scholarly journals The Internet: Changing the Way Horticulturists Communicate

1996 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 308-314
Author(s):  
Tim Rhodus ◽  
James Hoskins
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Internet Environment ◽  
Aided Communication ◽  
The Way

This article examines opportunities for enhanced information access and dissemination available to professional horticulturists using the Internet. The intent, however, is not to provide a comprehensive cataloging of where and how to find various databases or sources for multimedia educational resources. While some of these resources are reviewed, the goals of this article are to provide a background of the Internet environment and to examine the communication impacts of the Internet on horticultural researchers and educators. Our view is that computer-aided communication is an opportunity challenge, which should be confronted by individual horticulturists and the discipline as a whole. Examples of these new resources that can have a positive impact on the accomplishment of work responsibilities of horticultural professionals are discussed.

scholarly journals Human rights in the age of digitalization

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-125
Author(s):  
Elena Olegovna Tchinaryan ◽  
Evgeny Sergeevich Kuchenin ◽  
Vladimir Lvovich Slesarev ◽  
Andrey Vladimirovich Ryzhik
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
General Population ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Copyright Protection ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Legal Institutions ◽  
Internet Environment

At the very beginning of the 21st century, some experts agreed that the dispersal of the political and cultural initiative of network societies tends to reduce the unified control over political and cultural activities. This process leads to the accessibility of information to the general population and increases the scale of democratization of society. The accessible Internet environment has had a positive impact on the openness of information; however, it has harmed the protection of users' data. Gerald Cohen, a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, who is an expert in intellectual property and copyright protection, recommends considering Internet utopianism through a system of legal values. It is important to note the utopianism that links the Internet network and human independence considering utopianism in the field of anonymity in more detail, as something that harms social institutions. Cohen also outlines the view that existing legal institutions are the basis for protecting human independence, as well as the importance of creating new legal institutions.

scholarly journals Keeping public cyberspace open: Lessons from the Pacific Islands

2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-89
Author(s):  
Marianne Franklin
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Island Communities ◽  
Internet Environment ◽  
The Way

A number of empirical and conceptual lessons can be drawn from a closer look at atypical, non-western uses of the internet. Drawing on a study of two pioneering discussion forums, the Kava Bowl (KB) and the Kamehameha Roundtable (KR), maintained by diasporic Pacific Island communities, this article celebrates the existence of open, accessible cyberspaces in an increasingly privatised internet environment. The day to day operation of the KB/KR fora are argued to demonstrate the limitations of classical ‘public sphere’ thinking. In particular, the way in which power and influence is rendered in these online formations calls for a new conceptualisation of ‘public-ness’. Michel de Certeau’s concept of ‘everyday life’ is argued to provide a fertile link between Pacific Island internet practices and broader internet debates. In conclusion, it is argued that the way in which the ‘public’, the ‘private’, and ‘technology’ are construed in Western literatures, leaves non-western internet practices subsumed under ethnocentric and techno-determinist assumptions about the interrelationships between technology, culture and society.

scholarly journals DNS FILTERING: A CLEAN AND POSITIVE INTERNET ENVIRONMENT IN UIN AR-RANIRY BANDA ACEH

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Rusmansyah Rusmansyah ◽  
Hendy Mizuardy ◽  
Bustami Yusuf
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Human Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Environment ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The University ◽  
Internet Program ◽  
Banda Aceh

The rapid IT development has brought us to the different level of an era; information openness. The information is now easily accessed through the internet. It is believed that the internet comes with many things that benefited human life. Despite its advantages, the internet also will bring problems if it is improperly used. To cope with the problems, it is important to create a safe, clean, and positive internet environment. A positive internet program, initiated by Kemkominfo Indonesia, is actively distributed to achieve this goal. We observed whether this program is feasible to be applied in a university. Our experiment object is students in Universitas Islam Ar-raniry Banda Aceh. We found that most of the students, about more than 90%, believe that a positive internet environment is important to be implemented. Moreover, a positive internet environment also will give positive impact to their personality and behavior. To realize the implementation, we have compared DNS filtering products which are able to block negative-content websites. Form our experiments, we recommend that the university apply DNS Nawala because it performs better by blocking more than 40% tested negative websites, compared to the other tested DNS products. So regarding the opinion of the students, DNS Nawala is feasible to be implemented to realize a clean, safe, and positive internet environment

scholarly journals “The Truth is Out There”: UFO’s and Government Disclosure—A Brief Look into Exploring Recently Declassified Government Documents

