BACKGROUND The exponential increase in health-related online platforms has made the Internet one of the main sources of health information globally. The quality of health contents disseminated on the Internet has been a central focus for many researchers. To date, however, few comparative content analyses of pro- and anti-vaccination websites have been conducted, and none of them compared the q...

living in satisfying urban environments is important for an individual’s well-being. in order to create such environments, planners, designers, and policy makers need to understand the structures that cause residents to feel satisfied with their environments. this paper focuses on the perceived quality of urban residential environments: dwellings and neighborhoods. first, literature review was ...

In only four or five years, the World Wide Web has changed from a static collection of HTML web pages to a dynamic engine that powers e-commerce, collaborative work, and distribution of information and entertainment. These exciting changes have been fueled by changes in software technology, the software development process, and how software is deployed. Although the word “heterogeneous” is comm...

Many factors influence the shelf-life, color, and sensory attributes of beef. Packaging is one of those factors. There are several different types of packaging used in the meat industry, including vacuum packaging, overwrap, and modified atmosphere packaging (MAP). Traditionally wholesale cuts are vacuum packaged, boxed, and sent to retailers where they cut the meat, place it on a styrofoam tra...

The accuracy and coverage of existing methods for extracting attributes of instances from text in general, and Web search queries in particular, are limited by two main factors: availability of input textual data to which the methods can be applied, and inherent limitations of the underlying assumptions and algorithms being used. This paper proposes a weakly-supervised approach for the acquisit...

The widespread use of GPS-equipped devices such as smartphones and tablets and the easy handling of online maps are simplifying the production and dissemination of volunteered geographic information (VGI) through the internet. VGI systems collect and distribute this type of information and can be used, for example, in cases of natural disasters, mapping, city management, etc. In some cases, the...

An understanding of the nature of soils in natural and human influence ecosystems is essential if progress is to be made in the determination and monitoring of soil quality. This paper briefly discuss the changing circumstances which have resulted in the increased awareness of the importance of soil as a key component of both natural and human influenced environmental systems. These changed cir...

As Component-based Software Development (CBSD) starts to be effectively used, some software vendors have commenced to successfully sell and licence commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components. One of the most critical processes in CBSD is the selection of the COTS components that meet the user’s requirements. Current proposals have shown how to deal with the functional aspects of this evaluation...