The aim of this paper is to make a descriptive analysis of Problematic Internet Use in college students, evaluating the possible association with health problems and addictive behaviors, as well as gender differences in user types. A total of 2,780 students participated in the study between 2011 and 2014, 29% of them being males (age 20.8 ± 5.1 years) and 71% females (age 20.3 ± 4.4 years). The...

recently, internet is widely used in our daily life, caused online customer growing rapidly, then the amount of online store rising quickly. therefore, it is an important issue for online stores to stand out from the crowd, even boost sales and profit. many enterprises had invested resource on online store, but great amount of stores were closedown. the major reason is operator spend many effor...

BACKGROUND Twenty-nail dystrophy (TND) is an acquired idiopathic disease characterized by dull, thin, lusterless, and fragile nails with fissuring, small regular pits, and excessive longitudinal ridging. Although various treatment modalities have been performed in order to treat TND, the effects of these treatments are controversial. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of oral cyclosporin...

—We studied the effects of habitat fragmentation on productivity of Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteria virens) and Gray Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis) in southern British Columbia in a western riparian ecosystem. Nesting dates were later in isolated habitat patches than in continuous habitat patches for both species. We found no direct evidence that habitat fragmentation decreased productivity in ...

In this interview, Ubiquity's senior editor Dr. Bushra Anjum chats with Tengyu Ma, an assistant professor of Computer Science and Statistics at Stanford University. They discuss Ma's research that aims to bridge the gap between theory practice in deep learning by developing novel mathematical tools understand complex mysterious systems.

Ubiquity's senior editor Dr. Bushra Anjum chats with Shaimaa Lazem, an associate research professor at SRTA-City Egypt. They discuss how computer science curricula should aim increasing students' sensibilities and appreciation of the differences in worldviews, skills, abilities technology users; as well teach students to harness embrace these design.

Detection of child exploitation in Internet chatting is an important issue for the protection of children from prospective online paedophiles. This paper investigates the effectiveness of text classifiers to identify Child Exploitation (CE) in chatting. As the chatting occurs among two or more users by typing texts, the text of chat-messages can be used as the data to be analysed by text classi...

National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Cancer Information Service (CIS) offers online instant messaging based information service called LiveHelp to patients, family members, friends, and other cancer information consumers. A cancer information specialist (IS) 'chats' with a consumer and provides information on a variety of topics including clinical trials. After a LiveHelp chat session is finished,...