Online social network is increasingly showing a significant impact and role in many areas of social life. In the study of online social network related issues have become the consensus of the academic and industrial c...Online social network is increasingly showing a significant impact and role in many areas of social life. In the study of online social network related issues have become the consensus of the academic and industrial communities and the urgent need for. This paper mainly studies the problem of information dissemination in social network, the mode of communication, behavior, propagation paths and propagation characteristics are studied, and take the Tencent micro-blog as an example, based on the analysis of many examples, several main models and characteristics of information dissemination in social network platform.展开更多
Pre-warning plays an important role in emergency handling, especially in urban areas with high population density like Beijing. Knowing the information dissemination mechanisms clearly could help us reduce losses and ...Pre-warning plays an important role in emergency handling, especially in urban areas with high population density like Beijing. Knowing the information dissemination mechanisms clearly could help us reduce losses and ensure the safety of human beings during emergencies. In this paper, we propose the models of pre-warning information dissemination via five classical media based on actual pre-warning issue processes, including television, radio, short message service (SMS), electronic screens, and online social networks. The population coverage ability and dissemination efficiency at different issue time of these five issue channels are analyzed by simulation methods, and their advantages and disadvantages are compared by radar graphs. Results show that SMS is the most appropriate way to issue long-term pre-warning for its large population coverage, but it is not suitable for issuing urgent warnings to large population because of the limitation of telecom company's issue ability. TV shows the best performance to combine the dissemination speed and range, and the performance of radio and electronic screens are not as satisfactory as the others. In addition, online social networks might become one of the most promising communication method for its potential in further diffusion. These models and results could help us make pre-warning issue plans and provide guidance for future construction of information diffusion systems, thus reducing injuries, deaths, and other losses under different emergencies.展开更多
The quality and safety crisis of agricultural products on the one hand is the crisis of harm of agricultural products,and on the other hand is the crisis of information dissemination. This paper analyzed the character...The quality and safety crisis of agricultural products on the one hand is the crisis of harm of agricultural products,and on the other hand is the crisis of information dissemination. This paper analyzed the characteristics of content of the quality and safety crisis information of tropical agricultural products. On the basis of these characteristics,it came up with strategies and recommendations for solving the problems of quality and safety of tropical agricultural products,including establishing the emergency response system for quality and safety crisis of tropical agricultural products,bringing into play the social responsibilities of scientific research institutions,and bringing into play authoritative effect of scientific experts.展开更多
Crisis information dissemination plays a key role in the development of emergency responses to epidemic-level public health events.Therefore,clarifying the causes of crisis information dissemination and making accurat...Crisis information dissemination plays a key role in the development of emergency responses to epidemic-level public health events.Therefore,clarifying the causes of crisis information dissemination and making accurate predictions to effectively control such situations have attracted extensive attention.Based on media richness theory and persuasion theory,this study constructs an index system of crisis information dissemination impact factors from two aspects:the crisis information publisher and the published crisis information content.A multi-layer perceptron is used to analyze the weight of the index system,and the prediction is transformed into a pattern classification problem to test crisis information dissemination.In this study,COVID-19 is considered a representative event.An experiment is conducted to predict the crisis information dissemination of COVID-19 in two megacities.Data related to COVID-19 from these two megacities are acquired from the well-known Chinese social media platform Weibo.The experimental results show that not only the identity but also the social influence of the information publisher has a significant impact on crisis information dissemination in epidemic-level public health events.Furthermore,the proposed model achieves more than 95%test accuracy,precision rate,recall value and f1-score in the prediction task.The study provides decision-making support for government departments and a guide for correctly disseminating crisis information and public opinion during future epidemic-level public health events.展开更多
Over the last three decades,China’s agriculture sector has been transformed from the traditional to modern practice through the effective deployment of Information and Communication Technologies(ICTs).Information pro...Over the last three decades,China’s agriculture sector has been transformed from the traditional to modern practice through the effective deployment of Information and Communication Technologies(ICTs).Information processing and dissemination have played a critical role in this transformation process.Many studies in relation to agriculture information services have been conducted in China,but few of them have attempted to provide a comprehensive review and analysis of different information dissemination models and their applications.This paper aims to review and identify the ICT based information dissemination models in China and to share the knowledge and experience in applying emerging ICTs in disseminating agriculture information to farmers and farm communities to improve productivity and economic,social and environmental sustainability.The paper reviews and analyzes the development stages of China’s agricultural information dissemination systems and different mechanisms for agricultural information service development and operations.Seven ICT-based information dissemination models are identified and discussed.Success cases are presented.The findings provide a useful direction for researchers and practitioners in developing future ICT based information dissemination systems.It is hoped that this paper will also help other developing countries to learn from China’s experience and best practice in their endeavor of applying emerging ICTs in agriculture information dissemination and knowledge transfer.展开更多
