It is a well-known fact that the vast majority of Muslims throughout the world have been and are being immunised against polio as well as other infectious diseases. To say that immunisation activities in Nigeria were brought to a halt because of ‘exhortation against immunisation by Islamic clerics’ on the basis of flimsy evidence is therefore unbecoming of somebody with a scientific background....

This paper considers the change in information seeking behaviour of tourists as a result of the increased use of the World Wide Web as an information resource in the context of information services provided by visitor information centres (VICs). The theoretical approach adopts a model from information systems: the model of expectation-disconfirmation effects on web customer satisfaction. The pa...

This paper considers the change in information seeking behaviour of tourists as a result of the increased use of the World Wide Web as an information resource in the context of information services provided by visitor information centres (VICs). The theoretical approach adopts the model of expectation-disconfirmation effects on web customer satisfaction. The paper proposes that visitor informat...

Ramij Rahaman, 2, ∗ Matthew G. Parker, † Piotr Mironowicz, 5, ‡ and Marcin Paw lowski § Department of Mathematics, University of Allahabad, Allahabad 211002, U.P., India Institute of Theoretical Physics & Astrophysics, University of Gdańsk, 80-952 Gdańsk, Poland Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, Post Box-7803, 5020, Bergen, Norway Department of Algorithms and System Modelling, Fa...

HOUSTON H . CARR, Ph.D, PE, is an Assistant Professor of Management (MIS) in the College of Business Administration at The University of Georgia. Before completing his doctorate in information systems, he spent twenty-one years in industry, the last nine of which were active in analysis, design, and consulting in the area of computer-based pricing and proposal monitoring systems. His research i...

UMIN, fully funded by the Japanese government, is the largest and most versatile public academic information center for biomedical sciences in the world, and is considered as indispensable information infrastructure for the Japanese medical community. As of April 1st 2004, all Japanese national universities, including UMIN, will be incorporated as independent administrative entities. After the ...

One of critical tasks of cadastre system maintaining is the input of changes into its database. Managers of information centres often complain they have no adequate tools for the assessment of work of cadastre system operators. In the paper a fuzzy model is proposed which goal is to provide a useful tool for management of an information center. The architecture of the fuzzy system comprises fiv...

This paper aims to introduce a system framework for online generation and dissemination of disaster information based on satellite remote sensing data, that is, the design and application of the WEB-based Disaster Monitoring and Warning Information System – WEB-DMWIS. By integrating the satellite remote sensing data, scientific workflow technique, and the Application Service Provider (ASP) serv...

The global digital divide threatens to deprive millions of people of the benefits that are attainable from having access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Most of these people live in rural parts of developing countries and they are unlikely ever to own their own computers. However, international aid agencies, governments and NGOs are becoming increasingly enthusiastic about...

In view of the cow extensive farming, which lacks modern management tools, the cow estrus determine are often laid off. In this paper, a cow behavioral characteristic is designed. The system collects X, Y, Z axis acceleration data through triaxial accelerometer ADXL345, by ZigBee wireless network and RS485 sent to the information center, it’s based on the support vector of binary tree to classi...