Facebook and Twitter, two of the most popular social networking sites, have different network structures and communication purposes. To examine how their differences affect users’ language use, we conducted a comparative analysis on the linguistic pattern of Facebook status updates and tweets. Differences were found in word categories indicating verbal immediacy, emotionality, topic, and colloq...

Many scholars study shows that the background music is restaurant controllable environmental factor that can affect the customer waiting time, which has some management implications for solving customer wait time problem in the service sector. This article used experimental management method, randomly selected a large restaurant, and then observed each customer just coming in, recorded backgrou...

In this paper, a descriptive comparative analysis is used to compare the use of educational technology in the developed and developing countries. In European countries advanced information technology is used in working groups while African countries have been unable to independently create and use new technologies in their education system. Iran is investing in information technology to be able...

India is one of the world’s largest democracies with a community of 1.1 billion; India has an electorate of 714 million persons over 828 thousands polling stations, 1.37 million voting machines and 5.5 million polling officials cover 543 parliamentary constituencies. Past experience of electoral process enforced us to focus on the use of latest technology in E-voting process. The current voting...

This thesis explores the reform of intellectual property regulation policies with respect to computer software within two advanced industrial nations after 1980. A comparative case analysis of the United States and Japan will provide insight as to how advanced industrial nations have responded to market forces, competing private interests, and international pressure for policy harmonization in ...

Biological data management includes the traditional areas of data generation, acquisition, modelling, integration, and analysis. Although numerous academic biological data management systems are currently available, employing them effectively remains a significant challenge. We discuss how this challenge was addressed in the course of developing the Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) system for...

This article assesses the content of foreign news coverage in the United States and Spain. It draws on content analysis of two US and two Spanish newspapers over a 28-month period, during 2005-2007 and in 2009. The results show that the content of these newspapers tends to be more negative when covering politics. However, there was a major change in the type of coverage in the Spanish newspaper...

Jüttner used the conventional theory of relativistic statistical mechanics to calculate the energy of a relativistic ideal gas in 1911. An alternative derivation of the energy of a relativistic ideal gas was published by Horwitz, Schieve and Piron in 1981 within the context of parametrized relativistic statistical mechanics. The resulting energy in the ultrarelativistic regime differs from Jütt...