The rapid development of the Intemet makes the social network of information dissemination has undergone tremendous changes. Based on the introduction of social network information dissemination mode, this paper analy...The rapid development of the Intemet makes the social network of information dissemination has undergone tremendous changes. Based on the introduction of social network information dissemination mode, this paper analyzes the influencing factors of information dissemination, establishes the user preference model through CP-nets tool, and combines the AHP principle to mine the user's preference order, and obtain the user's optimal preference feature Portfolio, and finally collect the user in the microblogging platform in the historical behavior data. the use of NetLogo different users of information dissemination decision to predict.展开更多
In the digital age,traditional media ethics norms lack sufficient explanatory power and binding force in practice.This paper uses the“Primary School Student Lost Homework in Paris”incident as a case study to explore...In the digital age,traditional media ethics norms lack sufficient explanatory power and binding force in practice.This paper uses the“Primary School Student Lost Homework in Paris”incident as a case study to explore the ethical controversies surrounding the dissemination of this event.By adopting a hierarchical media ethics perspective,the paper dynamically examines the ethical conduct of various communicators,elucidates the ethical responsibilities of each party involved,and reveals the complexity of communication ethics in the digital age.展开更多
Microblog is a new Internet featured product, which has seen a rapid development in recent years. Researchers from different countries are making various technical analyses on microblogging applications. In this study...Microblog is a new Internet featured product, which has seen a rapid development in recent years. Researchers from different countries are making various technical analyses on microblogging applications. In this study, through using the natural language processing(NLP) and data mining, we analyzed the information content transmitted via a microblog, users' social networks and their interactions, and carried out an empirical analysis on the dissemination process of one particular piece of information via Sina Weibo.Based on the result of these analyses, we attempt to develop a better understanding about the rule and mechanism of the informal information flow in microblogging.展开更多
Genital human papilloma virus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted virus in the US. Effective HPV vaccines remain controversial and have poor uptake among many adolescent groups. Social media have potential f...Genital human papilloma virus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted virus in the US. Effective HPV vaccines remain controversial and have poor uptake among many adolescent groups. Social media have potential for promoting the HPV vaccine, but little is known about the content or sentiment of social media discussions regarding the vaccine. The purpose of this study was to examine message, context, sentiment, and source characteristics of original HPV- and HPV vaccine-related Twitter posts (tweets) over a 3-month time period. This content mining study used publicly available data purchased from Twitter. One-thousand tweets were randomly selected from a sample of 45,260 English language tweets matching our search criteria and collected from December 2014-January 2015. Tweets were manually coded according to source, context, message, and sentiment characteristics using a coding document developed from previous research. Individuals posted just over half (55%) of tweets, whereas organizations posted 40%. More than half (57%) of all coded tweets were positive, and less than one-fifth were negative. Organizations’ tweets were more likely to be positive than individuals’ tweets. A temporal display of contextual events and tweet spikes demonstrates that positive tweets can increase during newsworthy events (e.g. FDA approval of Gardisil 9). The HPV vaccine was most often discussed under a cancer prevention message frame. In contrast with some existing research, discussions surrounding the HPV vaccine in original Twitter posts are largely positive. Our study reveals opportunities for adolescent health specialists to provide accurate, positive HPV vaccination information via Twitter.展开更多
Construction and use of national emergency broadcast system, related to the safety of lives and property. Broadcasting system has the simple construction, easy to set up, transmission distance, wide transmission range...Construction and use of national emergency broadcast system, related to the safety of lives and property. Broadcasting system has the simple construction, easy to set up, transmission distance, wide transmission range, transmission speed, etc., in the notice of emergency incidents, emergency command, emergency evacuation and emergency settle played a pivotal role. In the recent years, countries earthquakes, tsunamis and other natural disasters occur frequently, causing great loss of life and property, the establishment of the emergency broadcast system, more and more government attention. We introduced the emergency broadcast system in Japan, the United States, Britain and other countries, analyzes the problems our country to carry out emergency broadcast services need to pay attention, and made recommendations.展开更多
Self-media era of ideological and political education is facing new challenges: educators and educational object on gaining information changes reversibly, which challenged "teachers are" authority; the object of e...Self-media era of ideological and political education is facing new challenges: educators and educational object on gaining information changes reversibly, which challenged "teachers are" authority; the object of education is increasingly showing a strong "treasonable" , which is challenging the current ideological and political education model; fission dissemination of information is challenging the ideological and political education. We should give up the identity of the authority, and reshape the image of contemporary educators, we should innovate way of ideological and political education, building a network of new model of ideological and political is to deal with the challenges from the media, it' s an important means of improving the ideological and political implementation.展开更多
