On-line resources for otolaryngologists

1998 ◽  
Vol 112 (9) ◽  
pp. 854-859 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed A. Saada
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Computer Networks ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Uniform Resource Locator ◽  
The World ◽  
On Line

AbstractAdvances in telecommunications technology in the last decade have fostered the development of computer networks that allow access to vast amounts of information and services. The most prominent is the Internet (Glowniak, 1995). Medical information is increasingly available on such computer networks. The purpose of the present article is to provide an update to previously published otolaryngology sites (Johns, 1996; Burton and Johns, 1996) available on the World Wide Web, and to provide the otolaryngologist with details of resources that are accessible via the Internet. However, the reader should also be aware that the uniform resource locator (URL) addresses of Web sites can change without warning.

The Quality of Medical Information on the Internet

2011 ◽  
pp. 220-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmine Sellitto
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Page ◽  
The World ◽  
On Line ◽  
Health Consumers

This chapter provides an overview of some of the criteria that are currently being used to assess medical information found on the World Wide Web (WWW). Drawing from the evaluation frameworks discussed, a simple set of easy to apply criteria is proposed for evaluating on-line medical information. The criterion covers the categories of information accuracy, objectivity, privacy, currency and authority. A checklist for web page assessment and scoring is also proposed, providing an easy to use tool for medical professionals, health consumers and medical web editors.

scholarly journals A Simulation of the Structure of the World-Wide Web

2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moses Boudourides ◽  
Gerasimos Antypas
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Power Law ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Small Worlds ◽  
Web Page ◽  
Simple Simulation ◽  
The World

In this paper we are presenting a simple simulation of the Internet World-Wide Web, where one observes the appearance of web pages belonging to different web sites, covering a number of different thematic topics and possessing links to other web pages. The goal of our simulation is to reproduce the form of the observed World-Wide Web and of its growth, using a small number of simple assumptions. In our simulation, existing web pages may generate new ones as follows: First, each web page is equipped with a topic concerning its contents. Second, links between web pages are established according to common topics. Next, new web pages may be randomly generated and subsequently they might be equipped with a topic and be assigned to web sites. By repeated iterations of these rules, our simulation appears to exhibit the observed structure of the World-Wide Web and, in particular, a power law type of growth. In order to visualise the network of web pages, we have followed N. Gilbert's (1997) methodology of scientometric simulation, assuming that web pages can be represented by points in the plane. Furthermore, the simulated graph is found to possess the property of small worlds, as it is the case with a large number of other complex networks.

Neuroscience on the World Wide Web

1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 276-280
Author(s):  
Nicholas P. Poolos
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The World ◽  
The Web

There has been an explosion in the number of World Wide Web sites on the Internet dedicated to neuroscience. With a little direction, it is possible to navigate around the Web and find databases containing information indispensable to both basic and clinical neuroscientists. This article reviews some Web sites of particular interest. NEUROSCIENTIST 3:276–280, 1997

scholarly journals IT Ethics in the Internet Age: New Dimensions

10.28945/2556 ◽  
2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanjeev Phukan
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Computer Literacy ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
New Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Age ◽  
The World ◽  
It Ethics

Issues of IT Ethics have recently become immensely more complex. The capacity to place material on the World Wide Web has been acquired by a very large number of people. As evolving software has gently hidden the complexities and frustrations that were involved in writing HTML, more and more web sites are being created by people with a relatively modest amount of computer literacy. At the same time, once the initial reluctance to use the Internet and the World Wide Web for commercial purposes had been overcome, sites devoted to doing business on the Internet mushroomed and e-commerce became a term permanently to be considered part of common usage. The assimilation of new technology is almost never smooth. As the Internet begins to grow out of its abbreviated infancy, a multitude of new issues surface continually, and a large proportion of these issues remain unresolved. Many of these issues contain a strong ethics content. As the ability to reach millions of people instantly and simultaneously has passed into the hands of the average person, the rapid emergence of thorny ethical issues is likely to continue unabated.

On-line Research for Public Administration

2016 ◽  
pp. 267-291
Author(s):  
G. David Garson
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Nongovernmental Organization ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
The World ◽  
On Line

This paper presents an overview of on-line research tools for public sector practitioners and researchers. Sections cover generic searching on the World Wide Web, common governmental website destinations, academic Web sites in public administration, nongovernmental organization Web sites, public policy Web sites, data-related Web sites, the exploration of data from the U. S. Census, legislative and legal research on-line, news research online, on-line geographic data, public-sector labor research, researching bibliography online, and keeping up with the changing online environment.

