OBJECTIVE To investigate the management of hypertension in patients with diabetes mellitus, living in a rural setting. METHOD A community health screening clinic was conducted at Charles Sturt University, Albury-Wodonga, in rural southeastern Australia. Patients with either diagnosed hypertension or high blood pressure who attended the clinic were eligible for inclusion in the present study. ...

Recommender systems have always faced the problem of sparse data. In the current era, however, with its demand for highly personalized, real-time, context-aware recommendation, the sparse data problem only threatens to grow worse. Crowdsourcing, specifically, outsourcing micro-requests for information to the crowd, opens new possibilities to fight the sparse data challenge. In this paper, we la...

Considering the importance of self-disclosure in building relationships and bonds, it is vital to investigate how self-disclosure is affected by avatars utilized in many online communities. In this study, we tested a research model that explores how perceived avatar-self similarity affects self-disclosure via different theoretical constructs such as selfawareness, self-presence and identifiabil...

Considering the importance of self-disclosure in building relationships and bonds, it is vital to investigate how self-disclosure is affected by avatars utilized in many online communities. In this study, we tested a research model that explores how perceived avatar-self similarity affects self-disclosure via different theoretical constructs such as self-awareness, self-presence, and identifiab...

Virtual communities become more and more heterogeneous as their scale increases. This implies that, rather than being a single, homogeneous community, they become a collection of knots (or sub-communities) of users. For the computation of a member’s reputation to be useful, the system must therefore identify the community knot to which this member belongs and to interpret its reputation data co...

BACKGROUND Awareness of ovarian cancer among women and healthcare providers is understudied. An early awareness of ovarian cancer may lead to early detection and treatment of ovarian cancer. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to determine the level of that awareness among a sample of women and providers. METHODS Written surveys were developed by the authors based on available literatu...

Online social networks may be important avenues for building and maintaining social capital as adult’s age. However, few studies have explicitly examined the role online communities play in the lives of seniors. In this exploratory study, U.S. seniors were interviewed to assess the impact of Facebook on social capital. Interpretive thematic analysis reveals Facebook facilitates connections to l...

While the discipline of interface specification and design has received substantial attention in the existing body of academic and professional literature, there has been little research conducted into the specification and design of interfaces that allow users to interact with systems in a secure manner. As the awareness of security issues increases amongst the general user community, together...