As electronic commerce developed, it became clear that buyers and sellers needed a way to evaluate the reputation of potential trade partners. Online reputation systems were developed to meet this need. More recently, online reputation systems have expanded into additional domains such as the evaluation of college professors. The study proposed here examines the characteristics of two represent...

This paper introduces a multimodal input system, called “speech pen” that assists digital writing during lectures or presentations with background speech and handwriting recognition. The instructor basically freely speaks to the audience and writes on an electronic whiteboard as usual. The system recognizes those speech and handwriting in the background and provides the instructor with predicti...

social marketing is defined as applying marketing tools to achievedesired social targets. in other words, social marketing is the usage ofcommercial methods to increase a target group's ability to admit a belief oran action. in this article, the effect of sport clubs reputation and name on animprovement and a change in their fans' behavior was studied. using semmethod, the results dem...

OBJECTIVE Dissemination of pediatric basic life support (PBLS) skills is recommended. E-learning is accessible and cost-effective, but it is currently unknown whether laypersons can learn PBLS through e-learning. The hypothesis of this study was to investigate whether e-learning PBLS is non-inferior to instructor-led training. STUDY DESIGN Participants were recruited among child-minders and p...

bed sore in icu    r ghanee [1] , msc h gavami [2] , msc  received: 6 april, 2010 accepted: 24 may, 2010 abstract  background & aims: a fter cancer and cardiovascular diseases, pressure ulcers are the third costly disorders. most common causes of pressure ulcers development are age over 70 years, being male, white skin, smoking, low body mass index, impaired mobility, altered mental status, uri...

This paper proposes a computational model based on peer reviews for assessing the reputation of researchers and research work. We argue that by relying on peer opinions, we address some of the pitfalls of current approaches for calculating the reputation of authors and papers. We also introduce a much needed feature for review management: calculating the reputation of reviews and reviewers. 1 M...