Emma L. Figures, Charlotte AM Paddison, James IDM Matheson, David N. Blane, and John A. Ford. "Inequalities in general practice remote consultations: a systematic review." BJGP Open 5, no. 3 (March 12, 2021): BJGPO.2021.0040. http://dx.doi.org/10.3399/bjgpo.2021.0040.
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BackgroundCOVID-19 has led to rapid and widespread use of remote consultations in general practice, but the health inequalities impact remains unknown.AimTo explore the impact of remote consultations in general practice, compared to face-to-face consultations, on utilisation and clinical outcomes across socioeconomic and disadvantaged groups.Design & settingSystematic review.MethodThe authors undertook an electronic search of MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Web of Science from inception to June 2020. The study included studies that compared remote consultations to face-to-face consultations in primary care and reported outcomes by PROGRESS Plus criteria. Risk of bias was assessed using ROBINS-I. Data were synthesised narratively.ResultsBased on 13 studies that explored telephone and internet-based consultations, this review found that telephone consultations were used by younger people of working age, the very old, and non-immigrants, with internet-based consultations more likely to be used by younger people. Women consistently used more remote forms of consulting than men. Socioeconomic and ethnicity findings were mixed, with weak evidence that patients from more affluent areas were more likely to use internet-based communication. Remote consultations appeared to help patients with opioid dependence remain engaged with primary care. No studies reported on the impact on quality of care or clinical outcomes.ConclusionRemote consultations in general practice are likely to be used more by younger, working people, non-immigrants, older patients, and women, with internet-based consultations more by younger, affluent, and educated groups. Widespread use of remote consultations should be treated with caution until the inequalities impact on clinical outcomes and quality of care is known.
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Liyanage, Mohan, Chii Chang, and Satish Narayana Srirama. "Adaptive mobile Web server framework for Mist computing in the Internet of Things." International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications 14, no. 3/4 (September 3, 2018): 247–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijpcc-d-18-00023.
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Purpose The distant data centre-centric Internet of Things (IoT) systems face the latency issue especially in the real-time-based applications, such as augmented reality, traffic analytics and ambient assisted living. Recently, Fog computing models have been introduced to overcome the latency issue by using the proximity-based computational resources, such as the computers co-located with the cellular base station, grid router devices or computers in local business. However, the increasing users of Fog computing servers cause bottleneck issues and consequently the latency issue arises again. This paper aims to introduce the utilisation of Mist computing (Mist) model, which exploits the computational and networking resources from the devices at the very edge of the IoT networks. Design/methodology/approach This paper proposes a service-oriented mobile-embedded Platform as a Service (mePaaS) framework that allows the mobile device to provide a flexible platform for proximal users to offload their computational or networking program to mePaaS-based Mist computing node. Findings The prototype has been tested and performance has been evaluated on the real-world devices. The evaluation results have shown the promising nature of mePaaS. Originality/value The proposed framework supports resource-aware autonomous service configuration that can manage the availability of the functions provided by the Mist node based on the dynamically changing hardware resource availability. In addition, the framework also supports task distribution among a group of Mist nodes.
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Ajegbomogun, Fredrick Olatunji, and Sunday Olarenwaju Popoola. "Motivational strategies and utilisation of Internet resources as determinants of research productivity of lecturers in universities of agriculture in Nigeria." Education for Information 30, no. 3-4 (December 22, 2013): 167–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/efi-140943.
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Yamin, Fadhilah Mat, T. Ramayah, and Wan Hussain Wan Ishak. "Information Searching: The Impact of User Knowledge on User Search Behavior." Journal of Information & Knowledge Management 12, no. 03 (August 25, 2013): 1350023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219649213500238.
