Korea and the United States both rank among the leading nations of the world in terms of Internet penetration, but have arrived there at different speeds, through varying development policies, and in the contexts of contrasting cultures. The present research presents a new model of Internet usage with concepts from Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory, comparing the factors that predict Internet u...

this survey is aimed to compare the hierarchical structure of subject directories, including yahoo, the open directory and looksmart with dewey decimal classification (ddc) in 10 selective subjects. five questions are raised to compare the broadness and the depth of the hierarchical structures in the subject directories and ddc and to study the effectiveness of the usage of ddc in the organizat...

One phenomenon is the continuously extending use of the Internet. The DIASTASIS project attempts to measure and assess Internet usage and to define the profile of Internet users. This is very important for many actors, as public and private policy makers, organizations and individuals. Internet Usage has several dimensions. One aspect is the frequency of internet usage as well as different type...

this study draws attention to the ubiquitous and borderless nature of cybercrime. it examines the prospect of introducing customized cyber insurance policy in the nigerian market. as secondary data was not available, the study conducted a survey by administering three sets of questionnaire to purposively selected top executives in four trade groups that rely heavily on internet transactions for...

background: the internet is one of the most important sources to access scientific writing in medical universities. however, the students use it for their personal and special goals. since the prevalence and the incidence of internet addiction are recently increasing among students, this study was carried out to assess the relation between general health and internet addiction in students of is...

The use of social network sites (SNSs) has been booming in the world and it represents the new way of social interactions. The reports of problematic forms of Internet usage brought attention to this issue. Current study examines the correlation between subscales of identity styles and social skills with problematic internet use among Facebook users. Furthermore, this study aimed to find the pr...

In this paper we present a novel scalable accounting infrastructure to support charging for network usage and Quality of Service (QoS) in an Internet context. Measurement and accounting are two core processes of a charging mechanism that make heavy demand on resources. They reduce the resource available for the core processes of the network i.e. routing and forwarding packets. Increasing the pr...