BACKGROUND Adherence to allergen immunotherapy is important for its effectiveness. There is currently limited data available on allergen immunotherapy adherence outside of clinical trials i.e. in real-life clinical practice. As part of a European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Immunotherapy Interest group initiative, we endeavoured to design a survey in order to prospectively evalua...

This paper tries to examine the effects of Internet on educational opportunity. Internet, as the most useful technology of modern times which helps us not only in our daily lives but also in professional lives. For educational purposes, it is widely used to gather information and to do research or add to the knowledge of various subjects.  The theoretical framework considered with some theories...

recently, hardware sensors are widely used in monitoring and measurement of water quality parameters. constraint of the instrument to measure some water quality parameters such as the 5-day biochemical oxygen demand (bod5), which are time consuming, causes efforts are diverted to the use of software sensors for online prediction of bod5. the main goal of this research is developing an appropria...

This paper concerns the misuse of online machine translation (MT) systems for lexical look-up, as if they were bilingual dictionaries. Following a review of the literature on online dictionaries, the paper reports (part of) a survey carried out among 104 university students in the United Kingdom investigating their usage of free online MT services. This paper focuses in particular on the widesp...

Even after a wide variety of tools, technologies, and management methods are poured into information systems (IS) development, IS projects are still plagued by unmet user’s requirements, schedules, and budgets. Many researchers and practitioners have argued inadequate software development process planning is a critical factor accounting for this high IS project failure rates. The Capability Mat...

social commerce, a new stream in e-commerce, enables hyper-informed consumers to support the businesses in new product development. hyper-informed consumers are the results of online communication provided by social media. these consumers have been empowered by web 2.0 technologies to have online communication, which drives value for the companies in new product development. trust is one the va...

INTRODUCTION Educational technologies have had an important role in respiratory care. Distance learning via postal correspondence has been used extensively in respiratory care, and Internet-based distance learning is now used in the training of respiratory therapists (RTs), clinical continuing education, and in baccalaureate degree and higher programs for RTs and educators. OBJECTIVES To desc...

IT service organisations are cognisant that continual service improvement can be achieved by conducting regular process assessments. However, such assessments are expensive and so we have developed a Decision Support System (DSS) tool which uses the international standard for process assessment ISO/IEC 15504 to offer a transparent and efficient approach. This paper provides evidence of evaluati...