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The utilisation of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and networked information infrastructure in a wide range of businesses and activities has increased the need for fast and reliable information. The information is vital for innovation, competition, and decision making. To date information gathering is no longer absolute from the library, nonetheless the information can be retrieved from all around the world through Internet technology. However, information searching is a tedious process. Knowledge has been identified in this paper as the important factor that affects the searching behaviour. User knowledge is measured by topic and search system understanding while searching behaviour is measured by the breadth and depth of the search query. Both knowledge reflects the true understanding of what and how to search. The breadth and depth of search query show the users' effort in completing the search. In this paper, the impact of user knowledge on search behaviour is accessed on the education domain. Final year undergraduate students were identified as the population that "grown with the web" as they are actively using the Internet to fulfil their study requirement. The findings show that user knowledge does have an impact on the search behaviour.
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C, Bhuvaneswari, Vijay B, and Natarajan P. "Estimation and Performance analysis of a 15kW Off-Grid Solar PV System." International Journal of Engineering & Technology 7, no. 2.25 (May 3, 2018): 143. http://dx.doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i2.25.20495.
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The primary and most universal measure of all kinds of work by nature is the energy. Coal, Natural gas, Oil and Nuclear energy are net energy yielders and primary sources of energy. The intent of this paper is to assess the performance of 15KW solar power plant installed in Priyadarshini Engineering College (PEC) campus, Vaniyambadi, Vellore District, Tamil Nadu. A 15 kW solar PV plant has been installed to supply electricity to the internet laboratory and library (lighting load). The results obtained from monitoring a 15 KW Solar Photovoltaic system installed on a library roofing of 10m height building. The system was monitored between (July-Sep2016) from 9.30AM to 4.30PM for three days in a week from Monday to Wednesday. The results can be used to provide manufacturers to develop their products and enhance the knowledge in the future in order to improve the design of the off-grid solar photovoltaic system, return of investment during these years. This work focuses on the performance of the solar photovoltaic plant (July-Sep2016) monthly average demand and annual performance parameters, Efficiency, fill factor,capacity Utilisation factor and the characteristics have been plotted in a graph. The graph is drawn between Generated power vs consumed power. The annual yield of the solar photovoltaic plant ranged from 6500-7000 Kwh and performance ratio of 78%. It has capacity Utilisation factor with 6.97%.
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Kreitem, Hanna M., and Massimo Ragnedda. "Distributed pool mining and digital inequalities, From cryptocurrency to scientific research." Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 18, no. 3 (June 10, 2020): 339–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jices-02-2020-0018.
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Purpose This paper aims to look at shifts in internet-related content and services economies, from audience labour economies to Web 2.0 user-generated content, and the emerging model of user computing power utilisation, powered by blockchain technologies. The authors look at and test three models of user computing power utilisation based on distributed computing (Coinhive, Cryptotab and Gridcoin) two of which use cryptocurrency mining through distributed pool mining techniques, while the third is based on distributed computing of calculations for scientific research. The three models promise benefits to their users, which the authors discuss throughout the paper, studying how they interplay with the three levels of the digital divide. Design/methodology/approach The goal of this article is twofold as follows: first to discuss how using the mining hype may reduce digital inequalities, and secondly to demonstrate how these services offer a new business model based on value rewarding in exchange for computational power, which would allow more online opportunities for people, and thus reduce digital inequalities. Finally, this contribution discusses and proposes a method for a fair revenue model for content and online service providers that uses user device computing resources or computational power, rather than their data and attention. The method is represented by a model that allows for consensual use of user computing resources in exchange for accessing content and using software tools and services, acting essentially as an alternative online business model. Findings Allowing users to convert their devices’ computational power into value, whether through access to services or content or receiving cryptocurrency and payments in return for providing services or content or direct computational powers, contributes to bridging digital divides, even at fairly small levels. Secondly, the advent of blockchain technologies is shifting power relations between end-users and content developers and service providers and is a necessity for the decentralisation of internet and internet services. Originality/value The article studies the effect of services that rely on distributed computing and mining on digital inequalities, by looking at three different case studies – Coinhive, Gridcoin and Cryptotab – that promise to provide value in return for using computing resources. The article discusses how these services may reduce digital inequalities by affecting the three levels of the digital divide, namely, access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) (first level), skills and motivations in using ICTs (second level) and capacities in using ICTs to get concrete benefits (third level).
