Rapidly increasing household Internet penetration underscores the potential for using corporate web sites to communicate with new and existing customers. Via their web sites, retailers may engage in a range of marketing communications, such as advertising, sales promotion, and public relations. Our content analysis of web sites for 152 Fortune 500 goods retailers and service providers showed th...

Despite significant advances in the access control domain, requirements of new computational environments like web services still raise new challenges. Lack of appropriate method for specification of access control policies (ACPs), composition, verification and analysis of them have all made the access control in the composition of web services a complicated problem. In this paper, a new indepe...

  In today’s extremely competitive markets it is crucial for companies to strategically position their brands, products and services relative to their competitors. With the emerging trend in internationalization of companies especially SME’s and the growing use of the Internet with this regard, great amount of attention has been turned to effective involvement of the Internet channel in the mar...

burrell and morgan offered an analysis of paradigms in terms of four broad worldviews, characterized as functionalist, interpretive, radical humanist and radical structuralist. recently, interpretive paradigm has received major attention in the academic fields. the interpretive paradigm rests on a precarious, socially-constructed web of symbolic relationships. the interpretive theorist’s diffic...

BACKGROUND The Italian health care system is based on a regional responsibility and organization. Incidence, survival and prevalence of cancer patients were estimated for major cancer sites by single regions in Italy within a collaborative project "I TUMORI IN ITALIA" aimed at providing epidemiological information in a web site, www.tumori.net, for health operators, health programmers, epidemio...