About half (50.2 %) of the analyzed Myspace-members consider themselves as singles (55% male vs. 45% female). Among this group 27.9% of the female and 48.8 % of the male users stated to be interested in dating (χ2[231] = 10.5, p < .01). A serious relationship was in the interest of 25.0% of the female and 37.8% of the male singles (χ2[231] = 4.3, p < .05) Thus the gender difference for interest...

In addition to facilitating querying over the Web, XML query languages may provide high level constructs for useful facilities in traditional DBMSs that do not currently exist. In particular, current DBMS query languages do not allow querying across database object types to yield heterogeneous results. This paper motivates the usefulness of heterogeneous querying in traditional DBMSs and invest...