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Dufour, Magali, Sylvie R. Gagnon, Louise Nadeau, Andrée-Anne Légaré, and Émélie Laverdière. "Portrait Clinique des Adolescents en Traitement Pour une Utilisation Problématique d’Internet." Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 64, no. 2 (October 2, 2018): 136–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0706743718800698.
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Objectifs: La présente étude dresse le profil clinique des adolescents ayant consulté un centre de traitement de la dépendance (CTD) au Québec en raison d’une utilisation problématique d’Internet (UPI) afin de développer les connaissances sur cette clientèle spécifique et de cibler avec justesse leurs besoins par rapport au traitement. Méthode: L’étude est réalisée auprès de 80 adolescents âgés entre 14 et 17 ans (M = 15,59) ayant consulté un CTD pour une UPI. Les adolescents ont pris part à une entrevue qui documente les habitudes d’utilisation d’Internet et leurs conséquences, la concomitance de troubles de santé mentale, ainsi que les relations familiales et sociales. Résultats: L’échantillon est composé de 75 garçons (93,8%) et de 5 filles (6,3%), qui passaient en moyenne 55,8 heures (ET = 27,22) par semaine sur Internet pour des activités non-scolaires ou professionnelle. Près de la totalité de ces jeunes (97,5%) présente un trouble de santé mentale en concomitance et plus de 70% ont consulté dans la dernière année pour un problème psychologique. Les résultats indiquent que 92,6% estiment que leur utilisation d’internet nuit significativement à leur relation familiale et 50% à leurs relations sociales. Conclusions: Cette étude révèle les nombreuses difficultés vécues par les adolescents requérants un traitement pour leur UPI. La présence de troubles de santé mentale concomitants et de difficultés relationnelles chez ceux-ci renvoie à la nécessité de développer et implanter dans les CTD des évaluations et traitements intégrés qui ciblent non seulement les activités en ligne, mais également l’ensemble des sphères de vie pouvant être affectée par l’UPI. Implications Cliniques: – Les adolescents consultants pour l’UPI sont principalement des garçons qui rapportent une utilisation problématique des jeux vidéo. – La quasi-totalité des jeunes qui consultent pour l’UPI a en concomitance de problèmes de santé mentale et des difficultés sur le plan relationnel – L’étude met en évidence la nécessité d’offrir à cette clientèle des services d’évaluation et de traitement intégrés qui ciblent toutes les sphères de leur vie sont susceptibles d’être affectée, de contribuer ou de maintenir l’UPI. Limites: – Cette étude est réalisée auprès d’un échantillon de convenance et les résultats sont représentatifs des jeunes ayant consulté un centre de traitement pour la dépendance; la généralisation des résultats à l’ensemble des adolescents présentant une UPI est limitée. – Considérant que les manifestations de l’UPI sont sujettes à une influence culturelle, la portée de la présente étude se limite aux populations qui vivent dans une culture similaire à celle du Québec et du Canada.
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Roodt, Sumarie, and Roberto Viola. "Web 2.0." International Journal of Innovation in the Digital Economy 2, no. 4 (October 2011): 17–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jide.2011100102.
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With the emergence of Web 2.0, new online trends and technologies will continually emerge and play an increasingly important role in the way businesses operate. As Web 2.0 has revolutionised the internet by shifting from a published web to a user centric, user-generated web, businesses needed to understand how to change and adapt in order to benefit from these changes. This paper analyses organisations across a variety of industries, in order to determine how Web 2.0 is influencing the way companies conduct business – how they benefit, and what the advantages and disadvantages are. The authors will try to determine whether the traditional business models are changing or simply evolving through the utilisation of Web 2.0 technologies. This research contributes to the body of knowledge regarding the use of social media in commercial organisations.
