background and aim: social networking sites (snss), known in terms of cyberspace, are a very popular and accepted aspect of technology. internet is more useful for hearing-impaired children and adolescents than the other users because of the type of communication and its possibility of hiding their disabilities. this study aimed to determine the relationship between using cyberspace and the mot...

BACKGROUND Effective patient-physician communication requires the use of words that are clearly understood by both parties. We conducted this study to compile a list of words used by children and caregivers to describe "private" anatomical structures and physiological functions, to document the frequency of such usage and to examine the relation between correct word usage and caregiver's level ...

The deeper penetration of business-to-consumer e-commerce requires that customer decision support systems (CDSS) serve a wider range of users. However, a significant weakness of existing e-shopping assistance programs is their inability to aid non-professional consumers (non-prosumers) in buying highly differentiated products. This paper proposes a novel framework that infers product recommenda...

The fight against malaria is currently ongoing in many countries where the disease is still endemic. The overall target is to eliminate malaria in all nations, regardless of their malaria burden, by 2030. Currently, the disease has been eliminated mainly in low-burden and unstable malaria areas globally. However, in high-burden countries, particularly in Africa, the disease is still not elimina...

Typically, the success of a collaboration technology depends on its adoption by all participants in the collaboration. But as organizations become more distributed (Castells, 1996), the challenge increases to achieve uniform adoption across geographic distance, and across organizational boundaries. In an earlier study, Mark and Poltrock (2001) discovered that the rapid and widespread adoption o...

Through a rhetorical system, poets’ and writers’ worldview is reflected in their literary works. One effective factor in forming or changing these viewpoints is the happenings and changes of the world poets dwell on different levels. Simile is an important structure in the rhetorical system. In this piece of research the writers have tried to show how structure of simile in Bidel reveals transf...