The electronics industry is one of fastest growing manufacturing industries in India. However, the increase in the sales of electronic goods and their rapid obsolescence has resulted in the large-scale generation of electronic waste, popularly known as e-waste. E-waste has become a matter of concern due to the presence of toxic and hazardous substances present in electronic goods which, if not ...

The ability to access, evaluate and use information in each profession is one of the most effective materials of individual success. Accessing updated medical information is vital for physicians (1-5). In a descriptive cross sectional study performed in Bandar Abbas, the capital city of Hormozgan province in the southern part of Iran. Data the internet and computer usage was examined among m...

Personal computer/Workstation (PC/WS) clusters are promising candidates for future high performance computers, because of their good scalability and cost performance ratio. Data intensive applications, such as data mining and ad hoc query processing in databases, are considered very important for massively parallel processors, as well as conventional scientific calculations. Thus, investigating...

The electronics industry is one of fastest growing manufacturing industries in India. However, the increase in the sales of electronic goods and their rapid obsolescence has resulted in the large-scale generation of electronic waste, popularly known as e-waste. E-waste has become a matter of concern due to the presence of toxic and hazardous substances present in electronic goods which, if not ...

Wireless networks have become a key element in healthcare institutions for streamlining access to clinical information. With the advent of wireless technology, handheld devices such as PDAs, pagers and Pocket PCs are now being deployed into modern hospital systems. However, putting confidential data on the airwaves using wireless technology introduces significant risk and adds a new level of th...

— This paper presents Sc@ut Generator as a powerful tool that allows the design of personalized communicators. It can be used by teachers or people responsible for a person with communication problem. Communicators run on PC or mobile devices like Pocket PC or the video-console intendo DS. Its use in education special schools helps the adaptation of the educative context to the user needs and c...

Resources such as food, hit points or magical power are standard features of today's computer games. Computer-guided characters often have goals that are related to these resources and must take this into account in planning their behavior. In the eld of artiicial intelligence , resource-based action planning systems have recently begun to mushroom. However, these systems still tend to neglect ...

Even though Privacy concerns (PC) and security concerns (SC) are acknowledged as separate constructs, many studies argue that they are related or, even worse, confused. Building upon the non-overlapping SC and PC dimensions, we propose Internet Users Information Transmission Security Concern (IUITSC) scale. We argue that the scale when used in conjunction with PC scale would cover the entire ga...

Using 1985–1999 data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) to analyze wages we confirm the hypothesis that existing computer wage premiums are determined by individual ability or other unobserved individual characteristics rather than by productivity effects. While a rather large personal computer (PC) wage premium was found in the crosssectional regressions even after the inclusio...

F -COMMERCE IS AFFECTING the terms of competition in many indusi tries because it makes it possible to rearrange and restructure segments of the value chain. This chapter explores the impact of e-commerce on the personal computer (PC) industry. The PC is particularly appropriate for study for a number of reasons—most important because it is the device linking most persons to the Internet and be...