A decade has passed since the Third Wave of democratization brought an avalanche of new, relatively unstable democracies into being, raising the question, “How solid is support for democracy in these countries?” In the intervening years, public support for democracy has faded in some countries, many of which are democratic in name only. It is unclear how long even the pretense of electoral demo...

Recently, people emerge as a contents provider with increasing usage of Internet in our daily life. People produces large portion of multimedia contents served on the Web. With this trend the personal broadcasting is being focused as a new application area of the Internet services. In this paper, we proposed VR@Home, a personal VR studio platform for personal broadcasting at home. VR@Home platf...

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The World Health Organisation has stated that obesity is spreading around the world like a “global epidemic”. In 2004 the percentage of obese people in the Italian population was 9%, but the trend is increasing in recent years. Focussing on this country, the purpose of the paper is to analyse the socio-economic variables affecting obesity by means of a survey conducted in a consumer sample. Our...

OBJECTIVES Civic participation, that which directly influences important decisions in our personal lives, is considered necessary for developing a society. We hypothesized that civic participation might be related to self-rated health status. METHODS We constructed a multi-level analysis using data from the World Value Survey (44 countries, n=50 859). RESULTS People who participated in voti...