The purpose of this study was to investigate the minimum acceptable viewing angle (MIAVA) for different age groups while reading the Chinese e-book. Ninety subjects participated in this study. Their age ranged from 21 to 70 years, and they were divided into three age groups, i.e. young, middle, and old groups. Each subject was firstly asked to adjust personal preferred viewing distance. The min...

The concept of Free/Open Services (F/O-Services) emerges by bringing together services with Free/Open Source Software (FOSS). F/O-Services enable the creation of transparent composite services collectively and allow people and other services to access them. This paper extends the concept of F/O-Services beyond the level of open interfaces, analyzing the associated licensing interpretations and ...

Spatial Internet Marketplaces are attractive as a mechanism to enable spatial applications to be built drawing on remote services for supply of data and for data manipulation. They diier from the usual distributed systems by treating the services as published by providers on the Internet and bought by customers on an as-required basis. Design of a Spatial Internet Marketplace essentially seeks ...

The Webocracy project aims to empower citizens with innovative communication, access and polling system, supporting increased participation in democratic processes. One of the main project goals is to develop an open source web-based system called WEBOCRAT as a multi-channel communication platform supporting egovernment and e-democracy applications. Some of the WEBOCRAT modules are already avai...

in recent years, the effects of exercise on nervous system, spatial memory andmotor function in the senescence period have received the attention of researchers.as the age increases, some functions of nervous system such as spatial memory areweakened. thus, the effect of aerobic exercises including swimming and runningon learning, spatial memory and motor function was investigated in old rats. ...

The wide diffusion of open source software (OSS) is driving discussion among scholars on a set of issues, including its adoption by public administrations (PA). Previous works discussed a few factors that drive the decision to adopt OSS and did not address the potential benefits in terms of e-government that OSS may bring to PA. This paper fills these gaps. The analysis is based on the Emilia-R...

and Applied Analysis 3 Definition 2.2. For f, g ∈ E the order interval 〈f, g〉 is defined as 17 〈 f, g 〉 { h ∈ E : f ≤ h ≤ g. 2.1 Definition 2.3. A subset E ⊂ Π is called order bounded if E is contained in some order interval. Definition 2.4. A coneK is called normal if there exists a positive constant μ such that f, g ∈ V and θ ≺ f ≺ g implies that ‖f‖ ≤ μ‖g‖. We state the two fixed point resul...

objective: sexual dysfunction in patients who take antipsychotics causes adecline in their quality of life and medication acceptance. considering the restrictions in cross sectional design of many earlier researches, we used a clinical trial aimed at assessing sexual dysfunction by substituting risperidone, an atypical antipsychotic drug, with haloperidol, a typical one . method: this clinical ...

ECOSENSUS (Electronic/Ecological Collaborative Sensemaking Support System)[www.ecosensus.info] is an ESRC e-Social Science pilot project, using a Participatory Action Research methodology to evolve tools and work practices for collaborative work in environmental and natural resource management between a European-based team, and stakeholders involved in the region of concern, the North Rupununi ...