Purpose: This study aims to investigate and compare celebrity and ordinary users' behaviors on Sina Weibo. Design/methodology/approach: Data was collected from 12,555 ordinary users and 2,467 celebrity users on Sin...Purpose: This study aims to investigate and compare celebrity and ordinary users' behaviors on Sina Weibo. Design/methodology/approach: Data was collected from 12,555 ordinary users and 2,467 celebrity users on Sina Weibo. Correlation and regression analysis was performed on users' number of followings, number of followers and number of posts. Findings: The results revealed significant difference between famous and ordinary users' behaviors on Sina Weibo. We found correlation among ordinary users' number of followings, number of followers and number of posts, but for celebrity users, only their number of followings and number of posts are related with each other. For both ordinary and celebrity users, their number of followings significantly affects how many posts they publish. Research limitations: We only carried out our investigation on Sina Weibo and the findings need to be further verified on other microblogging platforms. Practical implications: This research is useful for microblogging service providers to understand different types of users and promote the continuous use of their services. Originality/value: This research delivers valuable insights into understanding of the characteristics of different types of microbloggers and the ways to increase user viscosity.展开更多
One of the most outstanding characteristics of library legislation in China is that theoretical research and legislative practice are mutually reinforcing, making important issues and basic rules and regulations close...One of the most outstanding characteristics of library legislation in China is that theoretical research and legislative practice are mutually reinforcing, making important issues and basic rules and regulations closely associated with legislation and the research focus. A national library law is currently being enacted while several local library legislations have already seen fruitful results. In the enactment of 'Regulations for the Protection of Information Network Dissemination Rights', the library professional participated for the first time in enacting a national copyright law, which led to unprecedented flourishing of library activities and copyright studies. The promulgation of another legal framework,'Government Information Disclosure Regulations' further advanced the research on related issues and pushed forward government information services in public libraries in the same way. A new landmark for library legislation in recent years is the promulgation of'Guidelines for Land Utilization for Public Library Construction' and 'Public Library Construction Standards', while the framing of 'Rules of Professional Ethics for Librarians in China(On trial)' and the 'Library Service Manifesto' give indication that a framework of self-disciplinary measures of library professionals is established.展开更多
Health and disaster risk reduction are important and necessary components in building a smart city,especially when climate change may increase the frequency of extreme temperatures and the health risks of urban dwelle...Health and disaster risk reduction are important and necessary components in building a smart city,especially when climate change may increase the frequency of extreme temperatures and the health risks of urban dwellers.However,limited knowledge is available about the best way to disseminate weather warnings and health protection information.This study explores the weather information acquisition patterns of the Hong Kong public and examines the sociodemographic predictors of these patterns to establish the potential public health implications of smart city development.A population-based,stratified crosssectional,random digit dialing telephone survey was conducted among the Cantonese-speaking population aged over 15 years in Hong Kong in early 2016.Analyses were conducted based on 1017 valid samples,with a response rate of 63.6%.Cold Weather Warnings were well disseminated in Hong Kong,with 95.7% of the respondents reporting awareness of the public warnings.Television and smartphone apps were the two most important channels for weather information acquisition.Age and education level are the main social-demographic variables associated with the current utilization and future preference of smartphone technology.Among those who were not using a preferredchannel to acquire weather information,61.3% considered switching to a smartphone app.Moreover,the patterns of individual health protection measures and self-reported health impacts were significantly different between smartphone app users and non-users.Weather information dissemination should be tailored to the sociodemographic characteristics of the users.展开更多
Transparency of tax law and tax administration is vital to the fair,effective and efficient operation of a tax system.To achieve and improve transparency,various means and channels are available.This article sets out ...Transparency of tax law and tax administration is vital to the fair,effective and efficient operation of a tax system.To achieve and improve transparency,various means and channels are available.This article sets out the measures adopted by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in promoting and improving transparency of tax law and tax administration.展开更多
At GCC 2003 in Shanghai in December 2003, a panel discussion was held on thefuture of grid computing and on the role of the Globus Toolkit in future grid standards. Panelistsinclude Andrew Chien (UCSD, USA), Wolfgang ...At GCC 2003 in Shanghai in December 2003, a panel discussion was held on thefuture of grid computing and on the role of the Globus Toolkit in future grid standards. Panelistsinclude Andrew Chien (UCSD, USA), Wolfgang Gentzsch (Sun), Francis Lau (HKU, China), Carl Kesselman(USC, USA), Satoshi Matsuoka (TIT, Japan), Xian-He Sun (IIT, USA), Richard Wirt (Intel), Liang-JieZhang (IBM Research), Song-Nian Zhou (Platform Computing), and Zhi-Wei Xu (ICT, China), with Hai Jin(HUST, China) served as the coordinator. The panel talks were stimulating and well received. Threeof the panel talk notes are selected and included in this viewpoint.展开更多
文摘Online social network is increasingly showing a significant impact and role in many areas of social life. In the study of online social network related issues have become the consensus of the academic and industrial communities and the urgent need for. This paper mainly studies the problem of information dissemination in social network, the mode of communication, behavior, propagation paths and propagation characteristics are studied, and take the Tencent micro-blog as an example, based on the analysis of many examples, several main models and characteristics of information dissemination in social network platform.
