Aims: Internet addiction is excessive use of the Internet (daily more than three hours). This is social and psychological damage with severe consequences for young people, especially college students. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between Internet addiction and identity styles in Bushehr University of Medical Sciences students. Instrument & Methods: The present research is a...

Internet Traffic has grown exponentially over last few years due to provision of multiple class services through Internet backbone. With the explosive use of Internet, contemporary Internet routers are susceptible to overloads and their services deteriorate drastically and often cause denial of services. In this paper, an analysis is made how forecasting technique, routing algorithm and Genetic...

objective: the objective of this study was to assess the prevalence of addiction to the internet, computer games, dvd, and video and its relationship to anxiety and depression in a sample of iranian high school students. methods: in this cross-sectional study 1020 high school students (males and females) were selected randomly from different areas of shiraz city in southern iran. they were inte...

Accessibility to all levels of information technology has experienced rapid progress in recent years, particularly in the health sector. Rapid penetration into this technology has led to changes in lifestyles and changes in the working procedures of institutions. In 2014, the number of Internet users reached 3 billion, and this number is predicted to exceed 8 billion in 2018. Statistics estimat...

introduction: websites of academic journals have an important role in communicating and providing services to researchers. the present study aimed to determine the number of incoming links of iranian journal of medical sciences websites. besides, it aimed to determine the rate of visibility of core websites based on these findings. methods: this descriptive study was performed using webometrics...

objectives: the current study aimed to first assess the quality, popularity and importance of websites providing persian health-related information, and second to evaluate the correlation of the popularity and importance ranking with quality score on the internet. materials and methods: the sample websites were identified by entering the health-related keywords into four most popular search eng...

background and purpose: the internet is a useful tool for developing a variety of learning experiences and as a source of information and as a means of facilitated communication between students and teachers. the aim of this research was to investigate the level of knowledge, attitudes and practice of the internet use among bachelors’ degree students in shahid beheshti school of health . method...