People are increasingly interacting via online services from forums, online communities, social networks and online computer games. While there has been considerable research on the motivations and communication of people online, as well as the social environment provided by online services, large-scale analyses of the virtual identities people use online are rare. In this paper, the first larg...

Research on online auctions has attracted much attention from both practitioners and academicians. This paper aims to apply stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) paradigm to construct the model of eloyalty of online auction websites. Technology effectiveness, network effect, and product diversity are determinants proposed to influence customers’ brand perceptions, which in turn, affect e-loyalty. ...

A general algorithm, called ALG, for online and semi-online scheduling problem Pm||Cmax with m ≥ 2 is introduced. For the semi-online version, it is supposed that all job have their processing times within the interval [p, rp], where p > 0, 1 < r ≤ m/m− 1. ALG is a generalization of LS and is optimal in the sense that there is not an algorithm with smaller competitive ratio than that of ALG.

during the past few years, there has been an increasing recognition that internet is playing a significant role in the synthesis, the distribution and the consumption of novel psychoactive substances (nps).the aim of this study was to assess the online availability of nps in persian language websites.the google search engine was used to carry out an accurate qualitative assessment of informatio...

R. C. Watkins, K. M. Reynolds, R. F. DeMara, M. Georgiopoulos, A. J. Gonzalez, and R. Eaglin, “Exploring Data Mining Technologies as Tools to Investigate Money Laundering,” Journal of Policing Practice and Research: An International Journal, Vol. 4, No. 2, January, 2003, pp. 163 – 178. ISSN 1561-4263 print/ISSN 1477-271X online/03/020163–16 © 2003 Taylor & Francis Ltd. DOI: 10.1080/156142603200...

Application of High-Speed Counter-Current Chromatography Preparative Separation of Flavone CGlycosides From Lophatherum gracile Qingfa Tang c , Ying Wang a b , Mei Chen a b , Qingwen Zhang d , Chunlin Fan a b , Xiaojun Huang a b , Yaolan Li a b & Wencai Ye a b a Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine & Natural Products, College of Pharmacy, Jinan University , Guangzhou , P. R. China b Guangd...

background: one of the essential and inevitable principles in improving the education quality, particularly in universities, is the continuous assessment of students’ educational progress at different education levels. the  role of advisors and consulting tutors at universities are considered as one of the important interventions of the ministry of health for the purpose of guiding students&apo...

multiple people detection and tracking is a challenging task in real-world crowded scenes. in this paper, we have presented an online multiple people tracking-by-detection approach with a single camera. we have detected objects with deformable part models and a visual background extractor. in the tracking phase we have used a combination of support vector machine (svm) person-specific classifie...

we consider online scheduling of jobs with specic release time on m identical machines. each job has a weight and a size; the goal is maximizing total weight of completed jobs. at release time of a job it must immediately be scheduled on a machine or it will be rejected. it is also allowed during execution of a job to preempt it; however, it will be lost and only weight of completed jobs contr...

This study examined health/mental health status, family functioning, and resiliency among a sample of bereaved parents (N = 503). Participants were recruited from an online support community to complete an online survey instrument (response rate = 51.75%). The questionnaire contained an array of self-report instruments, such as the Hopkins Symptoms Checklist-25 (HSCL-25), the Impact of Event Sc...