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Koenig, Michael, and Kenneth Neveroski. "The Origins and Development of Knowledge Management." Journal of Information & Knowledge Management 07, no. 04 (December 2008): 243–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219649208002111.
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Though it had earlier antecedents, the concept of Knowledge Management (KM), as we now know it, evolved as a concept in the late 1980s. The term originated in the consulting community. It arose from the merger of two factors: the recognition of the importance to an organisation of its information and knowledge assets, and from the emergence of the Internet and the almost immediate recognition of the utility of the Internet as an information and knowledge sharing tool, particularly for geographically dispersed organisations. KM has gone through four stages: (1) An emphasis upon the new technology and upon the development of "best practices" or "lessons learned". (2) An increased recognition of human and cultural factors, and upon the development of "communities of practice" to facilitate the sharing of information. (3) An increased recognition of the importance of designing the systems for retrievability, and the importance of data design and structure, including taxonomy development and utilisation. (4) An emphasis upon extending KM systems beyond the parent organisation to include, for example, vendors and suppliers, customers, users, alumni, etc. KM has exhibited remarkable staying power and growth in a fashion that is dramatically different from all other business enthusiasms of the late 20th century.
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Antzoulatos, Gerasimos, Christos Mourtzios, Panagiota Stournara, Ioannis-Omiros Kouloglou, Nikolaos Papadimitriou, Dimitrios Spyrou, Alexandros Mentes, et al. "Making urban water smart: the SMART-WATER solution." Water Science and Technology 82, no. 12 (August 18, 2020): 2691–710. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.2020.391.
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Abstract The rise of Internet of Things (IoT), coupled with the advances in Artificial Intelligence technologies and cloud-based applications, have caused fundamental changes in the way societies behave. Enhanced connectivity and interactions between physical and cyber worlds create ‘smart’ solutions and applications to serve society's needs. Water is a vital resource and its management is a critical issue. ICT achievements gradually deployed within the water industry provide an alternative, smart and novel way to improve water management efficiently. Contributing to this direction, we propose a unified framework for urban water management, exploiting state-of-the-art IoT solutions for remote telemetry and control of water consumption in combination with machine learning-based processes. The SMART-WATER platform aims to foster water utility companies by enhancing water management and decision-making processes, providing innovative solutions to consumers for smart water utilisation.
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Brožová, Helena, and Miroslav Růžička. "THE PREDICTION OF PARKING SPACE AVAILABILITY." Transport 35, no. 5 (December 21, 2020): 462–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/transport.2020.14016.
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Intelligent Parking Systems (IPS) allow customers to select a car park according to their preferences, rapidly park their vehicle without searching for the available parking space (place) or even book their place in advance avoiding queues. IPS provides the possibility to reduce the wastage of fuel (energy) while finding a parking place and consequently reduce harmful emissions. Some systems interact with in-vehicle navigation systems and provide users with information in real-time such as free places available at a given parking lot (car park), the location and parking fees. Few of these systems, however, provide information on the forecasted utilisation at specific time. This paper describes results of a traffic survey carried out at the parking lot of supermarket and the proposal of the model predicting real-time parking space availability based on these surveyed data. The proposed model is formulated as the non-homogenous Markov chains that are used as a tool for the forecasting of parking space availability. The transition matrices are calculated for different time periods, which allow for and include different drivers’ behaviour and expectations. The proposed forecasting model is adequate for potential use by IPS with the support of different communication means such as the internet, navigation systems (GPS, Galileo etc.) and personal communication services (mobile-phones).
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Dewi, Ambar Sari. "THE UTILISATION OF FACEBOOK GROUP IN BUILDING SOCIAL MEDIA-BASED BRAND COMMUNITY BY A SMALL MEDIUM ENTERPRISE IN YOGYAKARTA." Jurnal Sosiologi Reflektif 14, no. 2 (April 12, 2020): 307. http://dx.doi.org/10.14421/jsr.v14i2.1869.
