Researchers of constructivist learning suggest that students should rather learn to solve real-world problems than artificial problems. This paper proposes a smart constructivist learning environment which provides real-world problems collected from crowd-sourcing problem-solution exchange platforms. In addition, this learning environment helps students solve real-world problems by retrieving r...

BACKGROUND The number of internet users is increasing rapidly and internet addiction among adolescents has become a serious public health problem in Korea. In the light of behavioral addiction, this study was aimed to identify the associations between the risk of internet addiction and other problem behaviors which can lead to addiction, such as cigarette smoking, alcohol drinking, drug abuse, ...

This study provides the first analysis ever made of a representative national sample of Internet gamblers. Using participant data from the 2007 British Gambling Prevalence Survey (n = 9,003 adults aged 16 years and over), all participants who had gambled online, bet online, and/or used a betting exchange in the last 12 months (n = 476) were compared with all other gamblers who had not gambled v...

controlling the internet has for a long time been the privilege of academics in the usa. however, with the evolution of the internet as the world communication medium of the 21 st century and the world-wide-web providing the infrastructure for business and public services in the digital era, the stakes have risen dramatically. the value of the internet is nowadays considered extremely important...

Man, is living in an era that the knowledge is estimated to be doubled in a relatively short time. The fast rate of technology's growth in the "Century of information", is caused by fast growth of communication technologies like the internet which has become one of the best tools for a quick, cheap, effective and vastly supported communication. For an efficient and effective usage of tools and ...

Today, the use of the Internet and Internet sites has been an integrated part of the people’s lives, and most activities and important data are in the Internet websites. Thus, attempts to intrude into these websites have grown exponentially. Intrusion detection systems (IDS) of web attacks are an approach to protect users. But, these systems are suffering from such drawbacks as low accuracy in ...

This study aimed to perform a confirmatory factor analysis of the Problematic Internet Entertainment Use Scale for Adolescents (PIEUSA) on an Iranian sample. The research method was descriptive and of survey type. The population of the study was comprised of junior and senior high-school students in Tabriz in 2016-17 school year from among whom 596 students (331 girls and 265 boys) were selecte...

Despite its uses, the Internet is liable to be abused. &&Internet Addiction'' is a newly proposed construct, derived form DSM-IV criteria for substance abuse. As a very recent phenomenon, excess internet use probably arises through pre-existing mechanisms. The addictive element may be the search for stimulation through interactive services, or the Internet may serve the purpose of an escape fro...

There are two problem areas of the current Internet to be solved in Future Internet scenarios – security and putting the user back in control despite the move to the Internet of things. With this in mind, we address problems associated with the diversifying of the Internet towards an Internet of Things, and with increased ways to be reachable, whether the user wants it or not, in the digital wo...