This study compared the exchange of emotional content in PC and mobile e-mail in business-related discussions. Forty American business people were divided into two groups (PC and mobile e-mail users) and were then assigned to anonymous discussion pairs who exchanged a total of six messages on a predetermined topic. When a message was sent, the writers completed two questionnaires related to 12 ...

Building on a stream of previous literature regarding the usability properties that are fundamental to the e-learning courseware, this study attempted to assess users’ current views about applied elearning usability and users’ perceived importance of e-learning usability design features with consideration to the variable of experience – namely, users’ prior experience with the Internet and amou...

Introduction The Internet is an integral part of our everyday life. Aside from its positive effects, what have garnered researchers’ attention are its adverse side effects and adolescents’ addiction to it. The present study aimed to determine the prevalence of Internet addiction and its relationship to anxiety, stress, and depression among Iranian high-school students in Shahr-e Kord, Iran. Mat...

information security is one of the most important enterprise assets. for any organization, information is valuable and should be appropriately protected. also, security is to combine systems, operations, and internal controls to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of data and operation procedures in an organization. knowing the fact that with serious threat of unauthorized users on the int...

Nowadays, many websites allow or require users to use their e-mail addresses either as identity or for other purposes. Although username-based identity problems resulting from users’ behaviours have been a research focus for quite some time, the serious issues of using e-mail address as identity and the associated online behaviours of users have not been well investigated. In this paper, we dis...

Endometrial bleeding problems can be the major reason for discontinuing progestin-only contraception. In this study the endometrial angiogenic response in Norplant users was found to be lower than in women with normal menstrual cycles. These disturbances in angiogenic response may be caused by oxidant-antioxidant imbalance in the endometrium. The aims of this study were to investigate the effec...

To increase network users’ satisfaction and continuous behavior, e-commerce platform is concentrated on providing users more enjoyment during consuming online. Online personalized system can help e-commerce platform know more users’ preference, which aims to increase degree of match between service, product and preference, need, but users pay attention to privacy concern during this process whi...