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Ryan Dzakovic
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Information Access ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Government Documents ◽  
The Way

The extraordinary growth of information and information technologies in modern times have irrevocably changed the way participants of a democracy access, navigate, share, and normalize information retrieval practices. The unprecedented access afforded by these technologies, the fluency with which people use to navigate it and a government seemingly moving toward more transparency have further democratized information access for all citizens. The commitment of government to ensure the sustainable relationship between citizen and information has been helped by the synergy of government publications and the internet. Barnes et al. state,

scholarly journals Selection of Promotion Channels for Organic Products in the Internet Environment

2019 ◽  
pp. 151-161
Author(s):  
Yuliya Eremenko
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Limiting Factors ◽  
High Price ◽  
The Internet ◽  
General Strategy ◽  
Internet Technologies ◽  
Corporate Websites ◽  
Organic Products ◽  
Internet Environment

In Russia the development of the organic product market faces the following limiting factors: high price, insufficient awareness and low physical availability of bioproducts for the population. The use of modern Internet technologies can have a positive impact on solving these problems. Direct selling through online-stores or corporate websites allows to control adequate price markup on products. The variety of social Internet communications can be successfully used in increasing public awareness about organic products and the peculiarities of choosing them. Moreover, bearing in mind the specific character of bioproducts which have a low shelf life, online sales are necessary to ensure filled customer demand. Thus, the issues of choosing the most optimal channels for promoting organic products in the Internet are important and well-timed. The purpose of the article is to identify the most effective channels in promoting organic products in the Russian market.The implementation of the set tasks was achieved by means of using general scientific methods: analysis, synthesis. The statistical methods were also used during processing and synthesis of statistical data and their generalization in the most informative form i.e. tables, figures. The article identifies the most efficient channels for promoting organic products in the Internet environment from the point of view of an enterprise’s goals. The author defines the KPI assessments of its effectiveness for each online channel. On the one hand, understanding the peculiarities of using various Internet channels to promote organic products can have a positive impact on the consumer demand in general. On the other hand, it will allow making the most efficient use of Internet technologies in the general strategy of promoting an enterprise.

Exploring Patient Needs in Online Health Communities Using Text Mining--Taking Diabetes and Depression as Examples (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingfang Liu ◽  
Xiaoyan Jiang ◽  
Wei Zhang ◽  
Yingyi Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Disease Type ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Patient Needs ◽  
Manual Annotation ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Internet Environment

BACKGROUND Online Health Community (OHC) refers to a forum where patients, their family members, doctors and caregivers communicate with each other. Patients who participate in OHCs can obtain benefits for disease treatments and health management, so identifying the categories of patient needs and how they are satisfied are significant to determining theories of patient demand and community construction. OBJECTIVE (1) Explore the needs of patients in the Internet environment. (2) Distinguish the similarities and differences of patient needs among OHCs of different types and concerning different diseases. (3) Proposed a method for automatically identifying patient demands in Internet environments. METHODS This study used a combination of manual annotation and computer-aided method to mine value of 9936 posts collected from four OHCs in China. On one hand, we recruited 7 diabetes or depression medical experts to label text according to a theoretical framework, forming patient need theory in Internet environments, which is designed for the first two research goals. On the other hand, based on the corpus constructed by manual annotation, this research used Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) to train a model for automatically identifying patient demands, which is planned to reach the third research purpose. RESULTS According to statistical results, the proportion of posts related to patient needs in OHCs was approximately 91%, and posts concerned with Emotional Support (18%), Information (28%) and Socialization (44%) needs were the top three most prevalent categories. However, when OHCs were divided according to user composition and disease type, patient needs were diverse: the chief demand was Socialization in Patient Interaction OHCs (65%), Diabetes OHCs (50%), and Depression OHCs (69%), while Information (96%) was the chief demand in Patient-Doctor Interaction OHCs. A model was trained to identify patient needs taking Linguistic Features (LF) and Category Keyword Features (CKF) as input and Random Forest as the classifier, of which the F1 value was higher than 0.80 on test set. CONCLUSIONS Patient needs in the Internet environment mainly include Emotional Support needs, Information needs and Socialization needs. Differences in community type and disease type can lead to diverse patient needs in OHCs. It is practical to use computer-aided methods to identify patient needs in OHCs automatically.

