One goal of this research was to analyze problematic Internet use in university students according to such variables as gender, grade point average, satisfaction with one’s department, mother’s/father’s education level, smoking, alcohol consumption, gambling behavior, relationship between parents, length of Internet use, amount of time spent on the Internet daily, and using the Internet for aca...

The problem of designing intelligent agents for information search and recognition on the Internet is considered. A new approach to the object-oriented logic programming of Internet agents is introduced. The problem of ensuring the correct inference in conditions of permanent modification of information content on the Internet is considered. An unconventional technique for the formalization of ...

BACKGROUND Problem drinking causes great harm to the person and to society. Most problem drinkers will never seek treatment. The current trial will test the efficacy of two Internet interventions for problem drinking - one minimal and the other extended - as an alternate means of providing help to those in need. METHODS/DESIGN A double blinded, four-wave panel design with random assignment to...

This paper investigates the Stackelberg equilibrium for pricing and ordering decisions in a dominant retailer dual-channel supply chain. In a dual-channel sales network, the products are sold through both a traditional, physical retailer and a direct Internet channel. It is assumed that the retailer is the leader and the powerful member of the supply chain has the market power and acts as a lea...

Internet gambling is legal in many jurisdictions around the world, and observers predict that it is simply a matter of time before various North American governments, in Canada and the USA, take steps towards legalizing and regulating Internet gambling opportunities. Indeed, the proportion of North America gamblers who choose to gamble on the Internet is increasing at a dramatic rate. Unfortuna...

purpose: the present research aimed to study internet and electronic recourses searching behavior of geography ph.d. students of tehran university. methodology: using a questionnaire survey, demographic features and educational trends of 61 studied students were analyzed. findings: results showed that all of the statistical population used e-mail services, databases and search engines. most of ...