基金Project supported by the Science Fund from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(Grant No.2018YFC0807000).
文摘Pre-warning plays an important role in emergency handling, especially in urban areas with high population density like Beijing. Knowing the information dissemination mechanisms clearly could help us reduce losses and ensure the safety of human beings during emergencies. In this paper, we propose the models of pre-warning information dissemination via five classical media based on actual pre-warning issue processes, including television, radio, short message service (SMS), electronic screens, and online social networks. The population coverage ability and dissemination efficiency at different issue time of these five issue channels are analyzed by simulation methods, and their advantages and disadvantages are compared by radar graphs. Results show that SMS is the most appropriate way to issue long-term pre-warning for its large population coverage, but it is not suitable for issuing urgent warnings to large population because of the limitation of telecom company's issue ability. TV shows the best performance to combine the dissemination speed and range, and the performance of radio and electronic screens are not as satisfactory as the others. In addition, online social networks might become one of the most promising communication method for its potential in further diffusion. These models and results could help us make pre-warning issue plans and provide guidance for future construction of information diffusion systems, thus reducing injuries, deaths, and other losses under different emergencies.
基金Supported by Special Project of Fundamental Research Funds for Central Public Welfare Research Institutes in Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences(1630012015021)Project of Natural Science Foundation of Hainan Province(714282)
文摘The quality and safety crisis of agricultural products on the one hand is the crisis of harm of agricultural products,and on the other hand is the crisis of information dissemination. This paper analyzed the characteristics of content of the quality and safety crisis information of tropical agricultural products. On the basis of these characteristics,it came up with strategies and recommendations for solving the problems of quality and safety of tropical agricultural products,including establishing the emergency response system for quality and safety crisis of tropical agricultural products,bringing into play the social responsibilities of scientific research institutions,and bringing into play authoritative effect of scientific experts.
基金This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foun-dation of China[grant numbers 71804083,71801017,and 72104032]the Science Foundation of Beijing Information Science&Technol-ogy University[grant number 2021XJJ42].
文摘Crisis information dissemination plays a key role in the development of emergency responses to epidemic-level public health events.Therefore,clarifying the causes of crisis information dissemination and making accurate predictions to effectively control such situations have attracted extensive attention.Based on media richness theory and persuasion theory,this study constructs an index system of crisis information dissemination impact factors from two aspects:the crisis information publisher and the published crisis information content.A multi-layer perceptron is used to analyze the weight of the index system,and the prediction is transformed into a pattern classification problem to test crisis information dissemination.In this study,COVID-19 is considered a representative event.An experiment is conducted to predict the crisis information dissemination of COVID-19 in two megacities.Data related to COVID-19 from these two megacities are acquired from the well-known Chinese social media platform Weibo.The experimental results show that not only the identity but also the social influence of the information publisher has a significant impact on crisis information dissemination in epidemic-level public health events.Furthermore,the proposed model achieves more than 95%test accuracy,precision rate,recall value and f1-score in the prediction task.The study provides decision-making support for government departments and a guide for correctly disseminating crisis information and public opinion during future epidemic-level public health events.
基金The work reported in this paper is part of a research project on prompting agricultural knowledge and information flows.The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support provided by the Agricultural Technology Transfer(AgriTT)programme which is funded by the UK Department for International Development(DFID).
