As revenues from Internet advertising continue to grow, advertisers seek popular news websites for placing advertisements in an effort to maximize profits. An important measure of how well a website is performing or how attractive it is to the advertisers is how engaged the web visitors are with that website. During our background study, we explored articles covering metrics to measure online u...

Taxonomy is a classification effort for establishment of learning/teaching operational objectives. There are some famous taxonomies, Bloom’s being the most quoted. In spite of the fact that some researchers have tried to explain the position of elearning in already known taxonomies, this subject was not too much in the general attention. In the paper the authors intend to go deeply and to analy...

The sizes of living organisms range over twenty orders magnitude. Within the same species, size individuals also varies according to environmental conditions which they are subjected. From studies conducted on as diverse drosophila, salamander or mouse, laws and conserved mechanisms emerge that shed light fundamental aspects growth, but more medical issues such tissue regeneration, metabolic ho...

Preferences and behavior are heavily influenced by one's current visceral experience, yet people often fail to anticipate such effects. Although research suggests that this gap is difficult to overcome-to act as if in another visceral state-research on mental simulation has demonstrated that simulations can substitute for experiences, albeit to a weaker extent. We examine whether mentally simul...