How does users’ freedom of choice, or the lack thereof, affect interface preferences? The research reported in this article approaches this question from two theoretical perspectives. The first of these argues that an interface with a dominant market share benefits from the absence of competition because users acquire skills that are specific to that particular interface, which in turn reduces ...

This study compares the knowledge and attitudes of nursing professors and students concerning the interface between spirituality, religiosity and health. A cross-sectional study was conducted with 30 nursing professors and 118 students. The results reveal that more than 95% of the participants had some religious affiliation, 96% believed that spirituality considerably influences patients' healt...

This paper is to make further research on facilitating the large-scale scientific computing on the grid and the desktop grid platform. The related issues include the programming method, the overhead of the high-level program interface based middleware, and the data anticipate migration. The block based Gauss Jordan algorithm as a real example of large-scale scientific computing is used to evalu...

Complexity, heterogeneity, schemaless-ness, data visualization, and extraction of consistent knowledge from Big Data are the biggest challenges in NoSQL databases. This paper presents a general semantic Application Program Interface that integrates converts databases to representation. The generated base is suitable for visualization different sources. authors use case study COVID-19 pandemic p...

A web interface to PHYLIP (version 3.57 C) is implemented using CGI/Perl programming. It enables users to do phylogenetic analysis through the Internet.

In this document we present the CSPIM virtual machine-based code encryptor, discuss open issues related to its Application Programming Interface (API), obfuscation issues, and propose enhancements. The discussed enhancements include a new, simpler, programming inteface and a new obfuscation profile.

We present NetAPI, a flexible communications interface. Although the ubiquitous Sockets API lets applications select among a number of mechanisms to accomplish networking tasks, it binds them tightly to their chosen mechanisms. Consequently, the network stack has little freedom in selecting the best protocols and mechanisms for each application, and innovating below the API is extremely difficu...

This paper reports a case study of end-user control in delivery of web-based electronic services. The case study concentrates the adoption of a web-based electronic system being implemented in processing student’s admission applications on website. The end-user’s control interface provides information on the detail existing in the web-based electronic service. This insight into end-user synesis...

Portable proofs are a new and interesting way of integrating theorem provers into distributed environments like the web. This article reports on user interface’s challenges and opportunities for theorem provers in such environments. In particular, this article reports on the design of user interfaces used for searching, browsing and inspecting TSTP problems when published as portable proofs.