scholarly journals Internet use in Brazil: speeding up or lagging behind?

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilda Olinto ◽  
Suely Fragoso
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Annual Survey ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Evidence

The evolution of internet access and use in Brazil in the direction of social inclusiveness and to guarantee uses that promote individual and community development is the focus of the present paper. Previous evidence on the subject initially presented indicates the prevalence of contrasting aspects: some outstanding positive initiatives and results towards democratization of the internet, as well as the maintenance of great digital inequalities. New evidence on the evolution of internet access and use is also discussed herein, based on analyses of longitudinal data obtained from the Brazilian Census Bureau’s Annual Survey (IBGE/PNAD, 2005, 2008). After describing aspects of increase in access to the internet, we focus on the evolution of different types of everyday life internet uses, particularly those that might contribute to individual and community development. How accesses and uses are gradually incorporating the less privileged sectors of the Brazilian adult population is also considered in the analyses. The results obtained reinforce the previous contrasting evidences: outstanding growth in access and in diversified uses are observed - suggesting intensive appropriation of internet technology and resources by the population - as well as the persistence of great inequalities. These circumstances indicate that the digital divide in Brazil is still a great challenge to be faced through comprehensive and long-term policies and initiatives.

Communication Between Real-World and Cyber-World

2019 ◽  
pp. 1533-1551
Author(s):  
Hüseyin Tolu
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Sociology Of Education ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Governance ◽  
Counter Measures ◽  
Social Communications ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Global Stakeholders

Racism is one of the oldest, most oppressive issues along with other extreme forms of social communications. Nevertheless, the internet has already led to the opportunity of cyber-racism that occurs more surreptitiously and aggressively than before. This study commences by unravelling the abstractions of conventional-racism and cyber-racism, and it introduces the global stakeholders' approaches and counter measures, in particular the EU and the USA and their regulated and non-regulated practices to combat cyber-racism. This paper shall then bring forward informative argumentations on how the stakeholders' perspectives on cyber-racism can be scrutinised by focusing on both values of being human (individualism) and a reconciled global-society (cosmopolitanism) towards contemporary debates in the sociology of education and technology. In this conceptual thinking, even though hate-mongers are using internet technology to spread their hatred what is the acceptable action for us to do in the subject of internet governance?

Norwel Equipment Co. Limited Partnership (L.P.) Internet Upgrade

2011 ◽  
pp. 179-195
Author(s):  
Kenneth R. Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Internet Access ◽  
The United States ◽  
Construction Equipment ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Limited Partnership ◽  
Computing Services ◽  
Heavy Equipment ◽  
Internet Connections ◽  
E Mail

Norwel Equipment Co. Limited Partnership (L.P.) is a Louisiana business retailer of construction equipment specializing in John Deere heavy-equipment and has secured exclusive John Deere rights for most of the State of Louisiana. Founded in 1972, Norwel is the sixth largest John Deere construction equipment dealer in the United States. This case illustrates business and technology issues facing Norwel. In mid-1999, the October 1st deadline for John Deeres requirement to communicate by e-mail was approaching and the response time of the Norwels primary computers system, an AS/400, was increasing to the point where users were not satisfied with performance. Also users were requesting new computing services such as e-mail, document sharing, and Internet access. For example, the Parts Operations Manger suggested selling parts online and the Manager of the Used Equipment Division suggest supporting the sales staff through Internet connections. Managing Partner, Richard Hevey decided an upgrade to the networks and a connection to the Internet were needed. He is faced with both short-term and long-term decisions about Norwels infrastructure.

scholarly journals New warfarin anticoagulation management model after heart valve surgery: rationale and design of a prospective, multicentre, randomised trial to compare an internet-based warfarin anticoagulation management model with the traditional warfarin management model

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. e032949 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhihui Zhu ◽  
Yuehuan Li ◽  
Xu Meng ◽  
Jie Han ◽  
Yan Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Valve Replacement ◽  
Heart Valve ◽  
Anticoagulation Therapy ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
Heart Valve Replacement ◽  
Management Model ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Anticoagulation Management

