Recent research on organized events highlights their transitory and distinctive nature. In contrast, we reconceptualize events by challenging their singularity. We focus on events as recurring and organized activities in terms of serial singularities, while still acknowledging their individual...

Lately, a new trend has specially outreached on the Information Society that of Social Computing. Starting from a citizen-focused model of health seamless provision of services, this paper analyses some current Web 2.0 initiatives on the Health sector. These opportunities would not be fully...

Über die Entlohnungsunterschiede zwischen Frauen und Männern, den sogenannten Gender Pay Gap (GPG), wird derzeit viel diskutiert. Häufig steht dabei die Entgeltlücke von zuletzt 22 Prozent für das Jahr 2014 im Vordergrund, die das Statistische Bundesamt regelmäßig berichtet (Statistisches...

The expansion of information & communication technology (ICT) is continuing in OECD countries and the world economy – partly due to the ongoing fall of relative ICT prices. The continuing absolute fall of ICT prices and ICT capital prices, respectively, is not adequately considered in the...

It is a known fact that stress negatively affects food choices. Consequentially, this paper analyzes three different research questions using a sample of 330 international students in Germany. Firstly, it is observed if stress affects students’ motivations to eat, i.e. if it triggers changes...

The purpose of this study is to study the impacts due to Internet addiction among Malaysian university students. Research methodology used in this study was by distributing survey questions to 653 university students from five different universities in Malaysia. There were four possible impacts...

Nowadays, Internet addiction has become a major problem to the university students. The purpose of this study is to present a guideline to helps people to overcome their Internet addiction especially for students. There were 653 university students (341 females and 312 males) from five different...