scholarly journals Dynamic Interactive Educational Diabetes Simulations Using the World Wide Web: An Experience of More Than 15 Years with AIDA Online

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eldon D. Lehmann ◽  
Dennis K. DeWolf ◽  
Christopher A. Novotny ◽  
Karen Reed ◽  
Robert R. Gotwals
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Numerical Data ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Diabetic Patients ◽  
Insulin Regimen ◽  
Web Browser ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Remote Server ◽  
The World

Background. AIDA is a widely available downloadable educational simulator of glucose-insulin interaction in diabetes.Methods. A web-based version of AIDA was developed that utilises a server-based architecture with HTML FORM commands to submit numerical data from a web-browser client to a remote web server. AIDA online, located on a remote server, passes the received data through Perl scripts which interactively produce 24 hr insulin and glucose simulations.Results. AIDA online allows users to modify the insulin regimen and diet of 40 different prestored “virtual diabetic patients” on the internet or create new “patients” with user-generated regimens. Multiple simulations can be run, with graphical results viewed via a standard web-browser window. To date, over 637,500 diabetes simulations have been run at AIDA online, from all over the world.Conclusions. AIDA online’s functionality is similar to the downloadable AIDA program, but the mode of implementation and usage is different. An advantage to utilising a server-based application is the flexibility that can be offered. New modules can be added quickly to the online simulator. This has facilitated the development of refinements to AIDA online, which have instantaneously become available around the world, with no further local downloads or installations being required.

Challenges and Issues in Web-Based Information Retrieval System

2017 ◽  
pp. 176-194
Author(s):  
Sathiyamoorthi V.
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Information Retrieval System ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Average Speed ◽  
Great Demand ◽  
The World

It is generally observed throughout the world that in the last two decades, while the average speed of computers has almost doubled in a span of around eighteen months, the average speed of the network has doubled merely in a span of just eight months! In order to improve the performance, more and more researchers are focusing their research in the field of computers and its related technologies. Internet is one such technology that plays a major role in simplifying the information sharing and retrieval. World Wide Web (WWW) is one such service provided by the Internet. It acts as a medium for sharing of information. As a result, millions of applications run on the Internet and cause increased network traffic and put a great demand on the available network infrastructure.

Realtime Interviewing Using the World Wide Web

1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 63-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Chen ◽  
S.M. Hinton
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Research Process ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Telephone Interviews ◽  
Interview Method ◽  
Limited Budget ◽  
The World

This paper outlines the adaptation of in-depth interviewing using World Wide Web-based interviewing software between the interviewer and their subject. Through a structured, realtime interviewing process the researcher is able to use the Internet to facilitate communication, recording interviews directly to a file without incurring the costs associated with traditional face-to-face or telephone interviews. The benefits of this approach are the ability of the researcher to conduct inexpensive interviewing over distances and elimination of transcription costs from the research process, allowing the researcher to undertake a wider range of interviews than may be possible on a limited budget. The interview method has problems associated with the depth of material available from this approach, the loss of paralinguistic cues and the limited size of the available sample, limitations that must be accounted for by any researcher considering using the approach.

Morning Dew on the web in Australia: 1992–1995

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-110
Author(s):  
Roger Clarke
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Innovation Diffusion ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Browser ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Players ◽  
Access To Documents ◽  
The Web

The World Wide Web arrived just as connections to the Internet were broadening from academe to the public generally. The Web was designed to support user-performed publishing and access to documents in both textual and graphical forms. That capability was quickly supplemented by means to discover content. The web browser was the ‘killer app’ associated with the explosion of the Internet into the wider world during the mid- 1990s. The technology was developed in 1990 by an Englishman, supported by a Belgian, working in Switzerland, but with the locus soon migrating to Illinois and then to Massachusetts in 1994. Australians were not significant contributors to the original technology, but were among the pioneers in its application. This paper traces the story of the Web in Australia from its beginnings in 1992, up to 1995, identifying key players and what they did, set within the broader context, and reflecting the insights of the theories of innovation and innovation diffusion.

Dialogue Act Modeling

2009 ◽  
pp. 2389-2412
Author(s):  
Ying Liang
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Web Site ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
User Needs ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Computer Screen ◽  
The World ◽  
The Web

Web-based information systems (WBIS) aim to support e-business using IT, the World Wide Web, and the Internet. This chapter focuses on the Web site part of WBIS and argues why an easy-to-use and interactive Web site is critical to the success of WBIS. A dialogue act modeling approach is presented for capturing and specifying user needs for easy-to-use Web site of WBIS by WBIS analysis; for example, what users want to see on the computer screen and in which way they want to work with the system interactively. It calls such needs communicational requirements, in addition to functional and nonfunctional requirements, and builds a dialogue act model to specify them. The author hopes that development of the Web site of WBIS will be considered not only an issue in WBIS design but also an issue in WBIS analysis in WBIS development.

