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The New Zealand Government has set the goals of having 99% of Kiwis able to access broadband with peak speeds of at least 50 Megabits per second (Mbps) by 2025, and with the remaining 1% able to access broadband with rates of at least 10 Mbps. There is an interesting question to be raised: is it possible to achieve these goals earlier? Inspired by the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals...
Understanding user behavior is essential for source optimization in mobile networks, including urban planning, road traffic engineering, and content distribution. In this paper, we take the first step to investigate the basic characterization of user behavior over 340,000 users of a 4G mobile network in a large metropolitan area. Our study is carried on from two aspects: mobility and application usage...
The aim of this article is to analyze the use of basic e-government elements by individual users in Poland in 2017. Article presents the results of research highlighting popularity, use and influence of e-government functions that support such application in reality. Seventeen core e-government functions, most popular among respondents, were selected based on prior consultation, being the baseline...
In this paper we consider some results of a survey of today's Internet users of different ages and fields of activity, living in cities and settlements of different sizes, to identify their assessment of social needs' dynamic under Internet's influence. The effect of Internet on the feel of danger and risk, power and sense of domination over other people, belonging to a certain group, popularity and...
The article deals with the development of technology for extraction and processing of statistical information of private sector of regional healthcare. The concept of data mining from various sources in the Internet, methods of extraction and integration of information about medical organizations of private sector of regional healthcare are presented.
The Costa Rican Ministry of Science, Technology and Telecommunications (MICITT) promotes The Science and Technology Month. This is a yearly celebration aimed at bringing young students closer to science and technology. In 2016, the activity included events in six rural areas around the country. Laboratorio Experimental is a group for research and outreach in computer science education hosted by Instituto...
Online banking is a substantial service in the enlargement strategy of the modern bank sector. Nevertheless, this service has not been widely used, because of users are still scared of the risks of online transactions. Thus, the in-depth and distinct works of risks in risk awareness are an essential and meaningful assignment for the banking sector. This study investigates the role of perceived risk...
Acquiring stories and narratives about past periods is a challenge for cultural heritage preservation. In this context, we present a method to obtain from the web a corpus of texts related to the period of 1945-1975 in Luxembourg. Extracted texts are accompanied by meta-data that facilitate their integration by tier applications. As a use-case, this corpus will be used in a software that aims at helping...
In recent years, the number of foreign tourists who come to fruit picking in Japan is increasing. Japanese fruits are sweet and tasty. Especially strawberry picking is popular. However, there are few sources of information on strawberry picking in Japan, and there are no portal sites and apps. To improve this, we develop the portal smartphone app of strawberry picking that has English version. Information...
The study on development strategy mode of outdoor jacket in China will efficiently benefit the industrial transformation and strengthen the competitiveness of a company. In this paper, a comprehensive evaluation on the adverse factors of outdoor jacket industry is done. Then, using SWOT-APH method calculated the ranking of optimal strategy. Based on the calculation results and combine with characteristics...
One's name represents one's identity, and a situational name used in an appropriate context respects one's privacy in social life. While the Internet may allow freedom to choose any screen name, social media, however, has become anchored in real-life personal relationships. Married couples in Japan have no choice but to choose one surname—mostly the husbands'—after marriage. Thus, some individuals...
The role of advanced technologies is being discussed in public, academic and government environments. The paper deals with the current issue of computer literacy in the elderly people with focus on benefits connected with their use. The paper brings an insight into the technical literature review. It strives to summarize key beneficial outcomes which elderly people face when they use information and...
The purpose of this study was to analyze and compare the digital citizenship behavior of college students from differing socioeconomic regions of origin. Data was collected with the Digital Citizenship Scale from 712 college students in central China. The results showed students from higher socioeconomic regions of origin displayed more appropriate digital citizenship behaviors than students from...
Currently, we realize that in general tourists spend a lot of time planning their trips because they need to make the most of every moment. In this sense, technology has been a great ally, especially to make this planning as well as to adapt in the event of some unforeseen during the journey. In the last decade, an increasing trend was observed, the traveler or tourist is always connected to mobile...
This work focuses on wide-scale freight transportation logistics motivated by the sharp increase of on-line shopping stores and the upsurge of Internet as the most frequently utilized selling channel during the last decade. This huge ecosystem of one-click-away catalogs has ultimately unleashed the need for efficient algorithms aimed at properly scheduling the underlying transportation resources in...
This research includes information on the cultural and media consumption of young Ecuadorian university students and the relationship that exists with the media skills they have. The inquiries were carried out in two stages, the first analyzed the consumption of traditional and digital media of Ecuadorian university students in 2015. Twenty-six universities in Ecuador were studied with representative...
This paper considered defining relationships between various the social activity of the population of the region and the quantitative characteristics of its representation in crowdsourcing project OpenStreetMap (OSM). The research of factors that influence to the social activity of the population and creating volunteered geographic information was performed. Assumption about a correlation between...
Participatory budgeting aims at finding an appropriate solution to meet the increasing demands of citizens worldwide for more transparency and political participation in financial affairs. Several thousand projects related to this topic have been conducted worldwide to date. In Germany, public participation rates in these projects were often below expectations of public administration and politics,...
In this paper we investigate factors that affect excessive use of Internet among elementary school students in Vojvodina. The quantitative analysis was performed using datasets from research carried out in 66 elementary schools across Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. Using a large data set on elementary school students, we have tried to describe the profile of students who excessively use Internet...
This paper proposes a new QoS-aware forwarding strategy for Named Data Networking. Borrowing techniques from the ant colony optimization, the proposed strategy, which is called Ant colony based QoS-aware forwarding strategy (AC-QoS-FS), makes full use of both forward and backward ants to rank interfaces. Forward and backward ants (Interest and Data packets) probe realtime network QoS parameters to...
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