This paper examines literature concerning the design of culture into websites and in particular indigenous websites. The intention is to identify design requirements as the first phase of building an indigenous website for the Wollotuka Institute located in the Awabakal nation and situated at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia. The aim of the project is to produce a website that best r...

Surveys among women with epilepsy (WWE) show that they receive their essential pregnancy-related information from many sources, including the internet. Our aim was to assess the types of websites provided by searching Google for the use of four antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) during pregnancy and lactation. The search was performed on 40 computers used by health-care professionals, on 40 computers u...

Numerous health websites are developing rapidly in China and the competition is fierce between these websites. In order to win the competition, the websites operators need to satisfy their customers to attain more market shares. But few attention has been paid to factors affecting customer satisfaction and loyalty on these websites. As a result, the paper aims to empirically explore the factors...

PURPOSE To systematically review all literature published in peer reviewed journals from January 1995 to July 2008 in order to summarize and describe the activity limitations and participation restrictions of children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD). METHODS Multiple databases were systematically searched for articles related to DCD; only descriptive, intervention or qualitativ...

APSTRACT: The study explores the security issues in the Libyan Government websites focusing on assessing the vulnerability and security weaknesses of various websites of the Libyan Government ministries. The study is divided into three stages. In the first stage, literature review was conducted to understand the nature of the problem. Data were collected in the second and third stage of study. ...

This paper discusses issues regarding the influence of culture on Arabic Websites. Arabic Websites from three countries serve as an initial sample for this study. Do the Websites of Arabic countries reflect their culture? How specifically? Do they share attitudes about design? Can an Arabic designer achieve what users in other cultures need and want? What are differences reflected in the differ...

Room reverberation is a primary cause of failure in distant speech recognition (DSR) systems. In this study, we present a multichannel spectrum enhancement method for reverberant speech recognition, which is an extension of a single-channel dereverberation algorithm based on convolutive nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF). The generalization to a multichannel scenario is shown to be a specia...

Today’s society is largely dependent on the Internet websites that provide it with access to various information. While most users take accessing information in this way as granted, some user groups have significant issues while trying to access websites by traditional means. In this context, we focus on persons with severe visual impairment that are unable to use websites that are not text-to-...

Internet photosharing websites is a very recent and powerful tool for the study of biodiversity, and a meeting point of general public fond of nature and professional naturalists. The article discusses when an uploaded picture is scientifically valuable, and the benefits of structured hosting websites for the most fruitful information retrieval. Examples are given of faunistic, biological, ecol...

This paper analyses the dimensions of social websites to establish communication innovation using the Actor Network Theory. Social websites are also referred to as social network sites and social media sites which reflect technology, users, content and linguistic issues as heterogeneous combination of entities for interaction and communication via this media. Social websites have clearly achiev...