Bugscope: a Sustainable Web-Based Telemicroscopy Project for K-12 Classrooms

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (S2) ◽  
pp. 514-515 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.S. Potter ◽  
B. Carragher ◽  
M. Ceperley ◽  
C. Conway ◽  
B. Grosser ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
World Wide ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Remote Access ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Browser ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Remote Imaging ◽  
The World ◽  
K 12

Bugscope is a new educational project in the World Wide Laboratory. The World Wide Laboratory provides Web browser based control of scientific imaging instrumentation using the Internet [1]. Providing K-12 classrooms with web based remote access to sophisticated scientific imaging systems was initially demonstrated by us in 1996 in the Chickscope project [2,3]. Chickscope allowed students to study chicken embryo development using a remotely controlled magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system from their classrooms. While the Chickscope project was highly successful, the resources required to provide operational support for the remote imaging aspects of the project for a small number of classrooms were enormous and the project was not sustainable. The Bugscope project builds on the methods developed and the lessons learned from the Chickscope project. The primary goal is to demonstrate that relatively low cost, sustainable access to an environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM) can be made available to K-12 classrooms to examine arthropods.Methods: Classrooms use a standard web browser over the Internet to control and acquire images from a Philips XL-30FEG ESEM. The architecture to support remote acquisition is shown in fig. 1. The client/server control architecture for the ESEM remote control server is based on the emScope control library [4].

Dialogue Act Modeling

2011 ◽  
pp. 162-191
Author(s):  
Ying Liang
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Web Site ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
User Needs ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Computer Screen ◽  
The World ◽  
The Web

Web-based information systems (WBIS) aim to support e-business using IT, the World Wide Web, and the Internet. This chapter focuses on the Web site part of WBIS and argues why an easy-to-use and interactive Web site is critical to the success of WBIS. A dialogue act modeling approach is presented for capturing and specifying user needs for easy-to-use Web site of WBIS by WBIS analysis; for example, what users want to see on the computer screen and in which way they want to work with the system interactively. It calls such needs communicational requirements, in addition to functional and nonfunctional requirements, and builds a dialogue act model to specify them. The author hopes that development of the Web site of WBIS will be considered not only an issue in WBIS design but also an issue in WBIS analysis in WBIS development.

Cyberbanks and Other Virtual Research Repositories

2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Anderlik Majumder
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Repository ◽  
Material World ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The World ◽  
Collection Sites

Few things seem more a part of the material world than biological specimens. Yet the processes by which collections of specimens are assembled, translated into information, combined with more information, and distributed are taking research repositories into the virtual realm.The term “virtual” has a number of meanings, and so a research repository can qualify as virtual in a variety of ways. The term would seem to apply, for example, to (1) constructing a repository by forming a network among institutions; (2) using the Internet or the World Wide Web to solicit specimens and information; (3) integrating web-based technology into the operation of the bank; (4) using the Internet or web-based technology to manage relationships with donors or collection sites and recipients; and (5) digitizing specimens. The all-digital repository would seem the most virtual of all possible repositories, a true cyberbank.

Library Internet Resources: Conducting Performing Arts Research Online

1999 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-104
Author(s):  
Susan Brady
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
The Past ◽  
Internet Resources ◽  
The World ◽  
Electronic Access

Over the past decade academic and research libraries throughout the world have taken advantage of the enormous developments in communication technology to improve services to their users. Through the Internet and the World Wide Web researchers now have convenient electronic access to library catalogs, indexes, subject bibliographies, descriptions of manuscript and archival collections, and other resources. This brief overview illustrates how libraries are facilitating performing arts research in new ways.

scholarly journals Public Access Technologies in Public Libraries: Effects and Implications

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 81 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Carlo Bertot
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Public Access ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Access Technology ◽  
Initial Development ◽  
Early Adopters ◽  
The World ◽  
Computer Services

<span>Public libraries were early adopters of Internet-based technologies and have provided public access to the Internet and computers since the early 1990s. The landscape of public-access Internet and computing was substantially different in the 1990s as the World Wide Web was only in its initial development. At that time, public libraries essentially experimented with publicaccess Internet and computer services, largely absorbing this service into existing service and resource provision without substantial consideration of the management, facilities, staffing, and other implications of public-access technology (PAT) services and resources. This article explores the implications for public libraries of the provision of PAT and seeks to look further to review issues and practices associated with PAT provision resources. While much research focuses on the amount of public access that </span><span>public libraries provide, little offers a view of the effect of public access on libraries. This article provides insights into some of the costs, issues, and challenges associated with public access and concludes with recommendations that require continued exploration.</span>

The Internet for Scientists and the World Wide Web for Scientists and Engineers: A Complete Reference for Navigating, Researching and Publishing Online

Physics Today ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 51 (10) ◽  
pp. 82-83
Author(s):  
Kevin O'Donnell ◽  
Larry Winger ◽  
Brian J. Thomas ◽  
Steven Bachrach
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The World ◽  
Scientists And Engineers
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