文摘Over the last three decades,China’s agriculture sector has been transformed from the traditional to modern practice through the effective deployment of Information and Communication Technologies(ICTs).Information processing and dissemination have played a critical role in this transformation process.Many studies in relation to agriculture information services have been conducted in China,but few of them have attempted to provide a comprehensive review and analysis of different information dissemination models and their applications.This paper aims to review and identify the ICT based information dissemination models in China and to share the knowledge and experience in applying emerging ICTs in disseminating agriculture information to farmers and farm communities to improve productivity and economic,social and environmental sustainability.The paper reviews and analyzes the development stages of China’s agricultural information dissemination systems and different mechanisms for agricultural information service development and operations.Seven ICT-based information dissemination models are identified and discussed.Success cases are presented.The findings provide a useful direction for researchers and practitioners in developing future ICT based information dissemination systems.It is hoped that this paper will also help other developing countries to learn from China’s experience and best practice in their endeavor of applying emerging ICTs in agriculture information dissemination and knowledge transfer.
文摘The rapid development of the Intemet makes the social network of information dissemination has undergone tremendous changes. Based on the introduction of social network information dissemination mode, this paper analyzes the influencing factors of information dissemination, establishes the user preference model through CP-nets tool, and combines the AHP principle to mine the user's preference order, and obtain the user's optimal preference feature Portfolio, and finally collect the user in the microblogging platform in the historical behavior data. the use of NetLogo different users of information dissemination decision to predict.
文摘In the digital age,traditional media ethics norms lack sufficient explanatory power and binding force in practice.This paper uses the“Primary School Student Lost Homework in Paris”incident as a case study to explore the ethical controversies surrounding the dissemination of this event.By adopting a hierarchical media ethics perspective,the paper dynamically examines the ethical conduct of various communicators,elucidates the ethical responsibilities of each party involved,and reveals the complexity of communication ethics in the digital age.
文摘Microblog is a new Internet featured product, which has seen a rapid development in recent years. Researchers from different countries are making various technical analyses on microblogging applications. In this study, through using the natural language processing(NLP) and data mining, we analyzed the information content transmitted via a microblog, users' social networks and their interactions, and carried out an empirical analysis on the dissemination process of one particular piece of information via Sina Weibo.Based on the result of these analyses, we attempt to develop a better understanding about the rule and mechanism of the informal information flow in microblogging.
文摘Genital human papilloma virus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted virus in the US. Effective HPV vaccines remain controversial and have poor uptake among many adolescent groups. Social media have potential for promoting the HPV vaccine, but little is known about the content or sentiment of social media discussions regarding the vaccine. The purpose of this study was to examine message, context, sentiment, and source characteristics of original HPV- and HPV vaccine-related Twitter posts (tweets) over a 3-month time period. This content mining study used publicly available data purchased from Twitter. One-thousand tweets were randomly selected from a sample of 45,260 English language tweets matching our search criteria and collected from December 2014-January 2015. Tweets were manually coded according to source, context, message, and sentiment characteristics using a coding document developed from previous research. Individuals posted just over half (55%) of tweets, whereas organizations posted 40%. More than half (57%) of all coded tweets were positive, and less than one-fifth were negative. Organizations’ tweets were more likely to be positive than individuals’ tweets. A temporal display of contextual events and tweet spikes demonstrates that positive tweets can increase during newsworthy events (e.g. FDA approval of Gardisil 9). The HPV vaccine was most often discussed under a cancer prevention message frame. In contrast with some existing research, discussions surrounding the HPV vaccine in original Twitter posts are largely positive. Our study reveals opportunities for adolescent health specialists to provide accurate, positive HPV vaccination information via Twitter.
文摘Construction and use of national emergency broadcast system, related to the safety of lives and property. Broadcasting system has the simple construction, easy to set up, transmission distance, wide transmission range, transmission speed, etc., in the notice of emergency incidents, emergency command, emergency evacuation and emergency settle played a pivotal role. In the recent years, countries earthquakes, tsunamis and other natural disasters occur frequently, causing great loss of life and property, the establishment of the emergency broadcast system, more and more government attention. We introduced the emergency broadcast system in Japan, the United States, Britain and other countries, analyzes the problems our country to carry out emergency broadcast services need to pay attention, and made recommendations.
