Research on the adoption of mobile services in everyday life contexts have shown how important entertainment and self -expressiveness are to the users’ adoption of these services. However, as illustrated by the variables of the much applied TAM model, utilitarian motivations are still focused in ICT-adoption research. Mobile parking services may be used as a “crucial test” of the importance of ...

AIM The aim of the present study was to evaluate the representations odontology students had of their career path. Second-year odontology students were questioned about their own motivations and the motivations they attributed to dentists in choosing this profession. METHODS The students were asked to complete a questionnaire during the first course and again after 5 months. It was thus possi...

We propose a range of techniques to motivate people to share a small fraction of their available resources in designing a new networking technology to provide near-ubiquitous connectivity to others. Such technology can be used whenever the infrastructure is unavailable to provide general connectivity between individuals, and to to the Internet at large, and particularly in cases of emergency. P...

This paper investigates the university websites of Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation. Its aim is to identify motivations why authors embed outbound hyperlinks on these websites. A classification scheme for academic web interlinking motivations was applied to over 5,000 hyperlinks pointing from the websites of 107 Nigerian universities. Classifying the motivations based on studying the sour...

INTRODUCTION Fertility counselling for young women newly diagnosed with cancer is an important field of preconceptional counselling. This qualitative, small-scale study explored how young women newly diagnosed with cancer experienced specialized fertility preservation counselling and treatment in the public Danish health care system. METHODS Semi-structured, in-depth interviews were conducted...

Decades of research on human fertility has presented a clear picture of how fertility varies, including its dramatic decline over the last two centuries in most parts of the world. Why fertility varies, both between and within populations, is not nearly so well understood. Fertility is a complex phenomenon, partly physiologically and partly behaviourally determined, thus an interdisciplinary ap...

Introduction Every year for the last decade, the security industry has predicted a flood of mobile malware; however, only a trickle of mobile malware has emerged. The most widespread threats were SymbOS.Cabir and SymbOS.Commwarrior in 2004 and 2005. For most they represented a nuisance and affected a very small fraction of the phone population. Three factors are needed before an increase of mob...

As we move towards a richer model of computation based on interactions among autonomous agents in lieu of the more traditional numeric batch processing model, it is necessary to devise techniques and abstractions for the development of such autonomous agents. The ability to generate, reason about, and select the means to achieve explicit goals is critical for autonomous agents, the so called go...

In this section, we examine the space launch needs of U.S. military, civil, and commercial space sectors. The potential development and operating costs for a small fleet of military TAVs are reviewed and compared with the costs associated with a small expendable launch vehicle. The potential development costs for commercial RLVs are also briefly reviewed. Next, we examine U.S. launch policy and...