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Internet and social media play important role in fostering both the creation of identities and the development of brand community. Brand community is a community of consumers of a specific brand that are socially constructed and shaped. However, research on this topic are mostly investigated at large enterprises context, leaving some gaps at small-medium enterprises (SMEs) context. SMEs, particularly in developing countries such as Indonesia, hold important role to the country’s economic development. Therefore, this study aims to examine how SMEs build social media-based brand community by using qualitative research as its approach and applied a case study research method to investigate a Yogyakarta-based SME, AB. Findings show that AB build social media-based brand community on Facebook group with the help of its loyal customers. Strong relationship and intense interaction formed between the AB’s owner and some loyal customers are characteristics of social media-based brand community found in this research.
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Nasser, Abbass, Hussein Al Haj Hassan, Jad Abou Chaaya, Ali Mansour, and Koffi-Clément Yao. "Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio: Recent Advances and Future Challenge." Sensors 21, no. 7 (March 31, 2021): 2408. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21072408.
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Spectrum Sensing (SS) plays an essential role in Cognitive Radio (CR) networks to diagnose the availability of frequency resources. In this paper, we aim to provide an in-depth survey on the most recent advances in SS for CR. We start by explaining the Half-Duplex and Full-Duplex paradigms, while focusing on the operating modes in the Full-Duplex. A thorough discussion of Full-Duplex operation modes from collision and throughput points of view is presented. Then, we discuss the use of learning techniques in enhancing the SS performance considering both local and cooperative sensing scenarios. In addition, recent SS applications for CR-based Internet of Things and Wireless Sensors Networks are presented. Furthermore, we survey the latest achievements in Spectrum Sensing as a Service, where the Internet of Things or the Wireless Sensor Networks may play an essential role in providing the CR network with the SS data. We also discuss the utilisation of CR for the 5th Generation and Beyond and its possible role in frequency allocation. With the advancement of telecommunication technologies, additional features should be ensured by SS such as the ability to explore different available channels and free space for transmission. As such, we highlight important future research axes and challenging points in SS for CR based on the current and emerging techniques in wireless communications.
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A Hamilton, Julia, and Matthew Mullarkey. "Enabling Cities to Harness the Full Potential of the Internet of Things." Muma Case Review 6 (2021): 001–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/4861.
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Jamie Cudden, the Smart City Programme Manager for Dublin City Council (DCC), had just participated in the most recent review of the sensor-enabled smart gully project in Dublin city. Tasked with exploring how technology can help address city challenges to create a ‘smarter’ Dublin, Jamie wondered why more smart sensor applications were not being identified and deployed by DCC departments. He knew that smart sensors existed in the commercial marketplace for everything that could be measured and believed that most city services could be improved with better, real-time measurement. What he could not understand was why more sensor-enabled connected systems were not being deployed by operational service teams across the city. Over the last three years Smart Docklands, a smart city testbed in the Dublin Docklands, had facilitated a broad range of projects with DCC staff utilising Internet of Things (IoT) technology. While these projects demonstrated the value of IoT for specific applications – such as blocked gullies [Exhibit 1] and waste management - there still remained a relatively low utilisation of IoT across DCC’s operational services. Jamie thought, if IoT is really a better way of addressing these issues, why was there not a mass migration towards its use across the Council? Through talking with his colleagues, Jamie realised that a major barrier to IoT deployments was a lack of knowledge of what IoT was and how it would help address the challenges the Council was trying to solve. How would Jamie energise his current and future peers to identify more ways to use technology to connect the city? How would they learn about the power of IoT connected devices? How might each city department generate innovative smart solutions to identify and respond to critical issues with the infrastructure and services of the city? Jamie had recently attended an ‘Introduction to IoT’ workshop for DCC staff at Dogpatch Labs. The workshop highlighted that educating the city’s staff about IoT could encourage a move towards more sensor driven city operations. With this, he was now faced with the challenge of how best to design and deliver an education programme on a larger scale so cities across Ireland could capitalise on the on the benefits of IoT.