IntroductionWarfarin is an effective anticoagulant and the only oral anticoagulant available for patients with mechanical heart valves. The prothrombin time and the associated international normalised ratio (INR) are routinely tested to monitor the response to anticoagulation therapy in patients. Patients who undergo mechanical heart valve replacement need lifelong anticoagulation therapy, and their INR is regularly measured to adjust the anticoagulation strength and the dose of anticoagulation drugs. Appropriate warfarin anticoagulation management can reduce patient complications, such as bleeding and thrombosis, and improve the long-term survival rate. We propose modern internet technology as a platform to build a warfarin anticoagulation follow-up system after valve replacement surgery. This system will provide doctors and patients with more standardised and safer follow-up methods as well as a method to further reduce the risk of warfarin anticoagulation-related complications and improve its therapeutic effects.Methods and analysisA prospective, multicentre, randomised, controlled trial will be conducted. A total of 700 patients who require long-term warfarin anticoagulation monitoring after heart valve replacement will be enrolled and randomly divided at a 1:1 ratio into a traditional outpatient anticoagulation management group and a group undergoing a new method of management based on the internet technology with follow-up for 1 year. Differences in the percentage of time in the therapeutic range (TTR), drug dose adjustments, bleeding/thrombosis and other related complications will be observed. The primary endpoint is the difference in the TTR between the two groups. The purpose of this study is to explore a safer and more effective mode of doctor–patient interaction and communication in the internet era. As of 13 July 2019, 534 patients had been enrolled.Ethics and disseminationThis study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University. The results will be published in a peer-reviewed medical journal.Trial registration numberChiCTR1800016204.

Communication Between Real-World and Cyber-World

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 38-54
Author(s):  
Hüseyin Tolu
Keyword(s):  
Sociology Of Education ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Governance ◽  
Counter Measures ◽  
Social Communications ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Global Stakeholders ◽  
The Eu

Racism is one of the oldest, most oppressive issues along with other extreme forms of social communications. Nevertheless, the internet has already led to the opportunity of cyber-racism that occurs more surreptitiously and aggressively than before. This study commences by unravelling the abstractions of conventional-racism and cyber-racism, and it introduces the global stakeholders' approaches and counter measures, in particular the EU and the USA and their regulated and non-regulated practices to combat cyber-racism. This paper shall then bring forward informative argumentations on how the stakeholders' perspectives on cyber-racism can be scrutinised by focusing on both values of being human (individualism) and a reconciled global-society (cosmopolitanism) towards contemporary debates in the sociology of education and technology. In this conceptual thinking, even though hate-mongers are using internet technology to spread their hatred what is the acceptable action for us to do in the subject of internet governance?

scholarly journals Measuring the Effect of the Internet on Economic Growth: The Case of Saudi Arabia

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Hisham J. Bardesi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Growth Rate ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Macroeconomic Performance ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this study is to examine and assess the impact of the Internet on economic growth in Saudi Arabia. Various studies show that there is a relationship between the growth rate of GDP and the Internet, as estimated by Internet user numbers. In this paper, the ordinary least squares (OLS) model is utilized to study the economic impact of Internet Access from 1994 to 2018, which has had a profound effect on the market structure of many sectors and Saudi’s global macroeconomic performance. The study constructs a model to investigate any significant impact of the Internet on the Saudi economy. Finally, this paper suggests that an understanding of the role of the Internet is essential for policymakers who plan to promote new forms of economic growth in the future. To take a long-term view implies working on technologies that could improve the economy and people’s lives by creating a technological ecosystem in and around Saudi Arabia, along with other major economies.

Performance Analysis of Web Services in Different Types of Internet Technologies

2014 ◽  
Vol 513-517 ◽  
pp. 1431-1436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shariq Hussain ◽  
Zhao Shun Wang ◽  
Ibrahima Kalil Toure
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
Internet Technologies ◽  
Testing Tools ◽  
Service Testing ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Web Service Testing ◽  
The Impact

Web services technology gained popularity in recent years and became an evident model of Web. The benefits offered by web services include provision of platform for interaction of several applications through the Internet. Users interact with web services by means of Internet. The tremendous advancement in Internet technology has enabled new form of services and activities. Performance of web services is of great importance to the users and is heavily dependent on underlying Internet access technologies. In this paper, we describe three mostly used Internet access technologies and analyze the performance of web services over these technologies by using open-source web service testing tools. Results of the comparison will help in better understanding the impact of these technologies on performance of web services, and also selection and usage of suitable Internet access technologies for web services.

