1. Introduction The new economy is the largest and most complex adaptive system ever created (Lycos 2000). It is electronically mediated, that is, people and organizations use software tools on the Internet to commun icate, interact, collaborate, make decisions, enter transactions and manage. The new economy employs solutions of the old economy, such as local markets, face-to-face negotiations,...

A printing system enables the printing of multimedia received from a media source that is communicatively coupled to the printer. Based on the received multimedia data, the printing system produces a paper or other printed output as well as a related electronic output. Together, the printed and electronic outputs provide a representation of the multimedia. The printer is also capable of communi...

The present study documents family media habits in six areas: electronic and print Media Use, parental Monitoring of children’s media, parental Consistency regarding rules for children’s media use, parents’ reports of observable Media Effects on their children, parents’ Knowledge about media and media effects, and how much children participate in Alternative Activities to electronic media. A ra...

Permission is granted to share the Study, in both print and electronic formats, with medical professionals, patients, and their families. It is not to be shared in any format with media organizations, including print and electronic media. It is not to be posted on any public web site, social media site or support group message board. Email: [email protected] Gadolinium Toxicity A Group Self...

Despite considerable media attention, portable electronic readers (e-readers) have not yet had a significant consumer impact. They offer several features unavailable in print media, such as easily accessible content and potential for interactive capacity similar to what can be found on the Internet. Flawed design and high cost, however, may inhibit wide end-user adoption. Using a mix of scholar...

MEDIA1 is a platform that allows the commercialization and dissemination of electronic documents under similar conditions as printed documents using an agent-based, distributed and secure platform. Documents in the MEDIA system are encapsulated within agents which the reader must execute in order to access their contents. The developed pilot application of MEDIA is HyperNews, a commercial elect...

BACKGROUND While much cross-sectional data is available, there have been few longitudinal investigations of patterns of electronic media use in children. Further, the possibility of a bi-directional relationship between electronic media use and body mass index in children has not been considered. This study aimed to describe longitudinal patterns of television viewing and electronic game/comput...

Children and adolescents in the United States and in many countries are projected to have shorter life spans than their parents, partly because of the obesity crisis engulfing the developed world. Exposure to electronic media is often implicated in this crisis because media use, including electronic game play, may promote sedentary behavior and increase consumption of high-calorie foods and bev...

With hypermedia technology the structure of a publication can be re-arranged to accommodate the more easy cognition of the idea and concept transferred by it by linking the concepts which are represented by different media forms into an integrated concept. Essentially multimedia electronic atlas is a kind of electronic publication, which has many common characters with ordinary CD -ROM publicat...