ith an increasing concern over emerging infectious diseases, efficient and reliable public health monitoring is critical. The prototype models described in this article were built to aid public health officials in monitoring the health of their communities by increasing situational awareness and reducing false-positive identification of disease outbreaks. This comprehensive capability is needed...

This paper presents a novel concept for personalized privacy support on large public displays. In a first step, a formative evaluation was conducted in order to analyze the requirements of potential users regarding the protection of private information on large public displays. The insights gained in this evaluation were used to design a system, which automatically adapts the information visibl...

ing from leisure trips that serve no purpose of transportation, getting from A to B conveys disutility to people in the form of money, time, effort, fear of accidents and other costs, the sum of which are usually referred to as generalized costs. In the context of bicycling, the generalized costs are almost exclusively nonmonetary and thus internal to cyclists. The existence of internal costs f...

Scientists are stepping up like never before to support science in the public arena. In big and small ways, scientists are adopting creative ideas to promote science.

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The increase in the number of terrorist attacks in Russia suggests that anti-terrorist policies have failed to solve the Chechen terrorist problem. The Putin paradox, named after Russia’s president Vladimir Putin, is the capacity of the incumbent government to maintain or even increase its popular support while suffering increasing terrorist attacks. This paper presents a dynamic model where go...

In this paper we present a system that provides personalized privacy support for large public displays based on the current social situation and individual privacy profiles. We first present the results of a user study that was conducted to derive the requirements for the design of the system. In the second part of the paper, we describe the developed system consisting of a program for privacye...

Bluetooth technology offers the potential for low-cost, broadband wireless access for a range of mobile and portable devices. It can thus provide for ubiquitous computing across a wide range of devices. In this paper we explore the avenues for providing mobility in a Bluetooth access network. The existing methods for the same are briefly summarized and their shortcomings are pointed out. We the...

Increased citizen-to-citizen discussion and deliberation is an important potential of digital government initiatives. This paper presents findings from a longitudinal study of such outcomes using household survey data, focus groups and one-on-one interviews from a mature community network the Blacksburg Electronic Village (BEV) in Blacksburg, Virginia, and surrounding Montgomery County. It addr...

public law is a branch of legal sciences whose principal mission is to shed light on the one hand, the rules dominating the reports of internal government, and secondly, the relationship between rulers and governed, and that supranational relations. public law, like other scientific disciplines, contains a number of concepts and rules whose main knowledge is needed to better understand the issu...