The Growth of Real Product in the United States Before 1840: New Evidence, Controlled Conjectures

1967 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul A. David
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Rate Of Growth ◽  
Significant Acceleration ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Douglass North ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
The U.S

Scholarly opinion currently evinces disturbing symptoms of latent schizophrenia on the subject of economic growth in the ante-bellum United States. Virtually every student of the era now appears convinced that the long-term rate of growth of aggregate product per capita underwent a significant acceleration “somewhere during the period between 1815 and 1860,” as Douglass North recently phrased it. And, if many economic historians protest W. W. Rostow's labeling the years following 1843 as the period of the U.S. “take-off,” most do not seem to balk at accepting the guess hazarded by Raymond Goldsmith: “a fairly sharp break in the trend of real national product per head … occurred not very long before 1839,” quite probably during the 1830's. To the uninitiated, it might seem obvious that everybody also subscribes to an explicit set of assertions about the secular rate of growth of per capita product during the period from, say, the founding of the nation to the date of the putative acceleration; otherwise, how could all agree that a significant alteration in the trend had occurred?

scholarly journals The Problems of Jurisdiction on the Internet

2014 ◽  
pp. 164-170
Author(s):  
Róisín Lautman ◽  
Kevin Curran
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Internet Usage ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between jurisdiction and the internet has been the subject of wide ranging discussion ever since the boom in domestic internet usage. Without clear legislation, laws have been created on an ad hoc basis, often in response to specific cases. It is difficult to predict whether any one law will ever be sufficient to cope with the great variety of alleged crimes which take place on the internet. This paper discusses the problems associated with jurisdiction on the internet, presenting sample cases which have influenced the current laws and have fuelled a long term debate that continues to get more heated especially in recent times with UK celebrities being exposed on sites such as Twitter.

scholarly journals How Intellectual Communities Progress

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lewis Ross
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Progress ◽  
Epistemic Position ◽  
Intellectual Community ◽  
Epistemic States ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Mere Presence ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Philosophical Progress

Recent work takes both philosophical and scientific progress to consist in acquiring factive epistemic states such as knowledge. However, much of this work leaves unclear what entity is the subject of these epistemic states. Furthermore, by focusing only on states like knowledge, we overlook progress in intermediate cases between ignorance and knowledge—for example, many now celebrated theories were initially so controversial that they were not known. This paper develops an improved framework for thinking about intellectual progress. Firstly, I argue that we should think of progress relative to the epistemic position of an intellectual community rather than individual inquirers. Secondly, I show how focusing on the extended process of inquiry (rather than the mere presence or absence of states like knowledge) provides a better evaluation of different types of progress. This includes progress through formulating worthwhile questions, acquiring new evidence, and increasing credence on the right answers to these questions. I close by considering the ramifications for philosophical progress, suggesting that my account supports rejecting the most negative views while allowing us to articulate different varieties of optimism and pessimism.

scholarly journals Packaging and Branding Strategy to Increase the Competitiveness of Bolu Jadul Business in Bulungan Village, Jepara

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-119
Author(s):  
Isna Istiqomah ◽  
Hefied Adibatul Husna ◽  
Khofifatul Lubaba ◽  
Ahmad Saefudin ◽  
Hudi Hudi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Product Packaging ◽  
Production Sector ◽  
Marketing Process ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Use Of Social Media

This community development focuses on increasing the competitiveness of partners in the home industry-based processed cake business. The subject of devotion leads to the development of product quality with various innovations. The goal is including the lack of innovation in the marketing process, cake production is still fluctuating and tends to decline, and the appearance of product packaging is very simple. The Team uses Participatory Action Research (PAR) as an approach. In a participatory manner, the service team encourages partners to take transformative actions through various activities. As a result, in the production sector, partners have succeeded in marketing Jadul Bolu cake products with online and offline systems. In the field of business management, partners are trained to make packaging or labeling of Bolu Jadul cakes. In the field of marketing, partners utilize internet technology through the use of social media, Instagram.  

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