Introduction: The internet is an essential and widely used toolfor college students; however, high internet dependency can havenegative consequences for students, especially regarding academiccareers. Such students may tend to postpone their academic tasks.Hence, the current study examines the effect of Internet addictionon academic procrastination among medical st...

It has been noticed that internet addiction scale which can apply and measure dependency level of individual couldn’t reach at saturation level in national literature. So, it was aimed to adapt an internet addiction scale. Adapted scale was developed by Nichols and Nicki in 2004 and this study was sounded as “Internet Addiction Scale”. The reliability cronbach alfa of original scale was obtaine...

Automatic Failure-Path Inference (AFPI) is an application-generic, automatic technique for dynamically discovering the failure dependency graphs of componentized Internet applications. AFPI’s first phase is invasive, and relies on controlled fault injection to determine failure propagation; this phase requires no a priori knowledge of the application and takes on the order of hours to run. Once...

Internet packet loss and delay exhibits temporal dependency. If packet n is lost, packet n + 1 is also likely to be lost. It leads to bursty network losses and late losses in real-time multimedia services such as Voice over IP (VoIP). This may degrade perceptual quality and the effectiveness of Forward Error Correction (FEC). To characterize this burstiness, we rst discuss the modeling of packe...

Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) dependency has been widely studied but research results suggest inconclusive antecedent causes. This study proposes and empirically tests three predictive models of MMOG dependency using a survey of online gaming participants. It finds multimedia realism for social interaction serves as an original antecedent factor affecting other mediating factors to c...

Grounded in Media System Dependency theory, this article investigates the impact of new media on political efficacy. It suggests that dependence on online resources affects people's perceptions about the democratic potential of the Internet. Using structural equation modeling, the study tests the relationship between political attitudes and the perceived utility of the Web. The analysis employs...