Terrorists and extremists are increasingly utilizing Internet technology to enhance their ability to influence the outside world. Due to the lack of multi-lingual and multimedia terrorist/extremist collections and advanced analytical methodologies, our empirical understanding of their Internet usage is still very limited. To address this research gap, we explore an integrated approach for ident...

New Zealand's research and educational network connects to Internet via an expensive trans-Paci c satellite link to FIX-West. Initially subsidized by NASA, the link is now self-funding. The link is managed by a consortium of universities and research institutes, which has instituted a volume based charging regime to recover total operating costs from the participating institutions. Individual s...

Internet technologies have ushered in a new era for computer-related communications. Use of the Internet for commercial applications and resource sharing has accelerated in recent years as well. Owing to such developments, Internet security has become a critical issue for both academic and commercial sectors. Several studies have focused on areas involving network security such as authenticatio...

The explosive growth of the Internet in recent years has provided a revolutionary new means of interpersonal communication and connectivity. Information on recreational drugs-once limited to bookstores, libraries, mass media, and personal contacts-is now readily available to just about anyone with Internet access. Not surprising, Internet access greatly facilitates the free and easy exchange of...

OBJECTIVES The Internet provides great opportunities for patient healthcare education, but poses risks that inaccurate, outdated or harmful information will be disseminated. Our objective was determine the quality of the information available on the internet in relation to oral leukoplakia. STUDY DESIGN Sites were identified using 3 search engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN), and the search term ...

To test distributed software in the Internet we need many experimental sites in diierent physical locations. To ease the experimental setup, we have developed a facility for a study of distributed transaction processing in the Internet. The facility emulates remote sites by local machines, and emulates a true Internet communication environment in a local area network, by routing the inter-site ...

BACKGROUND Warfarin is a high-risk medication where patient information may be critical to help ensure safe and effective treatment. Considering the time constraints of healthcare providers, the internet can be an important supplementary information resource for patients prescribed warfarin. The usefulness of internet-based patient information is often limited by challenges associated with find...

---------------------------------------------------------------------***-------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract— There has been incredible growth of events over the internet in recent years. Google has become the giant source of knowledge for any event which has happened or happening over the internet. Some networking sites such as facebook, micro blogging si...

Tobacco vendors are a growing presence on the internet. We describe the business appeal of the internet to tobacco retailers, including interviews with industry insiders that reveal the marketing goals and strategies of tobacco companies and highlight the potential future risks to tobacco control efforts. In countering these tactics, tobacco control advocates should not limit themselves to lega...

Understanding user acceptance of the Internet, in particular user acceptance of general information-searching sites, is important in assessing its effectiveness. Such sites provide users with various information options while navigating the Internet. A well-designed general information-searching site helps ensure a positive user experience and therefore repeat usage. This study extended existin...