文摘Self-media era of ideological and political education is facing new challenges: educators and educational object on gaining information changes reversibly, which challenged "teachers are" authority; the object of education is increasingly showing a strong "treasonable" , which is challenging the current ideological and political education model; fission dissemination of information is challenging the ideological and political education. We should give up the identity of the authority, and reshape the image of contemporary educators, we should innovate way of ideological and political education, building a network of new model of ideological and political is to deal with the challenges from the media, it' s an important means of improving the ideological and political implementation.
文摘Purpose: This study aims to investigate and compare celebrity and ordinary users' behaviors on Sina Weibo. Design/methodology/approach: Data was collected from 12,555 ordinary users and 2,467 celebrity users on Sina Weibo. Correlation and regression analysis was performed on users' number of followings, number of followers and number of posts. Findings: The results revealed significant difference between famous and ordinary users' behaviors on Sina Weibo. We found correlation among ordinary users' number of followings, number of followers and number of posts, but for celebrity users, only their number of followings and number of posts are related with each other. For both ordinary and celebrity users, their number of followings significantly affects how many posts they publish. Research limitations: We only carried out our investigation on Sina Weibo and the findings need to be further verified on other microblogging platforms. Practical implications: This research is useful for microblogging service providers to understand different types of users and promote the continuous use of their services. Originality/value: This research delivers valuable insights into understanding of the characteristics of different types of microbloggers and the ways to increase user viscosity.
文摘One of the most outstanding characteristics of library legislation in China is that theoretical research and legislative practice are mutually reinforcing, making important issues and basic rules and regulations closely associated with legislation and the research focus. A national library law is currently being enacted while several local library legislations have already seen fruitful results. In the enactment of 'Regulations for the Protection of Information Network Dissemination Rights', the library professional participated for the first time in enacting a national copyright law, which led to unprecedented flourishing of library activities and copyright studies. The promulgation of another legal framework,'Government Information Disclosure Regulations' further advanced the research on related issues and pushed forward government information services in public libraries in the same way. A new landmark for library legislation in recent years is the promulgation of'Guidelines for Land Utilization for Public Library Construction' and 'Public Library Construction Standards', while the framing of 'Rules of Professional Ethics for Librarians in China(On trial)' and the 'Library Service Manifesto' give indication that a framework of self-disciplinary measures of library professionals is established.
基金co-funded by the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Focused Innovations Scheme–Scheme A: Biomedical Sciences (Phase 2) and the CUHK Climate Change and Health research project fund
文摘Health and disaster risk reduction are important and necessary components in building a smart city,especially when climate change may increase the frequency of extreme temperatures and the health risks of urban dwellers.However,limited knowledge is available about the best way to disseminate weather warnings and health protection information.This study explores the weather information acquisition patterns of the Hong Kong public and examines the sociodemographic predictors of these patterns to establish the potential public health implications of smart city development.A population-based,stratified crosssectional,random digit dialing telephone survey was conducted among the Cantonese-speaking population aged over 15 years in Hong Kong in early 2016.Analyses were conducted based on 1017 valid samples,with a response rate of 63.6%.Cold Weather Warnings were well disseminated in Hong Kong,with 95.7% of the respondents reporting awareness of the public warnings.Television and smartphone apps were the two most important channels for weather information acquisition.Age and education level are the main social-demographic variables associated with the current utilization and future preference of smartphone technology.Among those who were not using a preferredchannel to acquire weather information,61.3% considered switching to a smartphone app.Moreover,the patterns of individual health protection measures and self-reported health impacts were significantly different between smartphone app users and non-users.Weather information dissemination should be tailored to the sociodemographic characteristics of the users.
文摘Transparency of tax law and tax administration is vital to the fair,effective and efficient operation of a tax system.To achieve and improve transparency,various means and channels are available.This article sets out the measures adopted by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in promoting and improving transparency of tax law and tax administration.
文摘At GCC 2003 in Shanghai in December 2003, a panel discussion was held on thefuture of grid computing and on the role of the Globus Toolkit in future grid standards. Panelistsinclude Andrew Chien (UCSD, USA), Wolfgang Gentzsch (Sun), Francis Lau (HKU, China), Carl Kesselman(USC, USA), Satoshi Matsuoka (TIT, Japan), Xian-He Sun (IIT, USA), Richard Wirt (Intel), Liang-JieZhang (IBM Research), Song-Nian Zhou (Platform Computing), and Zhi-Wei Xu (ICT, China), with Hai Jin(HUST, China) served as the coordinator. The panel talks were stimulating and well received. Threeof the panel talk notes are selected and included in this viewpoint.