Social media may liberate citizens in societies with stringent media controls and accelerate political democratization. Yet, little is known about the relation between social media use and perceived constraints in a semi-authoritarian system. This study draws on Media System Dependency theory to examine this relation in the context of the 2011 Singapore General Election. Our findings, based on ...

VRML(Virtual Reality Modeling Language) is a programming language with promising effectiveness in describing the cyberspace because of its real-time expressive power for 3-dimensional objects via the internet. Concerning its 3-dimensional design, kinds of CAD tool can support static features developments effectively. But currently, developments of dynamic features such as animation can not be s...

{ The Internet-based desktop environment as de-ned in this paper consists of a cross-platform browser, a number of server icons (host nodes), a number of application icons (program nodes) and a number of data icons ((le nodes). In contrast to typical desktops of today, where data icons may be dragged and dropped onto application icons for execution, this environment allows (1) user-deened and r...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to develop diagnostic criteria for internet addiction disorder (IAD) and to evaluate the validity of our proposed diagnostic criteria for discriminating non-dependent from dependent internet use in the general population. METHODS This study was conducted in three stages: the developmental stage (110 subjects in the survey group; 408 subjects in the tr...

Research Issues for the Next Generation Spoken Dialogue Systems p. 1 Data-Driven Analysis of Speech p. 10 Towards a Road Map for Machine Translation Research p. 19 The Prague Dependency Treebank: Crossing the Sentence Boundary p. 20 Text Tiered Tagging and Combined Language Models Classifiers p. 28 Syntactic Tagging p. 34 Information, Language, Corpus and Linguistics p. 39 Prague Dependency Tre...

A lthough ‘Internet addiction disorder’ is not officially recognized as a disorder by the psychiatric community—it was not included in the recently released Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder V (DSM-V), published by the American Psychiatric Association—an alarming number of people show what appear to be signs of addiction to the digital world. Young people seem especially vuln...

The Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the most important components of the Internet infrastructure. DNS relies on a delegation-based architecture, where resolution of names to their IP addresses requires resolving the names of the servers responsible for those names. The recursive structures of the inter-dependencies that exist between name servers associated with each zone are called dependen...

With the development of advanced Internet technology, business applications across multiple enterprises based on Web Services Composition (WSC) paradigm are widely used. When system failure occurs, some tasks of the flow may be committed while others unscheduled, in this situation, it is important to accurately analyze execution log of composition business process. In this paper, we formally de...

From the widely use of component middleware, developers can reuse existing components not only developed by in-house development but also provided by other organizations. Some components developed in an organization can be deployed in other organizations via the Internet. Developers need to handle the dependency information between such components in both of development and deployment phases. W...

Internet has become the indivisible part of modern world. For each and everything people depend upon internet. Irrespective belonging to any age group, it is main source information .So purpose dependency internet diverse. It depends choice person who uses it. Homemakers require for various purposes. There are countless areas where application important. In present study we did a survey analysi...