Governments of many countries attempt to increase public participation by exploiting the capabilities and high penetration of the Internet. In this direction they make considerable investments for constructing and operating e-participation websites; however, the use of them has been in general limited and below expectations. For this reason governments, in order to widen e-participation, should...

In recent years, social network sites exploded in popularity and become an important part of the online activities on the web. This success is related to the various services/functionalities provided by each site (ranging from media sharing, tagging, blogging, and mainly to online social networking) pushing users to subscribe to several sites and consequently to create several social networks f...

cars are one of the most important symbols of modern technology which contain various social and cultural messages about concepts like gender, ethnicity, age, social class, etc. and are interpreted differently based on the needs and motivations of users. since the main aim of this research is having a deep look at use of cars among female drivers, we will first take a look at the conceptual rel...

Asserting that data is vital to business is an understatement. Organizations have generated more and more data for years, but struggle to use it effectively. Clearly data has more important uses than ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. In addition, data is being generated with greater velocity, due to the advent of new pervasive devices (e.g., smartphones, tablets, etc.), social W...

A novel technique is described that uses either time-resolved or steady state prompt photosensitizer fluorescence to measure local oxygen concentration. Solution experiments conducted with Al(III) phthalocyanine chloride tetrasulfonic acid confirmed that the steady state fluorescence signal is dependent on the oxygen concentration and fluence rate. A relationship between prompt sensitizer fluor...

Asserting that data is vital to business is an understatement. Organizations have generated more and more data for years, but struggle to use it effectively. Clearly data has more important uses than ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. In addition, data is being generated with greater velocity, due to the advent of new pervasive devices (e.g., smartphones, tablets, etc.), social W...