“The Fabric of our Lives”

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-167
Author(s):  
Jim McDonnell
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Information Ethics ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
Problematic Area ◽  
The Way

This paper is a first attempt to explore how a theology of communication might best integrate and develop reflection on the Internet and the problematic area of the so-called “information society.” It examines the way in which official Church documents on communications have attempted to deal with these issues and proposes elements for a broader framework including “media ecology,” information ethics and more active engagement with the broader social and policy debates.

scholarly journals The Influence of the Developed Specific Multi-Paradigm Programming in Digital Logic Education

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1255
Author(s):  
Lukas Hapl ◽  
Hashim Habiballa
Keyword(s):  
Programming Languages ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Digital Logic ◽  
School Students ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Preliminary Research ◽  
Logic Training ◽  
Interdisciplinary Relationships ◽  
Programming Paradigms ◽  
The Way

This article introduces the possible usage of the developed programming discourse that can be used to support training in the digital logic area. The discourse merges several programming paradigms into one solution. The intended learners are secondary school students focused on digital system programming. The main intent is to find out whether digital logic curriculum based on Digital Circuits Based Logical Programming (DCBLP) inheritance has positive impact on the students and the way they explore the digital logic itself. Students’ cognitive and affective areas are in the scope of this preliminary research and questionnaires and cognitive tests will help to support the research. Experimental and control groups were used to gather relevant records. To analyse and support the interpretation of the data gathered by questionnaires, the chi-square test (two-tailed) has been used. ANOVA has been used to evaluate data for the achievement test results. The preliminary research revealed there is a possibility of using developed programming discourse DCBLP in digital logic training. Students claim overall usefulness of the discourse in the training; the strong motivation power of the programming discourse itself has not been discovered. From the test we conclude that the performance of the students trained using new programming discourse is significantly better. It is possible to use more different programming paradigms, such as imperative and declarative, in one solution to support training in the area of digital logic. Such solutions can enhance the way the students deal with the programming languages and also supports interdisciplinary relationships.

scholarly journals Addressing migrants’ well-being during COVID-19: An analysis of Chinese communities’ heritage language schools in Germany

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zi Wang
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Heritage Language ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Well Being ◽  
School Closure ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Educational Programmes

Abstract The coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing lockdown affected social life in every regard. In critical times, the well-being of vulnerable groups is often at stake. Migrants represent a case in point because language barriers and the lack of social networks impede their seeking help from public institutions and information access. In migration policy and research, current attention overwhelmingly focusses on COVID-19’s impact on travel restrictions and healthcare. This article contributes a new perspective by demonstrating how migrants’ well-being needs (understood as emotions and sense of achievement) in education during the COVID-19-induced school closure were addressed by community educational organisations. Focussing on the Chinese community in Germany, data were collected in Chinese heritage language (CHL) schools from three urban areas. This article argues that CHL schools’ reaction to public schools’ closure had a positive impact on their members’ well-being. Such organisations achieved this by expanding their educational programmes during and after the lockdown. These measures ensured continuity in migrant children’s education beyond the realm of heritage language instruction, while enabling migrant parents to seek employment as the economy reopened. Overall, the results of this study underscore the potential of community organisations’ educational programmes in maintaining migrants’ well-being, especially in trying times.

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