Intellectual Property and the Internet

2008 ◽  
pp. 222-227
Author(s):  
Alexandra George
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Computer Networks ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Almost All

‘Intellectual property’ (or ‘IP’) is an umbrella term that is used as shorthand to describe a variety of diverse doctrines that create legally-enforceable monopolies over the use of or access to ideas, information and knowledge. As the Internet is essentially a structure through which such material can be presented, organised, transmitted and disseminated, IP is a key area of law that is used to regulate activity on the Internet. The pervasive significance of this becomes clear when one considers that much of the hardware that forms the framework of computer networks that comprise the Internet, and almost all of the data carried through these networks and linked via the World Wide Web, are—or have been in the past—subject to regulation by IP laws.

Web Portal Application Development Technologies

2011 ◽  
pp. 1131-1137
Author(s):  
Américo Sampaio
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
World Wide ◽  
New Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Portal ◽  
Application Development ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
The World ◽  
The Web

The growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web has contributed to significant changes in many areas of our society. The Web has provided new ways of doing business, and many companies have been offering new services as well as migrating their systems to the Web. The main goal of the first Web sites was to facilitate the sharing of information between computers around the world. These Web sites were mainly composed of simple hypertext documents containing information in text format and links to other documents that could be spread all over the world. The first users of this new technology were university researchers interested in some easier form of publishing their work, and also searching for other interesting research sources from other universities.

The Bluegem Portal

2011 ◽  
pp. 98-101
Author(s):  
Samantha Bax
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Entry Point ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Portal ◽  
The World ◽  
One Stop ◽  
Rich Content

“Portal technologies” in recent times have become a catchphrase within information technology circles. The concept of the “portal” (more commonly termed Internet portal), has initially been used to refer to Web sites, which presented the user with the ability to access rich content, resources, and services on the World Wide Web (Kakumanu & Mezzacca, 2005; Smith, 2004; White, 2000). As such, the Internet portal provides its users with a one-stop entry point to the resources of the World Wide Web.

Middle East Studies On-Line

1995 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-169
Author(s):  
Jon W. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Middle East ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Change World ◽  
Mailing Lists ◽  
The World ◽  
On Line ◽  
A Site ◽  
Middle East Studies

Materials of Middle East studies and not just for Middle East studies are increasingly appearing on-line. The ‘Net (Internet) that brought file archives, newsgroups and mailing lists devoted to regional issues and material has become a publishing medium in the Web (World Wide Web) with more and more of the output of Middle East studies themselves. The Bulletin now has a site, or “homepage,” on the World Wide Web at http://www.cua.edu/www/mesabul with select articles from recent issues and connections to material on the MESA Bulletin Gopher.The World Wide Web has been the breakthrough technology for making the Internet user-friendly and mainstream. WWW hides the “computery” aspects of the Internet behind snappy graphics and an easy-to-use interface that together have fostered much recent press and commercial enthusiasm over “the Net,” such as: It’s similar to what the library was 100 years ago, or the telegraph. It will be bigger and better than television. We’re not talking about a 500-channel medium. We’re talking about 250,000 channels that speak across all borders It represents who we are, how we act, transact business and engage in relationships. The Internet is about information empowerment. I think it will change world culture. (Michael Wolff in Investor’s Business Daily 21 Sep 95, p. A8)This summer, the number of commercial Internet sites passed those of educational institutions. The Internet, in a sense, has graduated.

scholarly journals An Evaluation of the Source and Content of Kienböck’s Disease Information on the Internet

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian M. Katt ◽  
Ludovico Lucenti ◽  
Nailah F. Mubin ◽  
Michael Nakashian ◽  
Daniel Fletcher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Kienböck’S Disease ◽  
Kienböck's Disease ◽  
The World ◽  
Informational Value ◽  
The Web ◽  
Kienbock’S Disease

Abstract Introduction The use of the internet for health-related information continues to increase. Because of its decentralized structure, information contained within the World Wide Web is not regulated. The purpose of the present study is to evaluate the type and quality of information on the internet regarding Kienböck’s disease. We hypothesized that the information available on the World Wide Web would be of good informational value. Materials and Methods The search phrase “Kienböck’s disease” was entered into the five most commonly used internet search engines. The top 49 nonsponsored Web sites identified by each search engine were collected. Each unique Web site was evaluated for authorship and content, and an informational score ranging from 0 to 100 points was assigned. Each site was reviewed by two fellowship-trained hand surgeons. Results The informational mean score for the sites was 45.5 out of a maximum of 100 points. Thirty-one (63%) of the Web sites evaluated were authored by an academic institution or a physician. Twelve (24%) of the sites were commercial sites or sold commercial products. The remaining 6 Web sites (12%) were noninformational, provided unconventional information, or had lay authorship. The average informational score on the academic or physician authored Web sites was 54 out of 100 points, compared with 38 out of 100 for the remainder of the sites. This difference was statistically significant. Conclusion While the majority of the Web sites evaluated were authored by academic institutions or physicians, the informational value contained within is of limited completeness. More than one quarter of the Web sites were commercial in nature. There remains significant room for improvement in the completeness of information available for common hand conditions in the internet.

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