OBJECTIVE To evaluate the internet as a source of information about urinary incontinence and to explore interactive facilities. DESIGNLimited survey of internet resources. SUBJECTS 75 websites providing information about incontinence and an opportunity for interactivity, 25 web doctors, and two news groups. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Quality scores according to predefined general and specific cr...

Modeling the reliability of distributed systems requires a good understanding of the reliability of the components. Careful modeling allows highly fault-tolerant distributed data applications to be constructed at the least cost. Failure and repair rates of components are often assumed to be exponentially distributed. This hypothesis is testable for failure rates, though the process of gathering...

Modeling the reliability of distributed systems requires a good understanding of the reliability of the components. Careful modeling allows highly fault-tolerant distributed data applications to be constructed at the least cost. Failure and repair rates of components are o f e n assumed to be exponentially distributed. This hypothesis is testable f o r failure rates, though the process of gathe...

This paper aims to understand empirically the impact of a largescale spamming botnet, and the effectiveness of targeting its core infrastructure – C&C servers – from the viewpoint of several Internet edge sites. We also attempt to study the characteristics of the spamming botnet in the long-term to see how quickly bot masters react and what type of action they take. Our primary target in this p...

Popular documents are frequently mirrored on multiple sites in an effort to share the load and reduce clients’ retrieval latencies. However, choosing the best mirror site is a non-trivial task and a bad choice may give poor performance. We propose a scheme in which clients access multiple mirror sites in parallel to speedup document downloads while eliminating the problem of server selection. I...

The issue of suicide warning signs on the Internet is considered. In addition to reviewing some of the relevant conceptual issues about warning signs, a random sample of Internet sites was selected and reviewed. Warning signs were grouped and agreement across sites was examined, with results confirming broad disparity in what is presented to the public. The implications of a lack of consensus o...

Q3 What other information sources concerning medications during pregnancy do you use? Q3_1 physician/midwife Q3_2 Sjukvårdsrådgivningen 1177=Medical helpline Q3_3 pharmacies Q3_4 Fass.se Q3_5 internet sites/discussion forums/facebook groups for pregnant women Q3_6 friends and relatives Q3_7 tv/newspapers/news sites on the internet Q3_8 via google or other search engine Q3_9 others, please state...

This paper examines the perceptions and attitudes that Egyptian users hold towards electronic shopping sites. Internet sites are globally available, opening up huge potential markets for online retailers. However, it remains unclear whether sites designed for the US or European markets will be acceptable in other cultures. This paper describes an exploratory card sorting study conducted with Eg...

OBJECTIVE To increase the offer of didactic resources for medical students, physicians, and health care professionals, stimulating the use of the Internet for academic purposes or cardiological updating. METHOD Electronic addresses with academic content in the areas of anatomy, biophysics, physiology, semiology, electrocardiography, and image diagnosis were researched and selected. The select...