This study aims to determine the associated factors and prevalence of Internet addiction among Jubail University College – Male Branch students. Descriptive cross-sectional method was applied. 171 students participated. Self-administered survey questionnaire data-gathering instrument. Young's Addiction Test used level internet usage. Factors with high consumption are accessibility, boredom, iso...

We present a method of extracting opendomain commonsense knowledge by applying discourse parsing to a large corpus of personal stories written by Internet authors. We demonstrate the use of a linear-time, joint syntax/discourse dependency parser for this purpose, and we show how the extracted discourse relations can be used to generate opendomain textual inferences. Our evaluations of the disco...

Pareto optimality is a domain-independent property that can be used to coordinate distributed engineering agents. Within a model of design called Redux, some aspects of dependency-directed backtracking can be interpreted as tracking Pareto optimality. These concepts are implemented in a framework, called Next-Link, that coordinates legacy engineering systems. This framework allows existing soft...

conclusion about half of the participants in this study were at risk of internet addiction. this finding can be a warning sign for the authorities in universities to pay more attention to this issue. a wide range of education along with empowering programs may be needed to inform the university students about the advantages and disadvantages of internet and the correct manner of using it. resul...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Problematic Internet use and excessive alcohol consumption have been associated with a host of maladaptive outcomes. Further, low (blunted) cardiovascular and stress hormone (e.g. cortisol) reactions to acute psychological stress are a feature of individuals with a range of adverse health and behavioural characteristics, including dependencies such as tobacco and alcohol add...

DANIEL TAIRO Greenwich University, UK __________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract: The world’s dependency on information technologies is at its highest with Internet providing access to information from different parts of the world. While the developed world is capitalising on this, developing countries are still struggling with poor or no technol...

Since its inception and subsequent diffusion, the Internet has been lauded as a potent democratizing agent. Using macro-level panel data from 1994 to 2003, this study examined 152 countries and found that increased Internet diffusion was a meaningful predictor of more democratic regimes. This was shown to be most true in developed countries, where nonlinear fixed effects regression models showe...

Most people use the Internet as a functional tool to perform their personal goals in everyday-life such as making airline or hotel reservations. However, some individuals suffer from a loss of control over their Internet use resulting in personal distress, symptoms of psychological dependence, and diverse negative consequences. This phenomenon is often referred to as Internet addiction. Only In...