Patients’ internet use and its effects on the healthcare professional-patient relationship The use of Internet plays an increasingly important role on receiving health information. About 50% of the people who were able to access to the Internet in the US sought health information during 1997(Eng et al‚ 1998‚ as cited in Cline and Haynes‚2001). The prevalence of searching health information from the internet by the patients has‚ without doubt‚ affected the healthcare professional-patient relationship
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THE ROLE OF ADVANCED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF DISTANCE EDUCATION NETWORKS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE. Prof. Tamás Lajos‚ Co-Chairman of EDEN-EADTU Task Force Eastern Europe‚ Dr. András Szûcs Prof. Jacques Vauthier Co-Chairman of EDEN-EADTU Task Force Eastern Europe‚ European Distance Education Network European Association of Distance Teaching Universities October 1996. 1/ INTRODUCTION The rapid and positive change of appreciation of open and distance learning‚ mainly
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To the Principal: As I am sure that we have all been witnesses that social networking sites flock the internet and are now the fad of everyone in the society. While this is an altogether positive development in the realm of bridging communication‚ establishing ties‚ and doing business‚ we must be made aware that there are many risks involved in using these sites especially to uneducated and unaware users who just will flaunt about information that can be used against them. Not only that‚ rampant
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Introduction The Internet is a huge collection of computer networks that can communicate with each other – a network of networks. It is built upon thousands of smaller regional networks spread out around the world. It has emerged as a powerful tool for education. It is a confluence of all kinds of information related to each and every field of education. It also allows teacher and students‚ sitting in far flung areas to interact‚ share and exchange information. This paper seeks to study about
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people use the internet every day. Even thought the mobile phones have also the function of the internet. People say “It is evolution of technology with it industry”. But the time goes and goes‚ they also find some weak point. Especially‚ the children are very fast to adapt to their atmosphere. Using the internet is good to children or not? First of all schools have embraced the digital age and new technologies‚ including laptop computers‚ replacing printed books with e-books‚ making students use the
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Modern age is the period of wonderful development of science. Man has brought the world into his fist by dint of his own effort. One of the unique contributions of this period is “internet” this combined w-process of satellite technology and computer has brought an all pervading possible of human welfare. World internet is the abbreviated form of international network. The network od all networks is the most modern success of information technology. it can collect and send messages ‚information ‚picture
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Uses and Abuses of Internet In the fast growing world of communication‚ Internet is comparatively a new entrant 1. But it has brought about a great revolution in the field of communication. In a very short span of time‚ it has linked together the whole world. In simple terms‚ internet means the connection of a large number of computers with one another. Now‚ through internet‚ almost all the computers of the world are interconnected with one another. Seen in this context‚ internet has transformed
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We can describe the Internet as a system operating in a certain environment. The Internet can be described as a communication system‚ consisting of certain components between which certain interactions are observable to an observer. The environment provides a structural coupling between the Net and its support from the environment. The environment "holds" the system and provides the relevant resources and supports to maintain the systems functions. The Center for Internet and Technology Addiction
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The Uses & Abuses Of Internet The Internet started out as a small military experiment some 35 yearsago‚ the Internet is quickly becoming one of the most popular forms of communication. There is a present population of about 40 million usersworld wide‚ and it seems to have a very promising future. The Internetis uncensored and almost impossible to monitor‚ it is a breeding groundfor all sorts of offensive and derogatory information. On the other hand‚it is probably the biggest single source of data
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Use of internet? The Internet is used for many things‚ such as electronic mail‚ online chat‚ file transfer‚ and the interlinked web pages and other documents of the World Wide Web. The most used service on the Internet is the World Wide Web (which is also called the "Web"). The Web contains websites‚ blogs‚ and also wikis like Wikipedia. Webpages on the Web can be seen and read by anyone (unless the page needs a password‚ or it is blocked). The second major use of the Internet is to send and receive
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